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Boston, MA: Universalist Publishing Hous. 1890 3rd ed. HC. good++, decorated olive green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB See Note. "The present volume is the record of sight-seeing and after-reflection of more than nine months' experience in detours round the world." Ex-lib from a small country library with minimal marks and never circulated. . 354pp ... more information

San Francisco, CA: Robert D. Reed Publishers. (2000). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) lacks front free endpaper. ISBN 188500351X This is the story of a German girl, growing up rapidly amidst the chaos of war, learning what really matters. . 220pp ... more information

New York: Carlton Press, Inc.. (1974). HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author. "REFLECTIONS is a modern, explosive novel about a woman - Eve (a real name and symbolic) - who is in the process of discovering herself. Two small closed tears on the dustjacket. . 109pp ... more information

New York: HarperCollins Publishers. (1999) 16th ptg. HC. very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0060194804 On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine, U.S.S. SQUALUS, plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, 33 crew members still survived, and this is the story of their rescue. . 259pp ... more information

New York: Greenwich House. (1983). HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0517019655 Survey of the rich Victorian scene, circa 1840-1880, including: private houses and public buildings, firehouses, depots, churches, and some striking interiors, fashion plates and advertisements. First published in 1957. . 212pp ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company. 1926. HC. very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) front panel of jacket laid in. A MEMOIR AND COMPLETE TEXT OF HIS POEMS AND LITERARY PROSE, INCLUDING MUCH NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. The story of Pinkney's life--his career in the navy, in the law, and as editor of THE MARYLANDER--and his death at twenty- six are told here, and all his poetry, which has never before been published together in its entirety, is included in this volume. . 233pp ... more information

Prescot: T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd.. 1967. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). Each company is dealt with in a separate chapter, seventy in all, and full fleet lists give details of over 800 ships which have been employed on these routes. . 335pp ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.. (1903). HC. very good, decorated green cloth, teg (hardcover). unpaginated ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press. 1947. HC. good, green cloth (hardcover). This study grew out of a desire to know more about the principles and personalities of the third party movement of 1924. . 298pp ... more information

New York: The Foreign Policy Assn.. 1928. HC. very good, wraps (softcover) EX-LIB Bound in Library Boards. Contents include: Class A Mandates in Present-Day Controversary; Roots of Rebellion: The Craving for Independence; Roots of Rebellion: Syria's Territorial Organization; Roots of Rebellion: The Agitation for Individual Liberty; Roots of Rebellion: The Decline of Trade and Agriculture; The Druze Uprising; General Sarrail's Recall; The Rebellion Under General Sarrail's Successors; M. de Jouven... more information

Northern Ireland: Colourpoint Books. (2003). PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1904242030 . 152pp ... more information

Newton Abbot: David & Charles. (1973). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0715363123 The author followed the progress of George Bernard Shaw from the time of the pioneer productions of the plays at the London Court theatre under the direction of Harley Granville Barker. In this volume twenty-seven of the plays are discussed; in many cases MacCarthy commented on the original presentations and again, twenty years or more later, when he had new points to make but, such was his maturity as a... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1973). HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author. ISBN 0684132397 Everything you would want to know about giraffes illustrated with lifelike cutouts. . 134pp ... more information

New York: Richards Rosen Press, Inc.. (1968) 1st ed. HC. very good, pictorial cloth (hardcover). The story of three great U.S. Government establishments housing the accumulations of our past, from prehistoric times to the present day. . 191pp ... more information

Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 1972. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). The author demonstrates that, rather than Rimbaud the voyou, the homosexual, the sordid, sadistic, iconoclastic enfant terrible, it was Rimbaud the mystic, the spiritual seeker, the subtle poetic technician who influenced the deeply religious Claudel and who was the younger poet's poetic model as well as spiritual mentor. . 197pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. (1980) 1st Amer. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0316541885 A vivid and delightfully personal account of what life is like in modern China, as closely observed and photographed by these two Westerners who, for the last fifty years, have enjoyed rare and remarkable access to the country, its people and leaders. . 208pp ... more information

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers. (1988) 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0803705476 On each double-page spread a number from one to ten changes gradually into a familiar object of animal. Descriptive texd in the back gives clues as to the nature of the thing depicted. . unpaginated ... more information

Augusta, ME: Maine Dept. of Educatin. (1974). HC. good+, decorated green cloth (hardcover). "This book is intended for the use of elementary school children. We hope it will help them learn a bit about the State of Maine and encourage them to develop handwork from these facts. . 121pp ... more information

Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. (2004). PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1592284914 From 1938 to 1942, a case of national jitters gripped the United States--fear that a German Fifth Column had penetrated the nation, and that Nazi spies were actively engaged in a campaign of subversion. In this volume, the author recaptures the spirit of the anxiety and dread that permeated the country during these years. . 244pp ... more information

London: G. and W. B. Whittaker. 1819 7th ed. HC. good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) some pencil marks. A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, IN MOST FREQUENT USE, TAKEN CHIEFLY FROM THE LATIN AND FRENCH, BUT COMPRISING MANY FROM THE GREEK, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN LANGUATES, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS HISTORICAL AND IDIOMATIC. . unpaginated ... more information