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London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1924. -1 jacket Book Fair. No Jacket null Dent's Modern Language Series, edited by Walter Ripman. Esperanto Lernolibro por Komencanto Ciulanda. 2 fold-out pages of color illustrations. Book has ring on front hard cover from resting a glass on it, previous owner's name, address, hope for universal peace written in ink on page opposite title page. Unusual also is partial sheet of 10 stamps stuck in book at page 65 and now glued half to it. Stamps are red and green and show Canada, USA and Central America with words "Esperanto for all, The Second Language, Argenta Jubileo". Book size is appox. 5 x 7-1/4". Hardcover. 2. Book.

Boston: Oliver Ditson Co. null Book Fair Music Many old American college classics: Eton Boating Song, O Alma Mater, Soldier's Farewell, Fair Harvard, Bull-Dog, There is a Tavern in the Town, Rig-a-Jig, Don't Forget dar's a Weddin' To-night, and more. Brittle paper cover with tears, chips, commensurate with age, but inside 104 pgs of music, lyrics clean and very usable.. Paper. 2. Book.

NY and Toronto: McGraw-Hill Good in good dust jacket. Book Good in Good jacket Ex-Library The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Research edition, Correspondence: Vol 1. "The Archives of James Boswell, now in the Yale Univ. Library, form one of the most important collections of 18th-Century personal papers known to exist....Boswell's letters to Johnston are usually unreserved and unaffected, free of the uneasy desire to impress that sometimes betrays itself in his attitude towards other correspondents." Paper dust jacket in VG condition but spine is tanned. Quality volume, blue hardcover with gold lettering, 369 clean tight pgs. Usual ex-library labels, stamps, evidence of date card pocket torn away back flyleaf.. Hardcover. 3/3. Book.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1911. null Book Good Ex-Library Alphabetical list of unusual usage, expressions, idioms, aphorisms and explanation....'Beauty is only skin-deep', 'Beat the dog before the lion', 'a Pretty Kettle of Fish', 'Noblesse Oblige', 'Curiosities of Names', 'Eccentricities of Rhymes' and much more. Heavy 1104 pgs, brown cloth hardbound, approx. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4" and 2" thick. Some rubbing wear along edges, first flyleaf is missing, usual ex-library labels, numbers, stamps, but overall inside very good, clean and fascinating reading.. Hardcover. 3. Book.

Geneve: Edition Jeheber -1 jacket Book Fair. No Jacket null TOME II, Merit. Roman, traduit du Finnois a Francais par Jean-Louis Perret. Pulpy paper, rough-cut edges. Copyright 1948. "Memoires d'un medecin vers l'an 1350 av. J.C." Some tears from shelf wear and age, otherwise clean but tanned.. Paper. 2. Book.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. null Book Fair Ex-Library "This is the story of the opening up of Japan by Commodore Perry in 1853....one of the great episodes in American naval history..." Orange hardcover with printed review pasted on 2nd pg, some b&w illustrations. 1st blank pg has been removed, library stamps.. Hardcover. 2. Book.

NY: Henry Holt, 1923. Good in fair dust jacket. Book Good in Fair jacket null 'We had though that the art of parody was lost, but this should amuse even the worshippers of Mr. Sherwood Anderson...so adroitly, so wittily parodied'...Philip Hale, Boston Herald. Jacket is faded orange paper.. First Edition. Hardcover. 3/2. Book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935. -1 jacket Book Good null Social and economic change in Greenwich Village. Green hardcover, no dj.. Hardcover. 3. Book.

New Jersey, USA: Catbird Press, 1989. Fine Book As New null Wechsler is editor of collection of humorous commentary on England and English life....Mark Twain, Robert Benchley, Henry James, Artemus Ward, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Theroux and more.. Trade Paperback. 5. Book.

Chicago, Ill: General Electric Appliance Co. null Book Good Privately Printed Vintage manual of recipes, basic cooking methods and operating instructions for early electric stoves, ca. 1930s? 70+ pgs, pamphlet style, stapled at side, blue plaid cover. Approx. 8 x 10".. Paper. 3. Book.

1993. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book Very Good in Very Good jacket Privately Printed 1893-1993, photos, biographies, members, officers and history of the Association.. Hardcover. 4/4. Book.

NY: Bard Avon, 1973. null Book Good null "Two comic novels of genius by the author of 'The Day of the Locust' and 'Miss Lonelyhearts'". Mass Market Paperback. 3. Book.

NY: Pocket Books, 1951. null Book Good null Vintage paperback. "The adventures of a Scotch border-lord who took what he wanted.". Mass Market Paperback. 3. Book.

Portsmouth, NH: Sandwich Historical Society, 1998. "Selections from the New Hampshire books ('The White Hills', 'NH Neighbors', 'The Heart of NH', 'November Rowen')...celebrates the local landscape and the timeless rural values..." Green paper cover. "It will appeal to bird lovers and to all northern New Englanders who cherish their short summers..". Paper. Good. Book.

NY: St Martin's Press, 1974. -1 jacket Book Good. No Jacket Ex-Library Photographic biography with chronology 1868-1916, genealogy, Russian aristocratic family, homes, children, pursuits, military, relationship to European royalty. Large blue hardcover, approx 9-1/4 x 11-1/2". Small library stamp inside front cover, inside back cover library card pocket has been torn away. Adhesive from small strips of tape on front, back cover. Pg 17 has been cut to remove a photo.. Hardcover. 3. Book.

Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Paragon House, 1990. "...Kundalini, a Sanskrit word that refers to our potential to reach a higher spiritual plane. Through kundalini yoga our vital life force is channeled up through the spine and concentrated in the brain, resulting in personal transformation and enlightenment....This volume includes the writings of Gopi Krishna, Swami Rama, Yogi Bhajan, Christopher Hills, Lee Sannella, and Ken Wilber, among others." Thick 482 pgs.. Paper. As New. Book.

Ottsville, Pa: Mary Whitney Inc., 1988. null Book Very Good Privately Printed "On April 29, 1988 Mary Whitney Inc has commission to be printed the Limited Edition, Number 298 of Fergusons Across America. This book has been registered in the name of Wilfred L. Ferguson residing at...........This limited edition will never be printed again. Other copies of this work are only available from other persons who purchase at the same time that you purchased yours. We hope this work will lead to many enjoyable hours of correspondence with other Ferguson families." This is printed on 2nd pg of book. Approx. 8-1/2 x 11", includes many pgs of names and addresses of persons with surname of Ferguson, arranged by state. Blue hardcover with gold line drawing of statue of liberty on front. Also includes other text about searching for ancestors, documenting lineage, common names and meanings and more.. Hardcover. 4. Book.

St. James, Michigan: Beaver Island Historical Society, 1983. A 19th century woman's recollection of a life spent near the waters of upper Lake Michigan, original copyright 1905. Paper. As New. Book.

NY: Anchor Books Fine in fine dust jacket. Book As New in As New jacket null Clean, new reprint of the 3rd volume celebrates the lively and homespun heritage of Appalachia, and includes section of hide tanning, building a lumber kiln, making apple butter and cornshuck mops. ' Animal care, banjos, dulcimers, wild plants foods, butter churns, ginseng.. Hardcover. 5/5. Book.

Uppsala, Sweden: Hallgren & Fallgren Studieforlag, 1997. Learning basic Swedish workbook: practising numbers, alphabet, currency, geography, short simple sentences with pictures to illustrate. Grey cover, approx 8 -1/4 x 11 -1/2", 144 pgs, clean inside but much of lower back cover is scraped and worn.. Paper. Fair. Book.