Recent Arrivals from Book Happy Booksellers

Cincinnati, OH: Curts & Jennings, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 429pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, corners of boards frayed, hinges professionally repaired, staining to front endpaper, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Scarce, antique manual on ecclesiastical architecture, with over 550 illustrations.

Kirksville, MO: Published by the Authors, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 96pp; Maroon cloth boards with faded gilt titling to spine, minor staining to boards, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Scarce, vintage influential text in osteopathy by early osteopathic physicians. Topics include: Future of Osteopathy; Definition of Osteopathy; Disease is External in Ultimate Origin; The… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. 7-1/2" x 10-1/2" Cloth in DJ; 54pp; DJ slightly age-toned, price-clipped & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG- condition. Donne's last sermon, delivered before King Charles I in 1631, shortly before the poet's death. Edited, with a postscript by… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 311pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright,endpapers illustrated with map, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Autobiography of a West African shaman.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Hardcover in DJ; First Edition; 322pp; A few smudges & slight edgewear to DJ, boards square & bright with minor soiling in a few spots, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Scarce, vintage analysis in which "the views of economists, scientists, philosophers, religious leaders,… Read more about this item

Radio City, NY: Leeds Music Corporation, 1945. Softcover. Good. 9" x 12" Wraps; 64pp; Previous owner's name to front cover, moderate handling wear to book, corners slightly dog-eared, wear to spine, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Scarce, vintage song book containing boogie woogie hits for piano and voice. Partial Contents: Cow-Cow Boogie; Yodelin'… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. 327pp; No DJ, red cloth boards with silver titling to front, faded titling to spine, fraying to spine ends & corners of boards, spine darkened, endpapers illustrated with map, small surface tear to FFEP, hinges professionally repaired, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: G. & J. Publishing Co., 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Good+. 49pp; Maroon card covers with gilt titling to front, minor creasing to covers, previous owner's name to flyleaf, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Scarce, vintage self-help guide by Mildred Mann (1904-1971), a teacher of metaphysics within the New Thought movement,… Read more about this item

New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1941. Softcover. Good. 9" x 12" Wraps; 24pp; Covers age-toned with creasing & closed tears, some pages age-toned, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Scarce, vintage songbook containing five boogie woogie piano solos by Kermit Holden "Pete" Johnson (1904-1967), an American boogie-woogie & jazz pianist.

Pasadena, CA: Recovery Research Foundation, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; Limited Edition; 210pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/VG condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Combines the author's true story of his recovery from alcoholism and a formula for helping the reader to recover as… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: Student Publishing Co., 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. 183pp; Light green cloth boards with silver and gilt titling to front & spine, boards slightly age-toned, decorated endpapers, pages slightly age-toned, previous owner's name in pencil with notation "from E. B. A." (probably indicating the book was given to her by the author), text unmarked, binding is tight,… Read more about this item

London, UK: The Secular Society Limited. Softcover. Very Good-. Wraps; 84pp; Covers & pages slightly age-toned with minor handling wear, binding staples rusted, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition.

Noblesville, IN: Soulcraft Chapels, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good-. 4-1/4" x 5-3/4" Hardcover; 78pp; Maroon boards with titling to front, light brown endpapers, frontispiece author photo, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's name to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce, vintage account of the 20th century writer,… Read more about this item

New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Softcover. Near Fine. 342pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Papers presented at the conference entitled, "Communicating with the Indians: aspects of the language encounter with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, 1492-1800," held in October, 1996 in Providence, RI. European Expansion & Global Interaction Series, Volume 1. Illustrated.

London, UK: Century, 1999. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; First British Edition; 288pp; DJ clean & bright with small surface tear to spine, boards square, clean & bright, pages age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Collection which showcases Ellroy's investigative non-fiction articles and two novellas, Hollywood Shakedown & Tijuana Mon Amour.

New York: Storm Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 180pp; DJ edgeworn with closed tears, tape to spine ends & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Vintage collection of nonfiction stories & anecdotes involving the fantastic and supernatural.… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Ralston Publishing Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 526pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, front board fore-edge worn, slight wear to spine ends, original decorated endpapers (rear free endpaper missing), pages slightly age-toned, previous owner's name to flyleaf, binding shaken, text unmarked, Good condition. Scarce, quirky, antique tome from Edmund Shaftesbury's Ralston University. Volume 2… Read more about this item

Yerevan, Armenia: Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" Cloth; 234pp; Large format, tan cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, very small stain to front board, previous owner's stamp to front pastedown, endpapers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, oversized vintage collection of color plates of religious Armenian… Read more about this item

New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1941. Softcover. Good+. 9" x 12" Wraps; 24pp; Previous owner's name to front cover, covers & pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Scarce, vintage jazz piano songbook by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (1904-1929), an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. Contents: Biography; I Got More Sense Than That; I'm Sober Now; Jump Steady… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 171pp; DJ age-toned with creasing to front flap, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Evocative story of a year in the life of a brontosaurus by expert paleontologist. Illustrated.