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Gulfshore Press, (1997). First Edition. Signed by the Author. Oblong quarto, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 86 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Bellevue, WA: Tokuma Shorten Publishing Co., Ltd., 1994. Quarto, full-color illustrated laminated boards (hardcover), unpaginated, [16] pp. Fine (As New). Illustrated with full-color photographs. From text: The Power Rangers are ready to take on Rita and her monster squad with help from their Dinozords. Every Power Ranger has a Dinozord, each with different moves and skills. These skills combined make them a great team. Lead by Rita Repulsa, the enemy crew that the Power Rangers have face are mean and nasty. Each of them have special powers that make it even harder for the Power Rangers. Rita and her crew make their nasty assault plans in their fortress on the dark side of the moon...

Whitsett, North Carolina: Whitsett Institute, 1917. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge gilt, 156 pp. Very Good, with edgewear and foxing (age darkened spotting). Contents: An Ode to Expression, The Soul of the Sea, The King’s Charge, Marguerite and Robin, Love’s Content, Abu Ul-Kindi, Rose of the South, Bob White! Wheat’s Ripe!, The Road, The Traveled Mind vs. The Traveled Eyes, The Martyr’s Gift, Robert Burns, Remembrance, Love is Greatest, Carpite Florem, Pericles, What is Truth?, The Lament of Saul, March, My Quiet Hours, Equo Animo, November, Had I the Time, The Sage’s Song, Tell It, Foreward, A Christmas Lyric, A Seaman’s Song, Maxims, The New / The Old, To a Lark, Thought, Martin Luther, At Yuletide, To a Poet, George Washington, Esto Perpetua, February, St. Valentine’s Day, Sincerity, The Singer, Attainment, The Teacher, Winter, The Crowning of Aulis, The Conqueror, Hate, The Gossip, A Fool and His Mouth, She Knew, The Victim, The Outcast, Man and His… Read More

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., (1979). Octavo, tan boards (hardcover), gilt letters, iv, 220 pp. Fine in a Near fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Here is E. R. Chamberlin’s account of one of the great tragedies of history. It was a tragedy that nobody intended, but it cost the lives of thousands and brought a way of life to an end. The author traces the origins of the tragedy through the personalities of the people whose miscalculations brought it about: Charles, Duke of Bourbon, leader of the army, who was killed at the moment of assault, leaving it leaderless and doubly dangerous; Francois I, the brilliant, hedonistic King of France, who drove Bourbon to treason and so helped start the avalanche; Frundsburg, the giant German who brought his landsknechts across the Alps to march on Rome with the Frenchmen he despised; the Emperor Charles V, the deeply religious man who nevertheless unleashed his army to teach ‘that villain of a pope’ a lesson; and the Pope himself -- the… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, (1944). First Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 94 pp. Very Good, with very light speckling to covers; in a Fair dust jacket, with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This completed version of The Sad Shepherd is a notable addition to the scarse literature of the outdoor theatre, and recommends itself alike to dramatic groups seeking material for outdoor performance and to individual readers of such plays, as well as to all lovers of Ben Jonson. The skill with which the late Alan Porter completed the script of which Jonson had written little more than half when he died is attested by the...comments made by the New York Herald Tribune critic when the finished comedy was performed in the Vassar outdoor theatre...

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1959). First Edition, stated. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, viii + 133 pp. Very Good, with neat bookplate and light speckling to edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Four-star General Kenney pays a remarkable tribute to a remarkable man in this biography. Colonel Paul Irvin (”Pappy”) Gunn met a tragic death in an airplane accident in the Philippines on October 11, 1957. Believing that our country owes a debt to a great character, a superb aviator, and a devoted American that has never been paid, General Kenney has written this story in the hope that it will help discharge a part of that debt. General Kenney’s own words serve better than any others to describe this book: “This is the story of an extraordinary character. He was one of the great heroes of the Southwest Pacific in World War II, a mechanical genius, and one of the finest storytellers I have ever known. His… Read More

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1930. Vidas Espanolas del Siglo XIX, 7. First edition. Octavo, softbound, uncut, 253 pp. Frontis. portrait. Good, mostly unopened.

Portland: The Bond Wheelwright Company, (1955). Signed by both Authors on ffep. Royal octavo, turquoise cloth (hardcover), silver letters, 203 pp. Very Good+, with sunned & lightly rubbed spine.

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.

London: Peter Davies, (1967). First Edition. Octavo, boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 245 pp. Very Good+, with bookplate and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light foxing. From dust jacket: Outstanding as a seaman, even aong those who received their Dartmouth schooling at the tail end of the period when cadets were trained in sail, the author’s successive appointments on the Mediterranean and China stations seemed to indicate exclusively a seafaring future. His lively accounts of some legendary characters with whom he served offer splendid reading; these include the notorious ‘Spuddy’ Carver, a well-known bully, Commander of the Switsure. It was in 1910 when Grahame-White flew an aircraft over the fleet that the author’s career involuntarily made a violent change of course. Privately he learned to fly and at last joined the Naval Air Wing of the Royal Flyin gCorps in 1913. He gives a unique picture of the hazards… Read More

Tascaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, (1993). Signed by Lawrence “Larry” Sheely. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), xii, 221 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the winter of 1917, with most of the world at war, 23-year-old Irving Edward Sheely of Albany, New York, enlisted in Naval Aviation and began his training at Pensacola Naval Air Station. When Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the combined strength of aviation within the Navy and Marine Corps was 48 officers, 239 enlisted men, 54 airplanes, 1 airship, and 1 air station. Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting immediately recruited seven volunteer officers and 122 volunteer enlisted men with orders to go directly to France as the First Aeronautical Detachment. By June, the first organized contingent of American forces arrived in the combat zone at St. Nazaire, France -- woefully unprepared to take on the mighty submarine force of imperial Germany. Among this small detachment was Landsman… Read More

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1955. One of 200, this one being Out of Series. Quarto, two-toned cloth (hardcover), printed in red & black, uncut, 25 pp. Engraved image of Patrick by Mallette Dean. Fine in acetate jacket.

Detroit: Hudson Motor Car Co., 1940. 16mo, printed self-wrappers, stapled, 47, [1] pp. Addresses, “Exlusive Hudson Features,” “Important Hudson Advantages,” and compares and contrasts each of the Hudson models with parallel industry models. Very Good.

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1961. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), ix, 147 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) and former-owner inscription, in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear that includes several small chips. From jacket: Here in a community of the Western North Carolina mountains, people are relaxing and telling stories. Instead of just a hobby, passing the time of day has become an art with many of them -- the art of story-making. Remembering clearly, unfolding their tales deliberately, and enjoying the moment, these sage mountaineers, while rocking in their settin cheers and smoking their pipes, enjoy a brand of humor that has its roots deep in their traditions. The result is some unsurpassed stories, told for enjoyment...The saving grace of these people, says the author, after commenting on their many hardships, is humor and a keen appreciation...of the small everyday drolleries of life. This is the salt of an otherwise difficult and austere existence. The… Read More

Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, [1956]. Octavo, green illus. cloth (hardcover), xiii, 208 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. Sylvester divulges his broad knowledge, including secrets which will make it possible for any salt water fisherman to enjoy his fishing even more and to be rewarded with greater success. Chuck-full of applicable information for any and all salt water fishermen.

Cologne: Knoemann, (2000). Third Printing. Octavo, softbound, 95 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Fine.

Chapel Hill, NC: North Caroliniana Society, Inc., 1981. This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is number 77. Signed by the Author on Title Page. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled tan wrappers), 37 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature. Illustrated with b&w photos.

New York: White Deer Books.1984. Of an Edition Limited to 400, This is #165. Octavo, paperbound (blue illus. wrappers with cover flaps), 32 pp. Fine, in original, worn envelope.

Childerset Pty. Ltd., (1987). Large, square octavo, full-color illus. white boards (hardcover), [34] pp. Fine.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, (1995). First Edition, Stated. Royal octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), [26] pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. From jacket: For true, Sambalena is more than a very big show-off, he’s also very, very lazy. So how does he suddenly find himself wishing he could do a few chores? The answer begins with Sambalena’s showing-off, and leads to a lesson he will never forget! Bursting with luscious color, this modern-day fable is written with a playful energy that youngsers will love.