FS: Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Fri., July 25th
Acorn Books
This is a list of 25 new arrivals from Acorn Books. Book(s) shipped on
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Rogers, Dave. THE AVENGERS. 189 pgs with notes. Photos throughout.
Color pictorial wrappers. Quarto. London: Independent Television
Books, (1983). Very good condition. "All 161 original episodes -
story, cast, pictures." $15.00.
Russo, John. THE COMPLETE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD FILMBOOK. 120 pgs.
Color & black & white photos throughout. Pictorial wrappers. Quarto.
NY: Harmony, (1985). 1st Edition Thus. Good+ condition. $20.00.
Rogers, Dave. THE AVENGERS ANEW. 120 pgs. Photos throughout. Pictorial
wrappers. Quarto. London: Michael Joseph, (1985). 1st Edition. Very
good+ condition. Includes the entire cast list, synopsis & background
on the New Avengers television series. $15.00.
Haining, Peter. THE H.G. WELLS SCRAPBOOK. 144 pgs. Photos &
reproductions throughout. Cloth in edgeworn dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Clarkson Potter, (1978). 1st U.S. Edition. Remainder mark at top edge;
otherwise, good+ condition in good jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $15.00.
Nissenson, Marilyn. THE UBIQUITOUS PIG. 136 pgs with bibliography &
index. Color & black & white photos & prints throughout. Cloth in dust
jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1992). Fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. "An affectionate look at the many-sided
relationship between humans & pigs & the art people have made to
reflect that bond." $15.00.
Josephy, Alvin M. 500 NATIONS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NORTH
AMERICAN INDIANS. 468 pgs with notes & index. Color & black & white
photos & reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $27.50.
Andrew, Geoff. HOLLYWOOD GANGSTERS. 96 pgs. Color & black & white
photos throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Gallery, (1985).
1st U.S. Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $15.00.
Seldis, Henry. HENRY MOORE IN AMERICA. 283 pgs. Color & black & white
photos. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Praeger, (1973). 1st
Edition. Very good+ condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
Middleton, Susan & David Liittschwager. WITNESS: ENDANGERED SPECIES OF
NORTH AMERICA. 255 pgs with index. Color & black & white photos
throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. San Francisco: Chronicle,
(1994). 1st Edition. Signed by the authors. Fine condition in like
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "A remarkable collection of
photographic portraits of one hundred plants & animals currently on
the Endangered Species list of North America." In print 1997 @ $50.00.
Our price: $35.00.
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee. FAERIES. Unpaged. Color & black & white
drawings throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1978).
1st Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. A comprehensive investigation into a world known only to a
few of we mortals, that describes tree & water faeries, elves,
leprechauns & other such denizens of that place. $55.00.
Snowman, A. Kenneth. FABERGE: LOST & FOUND, The Recently Discovered
Jewelry Designs from the St. Petersburg Archives. 176 pgs with notes,
bibliography & index. Color photos & reproductions throughout. Cloth
in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1993). 1st Edition. Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $45.00.
Miller, Henry. OPUS PISTORUM. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Grove,
(1983). 1st Edition. Very good+ condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $30.00.
Weber, Bruce. BEAR POND. Unpaged. Photographic plates throughout.
Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Quarto. Boston: Little, Brown, (1990).
1st Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $350.00.
Munro, H.H. THE SHORT STORIES OF SAKI (H.H. MUNRO). Cloth in very
lightly chipped dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Modern Library, (1951). 1st
Modern Library Edition. Near fine condition in very good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
Holdredge, Helen. MAMMY PLEASANT. 311 pgs with bibliography. Photos.
Cloth in chipped & tape-reinforced dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Putnam's,
(1953). Inked name partially erased on front free endpaper; otherwise,
good+ condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
Biography of early San Francisco's infamous madam. $50.00.
Simon, Andre L. & Robin Howe. DICTIONARY OF GASTRONOMY. 400 pgs with
bibliography. Color photos & text drawings. Cloth in lightly chipped
dust jacket. Quarto. NY: McGraw-Hill, (1970). 1st Edition. Very good
condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.
Blondel, Eric. NIETZSCHE: THE BODY & CULTURE; Philosophy as a
Philological Genealogy. 353 pgs with notes, bibliography & index.
Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1991. 1st U.S. Edition. Inked name on front free endpaper; otherwise,
near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
"Shows that the question of nature & significance of culture, defined
as a response to the problem of the value of life, is the central
question for Nietzsche." In print 1997 @ $47.50. Our price: $23.75.
Madison, Gary B. WORKING THROUGH DERRIDA. 284 pgs with notes. Brown
cloth. Octavo. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 1993. 1st
Edition. Fine condition. Collection of critical essays on the work of
Jacques Derrida. In print 1997 @ $49.95. Our price: $25.00.
Malamud, Bernard. DUBLIN'S LIVES. Illustrated. Silk endpapers. Gilt
decorative full dark green morocco fine binding. All edges gilt.
Octavo. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. Fine condition.
$40.00.
Pasley, Malcolm. NIETZSCHE: IMAGERY & THOUGHT. 262 pgs with notes.
Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Octavo. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Inked name on front free
endpaper; inked underlining to 3 pages of text; otherwise, good+
condition in good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "Collection of
essays which aims to stress that Nietzsche cannot be neatly
pigeonholed either as a literary figure or as a professional
philosopher." $25.00.
Pasquini, Chris J. ATLAS OF EQUINE ANATOMY. 204 pgs with index.
Drawings throughout. Blue cloth. Quarto. Albion, WA: Sudz, (1978). 1st
Edition. Very good condition. $27.50.
Bataille, Georges. BLUE OF NOON. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Urizen, (1978). Inked name on front free endpaper;
otherwise, good+ condition in good jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. Classic work of French eroticism. $30.00.
Bowers, Faubion. THE NEW SCRIABIN: ENIGMA & ANSWERS. 210 pgs with
bibliography & index. Musical examples. Cloth in dust jacket with
inked underlining to jacket blurb. Octavo. NY: St. Martin's, (1973).
1st Edition. Small inked marks on front pastedown endpaper; otherwise,
very good condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$20.00.
[Mayakovsky] Woroszylski, Wiktor. THE LIFE OF MAYAKOVSKY. 559 pgs with
notes & index. Photos. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Thick
octavo. NY: Orion, (1971). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good
condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "The first
biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the great Russian writer regarded as
the poet of the Revolution." $20.00.
Sontag, Susan. UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN. 204 pgs. Cloth in dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980). 1st Edition [so
stated]. Inked name on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
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