FS: 1st Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Wed., Dec 29, 1999.

[Acorn Books]

1. [Adams] DeCock, Liliane (Editor). ANSEL ADAMS. Unpaginated. Photos
throughout. Cloth in chipped white pictorial dust jacket. Imperial
octavo. NY: Morgan & Morgan, (1972). 1st Edition. Very good condition
with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $65.00 [108152]

2. [Astor] Irving, Washington. ASTORIA. 467 pgs. Map endpapers;
illustrations. Cloth in torn green pictorial dust jacket. Imperial
octavo. Portland, OR: Binsford & Mort, no date (c. 1960s?). Slight
rubbing at extremities; otherwise, very good condition with fair
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. History of the fur-trading
enterprise of John Jacob Astor. In print 1999 @ $24.95. Our price:
$15.00 [108137]

3. Atherton, Gertrude. GOLDEN GATE COUNTRY. 256 pgs with index. Tan
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Duell, Sloane & Pearce,
(1945). 1st Edition [so stated]. Previous owner's initials on front
free endpaper, gold-rush illustration mounted on half-title page;
otherwise, good+ condition. History of San Francisco. $25.00 [108135]

4. Barry, John M. RISING TIDE: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 &
How it Changed America. 524 pgs with index. Photos. Red & cream
pictorial paper wrappers. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1997). Very
good condition. New 1999 @ $25.00. Our price: $15.00 [108153]

5. Bowen, Elizabeth. FRIENDS & RELATIONS. 159 pgs. Cloth in white dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Cape, (1985). Very good condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [108169]

6. Brown, Peter & Steven Gaines. THE LOVE YOU MAKE: An Insider's Story
of The Beatles. 448 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in red pictorial
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: McGraw-Hill, (1983). Very good condition with
like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $21.50 [108176]

7. Collier, Virginia A. & Jeanette Eaton. ROLAND THE WARRIOR. 237 pgs
with bibliography. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. Red cloth,
without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1934). Very good
condition. $150.00 [108145]

8. Futagawa, Yukio (Editor). G. A. (GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE) DOCUMENT:
Special Issue 1970 - 1980. Unpaginated. Color & black & white photos &
drawings throughout. White pictorial paper wrappers. Quarto. (Tokyo:
A. D. A. Edita, 1984). Very good condition. "A totally new
architectural magazine which documents the latest developments &
significant works from all over the world as they happen & as
realistically as possible." Text in Japanese & English. $40.00
[108148]

9. Garnett, David. GREAT FRIENDS: Portraits of 17 Writers. 240 pgs
with index. Photos. Cloth in lightly chipped maroon pictorial dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Atheneum, 1980. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Very
good condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
Captivating & informal portraits of Joseph Conrad, W. H. Hudson, Ford
Madox Hueffer, Edward Thomas, John Galsworthy, D. H. Lawrence, E. M.
Forster, Virginia Woolf, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, George Moore,
Arthur Waley, H. G. Wells, T. E. Shaw, H. E. Bates, T. H. White &
Carson McCullers. $30.00 [108147]

10. Gilbert, Vivian. THE ROMANCE OF THE LAST CRUSADE: With Allenby to
Jerusalem. 235 pgs. Frontispiece. Blue cloth, without dust jacket.
12mo. NY: Appleton, 1925. 4th printing. Top corner clipped on front
free endpaper; otherwise, very good condition. Story of fighting with
field marshall Vicount Allenby in the Middle East. $15.00 [108156]

11. Gilliam, Harold. THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCE. 247 pgs with index.
Photos. Cloth in white & blue pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, (1959). Very good condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. "The romantic lore behind the fabulous
facade of the Bay Area." $15.00 [108144]

12. Jarvis, C. S. ARAB COMMAND: The Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel F.
G. Peake Pasha. 158 pgs with index. Map endpapers; photos. Brown
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. London: Hutchinson, (1946). 3rd
printing. Previous owner's inked inscription on front free endpaper;
otherwise, very good condition. Biography of Peake Pasha, who served
under Lawrence of Arabia. $15.00 [108160]

13. Kanin, Garson. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BECOME YOUNG: An
Entertainment in the Form of a Declaration of War on the Mindless
Youth Cult that Has Our Time in its Grip: Demoralizing Our People,
Weakening Our System, Depleting Our Energy, Feeding Our Depression,
Wasting Our Experience, Betraying Our Democracy, & Blowing Out Brains.
185 pgs. Cloth in lightly chipped white pictorial dust jacket. Octavo.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. 1st Edition, signed by the author.
Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$35.00 [108127]

14. [Kennedy] Scheim, David E. CONTRACT ON AMERICA: The Mafia Murder
of President John F. Kennedy. 480 pgs with bibliography & index.
Photos. Cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Shapolsky,
(1988). Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $15.00 [108179]

15. Kim-Gaul, Kwan. ART'S GOLDEN THREAD FROM WEST TO EAST. 49 pgs + 41
plates. Off-white buckram, without dust jacket. Imperial octavo.
Rutland, VT: Tuttle, (1957). 1st Edition. Front cover slightly sunned;
otherwise, very good condition. Critical study of the work of artist
Kwan Kim-Gaul by the "painter himself & his critics." Text in English
& French. $15.00 [108151]

16. [Lawrence, T. E.] Slade, Gurney. IN LAWRENCE'S BODYGUARD. 267 pgs.
Illustrated. Blue cloth, without dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Stokes, 1930.
1st U.S. Edition. Very good condition. Story for children based on the
adventures of Lawrence of Arabia. $50.00 [108146]

17. [Lawrence, T. E.] Villars, Jean Beraud. T. E. LAWRENCE. 358 pgs.
Cloth in torn red pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. London: Sidgwick &
Jackson, (1958). 1st U.K. Edition. Very good condition with fair
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [108163]

18. [Lennon] Coleman, Ray. LENNON. 640 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth
in chipped black pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. NY: McGraw-Hill,
(1984). 1st U.S. Edition. Previous owner's inscription on front free
endpapaper; otherwise, very good condition with good+ jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $21.50 [108173]

19. [Lennon] Ono, Yoko. JOHN LENNON SUMMER OF 1980. 111 pgs. Photos.
Pictorial white paper wrappers. Oblong octavo. NY: Perigee, (1983).
Very good condition. $15.00 [108157]

20. [Lennon] Snell, Conrad. JOHN LENNON 4EVER: The Biography. 139 pgs
with bibliography. Cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. No
Place: Crown Summit, (1981). Very good condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $21.50 [108174]

21. Lewis, Oscar. SAN FRANCISCO: MISSION TO METROPOLIS. 274 pgs with
index. Photos & prints throughout; color pictorial endpapers. Beige
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1966. 1st
Edition. Very good condition. $55.00 [108138]

22. Lopez, Barry Holstun. RIVER NOTES: The Dance of Herons. 100 pgs.
Cloth in lightly chipped blue pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. Kansas
City: Andrews & McMeel, (1979). 1st Edition. Very good conditioin with
good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $55.00 [108178]

23. Marschall, Richard (Editor). THE SUNDAY FUNNIES, 1896-1950. Five
full-color newspaper-size sections of 8 pages each, + 8-pg.
introduction section, loose in printed yellow cardboard box. Folio.
NY: Chelsea House, (1978). Fine condition with very good box. Each
section represents a separate decade of funny-pages & features the
greatest comic strips of that era . $80.00 [108158]

24. Martorell, Joanot & Marti Joan de Galba. TIRANT LO BLANC. 642 pgs
with bibliography. Map endpapers. Cloth in chipped black pictorial
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Schoken, (1984). 1st U.S. Edition. Very good
condition with good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. Recovered
Renaissance novel which presents the life of the nobility: politics,
lovemaking, & war. $15.00 [108133]

25. Menger, Howard. FROM OUTER SPACE TO YOU. 258 pgs. Photos. Light
blue cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian,
(1959). 1st Edition. Very good condition. $25.00 [108134]

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