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RICHARD ADAMS  The Day Gone By: An Autobiography
Knopf; 1st American Edition; Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679401172. Pale green boards with green cloth backing. No significant defects. Photographs. Autobiography of the author of Watership Down, in which he describes a way of life that ended with World War Two; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 396 pages.
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 845] Book number: 24701
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ALEXANDER, FRANZ. G. & SHELDON T SELESNICK  The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Though and Practive from Historic Times to the Present.
Harper & Row; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Lightly worn boards in lightly edge worn & price clipped dust jacket . Inked name on ep. The authors trace the fight against mental illness from prehistoric times to the present; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages.
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 978] Book number: 29114
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ANDOH, ELIZABETH  At Home with Japanese Cooking
Knopf; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394412192. Modest wear on shelf edge. Edge worn DJ w/ spine chip and tear on front panel. Glossary of Japanese terms & index. Illustrated w/ drawings. " The Japanese cookbook that enables Americans to make, at home, the dishes that delight and tantalize us in Japanese restaurants. " Front panel of DJ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 29122
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NO AUTHOR  First Grand Concert By the M.E. Church Choir : 1887
Church Program; Very Good. 1887. Ephemera. Illustrated by Illustrated Program of the M. E. Church Choir performed at the Opera House in Kokomo, Indiana on Nov. 15, 1887; 8vo; 2 pages.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 10.5 | JP¥ 1556] Book number: 26057
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NO AUTHOR  Views of Washington City
Edward Fitzki; Unstated; Good. Washington, D. C. 1873. Hardcover. Photographs partially loose in red w/ gilt decorations binding. Small 3 by 4inch book with 13 views of buildings and historic sites in and around Washington printed on glossy stock. Text separate; 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; Unpaginated pages.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 25326
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BACH, RICHARD  The Bridge Across Forever : A True Love Story
Morrow/Avon; Later Printing; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. NY, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688039170. Minor wear to book boards and dust jacket. Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairytale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever; 8vo; 315 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 5159
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BAILEY, DERRICK SHERWIN  Sexual Relation in Christian Thought
Harper & Brothers; Good+ with no dust jacket. 1959. Hard Cover. Lower corner bumped. Index & foot notes. Dr. Bailey presents a "thoroughly investigated Christian viewpoint on the nature and ends of marriage, the ideal of virginity, the question of divorce and remarriage, and the double standard of morality. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1111] Book number: 25903
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BAIR, DEIRDRE  Simone de Beauvoir
Simon & Schuster; Very Good+. 1990. Paperback; 1st Printing. ISBN: 0671741802. Minor edge wear. No interior markings. Photographs. Notes & index. De Beauvoir's extraordinary, long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre is the focus of this portrait, which combines literary biography, intellectual and oral history and feminist theory; 8vo; 718 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 11688
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BENNETT, MARY T.  Mary Diana Dods : A Gentleman and a Scholar
Morrow; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688087175. Ex-lib. With minimum of library markings. A very nice copy. Recounts the author's discovery, after years of research in the Shelley correspondence, of a carefully-hidden secret: two of Mary Shelley's intriguing men friends who suddenly disappeared in 1830 apparently were the same person--a woman by the name of Mary Diana Dods; Ex-Lib; 8vo; 303/index pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 2733
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BERDYAEV, NICOLAS  The Beginning & (and) the End
Harper & Row; 1st Paperback Edition; Very Good-. 1957. Paperback. Minor edge wear. No interior markings except inked name on ep. Covers show light soil . Cloister Library series. Appendix. The nearest thing to a full systematic statement of Berdyaev's thoughts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 25896
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BIRKENHEAD, LORD (LORD BIRKENHEAD)  Rudyard Kipling
Random House; 1st American Edition; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394503155. Lightly worn black cloth. Light rubs. Photographs. Index, Literary biography of an extraordinary Englishman and author; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 421 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 25001
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BISHOP, JOHN NEVILLE W/ NAOMI HAWES BISHOP  An Ever-Changing Place: A Year Among the Snow Monkeys and Sherpas in the Himalayas
Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition; Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0671228986. Lightly worn yellow boards w/ green spine. Price clipped & lightly edgeworn DJ w/ nick at spine head. Scientific study of the langur monkey and a year's acquaintance with a not well-known people; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages.
USD 9.99 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 888] Book number: 25331
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BLACKSTONE, HARRY, JR. ; REYNOLDS, CHARLES; REYNOLDS, REGINA  The Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion
Newmarket; Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1985. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Photographs Lightly worn boards. Large owners inscription on fep. Edgeworn DJ w/ small scuff on front panel. For the first time Amerca's premier prestidigitator tells the Blackstone story and examines the history , science and art of illusion; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 230 pages.
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 978] Book number: 25773
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BLOCK, HERBERT  The Herblock Gallery
Simon & Schuster; Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover; 1st Printing. Blue boards w/ sunned edges. Edgeworn DJ.224 pages of cartton covering the Johnson years; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 224 pages.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 25479
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BOLITHO, HECTOR  Older People
D Appleton-Century; Good with no dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Sun darkened edges and on the slanted, chipped and frayed spine of green cloth covered boards. Frontispiece plus 8 full page B&W illustrations. The autiobiography of a New Zealander in which he often compares life in N. Z to life in England; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages.
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1111] Book number: 26131
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BOWEN, CROSWELL  The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'neill
Mcgraw-Hill; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. VG in good DJ w/edgewear & rubbing, but all intact. The trajedies in the family of the brilliant playwright who founded modern American drama; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 386 pages.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 24314
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BRIGHTMAN, CAROL  Writing Dangerously : Mary Mccarthy and Her World
Clarkson N. Potter; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. NY, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517564009. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Remainder mark; Remainder; Photographs; 8vo; 714/INDEX pages.
USD 9.78 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 870] Book number: 10563
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BROME, VINCENT  Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel
Thomas Yoseloff; Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover; 2nd Printing. Minor wear to dark boards. Lightly edge worn price clipped and rubbed DJ. Bibliography & index. A biography of this larger than life editor and journalist who helped to launch many 19th century authors. And wrote his own pornographic autobiography. **; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 26969
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BROOKS, PAUL  The House of Life / Rachel Carson at Work
Houghton Mifflin; 1st Edition; Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395135176. Very good In good DJ w/light edgewear , spine sunned Illustrated Biography of the most eloquent spokesman for conservation in our time; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 24256
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BROOKS, VAN WYCK AND OTTO BETTMANN  Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in America.
E. P. Dutton; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover; 2nd Printing. Light wear to black cloth quarter binding and blue print paper over boards. Corner boards exposed. Two brown large pinhead spots on front cover. Abridgement based on on the five volumes of...[the author's] Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915; B & W picture on almost every page; 4to; 246 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 2497
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JOHAN-GEORG BUHL  Poem in 10 Stanzas (Hand Written Poem/ Signed 1823)
Good. 1823. Ephemera. Ink has turned brown. A bit edgeworn with light crease and paper tanned. An original poem written in ink in German, dated 1823 or 1825 on folded paper and signed by Buhl; 1 pages; Ephemera.
USD 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 148 | £UK 132 | JP¥ 19562] Book number: 26056
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BUTTS, MARY  The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns
Beacon Press; 1st Edition Thus; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 0807070386. No significant defects to book or dust jacket . First published in a truncated version in 1937. Now edited by Butts' daughter with original parts restored . Most of the narrative centers on Salterns, the provincial estate where she grew up. This memoir is a sensitive woman's meticulous account of her evolving consciousness from sheltered child to independent writer; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; iii,296 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 30928
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CAIN, JAMES M.  Mignon
Dial Press; SD 1st Edition; Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hard Cover. Lightly worn boards in edgeworn, rubbed & w/ nick DJ. Name stamped on ep. Mignon is a beautiful young widow who, with her father, has come to New Orleans at the close of the Civil War in the hopes of improving their war-reduced fortunes; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages.
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 800] Book number: 25796
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CALDER, ROBERT  Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
St Martins Pr; 1st US Edition; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312039549. No significant defects to book or price clipped dust jacket . Illustrations, notes & index. The flesh-and-blood figure behind Maugham's austered public image is shown. His homosexuality , its effects on his life and writings id for the first time explored; S; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii,429 pages.
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 845] Book number: 30914
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CALDWELL, ERSKINE  The Earnshaw Neighborhood
World Publishing; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hard Cover; 1st Printing. Lightly worn boards in like dust jacket . Only Erskine Caldwell could create such comic chaos and a character like Medora Earnshaw; Only caldwell could create the characters in this book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 25929
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