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Flowers. Rock plants. Drawn by. . . Preface by Henry de Montherlant. Translated from the French by S.P. Skipwith
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London:: Hyperion Press,, [1948]. Folio. [6], 32 leaves of text. 32 colour lithograph plates. Tan tweed boards, red lettrng, w/ d.j. (chppng & tears to lwr mrgn frnt cvr, mnr creasng), NF/G- copy. First edition of this beautiful work with the illustrations of Arlette David, whose magnificent paintings were world famous at the Bagatelle Flower Show in pre-War Paris. After her death during World War II, this work includes 32 of her best watercolours of succulents. ... more information
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One thousand metres down. With a preface by Andre Bourgin. Translated by R.L.G. Irving
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London:: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,, [1957]. 8vo. xii, [2], 178, [2] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates, map, illusts. Black boards, yellow lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng to fore-edges), VG/NF. First edition in English of this famed exploration of the Starless River which plunges into a syphon over 4000 feet deep in the Berger Cavern. ... more information
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Mildred Pierce. Illustrated with photographs from the Warner Bros. Picture
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Cleveland & New York:: World Publishing, [1945]. 8vo. 258 pp. Frntsp. double photo, double photo plate, photo illust. on endpapers. Brown cloth, yellow lettrng, w/ photo illust. d.j. (hd & ft of spine w/ slight chippng, sml clsd tears at top & bottom of frnt cvr; interior toned as usual), NF/VG. First photoplay edition of the Warner Bros. movie starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Michael Curtiz directed. Joan Crawford won Oscar award for ... more information
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Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats
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New York:: Henry Holt and Co.,, [1927]. 8vo. xii, 347, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous plates, illust. endpapers by Margaret Freeman (mnr chppng & fryng hd of spine), still G copy. First edition, 2nd printing of this excellent biography of the famed Calamity Jane, i.e. Martha Jane Cannary-Burke, Army Scout, and close friend of Wild Bill Hickok. ... more information
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Lewd, blasphemous & obscene. . . William Hone tried for blasphemy. . . Richard Carlile. . . George Jacob Holyoake imprisoned in Gloucester for six months for 26 words. . . appended the Strange history of sexual inversion
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London:: Hutchison,, [1972]. 8vo. 248 pp. Plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght dustsoilng to fore-edges), NF/VG. First edition of this work examining the 19th-century precedents for freedom of speech. ... more information
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Typhoon: The other enemy. The Third Fleet and the Pacific storm of December 1944
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Annapolis, MD:: Naval Institute Press,, [1981]. 8vo. x, [2], 247, [1] pp. Numerous photos, maps. Blue-green cloth, silver lettrng (mnr bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr), VG/NF, from library of former Flying Tiger, 14th Air Force, Richard Lee, w/ stmp on ffep. First edition of this history of the typhoon which sank 3 destroyers, downed more than 100 aircraft, and killed 778 Navy personel during in 1944. ... more information
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Eagle Lake
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[Eagle Lake]:: Robert Amesbury,, [1971]. 8vo. xvi, 179, [1] pp. Colour photo frntsp., numerous photo plates, maps, maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr bwng to cvrs, soilng at guttr mrgns, vry fnt mustiness), w/ d.j. (slght foxing), still G/G, inscribed by author on title. First edition, signed of this local history of Eagle Lake, Lassen County, Northern California from its inception to the present day. This work relates the history of the Native Americans, Pioneers, Cattlemen, Sheepmen, Logger... more information
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Captain Charles M. Weber. Pioneer of the San Joaquin and founder of Stockton, California. With a description of his papers, maps, books, pictures and memorabilia now in the Bancroft Library
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Berkeley, CA:: Friends of the Bancroft Library,, 1966. Folio. viii, 118 pp. Title in red & blk. Colour frntsp., sepia-tinted photos, many maps (numerous folding). Green cloth, gilt lettrng & decrtn (slght rubbng hd & ft of spine), VG. First edition. ... more information
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The years between
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Tulare, CA:: [Sierra Printing & Litho Co.], , [1953]. 8vo. 224 pp., plus 20 pp. publ. ads. Photo illusts., plates, illusts. Brown cloth, gilt lettrng, NF copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature. First edition of this excellent memoir and history of Tulare, California in the Sierras. ... more information
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The OK News. Oakland Kiwanis Club. Vol. 9, Nos. 1-52. [Convention Year]
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Oakland, CA:: Oakland Kiwanis Club,, 1930. 52 parts in one vol. 8vo. [208 pp (unpaginated)]. Numerous photos, illusts., printed in red & green ink. All issues bound together in three-quarter red diced calf over blk pebbld cloth, stamped Don B. Rice, who became President of the Oakland Kiwanis Chapter in 1943. First edition, of this extremely scarce Fraternal Organization weekly bulletin, and very unusual to find bound. Of interest are the excellent biographical notes. ... more information
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Surface at the Pole. The story of USS Skate
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London:: Adventurers Club,, [1961]. 8vo. 211, [3] pp. Photo frntsp., photo illusts. Red boards, gilt lettrng (slght bmpng crnrs), w/ d.j. VG-/VG. First Adventurers club edition about the epic Polar journeys of the USS Skate, the first nuclear powered submarine to break through the Polar ice. ... more information
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The American Camellia Yearbook 1979
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Fort Valley, GA:: American Camellia Society,, [1979]. 8vo. xii, 201, [1] pp. Numerous illust., photo illust., charts, colour photos. Blue-gray cloth, w/ d.j. (minor edgewear, creasing), NF/VG. First edition of this Vol. 34 on Camellias. ... more information
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The Chinese smile. Photographs by Brian Brake
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London:: Hutchinson,, [1958]. 8vo. 246 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates. Red cloth, gilt lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. (couple mnr clsd tears, old offsettng from tape repairs), VG/G. First edition of this travelogue through China. ... more information
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Equator Farm
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New York:: Roy Publishers,, [1956]. 8vo. xii, 158 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates. Red cloth, blk & gilt lettrng (bmpng hd & ft of spine, mnr soilng), w/ d.j. (bmpng hd & ft of spine, old tpe repairs), still G/G. First edition of this travel account of visiting a farm in the White Highlands of Kenya, and then onto Nairobi, Mombasa, the coastal village of Malinda, and then the island of Zanzibar. ... more information
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The heart of Africa
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London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, [1954]. 8vo. xvi, 479, [1] pp. Frntsp. map. Blue cloth, blue lettrng, w/ d. j. cover art by CW (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), VG/VG-. First edition of this objective and informed account of Africa after World War II as many countries moved towards independence, including sections on South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, the Congo, and more. ... more information
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The mystery of gallows cliff. A Ken Holt mystery
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New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, [1960]. 12mo. [6], 184 pp. Frntsp., illust. endpapers. Brwn tweed boards, green lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd of spine, couple clsd tears, mnr wear to crnrs), VG/G, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on half-title. First edition of the scarce No. 15 in the Ken Holt mystery series, listing to Gallows Cliff on the front flap ads, and on verso of half-title. ... more information
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Historical atlas of world mythology. Volume II. The way of the seeded earth. Part 2. Mythologies of the primitive planters. The Northern Americas
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New York:: Perennial Library,, [1988]. Folio. [109]-251, [1], xxii pp. 100s of illusts., colour photos, colour illusts., maps. Black cloth, red lettrng (frmr ownrshp stmp on title), w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of one volume in this set marking the culmination of his scholarly efforts. ... more information
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The astounding science fiction anthology. Selected and with an introduction. . . stories by
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New York:: Simon and Schuster,, [1951]. 8vo. xv, [3], 583, [3] pp. Red cloth, silver lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. cover art by Leo Manso (vry slght rubbng), NF/NF. First edition of this anthology of 23 outstanding science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Heinlein, H. Beam Piper, Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. Van Vogt, and more. ... more information
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Trixie Belden and the mysterious visitor. Cover by Larry Frederick
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Racine, WI:: Whitman, , [1970]. 8vo. 236 pp. Illust. endpapers. Colour printed boards (minor shlfwr, slghtly shkn, mnr bmpng hd & ft of spine) VG. Reprint edition of No. 4 in the Trixie Belden mystery series. Whitman No. 1532. ... more information
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Beloved rascals. Nature's knaves are nicer than you think. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees
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Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,, [1957]. 8vo. 244 pp. Numerous text illust. Green cloth, gilt lettrng (vry mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), w/ d.j. (mnr foxng to fore-edges, mnr chppng hd of spine, crnrs), VG/VG-. First edition, stated, of this charming tale in the Canadian Rockies, the Klondike, and Lake Louise, visiting Badgers, Grizzly Bears, and others. ... more information
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