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The Art of Railroad Photography : Techniques for Taking Dynamic Trackside Pictures

By Benson, Gary J.

Kalmbach K Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0890241333 . 4to 11" - 13" tall; 146 pages .

Heartland (Railroading in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin)

By McDonnell, Greg

Ontario: Boston Mills Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 1550460641 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 176 pages .

The Collected Dialouges of Plato : Including the letters

By Hamilton, Edith

Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1989. Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0691097186 . Jacket has light edgewear.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1743 pages .

Horatio Alger : Or the American Hero Era

By Gardner, Ralph D.

New York: Arco Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. 0668044667 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 503 pages .

De Dion-Bouton : First Automobile Giant (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car / Marque Book no. 6)

By Bird, Anthony

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good-. 1971. First Printing. Paperback. Light rubbing to covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

Sergeant York: Last of the Long Hunters

By Skeyhill, Tom

Chicago IL: The John C. Winston Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Trace of wear at spine ends. Clean, unmarked, very nice copy. ; Sm 8vo; 240 pages .

The Spirit of Zen : A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East

By Watts, Alan

New York: Grove Press. Very Good. 1958. Softcover. 0802130569 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages .

Faith

By Penelhum, Terence

New York: Macmillan. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. 0023937211 . Owner name stamp on title page and page edges. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 248 pages .

Wendal, His Cat, and the Progress of Man

By Camudoni, V.

Longstreet Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 1563521288 . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 100 pages .

One Hundred Years of Law : An Account of the Law Office which John T. Stewart Founded in Springfield, Illinois, a Century Ago

By Angle, Paul M.

Springfield IL: Brown, Hay, and Stephens. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers soiled.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 53 pages .

Angry Arthur

By Oram, Hiawyn

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0152035478 . Owner name. Jacket has light edgewear, three small peeled spots (sticker removal?), and a lightly soiled back panel. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Law in Social Work Practice

By Saltzman, Andrea

Chicago IL: Nelson Hall. Fine. 1990. Sixth Printing. Paperback. 083041360X . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 455 pages .

Gus the Bus

By Cossi, Olga

New York: Scholastic. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0590416162 . Owner name.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Learning to Be a Sage : Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically

By Hsi, Chu / Gardner, Daniel

Berkeley CA: University of California Press. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0520065247 . Minor curling of cover corners. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 218 pages .

The Bible in 100 Numbers : A Numerical Guide to the Meaning and History of the Good Book

By Barnes, Trevor

New York: Quid Publishing. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. First Printing. Hardcover. 1435163001 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages .

Child Star : An Autobiography

By Black, Shirley Temple

St Louis: McGraw Hill. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Fourth Printing. Harcover. 0070055327 . Page 33 of text has a tear in the top edge of page with a piece about 1.5" square pulled and wrinkled -- extends into two lines of text but still readable. Otherwise a near fine copy. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 546 pages .

The King of Kennelwick Castle

By West, Colin & Dalton, Anne

New York: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0694001368 . Owner name. Jacket has 1" tear at top near spine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Plato's Theory of Knowledge : The Theaetetus and the Sophist of Plato

By Cornford, Francis

Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0672602946 . Owner name stamp on title page and page edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages .

The Power of Babel : A Study Of Logophilia

By Pierssens, Michel

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0710003730 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages .

Four Portraits and One Subject : Bernard DeVoto

By Mirrielees, Edith R.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Jacket shows rubbing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages .