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Wade, Richard. SLAVERY IN THE CITIES: The South 1820-1860. 340 pgs
with notes & index. Cloth in chipped & sunned dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Oxford University Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Inked name on front free
endpaper; otherwise, near fine condition with fair jacket in mylar
wrapper. $25.00.

Everett, Jr., Frank Edgar. BRIERFIELD: PLANTATION HOME OF JEFFERSON
DAVIS. 158 pgs with bibliography, appendix & index. Photos, drawings,
prints, floor plan & map endpapers. Cloth inprice-clipped dust jacket
with lightly sunned spine. Octavo. Hattiesburg, MS: University &
College Press of MIssissippi, (1979). 2nd printing. Fine condition
with very good jacket in mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Plumb, J.H. GEORGIAN DELIGHTS. 160 pgs with index. Color frontispiece
& black & white illustrations throughout. Cloth in price-clipped dust
jacket. Octavo. Boston: Little, Brown, (1980). 1st U.S. Edition [so
stated]. Fine condition with near fine jacket in mylar wrapper.
Pictorial history of the last quarter of the 17th Century, an
exceptionally fruitful period in England. $25.00.

Bridenbaugh, Carl. MYTHS & REALITIES: Societies of the Colonial South.
208 pgs with index. Cloth in lightly shelfworn cream dust jacket.
Octavo. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1952). 1st
Edition. Inked name on front pastedown endpaper; otherwise, very good
condition with good jacket in mylar wrapper. Collection of essays on
the nature of the societies of the colonial South. $30.00.

Adamson, J.H. & H.F. Folland. THE SHEPHERD OF THE OCEAN: An Account of
Sir Walter Ralegh & His Times. 464 pgs with bibliography & index.
Illustrated. Dark blue cloth in maroon cloth backstrip, without dust
jacket. Octavo. Boston: Gambit, 1969. 1st Edition [so stated]. Very
good condition. $15.00.

Noel, Bernard. FRANTA: PAINTINGS & WORKS ON PAPER. 143 with
chronology, exhibitions & index. 109 illustrations, 50 color. Cloth in
dust jacket. Quarto. Washington, DC: Mage, (1986). Text in French &
English. Fine condition with like jacket in mylar wrapper. $50.00.

Nagishkin, Dmitri. FOLKTALES OF THE AMUR: Stories from the Russian Far
East. 224 pgs. Color plates & text illustrations throughout by Gennady
Pavlishin. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1980). 1st
Edition Thus. Fine condition with like jacket in mylar wrapper.
$75.00.

Serota, Nicholas (Editor). FERNAND LEGER: THE LATER YEARS. 191 pgs.
197 illustrations, 88 in full color. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto.
(London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1987). Fine condition with like
jacket in mylar wrapper. $30.00.

Zhensun, Zheng & Alice Low. A YOUNG PAINTER: The Life & Paintings of
Wang Yani - China's Extraordinary Young Artist. 80 pgs with glossary &
index. Color reproductions throughout; photos. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Scholastic, (1991). 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine
condition with like jacket in mylar wrapper. $15.00.

Duncan, David Douglas. PICASSO & JACQUELINE. 240 pgs. Photos
throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Norton, (1988). 1st U.S.
Edition [so stated]. Very good condition with like jacket in mylar
wrapper. Photographic record of life with Pablo Picasso. $37.50.

Gould, Stephen Jay. ILLUMINATIONS: A BESTIARY. 120 pgs. Color photos
throughout by Rosamond Wolff Purcell. Cloth in very lightly chipped
black dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Norton, (1986). 1st Edition [so
stated]. Fine condition with very good jacket in mylar wrapper.
$25.00.

Church, R.J. THOSE DAYLIGHT 4-8-4'S: The Story of Southern Pacific GS
Class Locomotives. Unpaged. Photos & schematic line drawings,
including 2 long foldouts at rear. Cloth in tape-reinforced pictorial
white dust jacket. Quarto. (Omaha, NE: Kratville, 1966). 1st Edition.
Inked & rubber-stamped name/address on front pastedown endpaper &
inked same on bottom edge; otherwise, good+ condition with like jacket
in mylar wrapper. $125.00.

Bellamy, David. DOCTOR WHO TIMEVIEW: The Complete Doctor Who
Illustrations of Frank Bellamy. 55 pgs. Color & black & white
illustrations throughout. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
Quarto. (Dorset, England): Who Dares, (1985). 1st Edition. Near fine
condition. $15.00.

[Trade Catalogues] MONTGOMERY WARD CATALOGUE No. 97. 672 pgs.
Illustrated throughout. Cloth in chipped pictorial blue dust jacket.
Folio. NY: HC Publishers, (1969). Golden Jubilee Facsimile Reprint of
the Fall & Winter 1922-23 catalogue. Very good condition with good
jacket in mylar wrapper. $40.00.

Fox, Howard. ROBERT LONGO. 207 pgs with bibliography. Color & black &
white illustrations throughout. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
Quarto. NY: Rizzoli & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1989). Near
fine condition. $25.00.

Lee, Marshall (Editor). ERTE AT NINETY: THE COMPLETE GRAPHICS.
Introduction & Selected Writings by Erte. 223 pgs with chronology,
index & bibliography. Color plates throughout. Cloth in price-clipped
pictorial black dust jacket. Folio. NY: Dutton, (1982). 1st Edition
[so stated]. Small rubber-stamped name at inner edge of front free
endpaper; otherwise, fine condition with near fine jacket in mylar
wrapper. In print 1998 @ $95.00. Our price: $50.00.

Gerdts, William & Russell Burke. AMERICAN STILL-LIFE PAINTING. 264 pgs
with notes, bibliography & index. Color & black & white reproductions
of works of art, throughout. White cloth, without dust jacket. Quarto.
NY: Praeger, (1971). 1st U.S. Edition. Fore-edge & few pages with
artist's paint-smudges; otherwise, very good condition. $100.00.

Jones, Proctor (Editor). IDYLLS OF FRANCE. Foreword by Irving Stone.
127 pgs. Color photographic plates by Jones, throughout. Cloth in
price-clipped dust jacket. Oblong imperial octavo. (San Francisco:
Privately Published, 1982). Designed by Adrian Wilson. Presentation
copy signed by the photographer. Inked inscription to previous owner
on front free endpaper; otherwise, fine condition with near fine
jacket in mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Lubbock, Basil. THE BEST OF SAIL. Edited by F.A. Hook. Introduction by
Alan Villiers. 179 pgs with index. 38 full-page color paintings by J.
Spurling. Dark blue cloth, without dust jacket. Folio. NY: Grosset &
Dunlap, (1975). Near fine condition. Shortened volume of the
three-volume edition of Spurling's & Lubbock's classic "Sail: The
Romance of the Clipper Ships." $35.00.

[Periodical] PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC, Volumes 67, No. 1 through No.
12. January - December, 1955. Bound in maroon fabricoid. Very good
condition. Articles, photos, & advertisements pertaining to Hawaii,
throughout. $50.00.

The Society of California Pioneers. QUARTERLY, Vol. VIII, No. 1. 75
pgs. Illustrated. Light blue printed paper wrappers. Octavo. San
Francisco: March, 1931. Very good condition. $15.00.

The Society of California Pioneers. QUARTERLY, Vol. V, No. 1. 53 pgs.
Illustrated. Light blue printed paper wrappers. Octavo. San Francisco:
March, 1928. Very good condition. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. I, No.
6. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): June, 1911.
Very good condition. $20.00.

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The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 5, No.
2. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): August,
1919. Very good condition. Articles on Miches, Capsquares &
Trunnion-Bands; Cromsters; Early Naval Chest. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 5, No.
3. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): September,
1919. Very good condition. Articles on Boats of Siberia; Whistle as a
Naval Instrument; Naval Museums-France; Jal vs. Rabelais. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 5, No.
4. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): October,
1919. Very good condition. Articles on Naval Museums - France; Boats
of Siberia; First English Yachts, 1660. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 5, No.
5. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): November,
1919. Very good condition. Articles on Boats of Siberia; Grande
Louise Drawing; Models. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 5, No.
6. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): December,
1919. Very good condition. Articles on Hull Whaling Trade; Jack Junk;
Boats of Siberia. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 4, No.
7. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): July, 1914.
Very good condition. Articles on Great Dane of 1600; Naval Museums;
Budleigh Bench-End. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 4, No.
8. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): August,
1914. Very good condition. Articles on Japanese Print of a Dutch East
Indiaman; 17th Century Rigging; Artist's Notes at the Battle of the
Nile; Some Old-Time Ship Pictures. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 4, No.
9. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): September,
1914. Very good condition. Articles on The Sixern of Shetland; Naval
Museums - Denmark; A Primitive Western Type. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 14, No.
4. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): October,
1928. Very good condition. Articles on Unpublished Accounts of Cook's
Death; The Royalists at Sea in 1649; Gunnery, Frigates & the Line of
Battle; Nautical Time; Bligh's Notes on Cook's Last Voyage. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 12, No.
3. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): July, 1926.
Very good condition. Articles on Sailors of the Civil War; A Mayflower
Model; Effect of the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th Century on Indian
Ocean Developments. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 12, No.
2. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): April, 1926.
Very good condition. Articles on Lord High Admiral & the Board of
Admiralty; Flanders Galleys; Dowfall of Portugal in the East; Saluting
the Quarterdeck. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 12, No.
1. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): Jan., 1926.
Very good condition. Articles on Early Pictures of Lanteen Sails;
Pearl's Brigade in the Indian Mutiny; Edye's Account of Indian &
Ceylon Vessels in 1883; Arrival of the Dutch & British in the Indian
Ocean. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 15, No.
1. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): Jan., 1929.
Very good condition. Articles on Dutch Three-Deckers; King's Ships &
Galleys; Fore Topsail Halliards & Backstays; Thomas Eldred: Merchant.
$15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 15, No.
2. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): April, 1929.
Very good condition. Articles on Black Battlefleet; Master John Dee,
Drake & the Straits of Anian; The Bucentaur; The Lighter Crimes of
the French Bluejacket; The Cinque Ports. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 15, No.
3. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): July, 1929.
Very good condition. Articles on A Contemporary 15th-Century Ship
Model; Captain John Narbrough & the Battle of Solebay; The Kru Canoes
of Sierra Leone; Midshipman W.G. Anderson; The Sandbanks of Yarmouth &
Lowestoft; The 17th Century Frigate. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 15, No.
4. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): Oct., 1929.
Very good condition. Articles on The Galleys of Lake Nemi; The Roman
Galleys in the Lake of Nemi; Caligula's Galleys; Naval Administration
& the Raising of Fleets under John & Henry III; British Battleships of
1870. $15.00.

The Society for Nautical Research. THE MARINER'S MIRROR, Vol. 12, No.
4. Illustrated. Printed paper wrappers. Octavo. (London): Oct., 1926.
Very good condition. Articles on The Histsory of Wood-Preserving in
Shipbuilding; The General Situation in the Indian Ocean during the
Early Georgian Period; Capital Ship; The Naval Administration of the
Interregnum; Phineas Pett. $15.00.

California Historical Society. QUARTERLY, Vol. III, No. 1. 101 pgs.
Illustated. Cream stiff printed paper wrappers. Imperial octavo. San
Francisco: April, 1924. Very good condition. $20.00.

Stieglitz, Alfred. GEOGIA O'KEEFFE: A PORTRAIT. Text + 51 photographic
plates. Boards with cloth back in pictorial cream dust jacket.
Slipcased. Folio. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1978). 1st Edition
[so stated]. Fine condition throughout. $150.00.

Bernard, Bruce (Editor). VINCENT BY HIMSELF: A Selection of Van Gogh's
Paintings & Drawings, together with Extracts from his Letters. 327
pgs. Color & sepia reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Folio. Boston: Little, Brown & New York Graphic Society, (1985). 1st
U.S. Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in like jacket with mylar
wrapper. $75.00.

Traba, Marta. LA REBELION DE LOS SANTOS / THE REBELLION OF THE SANTOS.
164 pgs. Color & black & white photographic plates. Cloth in chipped
dust jacket. Quarto. (Puerto Rico): Ediciones Puerto / Museo de
Santos, (1972). 1st Edition. Inked inscription partially "erased"
with White-Out on front blank flyleaf; otherwise, good condition in
like jacket with mylar wrapper. Text in Spanish & English. Critical
examination of this Puerto Rican religious wood sculpture, the santos.
$150.00.

Khornak, Lucille. FASHION 2001. 111 pgs. Color photos & black & white
drawings throughout. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Folio. NY:
Viking, (1982). 1st Paperback printing. Very good condition. $35.00.

Lynes, George Platt. BALLET. Unpaged. Bibliography. Photos throughout.
Cloth in dust jacket. Folio. (Pasadena, CA): Twelvetrees Press, no
date (c.1985). 1st Edition limited to 4000 copies. Fine condition in
like jacket with mylar wrapper. $150.00.

Clergue, Lucien. NUDE WORK SHOP. 107 pgs. Photos throughout. Cloth in
torn dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Viking, (1982). 1st Edition. Very good
condition in fair jacket with mylar wrapper. $40.00.

Fitzgerald, Michael (Editor). A LIFE OF COLLECTING: VICTOR & SALLY
GANZ. 239 pgs. Color reproductions of works of art & black & white
photos, throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Folio. (NY): Christie's,
(1997). 1st Edition. Fine condition with like jacket in mylar wrapper.
$60.00.

Omar Khayyam. RUBAIYAT. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Drawings by
Elihu Vedder. Gilt & black hightly decorative bevel-edged gray cloth.
Top edge gilt. Folio. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Foxing
throughout; covers worn at extremities; otherwise, fair condition.
$50.00.

[Exhibition Catalogue] Bell, Larry. ON THE ELLIPSE: New Works. 20 pgs.
Color & black & white photos of the artist's chair, table & light
creations. Pictorial white stapled paper wrappers. Quarto. Newport
Harbor, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1982. Very good condition.
$15.00.

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