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Description: Traces the history of wind power throughout the world and discusses recent research and developments.

Publisher Information: Copyright date - 1976, Four Winds Press, New York, # Pages - 114, hardcover, with dust jacket. Includes illustrations, index, bibliography, appendix.

Overall Condition: Good: structurally intact, slight yellowing to pages, light soil and overall wear, library system withdrawn with typical markings and pocket, cello cover over dust jacket has kept book in better overall condition, some discoloration on dustjacket

Harcourt, Inc., 2002. SIGNED by Kathryn Reiss on the title page.. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Middletown, WI: Pleasant Company, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melodye Rosales. Very Good. No DJ Issued An American Classic. The Addy series. This is Book One. 69 pages, featuring photos and illustrations. A Black girl travels with her mother to begin a new life away from slavery.

Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA: David R Godine Pub, 2006. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Armstrong Sperry. Trade Paperback Ex-Lib Book in Good Condition. Illustrated with Sperry's vigorous drawings. Introduction by William McFee. The gripping and authentic yarn of a race 'round the Horn on-board the greatest clipper ever built. Juvenile Fiction. Heavy white and blue card cover clean and unmarked with trace wear to corners. Minimal Lib marks: spine tag, light stamp to page edges and to first page. Reinforced binding make this a sturdy book. Internals very clean and free from any markings, no creasing. 175 pages with Nautical Glossary. 5.8 x 9 inches. David R. Godine, Publishing, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 2006.

40 pages with beautiful full color illustrations. Book is in Near New unread condition. Title page has a I can Read and star reader sticker very neatly placed but no writing. Dustjacket is Near New.

Holiday House. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0823408930 . First Edition hardcover. Illustrated by Samuel Byrd. Pages are not numbered. Previous owner's name in black marker on back top of front cover. Dust jacket is in Fine condition and book is in Near Fine condition. ; 10 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. .

Charles Aycock Poe, 1987. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dustjacket and cover have some wear. One page has a very small crease in lower right corner. A page number is written in ink in lower left of front endpaper. Signed and inscribed by Charles A. Poe to former book owner on front endpaper.

Conway, MA: Robert L. Merriam, 1975. Shannon, Elizabeth C.. 24pp. One of 1000 copies. Every other page illustrated with quaint scenes from the moral tale. Bound in pale paper wrappers and housed in yellow paper slipcase. Fine. (2 7/16 by 1 11/16; 62x44mm).

London: Collins, 1972. Collins ''Autograph'' edition reprint from 1972. Minor creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, the white back panel is a bit grubby. Minor bumping to spine ends of red boards, some foxing to outer edges of pages, otherwise a good tight copy. Originally published in 1948, this is an adventure story set in the 1820s dealing with a boy who finds himself sailing on a slave ship. The author was probably best-known for his novel ''London Belongs to Me''. 254pp, some b&w drawings.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pakistan: Karachi Zarthosti Banu Mandal, 2000. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - Discovering Ashavan by Farishta Murzban Dinshaw is a Karachi Zarthosti Banu Mandal softcover First Edition/First Printing (Even though a book may state First Edition, it may not be a true First Printing. This copy is guaranteed to be a true First Edition and First Printing). The book was published in 2000. Both the book and the covers are in good condition with only some creasing. This copy would make a wonderful addition to any collection or library. "Ashavan, an orphaned stable boy disparaged by his peers because of his deformed leg, gets into a midnight brawl to save a dying dog. This impulsive act snowballs into an alarming chain of events as he fights to clear his name of charges of sorcery cast upon him by a vindictive man and a fearful community. As the story unfolds, we see how Zarathushtra, a boy who befriends him, gives him the courage to resolve the fears within himself and take a stand for what he believes. The… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1972. Klopp, Karyl. Broadside. About 300 copies. A striking presentation of this fanciful poem, silkscreened in turquoise, purple and orange by Karyl Klopp. Very fine. (Measures 25 inches wide by 19 inches tall).

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 0805019642; INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear at spine extremes; otherwise absolute minimal shelfwear; "In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the other emigrate to America. " Based on a true story from the author's family.

Two modern posters, with alphabet themes, containing: "Jerry Pallotta's Alphabet Books." Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, (early 1990s). An advertising poster for artist Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books, measuring 24 1/2 by 19 1/4 inches (622x489mm) and showing the full cover for "The Extinct Alphabet Book," published in 1993. A list of other titles is below. Illustrated by Ralph Masiello. Minor edgewear, and one corner creased, not affecting main image. Together with: "Butterfly Alphabet." Fairfax, VA, Sandved & Coleman Photography, (n.d.). An alphabetic poster measuring 24 by 18 inches (609x457mm) depicting photographs of each letter of the alphabet and the numerals 0-9 found naturally on the wings of butterflies. This project by Norwegian naturalist Kjell Bloch Sandved took over 24 years to complete. Title and signature printed in gold at the bottom. Very fine.

Cumberland, MD: Hobby House Press, 1986. Oblong quarto. 236pp. This is an out-of-print, invaluable reference for any collector of children's material. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white photographs, Whitton's informative text is both thorough and accurate, with a superb index. Although primarily a reference for paper toys and games, this book is often a source for information on book publishers and printers not found in the standard children's book reference library. Extremely fine and long out of print.

Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1966. Konewka, Paul. xvii, 42pp. One of 375 copies. Various texts by Shakespeare with twelve silhouettes by Paul Konewka. Fine in burgundy cloth over boards, faintly rubbed. (2 5/16 by 1 15/16; 60x50mm).

Banbury: J. G. Rusher, 1814. 64mo. 16pp. Illustrated with engravings throughout, which follow Whittington's rise from poverty to mayoralty, with the help, and occasional troublemaking, of his cat. Bound in paper wrappers, somewhat toned and with a tear along the tail of the spine. Near Fine.

New Haven: Babcock, Sidney, 1845. 16mo. 16pp. Illustrated with title-page vignette of the Crucifixion and seven wood engravings. A collection of seven stories from the Old and New Testaments, retold for children: Moses Viewing Canaan; Samson Carrying Away the Gates of Gaza; David and Goliath; John Baptizing Christ; Water Changed to Wine; Christ Blessing Children; and Conversion of Saint Paul. Each story contains one preliminary illustration. Very faint foxing in spots, else near fine. (Gagliardi 1213).

N.p., 1920. Octavo. (1)ff. Leaf excised from an unknown book, inscribed to Richard Vernon Johnson from his sister Marian. The leaf is also signed by the editors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, her sister. Kate Douglas Wiggin is best known for writing Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, but she and her sister were also educators and edited a series of children's literature collections. It is likely that this leaf was taken from one of those collections. (7 1/2 by 4 7/8 inches; 190x125mm).

Berlin: Alfred Holz, 1953. Tscharuschin, Jewgenij. Oblong folio. 16pp. First German edition, translated from the Russian by Katharina Holz. Hand-lithographed after the author/artist Jewgenij Tscharuschin's illustrations from the original Soviet edition. Contains six full-page color plates and several smaller pictures of baby wolves, wildcats, bears, and other forest creatures. Playful illustrations by an artist about whom there seems to be little known. Light soiling and rubbing to pictorial boards, front hinge cracked, else very good.

NY: Windmill Books, 1970. Rockwell, Norman. Quarto. (23)ff. Comforting tales of middle America, illustrated by one of the nation's most beloved artists. Near fine in full green cloth and dust wrapper.