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Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover New York:: . 12mo. vi 110 pp. Title in red & blk. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Red cloth decrtd & ruled in gilt on frnt cvr & spine t.e.g. slght shlfwr NF. First edition of this biography of the famed 19th-century stage actress 1872-1953 born in Salt Lake City and who began her career in the West became best known for her roles as Lady Babbie in the Little Minister and later as Peter Pan. ISBN : 0 
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Ansel Adams. The eloquent light. His photographs and the classic biography Aperture, hardcover Millerton NY:: . Folio. 175 1 pp. Photo frntsp. 100s of photos. Green cloth silver lettrng slght shlfwr w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this eloquent biography tracing Adams' life and career from 1902 through 1938. ISBN : 0 
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International Textbook Co., hardcover Scranton PA:: . 16mo. xv 1 413 3 pp. plus 16 pp. publ. ads. Over 100 illusts. type fonts. Tan cloth gilt lettrng VG copy. First edition 2nd printing of this invaluable work on graphic arts and typography for advertising before World War I. ISBN : 0 
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Rock-breakers. Kingdom building in Kongo land. Edited by Judson Press, hardcover Philadelphia:: . 8vo. 10 200 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photos 1 folding map. Orange cloth blk lettrng & map on frnt cvr bmpng to crnrs G- w/ ex-lib mrkngs on endpapers in text on a few leaves. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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Fleming H. Revell Co., hardcover New York:: . 8vo. 316 pp. Frntsp. numerous photos plates 1 large folding map. Green cloth gilt lettrng & decrtn mnr soilng shlfwr frnt hnge startng still VG- copy. First edition of this excellent biography of A.C. Good who was the first white to penetrate far into the Bulu region of German Congo. There he was initiated into the tribe preached in the language and even translated the Gospel. ISBN : 0 
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Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover New York:: . Thick 8vo. xiii 1 617 3 pp. Green cloth mnr shlfwr slght dustsoilng w/ d.j. sml clsd tear hd of spine VG/VG-. Early printing of this brillian anthology containing five previously unpublished letters about living in France by James Baldwin new short stories by Gwendolyn Brooks Willard Motleyand Owen Dodson; chapters previously cut from Ralph Ellison's invisible Man five episodes from Richard Wright's last unfinished novel and more. ISBN : 0 
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3-A Publishing Co., hardcover Seattle WA:: . 8vo. 140 pp. Numerous photos text illusts. Gray illust. cloth w/ picture of Airedale on frnt cvr w/o ffep. shlfwr still G copy. Later edition of this exceedingly scarce Seattle imprint on Airedales. ISBN : 0 
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Doubleday & Co., hardcover Garden City NY:: . 8vo. 10 291 1 pp. Frntsp. map. Gray cloth blue & silver lettrng w/ d.j. cover art by Paul Galdone mnr edgewear sml clsd tear w/ repair on bk cvr rubbng VG/G. First Doubleday edition of this travelogue through Alabama before World War II much of it written in Black or southern dialect. ISBN : 0 
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Klondike Kate. The life & legend of Kitty Rockwell. The Queen of the Yukon Hastings, hardcover New York:: . 8vo. xi 1 305 1 pp. Numerous photos. Red boards blue lettrng w/ d.j. NF/VG. First edition of this pretty and venturesome girl who became the last of the great dance-hall queens. ISBN : 0 
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Kodiak Directory. 1972-73 edition Island Publishing Co., unknown odiak AK:: . 4to. Approx. 100 pp unpaginated. Over 100 illust. ads text illusts. Sepia-tinted illust. covers stapled as issued VG copy. First edition thus of this scarce telephone and city directory. ISBN : 0 
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Totem lore of the Alaska Indian and the land of the Totem Walter C. Waters, unknown Wrangell AK:: . 8vo. 116 2 pp. Numerous photos illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs cover art of Totem Pole NF. Revised edition of this excellent work on the history and legends of the Tlingit and other Alaskan Indian tribes. ISBN : 0 
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Pictorial Histories, unknown Missoula MT:: . 4to. ix 3 260 pp. 100s of photos maps illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs mnr shlfwr rubbng VG copy. Early printing of this informative work on the retaking of Attu Island at the end of the Aleutian Islands Alaska from the Japanese during World War II the construction of the Alaska-Highway-Canol project capturing the first intact Japanese Zero and more. ISBN : 0 
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Lifeline to the Yukon. A history of Yukon River Navigation Superior Publishing, hardcover Seattle:: . 4to. 152 pp. Colour frntsp. over 100 illusts some colour photos maps on endpapers. Blue boards gilt lettrng mnr shlfwr w/ d.j. mnr edgewear mnr rubbng couple mnr tears VG/G. First edition stated. ISBN : 0 
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Wager with the wind. The Don Sheldon story. Foreword by Bradford Washburn Rand McNally & Co., hardcover Chicago:: . 8vo. 256 pp. Photo illusts. maps on endpapers. Blue cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition 1st printing stated of this exciting biography of the famed Alaskan bush pilot. ISBN : 0 
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Ten thousand miles with a dog sled. A narrative of winter travel in interior Alaska Charles Scribner's Sons, hardcover New York:: . 8vo. xxii 420 pp. Photogravure frntsp. numerous photo illusts 1 large folding colour map. Blue cloth gilt lettrng slght rubbng shlfwr a VG copy w/ Pegasus bkplate on frnt pstdn of John Toornman. Second edition revised of this excellent account of trekking by dogsled across Alaska by the co-leader of the first expedition to climb the south peak of Mt. McKinley in 1913. ISBN : 0 
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Thames and Hudson, paperback London:: . 4to. 128 pp. 193 illusts 33 in colour. Colour-illust. softcvrs NF. Early softcover edition of this lavishly illustrated work on alchemy and cosmic symbolism. ISBN : 0 
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Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc., hardcover New York:: . 8vo. xx 575 3 pp. Blue embssd cloth gilt lettrng vry slght shlfwr w/ d.j. mnr clsd tears edgewear still VG/G copy w/ frmr owrshp inscrptn on frnt pstdn. Third edition 2nd printing of the AA Big book. ISBN : 0 
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Row, Peterson and Co., hardcover Evanston IL:: . 8vo. 256 pp. Over 100 colou illust. Gray-blue cloth blue lettrng two children on yellow horse frnt cvr minor wear ex-lib mrkngs on frnt pstdn still VG- copy. Early printing of this reader in the Alice & Jerry series. ISBN : 0 
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National Maritime Day. May 22 1946 Propeller Club of the United States, unknown New York:: . 4to. 159 1 pp. Numerous photos illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs slght shlfwr vry slght bmpng to crnrs still VG copy. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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The American Merchant Marine. Hero in war -- stepchild in peace Committee of American Steamship Lines, unknown Washington DC:: . 4to. 52 pp. Numerous photos illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs slght shlfwr vry slght bmpng to crnrs still VG copy. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, unknown London:: . Thick tall 8vo. vii 1 578 pp. plus 10 pp. publ. ads. Title in red & blk frntsp. numerous plates. Illust. printed softcvrs mnr creasng to spine edgewear VG copy. First edition of this informative and invaluable reference catalogue for Americana filled with items we will mostly never see on the market again. ISBN : 0 
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Leypold & Holt, hardcover New York:: . 12mo. xxi 1 195 1 pp. Three-quarter plum cloth gilt lettrng on spine mnr chppng hd & ft of spine sunng edgewear still G- copy w/ contemporary ownership inscription of James M. Cutcher Univ. of Virginia Charlottesville. First edition of this scarce Anglo-Saxon grammar and primer including selections from Life of St. Gutilac King Alfred's Orosius Alfred's Boethius Cadmon's paraphrase of the scriptures and the poem of Judith. ISBN : 0 
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American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, hardcover New York:: ca. . 12mo. 378 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Engravd frntsp. 11 engravd plates. Embssd & decorated brwn cloth mnr rubbng & bmpng to hd & ft of spine crnrs vry lght foxng still a VG copy. First edition of this scarce anti-Catholic polemic equating Catholicism with paganism idolatry and more. ISBN : 0 
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Macmillan, hardcover New York:: . 8vo. xvi 2 348 pp. Frntsp. numerous plates. Red cloth blue lettrng & decrtn slgt shlfwr rubbng still a VG copy. First edition 1st printing stated of this excellent history and ethnology of the Apache which was to have been the work of the author's friend Charles Morgan Wood. ISBN : 0 
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Maison d'Editions Scientifiques, hardcover Paris:: . 8vo. lvii 3 240 pp. Title in red & blk. Engraved frntsp. by Paul Avril of nude women in a harem setting. Black cloth gilt lettrng & Arabic lettrng on frnt cvr gilt lettrng on spine uncut fore-edges vry mnr shlfwr slght toning to endpapers still a superb copy. First edition thus No. 181 of 300 copies of this exceedingly scarce example of erotic Arab literature with numerous notes and pieces by Richard Burton translated and published anonymously by Charles Carrington 1867-1921 who published an earlier version in 1896 under the title Marriage Love and Woman amongst the Arabs w/ different frontispiece. The Arab work attributed loosely to Jalal-ad-Din as-Siyati in the preface touches on Islam's prophet and polygamy woman's role in Islam sensualism of the Koranic paradise quite detailed text as well as extensive notes drawn from other sources. Paul Avril was considered one of the finest illustrators of erotica at the end of the 19th and early 20th century. ISBN : 0 
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David McKay, unknown Philadelphia:: ca. . Thick tall 8vo. xii 13-784 pp. Over 150 woodcut engraved plates & text illusts. Decrtd & illust. brown cloght blk & gilt lettrng VG. Early 19th-century American edition of the Lane translation of these classic tales. ISBN : 0 
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Dover, hardcover New York:: . 8vo. xvi 424 pp. Frntsp. historiated lozenge on title numerous plates illusts. Red cloth blk lettrng NF. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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Lyons Press, unknown New York:: . 8vo. 156 2 pp. Numerous photos illusts. diagrams. Colour-illust. softcvrs NF. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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David Williams, paperback New York:: . Folio. xii 45-64 xiii-xxiv pp. 100s of text illusts. & engravings diagrams. Self-printed wrappers w/ index & illust. ads on recto & verso of both covers vry slght shlfwr rubbng an excellent copy. First edition thus of this scarce carpentry and architectural magazine. Of special interest are the lavishly illustrated ads of machinery ornamental iron work hardware stoves elevators street lights and tools. ISBN : 0 
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David Williams, paperback New York:: . Folio. xii 21-40 xiii-xxiv pp. 100s of text illusts. & engravings diagrams. Self-printed wrappers w/ index & illust. ads on recto & verso of both covers vry slght shlfwr rubbng mnr soilng uppr fore-edge frnt cvr still a VG copy. First edition thus of this scarce carpentry and architectural magazine. Of special interest are the lavishly illustrated ads of machinery ornamental iron work hardware stoves elevators ornamental glass street lights and tools. In addition there is an excellent article on the Temple Skating Rink in Elizabeth New Jersey. ISBN : 0 
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David Williams, paperback New York:: . Folio. xiv 145-164 xv-xxviii pp. 100s of text illusts. & engravings diagrams. Self-printed wrappers w/ index & illust. ads on recto & verso of both covers vry slght shlfwr rubbng an excellent copy. First edition thus of this scarce carpentry and architectural magazine. Of special interest are the lavishly illustrated ads of machinery ornamental iron work hardware stoves elevators ornamental glass street lights and tools. ISBN : 0 
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National Association of Sheet Metal Contractors, unknown Philadelphia:: . 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. Numerous plates blueprints diagrams photos. Textured printed softcvrs blk lettrng mnr shlfwr rubbng VG. First edition of this exceedingly scarce work for sheet metal architectural details. ISBN : 0 
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Tomorrow's house. How to plan your post-war home now Simon and Schuster, hardcover New York:: . 4to. 10 214 pp. 100s of photo & text illusts. Tweed gray boards red lettrng mnr bmpng to hd & ft of spine rubbng shlfwr still G copy w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this well-illustrated guide to mid-20th-century modern architecture and home design. ISBN : 0 
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Homasote Co., hardcover Trenton NJ:: . Oblong 4to. 1475 approx. 100 pp. in tables. Numerous photos plates diagrams text illusts. Blue & wht printed boards spiral-bound as issued a few leaves at beginning of textblk loose mnr rubbng shlfwr still a nice copy w/ frmr ownrshp signature on endpapers. First edition No. 302 of this exceedingly scarce home-building catalogue for the pany including sections on the Bemis modular design shop fabrication field erection unit selling and simplified estimating. The Homasote company was a significant force in rapidly producing desperately needed housing quickly and cheaply to meet the incredible demand as war workers moved to defense industry centers across the United States. Their innovations were adopted by many other builders and contributed to the tremendous explosion of suburbs and home building after the War as well. This catalogue nicely illustrates the different home models available their floor plans and of course the furnishings to be supplied as well. ISBN : 0 
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Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, hardcover San Francisco:: . Tall 8vo. iv 82 14 pp. Title in red & blk. Tipped-in photo frntsp. large folding map. Beige cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j. tear lwr fore-edge back cvr NF/G. First edition 1 of 600 copies printed of this invaluable work containing previously untranslated accunts by Sedelmayr of the Southwest in the 18th century. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. ISBN : 0 
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Arizona. The history of a frontier state Hobson & Herr, hardcover Phoenix AZ:: . Thick 8vo. xiii 3 408 pp. Photos maps text illusts. illust. endpapers. Red cloth gilt lettrng on spine slght sunng VG. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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Kindly lent their owner. The private collection of Steve Martin Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, unknown Las Vegas:: . 4to. 103 1 pp. Numerous colour plates illusts. photos. Colour-illust. softcvers vry mnr crease to frnt cvr a very nice copy. First edition of this scarce Exhibition Catalogue of the art collection of the actor Steve Martin including works by Hopper Koch Seurat Lichtenstein Lucian Freud Willem de Koning Hockney Picasso Crumb Eric Fischl and others. ISBN : 0 
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Art nouveau Bing. Paris style 1900 Smithsonian, paperback New York:: . 4to. 295 1 pp. 100s of photo & text illusts. colour plates colour illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs mnr shlfwr VG copy. First softcover edition of this exhibition catalogue illustrating and demonstrating the role of the Bing family and their influence on the Art Nouveau movement. ISBN : 0 
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Random House, hardcover New York:: c. . 8vo. viii 148 2 pp. Numerous illusts. Colour-printed boards mnr rubbng hd of spine still VG copy. First edition of No. 19 in this excellent mystery series. ISBN : 0 
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Random House, hardcover New York:: c. . 8vo. 178 pp. Numerous illusts. Colour-printed boards slght chppng hd of spine still VG copy. Early printing of No. 10 in this excellent mystery series. ISBN : 0 
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Random House, hardcover New York:: c. . 8vo. 178 pp. Numerous illusts. Colour-printed boards slght shlfwr mnr rubbng slghtly cockd VG. First edition 2nd printing of No. 12 in this excellent mystery series. ISBN : 0 
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Grosset & Dunlap, unknown New York:: . 8vo. 280 pp. Colour frntsp. numerous colour plates text illusts. illust. endpapers w/ d.j. slght shlfwr price-clppd NF/VG- w/ bkplate on half-title. Reprint edition of this anthology of Arthurian romances from the Illustrated Junior Library series. ISBN : 0 
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Random House, hardcover New York:: . 8vo. 182 2 pp. Frntsp. numerous illusts. Colour illust. boards mnr rubbng shlfwr VG. First edition 2nd printing of this 15th title in the Three Investigators series. ISBN : 0 
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American Arts & Crafts from the collection of Alexandra & Sidney Sheldon Palm Springs Desert Museum, unknown Palm Springs CA:: . 4to. 103 1 pp. Over 100 colour photos. Colour-illust. softcvrs NF. First edition of this scarce exhibition Catalogue. ISBN : 0 
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Astoria. Illustrations by Harold Cramer Smith. Clatsop edition Binfords & Mort, hardcover Portland OR:: . Lg. 8vo. xxix 1 475 1 pp. Numerous text illust. Green cloth blk lettrng w/ d.j. chppng tears VG/G from library of Lewis Jeaudoin descendant of Charles Jeaudoin fur trapper for the Hudson Bay Company. First edition thus of this excellent history of the adventures and exploits of John Jacob Astor's fur trading enterprise including much first-hand material and notes of Astor himself. ISBN : 0 
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Harper & Brothers, hardcover New York:: . Thick 8vo. 864 pp. Over 100 text engravings maps illusts. Three-quarter red calf over marbled boards gilt lettrng wear rubbng to fore-edges w/o main title still a G copy. First edition. ISBN : 0 
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US Navy & Marine Corps. Air Power Directory Aerospace Publishing, World Air Power Journal, hardcover London:: . 4to. 232 pp. 100s of colour illusts. photos diagrams. Blue boards gilt lettrng slght bmpng 1 crnr w/ d.j. VG/NF. First edition of this impressive history of the organization deployment and order of battle aircraft air-launched weapons US Navy and Marine Corps units carriers ships & US Coast Guard units. ISBN : 0 
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US Air Force Air Power directory Aerospace Publishing, World Air Power Journal, hardcover London:: . 4to. 232 pp. 100s of colour illusts. photos diagrams. Blue boards gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this work which describes the each component from missions to weapon fits aircraft to airbases squadrons to insignia providing a complete reference work to the United States Air Force after the Gulf War. ISBN : 0 
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The United States Air National Guard Aerospace Publishing, World Air Power Journal, hardcover London:: . 4to. 224 pp. 100s of colour illusts. photos diagrams. Blue boards gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this work which describes the each component from missions to weapon fits aircraft to airbases squadrons to insignia providing a complete reference work to the United States Air National Guard. In addition there is an excellent history of the Service. ISBN : 0 
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Aero Publishers, hardcover Fallbrook CA:: 1962-. Seven vols. Sml. folio. 247 7; 291 7; 286 6; 315 5; 288 6; 364 4; 352 pp. 1000s of photos diagramsillusts. Uniformly bound in blue cloth gilt lettrng occasional rubbng edgewear slghtly cockd on a couple spines w/ d.j.s mnr edgewear rubbng slght sunng still a VG-/VG- set. First editions of the first 7 volumes of this great series intended to cover all civil airplanes given an Approved Type Certificate by the U.S. Government including Buhl-Verville Airster Travel Air 6000 Bird Biplane Parks P-2 Lockheed Sirius Boeing 247 C-W Condor Fairchild 24-C8E Arrow Sport Model F Taylorcraft BL Douglas DC-3 Piper Cub Stinson Reliant and 100s more. ISBN : 0 
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