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Abbate, Francesco (Ed.) Egyptian Art
London Octopus Books (1972). 0706400623 First Edition Very Good Very Good
158 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Translated by H. A. Fields. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears. "The Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, the portrait head of Nefertiti, the throne of Tutankhamon, the temples of Abu Simbel, the frescoes from the Valley of the Kings - these and many other timeless art treasures are discussed and illustrated here in 103 splendid full-color illustrations."
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Abbey, Edward Cactus Country
New York Time-Life Books (1973). First Edition Very Good
Glossy pictorial boards with cloth spine. 184 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. No dust jacket. A clean, attractive copy.
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Abish, Walter Eclipse Fever
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1993 0679418679 First Edition Very Good Very Good
Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. 335 pp. Dust jacket has a faded spine. Contents clean and tight. "...a complex, powerful depiction of the wealthy and intellectual in Mexico City and an exploration of the connection between fiction and history." - LJ
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Ackerman, Diane The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
New York Random House (1995). 0679403469 First Edition Very Good Very Good
Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. xxi, 184 pp. Index. Inscribed by the author. Jacket has a short tear, edges of binding faded. Contents clean and tight. "Profiles a variety of endangered animals including the golden lion tamarin, monk seal, and short-tailed albatross, revealing the factors that are contributing to their endangerment and describing preservation efforts."
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Adams, Ansel Basic Photo Vol. 1 - Vol. 5: Camera & Lens; The Negative; The Print; Natural-Light Photography; Artificial-Light Photography
New York Morgan and Lester; Morgan & Morgan Very Good
Five volumes of a six-volume set. Vol. 1: 1948 first edition. Cloth. viii, 120 pp. Photos. Index. A couple of faint smudges to cloth. Contents clean and tight. Vol. 2: Revised edition. viii, 120 pp. Photos. Index. Dust jacket has small chips and tears. Vol. 3: New edition. viii, 120 pp. Photos. Index. Jacket has short tear to rear panel. Contents clean and tight. Vol. 4: Later printing. x, pages., 118 pp. Dust jacket has chips and tears, stain to front panel. Contents solid. Vol. 5: Second printing. xii, 116 p. Photos. Index. Jacket has small chips and tears and some small, faint stains.
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Adams, Douglas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
New York Simon and Schuster (1987). 0671625829 First American Edition Very Good Very Good
Cloth spine with gilt lettering. 247 pp. Small publisher's stamp to bottom edges. A clean copy with little wear. "A ghost - horror - detective - time travel - romantic comedy epic."
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Addams, Jane A Centennial Reader
New York Macmillan 1960 Very Good Very Good
Later printing. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xix, 330 pp. Introduction by William O. Douglas. Previous owner's address stickers, dust jacket has a couple of short tears. A solid copy.
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Agee, James Agee on Film Volume One; Agee on Film Volume Two
New York Grosset & Dunlap (1967). Very Good Very Good Tomi Ungerer
Reprints. Two volumes. Full cloth. 432 pp. x, 488 pages. Photos. Light wear, short tears to jackets. A clean, attractive set. Includes essays and five screenplays: Noa Noa, The African Queen, The Night of the Hunter, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Blue Hotel.
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Aksyonov, Vassily Our Golden Ironburg: A Novel with Formulas
Ann Arbor, MI Ardis Publishers (1989). 0882335596 First Edition Very Good Very Good
Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 254 pp. Translated by Ronald E. Peterson. A clean, attractive copy. "...loosely chronicles the lives of members of a leading scientific research center in Siberia - brilliant bad boys who play adolescent pranks while searching for a 'peep-hole into eternity'" - PW
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Al-Azzawi, Fadhil; Mattawa, Khaled (Translator) Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Rochester, NY BOA Editions 2003 1929918453 First Edition Very Good
Trade paperback. 143 pp. Signed by the author. Two pages dog-eared. A clean, attractive copy. "This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility."
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Albert, Susan Wittig Chile Death: A China Bayles Mystery
New York Berkley (1998). 0425165396 First Edition Very Good Very Good
306 pp. Signed by the author. Dust jacket has a small blemish at the bottom of the rear fold. "This seventh China Bayles mystery offers a surprising climax, beautiful Texas Hill Country atmosphere, solid police procedural details, and lots of information on herbs and chili (including recipes)." - Booklist
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Aldiss, Brian W. Galactic Empires Volume 1
New York St. Martin's Press (1976). Very Good Very Good
Book Club Edition. 305 pp. Jacket has a couple of tears. A solid copy. Contents: Been a Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer by Poul Anderson; Foundation by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized! by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides; The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Idris Seabright; Immigrant by Clifford Simak; Resident Physician by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; Planting Time by P. Adams and Charles Nightingale.
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Aldrich, Bess Streeter Miss Bishop
New York D. Appleton-Century 1933 First Edition Very Good
Blue cloth with silver lettering and decoration. 337 pp. No dust jacket. Previous owner's name. Contents clean and tight. The basis for the movie Cheers for Miss Bishop.
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey The Story of a Bad Boy
Philadelphia John C. Winston (1927). First Edition Thus Very Good Edwin John Prittie
Cloth with paste-down illustration to front cover. viii, 253 pp. Four color plates. Bookplate, partly removed. Some spotting and wear to cloth, front hinge cracked. A couple of pages have smudges or stains, but overall they're clean.
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Alex, William Japanese Architecture
London Prentice Hall (1963). First Edition Very Good Very Good
Cloth spine with gilt lettering. 127 pp. Illustrated. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Some notes in pencil. Price-clipped dust jacket has a couple of short tears. Contents clean and tight. From the library of Edna Henner: college professor, interior designer, and traveler.
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Alireza, Marianne At the Drop of a Veil
Boston Houghton Mifflin (1971). 039512090X Very Good Very Good
Later printing. Cloth. x, 275 pp. Glossary. Inscribed by the author. Price-clipped jacket has chips and tears. "The true story of a California girl's years in an Arabian harem."
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Alland, Alexander, Jr. The Human Imperative.
New York Columbia University Press 1972 0231083017 Very Good
Later printing. Trade paperback. viii, 185 pp. Bibliography. A solid copy with only light wear. "...a readable rejoinder from an anthropologist equipped to rebut authoritatively the dismal conclusions many have drawn that war and conflict are inescapable."
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Allard, William Albert; Laxalt, Robert A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland
Reno, NV University of Nevada Press (1990). 0874171571 First Edition Fine Very Good
Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. 104 pp. Photos. Signed by both Allard and Laxalt. Gift inscription. Spine of jacket faded. A clean, attractive book. "For two months in 1967, Allard, an American, visited the Basque homeland in the Pyrenee Mountains between France and Spain, photographing a peasant culture that has since given way to technological progress. He was aided by Laxalt, a native of the region, who here depicts in poetic vignettes the Basques as they then were." - PW
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Allen, Woody Without Feathers
New York Random House (1975). 0394497430 Very Good
Reprint. Trade paperback. 210 pp. A solid copy. "The comedian-writer-filmmaker offers stories, essays, parodies, one-act plays, and fugitive pieces, in which he grapples and gallivants with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes and fortuitous outrages."
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Ambler, Eric The Care of Time
New York Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1981). 0374118973 First Edition Very Good Very Good
Cloth spine with silver lettering. 277 pp. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears. "Robert Halliday, an American free-lance writer is coerced into negotiations between NATO and the 'Ruler,' a powerful Persian Gulf sheik of questionable sanity."
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Amos, Wally; Denton, Camilla Man with No Name: Turn Lemons into Lemonade
Lower Lake, CA Aslan (1994). 0944031579 Very Good
Trade paperback. 154 pp. Inscribed by Amos. A clean, attractive copy. "Every chapter, from his beginnings in Tallahassee to the launch of the Uncle Noname Cookie Company, testifies to what he has learned: that giving is a blessing, that change is a positive life force, that life is made rich through relationships, not money." - BL
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Anderson, Poul Ensign Flandry
New York ibooks (2003). 0743474430 Very Good
Trade paperback. 203 pp. A clean, nearly Fine copy. "An entertaining omnibus edition by the Hugo Award-winning author features classic novels chronicling the adventures and exploits of the irrepressible Ensign Dominic Flandry, set against the backdrop of the corrupt and decadent Terran Empire."
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Angell, Tony Owls
Seattle, WA University of Washington Press (1979). 0295956666 Very Good
Reprint. Trade paperback. 80 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. A solid copy with only light wear. "Drawings and text describe the characteristics and habitat of each of eighteen species of North American owls."
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Angers, W. Thomas Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country
Lafayette, LA Beau Bayou (1985). 0935619003 First Edition Very Good
Glossy boards. 223 pp. Index. No dust jacket. A clean copy with little wear. "Discusses the seasonings, utensils, and cooking techniques used in producing Creole dishes, and provides recipes for appetizers, breads, salads, vegetables, gumbos, soups, bisques, meat, game, casseroles, and desserts."
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Anonymous Abbott's Sympathetic Silk Tricks
Colon, MI Abbott's Magic Novelty Co. (1947). Very Good
Stapled booklet. 7 pages. A solid copy. "The performer steps forward with six silks. Three are counted out and placed to one side in full view. The remaining three are tied end to end and gather up into a bundle. Performer commands the knots to leave the bundle and travel over to the separate silks. Presto! The silks are pulled out from the bundle and are found to be separated, and likewise, the three separate silks are found to be knotted together."
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Anonymous Go Ask Alice
New York Avon (1972). Very Good
Later printing. Paperback. 189 pp. Previous owner's name, moderate wear to covers. "Sugar & spice & everything nice. Acid & smack & no way back."
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Anonymous Crimson Hairs: An Erotic Mystery Story
New York Grove Press (1983). 0394624629 Very Good
Paperback. Black Cat B-487. 125 pp. Pages yellowing. "What is the sinister connecting thread between two Lesbians, an artful prostitute, a homosexual, a nymphomaniacal older woman, and a depraved landlady?"
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Anonymous The Arabian Nights
New York Grosset & Dunlap (1979). 0448058065 Very Good Very Good Earle Goodenow
Reprint. Pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. 337 pp. Color and b&w illustrations. Price-clipped dust jacket has a couple of short tears.
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Anonymous A Portrait Gallery of Popular Film Folk: Bringing Together a Galaxy of Art Photographs of People Who Have Attained High Standing in Their Respective Fields of Endeavor in the Realm of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles Motion Picture Directors Association (1923). First Edition Good
Paper covers. Unpaginated. Photos. Detached covers have large chips and tears. Contents solid. Contains portraits of Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Pola Negri, Lon Chaney, Mabel Normand, Tom Mix, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Blanche Sweet, Edward Everett Horton, Noah Beery, Hoot Gibson, John Gilbert, and many others. Scarce.
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Anonymous A Book of American Humorous Verse
Chicago Herbert S. Stone 1904 Very Good
Cloth with gilt lettering. xxv, 251 pp. Index. Previous owner's name. Spine faded. Contents solid. Contributors include Gelett Burgess, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eugene Field, Bret Harte, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley, E. A. Robinson, Carolyn Wells, and many others.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 2
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Number in ink to title page. A solid copy with only minor wear. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Bogen, CBS, Columbia, Capehart, Farnsworth, Crosley.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 5
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Covers and some pages wavy from moisture. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Jewel, Magnavox, Meck, Mitchell, Montgomery Ward.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 6
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Covers and some pages wavy from moisture. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Motorola, Olympic, Packard Bell.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 8
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Stain to corner of rear cover. Contents solid. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturer: RCA. Order blank laid in.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 9
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Covers wavy from moisture. Contents solid. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Radio Craftsman, Raytheon, Sears Roebuck, Sentinel,Satchell, Carlson, Sonora, Sparton. Order blank laid in.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 10
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. Stain to corner of rear cover. Contents solid. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Spiegel, Stewart Warner, Stromberg Carlson, Sylvania, Tele-King, Trav-ler.
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Anonymous Rider's Specialized Home Radio Manual 11
New York John F. Rider (1954). Very Good
Paper covers. Illustrated. A solid copy with only minor wear. Covers home and portable radios manufactured between June 1951 and December 1953 by the following manufacturers: Wells Gardner, Western Auto, Westinghouse, Zenith.
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Anonymous 125 Card Tricks and Sleight of Hand
New York Wehman Bros. Very Good
No date. Stapled booklet. 86 pages. Illustrated. Tiny tear at head of spine. Pages are yellowing, but they're not brittle. Subtitled "A Popular Explanation of All the Deceptive Tricks Ever Performed by the Most Celebrated Conjurers, Magicians, and Prestidigitators. Simplified and Arranged for Home Amusement and Special Entertainments, to Which Is Added an Exposure of the Card Tricks Made Use of by Professional Card-Players, Black-Legs and Gamblers."
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Anonymous Some Books about the Nineteenth Century
Watkins Glen, NY American Life Foundation Very Good
No date. Circa 1977. Paper covers. 30 pages. Illustrated. Tiny tear to front cover. Contents solid. "This catalogue displays the fruits of cooperation between the publication programs of The American Life Foundation, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, and other agencies devoted to the study of nineteenth-century America."
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Anonymous 68 French Photo Postcards
Paris Levy Fils et Cie et al Very Good
Circa 1918. Four booklets with detachable postcards: Nice, Saint-Nazaire, Marseille, Lyon. All of the cards are present. The Nice cards by Lévy Fils et Cie are in color. The contents of the Marseille booklet are loose in the covers.
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Anonymous A Railroad Ride
New York Thomas Nelson & Sons Very Good
No date. Circa 1900. Card stock covers. (12) pages. Illustrated. Moderate wear, curling to covers. Short tear to first page. Scarce.
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