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New York: Golden Press, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Robert Laffont. Translation by Anne Carter. 4to. Off-white cloth with red spine lettering and front board graphic, pictorial dust jacket, corrugated cardboard box with paper label. 296pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good/good plus. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears; box a bit age toned, rubbed and edgeworn, but complete and strong. A tight and quite handsome first U.S. edition of this far-ranging (to quote front flap) "exciting panorama of man's daily life across the ages, showing the evolution of the ways and habits of living from prehistoric times to the present." The seldom-present cardboard box did its protective job and kept the book pristine and the dust jacket quite nice. Name/address "From the Library of" inkstamp on front flyleaf of Edgar G. Hellum (1906-2000), the well-known "Bard of Pendarvis" -- resident of historic…
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100,000 Years of Daily Life: A Visual History
by BROSSE, Jacques
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2002 Household Helps
by MYERS, Janet D.
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Co, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth. 294pp. Near fine. Second printing, remarkaly clean and tight, of this domestic science aid.
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The Achievement Factors: Candid Interviews with Some of the Most Successful People of Our Time
by GRIESSMAN, B. Eugene
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pink and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 310pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, boldly signed and inscribed by Griessman on the title page.
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Administration of the Modern Camp
by DIMOCK, Hedley S. (editor)
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New York: Association Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 283pp. Near fine/very good. Small ownership stamp on front flyleaf. Later (8th) printing, tight and clean.
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Alas, Queen Anne: A Reading of Her Life
by BROWN, Beatrice Curtis
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 325pp. Very good/very good. Slight jacket wear and rubbing. Tight and attractive first edition.
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Albert and Victoria
by DE BERNARDY, Francoise
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Translation by Ralph Manheim. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 341pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket spine sunned, with small chips at head and tail and 1" near center. First edition, tight and clean.
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Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
by O'FAOLIAN, Nuala
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New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 275pp. Fine/near fine. First edition of the Irish columnist's memoir, signed boldly by her in black ballpoint on an inner flyleaf.
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An Alten Strassen: Rastorte, Geleitsstationen, Pferdedörfer
by MÜLLER. Wilhelm
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N.p.: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken, 1972. Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers with tan paper spine. Pp. 187-253. Map, illustrations. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally fine. Scholarly offprint, entirely in German, of this article from 52nd volume of the "Archive for the History of Upper Franconia."
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American Primitives in Needlepoint
by ORMOND, Brande
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 139pp. Illustrations (some color), patterns. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition. Detailed guide to reproducing eleven American primitive scenes in needlepoint.
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The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate...
by McELLIGOTT, James N.
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New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1856. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece. Good plus. Binding edgeworn, with rear outer hinged cracked but still strong; lacks rear buff-colored flyleaf. Tight, decent third edition of this primer on debating. The same O.A. Boyd who pencils his ownership signature on an inner flyleaf pencils "O.A. Boyd in old age" beneath the steel-engraved full-length frontispiece portraitr of Daniel Webster.
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Ancient History: The Twentieth Century
by BEN-YOSEF, Avraham C.
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Boston: Extending Horizon Books, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 165pp, (3pp ads). Near fine/very good. Faintest jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition.
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Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
by GRAHN, Judy
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 324pp. Very good/very good. Tight, nice first edition.
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The Basic Book of Embroidery
by SIMPSON, Jane
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London: Octopus Books, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple decorated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), line drawings. Near fine/near fine. First edition.
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by KURTIS, Bill
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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1983. Hardcover. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1983. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 192pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many color). Fine/fine. First edition, tight and pristine, of this first collection by the famed Chicago journalist -- bearing a fine red-bordered bookplate on the half-title page signed hugely by Kurtis in black fineline.
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Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of the Eminent Characters Who Have Distinguished Themselves During the Progress of the Revolution
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Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1803. Hardcover. 16mo. Rebound in grey cloth. iv, 210pp. Binding (new) fine, original text block good plus. Minor corner chipping to first couple pages, else handsome and with minor average age toning. Nice biographical dictionary, and a nifty little edition from the noted Philly publisher.
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Bonkers: Why women get stressed out and what they can do about it
by LEMAN, Kevin
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Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition.
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The Book of Flags
by CAMPBELL, Gordon, and EVANS, I.O.
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London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 120pp. Color frontispiece, numerous line drawings (some color). Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Seventh edition, tight and decent -- ex-library, though discreet and with very few markings.
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Book of Christmas
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Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 1973. Hardcover. 4to. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 303pp. Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Entertaining collection of holiday history, literature, and customs.
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Borrowed Dreams: The Roughest, Toughest Jobs on the Planet... and What I Learned from Working Them
by GROSS, T. Scott
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Center Point, TX: Our Time Press, 1999. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 351pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear, with single small edge chip. A tight and nice first edition, boldly signed by the author in black fineline on the half-title page: "Carpe diem! / Scott."
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Breakthrough: The Next Step
by STRIEBER, Whitley
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[New York]: HarperCollins /Publishers, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 297pp. Near fine/very good. First edition.
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