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London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. [ca. 1865]. This edition with color plates mounted on linen. Quarto, still decorated lavendar wrappers, [22] pp. 6 chromolithograph plates printed by Kronheim & Co., using the Baxter process. Good; clean and bright with some wear, corners bumped.

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies & University of Puerto Rico Press, 1970. Caribbean Bibliographic Series, No. 1. Octavo, softbound, 146 pp. Ex-library reference copy, with minimal markings.

Published by the Author, (2006). First Edition, Stated. Sgined & Inscribed by the Author: Happy gator trails! Lana Adele Baader/Micanopy Fall Harvest Festival/November 11, 2006. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. covers with white spine), illustrated throughout, 158 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: A Gator Pond!? is an entertaining, educational book for children. Children will meet a real Florida alligator and see what happens when he makes his home in a pond that just happens to be the farm animals’ watering hole This book will give children a better understanding of and a greater appreciation, respect and affection for the wildlife, the environment, kmankind, and the relationship among the three. Told by the animals, the story reveals information about the lives of alligators, with additional pages of facts and illustrations about the animals in the story. Also included are cationed wildlife photographs and several sections on alligator related subjects.

HarperCollinsPublishers, (2018). First Edition. Octavo, blue & white boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii,541 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed soley for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Leob had first met several years earlier, and their friendship had blossomed into a love affair. Both were intellectuals -- too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. However, the police had recovered an imporatn clue at the scene of the crime -- a pair of eyeglasses -- and soon both Leopold and Loeb were in the custody of Cook County. The confessed, and Robert Crowe, the state’s attorney, announced to newspaper reporters that he had a hanging case. No defense, he believed, would save the two ruthless killers from the gallows. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s, a time of prosperity, self-indulgence and hedonistic excess,… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, (2018). First Edition. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), silver letters, 392 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his town house on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed-sheets told her that White had raped her. She spoke of it to no one until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1952). First Edition. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 254 pp. Very Good in a badly chipped dust jacket with mylar protector.

London: Heinemann, (1975). First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 337 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Richard Bach’s first book since Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a collection of forty-eight stories and articles which celebrate the highlights of fifteen years of flight and flying. He has a sparkling facility for communicating information about flying and aircraft together with an astonishing dreamlike imagination that is as boundless as the sky, though it is no more a book for flying buffs alone than is Francis Chichester just for sailors. Whether he is writing about barnstorming in biplanes, the hazards of being a fighter test-pilot, coping with aircraft that many would consider museum pieces, or the memorable day when he shot down the Red Baron -- for a film -- Richard Bach shares with everyone the meaning and joy of flight. Together with stirring… Read More

Boston: Beacon Press, (1964). Octavo, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), blind-stamped image to upper cover, gilt letters, viii + 115 pp. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Is fire a symbol of the generative seed, and flame a sexual metaphor? Does the hearth connote a human drive to intellectuality, and is heat a fundamental image of the womb? Gaston Bachelard was intrigued by the process of imagination -- the way in which the pensive mind brings to any given reality a multiple perspective. About many substances such as earth, air, water, and fire, he contended, we harbor subconscious convictions which modern science may disprove in fact but cannot seem to eradicate from artistic reverie. Like bobbing tops, certain primitive but tenacious images recur across the stream of our poetry and prose. And here, in this brief study, the late French philosopher-scientist sought to expose through “psychoanalysis” the particular associations related to the imagery of fire.

Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing Co., [1969]. 14th printing. Octavo, softbound, 273 pp. Photos. Near-Fine.

New York: Walbridge & Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth (hardcover), xi, 243 pp. Photos., illus. Very Good; few cover speckles, endpapers a bit toned.

London: John Long, 1907. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), uncut, 358 pp. Frontis., plates. Fine.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Octavo, olive blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), ix, 347 pp. Very Good+, with very light scuffing. Illustrated.

London: Aeronautics Office, n.d. First Edition. Flexible red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, illus. Good+, with sunning and edgewear to spine & edges. Contents: General Principles; Resistance to a Plane Surface Moving through the Air; Variation of Pressure Due to Size and Shape of Plane; The Pressure of the Air on Inclined Planes; Langley’s Law; The Lee Side of a Plane; Superposed Planes; Compound Planes and Aerocurves; Friction of the Air; The Resistance of Various Shaped Bodies.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Octavo, brown cloth with gilt lettering (hardcover), cviii, 516 pp. Maps, several double-page, one folding. Near-Fine, former owner signature, in a dust jacket with three small tears.

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club, (2009). No. 304 of 1,000 books printed. Oblong quarto, black leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations, photo. to upper cover, full-color photo. illus. endpapers, [129] pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner bookplate.

Las Vegas, Nev.: KC Publications, 1983. Revised edition, 8th printing. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled, 48 pp. Color photos, illus., maps. Near-Fine.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1979]. First Edition. Tall, oblong octavo, softbound, 31 pp, followed by 46 full-color plates. Fine.

Savannah, GA: Georgia Historical Society, 2007. Octavo, softbound (stiff glossy blue illus. wrappers), [118] pp. Fine. Articles: The British Sailors’ Advocate: James Oglethorpe’s First Philanthropic Venture; The Georgia & Florida Railroad and Wiregrass Agriculture; Overcoming the Defect of Sex: Georgia Women’s Fight ffor Access to Jury Service; From Rural Roots to Global Reach: Celebrating a Century of Success at the University of West Georgia [Georgia History in Pictures]; Book Reviews; Recently Processed Manuscript Collections at the Georgia Historical Society.

Chicago: Albert Whitman and Company, 1950. First Edition. Signed by the artist. Oblong octavo, cloth with color illustration on front cover, (28) pp. Color illus., b & w illus. Fine in a torn dust jacket.

Tampa, FL: Published by the authors, 1990. Octavo, spiral bound (bright yellow plastic spirals, stiff & brightly illustrated upper cover, white lower cover), 141 pp + Index. “The road to success is always under construction. So is Tampa.” Fine. Contents: Appetizers, Soups, Salads, Vegetables, Main Dishes: Meat, Chicken, Seafood, Bread, Pies, Cakes, Desserts, Miscellaneous, Help!, Freezer Facts, Freezer Thawing, Index.