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London: Frank Cass and Company, 1966. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1921, an account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African people by one who has for many years lived amongst them on close & intimate terms as a missionary in the early 1900s. Clean copy. Record # 379397

NY: Andrews McMeel, 2023. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. V.T. Hamlin. Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Alley Oop's color time-traveling adventures continue! Come with Alley as he crashes into the War in the Pacific, becomes a screen star in Hollywood's Golden Age, and more! 139 never-before-reprinted strips are presented in this oversize hardcover (12' x 16'), covering 1942 through August 1944, featuring a foreword from former Alley Oop writer Carole Bender. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 384022

Acoustic Learning, 2022. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, oblong format. A reprinting of the daily strips from 1955. B&w throughout. Kidnappers from the 20th century raid Moo to steal King Guz for an unspeakable biological experiment! Other stories include a prehistoric fishing trip gone wrong-and Ooola's adventure with the legendary Helen of Troy! Clean copy. Record # 381325

NY: Viking, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Simms Taback. Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no medal sticker on front. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with a bright, unclipped dust jacket with the die-cut holes. Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here. Record # 63613

New York: Viking Press, 1997. 3rd pr.. Very Good/Very Good. Simms Taback. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Taback. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. An old ballad with clever drawings and die-cuts. A Caldecott Honor Book with sticker on cover. Record # 503744

NY: Viking, 1999. 1st thus. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Simms Taback. Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no medal sticker on front of dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with a bright, unclipped dust jacket with the die-cut holes.Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here. Record # 202735

Philadelphia: Lippincott Company, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951120

Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press , 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 255 pages. Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the historical conditions under which racial inequality was institutionalized in Britain. Clean copy. Record # 379106

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an attempt to explain the most basic ritual called lsti with the help of the original texts and the photographs of the actual performance of that sacrifice that took place in Pune, India, in July 1979. The book contains in all 140 photographs showing various stages of the sacrifice with explanation of the rites. Clean copy. Record # 379879

New York: Association Press, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Volume 1: 636 pages. Volume 2: 664 pages. Hardcovers. Bound in maroon, gilt titles on spine, somewhat muted with age. Letter from Trustees of the War Fund, dated April 11, 1924, presenting volumes to previous owner (Gilbert Colgate), as well as original packing list enclosed in Volume 1. Full color fold-out maps throughout both books. Gutter cracked in a few spots, but both book's pages still completely intact. Pages slightly yellowed with age. In very good condition. Record # 30664

NY: Viking Press, 1992. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge. Record # 3969

NY: Viking, 1991. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by William I. Neuman. Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez." Record # 370915

NY: Viking, 1990. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge. Record # 3973

Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Color, black & white photos of his parents, all done in various off-beat styles. Record # 68215

France: Arthaud, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 209 pages. French text. Minor dust jacket edge wear and tear with minor yellowing on inside flaps. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Record # 852268

NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. 2nd pr.. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring andinquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of… Read More

NY: Macmillan, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Record # 360879

NY: George H. Doran, 1912. 1st US. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, original green cloth with mounted illustration on cover as issued, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover. 500 pages, colored frontis of Ekoi Girl in Fatting House costume, numerous illustrations from photos, folding drawing of wall decoration, folding map colored in outline in rear in excellent condition. The author traveled extensively in the Oban District of Southern Nigeria and part of the Cameroons to study the Ekoi people as well as the natural history of the area in 1907. Included are chapters on religion, Egbo, Jujus, position of women, birth customs, divination, witchcraft, funeral ceremonies, war, government, folk-lore, etc, with detailed appendices on taboos, clubs, anthropometrics, orthography, grammar, vocabularies, botany, zoology, mineralogy, meteorology, geography. Book is ex-lib with only envelope and stickers to front fly leaf. Spine shows edgewear, fraying to top and bottom. Rubbing to pastedown on cover.… Read More

Milwaukie OR: Dark Horse, 1994-95. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Bryan Talbot. Softcover, the complete set of 4 books, first published in comic book format. Color illustrations by Talbot. All clean, bright copies. Record # 411200

New York: Dell Publishing, 1947. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #173. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Record # 368634