New Inventory 02/15/2021

New Inventory 02/15/2021

Fire & Water, A Life of Peter the Great, by Alex De Jonge Hum, Strum, Swing ‘n Sing Gold! Gold!, by Joseph F. Petralia Anchor Manual of Needlework, by Anonymous Recording Britain, Volume III, Oxford University Press The Making of the African Queen, Katharine Hepburn Katherine Hepburn Kenneth N. Walker,…

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New Inventory – 12/27/2020

New Inventory 12/27/2020

Shelf 100 Outrage, by Dick Morris To Let, by John Galsworthy If you Marry Outside Your Faith, by James A. Pike Calling Arizona Home, by Fred Duval and Lisa Schnebly Heidinger The Scientist in the Crib, by Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl Bibliography of the Geology of Newfoundland…

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Video: Box 44, historical books

Box 44 Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Leonardo da Vinci – Los Angeles County Museum.. Lawrence In Arabia The Early Mesoamerican Village The Wonders of Life The Weight of the Evidence – Warren Report Naskapi – the Savage Hunters Droll Stories – Balzac – Dore Inspector Saito’s Small Satori…

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Video: Old & Rare Books, Box 23. Ed Augusts Books

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? Box 23 Precipitous City Of Mice And Men The Orientalist Doctor Rameau The Blessed Bees Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union Essays & Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce On Safari Christian Zen The Black Journey Across Central Africa with the…

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Radio Show – – 09/01/2017 – Ancient Egyptian Art

Friday 09/01/2017 – 6pm EDT, 3pm PDT ? Ed Augusts’ World of Books, History, Ancient Knowledge, World Politics, & a little Esoterica   Ancient Egyptian Art Beautiful ancient Egyptian art turns our minds to a meditation on the warming, benevolent powers of the Great Sphinx, as well as the idea…

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Some Letters from Livingstone 1840-1872

Livingstone, David. Edited by David Chamberlin. Some letters from Livingstone, 1840 – 1872; with an introduction by R. Coupland. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. xvii+280p., illustrated with facsimiles of letters, map, and several drawings. Sixty-eight letters. Includes list of books about Livingstone and the Arab slave trad. A fine…

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The Land and Peoples of the Kasai

Hilton-Simpson, M. W. The Land and Peoples of the Kasai.  Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardback. Reprint of the 1956 original edition. Brown cloth binding stamped in gilt on spine. Very good to fine condition throughout. One of four books from Negro Universities Press, all without a trace of wear, and…

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Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic

Moreau S. Maxwell.  PREHISTORY Of The EASTERN  ARCTIC. – New World Archaeological Record. Academic Press USA  1st Printing, 1985. 327 pages. Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. “This is the story of efficient hunters who maintained their populations with little change over the centuries…”  Very good condition throughout. No…

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Prehistory of Western Siberia

Chernetsov, V.N. and W. Moszynska. PREHISTORY Of WESTERN SIBERIA. Edited by Henry N. Michael.  McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1974.  377 pgs. Illustrated. Hardcover.  8vo, red cloth with orange lettering. Arctic Institute of North America Anthropology of the North. Translations from Russian. Good to very good throughout including dust…

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Yakutia by Okladnikov

      A.P. Okladnikov. Edited by Henry N. Michael.  YAKUTIA BEFORE ITS INCORPORATION INTO THE RUSSIAN STATE. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 1970.  Good to very good condition throughout . Not ex-lib. Green boards with gilt lettering, green dj. 499 pages.  $35.00

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An Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador

McGhee, Robert and Tuck, James A.  An Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1975. Softcover, 4to, orange wraps. 254 pgs. The findings at fifteen different sites are explained. Fine condition throughout, with prev. owner’s name lightly on top right cover corner. This…

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Projectile Techology

Knecht, Heidi  Projectile Technology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Plenum Press, New York & London. 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (numbers 10–1).  Glossy illustrated covers, fine condition. Text and interior are very good throughout. Former owner’s name neatly on front end paper. Plenum is the never-seen First Edition; Springer followed. No other…

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