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Orton, Joe. HEAD TO TOE. Cloth in pictorial grey dust jacket. Octavo.
NY: St. Martin's Press, (1986). 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Near
fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $30.00.


Grosskurth, Phyllis. HAVELOCK ELLIS: A BIOGRAPHY. 492 pgs with notes,
bibliography & index. Photos. Pictorial paper wrappers. Octavo. NY:
New York University Press, 1985. Very good+ condition. "The first
full-scale biography of a complex figure whose pioneering studies of
sexuality heralded our modern attitudes toward sex." $15.00.

Okakura, Kakuzo. THE BOOK OF TEA. 160 pgs. Boards in worn & spotted
dust jacket. 12mo. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, (1906). Endpapers slightly
darkened; otherwise, very good condition in fair jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Dunne, Finley Peter. MR DOOLEY: IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. Gilt
titled blue cloth. 16mo. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. Lacking front
free endpaper; inked name on flyleaf; light wear at extremities;
otherwise, good+ condition. $20.00.

Dunne, Finley Peter. MR DOOLEY IN PEACE & IN WAR. Gilt-titled green
cloth. 16mo. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. 1st Edition.
Lacking front free endpaper; inked name on front flyleaf; light wear
at extremities; otherwise, a very good copy of the author's first
book. $25.00.

Schnier, Jacques. SCULPTURE IN MODERN AMERICA. 67 text pgs with
bibliography + 139 photographic plates. Cloth in worn dust jacket.
Quarto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. 1st Edition.
Very good+ condition in fair jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$75.00.

Chapin, William, Alvin Hyman & Jonathan Carroll. THE SUBURBS OF SAN
FRANCISCO: Marin County, Peninsula, East Bay. 181 pgs. Photos. Cloth
in chipped, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. San
Francisco: Chronicle, (1969). Inked inscription on front free
endpaper; otherwise, very good condition in good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.

Adair, John. THE NAVAJO & PUEBLO SILVERSMITHS. 220 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in chipped & worn dust jacket.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1945. 2nd printing. Bottom edge
of cover damped at spine; otherwise, good+ condition in fair jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.

David-Neel, Alexandra & Lama Yongden. THE SECRET ORAL TEACHINGS IN
TIBETAN BUDDHIST SECTS. 128 pgs. Photos. Printed paper wrappers. 12mo.
Calcutta: Maha Bodhi Society, no date (c.1950's?). Inked name on rear
cover; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Illustrated. Color pictorial
endpapers. Light blue cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Reynal &
Hitchcock, (1942). Cover slightly spotted; spine sunned; otherwise,
good condition. $30.00.

Gleadow, Rupert. THE ORIGIN OF THE ZODIAC. 238 pgs with index.
Illustrated. Cloth in chipped pictorial white dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Castle, (1968). Very good condition in good jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. "A lively account of the birth & growth of astrology."
$15.00.

Tozier, Josephine. AMONG ENGLISH INNS: The Story of a Pilgrimage to
Characteristic Spots of Rural England. 255 pgs with index.
Illustrated, map endpapers. Decorative grey buckram, without dust
jacket. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Boston: Page, 1904. 1st Edition. Spine
darkened; otherwise, very good condition. $25.00.

San Diego Museum of Art. DR. SEUSS FROM THEN TO NOW: A Catalogue of
the Retrospective Exhibition. 95 pgs with bibliography. Color and
black & white reproductions & photographs. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Random House, (1987). 1st Edition Thus [so stated]. Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Covers the
60-year career of Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel from his early days as
editor-in-chief the Dartmouth College comic monthly to the current
date. $65.00.

Clayre, Alasdair. THE HEART OF THE DRAGON. 281 pgs with notes & index.
Color & black & white photos, drawings & maps throughout. Cloth in
lightly chipped dust jacket. Quarto. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in very good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. Examination of China: it families, villages,
factories, courts, hospitals, prisons, its ancient religions &
philosophies, as well as its cooking, science, & art. From the
award-winning PBS series. $20.00.

Kaplan, Wendy (Editor). SCOTLAND CREATES: 5000 Years of Art & Design.
200 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & white photos &
reproductions of works of art throughout. Pictorial stiff paper
wrappers. Quarto. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. Fine condition.
The very best of Scottish art & design through the ages. $35.00.

Thompson, Mark (Editor). LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Advocate History of
the Gay & Lesbian Movement. Foreword by Randy Shilts. 420 pgs with
index. Photos throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: St.
Martin's, (1994). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in near fine
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Updike, John. RABBIT REDUX. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf,
1971. 1st Edition. Fine condition in near fine jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $35.00.

Erben, Walter. JOAN MIRO. 159 text pgs + tipped-in color plates,
photos & portfolio of black & white reproductions at rear. Cloth in
dust jacket with 3 closed tears. Imperial octavo. Munchen, Germany:
Prestel-Verlag, (1959). Fine condition in good jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. Text in German. $45.00.

Charters, Anne (Editor). THE PORTABLE BEAT READER. 642 pgs with index.
Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Viking, (1992). 1st
Edition. Fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
Offers the most comprehensive selection available of the movement's
important poetry & prose. $35.00.

A COURSE IN MIRACLES. Combined volume. Gilt-titled dark blue fabricoid
without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Viking, (1996). 2nd Edition. Near
fine condition. In print 1998 @ $29.95. Our price: $15.00.

Beevor, Antony & Artemis Cooper. PARIS AFTER THE LIBERATION 1944-1949.
479 pgs with notes, bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in dust
jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Doubleday, (1994). 1st Edition [so
stated]. Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $15.00.

Rubin, William S. DADA, SURREALISM, & THEIR HERITAGE. 251 pgs with
index. Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in much
chipped red dust jacket with tape-mended tear & lacking 2" x 3" piece
on rear cover. Square octavo. NY: Museum of Modern Art, (1968). Small
inked name at top of front free endpaper; otherwise, very good+
condition in fair jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $45.00.

Cowart, Jack. ROY LICHENSTEIN 1970-1980. 175 pgs with index. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in white dust jacket.
Tall quarto. NY: Hudson Hills, (1981). 1st Edition. Near fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $125.00.

Chatelet, Albert. EARLY DUTCH PAINTING: Painting in the Northern
Netherlands in the fifteenth century. 264 pgs with bibliography &
index. Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in
pictorial dust jacket. Tall quarto. Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet, (1980).
Fine condition in near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$25.00.

Geist, Sidney. CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI 1876-1957: A Retrospective
Exhibition. 158 pgs with bibliography. Color & black & white photos
throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped & foxed dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, (1969). Very good+ condition in good
jacket wtih protective mylar wrapper. $100.00.

Crowl, Philip A. THE INTELLIGENT TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO HISTORIC
SCOTLAND. 625 pgs with index. Map endpapers. Cloth in red dust jacket.
Imperial octavo. NY: Congdon & Weed, (1986). Fine condition in near
fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Cooper, Douglas & Gary Tinterow. THE ESSENTIAL CUBISM: BRAQUE, PICASSO
& THEIR FRIENDS, 1907-1920. 448 pgs with bibliography. Color & black &
white reproductions throughout. Pictrial white paper wrappers. Square
octavo. London: Tate Gallery, (1983). Good+ condition. $40.00.

Hunter, Sam. AMERICAN ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY. 487 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white photos & reproductions
throughout. Cloth in pictorial white dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams,
no date (c. 1970s). Near fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $25.00.

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