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The Giver by Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1993. Later printing. Very good hardcover book in very good dust jacket. Minor stain on top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. INSCRIBED by author on title page - a nice added feature of this beloved classic young adult novel. $25.00

Collecting for the Wichita Beacon by William Kloefkorn
Platte Valley Press, Lincoln, NE, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. SIGNED and dated on half-title page. A great book by the former Poet Laureate of Nebraska. $18.50

The Chinese Theatre by A. E. Zucker
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1925. First Edition. Limited & numbered - this copy #500 out of 750.Very good hardcover protected by archival mylar sleeve with no dust jacket. Original mustard-yellow cloth with black & gold pictorial front board and spine. Gilt top edge. Deckled fore edge and bottom edge. Previous owner's signature. Four (including frontispiece) laid-down color paintings on silk with tissue guards. Paintings represent "four of the standing character types of the Chinese stage, in their traditional make-up" done by students of the Peking School of Fine Arts "for the purpose of giving a vivid impression of the colorfulness of the Chinese stage." Seventeen black and white illustrations. Scarce. $400.00

Why I Am A Democrat by Ted Sorenson
Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1996. First Edition. SIGNED by author on half-title. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Pages clean an unmarked. A collectable copy of a well-known title by President John F. Kennedy's legendary speechwriter. $39.00

Letters of Mari Sandoz edited by Helen Winter Stauffer
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1992. First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Original tan cloth. Dust jacket in archival mylar cover. Private letters of one of Nebraska's treasured authors. $29.00