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Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine somewhat faded. 256 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY BILL HUGHES, Special Branch, New Scotland Yard, to John Isham, American serviceman who served there in the 1940s. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Engravings and illustrations throughout, some in color. Minor cover and corner edge wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Minor stain on bottom corner from page 305 to rear endpaper. Otherwise, all pages clean and binding tight.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 303 pages plus ads. Notable for the illustrations by Norman Rockwell, four b&w plates. No date in the book but appears to be around 1930. The book has a dust jacket with a color illustration but that does not appear to be Rockwell's work. Dust jacket is bright but has some light spotting.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, color illustrations throughout. "Combining pictures, words, and a wealth of personal ephemera, scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books a moment, a day, or a lifetime. This illustrated book focus on the history of American scrapbooks - their origins, their makers, their diverse forms, the reasons for their popularity, and their place in American cultural life." Examines the evolution of scrapbooks from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present, concentrating on the first half of the twentieth century. She includes color photographs from more than two hundred scrapbooks, some made by private individuals and others by the famous, including Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Anne Sexton, Hilda Doolittle, and Carl Van Vechten.

Hardcover. Roma, CalicEditori, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Bright navy dust jacket with photograph & red printed titles. Clean, unmarked & crisp copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 625 pages, 700 b&w plates. Light edgewear to dust jacket, small tear; previous price sticker on front flap. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Working from the fossil record, Richard Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct - or did they? He traces the 200-million-year history of the great ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs who swam the ancient oceans - and who, according to some, may even still frequent the likes of Loch Ness.The first book about these animals in nearly a century, Sea Dragons draws upon the most recent scientific research to reconstruct their lives and habitats. Along the way, the book also provides insights into and tales about the work, discoveries, and competing theories that compose the world of vertebrate paleontology. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout. A history of the final decades of American square-rigged sail. First-hand accounts of voyages made by three well-born young men from Massachusetts; two were sons of whaling families and a third sailed the Pacific. Original brown cloth publisher's covers with silver spine lettering. Published in conjunction with Martha's Vineyard Historical Society and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Clean copy.

Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 145 pages. Black and white photographs and sketches throughout. Cohesive history follows the evolution of United States coastal defense from the 1700s until World War II. Appendix. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd., reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 270 pages. Minor spine, edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt top edge. Clean and tight copy. The Seaman's Vade-Mecum was an 18th century English naval textbook. First printed in 1744; a revision of R. Park's Defensive War by Sea. Containing the Proportions of Rigging, Masts and Yards, Weight of Anchors, Sizes and Weights of Cables and Cordage, List of the Navy.

Hardcover. Berryville, VA, Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Buff fabric covered with gilt title on spine. From the back cover: "Season of Fire is the most complete and dramatic study to date of Early's invasion of the north and battle of Monocacy--an engagement that may well have saved the Nation's Capitol from capture."

Hardcover. Mohr Siebeck, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Historical Committee Second Division Association/HIllman Press, 1st Edition, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations/maps throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (faded) and front cover board, some agewear. Some light tanning to pages. Binding good. Spine straight. The story of the "American Regulars" in WWI.

Softcover. Port Moresby AU, University of Papua and New Guinea, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 675 pages. Papers delivered at a seminar sponsored jointly by the University of Papua and New Guinea, the Australian ... at Port Moresby from 30 May to 5 June 1968. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Tokyo, Shinbaku Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated in color. The modern era of underground doll-making in Japan began in the late 1960s, with the experiments of Simon Yotsuya and Nori Doi. Directly inspired by the Surrealist Doll constructed by Hans Bellmer in 1932, Simon Yotsuya created a series of ball-jointed, life-sized dolls which featured in his ground-breaking "Eve In The Past And The Future" exhibition in Tokyo, in 1973. Simon Yotsuya's work inspired a new wave of avant-garde Japanese doll-making, headed by artists such as Ryo Yoshida and Katan Amano, which has continued to flourish to the present day. SECRET DOLLeEUR^UNDERGROUND, presented by Yuichi Konno, features dolls by fifteen artists, from Simon Yotsuya onwards, with over 80 full-sized colour photographs never before published outside Japan. It also includes Konno's introductory history of the underground doll in Japan.

Hardcover. Venice IT, Arsenale Editrice, 2nd Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages, color photos throughout. This edition of Secret Gardens in Venice, entirely in color, is intended to satisfy the growing desire of Venetians and tourists to know more about this fascinating city and its history. Examining both the present reality and the past history of the gardens of Venice, the authors seek to understand the special fascination of these places. Gianni Berengo Gardin has created a series of fascinating poetic images, which reveal a wholly new and unknown side of Venice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 3rd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, David Kemp & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 117 pages. Secret Writing is an authoritative popular work for the beginner as well as the advanced enthusiast, explaining the principles underlying the construction and deciphering of all types of cryptograms, ciphers and codes. Numerous problems and teasers are presented, and the key to their solution suggested. The author was a long-time editor and writer for pulp magazines and contributed a cryptography column to The Shadow magazine. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that Star Wars has, capturing the imaginations of filmgoers and filmmakers alike. Now, for the first time ever, Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, the bestselling authors of The Fifty-Year Mission, are telling the entire story of this blockbuster franchise from the very beginning in a single exhaustive volume. Featuring the commentaries of hundreds of actors and filmmakers involved with and impacted by Star Wars, as well as writers, commentators, critics, executives, authors, film historians, toy experts and many more, Secrets of the Force, will reveal all in Altman and Gross's critically acclaimed oral history format from the birth of the original film through the latest sequels and the new televisions series. 550 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear to top of dj spine, 429 pages. The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, we're no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the "romance" of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to today's age of psycho-pharmacology. In Secrets of the Soul, Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved-sometimes under pressure-from sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. COMIC BOOKS ARECORRUPTING AMERICA'S YOUTH! Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe--people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books." And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr--comics syndicate troubleshooter--has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader...?Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT pulls back the curtain for an insider's view of the history of comics--and features more than a dozen brand new illustrations in the classic EC style by comic book legend Terry Beatty. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. COMIC BOOKS ARECORRUPTING AMERICA'S YOUTH! Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe--people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books." And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr--comics syndicate troubleshooter--has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader...?Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT pulls back the curtain for an insider's view of the history of comics--and features more than a dozen brand new illustrations in the classic EC style by comic book legend Terry Beatty. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Neale Publishing, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbled brown cloth with maroon lettering (bearly readable), 163 pages. A history of coastal Georgia taken from oral reminiscences of Wylly's distinguished family and their friends and acquaintances. Hinges cracked, light fraying to top and bottom of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.