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New York: Holiday House, 2001. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth & red boards (hardcover), viii, 212 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: When Lu Chi Fa’s parents died in 1944, he was only three years old. The timing of the tragedy could not have been worse. In China it was a time of political turmoil and severe hardship. Few people willingly took in orphans, and Chi Fa’s extended family was no exception. Young Chi Fa was shuffled from one house to another as his relatives, one by one, turned him away. Even his loving sister was forbidden by her husband to take him under her roof. Chi Fa was always hungry, often cold, and frequently beaten. Yet through all his struggles, Chi Fa held on to his sister’s hopeful words: “You are lucky, Chi Fa. Good fortune will find you.” This stirring memoir of a painful childhood tells a story of resilience and courage and attests to the power of even small fragments of kindness.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982. Octavo, softbound (stiff, map illus. orange wrappers), 185 pp. Very Good+, with light sunning to spine and edges. From lower cover:p In this book, Jeffrey Fadiman seeks to preserve the legacy of African warriorhood for the generations yet to come. To achieve this, he spent 18 months among the Meru of Mt. Kenya, interviewing over 300 of its oldest members on every aspect of their warrior years. As a result, he reconstructs a way of warfare that was close to medieval Western chivalry. Warriors battled strictly for glory, never for personal gain. Women were sacrosanct, even if captured. Rape was unknown. Killing, even in the heat of battle, was paid for in livestock fines. After each skirmish, elders from both sides would meet together in perfect harmony to total up the “score.” Primitive? Savage? Fadiman argues just for the reverse. During the time of colonial conquest, however, Africa’s warrior legacy was repressed along with other aspects… Read More

London: Batchworth Press, n.d. Folio, illus. covers, gilt letters, XXV, followed by 46 plates with accompanying descriptions. Near-Fine with fading to edges in a torn dust jacket. ‘The Deputy Keeper of the Department of Ethnolography in the British Muesum presents, in these pages, a revealing study of a hybrid art form which has been comparatively little analysed. The British Museum collection of ivories produced by African craftsmen to Portuguese orders is probably the largest in the world, and covers a wide range of styles and subjects. The author gives a general description of the pieces, provides a not on each illustration, and relates the ivories to the whole corpus of African art.’

Gloucestershire: This England Books, (2004). Royal octavo, slick full-color photo. illus. boards (hardcover), 141 pp. Fine. Contents: Opening verse of first issue of This England, Spring 1968; The Spring Folklore of England; This Earth: A Column for Countryfolk; Cottage Flowers; Spring Postcards; English Village Characters: Faded Ink; The Hidden World of Thomas Hardy; Scented Delights of the Chandler’s Shop; Letters of Long Ago; Magazine Memories: Light Reading for Ladies; Post Box: Letters on the first issue of This England; The Villages of England; Our English Weather; English Summer Album; Village Lock-ups: Surviving Relics of a Bygone Age; Who Named England’s Wild Flowers? ; The Holiday Group Photograph; An English Gardener; Rutland: Whatever Happened to Englad’s Smallest Country?; Forget-Me-Nots: On the Raod with Donkey Jack; The Rolling English Road; The Man Who Invented Cat’s-eyes; Autumn Leaves: England in Mellow Mood; Keats in the Lake District; A Victorian Harvest Supper;… Read More

Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1974). 1st edition. Octavo, brown cloth, lxx, 442 pp. Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.

Dallas, Texas: Jessamine County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., 1993. Quarto, brown leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, photograph illustrated endpapers, 220 pp. With letters containing genealogical information about the Hatcher, Isom/Isham/Ison family laid-in.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921. Octavo, tan illus. cloth (hardcover), uncut, top edge gilt, tissue-protected frontis., plates, 320 pp. Very Good+, with light rubbing to covers.

New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1928). Octavo, full-color illus. khaki cloth (hardcover), 102 pp. Fair, with with edgewear and former-owner signature, hairline tears along pages at lower hinge, light foxing (age darkened spotting). Stories included: Chops Goes to New York; Chops and the Magician; Chops in Hollywood. Color illustrations throughout. “Once upon a time, on a lonely farm in New Hampshire, there lived a mother pig and seven baby pigs -- four sisters and three brothers. The little sister pigs were named Porktricia, Sausagia, Lardia, and Baconia. The brothers were Hamie, Cops, and Squeals. Squeals was the smalles of all the piggy children. It was indeed the loneliest of farms. The nearest neighbor lived a mile away. Farmer Ramsey and his wife rather neglected this little pig family, so they had to live mostly on windfalls and acorns. Once a day the farmer threw them a few nubbins of corn, then by and by he became so stingy he stopped doing even that. This was all very well… Read More

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1858. First Edition. Royal octavo, professionally rebound in cloth, leather spine label, gilt letters, 200 pp. Good+, with light speckling to spine, title loose and lightly chipped.

Gainesville: A University of Florida Book, the University Presses of Florida, 1975. Octavo, gold marbled & textured boards (hardcover), red letters, marbled endpapers, lxxi + 200 pp + 13 pp. Fine.

Gainesville, FL: The University Presses of Florida, A University of Florida Book, 1975. Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series. Octavo, tan leatherette, lxxi, 200, 13 pp. Fine (As New).

New York: The Wise-Parslow Company, 1937. Revised Edition. Royal octavo, tan illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, color illus. endpapers, [128] pp. Illustrated in full color. Very Good, with darkened spine and lightly soiled covers; photographs glady provided upon request.

Nashville: Imperial War Museum in Association with The Battery Press, 1992-1994. Reprint of the 1940 edition. Five volumes, complete. Octavo, red cloth, xxxix, 586 pp. + xl, 489, [8 photographic plates], [28 sketch maps], pp., folding map in rear pocket + xvi, 399, [21 sketch maps] pp., folding map in rear pocket + xi, 158 pp. + solander case with 12 folding maps. Near-Fine, bookplates.

London: Imperial War Museum & Nashville: Battery Press, (1996). Two volumes. Reprint of the 1930 edition. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xxiii, 394, xiv pp + 395-748 pp. Maps, photos, large fold-out map in rear pocket of Volume I. Fine, with bookplates. *This large volume will require additional postage fees to mail internationally.

N.l.: Olmsted Family Association, 1926. Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, 27 pp. Frontis. photo. Very Good; some pencilled notes.

Pittsburgh, PA: Rock Fantasy Comics, 1990. Pink Floyd II, Vol. 15. Octavo, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, [32] pp. Illustrated. Fine.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., [1968]. First Printing, As Stated. Signed by Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci. Octavo, green cloth & gold boards (hardcover), 190 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers, several small spots along top foredge, in a like dust jacket with light edgewear and foxing. “Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci lives with her husband and children on her own 250 acre wildlife refuge in southern New Jersey. There, on land abounding in beaver, grouse, quail, duck, deer and many other varieties of animal life, this remarkable woman has fulfilled a dream that began in childhood -- a dream of establishing a sanctuary where wildlife of all kinds would be free and secure...Unexpected Treasure is the heart-warming story of the Buyukmihcis -- Hope, Cavit, and their three children -- and the animal friends who fill their lives.”

Columbus: Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 1962. Quarto, paperbound (stiff, light green wrappers, stapled), 30 pp. Illustrated.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, MCMXIX, (1919). Quarto, cloth-backed boards, uncut, [xviii], 143 pp. Tipped-in plates. Good; bookplate, corners bumped, some shelf wear.

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press, 1981. Limited Edition of 1,000 Copies. Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff brown wrappers), paper labels, cover flaps, unpaginated. Fine (As New).