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New Haven. Connecticut: Autotelic Instructional Materials Publishers, 1966. Complete game, instruction book, hourglass timer, three playing mats, and lettered dice in original vinyl case with foam dice holder. This is the 1966 edition of the 1962 (second published) version of the game. A fun way to learn about propositonal calculus. Some age-browning to book cover. Age-related deterioration and some loss along edges of foam storage mat. Clean and apparently unused.. Original Wraps. Very Good/ . ... more information

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Rockland, Maine: The Courier-Gazette, 1973 Cloth. Compilation of articles which Tyler wrote as a nature columnist for "The Courier-Gazette" newspaper in the 1960s. With many black-and-white photographs. Line drawn endpaper maps depicting the author's local stomping grounds, the Weskeag River/Marsh area of the Thomaston/Rockland area of mid-coast Maine. light rubbing to cover extremities. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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South Africa: Self-published, 1991. Second edition; first published 1989. Detailed map drawings and instructions for many walks/hikes; fold-out map of the whole area in rear.. ISBN: 0620155671. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. ... more information

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Seattle, Washington: Madrona Publishers , 1986 Good+/Very Good An "intimate and moving account of a . . .personal journey along the shoreline. . .near Seattle, to Bellingham, 150 miles north. . ." Frontis map. Light wear to cover extremities; light tape stains to boards and endpapers. Library marks: inkstamps to title page, page fore edges, and upper/lower page blocks; pocket-removal remnant rear endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight.. Ex-Library First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Passaic, New Jersey: Creative Homeowner Press. 1981. Soft Cover. 0932944361 Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. With black-and-white photographs and drawings. . ... more information

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IFCN Good. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Light cover wear, rubbing; faint shelf dust to lower page block. Title/copyright pages never printed (manufacturing defect--several blank front pages), but text complete.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Sheldon and Company , 1868. Fair+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blindstamped brown cloth; gilt spine decoration/lettering (mostly rubbed away). Copyright 1865. Sixth and last in a series penned by a Baptist minister. "Moral teaching has been blended with geography and history, and the aim has been to impart a knowledge of the customs and manners of Eastern people living in Oriental lands." Illustrated with engravings by M.T. Boyd. Heavy wear and tatterin... 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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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1942 Blue cloth; red and yellow pictorial cover; fabric reinforced hinges (library binding). Part of The way of Life Series edited by Eric Bender. Appears to be intended for young adult readers. Black-and-white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945 "An authoritative survey of wartime rackets and frauds perpetrated on service men and civilians--from cheating in war contracts to payroll padding, black market, and allotment swindles--with many dramatic cases and a section on agencies engaged in smashing war rackets." Moderate wear to dust jacket extremities. Clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Capitol Souvenir Company, Inc. , 1949 Very Good+. Small 8vo. Staple-bound pictorial wraps; 96 pages. Text states 7th Edition; copyright 1949; inside cover states 6th Edition, copyright 1948. Cover states "100 Illustrations," but title-page says "ninety-six." Black-and-white mid-city map drawing and photographs.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Portraits of some of the women in the Washington, D.C. social scene--some less well-known than others--through the years. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Spine cloth slightly sunned. Clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Mankato, Minnesota: Creative Editions , 1993 Very Good+/No Jacket. Square-format, laminated pictorial boards. Intended for young readers. Lovely color illustrations.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Jefferson City: Missouri Department of Conservation , 1990 Very Good. Includes identification, unique features, values and uses, and non-chemical control. Bernadette Dryden, editor and designer. Illustrated with color photographs and black and white drawings by Rebecca Haefner.. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Soil Conservation Service/United States Department of Agriculture , 1989 Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publication SCS-TP-161. With color and black-and-white illustrations of aquatic organisms, including fold-out chart "Key to Major Inverterbrate Species of Stream Zones." Maps and diagrams.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce/National Bureau of Standards , 1979 Good+. Typewritten text with simple line drawings and diagrams. National Academy of Sciences symposium proceedings. "The meeting theme was directed at improving the description of plumbing research needs defined earlier by the Counterpart Commission, to place those needs in perspective [with] other building and utiltity research needs, and to suggest a general plan of action for research activity." NBS Special Publ... more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952 Paper-covered boards; cloth spine. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, including maps, and half-tone photographs. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Board margins lightly browned. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

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Syracuse, NewYork: The Institute for Family Research and Education , 1981 Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Inspirational poetry. SIGNED by the author on Dedication page. Designed by Michael McCurdy and printed in an edition of 1000 copies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, most by the author, and drawings by Howard Siskowitz, Peter Siegel, and Karen Bakke. Clean, tight, and unworn in a moderately worn dust jacket; 1/2" closed tear lower front panel.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1968 Good-/Very Good. Ex-Library. Third edition. Novel by Maine author, set in Maine. Moderate-to-heavy wear of cover extremities, including 1" split at front head of spine strip; spine somewhat cocked; small area of light staining at top front cover. Library marks limited to endpapers: inkstamps to front endpapers; 3" x 1" scars to inside front cover under dust jacket flap (dj previously attached); pocket-removal remnants/scar to rear endpaper. Irregular... more information

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New York: William Edwin Rudge , 1928. Good-/No Jacket Paper-covered boards. With an Introduction by William Elliot Griffis (written a few weeks before his death). Illustrated with half-tone reproductions. Romantic historical novel set in Japan, written by a Fryeburg, Maine author during the period of increased U.S. popular interest in the Far East. Neat handwrtten corrections to first page of Introduction and page 119 of text most likely made by author. Cover corners and spine edges moderately-to-heavily... more information

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