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New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, [1963]. 8vo. x, 390 pp. Gray cloth, blk spine, white lettrng, NF. First edition. ... more information

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[Portland, OR}:: Oregon Historical Society Press,, [1987]. 4to. xiv, 151, [1] pp. Numerous photos. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF, inscribed by author on title. First edition, signed, of this informative work examining the history of the largest public housing project in the United States built for workers in Kaiser shipyards during World War II, and wiped out by flood in 1948. ... more information

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[Kenosha, WI:: John Martin's House, Inc.,, 1945]. 4to. [28 pp]. Colour-illust. throughout. Colour-illust. boards (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng), w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, chppng, vry mnr dustsoilng), VG/VG-. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson's best children's poems. ... more information

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New York:: Devin-Adair Co.,, 1954. 8vo. [8], 533, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numrous maps. Black cloth, red lettrng, w/ d.j. (chppng hd of spine, edgewear, creasng), NF/VG-, signed by author on ffep. First edition, 3rd printing, signed, of this analysis of MacArthur, by a journalist who spent time with the general before and after World War II. ... more information

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Boston:: Little, Brown & Co.,, [1978]. Thick 8vo. xvii, [1], 793, [1] pp. Numerous photo illust. & maps. Black cloth, w/ d.j. (edgewear, creasng), VG/VG-. Early printing. ... more information

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, [1988]. 4to. 384 pp. 100s of colour illusts. & diagrams. Colour-illust. boards, w/ d.j., NF/NF, inscribed by MaCaulay on the half-title, and then signed again on the verso of the title. First edition, early printing, signed twice, of this visual guide to the world of machines, from levers to lasers, cars to computers. ... more information

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, [c. 1975]. 4to. 80 pp. Illusts. & diagrams throughout.White cloth, gilt lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. NF/NF, inscribed by the author on half-title. First edition, early printing, signed, of this excellent illustrated work on the building of an Egyptian pyramid, by the Caldecott award-winning author/artist. ... more information

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, [c. 1974]. 4to. 112 pp. Illusts. & diagrams throughout. Purple cloth, gilt lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. NF/NF, inscribed by the author on half-title. First edition, early printing, signed, of this excellent illustrated work on the building of a Roman City. ... more information

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New York:: Random House,, [1952]. 8vo. [4], 282 pp. Half-khaki-coloured cloth over blue boards, blk, blue & red lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by Martin Glanzman (slgt scuffng, shlfwr), VG/VG. First edition. ... more information

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[Portland, OR:: Barbara Amell,, 1998-1999]. Three vols. 8vo. 52; 52; 52 pp. Numerous illusts., some plates. Printed softcvrs (sml tear to frnt cvr, No. 27), still a nice set. Three issues of this wonderful quarterly magazine devoted to the works, sermons, writings, and commentaries on the famed Scottish Author. ... more information

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London:: Strahan & Co., Inc.,, [1867]. Two vols. 8vo. viii, 476; [4], 478, iv pp. Frntsps. to both vols., numerous illusts., text illusts. & text woodcut engravngs. Uniformly bound in original brick-red publisher's cloth over bevld boards, elaborate Roman motif scrollwork around fore-edges, gilt lettrng & decrtn cvrs & spine, t.e.g. (somewhat worn), still a good set. First edition, and the exceedingly scarce first appearance of MacDonald's study of Calvinism, and of the growth and m... more information

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Carmel & New York:: Guideposts,, [1986]. 8vo. 251, [1] pp. Tan boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr), NF/NF. First Guideposts edition of this sequel to Paul Faber and Thomas Wingfold. This is one of the few novels that has a bookbinder as the central character. Richard Letrange, the unacknowledged son of a Baronet, unknowingly is raised by his uncle the bookbinder, to be a binder himself, and only years later discovers his true parentage. Of particular interest are the socialist overtones, and th... more information

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Carmel & New York:: Guideposts,, [1984]. 8vo. 238, [2] pp. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr), NF/NF. First Guideposts edition of this first of MacDonalds Aberdeenshire stories, originally in broad Saxon dialect of a Scottish peasant and his daughter, and her relationship with Hugh Sutherland. ... more information

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Grand Rapids, MI:: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,, [1994]. 8vo. xix, [1], 395, [1] pp. Numerous illusts., genealogical tables. Tan boards, green lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this work drawing on more than 3000 MacDonald letters to friends and family members, many previously unpublished. ... more information

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London:: Hurst & Blackett,, [ca 1890]. 8vo. [10], 412 pp., plus 20 pp. publ. ads. Steel-engraved frntsp. Black cloth, gilt lettrng & rulng (vry mnr shlfwr, rubbng), VG. Later printing of the first of MacDonalds Aberdeenshire stories, largely in broad Saxon dialect of a Scottish peasant and his daughter, which begat the Kailyard novelists such as Barrie, Crockett, etc. ... more information

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New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, [ca. 1940]. 8vo. 352 pp. Colour frntsp by M.L. Kirk, text illust., illust. endpapers. Blue illust. cloth, w/ d.j. cvr illust. by M.L. Kirk (slght chppng hd & ft of spine, edgewear), NF/VG-, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on 2nd flyleaf. Early Grosset edition of this wonderful fairy tale classic. ... more information

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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1985. 8vo. [4], 231, [1] pp. Half-red cloth over white boards, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on verso of ffep, VG/NF. First edition, stated of this last novel in the Travis McGee series. ... more information

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[Los Angeles:: Times Mirror Press,, 1973]. Folio. 253, [1] pp. Frntsp., 100s of photo illusts. Green cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (edgewear, mnr rubbng), VG/VG-, w/ colour photo laid-in. First edition of this biography of one of Hollywood's most beloved personalities, who gained fame in the 1930s as the First Lady of Song. ... more information

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Boston:: Hill & Co.,, [1987]. 8vo. vii, [3], 231, [1] pp. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. Reprint edition of this famed noir mystery, first published in 1947 under the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar. ... more information

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Garden City, NY:: Sun Dial Press,, [c. 1943]. 12mo. vi, [2], 276 pp. Red cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art of silhouette shadow on adobe wall, NF/NF. First Sun Dial edition of this western about a Desperado with a price on his head. ... more information

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