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200 pp, 11" x 8 ½", INSCRIBED on endpaper "Hey Sharon, Be Cool - Babs", copy is in excellent condition with lightly toned pages and crease on cover, scarce.
"Movin On Down The Line" [SIGNED]
Gonzales, Babs
Expubidence Publishing, 1975.
Price: $225.00
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9 ½" x 6 ¼", 45 pp, cover has nostalgic picture of a 10 year old Truman Capote with a cousin. Until he was 10, Truman Capote lived with a family of distant cousins in a small town in rural Alabama. This book is a romanticized autobiographical sketch of those years and his relationship with one of the cousins.
A Chrismas Memory
Capote, Truman
Garden City, NY: Random House, 1956.
Price: $20.00
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9" x 6", 237 pp, copy is in excellent condition with previous owner's name on endpaper, dust jacket is protected by a mylar sleeve, SIGNED by Kelly on the half-title page, scarce.
A Drop Of Patience [SIGNED]
Kelly, William Melvin
Doubleday, 1965.
Price: $75.00
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8 ¼" x 5 ½", 199 pp, copy has some margin notes and penciled comments throughout the text, previous owner's name on endpaper, includes 19 bw line drawings, scarce.
A Manual Of Pharmacy For Physicians
DeLorme, M.F.
P. Blakiston Soc & Co., 1911.
Price: $45.00
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389 pp, 10" x 7", copy is in excellent condition, dust jacket has about average shelf wear, illustrated in bw, scarce.
A Pagent of Hats Ancient and Modern
Kilgour, Ruth Edwards
Robert McBride, 1958.
Price: $40.00
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10" x 6", 596 pp, modern half-leather binding with raised bands over patterned boards, copy is in excellent condition with light foxing on endpapers and original owner's name on endpaper (Uriah Church, November, 1841.)
A Practical Theatise, Or an Abridgement of the Law Appertaining To The Office of Justice Of The Peace, and Also Relating To The Practice in Justices' Courts, In Civil and Criminal Matters, With Appropriate Forms of Practice
Hammond, E. Esq.
C.A. Mirick & Co., 1841.
Price: $80.00
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Volume 2 only, 8 3/4" x 5 1/2", pp 428-887 + catalog of plant names, copy is in excellent condition with moderate overall wear consistent with a 230-year old book.
A System of Vegetables According To Their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species With Their Character And Differences, Volume II
Linneus
Leigh & Sotherby, 1783.
Price: $225.00
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9 1/2" x 7 1/4", 32 pp, covers are detached, text block is clean, includes 3 colorplates plus a number of bw line drawings, scarce.
A Visit To The Farm
Hurst & Co., 1912.
Price: $25.00
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119 pp, 9 ½" x 9", copy has very faint foxing on first glossy page, SIGNED and dated by Konrad Adenaur, West Germany's first chancellor. Also laid in is a letter referencing that this was personally signed by Adenauer, text in German, profusely illustrated with bw photographs throughout.
Adenauer: Ein Portrait [SIGNED By Konrad Adenauer]
McBride, Will & Finckenstein, Hans-Werner Graf Finck
Germany: Josef Keller Verlag, 1865.
Price: $275.00
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9" x 6", 237 pp, fine modern half-leather binding with raised bands over marbled boards, copy is in exceptional condition with a few light stains, includes 14 steel engravings.
Alfred: Or The Adventures Of A French Gentleman
Reynolds, Geroge W.
Willoughby and Co., London, 1844.
Price: $250.00
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13 ¼" x 10 ¼", 1274 pp total, number 892 of 1300 numbered copies, set is in excellent condition with worn and rubbed covers, includes all illustrations and text attributed to Rabelais, with some of the illustrations in color.
All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais. An American Translation with a Critical Text, Variant Readings, Variorum Notes, and Drawings Attributed to Rabelais [3 Volume Set]
Putnam, Samuel
New York: Privately Printed - Convici-Friede Publishers, 1929.
Price: $230.00
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9 ¼" x 6 ¼", 172 pp, copy is in excellent condition with previous owner's stamp on endpaper and a minimal amount of underlining, includes a number of bw photographs, scarce.
Amebiasis: A Biomedical Problem
Shaffer, James & Shlaes, William & Radke, Ryle
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1965.
Price: $70.00
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112 pp, 9 ½" x 10 ¾", copy is in excellent condition with previous owner's name on endpaper, includes many bw and color illustrations, scarce. This book documents the DeTurk collection of hand carved figures, along with a large selection of needwork pieces. This is one of the small number of annual limited-edition Christmas "Keepsakes" published by Science Press.
Americana Wood Carving And Needlework
Colio, Quintina
Science Press, 1974.
Price: $70.00
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7 ½" x 5", 332 pp, lightly rubbed, engraved title page and 5 vignettes. An excellent copy of this scarce collection of early English ballads.
Ancient Songs From The Time Of King Henry The Third To The Revolution
Ritson, Joseph
London: Lon J. Johnson, 1792.
Price: $650.00
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6th printing, 1981, 142 pages, oversize 14" x 11", with 850 b/w illustrations, scarce. This is a complete guide to technical animation. The book consists of 12 lessons including topics such as inbetweening, general animation, pans, camera work, action, and technical animation.
Animation In Twenty Hard Lessons
Heath, Bob
R. P. Heath Productions, Inc., 1972.
Price: $75.00
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192 pp, 11" x 8 ½", copy is in excellent condition, INSCRIBED by Margaret Tante Burk on the title page and SIGNED by Adela Rogers St. Johns on the Introduction (which she wrote), illustrated in bw, gilt cover.
Are the Stars Out Tonight? The Story of the Famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove "Hollywood's Hotel" [Double SIGNED]
Burk, Margaret Tante
Round Table West, 1980.
Price: $60.00
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8" x 5 ¼", 235 pp, copy is in excellent condition with lightly toned pages and small hole punch on edge of cover.
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, and Other Plays
Bentley, Eric (Editor)
Grove Press, 1981.
Price: $175.00
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518 pp, 6 ¼" x4 ¼", Twelfth Edition, all maps are present including fold-outs.
Baedeker's Austria Together With Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad: Handbook For Travelers
Baedeker, Karl
London: Karl Baedeker, 1929.
Price: $85.00
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538 pp, 6 ¼" x4 ¼", Sixth Edition, hinges weak, all maps are present including fold-outs.
Baedeker's Egypt And The Sudan: Handbook For Travelers
Baedeker, Karl
London: Karl Baedeker, 1908.
Price: $150.00
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8 ½" x 6", 72 pp, copy is in excellent condition with light shelf wear, SIGNED by Raphael in purple on the title page "Love, Phyllis", very scarce even unsigned.
Beating the Love Affair Rap: And Other Tales from the Village Voice, 1971-1975 [SIGNED]
Raphael, Phyllis
Orca Press, 1983.
Price: $25.00
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