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A compilation of photographs used during WW II to identify US Navy ships and aircraft. Book includes photos and descriptions for 9 battleships, 6 aircraft carriers, 6 heavy cruisers, 5 light cruisers, 15 destroyers, 16 submarines, 9 minecraft, 4 patrol craft and 2 submarine chasers. Additionally 93 types of Naval and Coast Guard aircraft nomenclature are depicted and described. Copy is tightly bound with sharp corners and has slight darkening of cover. Title page is stamped SECRET and U. S. CONFIDENTIAL BRITISH SECRET and has owner attribution in ink in top right corner. Text pages are clean, crisp and unmarked.

A Gift Book Library Special Edition, 1975. Like new condition. Dust jacket front faded from original bright yellow, as shown on back of dust jacket. Small (1") tear on dust jacket from head and small spot in bottom right hand corner. This book was meant to be personalized on the frontispiece and rear free endpaper, but this edition has no markings. Color or monochrome illustrations on every page with text.

A.S. Barnes and Company, New York. First edition. Book in Near Fine condition. Green pictorial dust jacket has several tears and chips in Good- condition. Dust jacket spine is sunned. 258 pp. Text is white, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated with many b/w photographs. Signed by Feller in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Baseball Hall of Famer's autobiography in excellent condition.

P. F. Collier, New York, 1892, Ten volume set. First Editions. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 7,233 pp in ten volumes. Text clean, no foxing, lightly yellowed with age, no prior owner attributions or markings in any of the volumes. Illustrated with 54 wood-engravings, including a a depiction of the author on the frontispiece of volume one. Gilting on front cover and spine of each volume shows various evidence of shelfwear. Speckled outer edges.Volume I has a small tear near tail of spine and contains: The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder and The Pioneers. Volume II contains: Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie and The Spy. Volume III has light markings on rear cover and contains: The Pilot, The Red Rover and The Two Admirals. Volume IV has pages 119-120 partially missing and contains: The Sea Lions, Afloat and Ashore and The Water Witch. Volume V has a large tear in pages 607/608 and two tears on page 717-718 (all tears intact) and contains: The Crater, Miles Wallingford and… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1926. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Photoplay Edition, likely a G & D reprint. 398 pp plus eight pages of advertising by the publisher. Text clean and unmarked except for a prior owner attribution and date on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with photographic scenes from the Universal Pictures silent film starring Laura La Plante & Joseph Schildkraut. Show Boat went on to become two Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals: first starring Irene Dunne and the second with Ava Gardner.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1919. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. Spine and covers show significant shelf wear. Former library copy. Bottom half of frontispiece is missing. 244 pp. Text yellowed typical of age with light foxing. Numerous pencil markings throughout and on front free endpapers. Prior owners name in pencil on title page. Five full page b/w drawings and numerous smaller artworks by Jan Matulka. Contains 15 old Czechoslavak stories for children. Few first edition copies of this compilation are known to exist. Despite good- condition designation, this is a complete, easily readable copy of this rare book.

Fillmore Music House, Cincinnati, Oh. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date given. Cover has some edgewear and is lightly soiled. 256pp text complete and unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Book shows below average signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Corners lightly bumped. Owner attribution stamped on front pastedown. Text is very clean and unmarked. 500 pp.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 536 pp. clean, white text with deckled outer edge. No markings or prior owner attribution. B/W photographs throughout. "This book is dedicated to my daughter Rosemary and others like her--retarded in mind but blessed in spirit. My vision is a world where mental retardation will be overcome, where we no longer mourn with mothers of retarded childred, but exult and rejoice with parents of healty, happy youngsters."--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 64 pp. Text ivory, clean and unmarked. Prior gift inscriptions from Grandpa and Grandma with note "Hope your teeth will be OK." Prolific b/w photographs to illustrate techniques of teaching children to throw, catch and hit a baseball. Scarce title from the 1960's.

Near fine hardcover copy of "The Story of Lucky Strike" by Roy C. Flannagan. New York's World Fair Edition, 1939. Few small waterspots to front board. Tight and clean. No owner attribution. 94 pp, clean text on cream colored paper with sephia photographs throughout. Believed to be a first edition.

New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. Early American edition. BCE. Near Fine condition. Book appears to have not been read. 241 pp. Text clean, unmarked with no foxing. Text pages are rough cut. Dust jacket with some light soiling to white background, and small stain on back jacket cover near spine.

American Education Press. Columbus, Ohio Condition: Fair. (Copyright 1935 by The Educational Printing House, Inc., but 1940 reprint status is indicated by #US 154-2.40 on page one combined with the inside rear cover listing this book as an American Education Press publication.) Unit Study Book No. 154. Softcover. 36 pages profusely illustrated (with photos & drawings). Ex-library copy with appropriate mark stamped on front cover and last text page. Front cover has been reinforced on inside at edge and spine and back cover reinforced at spine. Five inch tear from edge on page one. Contents are clean and intact. Early version is somewhat scarce.(Prior to WWII, The Educational Printing House, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio printed short, small paperback pamphlet books in the Unit Study Book series. The originals were often reprinted by The American Education Press, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio through 1940. The authors of the Unit Study Book series books were elementary school educators and frequent contributors of… Read More

Whipple & Damrell, Boston, 1837. Clothback. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 72 pp. clean, unmarked and lightly foxed, typical of age. Front and rear free endpaper missing, otherwise intact. Title page perforated with Ohio State University stamp and date stamp on inside back cover. Clothback version of this era is vary rare to find in this condition. Unable to find another copy on internet for comparison.