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  • A GAME OF LIES. by Cantrell, Rebecca.
    Cantrell, Rebecca.
    A GAME OF LIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in 1930s Berlin in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she is covering the 1936 Olympics while posing as a travel reporter and as a lover of an SS officer - and also smuggling secrets out of Germany to Switzerland. Glossary, author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327338.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 70266
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  • Clark, Ellery H.
    DICK RANDALL: The Young Athlete.

    Edition: First printing.

    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1910.). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon young adult novel by this prolific author, lawyer and athlete. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, he won (while on leave from Harvard, where he was an honor student) gold medals in both the long jump and the high jump - the only athlete ever to do so. This novel, set in a boys' school where the head is interested in athletics as well as scholarhip, expresses in fictional form many of his ideas about training (including not overdoing it), the importance of athletics and more. Illustrated by Walter Biggs.

    Condition: Poor condition in dark green cloth with pasted on illustration on front cover (missing most of the spine cover, rear hinge cracked.)

    Book ID: 34567
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  • GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936. by Deaver, Jeffery.
    Deaver, Jeffery.
    GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-22016.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61113
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  • GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936. by Deaver, Jeffery.
    Deaver, Jeffery.
    GARDEN OF BEASTS: A Novel of Berlin 1936.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-340-734531.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61114
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  • Druhot, George Stanley.
    AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.

    Edition: First printing.

    Rancho Cordova, California: Landmark Enterprises, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography covering five decades of working as a topographer for the US Geological Survey, across 22 Western states and the territory of Hawaii, spanning two world wars, the Depression, and the coming of age of modern topographic mapping (in fact, Druhot was one of the pioneers of the use of aerial photography in topography.) Also includes information about his wife, and his family, who traveled with him throughout the West - to mining country in California (the mother lode, but also Sonoma County and more), Montana, Utah, Arizona and more - - even a chapter on mapping the Olympics. Includes photographs taken by the author that illustrate much…

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    Rancho Cordova, California: Landmark Enterprises, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography covering five decades of working as a topographer for the US Geological Survey, across 22 Western states and the territory of Hawaii, spanning two world wars, the Depression, and the coming of age of modern topographic mapping (in fact, Druhot was one of the pioneers of the use of aerial photography in topography.) Also includes information about his wife, and his family, who traveled with him throughout the West - to mining country in California (the mother lode, but also Sonoma County and more), Montana, Utah, Arizona and more - - even a chapter on mapping the Olympics. Includes photographs taken by the author that illustrate much about the life on the traveling survey crews of the early 20th century, and it has a picture of the official USGS wagon wheel survey techniques. Endpaper maps of Oahu, Hawaii. Brief commentary from his wife "A Woman's Vantage Point." Index. 238 pp. Slightly oversized format. ISBN: 0-910845255.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.)

    Book ID: 39803
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  • THE EDWIN POPE COLLECTION by (Michener, James A.).Pope, Edwin.
    (Michener, James A.).Pope, Edwin.
    THE EDWIN POPE COLLECTION

    Edition: First printing,

    Dalls, TX: Taylor, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by the writer who has been called the "best writer on sports today." Themes range from personal favorites to pro and college football, baseball, fishing, olympics, boxing and more . Introduction by Michener. Index. xxi, 266 pp. ISBN: 0-87833-6095.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45743
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  • ALWAYS DREAM. by Yamaguchi, Kristi with Greg Brown.
    Yamaguchi, Kristi with Greg Brown.
    ALWAYS DREAM.

    Edition: First printing.

    Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 1992 Olympic gold medal winner in figure skating tells of her early life in California, the importance of her Japanese heritage, and how she fell in love with the ice. SIGNED on a special bookplate on the front endpaper with a small drawing of a flower. Photographs and illustrations by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-9965.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 50773
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