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Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, No jacket. Black and white frontis and illustrations. Edited with a life of Shakespeare, an account of the theatre in his time, and numerous aids to the study of the play, by Samuel Thruber, Jr. and A, B. de Mille. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt outlined title panel on front, which is quite faded, can barely read the title on the spine. It is clean and unmarked, light wear to corners, edges rubbed. Tight and solid sewn binding. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, with underlined text on a few pages. 371pages. Notes and Glossary. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 1951, Allyn and Bacon Publichers, Boston, MA

U.S.A: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback 1922 Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Classic Writing Textbook. Small detailed volume published in 1922 with effective writing skills designed as a textbook for a college course in English and for use in the correction of themes. Grammatical principles are clear and concise as are the other topics such as clarity of thought, effectiveness of the sentence, diction, punctuation, proper use of tense, paragraph cohesiveness, etc. All as pertinent today as in 1922. Binding of brown cloth w/gilt titles, which is rubbed off on spine, visible on front. Clean and unmarked, light scuffing to corners, spine head and heel rubbed; tight and solid sewn binding. Former owner name on endpaper. Pages are clean, no marks, no tears, moderately toned, but not browned. The back loose endpaper has a piece torn out of it. A handy, useful book, in quite good shape for a book nearly 100 years old.… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Rand McNally & Company, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Milo Winter. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Windermere Readers School Edition Fourth Printing. Classic juvenile literature. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. Clean and bright in pictorial cloth. A touch of cover edge wear. Tight and solid book. Dark green endpapers. Prev owner name on flyleaf front and back. Frontis: full color illustration of 'Hans Gave Peter the Missing Purse'. Charming and delightful illustrations throughout by Milo Winter. Pages very clean, clear, unmarked. A very nice volume. 352 pages, 1957, Rand McNally & Company, New York, New York, USA

USA: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1957. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade paperback in Good Condition. Classic juvenile literature. First published 1865. Former owner name on inside of front cover. Illustrated cover is kightly worn around all edges, clean, no soiling. Glued binding tight and solid. Pages toned, clean, unmarked. A story of life in Holland--The story of Hans and his sister Gretel and their ice-skaing race with a much desired prize of a pair of silver skates to replace their old wooden skates. 334 pages. 5.25 x 7.75 inches. 1957, Scholastic Paperbacks, USA

Englwood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Edited by Albert J. Guerard. Twentieth Century Views Series Book: The aim of this series is to present the best contemporary critical opinion on major authors, providing a 20th century perspective on their changing status in an era of profound revaluations. (so states Series Editor Maynard Mack, Yale University). Black wraps with red and black illustration is clean, rubbed on front and lightly around edges and hinge edges, sound binding, tight & square, pages ervenly toned, clean, no markings or creasing. There are ciritcal essays about Thomas Hardy's works in this volume by Donald Davidson, Morton Zabel, D H Lawrence, John Holloway, Albert Guerard, Dorothy van Ghent, W H Auden, and others. Includes a Chronology, Notes on the Editor and Authors and Bibliography.5.5 x 8.2 inches. 1963, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.

U.S.A: The Viking Press, 1961. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. The Viking Press, 1961. Hardcover Ex-library Book in Fair Condition. No jacket. Frontispiece a photo of Hemingway.The internals of the book are in quite good condition--clean, unmarked, toned; very interesting photos of Hemingway and people/places in his life. Binding of tan tweed, with clean panels, corners and a spot on the fore edge scuffed. The backstrap is torn, ragged, partially loose from the front panel, almost entirely loose from the back panel. Gold titles on spine, not too visible. Tape over library tag at lower end of spine is helping to hold the boards together. Endpaper hinge has been repaired with book tape. The sewn binding of the signatures, however, remains tight. Library pocket on free endpaper. 141 pages. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. 1961, The Viking Press, New York, New York, USA

Budapest, Hungary: Corvina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Corvina Press, 1972. Type: Hardback Second Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Herdsmen's Art in Hungary, 86 pages coloured plates and line drawings within the text then 32 pages of black and white photographic plates. Janos Manga describes the way of life of the herdsmen, making the reader familiar with the ethnography of this bygone world; he uses contemporary documents supporting this description, with a rich inventory of fine examples of pastoral art--those tools and utensils the herdsmen had to make themselves, and decorated them out of their own artistic sense. Clean blue/white pictorial binding with Hungarian decorated vase on front. Boards have a touch of edgewear at corners and spine ends. Tight & solid. Interior clean and unmarked. 85 pages + 42 b/w and 16 colour plates. 5.75 x 7.75 inches. 1972, Corvina Press, Budapest, Hungary

New York: Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Volume III. Clean, unmarked, illustrated cover has slight wear to corners, tight and solid glued binding, pages toned, quite clean. The Derynis had ruled for two centureis when they were dethroned and driven underground. They were led by King Nelson, on the throne of Gwynedd, who was hlaf Deryni and part of the race of humans gifted with extraordinary powers. Now, the final battle for ultimate control was about top break out, led by the Church which equated the supernatural powers of the Deryni with witchcraft and heresy. Fantasy lovers will love these Chronicles of the Deryni. 369 pages with Series Index of Characters, Index to Place Names, Time Line for History of the Eleven Kingdoms, The Genetic Basis for Deryni Inheritance. . 7" x 4.25". 1985, Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, New York

U.S.A: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good + Condition. No jacket. Red boards with gilt imprinted crest on front, black panel with gilt lettering and design on spine. Clean, tight, solid volume. Colorless beginning of a scratch or wrinkle to cloth across center of front panel. Spine heel lightly rubbed. Light wear to four corners, and front corners bumped. Rough cut. Text pages clean, unmarked, untorn. An action-packed historical novel about the origins of New Orleans and its French Canadian founders. 371 pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. Doubleday, New York, 1949.

New York, New York, USA: Henry Holt, 1991. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Henry Holt, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Archival protective cover. A dark study of the life and mind of the third most powerful Nazi, behind Hitler and Goring, and the twisted psychological neuroses which produced one of the century's leading mass murderers. Black quarter cloth w/gilt titles, red boards, clean and unmarked. No edgewear. Solid, tight, square. Clean, neat, small bookplate on paste-down. Interior pristine. Red and black clean, glossy jacket with illustration of Himmler. 656 pages. Includes Reference Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. 6.75 x 9.75 inches. 1991, Henry Holt Publisher, New York, New York, USA

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. Third Edition. Large Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Volume A from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages. White illustrated cover is clean and unmarked with slight edgewear. Tight glued binding. Highlighting and underlining of text throughout but text very legible, clean. Lower edge stamped Used Book. Title page has 2 page references printed on it by a previous owner. Fully illustrated with color and b/w illustrations--many of antiquities. Cover illustration is detail of wall painting from the Tomb of Ipuy, Thebes. 504 pages plue Notes and Index. 8 x 10.25 inches. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1992.

New York, New York, USA: Harms Inc, 1937. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Large Paperback Book of Piana Arrangements for the Organ, in Good Condition. . Clean and unmarked cover with light wear to extremities. Former owner name on front cover. Stapled binding, the cover is loose from the stapled text body. Music scores clean and clear and untorn and free of any markings. Words & Music and Chord symbols included. Examples of music arrangements: September in the Rain,The Blue Room, Moonlight Bay, In a Shanty In Old Shanty Town, Poor Butterfly. 9 x 12inches. 1937, Harms Inc., New York, New York, USA

USA: Beatrice Bayley, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Privately Printed Hardback in FIne Condition. Illustrated. Bound in bonded dark green leather, stamped with a vine-like design around a central double-edge panel, gilt vine design on spine with an "H". Beauttiful book. Clean, bright, tight, unmarked. There is much information pertaining to genealogy--origin of names, common names and their meanings, the meaning and origin of heraldry, history of ethnic origins, talking genealogy, beginning your personal search, etc. Unpaginated. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1981, Beatrice Bayley, Inc., USA

U.S.A: International Bible Society, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. NEAR FINE CONDITION NEW TESTAMENT-PAPERBACK.

Octopus Books Limited, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. NY, Octopus, 1978. Hardcover Quarto Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Brown full cloth with white lettering. Slight wear to extremities, else Fine. Magnificent full page color photos--more than100--throughout, some suitable for framing. Endpapers show horses running in the meadows--The Halflinger breed originated from the Austrian Tyrol. The book features the world's major breeds from the American Quarter Horse to the Arabs and thoroughbreds. Horses at work and horses at play; equestrian sports-polo, flat racing, steeplechasing, and rodeos-and horses on show-performing dressage, jumping-are also included. There is a special section tracing the story of the horse as shown by the artist from prehistory to recent times. 104 pages. Index. 12 x 9.5 ". NY, Octopus, 1978. [US] [NOTE: The ISBN on the book and jacket is incorrect.]

U.S.A: Barnes & Noble, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback CR Basil Blackwell, 1969. Printed in Great Britain. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Good Dust Jacket in Protective Mylar Cover. Thirty-two illustrative plates. Binding of green full cloth with silver titles on spine; very clean, no edgewear, tight, square and solid, with sharp corners. Upper backstrap is slightly loosened from crash and on the top rear edge of the board there is a small scuff mark. Interior is very clean and free from any markings. Clean and bright jacket, with corner and edgewear, torn up from bottom on each end of the front, one and a half inches. Now with protective mylar cover. Illustration on front of jacket is a reproduction of 'Chairing the Member" by William Hogarth--looks quite a violent affair! This is a collection of passages from writers who were describing at first hand what they knew from their own experience. The passages were chosen to… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Pristine, in blue full cloth binding with bright and sharp gilt titles, square, sharp corners, tight & solid. Endpapers with map of the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the site of this fanasy. Frontis: two maps:The Isle of Albion and Poiteran; and The Veileo Hills. Bright and colorful jacket, unclipped.This is the first title in Sara Douglass' new series, The Troy Game, an historical fantasy series of love, revenge, and the madness that ensares a soul. 592 pages. 9.6 x 1.75 x 6.5 inches. Tor Books, New York, 2003.

Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2005. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7. Potomac Books, 2005. Military Series Profile Trade Paperback Book in Fine Condition. Remaindered. b/w illustrations. Bright and spotless wraps with portrait of General Haig on front; tight and solid glued binding, square. Internals also spotless, as new. Andrew Wiest presents a '--balanced analysis of Haig's limitations and his significant contributions to Britain's great victory in WW I". Both his reputation as a "butcher and a bungler" for his command during the war at the Somme and Passchendaele and his role in the transformation to modern warfare are dealt with in this significant military biography of General Sir Douglas Haig, 1861-1928. xv, 137 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 8 x 5 inches. 2005, Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia.

New York: Putnam Pub Group, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Introduction and Afterword by Stephen Ambrose. Heavy, solid book in navy half cloth with silver titles, navy paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked; no edgewear. Photographic illustrations. Interior is also Fine. Four years and three months of diaries left behind by H R Haldeman when he died were published for the first time in this book, revealing a fascinating portrait of an era and a White House that still haunts American history and politics today. He provides a clear view of the triumphs and tragedies-the Cambodia bombings, Kent State, Watergate, the Vietnam peace negotiations, Russia and China trips, the fall of Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger' manipulations and much more. And a view of Richard Nixon himself. 698 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 x 2 inches. Putnam Pub Group, New York, 1994.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition--bright, clean, very nice like new book. The author is a winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award. "--one of the freshest, keenist mystery-writing voices to come out of the United Kingdom since Ruth Rendell". A gripping psychological suspense story. 301 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 2005, Delacorte Press/ Bantam Dell/Random House, USA