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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930 Map endpapers. Color frontispiece drawing and many black-and-white text drawings. With chapters that "skim lightly,"as the author puts it, on the subjects of navigators, privateers, Polynesia, "the literary Pacific," shipwrecks, and much more. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Spine sunned. Library marks: spine numbers; bookplate affixed to verso of front endpaper; "withdrawn" inkstamp to verso of frontis and rear endpapers bef... more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Color pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrated throughout. INSCRIBED by the author to prior owner on title page. Intended for young readers, a story of a cat in Renaissance Italy.. ISBN: 0399224149. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Illus. by The Author. ... more information

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Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company , 1925. Very Good-/No Jacket. Pictorial cloth. Horse story for young readers, set in Kentucky. Probable first edition. Single black-and-white illustration (frontispiece). Light rubbing to cover extremities, except for 1/2 scrape/fray/bump to lower rear cover corner. Prior owner name inside front cover. Interior otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL. ... more information

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New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, Inc., 1967 Cloth. Map endpapers. Black-and-white photograph text plates. Clean and tight in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with light age-browning to margins and a few small spots.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. ... more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Very Good+/No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gray cloth with maroon pictorial. Prior owner address sticker lower front endpaper. Clean and tight with only very faint rubbing to cover extremities.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955 "A chronicle of a happy family life lit by love and a limitless trust in God." SIGNED by the author on blank free front endpaper. Moderate rubbing and some age-browning along cover edges, with most wear along lower edges. Interior clean and tight. Dust jacket intact and bright, but moderately edgeworn and with 2" piece missing at upper spine; irregular closed tears to lower spine and at upper rear panel 1" into author's portrait; light soi... more information

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Peoria, Illinois: Chas. A. Bennet Co., Inc. , 1957. Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Staple-bound; 101 pages. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and diagrams of hand-crafted stand-up paper decorations and figures. Cover moderately rubbed and lightly edgeworn; prior owner name in ink on cover and inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941 With a Foreword by W.C. Heinz. Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs. Spine and top inch of cover margin somewhat darkened. Spine edges worn and starting to split at top; corners moderately worn. Lower margins of pp. 41-96 (end) lightly crinkled as though once damp; interior otherwise clean and tight.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Good -/No Jacket. ... more information

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New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket Pictorial dark green cloth; gilt decoration and title/spine lettering; top edge gilt. A gathering of literary commentary pieces in the author's tenth year of service as editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." Cover extremities moderately rubbed. Intermittent light-to-moderate foxing to interior; lower corners of pp. 253-256 missing (careless page separation). Otherwise clean and tight. . ... more information

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1906. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Blue cloth; gilt title and spine; top edge gilt. Second impression. With frontis portrait of author, several portraits of outstanding persons of the period, and fascimile letters. Scholarly commentary on the period by the Professor. Moderate rubbing of cover extremities; two spine label scars; small dime-size stain front cover. Internal library marks: bookplate inside front cover; blacked-out inkstamps to front and r... more information

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Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982 Very Good. Part of the Poets on Poetry Series edited by Donald Hall. Bottom front corner lightly bumped; spine slightly sunned; very light cover edgewear. Clean and tight.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Institute of Arts . 1988. Soft Cover. 0895581507 Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 11, 1998-February 14,1999. Color photograph reproductions throughout. Light rubbing to glossy rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn. . ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/ U.S. Department of Energy , 1981. Very Good+. Oblong format; 284 pages. With detailed diagrams, descriptions, and plans. Introduction by Martin McPhillips.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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New York: Samuel French, Inc.. Original Wraps. Good-. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Staple-bound; 24 pages. Script of short play. No date; circa 1930. Originally published in "Six Plays" by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Prior owner name in pencil upper front cover, and few pencil notations within; very light cover wear, soil. Irregular 1" closed tear to fore margin p.13/14.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898 Good/No Jacket. Political commentary: " . . .[M]y aim was simply to remind the reader of some facts which nobody has denied, but which in my opinion have been too much forgotten, and which were the direct result of the French and German doctrine." Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; spine and outer margins of cover cloth darkened, apparently by soot, but gilt spine lettering is crisp; some irregular moderate whitestains to front cover cl... more information

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Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers, 1988 Cloth, in cardboard slipcase. Translated by Gong Lizeng. Illustrated throughout with beautiful, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs. Principal photographers: Yan Zhongyi, Hu Chui, Sun Kernag, Wang Yugui, Xue Yuyao, and Luo Zhongmin. Faint sunning to outer margins of slipcase; book like new.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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New York: Avon Books, 1969 Science fiction. "Falk met his destiny in the flooded caverns of a runied city in a dying world." Avon S380. Light-to-moderate rubbing and scuffing to cover. Binding a bit tender but intact. Clean inside and out.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. ... more information

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Philadelphia: P.Blakiston's Son & Co. , 1914 Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. "Based Upon Williams Bacteriology." With 213 illustrations, all black-and-white illustrations except for one red-tinted. Fold-out descriptive chart on methods of identification, endorsed by Society of American Bacteriologists. Cover extremities moderately rubbed; spine lettering lightly rubbed; lower cover corners bumped. Lower corners of pp. 355-377 creased close to edge (?bump). Otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1937 Good/No Jacket. Part VI of Our Animal Books, a Series in Humane Education, edited by Frances E. Clarke. Illustrated. Former school book with reinforced binding, pictorial cover, and pictorial endpapers. Cover extremities heavily worn, and 1/2" horizontal tear halfway down spine/gutter; tiny chip out of cloth at front fore edge. Few moderate stains to cover cloth. Interior clean and tight except for small school inkstamp on blank front endpaper.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: The Century Company, 1928. Good+/No Jacket Stories set in Colonial New England. Intended for young readers, these stories appeared previously in magazines. With black-and-white drawings. Some light-to-moderate irregular staining and wear to cover cloth. Page block edges discolored. Faint remnants of pencil erasure to front endpaper; interior otherwise clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. W.M. BERGER. ... more information

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