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New York and Cleveland: Random House., 1989. 8vo. 66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Very shallow bump to upper corner. Winner of 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.. ISBN: 0394535369. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. poetry, non-fiction, Walt Whitman Award, first edition, modern First, April Bernard, Blackbird Bye Bye, Blackbird Bye-bye. ... more information

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Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 529 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and pristine. A haunted love story. ISBN 0684853507. #1744.. ISBN: 0684853507. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Stephen King, Bag of Bones, FICTION, Novel, Haunted, Love Story, HORROR MAINE NOONAN MIKE. ... more information

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1947. viii.120pgs. Very Good yellow cloth hardcover. Very minimal shelf wear, clean and unmarked with the exception of an inscription on front blank William T. Rothwell London 1956". Illustrated endpapers.With 158 Illustrations from prints, drawings and black and white photographs. Contents: I. The Birth and Progress of Ballet. II. The Romantic Movement. III. Ballet in Russia and Russian Ballet. IV. The Birth of Ballet in England and America. V. Voyage into Space. VI. Ballet Since 19... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1999. 8vo. 292 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Set in Hollywood, with film-maker Chili Palmer. ISBN 0385333919. #2181.. ISBN: 0385333919. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Elmore Leonard, be Cool, Cuba Libre, Get Shorty, First Edition, First Printing, Modern First, FICTION LOS ANGELES CALIF SUSPENSE MYSTERY PALMER. ... more information

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San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Interstellar Publishing Company, 1995. 8vo. 52 pages. As New spiral-bound softcover, illustrated throughout with photos and detailed drawings. Contents: types of beads, bugle beads, seedbeads, stringing media, needles, cements, fringing styles, full color photos, types of frames, measuring your lampshade, lampshades: cemented shades, tigertail lampshade, freeform woven, woven mesh, sewing maching lampshade, comanche stitch lampshade, peyote stitch cutout, crystal & wire, African woven... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001. 4to. 128 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket. Richly illustrated with color photographs and detailed drawings, this compendium of beadwork projects combines features of traditional techniques with recent applications to craft a variety of objects, including: vases, vials, bracelets, snowflakes, fruit, treasure chests, lily of the valley, pins, ornament, pincushion, pillows, centerpieces, keepsake keepers, ribbon wreaths, decorative ... more information

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Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1892. Non-paginated. Very Good + condition brown/taupe cloth hardcover, large folio. Light wear to cloth at edges and corners, all edges gilt, gilt lettering to front and spine, illustrated front board. Binding sound. Illustrated with ten richly colored and artfully rendered full page chromolithographs from the original water-colors of Isaac Sprague. Tissues intact on all plates, with scattered foxing to the tissue, some of which is lightly shadowed on the plates and opposite blan... more information

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Stockholm: Atlantis, 1991. 8vo. 141 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Text is in Swedish. Illustrated throughout with drawings, paintings, portaiture and photos. Sections: Forord, Broderna Bergius och det bergianska arvet (Bengt Jonsell), Olof Swartz (Bertil Nordenstam), Johan Emanuel Wikstrom (Gunnar Broberg), Veit Brecher Wittrock (Bengt Jonsell, Bergianska siftelsen under vart sekel (Bengt Jonsell, Bergianska stitelsen (P.J. Bergius), Personregister, Forfattarpresentatione... more information

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New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1932. 232pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, beige leatherette spine with blue cloth textured and decorated boards. Rubbing to cloth along edges and upper spine end, some fading to decorated illustration on front board, internally clean, binding tight and sound. Frontis illustration of an early Gilbert & Sullivan program, the first production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Standard Theatre. Illustrated throughout text with drawings by W.S. Gilbert. Contains the four plays... more information

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New York and Cleveland: Random House (The Modern Library), 1957. 12 mo. 489 pgs. Very Good in Good jacket. Maroon cloth with light corner and edge wear. Kent endpapers. Owner bookplate of a cat on a stack of books on front fixed endpaper, short inscription opposite half-title page, else clean and unmarked throughout text. Dust jacket #14 (1954/59), small chips at corners, one 3/4 and one 1/2 inch partially closed tears to top edges of front panel, in protective cover. Seventeen Memorable Tales Complete an... more information

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New York: Barnes & Noble, NY. 1998. First printing., 1998. 8vo. 301 pgs. Fine condition. Softbound, paperback. Cover art by Larry Decker, design by Lynn J. Binder. An eclectic collection of verse, short stories, writings and drawings created by booksellers, submitted to First Book. ISBN 076070936X. #654.. ISBN: 076070936X. First Edition. Softbound Pb. Fine. Illus. by Larry Decker. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Booksellers, First Book, Stuart Miller, Reminiscences, Book Dealer, Memoirs, non-fiction, poetry, ess... more information

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Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.: Martino Publishing, 2000. 8vo. viii. 560 pgs. As New condition hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. This is a facsimile of the 1958 edition published by the University of Chicago Press. Bibliographical entries are arranged within categories of specific diseases, with an abstract of the contents for each cited publication. These communicable diseases are covered: Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Bacillary Dysentery, Plague, Brucella Infection, Pneumococcal... more information

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Mansfield Ctr., CT, U.S.A.: Martino Publishing, 2000. 8vo. viii. 289 pgs. Fine condition cloth hardcover. No jacket as issued from publisher. Facsimile edition of the original 1891 printing published by Bernard Quaritch, including black and white illustrations, portraits, paintings and engravings. A collection of books about falconry. Contents: Introduction. Catalogue of Books [descriptions are in English]: English, Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian, Swedish, French, Provencal, Catalan, Spanish, Portugese... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2003. 8vo. 390 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, no chips, no tears, clean and unmarked. Alex Cross is back, with his first case as an FBI agent, investigating a rash of kidnappings and disappearances. Victims are being bought and sold, with evidence pointing to "The Wolf", a shadowy and much-feared enigma with possible ties to the Russian mob. ISBN 0316602906. #1666.. ISBN: 0316602906. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8... more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., NY. , 1993. 8vo. 117 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Gray boards, white cloth spine with black lettering. Previously unpublished, uncensored poems. Edited and with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick. Jacket photos from the Sandburg Collection. ISBN 0151621306. #146. ISBN: 0151621306. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition, poetry, modern firsts, Verse, Carl Sandburg, Billy Sunday. ... more information

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1947. 32pgs. Very Good hardcover with illustrated boards, no jacket. Light wear and rubbing at edges and corners. Owner name on front endpaper. A little bird, returning from Brazil during spring migration, takes a detour into an open attic window and begins a series of adventures with the family within. By the author of "The Poky Little Puppy". Illustrated by the Guatemalan-born Mexican artist Carlos Merida, who is renouned for his geometric abstract painting, graphi... more information

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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1900. 12mo. xiv. 218 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board, decorated on front board with a black and silver illustration of a row of baby chickadees perched atop a branch. Light rubbing to cloth at spine edges, else very little shelfwear, clean, sound, unmarked. With over one hundred photographs from nature by the author, a noted ornithologist and naturalist. #1109.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Frank M. Chapman. 12mo -... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Turnbull and Spears, London), 1920. 306 pgs. Good to Very Good condition green cloth hardcover, remant of paper title piece on spine, with rubbing to cloth at edges, corners and spine ends. Side and bottom page edges are untrimmed, attractive frontis color plate by CEC tipped in, text clean and sound throughout. William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions, is a famed British naturalist, ornithologist and South American explorer. In this series of essays, he relates his persona... more information

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London: Chancellor Press, 1997. Sm. 4to. 256 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, clean and unmarked. Matching dustjacket is very good with two small closed tears along top edge, one triangular 1/4 inch chip near bottom right corner of front panel, in new archival cover. Contents: Classification and distribution, habitats and their inhabitants, anatomy, structure and way of life, hunting and feeding methods, migration and nomadism, breeding biology, the ecology of predation, conse... more information

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Boston New York: Ticknor & Company, 1887. Large 8vo. xvi. 920 pgs. Very Good. Three quarter bound in red leather, with brown leatherette boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorated front board. Handsome copy with marbled text block. Wear to leather at corners and slight rubbing at spine ends. Leatherette of back board has two small surface chips. Interior is Very Good+, clean pages, strong spine. Lengthy but descriptive subtitle: A Popular Scientific Description of the Great Natural Divisions of the ... more information

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