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New York: Mystery House, 1957 Yellow cloth. Front dust jacket flap clipped and pasted to free front endpaper. Scarce. Prolific writer Vance, best known for his science fiction works, used the pseudonym Alan Wade when this unusual novel was published. Vance originally called the novel "Bird Island" when he worked on it in 1947; Mystery House bought it for $100 in 1957. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Few minor tiny specks to cover cloth. Unfortunate obvious sticker stain shadows, 1" ... more information

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New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1980. Very Good. The health benefits of lecithin, and a recipe section.. ISBN: 0879832266. Mass Market Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear to cover extremities; interior clean and tight. Dust jacket (white) shows light discoloration and is lightly edgeworn, including single 1/2" closed tear lower rear panel.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Regnery Gateway Inc. , 1988 Describes "the terror, corruption and absurdity" of Maurice Bishop's regime.. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ... more information

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Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., Philadelphia , 1892 Ex-Library. Translated from the German of Wahnschaffe with additions by Brannt. Original copyright 1891. Illustrated by twenty-five engravings. Thirty-two page "Catalogue of Practical and Scientific Books published by Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers" in rear. Brown cloth; gilt spine. Minimal library marks as follows: old sticker at base of spine; attractive bookplate inside front cover; re... more information

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Cotuit, Massachusetts: The Picture Book Press. Good+. Staple-bound; square-format; unpaginated. No date; circa 1960. Black-and-white scenic photographs of Maine landscapes and historical features. Light wear to cover.. Soft Cover. THE AUTHOR. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Robert B. Luce, Inc. , 1971 ". . .[E]xamines the motives, professed and personal, which impelled 20 heads of state to thrust their nations into the wars of the twentieth century." Tiny address sticker scar/remnants inside front cover; bottom page block lightly stained. Intact (white) dust jacket shows light-to-moderate smudging; general light-to-moderate edgewear.. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good. ... more information

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Surrey, England: Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd., Surrey, England, 1981, 1981 Very Good+/Very Good+. Second edition. With 111 coloured plates and 8 text-figures. Light rubbing to lower cover extremities. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1978. Memoir of the author's experiences of 42 years at Sea Cairn, a remote point on Narraguagus Bay in downeast Maine, from the 1930s through the '70s. Illustrated with a few simple line drawings and maps. Library marks: bookplate front endpaper; pocket-removal remnants to rear endpaper; inkstamps to title page and lower page block; spine sticker to dust jacket. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Dust jacket very lightly edgeworn; spine somewhat sunned. Clean and tight... more information

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Clinton, Maine: Self-published, 1966. Good+. Ex-Library First Edition. Staple-bound card covers; 105 pages. A record of the author's experiences in remote sections of Baxter State Park and surrounding territory in Maine, with historical references to lumbering and exploration in the region. With black-and-white drawings, including rough frontispiece map. INSCRIBED by the author on verso of front endpaper. Library marks: clear-tape covered spine sticker; embossed seal and inkwritten name of library on front ... more information

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New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1977 Very Good. Volume 4 of Keats Living With Herbs Series. With four pages of color and many black-and-white drawings by Linda Diggins.. Mass Market Paperback. ... more information

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Chicago: Frank R. Walker Company Publishers , 1954. Flexible Vinyl. Very Good-/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Twelfth edition. With many illustrations and diagrams. For "contractors and estimators engaged in estimating the cost of and constructing all classes of modern buildings." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Moderate cover wear and discoloration; prior owner name inkstamp on front endpaper and to all page blocks.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916 Dark blue cloth; gilt spine. Reprint; original copyright 1894. Volume III in The American Church History Series by this publisher, consisting of a series of denominational histories published under the auspices of the American Society of Church History, General Editors Rev. Philip Schaff, Bishop John F. Hurst et al. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities, with lower corner tips frayed and worn through to boards. Attractive prior owner inscripted card af... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. With color frontispiece painting and black-and-white text reproduction paintings depicting 114 Bible plants, with facing pages of facts and lore. Moderate rubbing to lower cover edges and upper extremities. Dust jacket intact and bright but with irregular triangular chip (2") where upper spine meets front panel; jacket otherwise lightly-to-moderately edgeworn. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good-. Illus. by The Author. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957 Paper-covered boards; cloth spine. Early reprint. With color frontispiece; full-page black-and-white offset reproductions of the author's original paintings accompany each plant that is discussed. Each page facing an illustration contains a full description of the plant depicted, its growing habits in the Holy Land and its uses. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities, especially along lower edges of boards. Clean and tight in a moderately edgeworn and torn dust j... more information

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Somerville, Massachusetts: Self-published, 1905 Green cloth; gilt spine lettering. With frontispiece photograph portrait of the author and more than fifty text plates, the majority of wood panels tinted in various tones to enhance and emphasize the grain of the wood. Some text plates are half-tone. "The chief object . . .of this book is to provide instruction for those of our trade. . . who desire to become proficient in graining." Because "[a] series of articles by the writer entitled &q... more information

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Garden City, New York: The Crime Club, Inc./Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1930 Very Good/No Jacket. Early reprint. Light rubbing to cover extremities; faint soil to black cover cloth. Prior owner attractive bookplate affixed to inside front cover; another prior owner signature half title page. Otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: George D. Hurst Publisher , 1888. Very Good-/No Jacket. Early reprint. Fact-based, romantic account of travel in Egypt and its ancient history, with fictional interludes, by the wife of Indiana author Lew Wallace ("Ben Hur.") Blindstamped green cloth binding, gilt title and spine. Part of The Ambrosial Library for Everyday Reading. With two black-and-white illustrations. Moderate scuffing and few light stains to cover cloth. Otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1980 Very Good. Light cover wear, including light rear cover corner crease; spine sunned. Clean and tight.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1972 Good+/No Jacket Number 128 of Twayne's English Authors Series. Library marks as follows: spine tape residue to lower spine, cover; library bookplate inside front cover; inkstamps to inside front cover, title and copyright pages; remnants/scars from removal of small sticker and "date due" slip rear endpaper. Small irregular scrape/repaired tear to bottom inside rear cover near spine. Otherwise clean and tight.. Ex-Library First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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