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By: Brenan, J.P.M. (Preface); Anthony Huxley (Foreword); and Brenda E. Moon (Biographical Note)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Exeter, England, Web & Bower Publishers Limited: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10490
ISBN: 0906671183
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear to boards and a bit of light foxing to the first few pages, including the title page. Rest of the book is fine. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The dust jacket has a small amount of edge wear. Travel memoir of the Victorian botanical collector and painter, Marianne North. She traveled to every continent to collect plant specimens and produced more than 800 paintings, which are now housed at the Marianne North Gallery at Kew. This is an abridge version of her memoir, originally published in 1893 under the title, Recollections of a Happy Life. This volume was published... View more info
By: Brickman, Brigadier E.; R.A.L. Burnet; and J.S. Lawson
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Derby, England, Pilgrim Press Ltd.: 1984
Seller ID: 10619
ISBN: 0900594780
Condition: Fine
Stapled booklet, approximately 7 X 9 inches, 24 pages. Illustrated history in pictorial, stapled covers of Scotland's legendary St. Andrews Golf Club. View more info
By: Brown, Bobby (with Mickey Herskowitz and John Wilson)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Houston, Texas, Inverness Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10637
Condition: Very Good
Light shelf wear and some edge wear and chipping to the dust jacket. 198 pages, black & white photos. Inside story from Trainers' Hall of Fame member, Bobby Brown, who recounts his days with Houston sports teams--the Oilers in football and the Aeros in hockey. He helped with the comebacks of George Blanda and Gordie Howe and was around long enough to see and be concerned about the growing number of pills athletes were taking. Humorous and candid observations. View more info
By: Buel, J.W.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Boston, Jas. H. Earle: 1890
Seller ID: 10492
Condition: Fair
Red cloth-covered boards with black and gold decoration and lettering. Shelf wear and worn corners. Minor insect nibbling. First signature (containing title page and part of the Introduction) is separated from the binding, but present. The rest of the book is solid, binding tight and square. 576 pages, illustrated with 500 engravings and colored plates and a fold-out map of Africa reproduced from John Ogilby's 1670 map. A 19th-century history of expeditions, exploration, and discovery in Africa. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Winnipeg, Canada, Hudson's Bay Company: 1981
Seller ID: 10491
Condition: Very Good
Chip to the bottom of the rear cover at spine. Light reading wear otherwise. Monthly publication with articles about places in Canada that the historic Hudson's Bay Company has been or is currently associated. Articles in this issue include: Nirkit: Good Food; Lord and Lady Aberdeen: Their Okanagan Ranches; Commerce, Civility and Old Sault Ste. Marie; Pacific Lagoon Afternoon; The Pangnirtung Tapestries; School Days at Willowbrook; The Reverend David Jones: Missionary at Red River 1823-38; Fort Dunvegan; and Book Reviews. 63 pages. View more info
By: Campbell, Bailey
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10506
Condition: Very Good
Mild shelf wear to boards. Rubbing, chipping, and tears to jacket. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 126 pages, illustrated. View more info
By: Carter, William J. (Editor)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, The University of Texas Press:
Seller ID: 10611
Condition: Very Good
Light wear to the spine and short tears at the spine ends. Stapled booklet, 8.5 X 11 inches. No date indicated, but 1942-43 (World War II). University of Texas CAA-WTS publication offering a brief review of the government-sponsored flight training effort between the university and civilian flight operators to train pilots and ground personnel for service in World War II. CAA was Civil Aeronautics Authority (predecessor to the FAA) and WTS was War Training Service. Unpaginated, but 24 pages with numerous photographs of personnel from the university and flying services and students engaged in th... View more info
By: Casper, Billy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, Golf Digest, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10507
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear to book; dust jacket has some chipping and small stains on the rear panel. 176 pages, illustrated. Protected in a Mylar sleeve now. View more info
By: Chawner, W.D.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New Orleans, Louisiana, Department of Conservation, Louisiana Geological Survey: 1936
Seller ID: 10624
Condition: Very Good
Very mild wear. Clean copy. Binding is tight and square. 232 pages with Index. Illustrated with figures, black and white plates, and a location map in a rear cover pocket. View more info
By: Clow Corporation
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Bensenville, Illinois, Clow Corporation, Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Division: 1971
Seller ID: 10604
Condition: Very Good
Bumping and edge wear. 319-page, illustrated catalog. View more info
By: Connally, Nellie (SIGNED) and Mickey Herskowitz
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Rugged Land: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 10562
ISBN: 1590710142
Condition: Near Fine
Clean, sharp copy with barely a trace of wear. 203 pages, with photos. Signed by Nellie Connally to the book's previous owners (perosnalized inscription). View more info
By: Crump, Spencer
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Glendale, California, Trans-Anglo Books: 1988
Edition: Seventh Edition
Seller ID: 10510
ISBN: 0870460471
Condition: Near Fine
256 pages with Appendices and Index. Illustrated with numerous photos that help document the history of the Pacific Electric Railway in Southern California. Later Edition in clean, near fine condition. New to this edition is a listing of every major Pacific Electric interurban line, including details of the exact routes followed and when and how frequently the electric cars operated. View more info
By: Curtin, Nancy J. and Vera Kreilkamp (Editors)
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Morristown, New Jersey, The Irish American Cultural Institute: 2000
Seller ID: 10549
Condition: Fine
249 pages. Clean copy, as new. View more info
By: Curtin, Nancy J. and Vera Kreilkamp (Editors)
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Morristown, New Jersey, The Irish American Cultural Institute: 2000
Seller ID: 10550
Condition: Fine
262 pages. Clean copy, as new. View more info
By: Curtin, Nancy J. and Vera Kreilkamp (Editors)
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Morristown, New Jersey, The Irish American Cultural Institute: 2001
Seller ID: 10551
Condition: Fine
205 pages. Clean copy, as new. View more info
By: Davidson, W.A. (Managing Editor)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, Herb J. Hawthorne: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10523
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear to covers. This copy was the managing editor's copy and he wrote his name inside the front cover and paper-clipped a business card (Hughes Tool Company) on the facing page. Bound issues are fine. Twelve issues, complete, for Volume 7 (1960) of Herb J. Hawthorne, Inc.'s monthly publication for the drilling industry. They manufactured "Blue Demon" bits and Doodlebugger Doodles was their monthly publication of company news ranging from personnel to product information to sites where their products were being used. Doodlebuggers are the seismic crew or personnel out in the field explorin... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: 1980
Edition: Second Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 10558
Condition: Very Good
Corners lightly bumped. Light foxing to the top edge of the page block and top of the front panel of the dust jacket. The jacket also has very light wear and a tiny tear at the lower corner of the front panel. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. This is the Second Edition, printed in December 1980 after a First Limited Edition in August 1980. 127 pages with illustrations. Includes Appendix 1 (The Great Port Controversy), Appendix 2 (Charles Dickens's Wine Cellar), Notes, Index of Recipes, and Index of Drinks. Cedric Dickens is the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. Here he has written a sketch ab... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Cleveland, World Books Publisher: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10633
Condition: Very Good
Very mild shelf wear to boards. Couple of small edge tears to the dust jacket. Protected in an archival Mylar sleeve now. Original price intact, but another price, in faded ink, is stamped twice on the front flap. No other marks or writing. A nice, clean copy of this Christmas classic, with Ronald Searle's six double-page illustrations in full color and twenty-two black and white drawings. 110 pages. View more info
By: el-Sadat, Anwar
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10594
ISBN: 0060137428
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear to book and dust jacket. Cracking (page separation starting) at one point in the photo section, otherwise the binding is tight and square. No writing, marks, or stains. 360 pages with Index and black and white photos. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island, Heaton & Williams: 1805
Seller ID: 10548
Condition: Fair
String-bound, ragged paper. Stained, chipped, and foxed. The name "Kezia Pond" is written in contemporary hand at the top of the front cover. No date, but likely 1805. 24 pages. Emmons was pastor of the church in Franklin, Massachusetts when he delivered this sermon. Deacon Peter Whiting (1746-1805), originally from Wrentham, Massachusetts, settled and died in the neighboring town of Franklin. View more info
