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NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Stated FIRST EDITION with "B" variant binding (trimmed smooth bottom edge). From author's foreward--"Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest." Set in Berlin in the late 1920s, it features a love triangle in which the woman in question plots to kill her husband so she can be with his nephew. 272 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Orange topstain, deckle edge. Some light rubbing to edges. Some very light foxing to fore edge. Rear board very lightly cocked. DJ archivally protected. Price sticker to front DJ flap. Some very light soiling to front DJ panel, spine.

Mascot, NSW, Australia: Bartel Publications, 2006. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Naiura (and You Too!). Very minor corner thumbing - hardly noticeable except by our picky cataloguers who areferociously dedicated to full and transparent description! Based on the book MORE TALES OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S DREAMTIME by Naiura."Examine Naiura's Colour Illustrations, Read the Aboriginal Fable it is Based Upon, then Colour-In the Tracing with Your Own Dot-Art. EXTREMELY COOL BOOK will provide literally days of enjoyment for the careful and determined dot-artist.

Boston: Shambhala, 1986 . Paperback. Very Good Plus. Mild shelfwear to extremities and covers. Silver-colored lettering on spine and front of royal-blue covers. 488 pp with translator's notes,bibliography and index of quotations. Clean, bright, solid. Translated and annotated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa. Foreword by Chogyam Trungpa. This is the "first English translation of a major Tibetan Buddhist presentation of the theory and practice of meditation," (rear cover).

New York: Crown, 1986. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Durrell, Julie. BOXED SET STILL IN SHRINK-WRAP. Includes 10, 64mo books. Very nicely preserved set with very minimal wear to both books and box corners. Set is color-illustrated with popular, well-loved Mother Goose characters. Box measures 7.75 x 7 x 2.25". Books include : Bedtime Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose's Silly Stories, Little Red Riding Hood, Mother Goose Favorites, The Little Red Hen and the Wheat, Nursery Rhyme Nonsense, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Nursery Rhyme Time, Magical Mother Goose and The Story of Peter Rabbit.

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. A tiny smudge to fore-edge. Dustjacket good plus. Sunning to spine. Moderate scuffing to surfaces. Moderate wear to edges, creasing, a .5" closed tear to front panel. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine of navy-blue, cloth-covered boards. With sixty-seven black and white cartoons and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 332 pp with selected bibliography. A collection of essay's from America's coming of age. Essays on Environment ; Arts ; Work and Play. Illustrations on Environmental Tastes ; Styles of Decoration and Design ; Buildings and values ; An Art is Born : Motion Pictures ; Rebellion in Painting ; Comic Srips and Cartoon Art ; Refinements in Advertising Technique, and ; Patterns of Work and Play.

NEW YORK: F. Tennyson Neely , 1899. Hardcover. GOOD . FIRST EDITION. This volume contains artful early examples of color photography, shot in the Phillppines during and after the U.S. military maneuvers which wrested the islands from the control of Spain. Billed as "pictures more perfect than oil paintings," these photographs have a similar quality to paintings, with the outlines of objects less defined than they would later come to be and one color blurring into another. 128 pp. Moderate rubbing to front and rear boards with some slight fraying at the edges. Light bumps to front and rear bottom corners. New endpapers were added recently; moderate rippling to the pastedown endpapers. Light soiling throughout the text block, especially the first 20 or so pages. Light wear to fore edge or bottom edges of several pages. Pages 11 to 22 have small chips or closed tears to the bottom edge, and pages 17 to 22 are joined together at one point along the bottom edge. Pages 3 through 16 are detached… Read More

Buenos Aires: Debolsillo, 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. Very mild wear to extremities. Nice condition! Black lettering to front of illustrated navy-blue covers. 144 pp with notes and index. Clean, tight, bright. Prologue by Abelardo Castillo. Contemporanea.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. Hardcover. Good. Previous owner's blank bookplate to front free endpaper. Moderate shelfwear. Corners are worn through to cardboard and nudged. Edges are worn and chipped. Black binding "wiggles". Pictorial boards. Wonderful 1930 era drawings. Unpaginated (29 pp). Clean, bright, solid. The story of Sally and her lion with drawings by the author.

Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1969. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Very Good Dustjacket. Light bumps to top corners. Dustjacket Very Good. Mild shelfwear to surfaces and extremities. Loaded with approx. 200 black and white photographs. Portrait of Harry S. Truman, recto of copyright page. Grey lettering on black spine; black lettering on front of grey boards. 190 pp. Clean, bright, tight. "A symbol of victory at sea, this is the story, in word and picture, of a gallanat . . . a noble and majestic ship . . . proud in attack . . . undaunted under ridicule," (front flap). This story is told by the Admiral who's flagship she was, to a skilled writer of sea tales.

New York: New American Library, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST U. S. EDITION. Very light age-tanning, still considered bright. Mild edgewear to extremities. Dustjacket very good. Darkened edges to Mylar protected cover. Ecru-colored lettering to spine of brick-red, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 218 pp. An intimate portrait of a group of college girls who are no longer virgins -- in fact, have not been for quite some time.

NEW YORK, [1933] 1957. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Facsimile of the very first issue of Newsweek (then known as News-Week), issued in 1957 to commemorate the magazine's The magazine's 20th anniversary. It ceased publication in 2012.

Eugene: Resource, 2012. Paperback. Fine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Book measures 8 x 5 x .25". Glossy blue illustrated cover. Black and white illustrations. 165 pp. Clean, bright, solid. Nice copy! This book chronicles Nicholson's careful planning and execution of his journey, a 460-mile solo trek from the California border to the Columbia River.

New York: Hafner, 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Completely REVISED. Faint speckling to top edge. A gentle spine lean. No DJ. Gilt lettering to spine, apricot cloth-covered boards. With 59 illustrations. Clean, unmarked. Solid binding. 292 pp with appendix, bibliography, and index. Nielsen proposes that with the advancement in neurosurgery, these difficult outdated diagnostic methods should again be used. In three parts; a general account, methods of examination and case reports, and lastly the terms and thei synonyms.

1877. Paperback. Good Plus. Previous owner's 1879 inscription, in ink, to front free endpaper. Acid transfer to endpapers. Age-tanned. Hinges started. Moderately worn covers. Gilt lettering and design debossed to center of beautiful royal blue, pressed-designed covers. Letter dated 1979, laid-in. 175 pp. Clean. "A social heaven is accordingly the leading idea which I have endeavoured to embody and illustrate in the followiing treatise," (preface). Written in three parts : Part I - Heaven our Home ; Part II - Recognition of Friends in Heaven ; Part III - The Interest those in Heaven feel in Earth.

Indianapolis, IN : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1982 . FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Here, the author probes recent archaeological finds, searching for lost Biblical treasures and El Dorado, piecing together the lost history of the earth. Focuses especially on out-of-place artifacts or "ooparts". 189 pp. with black and white photographs. Orange-brown paper boards with gilt lettering on spine. Light ding to bottom edge. Some very light soiling to edges. DJ archivally protected. Two half inch closed tears; two small chips 1cm diameter. Light rubbing to DJ panels.

Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine . STATED FIRST EDITION. One or two tiny chips in original Glassine dustjacket. Black lettering on spine of salmon-colored boards. Frontispiece photo. Eleven maps. Photographs. 230 pp with appendices and index. Clean, bright, tight. The author's "basic plan is to indicate the strategic problem posed by an invasion of the European continent from the British Isles and the complex tactical implications bearing on its solution," (preface).

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Oversized, 13.25 x 10.25". A few light nicks to bottom edge of black boards. Lightly bumped corners. Dustjacket very good plus, tiny tear at top spine corner. Mild shelfwear to jacket. Endpapers illustrated with photos of various magazine covers. Gorgeous photography. 191 pp with acknowledgements and credits. Clean, bright, tight. "A dazzling synthesis of contemporary style, fashion and celebrity beauty -- from elegantly restrained looks to the most extreme expressions -- by one of the most renowned hairstylists working today", (front flap).

London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Moderately scuffed boards. Mild edgewear, front corners bumped. Clean, bright, tight. 48 pp with glossary and further reading. Forty-three exhibits of Victoria & Albert Museum Islamic arms collection.

CHICAGO, ILL: Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelley), 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 18-page historical introduction by editor Nunis. A few light spots to rear board.

Minneapolis: Veckoblads, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Previous owner's name to front paste-down endpaper. Hinges starting. Age-tanned. Worn edges and corners. Dark brown titles on front of brown, lizard-like textured cloth-coverd boards. Small, thin book. Clean, tight. 59 pp. Verse and Story. A Little Christmas Book for Children by D. Nyvall, (1863 - 1946).