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Paris: Flammarion, 1999. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS in Very Good Dustjacket. Fleischer, Alain. Very slight spine lean. Glossy illustrated dustjacket very good. Scuffing to jacket surfaces, light scratches and a few tiny dimples. Mild edgewear. A 1.25" closed tear, tape repaired, to front bottom panel near spine. Beautiful inspiring photography! Lettering is debossed, in-blind, to spine and front of black cloth-covered boards. Black endpapers. Book measures 10 x 9.75". 224 pp with Connoisseur's Guide, filmography, bibliography and index. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. "This is a Rome as you have never seen it. Through the perceptive text of Bruno Racine, and the stunning photographs of Alain Fleisher, this book reveals aspects of the city that most visitors miss," (front flap). Chapters include : The Charm of Rome ; Stone and Color ; Strolling in Rome ; Roman Gardens ; Roman Interiors ; Roman Rendezvous. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.
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LIVING IN ROME
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A RAY TRACING DIGITAL COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE STUDY OF MAGNETOSPHERIC DUCT PROPAGATION (NASA SP-3055)
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Washington DC: NASA, 1970. Paperback. Good Plus. "Ray-tracing techniques are used extensively in the study and understanding of propagation of electromagnetic waves in any media (neutral, magneto-ionic, etc.). Combined with experimental data, the ray-tracing technique has served as a powerful tool." Begins with a general description of the program, then how to run the program, and ends with extensive information on the program structure. 296 pp. Light edgewear, light soiling to front cover 3", light scuffing to surfaces. Closed tear .5" at top of front cover/spine. Slight curling to lower front cover corner. Text is clean.
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HELL AMONG THE YEARLINGS
by Randolph, Edmund
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Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. NEAR FINE. Illustrated. Clean, tight, bright. 406 pp with index. This dignified and well designed Lakeside Press Classics series was started in 1903. Every 25 years the cover material is changed, type style and production methods are adjusted and updated to keep pace with current developments in fine book making. Although no longer used, older volumes show the publisher's distintive gold oval debossed "pressmark" - an Indian Chief's profile. Gilt top edges on all volumes with gilt lettering lightly debossesd to spines of boards. List of Lakeside Classics to rear of each volume. These books were not sold but given away to employees and select recipients as holiday gifts. Edmund Randolph was born in 1903. After graduating from Princeton, Randolph found his way to Montana and became interested in life in the west. This is an account of his interesting and very productive life.
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Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. NEAR FINE. Illustrated. Clean, tight, bright. 406 pp with index. This dignified and well designed Lakeside Press Classics series was started in 1903. Every 25 years the cover material is changed, type style and production methods are adjusted and updated to keep pace with current developments in fine book making. Although no longer used, older volumes show the publisher's distintive gold oval debossed "pressmark" - an Indian Chief's profile. Gilt top edges on all volumes with gilt lettering lightly debossesd to spines of boards. List of Lakeside Classics to rear of each volume. These books were not sold but given away to employees and select recipients as holiday gifts. Edmund Randolph was born in 1903. After graduating from Princeton, Randolph found his way to Montana and became interested in life in the west. This is an account of his interesting and very productive life.
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THE YEARLING
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NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. N.C. Wyeth. Early printing of Rawlings's classic tale of a boy befriending a fawn in the Florida backwoods. Twelve lovely illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Black boards with decorative paste-on depicting Jody, the fawn named Flag, seated on a skin rug before a red rocking chair. Rubbing to extremities, but very solid, unmarked copy. Decorated endpapers.
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THE POWER OF NEWS : THE HISTORY OF REUTERS 1849 --1989
by Read, Donald
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. Dustjacket very good plus. Very minimal shelfwear to extremities. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Illustration of Julius Reuter to frontispiece. With 62 plates, 18 figures, 18 tables. Clean, tight, bright. 431 with glossary and index. This is the story of Reuters, the international news agency. It was set up by Julius Reuters in 1851 in London but eventually was expanded to most of the world. Reuters was the first, in 1961, to report the building of the Berlin Wall and then the first in 1989 to report it being torn down.
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THE CARPETBAGGER, A NOVEL (SIGNED)
by Read, Opie and Frank Pixley
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Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Corners lightly bumped. Mild rubbing to edges, moreso to spine caps. Very light shelfwear to boards, some small drip stains (none longer than an inch) and a bit of sunning to spine. Gently cocked spine. Marigold and black lettering to spine and front board with red, black and marigold designs to spine and front board, with lovely double border to front as well. Top edge gilt. Deckled edge. Very clean and tight. With a number of artfully altered illustrations from photographs. 305 pp. Many plays have been made from novels; this is a book made from a play. "The Carpetbagger" originally was written as a four-act comedy. It was performed for thirty weeks during the theatrical season of 1898-9, under the intelligent management of Mr. Tim Murphy, and met with a most flattering reception. There have been so many requests for the preservation of this story in permanent form, that we have been led…
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PASS THRU FIRE : THE COLLECTED LYRICS
by Reed, Lou
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New York: Hyperion, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Silver metallic lettering to black cloth-covered spine of black boards. Several Illustrations. Hardly noticeable edgewear. Very light green stain to top corner of text block. Faint finger smudge to bottom edge. Illustrated dustjacket very good. Light shelfwear. Very small chip to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. 469 pp with discography. A comprehensive chronicle. "Breathtaking in its power and raw beauty, and crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed not only as a consummate musician of the underground, but also as one of the truly significant poets of our time. Spanning over 30 years . . . here are lyrics that move beond reportage to take "emotional albeit non-moral stances."," (front flap)
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FAUBUS : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN PRODIGAL
by Reed, Roy
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Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good Plus. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE on title page. Light sunning to rear cover extremities. Black lettering to spine, cream-colored lettering to front of grey illustrated cover. Many black and white photographs. Clean, bright, solid binding. 408 pp with bibliographical references and index. "Orval E. Faubus, thirty-sixth governor of the state of Arkansas, known most infamously from America's civil rights era as the governor who pitted his state against the dictates and forces of the federal government during the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis," (rear cover).
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BILLIE SHELLEY
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Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Lyon, Norma. Colorfully illustrated boards with matching jacket. Hardly noticeable shelfwear. Dustjacket very good. Two closed tears, 1.25" and less, to front top and bottom jacket panel. Mylar protected. Price sticker to front flap. Unpaginated (29 pp). Clean, bright and tight. The Biddle's son, Dinky, brings home a goat. An hilarious and fantastic story of how the family tries to profit from this amazing goat!
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THE TRAGEDIES OF GEORGE CHAPMAN : RENAISSANCE ETHICS IN ACTION
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. SHARP CORNERS. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to jacket spine. Light wear to jacket with two, .5" closed tears to front upper edge. Black lettering to orange, cloth-covered boards. Bright and tight. 223 pp with notes, bibliography and index. "The book begins with an analysis of Chapman's philosophy as he set it forth in nondramatic work. Mr. Rees then proceeds to a reinterpretation of the tragedies," (front flap).
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SMARTISH PACE, ISSUES 13 & 14 (2 VOLUMES)
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Baltimore: Smartish Pace, 2006 /2007. Paperback. Near Fine. Very nice condition. Clean, bright and solidly bound. Volume 13 has 130 poems, 136 pp. Volume 14 has 129 poems, 137 pp. Smartish Pace is a literary journal. Volume 13 includes poetry from Joann Balingit to Charles Harper Webb. Volume 14 includes poetry from Anamika to Arlene Zide. Such Pulitzer Prize winners featured in the past have included : Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson, and Anthony Hecht.
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MATCHING MOUNTAINS WITH THE BOY SCOUT UNIFORM : THE OFFICIAL BOY SCOUT UNIFORM BADGES, INSIGNIA AND AWARDS
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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS in Good Dustjacket. Mild rubbing to lower extremities. Spine caps gently folded under. Top corners lightly bumped. A few tiny spots to lower fore-edge. Black lettering to tan cloth-covered spine. White lettering on front of color illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers. Matching dustjacket good. Spine is creased on both sides with dime-size hole near head. Mylar protected. Color fold-out Target Chart. 134 color and black and white illustrations including color frontispiece. 197 pp with index. No writing in text. The only book on the Uniform authorized by the Boy Scouts of America. The author gives full account as to what the Official Uniform consists of and how to wear it, but also what it stands for.
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A VISIT TO THE ART GALAXY
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San Marcos, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FINE. Matching dustjacket Fine. Color illustrations. Yellow, red and purple illustrated boards. 53 pp. Clean, tight, bright. The story shows children that art is born of real life experiences.
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DEMYTHOLOGIZING AN ELITE: AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN EMPIRICAL, COMPARATIVE, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
by Rejai, Mostafa, Kay Phillips and Warren L. Mason
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Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscription by authors to half-title page. Fourth volume co-authored with Kay Phillips. Signed letter from Rejai laid in. Ever-so-slightly cocked. 155 pp. with appendices, bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. The American presidents are often glorified with their flaws glossed over. This books aim is to treat the presidents as human, fallible, human beings. [The authors] "seek to place the presidents in empirical, comparative, and historical perspectives and, in so doing, to demythologize understanding of an important group of political leaders. (taken from Introduction)
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DE L'ORIGINE DU LANGAGE
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Paris: Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1864. Fourth Edition. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD . Original paper wraps, rebound in handsome dark brown full-leather, with one touch-up-able scuff to front board. Renan, a French philosopher and prolific writer, was both thought of as the embodiment of Modernism, and perpetrator/populizer of anti-semitic thought, believing that the Jews were "an incomplete race", etc. Five raised bands. Gilt lettering and bordering.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET.
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THE POETRY OF JOHN LYDGATE
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London: Routledge, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SHARP CORNERS. Light foxing to top edge only. Dustjacket very good. Jacket lightly scuffed. Mild crease to bottom spine edge. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of green, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 172 with notes and index. Renoir's examination reveals Lydgate to be a competent craftsman who at times achieved a high level of poetic felicity, and shows that Lydgate is not so exclusively typical of the Middle Ages as literary critics and historians have hitherto assumed, but often exhibits traits which we have been taught to associate with the Renaissance," (front flap).
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SHERLOCK HOLMES IN ORBIT
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New York: MJF Books, 1995. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper
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THE ARTILLERY OF THE PRESS: ITS INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
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New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed to Otis Chandler, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980. Light edgewear, lower corners slightly bumped, a small half dime-sized soil spot to FFEP. A slight bend and faint crease to lower corner of rear board. Light wear to DJ. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, light blue boards. Unmarked text, solid binding. 116 pp with index, Council on Foreign Relations, and Publicaitons. This book "grew out of the Elihu Root Lectures delivered by the author before the Council of Foreign Relations in 1966," (rear flap), and dicusses the "perennial conflict between the men who make the news and the men who report it." It attempts to define and illustrate the problems of conducting American foreign policy at the end of the 20th century with a press and Constitution that were formed at the end of the 18th century. James "Scotty" Reston was an American…
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