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Stuttgart, Germany: Robert Lutz, 1926. Zweite Auflage. Gebundenes Buch. Feine Zustand. Zweite auflage. Halbleder. Fast Geldstrafe. Schˆner dunkelroter und Vergoldungsentwurf. Sehr starker Buchbau, hell, unmarkiert. 312 SeitenSecond Edition. Half-leather with beautiful dark red and gilt design. Pale blue spine label. Tight, bright, unmarked. 312 pp. (DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE IN SIERRA, PERU, BOLIVIA AND BRAZIL). 

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1985. Paperback. Fine. Hasselriis, Malthe. NEW. UNREAD. SIXTH PRINTING. Red and black lettering to spine and front of illustrated mustard-yellow covers. Titles and author's name on cover also in Chinese. List of illustrations. Clean, bright, solid binding. 261 pp with advertisements to rear of book. Author of Tales of a Korean Grandmother. Thirty illustrated tales of Chinese folklore.

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/ Very Good Plus. Considered to be one of the great literary classics of Japan, this tenth century work of poems and prose reveals the intrigues of ancient aristocratic Japan. Arihara no Narihira is considered to be the author of many of the poems. 247 pp. Contains 16 black and white illustrations of authentic woodblock prints. Handsome rice paper and cloth binding. Rubbed spot 1/4" to bottom edge of rear cover, faintest soiling to bottom edge of pages barely noticeable. Minor age tanning to top edge of dust jacket, inside bottom corner of dust jacket is clipped.

New York: Parent's Magazine Press, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. Ingrid Fetz. Dust jacket price clipped, DJ is chipped at top of spine, and has minor wear to edges, with a 1 inch closed tear to top of front. Book itself is in near fine condition, with very minimal rubbing to corners. 72 pp.

NEW YORK: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1926 . Hardcover. VERY GOOD . Shepard, E. H. . Early printing. Vocal score with music set to lyrics adapted from Milne's book of children's verses. Includes "Teddy Bear," which features the first appearance of Winnie the Pooh. 43 pp. Oversized sky blue boards with pink casing. Moderate spotting to front board with several quarter-sized, nickel-sized, dime-sized and smaller spots. Some light spotting to rear board. Light rubbing to extremities. Light bumps to corners with significant wear. Two small chips to casing along bottom edge of front board. Some very light soiling to endpapers. Dime-sized spot to RFEP, both sides, rear of last text page, rear pastedown. Former bookseller's sticker to RFEP. Nice, clean copy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Paula R Szafrznski. Would be fine if not for slightest lean to textblock. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

New York: Freethought Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. Three corners nudged, 1 corner bumped. Spinecaps creased, light wear to edges. A 2" closed tear to spine. Front hinges just starting. Moderate wear overall. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 644 pp with bibliography, index, An investigation into the origin and meaning of the decalogue and an analysis of its ethical and moral value as a code of conduct in modern society.

New York: Frederick Ungar, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good. Mild shelf/edgewear to surfaces and extremities. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of burnt-orange, cloth-covered boards. Eight page section black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 168 pp with notes, filmography, bibliograph and index. Tennessee Williams wrote such books as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tatoo which were adapted into film versions. "Taking the films in chronological order, the book examines the significance of changes made in the adaptations, whether for directorial purposes or because of the essential differences in the media," (front flap).

New York: Collier, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. NO JACKET. Previous owner's name, in ink, to front free endpaper. Mild shelfwear. Light toning to pages. Gilt lettering, black design debossed to spine. Black silhouetted, debossed design of man with gun behind tree to front of midnight-blue, cloth-covered boards. Clean, bright, tight. 294 pp. A Margot Blair mystery. Suspects! Motives! Hidden agendas! Trying to figure out Knight's puzzle makes this a page-turner!

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 . Hardcover. VERY GOOD in chipped dustjacket . FIRST EDITION. Inspector J.G. Reeder is ensnared in a trap set by Crazy John Flack and some of London's most desperate crooks, and he must fight for his life in a battle of wits and weapons. Wallace was one of the most renowned English suspense novelists of the early 20th century, and this is a fine showcase of his talents. 283 pp. Slight spine lean. Light bumps to all four corners. Light age-yellowing and a bit of light soiling and spotting to edges of text. Some light soiling to FFEP, half-title, title page, several pages of text. Just a bit of light foxing to RFEP, last page of text. Light shelf creasing to both spinecaps. Light rubbing to rear board and very light rubbing to front board. Slight crease to length of spine. DJ now archivally protected. Sylish image on front DJ panel features silhouette of a long-haired man over a labrotory table with both arms extended and a silhouetted… Read More

New York: Prang Educational Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Occasional light pencil notations and smudges throughout text. Moderately stained brown boards. Illustrations in color and black and white. 98 pp with Problems for Review or for Home Work. Tightly bound. Contents of Book V include selecting and expressing landscapes, flowers and fruits, animals in outline, expressing objects in line, value and color, perspectives, geometry as in laying out of surfaces; making patterns, etc. and design i.e. color relations, pure, decorative and constructive design and more.

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company1897, 1897. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 3/4 BOUND MOROCCO. Leather edges and corners are rubbed through to cardboard on corners. Small 1/4" hole on rear, center spine. Lightly foxed endpapers. Mildly soiled boards. Age-tanning. Tiny, red, line-drawn illustrations on brown endpapers. Nine pp Geometrical drawings, 14 Mechanical drawings, tables and formulas. Five lightly raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. Over 101 pp with 12 p index. One rear blank endpaper torn out. Tight. Containing clear, precise illustrations, this book describes both Geometrical Drawings and Mechanical Drawings. From Instruments and Materials to Blueprinting. Includes Tables of common Logarithms of numbers, natural sines, cosines, tangents, and cotangents, traverse tables, formulas and much more.

Chicago: American Technical Society, 1914. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Comprehensive handbook on textile chemistry and dyeing. Profusely illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts, and diagrams. 343 pp. Corners very lightly bumped. Previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Light pencil to about a dozen pp.

New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Tettoni, Luca Invernizzi. Light rubbing to board edges. Dustjacket very good. Mild shelf/edgewear. Jacket spine lightly sunned. White lettering to spine and front of chocolate-brown, cloth-covered boards. Over 350 color photographs. Illustrated architectural notebook in final section. Clean, tight, bright. 216 with index. A concise introduction by the author places Thai design in context and adds another dimension to our understanding of Thai culture. Chapters are : Traditions, Traditions Adapted, Foreign Influences and Tropical Modern.

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild edgewear to jacket. A small dimple to rear panel near center spine. Gilt lettering to spine of burnt-orange, cloth-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers are maps of Southern Asia. Clean, bright, tight. 230 pp with bibliography and index. "With his characteristic blend of 'anecdote, history, travelogue and analysis', Richard West evokes all the exoticism of the country and its people and looks at some of the most interesting episodes of the recent past such as the hippy murders and the famous disappearance of the American silk millionaire, Jim Thompson," (front flap).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Light scuffing to rear jacket panel. Metallic "goldish" lettering to spine of goldenrod colored boards. Introduction by Wayne C. Booth. The exotic story of Thais, the beautiful courtesan, and Paphnutius, the ascetic priest.

LONDON: Skeffington & Son , 1904 . Hardcover. VERY GOOD . FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED by author's daughter on half-title. By Vicar of North Grimston, York, an appeal toward "that which, put last, sums up those holy affections in which we are to 'walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called.'"86 pp. with 2 pp. ads to rear of text. Deckle edge. Light foxing to edges. Very light spine lean. Light rubbing to edges, very light rubbing to boards. Light bumps to corners. Loose signature at middle. Clean, tight.

Santa Barbara: Group of One, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. LIMITED 1/1000. Stain (4 x 2") to front of grey, cloth-covered boards. Black lettering. Black and white photographs. Unpaginated - approximately 30 pp. Clean, tight, bright. "It is easy to recognize that no one is perfect. Everyone knows there are wide variances in assets and liabilities among members of the human race. The question is : "Just how different can one person be and still be an accepted member of society?"", (Thomas McCool).

NEW YORK: John Wiley & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Minus. Aimed at experimental physicists working in some field connected with electron transport, and also to theoreticians who want a survey of thermoelectricity and related questions. This book traces the early history of thermoelectricity from discovery up to the present day, and includes and discusses a large amount of experimental data. 133 pp. Previous owner's name blacked out to top edge, very slight edgewear to book. Very slight edgewear to DJ, light fading to DJ spine, lightly scuffed surfaces. White lettering to book spine, blue cloth-covered boards. Tight, bright, clean.

NEW YORK: Grove Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Foreward by Jean-Paul Sartre. During the 1930's, the Barrio Chino in Barcelona was considered the "sacred pit of humanity." Genet (author of Our Lady of the Flowers) lives amoung the "beggars and thieves, fairies and whores" and frankly declares, "It is the life of vermin I am going to describe." Poetic and honest and candid. 268 pp. Very light edgewear to book and DJ and light sunning to DJ spine. Gilt lettering to spine, red cloth-covered boards, plastic covering to DJ. Tight, clean.