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  • AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. by Bates, Katharine Lee; illustrated by Neil Waldman.
    Bates, Katharine Lee; illustrated by Neil Waldman.
    AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated version of this song,issued 100 years after the trip Bates took to Colorado and the top of Pike's Peak, which inspired her to write this. Each impressionistic painting by Waldman is a double page full color picture of one of the wonders of the United States - natural and manmade. Identification of the scenes at the back of the book; the words and music (by Samuel A. Ward) to the song printed in deep purple on lilac endpapers. Unpaginated, large format. ISBN: 0-689-318618.

    Condition: Ner fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, covered and inconspicuous.)

    Book ID: 35101
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  • THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN TIMES OF WAR. by Cannon, Carl M.
    Cannon, Carl M.
    THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN TIMES OF WAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the real meaning of patriotism and how Americans have dealt with life in difficult times from Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution to Frederick Douglass, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and our current times, by a White House Correspondent. A title in the American Political Challenges series under the editorship of Larry J. Sabato. Notes, index, 330 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-25910.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45068
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  • THE LOST COLONY, Book One: The Snodgrass Conspiracy. by Klein, Grady.
    Klein, Grady.
    THE LOST COLONY, Book One: The Snodgrass Conspiracy.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: First Second / Roaring Brook Press, (2006). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new series of graphic novels for older children - or all ages!. Set in nineteenth-century America, set on a mysterious island unknown to the rest of the world. this is a boiling concoction of slavery, patriotism, religion, and greed - in many ways, the story of America itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page with a small doodle and an embossed stamp with "guaranteed authentic" Illustrated throughout in full color. 119 pp. ISBN: 1-596430974.

    Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.

    Book ID: 82424
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  • HERO-TYPE. by Lyga, Barry.
    Lyga, Barry.
    HERO-TYPE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. SIGNED first edition - 'Everyone is treating Kevin as a hero. He was in the right place and the right time and he saved a girl from being murdered. Only Kevin knows though, why he was able to save her. Things get even more complicated when Kevin is seen removing two patriotic “Support the Troops” ribbons from his car bumper. Now the town that lauded him as a hero turns on him, calling him unpatriotic. Kevin, who hadn't thought much about it up to then, becomes politically engaged, suddenly questioning what exactly supporting the troops or even saying the pledge of allegiance every day means." INSCRIBED on the title page "----- who's your hero"…

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    Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. SIGNED first edition - 'Everyone is treating Kevin as a hero. He was in the right place and the right time and he saved a girl from being murdered. Only Kevin knows though, why he was able to save her. Things get even more complicated when Kevin is seen removing two patriotic “Support the Troops” ribbons from his car bumper. Now the town that lauded him as a hero turns on him, calling him unpatriotic. Kevin, who hadn't thought much about it up to then, becomes politically engaged, suddenly questioning what exactly supporting the troops or even saying the pledge of allegiance every day means." INSCRIBED on the title page "----- who's your hero" and dated in the year of publication. 295 pp.

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    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy, but corner slightly bumped) Cover different from trade edition. .

    Book ID: 60753
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  • White, E. B.
    THE WILD FLAG: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Conde Nast, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'We know, we Americans, what America means in the human heart; we remember its principles and we honor its record; but we tend to forget that it has its counterpart in sixty or seventy other places. This is mischievous business. It is bloody business. Reinforced with the atom, it may be fatal business.' Political commentary from the noted childrenÕs writer and essayist, in editorials written between 1943 and 1946. The theoretical case for a single world government, just as the UN was taking shape.

    Condition: Very good+ in good only dust jacket (small stamp on title page, edgewear to dj, fading to spine).

    Book ID: 23814
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