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London: Duckworth, 1999. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Very Good. McDonnell, Hector. London: Duckworth, 1999. First edition thus. 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 191. Orange and black illustrated cardboard wraps with black, white and lime green type. Very minor thumbing to corners, one corner has a small crease. A few scuffs and scratches. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. The first collection of Flann O'Brien's World War II columns, which appeared daily in the Irish Times under the pseudonym Miles na gCopaleen. "Flann O'Brien is inventive, his storytelling is swift and sure, making the eccentric seem natural and the commonplace hilarious" - (The Times, review from back of book). 191 pp.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1893. Paperback. Good Plus. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1893. 9 x 6 inches: pp. 39 pages. Tan wraps with black type. Four plates, text drawings. One large foldout map. 52nd Congress, 2d Session. Misc. Document No. 23. Spine reinforced with library tape, small chips along outer spine. Text clean, binding strong.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. First edition, limited to 450 copies. 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches: pp. 84. Brown cloth over illustrated paper boards, paper spine label. Original brown paper dust jacket. Color woodcuts by Mallette Dean. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Dust jacket has some minimal toning at edges. Corners square, nice bright cover. Interior bright and clean. Some foxing. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. LACKS Prospectus. Selected from articles written by Hunt and published in the weekly New York Independent Magazine, this is Publication number 137 of the Book Club of California.

North Bend, Oregon: SELF-PUBLISHED, 2005. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bob Jackson. Folio (11 1.4" x 8 3/4"), glossy pictorial covers, 168 pp. Just a wee bit of shelfwear -- scuffs, scratches. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. "A passionate journey through the words, sketches and photos of the World Famous Harrah Car Collection and more. Over 4 dozen drawings..."

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Softcover. Good. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. 9 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 51. Stapled tan wraps with black type.16 photo plates. Interior clean in sound binding. Wraps chipped at spine, and at top of spine.

Surrey, England: Fab Press, 2016. First edition, Third printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Surrey, England: Fab Press, 2016. First edition, third printing. 8 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches: pp. 357. Black, photographic cardboard covers with white type. With 32 page full color image gallery, appendix: compendium of female neuroses (which are capsule reviews of the movies mentioned throughout or that bear relevance to the main text), index. 3 page catalog of other Fab Press titles. Light handling and edge and corner wear. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight.

New York: Bryan, Tayor & Company, 1895. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+. New York: Bryan, Taylor & Company, 1895. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches: pp. xvi,604. Dark blue cloth, with paper label with brown tyoe. Sixty full page illustrations including frontis of Lincoln. Text maps. Corners bumped, edgewear, label has some minor chips and soiled. Back hinge is just starting to crack, threads are visible. Previous owner's signature on free facing end page. Age toning, light foxing. Text clean, and unmarked. binding sound. Solid copy. With the preface to the second editon, which was published in 1894.

London, England and New York: Country Life Limited & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. London: Country Life Limited, 1937 First edition. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. xvi, 232. Brick red cloth-covered boards with white type. Illustrated with 115 black and white photographs. Shelf wear, and rubbing/bumping to extremities and fading, soiling to boards. Previous owner's names to endpapers. Foxing. Some underlining scattered throughout text. Solidly bound. With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Lord Aberconway (President of the Royal Horticultural Society). "My favourite gardening books that are not particularly about plant information, right location or colour combinations but for the sheer joy of reading, are those by A.T. Johnson. Absolutely perfect for reading on a cold, snowy winter's day, curled up in an armchair by a blazing log fire. ATJ lived near Bodnant in North Wales and his first book about his garden was ‘A Garden in Wales', published in 1927. His second… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1899. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. FAIR. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1899. 9 x 6 1/2 inches: pp. xii, 469. Marbled maroon cloth with titles in gold gilt on spine. Frontis photo of Jones, over 35 illustrations including photos. Ex-libris, with usual library markings, card holder. Wear to extremities, chips missing from top and bottom of spine, spine lean. Textblock square. Numerous library perforations throughout - no text is affected. General handling wear. Spotting, foxing, some moisture staining. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. READING COPY ONLY, of an uncommon first person account. Charles Jesse Jones [1844-1919] was known as "Buffalo Jones" as he was instrumental in preserving buffalo herds. Theodore Roosevelt named him the first game warden of Yellowstone National Park, and his colorful and adventurous career is recounted here from compilations from his journal.

Amsterdam; Boston; London; New York: Elsevier, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Amsterdam, Boston, London, New York: Elsevier, 2007. First edition. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches: pp. xii, 275. Light blue photographic boards with green, blue and black type. With references, index, photos, charts. Boards have edge and corner wear, bumping, some scuffing. Bottom corners of pages are wrinkled, moisture stiffened in latter half of book. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.