FS: 1st Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Tues., Feb 8, 2000.

[Acorn Books]

1. Agnew, Derek. BEVIN BOY. 140 pgs. Photos. Black cloth, without dust
jacket. 12mo. London: Allen & Unwin, (1947). 1st Edition. Bookplate on
front pastedown endpaper; otherwise, very good condition. History of
mining in England. $15.00 [110481]

2. Bentley, Richard. EROTIC ART. 176 pgs with index. Color & black &
white reproductions throughout. Cloth in pictorial yellow dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Gallery Books, (1984). Near fine condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. A look at erotic art work from
Ancient Greece to the present day. $30.00 [110529]

3. Breasted, James H. A HISTORY OF EGYPT: From the Earliest Times to
the Persian Conquest. 634 pgs with index. Maps & drawings.
Gitl-decorative blue cloth in chipped pictorial light green dust
jacket with sunned spine. Octavo. NY: Scribner’s, 1948. 2nd Edition.
Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$75.00 [110530]

4. Brittain, Robert. LET THERE BE BREAD. 243 pgs with index. Cloth in
chipped, sunned brown dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952.
1st Edition. Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. "The dramatic story of the one war in which all men are
allies - the war against hunger." $15.00 [110497]

5. [Caniff] Dorf, Shel (Editor). STEVE CANYON MAGAZINE No 1. 64 pgs.
Cartoon illustrations throughout. Stapled color pictorial paper
wrappers. Quarto. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Comics, January, 1983.
Very good+ condition. The premiere issue, which begins the complete
reprinting of Milton Caniff's classic cartoon in chronological order.
$10.00 [110505]

6. Carpenter, Captain William T. RUDIMENTS OF DRILL - MOBILE ARMY
TROOPS. [National Service Library Series, Vol. 4]. 512 pgs.
Illustrations. Brown cloth, without dust jacket, as issued. 16mo. No
Place: Collier Classics, (1917). Very good+ condition. $36.50
[110500]

7. Carpenter, Frank G. THE HOLY LAND & SYRIA. [Carpenter's World
Travels Series]. 295 pgs with bibliography & index. Maps & photos.
Black fabricoid, without dust jacket. Octavo. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, Doran, (1922). Very good condition. $16.50 [110495]

8. [Cochran] Graves, Charles. THE COCHRAN STORY: A Biography of Sir
Charles Blake Cochran, Kt. 281 pgs with index. Photos. Red cloth,
without dust jacket. Octavo. London: Allen, no date (c.1950's?).
Rubber stamp on front free endpaper; spine sunned; edges foxed;
otherwise, good+ condition. $15.00 [110523]

9. Cranston, Claudia. I'VE BEEN AROUND. 336 pgs. Photos. Decorative
tan cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. London: Lippincott, (1937).
1st Edition. Very good condition. "Circling the globe in six months
from New York to New York via Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines,
the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Ceylon, Bombay, Cairo, Naples,
Genoa, Marseilles, Gibraltar." $15.00 [110496]

10. [Creasy, John] Morton, Anthony. BURGLE THE BARON. Cloth in lightly
chipped blue dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Walker, (1973). 1st U.S.
Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $24.50 [110524]

11. Cronin, Jr., Edward W. THE ARUN: A Natural History of the World's
Deepest Valley. 236 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in
pictorial white dust jacket. Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
1st Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $15.00 [110484]

12. [Doyle]. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Catalogue of the Work of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. 86 pgs. Light blue pictorial paper wrappers. Octavo.
London: Mortlake, no date (c.1960's?). Very good condition. $22.50
[110537]

13. Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE SHERLOCKIAN DOYLE: Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's The Man With the Watches & The Lost Special. Introduction by
Lord Donegall. 46 pgs. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial yellow paper
wrappers. 12mo. London: Privately Printed, (1963). Edition limited to
500 copies. Very good condition. $25.00 [110536]

14. [Doyle] Bond, Raymond (Editor). FAMOUS STORIES OF CODE & CIPHER.
White paper wrappers. 12mo. NY: Collier, no date (c.1960's?). Covers
lightly spotted; otherwise, very good condition. Includes stories by
Allingham, Boucher, Christie, Post, Noyes, Poe, Doyle & others.
$32.50 [110521]

15. Elliott, Inger McCabe. BATIK: Fabled Cloth of Java. 240 pgs with
index. Color & black & white photos throughout. Cloth in lightly
chipped pictorial blue & orange dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Potter,
(1984). 1st Edition. Fine condition with very good jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. A spellbinding tour of the island & the art,
displaying examples of the finest antique & contemporary batik from
museums & private collections around the world. $125.00 [110532]

16. FANTASTIC NOVELS MAGAZINE Vol 3 No 6. 129 pgs. Drawings. Yellow
pictorial paper wrappers. Imperial octavo. Kokomo, IN: New
Publications, March, 1950. Covers chipped; otherwise, fair condition.
$36.50 [110504]

17. Fischer, Pauline & Anabel Lasker. BARGELLO MAGIC: How to Design
Your Own. 150 pgs with index. Color photos. Cloth in lightly chipped
pictorial black dust jacket. Oblong octavo. NY: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, (1973). 4th printing. Very good+ condition with good+ jacket
in protective mylar wrapper. How to design your own needlecraft
patterns using the versatile Bargello stitch. $15.00 [110527]

18. Gasser, Manuel & Willy Rotzler. KUNST SCHAETZE IN DER SCHWEIZ:
Hundert Meisterwerke der Malerei, Der Skulpur und Des Kunstgewerbes in
Offentlichen, Kirchlichen und Privaten Sammlungen Der Schweiz [ART
ESTIMATES IN SWITZERLAND: 100 Masterpieces of the Painting, Sculpture,
Arts & Crafts in Museums, Church & Private Collections in
Switzerland]. 238 pgs. Full-page color prints throughout. Cloth in
lightly chipped white dust jacket. Quarto. Zurich: Conzett & Huber,
(1964). 1st Edition. Fine condition with very good jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. Text in German. $46.50 [110535]

19. [George VI] . THE LIFE & TIMES OF KING GEORGE VI 1895-1952. 159
pgs. Photos throughout. Cloth in much chipped pictorial purple dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Odhams Press, no date (c.1950's?). 1st
Edition. Spine frayed; otherwise, good+ condition with fair jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. A "complete pictorial record of the life of
King George VI." $15.00 [110501]

20. Gernsback, Hugo (Editor). AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY Vol 1 No 3.
432 pgs. Drawings. White pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. NY:
Experimenter, July 20, 1928. Spine & covers chipped; rear cover
lightly damped; otherwise, good condition. $50.00 [110507]

21. Gernsback, Hugo (Editor). SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY Vol 1 No 1. 114
pgs. Drawings. Red pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. Mt. Morris, IL:
Stellar, Fall 1929. Covers lightly creased & worn; otherwise, good
condition. $50.00 [110509]

22. Gernsback, Hugo (Editor). SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY, Vol 1 No 2.
288 pgs. Drawings. Red pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. Mt. Morris,
IL: Stellar, Winter 1930. Top 4th of spine lacking; covers chipped at
edges; otherwise, good condition. $45.00 [110517]

23. Green, J. R. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. 4 Volumes.
Drawings. Gilt-decorative maroon cloth; top edges gilt. Imperial
octavo. NY: Harper, 1894. Bookplate of front pastedown endpaper of
each volume; extremities lightly rubbed; otherwise, very good
condition. $150.00 [110499]

24. Hartesveldt, Richard J. et al. THE GIANT SEQUOIA OF THE SIERRA
NEVADA. 180 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos & prints. Pictorial
orange & grey paper wrappers. Octavo. Washington, DC: U.S. Department
of the Interior, 1975. Very good condition. $15.00 [110486]

25. Horne, Alistair. THE FALL OF PARIS: The Siege & the Commune 1870 -
71. 458 pgs with index. Map endpapers; photos & prints. Cloth in
pictorial purple, red & grey dust jacket. Octavo. London: Macmillan,
1965. 1st Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. $15.00 [110487]

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