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London: The Bryan Edwards Press, n.d. [1953]. Contents: Eighteenth Century Planter System; West Indian Agriculture; Caribbean Trade Relations.

Utrecht, Netherlands: Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen, 1981. Publications of the Foundation for Scientific Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, No. 107. Natural History Series, No. 3. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 71 pp. Maps, b&w photos. Near-Fine; spine a bit faded.

Leiden, Netherlands: Department of Caribbean Studies, Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, 1982. First Edition. Octavo, softbound, xx, 422 pp. Very Good.

London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964. Oblong octavo, black pebbled boards (hardcover), gilt letters, [54] pp. Near-Fine, with bookplate; with original wrappers made into dust jacket (very good, with a small chip to portion of dust jacket that was made to hold the original wrappers).

London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924. 1st edition. Of an edition of 750 copies, this is No. 811. Folio, blue cloth with gilt-stamped vignette of a ship on front cover, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, uncut, viii, 80 pp., 125 plates with tissue guards. Very Good; some shelf wear, front hinge tender, former-owner bookplate.

Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1964. This first regular edition is limited to 650 copies, designed and printed by Jack D. Rittenhouse at his Stagecoach Press in Santa Fe. Body text was set in Linotype Caledonia, with chapter headings handset in old French Ionic. Printed on a hand operated press, using Hamilton Kilmory paper. Small octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters (hardcover), 73 pp. Fine (As New), in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: One of the last paragraphs of an important chapter in American history, says the introduction by Dr. Donald C. Cutter, of the Department of History at the University of New Mexico. This reprint of a scarce book tells a first hand account of one man’s personal experiences while traveling over the Santa Fe Trail in 1857. William B. Napton was a young Missourian who joined a wagon train when he was eighteen. Forty years later he wrote of his experiences and the book was published at Kansas City in 1905... Napton preserved sharp, indelible… Read More

Viking, (2005). Octavo, black backed beige boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxvii, 512 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: “Can America be happy?” asked America’s apostle of radicalism, reviewing the colonial landscape in 1776. “As happy as she please,” was Tom Paine’s own answer. “She hath a blank sheet to write upon.” Paine’s memorable statement, penned at a low point in the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, provides the thematic spine to this robust exploration of the blaze of radical ideas and agendas that fired the American Revolution. The Founding Fathers may have led the charge, but the energy to raise a revolt emerged from all classes and races of American society. The Unknown American Revolution plunges us into the swirl of ideology, grevance, outrage, and hope that animated the Revolutionary decades. It tells of the efforts of a wide variety of men and women who stepped forward amidst a discouraging, debilitating, but ultimately… Read More

Columbia College: Herbarium of Columbia College, 1896. Octavo, paperbound (string-bound printed wrappers), [Pages 96-108]. Very Good with lightly rubbed edges & former owner stamp to upper cover.

San Francisco Book Company, Capra Press, 1973. Number 192 of 250 handbound copies, numbered and signed by the poet, October 1973. Octavo, blue illus. boards (hardcover), 33 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate to ffep; otherwise, Near-Fine with slight sunning to edges and spine. Contents: Foreword; On the State of Art; Moving; Thoughts on Growing Older; Sonnet; Two Songs for Anne; Out of Left Field; Plainsong; Absence; From Room 514; From Room 121 -- Burn Unit; Heldenleben; Heldenleben -- II; Last Game; Night Thoughts; The Small Moment; In Albuquerque; Testimonial; A Note to Academe; Sum, Ergo Sum; The Web; At Appledore; Anne’s Will; Atque Vale.

Tokyo National Museu, (1995). Quarto, softbound (stiff, slick, full-color illus. wrappers), xx + 358 pp. Complete text in English and Japanese. Fine (As New).

West Chester, PA: Schiffer Military History, (1991). Octavo, gray illustrated cloth (hardcover), marbled endpapers, 235 pp + [v] pp ads. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This new book on the Luftwaffe has few of the “heroic” pictures and none of the typical aircraft photos of that era. Instead, these 500 photographs show the day-to-day life as experienced by the hundreds of thousands who served the Luftwaffe. Picture for picture, this collection of photos gives a singularly unique perspective on service life with the flying units. These are the mechanics, the maintenance crews and other ground personnel, the raido operators and the pilots. Photos of flight operations on all fronts, of maintenance work, of flight preparations, of the long wait for aircraft that never returned. For those who were directly involved, the photograph is a natural way to graphically bring back long-forgotten memories: for those who didn’t experience that harsh… Read More

Washington, DC: Department of the Navy, United States of America, 1971. Six parts in one volume. Octavo, navy blue faux leather, gilt letters and decoration to spine, pictorial endpapers, xxvii + 42 + 118 + 170 + 152 + 134 + 477 pp. Very Good+, with light rubing to endpapers, slight toning (age darkening) to interior.

Ontario, California: Published by the Author, 1983. First Printing of a Limited Edition. Copy Number 678/1000. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Quarto, paperbound (stiff, stapled white wrappers), 62 pp. Near-Fine, with darkened edges.

Cincinnati Art Museum, 1965. Octavo, paperbound (stapled, stiff white illus. wrappers), [19] pp. Good+ with age darkning and edgewear. Illustrated guide to the museum’s holdings.

New York: Schocken Books, (1970). Octavo, lavender cloth & brown boards (hardcover), xiii, 273 pp. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket: The authors chose maple sugaring as a way of getting an honest living. Unwilling to sustain loss of personal freedom as wage earners and in flight from the city, they hoped to rediscover in New England the secrets of rural America: “simplicity, adequacy, decency, neighborliness, self-respect, and a never-ending attachment to the marvels of the life of nature and of society that we contact on every side and of which we are integral parts.” The Maple Sugar Book shares with the reader the secret of getting a life as well as a living. The Maple Sugar Book is also the definitive account of the industry that produces maple syrup and sugar from the sap of the rock maple tree. This process was known to the American Indians and taught by them to the early settlers. The history and lore of sugaring, which are all here in abundance, provide human… Read More

New York: Castle Books, 1964. Narrow octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 128 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi is much more than a mere recounting of the love practices and sensual delights of ancient Arabia. It is a thoughtul, almost reverential, examination of human sexual activity, viewed as a natural and basic component in the divine design; it demonstrates in the process that peoples of the Orient are far less sexually inhibited than we, their engagement in the acts of love being not only a natural and necessary part of life, but an art. Shaykh Nefzawi, born in the sixteenth century, was more knowledgeable in the general literature and medicine than was common among the Arabs of his time. His frank treatment of sexual physiology, love techniques, and the various postures is similar to that of the “Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.” However, The Perfumed Garden stands apart from most, if not all, books of a carnal… Read More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2001). Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), xxiv, 248 pp. Fine (New). From lower cover: First published in the 1940s as My Garden in Florida, this newly revised and edited volume by Henry Nehrling (1853 - 1929) together with its also-updated companion volume, Nehrling’s Early Florida Gardens, presents a remarkable record of Florida’s botanical history. Nehrling’s association with writers, scientists, and travelers offers us a window into the gardening community of his era, and his intriguing mixture of subjects furnishes an important source of information for those interested in Florida’s social, botanical, and environmental history. In his gardens at Gotha near Orlando and what is now Caribbean Gardens at Naples, Nehrling introduced into cultivation and popularized many plant species that have since become common in Florida landscapes. His articles provide invaluable first-hand accounts of the envrionment in his time,… Read More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2001). Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), xvi, 262 pp. Fine (New). From lower cover: First published in the 1940s as My Garden in Florida, this newly revised and edited volume by Henry Nehrling (1853 - 1929) together with its also-updated companion volume, Nehrling’s Early Florida Gardens, presents a remarkable record of Florida’s botanical history. Nehrling’s association with writers, scientists, and travelers offers us a window into the gardening community of his era, and his intriguing mixture of subjects furnishes an important source of information for those interested in Florida’s social, botanical, and environmental history. In his gardens at Gotha near Orlando and what is now Caribbean Gardens at Naples, Nehrling introduced into cultivation and popularized many plant species that have since become common in Florida landscapes. His articles provide invaluable first-hand accounts of the envrionment in his time,… Read More

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, (2004). First Edition. Octavo, black & tan boards (hardcover), silver letters, xxviii, 388 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: No other army in World War II marched so far or fought for so long. In the desperate days between June 1940 and October 1942 (when American forces arrived on the scene) Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force of World War II, was the only Western army left to face the growing Axis powers. They were a British force, comprised of some of the greatest fighting divisions from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Canada, France, and Greece, among others, and they represented, essentially, the Free World at war. Ultimately triumphant, the men of Eighth Army first had to surmount obsolete equipment and indifferent command, as well as the enemy -- not least among them the formidable and legendary Field Marshal Erwin Rommel of the German Afrika Krops. In Eigth Army acclaimed historian Robin… Read More

Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992. Folio, black cloth (hardcover), illus. endpapers, slick pages, b&w photos., full-color photo plates, 227 pp. Fine (As New) in Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: This book is the first devoted to the most important of...festivals held in ancient Athens, the Panathenaia, which was founded in 566 b.c. Performed in honor of the city’s patron goddess, Athena, this complex ritual incorporated many elements of the more established Greek festivals in an attempt to vie with them in gradeur and importance. In addition to the standard athletic and equestrian events, the quadrennial Panathenaia included musical competitions, poetry recitations, team sports, and tribal contests, such as boat races, torch relas, and even a male beauty contest. What particularly distinguishes the Panathenaia is the fact that works of art were commissioned from Athenian artisans in the service of the festival... This lavishly illustrated volume deals with all… Read More