FS: 1st Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Fri., April 21, 2000.

[Acorn Books]

1. [Akhmatova] Reeder, Roberta. ANNA AKHMATOVA: Poet & Prophet. 619
pgs with index. Photos & prints. Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: St. Martin’s, (1994). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $22.50
[114697]

2. Andrews, Wayne. ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK: A Photographic History.
188 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos throughout. Cloth in lightly
chipped black dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Atheneum, 1969. 1st Edition [so
stated]. Very good+ condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $31.50 [114687]

3. Banowsky, William S. IT'S A PLAYBOY WORLD. 126 pgs. Cloth in
chipped white dust jacket. Octavo. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, (1969). 1st
Edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good+ condition
with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. The discrepancies
between life as Jesus would have us live, and life as Hugh Hefner
would have us live, outlined by the author. $25.00 [114714]

4. [Baron] Haskell, Arnold L. BARON ENCORE. 222 pgs with index. Color
& black & white photos throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped black dust
jacket. Quarto. Glasgow, UK: Collins, (1953). 2nd printing. Endpapers
lightly foxed; otherwise, very good condition with good jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. "Covers pretty comprehensively the ballet
world of today." $21.50 [114671]

5. [Castillo, Jorge] Ratcliff, Carter. JORGE CASTILLO: Drawing,
Painting, Sculpture. 410 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black
& white reproductions throughout. Cloth in white dust jacket. Folio.
NY: Rizzoli, (1986). 1st Edition. Near fine condition with like jacket
in protective mylar wrapper. $85.00 [114693]

6. Cecil, David. THE CECILS OF HATFIELD HOUSE: An English Ruling
Family. 320 pgs with index. Color & black & white photos &
illustrationss throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped black dust jacket.
Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. 1st U.S. Edition. Very good+
condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $25.00
[114680]

7. [Chagall] Werner, Alfred. CHAGALL WATERCOLORS & GOUACHES. 87 pgs
with index. Color reproductions throughout. Cloth in black & blue
pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Watson-Guptill, (1970). 1st
Edition. Fine condition with near fine jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $24.50 [114670]

8. Chapin, John C. UNCOMMON MEN: The Sergeants Major of the Marine
Corps. 357 pgs with index. Photos. Pictorial white paper wrappers.
Octavo. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, (1993). Very good+ condition.
"The biographies of the first eleven men to hold the proud title of
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps." $18.00 [114717]

9. Cocks, Anna Somers. AN INTRODUCTION TO COURTLY JEWELRY. 48 pgs.
Color & black & white photos & drawings. Pictorial black boards,
without dust jacket. Imperial octavo. Wiltshire & London: Compton
Press & Pitman House, (1980). 1st Edition. Very good+ condition.
$15.00 [114698]

10. Cocks, Dorothy (Editor). QUICK STEPS TO BEAUTY & CHARM. 310 pgs
with index. Photos. Light green cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo.
Westfield, MA: White's, (1948). Endsheets lightly foxed; covers
spotted; extremities lightly rubbed; otherwise, good+ condition.
$65.00 [114700]

11. [Columbus] Dor-Ner, Zvi. COLUMBUS & THE AGE OF DISCOVERY. 370 pgs
with index. Color & black & white photos & illustrations throughout.
Cloth in blue dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Morrow, (1991). 1st Edition [so
stated]. Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$30.00 [114689]

12. Coombe, Jack D. GUNFIRE AROUND THE GULF: The Last Major Naval
Campaigns of the Civil War. 239 pgs with bibliography & index.
Illustrated. Cloth in white & grey dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Bantam,
(1999). 1st Edition. Fine condition with like jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. $15.00 [114704]

13. Cornfeld, Gaalyahu (Editor). DANIEL TO PAUL: Jews in Conflict with
Graeco-Roman Civilization: Historical & Religious Background to the
Hasmoneans, Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament World, Early
Christianity, & the Bar-Kochba War. 376 pgs with index. Color & black
& white photos & reproductions throughout. Cloth in lightly rubbed
maroon & gold dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Macmillan, 1962. 1st Edition
[so stated]. Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $32.50 [114669]

14. Cross, Peter & Peter Dallas-Smith. TROUBLE FOR TRUMPETS.
Unpaginated. Color & black & white illustrations throughout. Cloth in
dark blue dust jacket with 1/4" closed tear in front at top edge of
front cover. Quarto. NY: Random House, (1984). 1st U.S. Edition [so
stated]. Near fine condition with very good+ jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. Elaborate illustrations & wonderful story about small,
rodent-like fairytale creatures. $100.00 [114674]

15. Dunne, Dominick. THE WAY WE LIVED THEN: Recollections of a
Well-Known Name Dropper. 218 pgs with index. Photos throughout. Cloth
in dark bronze dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Crown, (1999). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Fine condition with like jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $27.50. Our price: $16.50 [114706]

16. Eichenberg, Fritz (Editor). ARTIST'S PROOF: A Collectors' Edition
of the 1st Eight Issues of the Distinguished Journal of Prints &
Printmaking. 426 black & white illustrations. Cloth in chipped red
dust jacket with spine sunned to white. Quarto. Greenwich, CT: New
York Graphic Society, (1971). 1st Edition Thus. Very good condition
with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $55.00 [114685]

17. Erasmus, Desiderius. MORIAE ENCOMIUM Or, The Praise of Folly.
Woodcuts by Franz Masereel. Pictorial tan boards with brown cloth back
in chipped glassine cover & spotted pictorial tan slipcase. Octavo.
NY: Heritage Press, no date (c.1950's?). Previous owner's inked name
on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good condition in like case.
$32.50 [114692]

18. [Fitzgerald] Bruccoli, Matthew J. & Margaret M. Duggan (Editors).
CORRESPONDENCE OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. 640 pgs with index. Facsimile
letters. Cloth in lightly chipped pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo.
NY: Random House, (1980). BOMC Edition. Previous owner's inked
inscription on front free endpaper; bookplate; otherwise, very good
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00
[114710]

19. Frug, Gerald. CITY MAKING: Building Communities Without Building
Walls. 256 pgs with bibliography & index. Cloth in light blue & grey
pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, (1999). 1st Edition. Fine condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $35.00. Our price: $21.00
[114701]

20. Gaston, M. J. TUGS TODAY: Modern Vessels & Towing Techniques. 200
pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo.
Newbury Park, CA: Haynes, (1997). Fine condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $29.95. Our price: $18.00
[114715]

21. Gernsheim, Helmut & Alison. VICTORIA R: A Biography with Four
Hundred Illustrations based on her Personal Photograph Albums. 307 pgs
with bibliography & index. Photos & prints throughout. Red cloth,
without dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Putnam, (1959). 1st U.S. Edition [so
stated]. Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. Pictorial biography of Queen Victoria. $52.50 [114673]

22. Hepburn, Katharine. ME: Stories of My Life. 420 pgs. Photos. Cloth
in red dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1991. 5th printing. Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00
[114709]

23. Hughes, Graham. MODERN JEWELRY: An International Survey,
1890-1963. 256 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & white
photos throughout. Cloth in price-clipped, chipped, blue dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Crown, (1963). 1st U.S. Edition. Very good+ condition with
very good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $75.00 [114664]

24. James, Marquis. THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON. 972 pgs with
bibliography & index. Illustrated. Cloth in lightly chipped dark
purple dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Bobbs-Merrill, (1938). Very good+
condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. Part One: The
Border Captain & Part Two: Portrait of a President, complete in one
volume. $15.00 [114708]

25. Jourdain, Margaret & R. Soame Jenyns. CHINESE EXPORT ART In the
Eighteenth Century. 152 pgs with index. Photos & reproductions
throughout. Cloth in orange dust jacket. Octavo. Middlesex, UK:
Spring, (1967). Very good+ condition with very good jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $30.00 [114681]

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