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This is a short list of new arrivals from Acorn Books. Book(s) shipped
on receipt of payment by check or VISA, MC, Discover, or AmerEx. Full
refund for any reason on prompt return of merchandise. Subject to
prior sale. Books shipped by USPS 4th Class Book Rate insured.
Postage: $4. 1st book; $1.50 each additional. Foreign addresses: $3.
extra. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Prices net to
all. Please email to hold, or telephone (415) 563-1736 any hour.


Wunderlich, Hans Georg. THE SECRET OF CRETE. 367 pgs with bibliography
& index. Illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. NY: McMillan,
(1974). 1st U.S. Edition. Near fine condition. $20.00

Horwitz, Sylvia L. THE FIND OF A LIFETIME: Sir Arthur Evans & the
Discovery of Knossos. 278 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth
in dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Viking, (1981). 1st Edition. Fine
condition. $15.00

Croutier, Alev Lytle. HAREM: THE WORLD BEHIND THE VEIL. 224 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white illustrations throughout.
Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abbeville, (1989). Fine condition.
$20.00

Copplestone, Trewin (Editor). WORLD ARCHITECTURE: An Illustrated
History. 348 pgs with index. Illustrated with over 1000 black & white
photos & drawings & 32 pages of color plates. Cloth in dust jacket.
Folio. No Place: McGraw-Hill, no date (c.1963). Very good condition. A
complete look at the history of world architecture, ancient to modern,
Asian, mid-eastern, & western, written by leading experts in each
area. $32.50

Lees-Milne, Alvilde & Rosemary Verey. THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S GARDEN.
156 pgs with index. Color photos & black & white line drawings
throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. London: Chatto & Windus,
1983. Near fine condition. $25.00

Maiuri, Amedeo et al. PAINTING IN ITALY: From the Origins to the
Thirteenth Century. 199 pgs with bibliography & index. 100 tipped-in
reproductions in full color. Blue cloth in torn, taped dust jacket.
Folio. NY: Skira, (1959). Very good condition in poor dust jacket.
$50.00

Torczyner, Harry. MARGRITTE: The True Art of Painting. 144 pgs with
bibliography. 179 illustrations, including 54 in full color. Cloth in
lightly chipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abradale, (1985). Near fine
condition. $25.00

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von. PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS. Translated from the
12th German Edition. 617 pgs with index. Frontispiece. Grey cloth.
Octavo. NY: Rebman, (1906). Cover lighlty soiled; top of spine worn;
otherwise, good condition. $25.00

Beazley, Mitchell et al. THE WOLRD ATLAS OF ARCHITECTURE. 408 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white photos, drawings & maps.
Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Folio. NY: Portland House,
(1988). $45.00

Marsden, Christopher. PALMYRA OF THE NORTH: The First Days of St.
Petersburg. Preface by Sacheverell Sitwell. 280 pgs with bibliography
& index. Illustrated. Pink cloth. Octavo. London: Faber, (1943). Small
ink name on front endpaper; otherwise, good condition. $20.00

Larkin, David (Editor). FANTASTIC ART. 40 color plates. Color
pictorial wrappers. Quarto. NY: Ballantine, (1973). Very good
condition. Icludes art by Bosch, Brueghel, Ernst, & Dali, among
others. $15.00

Renou, Marie-Simone. THE INDIA I LOVE... 139 pgs. Color & black &
white photos throughout, & a map. Cloth in lightly chipped dust
jacket. Square quarto. NY: Tudor, (1969). Very good+ condition. $18.50

Tolstoy, Count Leo. WAR & PEACE. Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude.
Maps & frontispiece. Cloth in torn dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Simon &
Schuster, 1942. Inner Sanctum Edition with explanatory booklet. Very
good condition in good jacket. $20.00

Anderson, Bonnie S. & Judith P. Zinsser. A HISTORY OF THEIR OWN: Women
in Europe From Prehistory to the Present, Volume 2. 572 pgs. with
notes, bibliography & index. Photos & illustrations. Cloth in dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Harper & Row, (1988). 1st Edition [so stated].
Near fine condition. $15.00

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach & Raquel L. Scherr. FACE VALUE: The Politics of
Beauty. 312 pgs with notes, bibliography & index. Cloth in dust
jacket. Octavo. Boston: Routledge, (1984). Fine condition. $25.00

Reinhardt, Gottfried. THE GENIUS: A Memoir of Max Reinhardt. 420 pgs
with index. Photos. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Knopf, 1979. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Very good+ condition.
$17.50

Schatz, Thomas. THE GENIUS OF THE SYSTEM: Hollywood Filmmaking in the
Studio Era. 514 pgs with notes & index. Photos. Cloth in dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Pantheon, (1988). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good
condition. $15.00

Leibowitz, Herber A. HART CRANE: An Introduction to the Poetry. 308
pgs with notes, bibliography & index. Cloth in stained dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Columbia University Press, (1968). 1st Edition. Bottom of
spine bumped; light stain at top edge; otherwise, good+ condition.
$17.50

Burke, James. THE DAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGED. 352 pgs with bibliography
& index. Color & black & white illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. Boston: Little, Brown, (1985). 1st U.S. Edition [so stated].
Near fine condition. $15.00

Shattuck, Roger. PROUST'S BINOCULARS. 153 pgs. Cloth in dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Random, (1963). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good+
condition. $20.00

McCord, David. ANDREW WYETH. 224 pgs with index. Color & black & white
reproductions throughout. Cloth in slightly chipped & faded dust
jacket. Oblong octavo. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, (1970). Near fine
condition in good+ dust jacket. Short biography & comprehensive study
of America's most famous living painter. $25.00

Chesterton, G K. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. 249 pgs. Red Cloth. 12mo. NY:
Lane, 1909. Bookplate on front free edpaper; cover stained; foxing on
fore-edge; otherwise, good+ condition. $15.00

Colacello, Bob. HOLY TERROR: ANDY WARHOL CLOSE UP. 514 pgs with index.
Photos. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. (NY): HarperCollins, (1990). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition. $25.00

Caen, Herb. BAGHDAD BY THE BAY. 276 pgs with index. Illustrated. Tan
cloth. Octavo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949. 1st Edition [so
stated]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Bookplate on front endpaper; ink name
on front fly leaf; otherwise, very good condition. $30.00

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. THE PRINCESS MARRIES THE PAGE. Dark green
boards in cream cloth backstrip. Octavo. NY: Harpers, 1932. Spine
darkened; red crayon number on front free endpaper; front free
endpaper lightly faded & soiled; otherwise, good condition. $15.00

Marie, Duchess of Russia. A PRINCESS IN EXILE. 306 pgs with index.
Photos & map endpapers. Maroon cloth. Imperial octavo. NY: Viking,
1932. Spine faded & lightly worn; corners lightly bumped; otherwise,
good condition. $15.00

Baroja, Pio. THE RESTLESSNESS OF SHANTI ANDIA & OTHER WRITINGS. Cloth
in lightly chipped dust jacket. Octavo. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, (1959). Ink name/date on front endpaper; otherwise,
very good condition. Includes some stories, essays & a short play.
$15.00

Payne, Robert. LEONARDO. 344 pgs with index. Illustrated. Cloth in
chipped & darkened dust jacket. Octavo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1978. 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good condition. $15.00

Balzac, Honore. DROLL STORIES. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff.
Marroon cloth in lightly rubbed slipcase. Imperial octavo. NY:
Heritage, (1939). Near fine condition in very good case. $15.00

Merejcovski, Dmitri. THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. 580 pgs. Color
& black & white reproductions. Color pictorial cloth in slipcase.
Imperial octavo. NY: Heritage, (1954). Near fine condition in very
good case. $15.00

Mahaffy, Charlotte. COOS RIVER ECHOES: A Story of the Coos River
Valley. 253 pgs + bibliography. Photos. Pictorial boards in worn dust
jacket. Octavo. Portland, OR: Interstate Press, (1965). 1st Edition
[so stated]. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good
condition in good jacket. $15.00

Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Illustrations.
Decorative cloth in chipped dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Boni, 1928. Ink
name on front endpaper; otherwise, very good condition in good jacket.
$15.00

Upson, William Hazlett. HELLO, MR. HENDERSON. Orange cloth. Octavo.
NY: Rinehart, (1949). 1st Edition. Fore-edge lightly soiled;
otherwise, very good condition. $25.00

PRIZE STORIES OF 1920: The O. Henry Memorial Awards. Introduction by
Blanche Williams. 322 pgs. Blue cloth. 12mo. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Page, 1921. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Includes
stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Guy Gilpatric. $15.00

PRIZE STORIES OF 1922: The O. Henry Memorial Awards. Introduction by
Blanche Williams. 260 pgs. Blue cloth. 12mo. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Page, 1923. 1st Edition. Very good condition. $15.00

Theroux, Paul. THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA: A Journey Around Great Britain.
353 pgs. Map endpapers. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Octavo.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. 1st Edition. Very good+ condition.
$15.00

Bunyan, John. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, From This World to That Which is
to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. Water color
illustrations by William Blake. NY: Heritage Press, (1942).
Gilt-titled beige cloth in brown slipcase. Ink name on front endpaper;
otherwise, near fine condition. $25.00

Eco, Umberto. THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Cloth in lightly chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, (1983). 1st U.S.
Edition. Front free endpaper barely wrinkled; otherwise, near fine
condition. $17.50

Gaines, Charles. PUMPING IRON: The Art & Science of Bodybuilding.
Photos. Pictorial wrappers. Quarto. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1974). Very
good condition. $15.00

Astaire, Lesley. LONDON LIVING STYLE. 224 pgs with index. 272 color
photos. Cloth in dust jacket. Square quarto. NY: Rizzoli, (1990). Fine
condition. The variety of English style, from the splendid houses of
Mayfair to the eccentric interiors of Chelsea. $15.00

Heyerdahl, Thor. THE MALDIVE MYSTERY. 319 pgs with bibliography &
index. Color & black & white photos & map endpapers. Cloth in lightly
chipped dust jacket. Octavo. Bethesda: Alder & Alder, (1986). 1st U.S.
Edition. Near fine condition. An archaeological adventure in the
Indian Ocean. $15.00

Schwarzenegger, Arnold & Bill Dobbins. ARNOLD'S BODYBUILDING FOR MEN.
240 pgs with index. Photos throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped dust
jacket. Quarto. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1981). 1st Edition. Very good
condition. How to develop & maintain a superbly muscular body. $20.00

Bland, Alexander. THE NUREYEV IMAGE. 288 pgs. Over 300 photos. Cloth
in lightly chipped dust jacket. Folio. NY: Times Books, (1977). Very
good condition. $15.00

Kelly, Amy. ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE & THE FOUR KINGS. 427 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos & map endpapers. Cloth in lightly chipped
dust jacket. Octavo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Very good condition. $15.00

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