Southern Pines, NC: Pine Needles Lodge & Country Club, 1972. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 128 pages. Illustrated. Signed and dated by Bell on fep. Foreword by Patty Berg, Minor printing crease/seam on pages 11-15 noted. Several xerox sheets of golfing tips laid in at back. Margaret Anne "Peggy" Kirk Bell (October 28, 1921 – November 23, 2016) was an American professional golfer and golf instructor known for her strong advocacy of women's golf. Born in Findlay, Ohio, Peggy started playing golf at age 17. She took to the game immediately and quickly won a number of titles. She played college golf at Rollins College. She played the ladies amateur tour in the 1940s before the development of a professional tour, winning three Ohio Amateurs and the 1949 Titleholders Championship and North and South Women's Amateur. She was also a member of the 1950 U.S. Curtis Cup team. At that time she competed as Peggy Kirk, and in 1953 she married her high school sweetheart, Warren "Bullet" Bell, who had played professional basketball with the Fort Wayne Pistons before turning to business. In 1990, she was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. She became the first woman voted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002. Bell owned the Pines Needles Resort in Southern Pines, North Carolina. She died there in November 2016 at the age of 95. More

New York: Random House, c1990. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 306 pages. Slight creases to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More

Place_Pub: New York: William Morrow, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 208, illus. Spartacus actor Kirk Douglas, in his eighth book, chronicles his experience recovering from a debilitating stroke. The road from speech therapy to the Oscars, where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, is traveled here with insight, honesty, and a sense of humor. Douglas offers tender vignettes in tribute to the childhood that shaped him, the wife and devoted family who supported him, and the life-changing event that helped him to appreciate the gifts given to him over his eighty-three years. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, c1988. First Printing. 25 cm, 510, illus., index, some wear to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More

Globe, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1972. Reprint. Fourth printing [stated]. Spiralbound. 72 p. Illustrations. Background Materials and quotation sources. Index. More

New York: Scribner, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 338, [4] pages. Author's Note. Glossary of USGspeak. Further Reading. To Help the List Project. Index. Kirk W. Johnson is an American author and founder of The List Project, a not-for-profit organization that helps Iraqi refugees who previously worked for the U.S. government during the Iraq War. He served as the U.S. Agency for International Development regional coordinator for reconstruction in Fallujah, Iraq in 2005. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002, with a degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In addition to studying in Syria on a Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (2001), Johnson received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on political Islamism in Egypt (2002-03). More

Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, c1975. First Paperbk? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 215, wraps. More

Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. Original Edition [Stated}, based on of 'Music at the White House: A History of the American Spirit. Second printing [stated]. [Also stated as New Edition per Preface to New Edition]. Hardcover. xvi, 242 pages. Decorative endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Appendixes (including a chronology of selected musical programs held at the White House for visiting Heads of State).. Notes. Bibliographic Essay, Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription read To Art with warmest best wishes, Elise. Musicologist Elise Kirk has been writing about music at the White House for more than a decade. She writes about the role of the president in the musical life of the America. Kirk has written several books on the subject, including Musical Highlights from the White House. The book details the musical tastes of American presidents and the special performances of classical, jazz and pop music at the White House. A lyrical history of the American presidency and people, this is the story of a show that goes on. Elise Kirk traces the story of more than 200 years of musical performance in the White House to present the tale of the American process of music-making-how music in a democracy has been absorbed, shaped, transformed, and perceived from the period of George Washington to the modern day. Whether dramatic or abstract, vernacular or cultivated, music can mold the political process and shape a historic event in a manner like no other. More

Washington, DC: AAAS, 1989. 45, wraps, damp staining (and perhaps some mildew staining) on bottom edge, pages separate and text clear. More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1864-1868. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 1713 total, 3-vol. set, illus., map, footnotes, bds worn, spines chipped, hinges somewhat weak, some damp staining, some pencil marks. More

New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. Later printing. Hardcover. 29 cm. [12], 347, [1] pages. Illustrations. Introduction by Hanson Baldwin. DJ crinkled at rear, corners bumped, some soiling. This work covers aircraft, ships, tanks and destroyers, artillery, small arms and miscellaneous weapons (such as the V1 and V2 rockets and the atomic bomb). More

New York: Walker and Company, 1967. Third Printing. 29 cm, 347, illus., some wear to board edges and corners. More

Greenwich, CT: Brompton, 1990. Third Printing. 192, glossary, index, some edge wear. More