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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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: Used & Rare Books — Box 78

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Box 78 — 23 books! The Last Three Minutes The New Families: Youth, Communies, and the Politics of Drugs Saratoga Trunk —  Edna Ferber The Yeats Country Georg Trakl 1919 – Giampaoli The Spirit of 1906 How To Buy Gold Rosemary Leaves – 1873 Feudal Society Volume 2: Social Classes…

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Video: Used & Rare Books — Box 81

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Box 81 Physics for Students of Science — 1 Physics for Students of Science — 2 Robinson Crusoe Inquisition and Liberty  Principles of Railroad Transportation  The Universe in a Nutshell Family Outing – Bono Tulane, The Biography of a University 1834-1965 The Blue Flower An Historians Approach to Religion –…

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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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Video: Used & Rare! Box 26 of Ed Augusts Books

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Box 26 – 18 books Barbershop Ballads – (as appears in video) – Sold Barbershop Ballads – alternate Erotic Astrology – Sold The Middle of the Road – Gibbs Archaeological Notes – sold Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains Reindeer & Caribou Hunters The Study of Prehistoric Change The Chinese…

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The Walls of Constantinople

Baker, R. Granville. The Walls of Constantinople. John Milne, London, 1910. Hardcover. Black lettering and design stamped on reddish brown cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 30 illustrations. Good, with tear to top left edge of spine. Text and interior are very good and well-bound. Ex-lib with markings on spine and…

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Autobiography of James L. Smith

Smith, James L. Autobiography of James L. Smith: Including Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, Etc.  Hardcover. Negro Universities Press, New 150 pgs. a fine copy without names or markings, in original cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Without d.j.…

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The Black Journey: Across Central Africa with the Citroën expedition

Georges-Marie Haardt. The Black Journey: Across Central Africa with the Citroën Expedition. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. 326 pgs Complete with photos and maps. A fine copy in original cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. No dust-jacket, as issued. Famous trans-Africa 1920’s expedition from Algeria to Capetown, in…

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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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Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements…

Sonata Mulattica:  A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play : Poems by Rita Dove.  W.W. Norton, New York. 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. 229 pages. Gold lettering on brown and cream-colored hardcover. Fine condition throughout, without any trace of wear, in fine dustjacket  Ambitious poem and play about a…

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History of Kane County

Robinson, Adonis Findlay. editor. History of Kane County.  Kane County Daughters of Utah Pioneers  Utah Printing Co., Salt Lake City, 1970. Hardcovet. 8vo. 626 pgs. Incl. index.  Gilt lettering and designs on orange-red cloth covers. Illustrated throughout with several hundred b&w photos. The title sounds like Steinback or Faulkner, but…

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