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1. Allen, Thomas B. (Editor). WILD ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. 406 pgs
with index. Color photos throughout. Cloth in black pictorial dust
jacket. Quarto. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, (1987).
Revised Edition. Circular blind stamp on front free endpaper;
otherwise, fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $24.00 [106530]

2. Attenborough, David. LIFE ON EARTH: A Natural History. 368 pgs with
index. Color photos throughout. Cloth in black & grey pictorial dust
jacket. Small quarto. (London): Reader's Digest Association Limited,
(1979). Circular blind stamp on front free endpaper; otherwise, very
good condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00
[106513]

3. Babb, Florence E. BETWEEN FIELD & COOKING POT: The Political
Economy of Marketwomen in Peru. 245 pgs with bibliography & index.
Photos. White paper wrappers. Octavo. Austin: University of Texas
Press, (1989). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good+ condition. $15.00
[106517]

4. Beard, Peter H. THE END OF THE GAME: The Last Word from Paradise.
Unpaginated. Photos & prints throughout. Black & grey pictorial
wrappers. Quarto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Circular blind
stamp on half-title page; otherwise, very good condition. "A pictorial
documentation of the origins, history & prospects of the big game in
Africa." In print 1999 @ $24.95. Our price: $15.00 [106516]

5. Cather, Willa. LUCY GAYHEART. Cloth in lightly chipped, blue &
black dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Knopf, 1972. 7th printing. Near fine
condition with very good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00
[106521]

6. Denslow, Julie Sloan & Christine Padoch (Editors). PEOPLE OF THE
TROPICAL RAIN FOREST. 232 pgs with index. Color & black & white photos
& drawings throughout. Blue pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1988). Circular blind stamp
on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good condition. In print 1999
@ $34.95. Our price: $21.00 [106514]

7. [DiMaggio] Whittingham, Richard (Editor). THE DIMAGGIO ALBUMS:
Selections from Public & Private Collections Celebrating the Baseball
Career of Joe DiMaggio. Introduction & commentaries by Joe DiMaggio. 2
Volumes. Color & black & white photos throughout. Black cloth in red
slipcase. Quarto. NY: Putnam’s, (1989). 1st Edition. Fine condition in
like case. $75.00 [106529]

8. Driskell, David C. BREAKING RACIAL BARRIERS: African Americans in
the Harmon Foundation Collection. 126 pgs. Color & black & white
photos & reproductions. Brown pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto.
Rohnert Parks, CA: Pomegranite Artbooks, (1997). Near fine condition.
Portraits of many distinguished African Americans. In print 1999 @
$26.95. Our price: $16.00 [106537]

9. Editors of Sunset Books & Sunset Magazine. THE BEST OF SUNSET:
Recipes from the Magazine of Western Living. 288 pgs with index. Color
photos throughout. Cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. Menlo
Park, CA: Lane Publishing, (1987). 1st Edition. Very good condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [106507]

10. Evenson, Norma. PARIS: A Century of Change, 1878 - 1978. 382 pgs
with bibliography & index. Photos & prints. Cloth in blue pictorial
dust jacket. Quarto. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1979).
Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$24.50 [106511]

11. (Exhibition Catalogue) Stellwerk. GEGENSTANDE ZUR ZUKUNFT [OBJECTS
FOR THE FUTURE]. 159 pgs. Photos throughout. Red paper wrappers.
Quarto. (Stuttgart): Edition Axel Menges, (1994). Very good condition.
Catalog from exhibition on design. Text in German & English. In print
1999 @ $44.50. Our price: $25.00 [106503]

12. Fagan, Brian M. THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY. 368 pgs with index.
Color & black & white prints throughout. Cloth in green pictorial dust
jacket. Quarto. (Washington, DC): National Geographic Society, (1985).
1st Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. The history of archaeology, a "compelling tale of tourists &
treasure hunters, of strong-minded adventurers, of patient excavators
laboring alone, of teams of scholars trekking into the desert or
diving into the deep." $15.00 [106488]

13. Ferguson, William. MAYA RUINS OF MEXICO IN COLOR. 246 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color photos & black & white line drawings
throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped blue & white pictorial dust
jacket. Quarto. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1977). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Previous owner's inscription on front free
endpaper; otherwise, very good condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $37.50 [106481]

14. Fletcher, J. S. THE MILL OF MANY WINDOWS. Blue cloth, without dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Doran, (1925). 1st U.S. Edition. Very good
condition. $35.00 [106497]

15. Gürsan-Salzmann, Ayse & Laurence Salzmann. ANYOS MUNCHOS I BUENOS
("Good Years & Many More"): TURKEY'S SEPHARDIM: 1492 - 1992. 64 pgs.
Photos throughout. White pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto.
(Philadelphia): Blue Flower/Photo Review Book, (1991). Very good
condition. "Photographic portrait of the Jews of Turkey." $16.50
[106510]

16. Hewlitt, V. J. & Peter Lorie. NOSTRADAMUS: The End of the
Millennium, Phophecies: 1992 to 2001. 207 pgs. Color & black & white
prints throughout. Cloth in black, red & yellow pictorial dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1991). 1st Edition. Very good condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $21.50 [106496]

17. Hillaby, John. HILLABY'S WORLD: Adventures Across Three
Continents. 238 pgs with index. Color & black & white photos
throughout. Cloth in off-white pictorial dust jacket. Imperial octavo.
No Place: Sinclair-Stevenson, (1992). Fine condition with like jacket
in protective mylar wrapper. "Selection of insights into the most
exotic & dramatic" of the author's walking adventures in Europe,
Africa & North America. $22.50 [106502]

18. Hoffmann, Michael (Editor). APERTURE #126: HAITI: FEEDING THE
SPIRIT. 80 pgs. Color & black & white photos throughout. Orange
pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. NY: Aperture, 1992. Very good
condition. $15.00 [106489]

19. Innes, Hammond. SEAS & ISLANDS. Color & black & white photos
throughout. Cloth in price-clipped blue pictorial dust jacket. Octavo.
NY: Knopf, 1967. 1st U.S. Edition. Very good condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [106501]

20. Kahn, David. THE CODEBREAKERS: The Story of Secret Writing. 1164
pgs with index. Photos & drawings. Boards with dark grey cloth back,
without dust jacket. Imperial octavo. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
(1967). 2nd printing. Very good condition. A history of cryptology,
the various ways of making & breaking codes. In print 1999 @ $60.00.
Our price: $35.00 [106523]

21. Kyoto Kimono Gakuin. A STEP TO KIMONO & KUMIHIMO. 119 pgs. Color
photos throughout. Red cloth, without dust jacket. Quarto. Pasadena:
International College of California, (1979). Very good condition.
Step-by-step instructions on how to design & wear traditional Japanese
clothing. $45.00 [106509]

22. Larmour, W. T. INUNNIT: The Art of the Canadian Eskimo. 104 pgs.
Photos & prints throughout. White pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto.
(Ottawa: Information Canada, 1967). Very good condition. Text in
English & French. $15.00 [106491]

23. [Lavier] (Exhibition Catalog) Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. BERTRAND
LAVIER. 180 pgs. Color & black & white photos throughout. Black
pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. (Milan): Charta, (1996). Very good
condition. Catalog of an exhibition of the work of this famous
contemporary French artist. Text in Italian & English. In print 1999 @
$39.95. Our price: $24.00 [106486]

24. Levine, Bernard R. KNIFEMAKERS OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO. 160 pgs with
index. Photos & drawings throughout. Gray cloth, without dust jacket.
Quarto. San Francisco: Badger, (1978). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very
good+ condition. "Tells the story of the leading cutlers of the
nineteenth century American West." $100.00 [106535]

25. London, Jack. THE SEA-WOLF. Red cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo.
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1931). Reprint edition. Near fine condition.
$25.00 [106520]

14. Fletcher, J. S. THE MILL OF MANY WINDOWS. Blue cloth, without dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Doran, (1925). 1st U.S. Edition. Very good
condition. $35.00 [106497]

25. London, Jack. THE SEA-WOLF. Red cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo.
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1931). Reprint edition. Near fine condition.
$25.00 [106520]

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