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Retold by Watty Piper, From the Pony Engine by Mabel C. Bragg, Wonderful Color & B/W Pictures by Lois L. Lenski, Color Glossy Frontispiece of Red Train with Brown Front Engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon: The Little Engine That Could (Platt & Munk Book 1930 ) Early Edition, , "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks. She was a happy little train for she had such a jolly load to carry. Her cars, The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., New York, 1930 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1930 on Copyright pg. Early Edition bk in FAIR- Condition, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Correct first edition BK with this title being the last one offered on the listing of the NEVER GROW OLD SERIES page which is adjacent to the half-title page, FAIR-, AS-IS, ,Red Cloth CVR WITH PASTE-ON LABEL Titled in Black with Red & Yellow Cars & Blue front Train Engine with Yellow Light blowing Grey Smoke with Made in U.S.A. NO. 358 Platt & Munk Inc at Btm has some scuff rub, Red Stains with Titles & Illustration slightly Faded, 8vo, 6 1/4 X 8 1/4 in. , Spine Cvr small end Rips, Plain Red cloth rear board; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; Red cloth with a full-color pastedown on the front board with black lettering. , UNPAGINATED, First Issue with 14 leaves which are 2 sided Pages.. List of books inside on verso front free endpaper, ending with this title. Red boards, with front paste-down image; Absence of the word 'Trademark' beneath title "THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD" on front Cvr. , Please note also, this copy is stained along the edges and on the front cover, and the binding is rather shaken. with slightly loose hinges, rubbing, tone, stain & edge wear to boards, light stain/bleed-through to pages, & Smalledge margin Tears , Color Glossy Frontispiece of Red Train with Brown Front Engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon, & 2nd car has Yellow Giraffe's Head sticking out with Caption, She was a Happy Little Train Light wear FOX on edges, has stains blank Margin edges & tiny edge tear, Title pg has Little Blue Train Puffing smoke near Btm with LargeRed Title at Top of pg with fox edge stains, Inner Hinges starting slightly cracked, Glossy 2 page color Endpapers Light wear edge stains Fox, . Her cars were filled full of good things for boys and girls." & The book is used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. Some critics would contend that the book is a metaphor for the American dream, cover that shows the little engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon. 1st Edition No Jacket Hardcover; 1st Edition

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Retold by Watty Piper, From the Pony Engine by Mabel C. Bragg, Wonderful Color & B/W Pictures by Lois L. Lenski, Color Glossy Frontispiece of Red Train with Brown Front Engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon, & 2nd car Ha: The Little Engine That Could (Platt & Munk Book 1930 ) Early Edition, , "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks. She was a happy little train for she had such a jolly load to carry. Her cars, The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., New York, 1930 ; fester Einband / hard cover

HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1930 on Copyright pg. Early Edition bk in GOOD+/VG-Condition, AS-IS with Scuff marks & Rub to Some Pages, , NOJACKET, This Title being the NEXT TO LAST last one offered on the listing of the NEVER GROW OLD SERIES page which is adjacent to the half-title page which Lists Lil' Hannibal Last, VG-, AS-IS, , DARK Red Cloth CVR WITH Titled in Black with front Train Engine ON FRONT COVER,at Btm has some Light scuff rub, , 8vo, 6 1/4 X 8 1/4 in. , Plain Red cloth rear board; ; This Edition DID NOT Have full-color pastedown on the front board , UNPAGINATED, EARLY Issue , List of books inside on verso front free endpaper, ending with this title 2ND TO LAST, . word 'Trademark' beneath title "THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD" on front Cvr. , ,Color Glossy Frontispiece of Red Train with Brown Front Engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon, & 2nd car has Yellow Giraffe's Head sticking out with Caption, She was a Happy Little Train Light wear FOX on edges, has stains blank Margin edges & tiny edge tear, Title pg has Little Blue Train Puffing smoke near Btm with LargeRed Title at Top of pg with fox edge stains, Inner Hinges starting slightly cracked, Glossy 2 page color Endpapers Light wear edge stains Fox, , Her cars were filled full of good things for boys and girls." & The book is used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. Some critics would contend that the book is a metaphor for the American dream, cover that shows the little engine pulling a trainload of toy animals up the hill to the town on Yon. No Jacket Hardcover

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Laurence, Patricia Ondek: The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Stanford Univ Pr 1991 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0804718318
0804718318 Fine

Fine as new in black cloth hardcover with crisp dj ."Laurence's groundbreaking study teaches us how to read Virginia Woolf's psychological, social, historical, philosophical, rhythmic, and structural silences as it weaves multi-colored threads into a shimmering whole: Woolf's novels; the major works in Woolf criticism; the English literary tradition, male and female; surrealist painting and contemporary music; philosophy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics; and structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, reader response, and feminism. It suggests new directions for Woolf criticism. . . . Lawrence's writing style is remarkably readable, clear, and careful."-English Language Notes "Using a wide range of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Kristeva and Derrida, Laurence demonstrates convincingly that Woolf was the rst modern woman novelist to practice silence in her writing and that, in so doing, she created a new language of the mind . . . and changed the metaphor of silence from one of absence or oppression to one of presence and strength. Fine as New

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Abramson, Rudy. Spanning the Century: The Life of Averell Harriman: 1891-1986. New York, NY, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1983. ISBN: 0688043526

First edition STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10). 779 pages wtih index plus 24 pages black and white photos. The book is in VERY GOOD condition with inscription on back of half title page, lightly bumped front bottom corner. The jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with minor shelfwear, price clipped. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: :"When Averell Harriman was born in 1891 during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, the life expectancy for the American male was fifty years. The telephone was a new invention, radio was still in the future, and trolley cars were drawn by horses. When he died in 1986 at the age of ninety-four, during the Reagan administration, the final cables of his unique diplomatic career were transmitted by satellite; and he returned from the last of his more than a hundred round trips across the Atlantic aboard the Concorde supersonic airliner. Under any circumstances, his accomplishments would have been remarkable; as it is, his life, perhaps more than any other individual's, can be seen as a metaphor for the history of America in the twentieth century. Socially, he was born the son of one of the richest and most vilified men in America, made his mark as an international sportsman and playboy, and popularized downhill skiing in the United States. Financially, quite apart from the fortune to which he was heir, he was an international banker, early aviation pioneer, railroad executive, and assembler of America's largest merchant fleet, as well as one of the first Westerners to do business on a major scale in the Soviet Union. Politically, he was governor of New York and twice an unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, besides being an adviser to every Democratic president from Franklin Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter. Diplomatically, he was, during World War II, Washington's Lend-Lease administrator in London and ambassador to Moscow; and, during the Vietnam conflict, at an age well past seventy, he negotiated the neutralization of Laos, concluded a nuclear test ban treaty with Moscow, and was chief of the American delegation seeking peace with North Vietnam. Romantically his three marriages made news on and off the society pages. Spanning the Century is the first full scale biography of this amazing figure, and in the years to come, it will probably become regarded as the definitive one as well. Begun over a decade ago, the book was written with the no-strings-attached blessings of Harriman himself, who gave the author exclusive access to his personal papers and archives, consented to many hours of interviews, and asked members of his family and friends to lend their unrestricted support. Among the primary sources the author tracked down were papers filling nearly fifty filing cabinets in the subject's basement storage room; correspondence and records left by Harriman's mother at the family estate; documents, clippings, and memorabilia at the Harriman estate office at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. offices on Wall Street:; almost one thousand linear feet of gubernatorial papers; overflowing files deposited in a Brooklyn warehouse; and more than half a century of material in the archives of the Union Pacific Railroad offices. In addition, Rudy Abramson conducted approximately two hundred interviews with people who knew Averell Harriman in both public and private life, many of whom are since deceased. The result is a biography as rich, memorable and distinguished as the life of the man it portrays." 1/4 cloth condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ

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