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Janson, H. W. HISTORY OF ART: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from
the Dawn of History to the Present Day. 572 pgs with index. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in chipped,
tape-repaired white pictorial dust jacket. Thick quarto. NY: Abrams,
(1962). Near fine condition in good jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $20.00.

DeCampos, D. Redig. ART TREASURES OF THE VATICAN: ARCHITECTURE,
PAINTING, SCULPTURE. 398 pgs. Color & black & white photos &
reproductions throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped, price-clipped dust
jacket. Quarto. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, (1978). Near fine condition
in very good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.

Hay, Denys (Editor). THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE. 359 pgs with
bibliography & index. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white.
Cloth in chipped, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Folio. NY:
McGraw-Hill, (1967). Edges of text lightly browned; otherwise, very
good condition in good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $50.00.

[Department of Geography, University of Hawaii] ATLAS OF HAWAII. 222
pgs. Color maps & charts throughout. Paper wrappers. Oblong octavo.
Honolulu, HI: University Press of Hawaii, (1974). 2nd Edition. Very
good+ condition. In print 1998 @ $29.95. Our price: $15.00.

Albera, Giovanni & Nicolas Monti. ITALIAN MODERN: A Design Heritage.
240 pgs with index. Color photos throughout. Cloth in black & white
pictorial dust jacket. Square quarto. NY: Rizzoli, (1989). Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $40.00.

Rudolph, Kurt. HISTORICAL FUNDAMENTALS & THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS:
Haskell Lectures Delivered at the University of Chicago. 123 pgs with
notes & index. Cloth in burgundy dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY:
Macmillan, (1985). 1st Edition. Fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN: DON QUIXOTE DE LA
MANCHA. 2 volumes. Blue-grey sturdy library binding, without dust
jackets. Imperial octavo. NY: Viking, (1967). 4th printing. Very good
condition. The Set: $25.00.

Palling, Bruce (Editor). THE BOOK OF MODERN SCANDAL: From Byron to the
Present Day. 448 pgs with index. Cloth in dust jacket. Imperial
octavo. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1995). 1st U.K. Edition. Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Anthology of
the great financial & sexual outrages of history. $20.00.

Behan, Dominic. MY BROTHER BRENDAN. 159 pgs. Photos. Cloth in dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1965). 1st Edition [so stated].
Inked name on front pastedown endpaper; otherwise, very good condition
in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.

Roate, Mettja. THE NEW HAMBURGER & HOT DOG COOKBOOK. 333 pgs with
index. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington,
(1975). Very good condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $15.00.

Bar-David, Molly Lyons. THE ISRAELI COOKBOOK. 422 pgs with index.
Cloth in tan dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Crown, (1972). 3rd printing.
Very good+ condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$25.00.

Reich, Wilhelm. THE BIOELECTRICAL INVESTIGATION OF SEXUALITY &
ANXIETY. 161 pgs. Photos. Cloth in price-clipped white dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1982). 1st Edition [so stated].
Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$35.00.

Rich, Virginia. THE BAKED BEAN SUPPER MURDERS. Cloth in spine sunned
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Dutton, (1983). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine
condition in near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $30.00.

Fromm, Erich. THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE: An Introduction to the
Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales & Myths. 263 pgs. Dark blue
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Rinehart, (1951). Inked name
on front pastedown endpaper; otherwise, good+ condition. $15.00.

Loos, Anita. FATE KEEPS ON HAPPENING: Adventures of Lorelei Lee &
Other Writings. Edited by Ray Pierre Corsini. Cloth in pictorial grey
dust jacket. Octavo. London: Harrap, (1984). 1st U.K. Edition. Near
fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Includes
her best short writings never before collected & 12 new pieces never
previously published. $20.00.

Appleyard, Bryan. RICHARD ROGERS: A BIOGRAPHY. 358 pgs with notes &
index. Photos. Pictorial yellow paper wrappers. London: Faber & Faber,
(1986). Good+ condition. Biography of this controversial architect.
$15.00.

Mingus, Charles. BENEATH THE UNDERDOG. Cloth in pictorial black dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1971. 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Autobiography
of this jazz great. $40.00.

Smith, William & John Lockwood. CHAMBERS MURRAY LATIN-ENGLISH
DICTIONARY. 817 pgs + appendices. Cloth in dark brown dust jacket.
Octavo. London: John Murray, (1976). Fine condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

[Bierce]. O'Connor, Richard. AMBROSE BIERCE: A BIOGRAPHY. 333 pgs with
notes & index. Cloth in lightly chipped red dust jacket. Octavo.
London: Gollancz, (1967). 1st U.K. Edition. Near fine condition in
very good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. The story of America's
1st "Black Humorist," whose life was stranger than his fiction & whose
death was the strangest of all. $25.00.

[Carroll] Huxley, Francis. THE RAVEN & THE WRITING DESK. 191 pgs with
index. Photos & prints. Cloth in orange dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Harper & Row, (1976). 1st U.S. Edition. Fine condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. Examination of the life & work of Lewis
Carroll. $22.50.

Collier, Richard. THE RAINBOW PEOPLE: A Gaudy World of the Very Rich &
Those Who Served Them. 278 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos.
Cloth in white dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Dodd, Mead, (1984). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. Story of the Rainbow era which began with
the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 & ended with the death of
Aristotle Onassis in 1975 & included the super rich & their hangers
on. $15.00.

Pater, Walter. APPRECIATIONS WITH AN ESSAY ON STYLE. 274 pgs. Cloth in
price-clipped blue dust jacket. 12mo. London: Macmillan, 1944. Very
good+ condition in good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Gilbert, Julie. OPPOSITE ATTRACTION: THE LIVES OF ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
& PAULETTE GODDARD. 540 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in dust jacket.
Imperial octavo. NY: Pantheon, (1995). 1st Edition [so stated]. Near
fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. In print
1998 $32.50. Our price: $16.00.

Panter-Downes, Mollie. AT THE PINES: Swinburne & Watts-Dunton in
Putney. 196 pgs with bibliography. Illustrated. Cloth in price-clipped
white dust jacket. Octavo. Boston: Gambit, 1971. 1st Edition. Inked
inscription on front free endpaper; otherwise, fine condition in
price-clipped near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Account
of the wayward, drunken poet's rehabilitation & suburban contentment.
$15.00.

Newman, James R. THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS. 4 volumes. Illustrated.
Dark Blue cloth in tape-mended slipcase. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster,
1956. Near fine condition in good case. A small library of the
literature of mathematics from A'h-mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein.
The set: $80.00.

Blake, Wendon. THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ACRYLIC PAINTING. 207 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white reproductions throughout.
Cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Watson-Guptill,
(1981). 8th printing. Near fine condition in very good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Sainte-Beuve, C.A. PORTRAITS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Historic &
Literary. 2 volumes. 464 & 446 pgs. Prints. Maize cloth, without dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Ungar, (1971). 2nd printing. Inked name on front
free endpaper of each volume; otherwise, near fine condition. Includes
biographies of Moliere, Pascal, Racine, Louix XIV & many others. The
set: $40.00.

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