FS: 2nd Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat., Feb 3rd 2001
Acorn Books
Hopkins, & Crocker, & of the Building of the Central Pacific. 418 pgs
with bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in chipped & spine-sunned
pictorial orange & gold dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Knopf, 1946.
9th printing. Very good condition with like dust jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. $60.00 [128080]
26. [Manet] Fisher, Jay McKean. THE PRINTS OF EDOUARD MANET. 127 pgs
with bibliography. Reproductions throughout. Light green paper
wrappers. Quarto. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions
Foundation, 1986. Very good+ condition. $16.50 [128114]
27. Mann, Thomas. JOSEPH IN EGYPT. Cloth in chipped & sunned white
dust jacket with 1" closed tear on spine. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1945. 2nd
printing. Very good+ condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $16.50 [128065]
28. Mann, Thomas. MAGIC MOUNTAIN. Cloth in chipped, light-blue
pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1946. 3rd printing. Very
good+ condition with very good jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
Reprint 2000 @ $35.00. Our Price. $21.00 [128064]
29. O'Neill, Terry. LEGENDS. 127 pgs with index. Candid photos & film
stills. Cloth in black dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Viking, (1985). Near
fine condition with very good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
Candid portraits of famous celebrities. $21.50 [128118]
30. Pratt, Fletcher & Robeson Bailey. A MAN & HIS MEALS. 251 pgs.
Drawings. Cloth in lightly chipped tan dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Holt,
(1947). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very light bump to bottom of front
cover; otherwise, very good+ condition with very good jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. "The fine art of eating." $15.00 [128085]
31. Pratt, James Norwood. THE WINE BIBBER'S BIBLE. 192 pgs with
bibliography & index. Drawings. Cloth in lightly chipped off-white
dust jacket. Oblong octavo. San Francisco: 101 Productions, (1971).
1st Edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $36.50
[128127]
32. Proctor, Maurice. HURRY THE DARKNESS. Cloth in lightly chipped
black & very dark blue dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Harper, (1951). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Very good condition with good+ jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [128087]
33. Rewald, John. THE HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM. 481 pgs with index.
Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in white dust
jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Museum of Modern Art, (1946). Fine
condition with near fine jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $32.50
[128105]
34. Rourke, Constance Mayfield (Editor). TRUMPETS OF JUBILEE: Henry
Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P.
T. Barnum. 445 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in
spine-sunned & lightly chipped tan dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Harcourt,
Brace, (1927). 1st Edition, with signed letter from the author laid in
at front. Very good+ condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. The social history of an epoch as seen through the lives of
these five popular characters. $50.00 [128094]
35. Ruetz, Michael. SCOTTISH SYMPHONY. 158 pgs with index. Color
photos throughout. Cloth in light & dark gray & green pictorial dust
jacket. Oblong imperial octavo. Boston: Little, Brown, (1985). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Fine condition with like jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. The rugged & beautiful landscape of Scotland. $34.50
[128112]
36. Scott, Rosemary. LACQUER: An International History & Illustrated
Survey. 256 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & white
photos & prints throughout. Cloth in orange dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Abrams, (1984). Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $50.00 [128109]
37. Scott, Thurston. CURE IT WITH HONEY. Cloth in chipped dark brown
dust jacket with 1/4" lacking from top & bottom edges of spine.
Octavo. NY: Harper, (1951). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good
condition with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $22.50
[128089]
38. Spencer, Nye S. & George F. Kucera. HANDBOOK OF MAGNETIC COMPASS
ADJUSTMENT & COMPENSATION. 150 pgs with index. Photos & drawings.
Brown cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. Washington, DC: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1945. Very good condition. $15.00
[128097]
39. Stanton, Frank L. UP FROM GEORGIA. Gilt-decorative brown cloth,
without dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Appleton, 1902. 1st Edition. Light bump
on bottom edge of front cover, front endpaper scuffed; otherwise, very
good condition. Poetry from the South. $25.00 [128095]
40. Street, Jr., Donald. THE OCEAN SAILING YACHT. 2 Volume Set. Photos
& drawings throughout. Cloth in chipped blue dust jackets. Octavo. NY:
Norton, (1973). Very good condition with good+ jackets in protective
mylar wrappers. "A unique compendium of the facts needed to outfit,
maintain, equip, repair, & handle an ocean-going boat." $50.00
[128102]
41. [Strindberg] Lagercrantz, Olof. AUGUST STRINDBERG. 399 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos throughout. Cloth in gray dust jacket
with spine sunned to light green. Octavo. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
(1984). 1st Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition with very good+
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $14.50 [128124]
42. [Thornton, Robert] Grigson, Geoffrey. THORNTON'S TEMPLE OF FLORA.
Bibliographical Notes by Handasyde Buchanan. Unpaged. Color & black &
white illustrations, with tissue guards, throughout. Gray boards in
three-quarter tan cloth with brown morocco spine labels. Folio.
London: Collins, 1951. Very good+ condition. Tattered dust jacket laid
in at rear. $650.00 [128055]
43. Todoroff, Alexander. FOOD BUYING TODAY. 96 pgs with index. Photos.
Red cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. Chicago: Grocery Trade, 1935.
Very good+ condition. $15.00 [128056]
44. Trager, Frank N. WHY VIETNAM? 238 pgs with bibliography & index.
Cloth in lightly chipped olive dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Praeger,
(1966). Presentation copy signed by the author. Previous owner's stamp
on front endpaper, bottom edge lightly spotted; otherwise, very good+
condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. An in-depth
look at the United States' involvement in the war in Vietnam. $15.00
[128092]
45. Tucker, Wilson. THE TIME MASTERS. Cloth in lightly chipped &
rubbed purple dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Rinehart, (1953). 1st Edition.
Bookplate; otherwise, very good+ condition with good+ jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00 [128091]
46. Tucker, Wilson (Editor). THE SCIENCE-FICTION SUBTREASURY. Cloth in
lightly chipped gray & black dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Rinehart, (1954).
1st Edition. Bookplate, small dimple on front cover at top edge, & top
leading front corner bumped; otherwise, very good condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [128086]
47. Umphlett, Wiley Lee. MYTHMAKERS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM: The
Nostalgic Vision in Popular Culture. 191 pgs with bibliography &
index. Color & black & white illustrations throughout. Cloth in
lightly chipped, light blue dust jacket. Quarto. Lewisburg: Bucknell
University Press, (1983). 1st Edition. Fine condition with very good
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $35.00 [128110]
48. Undset, Sigrid. KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER [The Bridal Wreath; The
Mistress of Husaby; The Cross]. Cloth in sunned, chipped brown dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1948. 6th printing. Very good condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $30.00 [128061]
49. Veach, William Templeton & Helen Evans Brown. A BON VIVANT'S
COOKBOOK: A Collection of Fine Foreign & American Recipes. 236 pgs
with index. Drawings. Cloth in white, purple & black dust jacket.
Octavo. Boston: Little, Brown, (1965). 1st Edition [so stated]. Near
fine condition with very good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$15.00 [128059]
50. Wenkam, Robert. THE EDGE OF FIRE: Volcano & Earthquake Country in
Western North America & Hawaii. 161 pgs with bibliography. Color
photos throughout. Cloth in black dust jacket. Quarto. San Francisco:
Sierra Club, (1987). 1st Edition. Fine condition. $25.00 [128103]
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