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FLEA MARKET AMERICA: The Complete Guide to Flea-Enterprise By Cree McCree, illustrations by Betsy James

    Commerce is booming at flea markets across America, and expert vendor Cree McCree tells you how to cash in on this exciting marketplace in the new Twentieth Anniversary edition of Flea Market America. Having sold wares happily and profitably from coast to coast, Cree tells you where to find the bargains, how the get the most for the least at rummage sales and auctions, how to price and display your wares, and how to choose a flea market specialty. She shares tips on building clientele loyalty, buying vintage clothing, avoiding rip-offs, doing restoration and repair, and much more. Delightful and useful illustrations by Betsy James.

An utterly delightful little masterpiece.American Collector
If you’re serious about becoming a professional flea market vendor, buy this book!Jerry Stokes, founder, national Flea Market Association
In Flea Market America you’ll find a potential economic bonanza already being enjoyed by thousands.Shop by Mail
Recommended.Library Journal

ISBN 0-943734-43-6, 150 pages, 6 x 9" (softcover), drawings, appendix, $16.00

THE WOUND OF DISPOSSESSION: Telling the Palestinian Story By Kathleen Christison

     "In the past, people talked about Palestinians as if they were a monolithic entity represented by a man in a headdress who carried a gun. Others saw them only as Israel’s enemies, the unknown 'others' in the conflict. Christison is probably the first analyst who has bothered to talk directly to Palestinian men and women in order to hear their views. What emerges from these interviews with living human beings is an interesting picture of the diversity of opinion, the depth of feelingof a group of people who, in their exile, continue to pay a heavy price for merely being who they are."
 Fouad Moughrabi, Director, Qattan Center for Educational Research & Development, Ramallah, Palestine

     "Her intelligent and honest bookis a must for every American who wants to understand the roots of the calamity we now see unfolding in the Middle East."   Libro Monthly

     "distinct and original.fluent, well organized, catching the nuances and complexities of the Palestinians’ views.  She covers all the crucial issues."   Ann M. Lesch, author, Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917-1939

     "a profoundly revealing work.Christison is a good reporter whose careful listening came up with a surprising variety of Palestinian insights.The Wound of Dispossession can help lead us out of a half-century of darkness and delusion about the realities of the Middle East. To remain ignorant of these realities is to invite almost certain future catastrophes."
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Kathleen Christison is former CIA political analyst and the author of Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy (University of California Press). She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

ISBN 0-9712548-0-X, 247 pages, 6 x 9" (softcover), index, $17.95

WITHOUT RESERVATIONS: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail By Samuel B. Ballen

      "Campus radical, Torah pundit, Wall Street insider," and later Texas oil patch financier who made his way West and became owner of Santa Fe’s most storied hotel, Samuel Ballen lives a singularly peripatetic life -- peopled with names most everyone knows.  Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail, Ballen’s autobiography, has just been published by Ocean Tree Books.
     Robert Oppenheimer, Stanislaw Ulam, Lee Harvey Oswald, Stanley Marcus, "Cadillac Jack," as well as sundry Western governors, Navajo traders, and two or three famous architects are among the hundreds of very different people Ballen has encountered in interesting ways and sometimes came to know well. You will meet them and others here, in this  lively and revealing 302-page autobiography by one of the City Different’s most recognizable businessmen.
     Without Reservations also gives flesh-and-blood insights into the worlds of hospitality, business and finance that is anything but dry. Samuel B. Ballen shares many "behind the headlines" details of a remarkable array of people and events he has been close to that shaped the last century, including the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, the struggle to define our role in the nuclear age, and the changing cast of characters in the oldest capital city in the United States.

302 pages, 6x9" perfectbound, illustrated. ISBN 0-943734-36-3, $24.00

NEW MEXICO’S HISTORIC PLACES: The Guide to National and State Register Sites Marci L. Riskin, general editor; Foreword by Robert J. Torrez.

     Here is the indispensable guide to the hundreds of historic treasures of the Land of Enchantment! Carefully prepared by the state’s Historic Preservation office and architect Marci L. Riskin, this is the first book to include every site on the official state and National Historic Registers.  New Mexico’s Historic Places gives accurate descriptions of important places and properties from prehistoric Native American archaeology through the Spanish, cowboy, mining, atomic age, and Route 66 eras, covering the six distinct regions of the state. Locator maps, historic overviews, over 100 photographs, and an Introduction by State Historian Robert J. Torrez are included.
     Designed for easy reference, New Mexico’s Historic Places will be your handy companion as you explore the many historic districts of the states cities and towns, visit archaeological sites, or find hidden delights along major highways and the most remote desert tracks!

ISBN 0-943734-40-1, 160 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" (softcover), photos, appendices, $15.95