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NY: Macmillan and London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , 1903. 1st edition; 8vo, viii, 283 pages, cloth; b&w illustrations; chapter contents include a chapter on how a house is built and other chapters include suggestions on the care and maintenance of the roof, chimneys and fireplaces, the kitchen stove and furnaces, plumbing, electrical and gas fixtures, woodwork, furnaces, and general information on how to keep a house in repair; dusty edges and lightly soiled covers with shadow of a sticker on the bo... more information

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1913).. 1st edition; 8vo, blue cloth with large rubbed pictorial paste-on; color frontispiece and 3 full-page color plates by Howard Pyle; small scratch on spine and light edgewear else very good/o. ... more information

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Garden City, NY: Nassau Community College (1964). 8vo.; decorative stiff wraps, iii, 64 pages; softcover; articles include: History and background of Nassau Community College, The College and the Community, The Fiction of John Updike, Morte D'Arthur ( a poem), A Talk To College Freshmen, The Cult of Adolescence in American Fiction, Liberal Arts Vs. General Education in Community Colleges, Chanson ( a poem), Difficulties Posed by a College Survey Course in Mathematics, and The Shell of Logic: Franklin's Us... more information

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Philadelphia: Running Press, 1993. 1st printing with 1 in the numberline; 12mo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 160 pages; from the dustjacket: "This insightful collection of quotes features more than 600 observations and anecdotes from learned roamers such as H.LMencken, Joan Didion, Gertrude Stein, W.C. Fields, Bette midler, David Letterman, and even Benjamin Franklin -- all of whom have been there and have come back to grumble about it." very good in a lightly rubbed dustjacket. ... more information

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Albany, NY: Univ. of State of NY, State Education Dept., June 1986. small 4to. stiff wraps, softcover; 192 pages; black and white illustrations; very good. ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Co. (1972). 2nd printing; oblong small 4to.; pictorial covered boards; hardcover; color illustrations by Barbara Ninde Byfield; the story of an unusual friendship between a cable car and a dragon and old San Francisco; corners of boards are slightly bumped and rubbed else very good in a slightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear at edge. ... more information

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Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press (1970). 4to., grey cloth; 51 woodcuts by the author; the b& w woodcuts of Long Island locations are displayed on a dark green background and accompanied by explanatory text on the opposite page; white paint spot on lower front cover else very good in very good dustjacket. ... more information

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La Jolla, The Green Tiger Press, 1986. 4t., cloth covered boards, hardcover, 128 pages; color and black & white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a similar very good dustjacket with slight edgewear ... more information

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NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First American Edition; small 8vo; blue embossed cloth covered boards with gilt spine decoration; 187 pages; basis for 1927 film "Barbed Wire"; lightly edgeworn covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a decorative sunned and edge chipped dust jacket. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2nd printing; 12 mo , 174 pages, cloth covered boards, small hardcover; black & white decorations by M.N. Bodecker; very good in very good dust jacket. ... more information

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NY: Harper & Row (1973). 8vo oblong pictorial boards; the story of a young African American girl, who is adopted; very good in lightly soiled dust jacket. ... more information

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New York; The Macmillan Company; 1938. First Printing; 8 vo; blue colth backed boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 311 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations;lightly edgeworn covers and bumped corners else a very good clean tight copy in chipped and sunned dust jacket ... more information

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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1888.. Oblong 4to. slightly rubbed pictorial boards, color illustrations, some foxing to preliminary pages else very good with no dust jacket. ... more information

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NY: Viking (1986). 1st edition; 8vo.; vii, 373pages; cloth backed boards; b&w photographic illustrations; from the dust jacket 'A Fascinating Voyage that Explores the History, the Political Intrigue, the Scientific and Nautical Lore of the World's most Celebrated Waters;' review slip laid in; very good in very good dust jacket. ... more information

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Evansville, Indiana (1975). 4to., black cloth covered boards, hardcover; facsimile edition of the Atlas Publishing Company of 1898; black cloth boards are slightly bowed; previous owner name on front free endpaper and couple of penned notations in the text portion. ... more information

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California: UCLA Library,1959. 8vo.; pictorial paper wraps; softcover; b/w illustrations; Foreword by Wilbur J. Smith; very good. ... more information

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NY: Oxford University Press (1966). Small 8vo; pictorial wraps; softcover; 351 pages; black and white illustrations; lightly soiled sunned, and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy with no other apparent flaws. ... more information

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Newport Beach: Bond/Parkhurst Books (1974).. 1st edition. 8vo., green cloth with some edge fading else very good in very good dust jacket. ... more information

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Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1947.. Oblong 8vo., boards, 46 illustrations for the famous Dickens novel augemented by interpretative short passages taken from the original text. ... more information

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NY: Arrowhead Books (l955).. 12mo., pictorial boards, small hardcover; 32 pages; black and white illustrations; non authorial inscription on half title page else a very good clean tight copy in a very good dustjacket of similar quality ... more information

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