Non-Mystery / Collectible Non-Fiction from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Barnes & Noble Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fourth printing of the Barnes & Noble . edition. Light foxing top edge.. 1994. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Although much of the swashbuckling spirit of courageous sea adventures have been captured in fiction, the story of the frigates of 1793-1815 has rarely been told as a… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co. Near Fine; Light edge wear and soil. Smell-o-toons flap unopened.. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of Berke Breathed's comic strips. ; 10 X 0.25 X 9 inches; 96 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease . to front flap and back panel.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1871, the Polaris sailed with great fanfare from New York Harbor and began a historic journey to one of the earth's final frontiers. Seven months later, a handful of… Read more about this item

London: Jarrolds Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Straight and tight with foxing front . endpaper and slight fade to spine.. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The story of the Atlantic Gulf Stream and its effect on climate and navigation from ancient time to the 1950s. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 223 pages .

New York: McGraw-Hill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light edge wear, small dent back edge.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "Composed to placate kind readers of the Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, who objected to my casually killing my hero." ; 8.5 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 160 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good; No ediiton stated, presumed First. Wrinkle front top edge; . prior owner name at top of half-title page; bend to top corner of first . section.. 1985. First Edition (?). Softcover. Milo, Binkley, Steve Dallas, Opus the Penguin, and the rest of the Bloom County residents are represented in this new collection… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Near Fine; Book shop stamp on half-title page; light edge soil.. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. An anthology of cartoons from the syndicated comic strip, 'Bloom County' encompasses highlights from the five-year span of the strip. .

New York: Seabury Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Explores an unexamined aspect of Shakespearean drama: its relation to modern interpretations of the different ways we exist in time. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 216 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good; The Bloom Picayune not present. Light edge soil and shelf . rubbing, small crease front bottom corner with corresponding bend to first . few pages.. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. The people and beasts residing in Bloom County are busy as ever--Opus dances in an all-female nightclub, a Congressional investigation into space… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C.: War Department. Very Good with no dust jacket; Blue boards with gilt spine titles. . Straight and tight with faded areas to boards, light soiling to edges, and . minor wear. Appendix from April 1945 laid in. Prior owner name and date . (9/30/52) on front endpaper.. 1944. Not Stated. Hardcover. This manual provides a general outline… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Blue boards with gilt spine titles. Book is . straight and tight with light edge wear. Prior owner name to front . pastedown. Underlining scattered through pgs 6-9; typo corrected on pg . 128; margin line to pgs 167-170. Jacket with chips to spine ends, rather . large one to the… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration; top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with light . spotting to spine and back board. Jacket has edge wear and small chips to . spine ends and corners.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 316… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration, top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with a hint . of dulling to spine and minor bottom edge wear. Prior owner bookplate to . front pastedown.. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches; 290 pages .

Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Internally clean with spotted edges. . Jacket clipped and edgeworn, mostly at spine; protected in mylar cover. . Laid in is a B&W photo of the Carl D. Bradley, a ship famously lost when . it sank in Lake Michigan. The Bradley is shown on the front… Read more about this item

Boston: John P. Jewett and Co. Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression . of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards and a touch of wear to . the gilt lettering on the spine. Some water spotting to pages with no . damage to text. Bookplate on front pastedown: Charles Slocum of Defiance, .… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Foxing to boards and edges; prior . owner and bookstore stamp, sticker pull to front endpaper, stains to page . 113. Jacket has closed tears to top edge of front panel, flap creases.. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 158 pages .

Keene: Granite State Studio. Very Good; Small water stain to bottom edge, else Near Fine.. [1938]. Stapled wraps.

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company. Very Good; Solid clean copy, with light spine fading and front cover . spots. 96 pages with 16 pages of ads following.. 1906. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 96 pages .

New York: Macmillan. Good; "Delivered before the people of Staten Island, at the Castleton, St . George February 24, 1893." Covers rubbed, edge wear, fraying top of . backstrip.. 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. George William Curtis (1824 - 1892) was an American author, orator, and civil service reformer. In 1862, he delivered his "Doctrine of Liberty" address at… Read more about this item