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NY, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936. (1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD +. Tight, light rubbing to all cover edges, faint age tanning of pages, clean and square. Sun faded spine. No dust Jacket. 402 indexed pages, 6x8.75x1.75" "Illustrated from photographs, Plans and Charts." "This book has been written with the express intention of arousing more interest in small boat handling, and that it will lead to a better acquaintance with the water and good boats..."

London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1968. (1st edition). Hardbound. FINE/VERY GOOD. As new, book bound in navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. The dust jacket is intact but has slight rough edge on the top of the back, a sunned spine with droplet stains and light, general age tanning. 250 indexed pages, not illustrated. "published version of Professor Albright's Jordan Lectures...University of London,1965...reflects his conviction that, in spite of common language and material civilization, the religions of Canaan (later called Phoenicia) and Israel were fundamentally opposed. Migrated Books Template

Burlington, VT: Free Press Printing Company, 1941. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright and clean with slight tilt. The interior is as new. The book was designed with covers wider and taller than the text block which have folded in with time. The spine edges are also rubbed. "The substance of this little volume was delivered as the address at the annual meeting of the Vermont Historical Society at the sesquicentennial year of Vermont's statehood" 91 pages beginning with the poem, Yankee Prelude, by Margaret and Walter Hard.

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1930. Hardbound. GOOD+. Tight, faint age soil to green cloth covers, slight tanning of pages, faintest tilt to spine. Rubbing and softening to spine ends and cover corners. 2 creased pages. No other markings. No dust jacket (as issued). 1080 pages. 6x9x1.75". (15.5x23.5x4.25cm "a great variety of recent scientific, technical, and economic information in short, [popularly written articles and in agricultural maps and statistical tables...a prompt outlet for much valuable new knowledge...primarily intended for farmers...The material reflects most up to date statistics as of 1929, when data was collected, while the book itself is published in 1930. The Secretary's Report to the President begins: "Widespread drought during the growing season of 1929 dried up pastures and reduced crop yields below those of any recent year." 1930 focuses on advances in agriculture science in the 1920s, including photographs of new… Read More

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1935. Hardbound. GOOD. READING COPY Stamp inside front cover "From Wm. M. Citron, Member of Congress At-Large, Conn. End paper cracked and stitching showing at "Foreword page. Foxing to endpapers.. Printed on two different grade of paper( Some pages light brown on the outside edges; other parts appear the normal color) Has some foxing to pages. Green cloth with black lettering. No dustjacket(as issued). 762 indexed pages. 6x9x1.3" Includes vital agricultural statistics from 1934 as well as an extensive presentation on the extended drought and its effects on agricultural production. Includes detailed information on various programs used to try and stabilize agricultural sector including loans, livestock buy backs, dept relief, changes in practice to try and stop soil depletion, crop and livestock breeding, and relocation of farm families. Includes some info on new (at the time) menace of Japanese Beetles and the spread of Dutch… Read More

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1931. Hardbound. GOOD. READING COPY 5th volume in the series. Opening essay on "The Drought of 1930". Pages 3-6 have separated from binding, but are present. Pages yellowed, mostly along edges. Has some foxing to pages. Flyleafs very tanned. green cloth exteriors. No dustjacket. Chip in spine in the word "agriculture". 1113 pages. 6x9x2" Includes vital agricultural statistics from 1930, when severe drought hit much of the US Great Plains in late summer. It was late enough in season to cause losses, but not yet catastrophic losses. Much of the book is concerned with relatively normal agricultural statistics and concerns like livestock improvement and control of pests, but you can start to see mentions of abandoned farmland and bankruptcies starting to rock the agricultural world that will spread as the Dust Bowl sets in.

Canada: Oberon Press, 1971. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! 8.5x5" (21.5cx13cm) Collection of poems by Canadian poet Raymond Souster. New poems that appear for the first time plus reprints of some of his older work that was no longer in print. 164 pages. While much of his poetry celebrates the good of daily life of the City of Toronto, the following seems particularly apropos today: From "Death Chant for Mr. Johnson's America": "America, you have learned from everybody's history but your own..."

Dublin, Ireland: Wolfhound Press, 1996. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "Year in, year out the Yellow Man lives alone. No one comments on the colour of his skin, his nakedness nor his antennae. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t make judgements, is not grasping. Like nature he is just there, simply there …"one of Ireland's most acclaimed artists" turns a series of paintings into a graphic novel. 80 pages. 8.25x10.4x.25 (21x26.5x.5cm)

Bogota, Columbia: Panamericana, 1995. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Text in Spanish. "Yerma - que significa 'tierra infecunda' - es el nombre que Federico Garcia Lorca le ha dado a su heroina: le ha mujer esteril." ("Yerma - which means 'barren land '- is the name that Federico Garcia Lorca has given to his heroine: he has made her a sterile wife.) 107 pages + Chronologia.

As new. Oversize paperback. 112 pages with multiple color photos of exercises "from stretches you can do in bed, to yoga salutations, dynamic cardio sessions and rejuvenating exercises for the shower…10 minute exercise routines to suit your mood and level of fitness."

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for slight rubbing and scratching to cover edges. Presents a picture of the culture of one of the of the largest ethnic and most interesting and important peoples of Africa. Their tradition of urban life makes them unique not only among African societies but among traditionally nonliterate people the word over. For more than a century they were the dominant group among Nigeria's educated elite. 18 pages including a Recommended reading List.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest (#D1134), 1959. Paperback. FINE. Selected cartoons from But We Love You, Charlie Brown, Vol. II. As new -gift quality. Appears unread. Original price 50 cents.

New York: Dover Publications, 1976. trade paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Tight, square binding. Clean interior pages free of markings, but slightly yellowed due to age. 257 indexed pages. 8.5x5.25x.6" (21.5x13.5x2cm) Cultivation and propagation of camellias both indoors and out. Includes guide to major and minor cultivated species as well as hybrids for extreme climates. Includes a list of over 400 cultivars with 100 black and white illustrations. Migrated Template

NY: Signet (#P2712), July, 1965. (1st paperback edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, faint page tanning, clean, faint tilt. Faint surface creases on cover and faintest of shelfwear to bottom edge. First printing of first American paperback. Vintage copy looks the way it did when you originally bought it with the 60 cent cover price. The last Jaems Bond book written by Fleming.

Franklin Watts, Scholastic, 2017. (Revised Edition). Hardbund. FINE. As new - gift quality!

NY: Kennedy Galleries, 1965. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new. Exhibit catalog. "Young America or: nineteenth century American life faithfully portrayed and reflected in nineteenth century American paintings." Illustrated with black and white photos with short commentaries on the perspective of the historic period and the place of American art at the time.. Index of places depicted. Staple-bound, pages 257-320, 9.5x6" (24.1x15 cm).

Englewood, CO: Patheos press, 2012. (1st edition). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! 146 annotated pages. "this handbook is a resource for parents, teachers, friends, and young atheists themselves…how to deal with teachers and administrators who promote faith in public schools, handle the peer pressure and ostracism that may come with being an outspoken atheist, and crease successful student groups that encourage conversation over conversion..."

NY: WW Norton, 1966. (1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE. As new except for slight age soil to exterior top of page edges, and faint library stamp on front endpaper. Library Binding. From the founding of Salem, Massachusetts, the history of it's sea-faring tradition, through the War of 1812. A good basic level text. 191 pages with index and black and white illustrations.

Akron, OH: Ellora's Cave, 2007. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! French aristocracy, an impossible love, a thieving minx of a vampire. Sequel to Young Vampires in Love

Quebec, PQ: Charrier et Dugal, 1965. Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Light soil to exterior. Interior as new. 192 page illustrated guide to Quebec's Shrine of Sainte-Anne de Beaupre - its buildings, art and history. Text in English. 7.5x5.5"(19x14cm)