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This is a short list of new arrivals from Acorn Books. Book(s) shipped
on receipt of payment by check or VISA, MC, Discover, or AmerEx. Full
refund for any reason on prompt return of merchandise. Subject to
prior sale. Books shipped by USPS 4th Class Book Rate insured.
Postage: $4. 1st book; $1.50 each additional. Foreign addresses: $3.
extra. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Prices net to
all. Please email to hold, or telephone (415) 563-1736 any hour.
Traven, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Cloth in tattered dust
jacket. Octavo. Cleveland: World, (April, 1947). 1st Edition Thus.
Good condition in fair jacket. $15.00.
Various authors. GOLDEN AGES OF THE GREAT CITIES. 340 pgs with index.
95 photos. Red cloth in yellow cloth backstrip with red spine panel.
Octavo. London: Thames & Hudson, (1952). 1st Edition. Spine ends
lightly frayed; otherwise, good condition. Chapters on Athens, Rome,
Constantinople, Paris, Forence, Venice, Madrid, Vienna, London, & New
York. $25.00.
Taylor, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS: A History of Art
Collecting from Rameses to Napoleon. 661 pgs with bibliography &
index. Illustrated. Cream cloth. Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1948. 1st Edition [so stated]. Bottom of spine frayed; otherwise, very
good condition. $27.50.
Northrop, F.S.C. THE MEETING OF EAST & WEST. 531 pgs with bibliography
& index. Illustrated. Red cloth. Octavo. NY: Macmillan, 1946. Pages
browned; corners worn; otherwise, good condition. $17.50.
Crankshaw, Edward. TOLSTOY: THE MAKING OF A NOVELIST. 276 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white illustrations throughout.
Red cloth. Quarto. NY: Viking, (1974). 1st Edition. Very good
condition. $20.00.
Pritchett, V.S. LONDON PERCEIVED. 116 pgs with index. Color & black &
white photos throughout. Grey cloth. Quarto. NY: Harcourt, Brace &
World, (1962). 1st U.S. Edition. Corners worn; otherwise, good
condition. $20.00.
Petty, Mary. THIS PETTY PACE: A Book of Drawings. Preface by James
Thurber. Unpaged. Color & black & white cartoons throughout. Orange
cloth. Quarto. NY: Knopf, 1945. Covers sunned & worn at corners; front
endpapers browned; otherwise, good condition. $20.00.
Michener, James A. WRITER'S HANDBOOK: Explorations in Writing &
Publishing. 180 pgs. Text facsimiles throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Random House, (1992). Fine condition. $20.00.
Fleming, Peter. NEWS FROM TARTARY: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
384 pgs with index. Photos & folding maps. Cream cloth. Octavo. NY:
Scribner's, 1936. Good+ condition. $30.00.
Langner, Lawrence. G.B.S. & THE LUNATIC: Reminiscences of the Long,
Lively & Affectinate Friendship between George Bernard shaw & the
Author. 313 pgs with index. Photos & facsimiles. Black cloth. Octavo.
NY: Atheneum, 1963. 1st Edition [so stated]. Covers worn; otherwise,
good condition. $15.00.
DeKruif, Paul. MEN AGAINST DEATH. 363 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in
worn dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1932). Inked
name on front free endpaper; otherwise, good+ condition in fair
jacket. $15.00.
Searle, Ronald. THE FEMALE APPROACH. Introduction by Malcolm
Muggeridge. 147 pgs. Cartoons throughout. Red boards. Imperial octavo.
NY: Knopf, 1954. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Covers worn at
extremities; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.
THE BELLES HEURES OF JEAN, DUKE OF BERRY, PRINCE OF FRANCE.
Introduction by James Rorimer. Color plates. Unpaged. Parchment boards
in slipcase. Octavo. NY: Metropolitan Musem of Art, 1958. 1st Edition.
Front hinge cracked but firm; otherwise, very good condition in worn
case. $35.00.
Snow, Edgar. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER: Red China Today. 810 pgs
with notes & index. Photos & map endpapes. Cloth in chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Random House, (1962). 1st Edition [so stated].
Very good condition in good jacket. $15.00.
Faulkner, William. COLLECTED STORIES. Grey cloth. Octavo. NY: Random
House, (1950). Covers frayed & shelfworn; otherwise, fair condition.
$15.00.
Leopold, Nathan. LIFE PLUS 99 YEARS. Introduction by Erle Stanley
Gardner. 381 pgs. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Octavo. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1958. 1st Edition [so stated]. Good condition. The
author, along with Richard Loeb, was tried for the infamous kidnap &
murder of Bobby Franks in the 1920's, & who was saved from execution
by the skills of his attorney, Clarence Darrow. $20.00.
Francois, Andre. THE TATTOOED SAILOR. Introduction by Walt Kelly. 116
pgs. Cartoons throughout. Yellow boards. Imperial octavo. NY: Knopf,
1953. 1st Edition [so stated]. Good condition. $20.00.
Connolly, Cyril (Editor). GOLDEN HORIZON. 596 pgs. Blue cloth. Octavo.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1953). 1st Edition. Spine very sunned;
otherwise, good condition. Literary anthology including the work of
Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, Arthur Waley, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells,
George Orwell, Laurence Binyon, Cecil Beaton, Arthur Koestler, Edwin
Muir, Sartre, Valery, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowry, Bertrand Russell,
John Betjman, Paul Goodman, Herman Hesse, Augustus John, T.S. Eliot,
Denton Welsh, Auden, Cummings, & many, many more. $15.00.
NEW DIRECTIONS 13: New Directions in Prose & Poetry. 542 pgs. Blue
boards in white cloth backstrip. Octavo. (NY): New Directions, (1951).
Spine darkened; extremities worn; otherwises, good condition. Literary
anthology including the work of Celine, Creeley, Charles Henri Ford,
Paul Goodman, John Hawkes, Charles Olsen, Kenneth Rexroth, Tennessee
Williams & many more. $15.00.
Peattie, Roderick (Editor). THE SIERRA NEVADA: The Range of Light. 398
pgs with index. Photos by Ansel Adams & others. Folding map at rear.
Cloth in chipped, torn & worn dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Vanguard,
(1947). Near fine condition in poor jacket. $20.00.
Greene, Graham. NINETEEN STORIES. Black cloth. 12mo. London:
Heinemann, (July, 1947). 2nd printing. Short ink inscription on front
free endpaper; covers sunned & shelfworn; otherwise, good condition.
$15.00.
Auden, W.H. & Norman Holmes Pearson (Editors). POETS OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE III: Milton to Goldsmith. 622 pgs with index. Red cloth in
tan cloth backstrip. 12mo. NY: Viking, 1950. 1st Edition. Spine titles
a bit dulled; worn at extremities; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.
Huxley, Elspeth. THE MOTTLED LIZARD. 335 pgs. Cloth in chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. 1st Edition. Very good
condition in fair jacket. Sequel to the author's "Flame Trees of
Thika." $15.00.
Sandburg, Carl. POEMS OF THE MIDWEST; containing two complete volumes
- "Chicago Poems" & "Cornhuskers." Introduction by Lloyd Lewis. 267
pgs. Photos. Dark brown cloth. 12mo. Cleveland: World, (1946). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Inked inscription on front free endpaper; corners
worn; spine titles dulled; otherwise, good condition. $35.00.
Rukeyser, Muriel. THE LIFE OF POETRY. 232 pgs. Cream cloth. Octavo.
NY: Current, 1949. 1st Edition. Lacking front free endpaper;
otherwise, very good+ condition. $20.00.
Price, Willard. THE AMAZING AMAZON. 306 pgs with bibliography & index.
Map endpapers. Light brown cloth. Octavo. NY: John Day, (1952). Good
condition. $15.00.
Thurber, James. THE WHITE DEER. Color plates & black & white line
drawings by the author & Don Freeman. Green cloth. Octavo. NY:
Harcourt, Brace, (1945). 1st Edition. Bottom/front corner bumped;
frayed at bottom edge; otherwise, good condition. $50.00.
Summerson, John. GEORGIAN LONDON. 315 pgs with index. Illustrated with
photos, prints, floor plans, & elevations. Cream cloth. Octavo.
(London): Pleiades, (1948). Ink inscription on front free endpaper;
light spot at bottom edge of front cover; otherwise, very good
condition. $27.50.
Fairlie, Gerard. FLIGHT WITHOUT WINGS: The Biography of Hannes
Schneider. 221 pgs. Frontispiece photo portrait. Cloth in tattered
dust jacket. Octavo. London: Hoddern & Stoughton, (1957). 1st Edition.
Very good condition in poor jacket. One of the pioneers of modern
skiing. $15.00.
Conway, Ainslie & Frances. THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS. 280 pgs.
Frontispiece photo; map endpapers. Cloth in chipped dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Putnam, (1947). 1st Edition. Very good condition in good
jacket. "A five year adventure in the Galapagos Islands." $30.00.
Power, Susan. THE GRASS DANCER. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Putnam, (1994). 1st Edition. Fine condition. $30.00.
Levey, Michael. PAINTING AT COURT. 228 pgs with notes & index. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto.
NY: New York University Press, (1971). 1st U.S. Edition. Fine
condition. "History & development of paintings created for royal
patrons in the courts of Europe between the 14th & 19th centuries."
$55.00.
Joel McKee Chapman, Proprietor
Acorn Books (ABAA)
740 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109-7830
(415) 563-1736
acor...@best.com
acor...@netcom.com
on receipt of payment by check or VISA, MC, Discover, or AmerEx. Full
refund for any reason on prompt return of merchandise. Subject to
prior sale. Books shipped by USPS 4th Class Book Rate insured.
Postage: $4. 1st book; $1.50 each additional. Foreign addresses: $3.
extra. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Prices net to
all. Please email to hold, or telephone (415) 563-1736 any hour.
Traven, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Cloth in tattered dust
jacket. Octavo. Cleveland: World, (April, 1947). 1st Edition Thus.
Good condition in fair jacket. $15.00.
Various authors. GOLDEN AGES OF THE GREAT CITIES. 340 pgs with index.
95 photos. Red cloth in yellow cloth backstrip with red spine panel.
Octavo. London: Thames & Hudson, (1952). 1st Edition. Spine ends
lightly frayed; otherwise, good condition. Chapters on Athens, Rome,
Constantinople, Paris, Forence, Venice, Madrid, Vienna, London, & New
York. $25.00.
Taylor, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS: A History of Art
Collecting from Rameses to Napoleon. 661 pgs with bibliography &
index. Illustrated. Cream cloth. Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1948. 1st Edition [so stated]. Bottom of spine frayed; otherwise, very
good condition. $27.50.
Northrop, F.S.C. THE MEETING OF EAST & WEST. 531 pgs with bibliography
& index. Illustrated. Red cloth. Octavo. NY: Macmillan, 1946. Pages
browned; corners worn; otherwise, good condition. $17.50.
Crankshaw, Edward. TOLSTOY: THE MAKING OF A NOVELIST. 276 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white illustrations throughout.
Red cloth. Quarto. NY: Viking, (1974). 1st Edition. Very good
condition. $20.00.
Pritchett, V.S. LONDON PERCEIVED. 116 pgs with index. Color & black &
white photos throughout. Grey cloth. Quarto. NY: Harcourt, Brace &
World, (1962). 1st U.S. Edition. Corners worn; otherwise, good
condition. $20.00.
Petty, Mary. THIS PETTY PACE: A Book of Drawings. Preface by James
Thurber. Unpaged. Color & black & white cartoons throughout. Orange
cloth. Quarto. NY: Knopf, 1945. Covers sunned & worn at corners; front
endpapers browned; otherwise, good condition. $20.00.
Michener, James A. WRITER'S HANDBOOK: Explorations in Writing &
Publishing. 180 pgs. Text facsimiles throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Random House, (1992). Fine condition. $20.00.
Fleming, Peter. NEWS FROM TARTARY: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
384 pgs with index. Photos & folding maps. Cream cloth. Octavo. NY:
Scribner's, 1936. Good+ condition. $30.00.
Langner, Lawrence. G.B.S. & THE LUNATIC: Reminiscences of the Long,
Lively & Affectinate Friendship between George Bernard shaw & the
Author. 313 pgs with index. Photos & facsimiles. Black cloth. Octavo.
NY: Atheneum, 1963. 1st Edition [so stated]. Covers worn; otherwise,
good condition. $15.00.
DeKruif, Paul. MEN AGAINST DEATH. 363 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in
worn dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1932). Inked
name on front free endpaper; otherwise, good+ condition in fair
jacket. $15.00.
Searle, Ronald. THE FEMALE APPROACH. Introduction by Malcolm
Muggeridge. 147 pgs. Cartoons throughout. Red boards. Imperial octavo.
NY: Knopf, 1954. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Covers worn at
extremities; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.
THE BELLES HEURES OF JEAN, DUKE OF BERRY, PRINCE OF FRANCE.
Introduction by James Rorimer. Color plates. Unpaged. Parchment boards
in slipcase. Octavo. NY: Metropolitan Musem of Art, 1958. 1st Edition.
Front hinge cracked but firm; otherwise, very good condition in worn
case. $35.00.
Snow, Edgar. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER: Red China Today. 810 pgs
with notes & index. Photos & map endpapes. Cloth in chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Random House, (1962). 1st Edition [so stated].
Very good condition in good jacket. $15.00.
Faulkner, William. COLLECTED STORIES. Grey cloth. Octavo. NY: Random
House, (1950). Covers frayed & shelfworn; otherwise, fair condition.
$15.00.
Leopold, Nathan. LIFE PLUS 99 YEARS. Introduction by Erle Stanley
Gardner. 381 pgs. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Octavo. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1958. 1st Edition [so stated]. Good condition. The
author, along with Richard Loeb, was tried for the infamous kidnap &
murder of Bobby Franks in the 1920's, & who was saved from execution
by the skills of his attorney, Clarence Darrow. $20.00.
Francois, Andre. THE TATTOOED SAILOR. Introduction by Walt Kelly. 116
pgs. Cartoons throughout. Yellow boards. Imperial octavo. NY: Knopf,
1953. 1st Edition [so stated]. Good condition. $20.00.
Connolly, Cyril (Editor). GOLDEN HORIZON. 596 pgs. Blue cloth. Octavo.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1953). 1st Edition. Spine very sunned;
otherwise, good condition. Literary anthology including the work of
Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, Arthur Waley, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells,
George Orwell, Laurence Binyon, Cecil Beaton, Arthur Koestler, Edwin
Muir, Sartre, Valery, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowry, Bertrand Russell,
John Betjman, Paul Goodman, Herman Hesse, Augustus John, T.S. Eliot,
Denton Welsh, Auden, Cummings, & many, many more. $15.00.
NEW DIRECTIONS 13: New Directions in Prose & Poetry. 542 pgs. Blue
boards in white cloth backstrip. Octavo. (NY): New Directions, (1951).
Spine darkened; extremities worn; otherwises, good condition. Literary
anthology including the work of Celine, Creeley, Charles Henri Ford,
Paul Goodman, John Hawkes, Charles Olsen, Kenneth Rexroth, Tennessee
Williams & many more. $15.00.
Peattie, Roderick (Editor). THE SIERRA NEVADA: The Range of Light. 398
pgs with index. Photos by Ansel Adams & others. Folding map at rear.
Cloth in chipped, torn & worn dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Vanguard,
(1947). Near fine condition in poor jacket. $20.00.
Greene, Graham. NINETEEN STORIES. Black cloth. 12mo. London:
Heinemann, (July, 1947). 2nd printing. Short ink inscription on front
free endpaper; covers sunned & shelfworn; otherwise, good condition.
$15.00.
Auden, W.H. & Norman Holmes Pearson (Editors). POETS OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE III: Milton to Goldsmith. 622 pgs with index. Red cloth in
tan cloth backstrip. 12mo. NY: Viking, 1950. 1st Edition. Spine titles
a bit dulled; worn at extremities; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.
Huxley, Elspeth. THE MOTTLED LIZARD. 335 pgs. Cloth in chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. 1st Edition. Very good
condition in fair jacket. Sequel to the author's "Flame Trees of
Thika." $15.00.
Sandburg, Carl. POEMS OF THE MIDWEST; containing two complete volumes
- "Chicago Poems" & "Cornhuskers." Introduction by Lloyd Lewis. 267
pgs. Photos. Dark brown cloth. 12mo. Cleveland: World, (1946). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Inked inscription on front free endpaper; corners
worn; spine titles dulled; otherwise, good condition. $35.00.
Rukeyser, Muriel. THE LIFE OF POETRY. 232 pgs. Cream cloth. Octavo.
NY: Current, 1949. 1st Edition. Lacking front free endpaper;
otherwise, very good+ condition. $20.00.
Price, Willard. THE AMAZING AMAZON. 306 pgs with bibliography & index.
Map endpapers. Light brown cloth. Octavo. NY: John Day, (1952). Good
condition. $15.00.
Thurber, James. THE WHITE DEER. Color plates & black & white line
drawings by the author & Don Freeman. Green cloth. Octavo. NY:
Harcourt, Brace, (1945). 1st Edition. Bottom/front corner bumped;
frayed at bottom edge; otherwise, good condition. $50.00.
Summerson, John. GEORGIAN LONDON. 315 pgs with index. Illustrated with
photos, prints, floor plans, & elevations. Cream cloth. Octavo.
(London): Pleiades, (1948). Ink inscription on front free endpaper;
light spot at bottom edge of front cover; otherwise, very good
condition. $27.50.
Fairlie, Gerard. FLIGHT WITHOUT WINGS: The Biography of Hannes
Schneider. 221 pgs. Frontispiece photo portrait. Cloth in tattered
dust jacket. Octavo. London: Hoddern & Stoughton, (1957). 1st Edition.
Very good condition in poor jacket. One of the pioneers of modern
skiing. $15.00.
Conway, Ainslie & Frances. THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS. 280 pgs.
Frontispiece photo; map endpapers. Cloth in chipped dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Putnam, (1947). 1st Edition. Very good condition in good
jacket. "A five year adventure in the Galapagos Islands." $30.00.
Power, Susan. THE GRASS DANCER. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Putnam, (1994). 1st Edition. Fine condition. $30.00.
Levey, Michael. PAINTING AT COURT. 228 pgs with notes & index. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto.
NY: New York University Press, (1971). 1st U.S. Edition. Fine
condition. "History & development of paintings created for royal
patrons in the courts of Europe between the 14th & 19th centuries."
$55.00.
Joel McKee Chapman, Proprietor
Acorn Books (ABAA)
740 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109-7830
(415) 563-1736
acor...@best.com
acor...@netcom.com
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