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James, William. PRAGMATISM: Popular Lectures on Philosophy. Green
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Longmans, Green, 1925. Inked
inscription on front pastedown endpaper; light wear at extremities;
otherwise, good+ condition. $15.00.

Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik R. & Christane. MOSCOW 1979. Cloth in much
chipped & worn dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1940. 1st U.S.
Edition. Presentation copy signed by the authors. Cover lightly
spotted; otherwise, very good condition in fair jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. A futuristic novel painting "a vivid picture of the
world forty years hence when Russia has worked out all the logic of
her present ideas & her only surviving enemy is the Catholic Church."
$25.00.

Riviere, B.B. RETRIEVERS: Some Hints on Breaking & Handling for
Amateurs. 73 pgs. Photos. Black cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo.
London: Faber & Faber, (1947). 1st Edition. Cover very faintly
spotted; otherwise, very good condition. $20.00.

Bicknell, Julian. HIROSHIGE IN TOKYO: The Floating World of Edo. 157
pgs with index. Color photos & reproductions throughout; map
endpapers. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. San Francisco: Pomegranate,
(1994). 1st Edition. Fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Dannenberg, Linda. PARIS BISTRO COOKING. 160 pgs with index. Color
photos throughout. Cloth in white pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Clarkson Potter, (1991). Fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $15.00.

Elliot, David. TRAINING GUN DOGS TO RETRIEVE. 128 pgs. Illustrated.
Cloth in chipped, price-clipped pictorial white dust jacket. NY: Holt,
(1952). 1st Edition [so stated]. Signed by the author. Cover slightly
sunned at extremities; otherwise, very good condition in good jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Bromfield, Helen Ward. DRAGON TALES. 239 pgs. Gilt decorative purple
cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo. Shanghai: Commercial, 1923.
Presentation copy signed by the author. Spine sunned; cover lightly
spotted; otherwise, good+ condition. $20.00.

Rosengarten, Theodore. TOMBEE: PORTRAIT OF A COTTON PLANTER; With the
Journals of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890). 750 pgs with index. Map
endpapers. Cloth in dust jacket. Thick octavo. NY: Morrow, (1986). 1st
Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition in very good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. "The life story of an unlucky slavemaster &
cotton planter from St. Helena Island, South Carolina." $25.00.

Bryan, C.D.B. THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: 100 Years of Adventure
& Discovery. 484 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & photos
throughout. Cloth in yellow dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1987).
Fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. In print
1998 @ $55.00. Our price: $27.50.

Queen, Ellery. THE TRAGEDY OF X. With Introduction & Checklist by
Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Illustrated. Cloth in lightly chipped pictorial
black dust jacket. Octavo. Del Mar: University of California, (1978).
Edges lightly foxed; otherwise, very good+ condition in good+ jacket.
$20.00.

Alexander, Roy. THE CRUISE OF THE RAIDER "WOLF." 270 pgs with
appendix. Map endpapers. Black cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1939. 1st Edition. Light wear at
extremities; cover faintly spotted; otherwise, good condition. Story
of one of the greatest sea adventures - the mysterious 15-month cruise
during World War One of this German ship roaming the Atlantic, Indian,
& Pacific Oceans capturing & destroying other vessels & mining
principle harbors. $25.00.

Hickey, Des & Gus Smith. SEVEN DAYS TO DISASTER. 336 pgs with index.
Photos, maps. Silk endpapers. Gilt decorative full red morocco fine
binding. All edges gilt. Imperial octavo. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press,
(1962). Fine condition. The story of the 1915 sinking of the American
ocean liner Lusitania by a German submarine, the event that
precipitated U.S. entry into the First World War. $40.00.

BAKST. Unpaged. Color plates throughout. Pictorial lime paper
wrappers. Octavo. NY: Rizzoli, (1980). 2nd printing. 48 plates
showcasing Bakst's theatre costume design. $15.00.

Dennis, Patrick. GENIUS. Cloth in dark blue dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Harcourt, Brace & World, (1962). 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good+
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Hawes, Charles Boardman. THE DARK FRIGATE. Color frontispiece. Cloth
in pictorial white dust jacket. Octavo. Boston: Little, Brown, (1962).
25th printing. Fine condition in near fine jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $15.00.

Scully, Rock & David Dalton. LIVING WITH THE DEAD: Twenty Years on the
Bus with Garcia & the Grateful Dead. 381 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth
in pictorial red dust jacket. Imperial octavo. Boston: Little, Brown,
(1996). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $12.50.

Creel, George. WAR CRIMINALS & PUNISHMENT. 144 pgs with index. Dark
blue cloth without dust jacket. Octavo. London: Hutchinson, no date
(c. 1944). Rubber stamp at bottom of front free endpaper; otherwise,
good+ condition. Story of Nazi crimes & criminals. $15.00.

Hughes, Thomas Alexander. OVER LORD: General Pete Quesada & the
Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II. 380 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Free, (1995). 1st Edition. Fine condition in near fine
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Lasswell, Mary. HIGH TIME. Red cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1944). Good condition. $15.00.

Reid, Charles. FIGURE PAINTING IN WATERCOLOR. 158 pgs with index.
Color & black & white illustrations throughout. Cloth in lightly
chipped & tape-mended dust jacket. Oblong octavo. NY: Watson-Guptill,
(1976). 3rd printing. Near fine condition in good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Kennan, George F. RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR: Soviet-American Relations,
1917-1920. 541 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos; map. Marbled
endpapers. Gilt decorative full dark red morocco fine binding. All
edges gilt. Imperial octavo. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library,
(1986). Fine condition. $40.00.

Kimbrell, James. BARBARA: AN ACTRESS WHO SINGS. 423 pgs + bibliography
& photos. Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. Boston:
Branden, (1989). 1st Edition. Fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. Biography of Barbara Streisand. $25.00.

Clarke, Mary & Clement Crisp. BALLET: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. 245 pgs
with index. Photos throughout. Orange paper wrappers in black dust
jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Universe, (1978). Good+ condition.
$15.00.

Edgerly, Lois Stiles (Editor). GIVE HER THIS DAY: A Daybook of Women's
Words. 388 pgs with index. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. Gardiner, ME:
Tilbury House, (1990). 1st Edition. Presentation copy signed by the
editor. Small bookplate mounted at top of front free endpaper;
otherwise, near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. Arranged in daybook format, with each day containing a piece
of writing by a woman born on that day. $20.00.

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