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Car Builders Cyclopedia of American Practice - Fifteenth Edition 1940 (1973 Reprint ) by: Roy V. Wright, Robert C. Augur, Walter E. Dunham, H.P. Foster: Editors
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Car Builders Cyclopedia of American Practice - Fifteenth Edition 1940 (1973 Reprint )
by: Roy V. Wright, Robert C. Augur, Walter E. Dunham, H.P. Foster: Editors

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Kalmbach Publishing, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket, bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges stained red. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition. Very good condition, 1352 pages. Incomparable reference work on industrial and passenger railroad cars just before World War II. The extensive sections on Pullman and sleeping cars, private cars, motor trains, lighting, provide excellent details on the railroads of the period. Hundreds of detailed photos and dimensioned construction drawings. All types of rolling stock is covered: Box, Hopper, Gondola, Reefer, Stock, Flat, Passenger-Pullman, etc. Details of braking systems, draft gear, trucks, coupler styles and more. Distributorstamp on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 378594

Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00 

Car Builders Dictionary and Cyclopedia-Ninth Edition-1919 by: Roy V. Wright-Editor
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Car Builders Dictionary and Cyclopedia-Ninth Edition-1919
by: Roy V. Wright-Editor

Hardcover. NY, Simmons-Boardman Publishing, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A gargantuan volume, 1334 pages, 8 1/2 x 12". Compiled for manufacturers in the railroad industry. Definitions and Illustrations of American railway cars, their parts and equipment. Thousands of b&w photos, plans and elevations of railroad freight cars, postal cars, passenger cars, sleepers, etc. all shown in minute detail. The same treatment is given to equipment such as brakes, couplers, etc. The book has been professionally rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Scarce. Mild water stain to first 50 pages, otherwise clean. No out-of country shipping on this very heavy volume.

Record # 378139

Price: $350.00
Price: $350.00 

Carter Beats the Devil by: Gold, Glen David
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Carter Beats the Devil
by: Gold, Glen David

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes color illustrations of magic posters. "Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and exuberance of Roaring Twenties, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical - and sometimes dangerous - world, where illusion is everything."

Record # 385001

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in French, The by: Vallier, Jean/Odette Filloux/P. D. Eastman
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Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in French, The
by: Vallier, Jean/Odette Filloux/P. D. Eastman

Hardcover. New York, Beginner Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Hardcover. Dictionary of French and English for young readers. Full color illustrations by P. D. Eastman. Damp odor. Price clipped dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612872

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Catalog Of The Jean Hersholt Collection Of Hans Christian Andersen by: Andersen, Hans Christian
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Catalog Of The Jean Hersholt Collection Of Hans Christian Andersen
by: Andersen, Hans Christian

Softcover. privately printed, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue with bibliographical descriptions. With an introduction by Frederick R. Goff. Frontispiece; vi , 97 pages. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to..

Record # 361924

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Catalogue of the Complete Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz by: Klipstein, August
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Catalogue of the Complete Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz
by: Klipstein, August

Hardcover. NY, Maurizio Martino, 3rd pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 359 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. German text. Red covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A very clean, tight copy. A reprint of the 1955 edition published by Galerie St.Etienne, New York.

Record # 453912

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Catalogue of the Library of the University of Vermont 1854 by: N/A
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Catalogue of the Library of the University of Vermont 1854
by: N/A

Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont , 1st, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with black leather spine, gilt lettering on spine. 164 pages, clean copy. light chipping to spine. The 2-page Preface (anonymous) claims a total of 8,108 volumes.

Record # 396429

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Caterpillar 6 (January 1969) by: Eshleman, Clayton (ed.), Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Gerrit Lansing, Jess Collins, Harvey Bialy, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Duncan
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Caterpillar 6 (January 1969)
by: Eshleman, Clayton (ed.), Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Gerrit Lansing, Jess Collins, Harvey Bialy, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Duncan

Softcover. NY, Clayton Eshleman, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in yellow wrappers, 160 pages. Edited and published by Clayton Eshleman. B/w illustrations. Bibliographical references. Includes advertising matter. Stiff yellow wrappers, printed black. Contains contributions by Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Jack Hirschman, Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski, et al.; plus book reviews, etc. Light soil to wrappers, no markings.

Record # 400176

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Cavalcade of Toys by: Freeman, Ruth and Larry
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Cavalcade of Toys
by: Freeman, Ruth and Larry

Hardcover. New York, Century House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine darkened and discolored. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354211

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Ceramics of the 20th Century by: Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier
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Ceramics of the 20th Century
by: Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, 347 illustrations, 85 in color. A comprehensive guide with factories, artists, potters and techniques all covered. Near fine in a similar dust jacket in a cardboard slipcase.

Record # 605009

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Checklist of American Paintings at Yale University, A by: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E.
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Checklist of American Paintings at Yale University, A
by: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E.

Softcover. New Haven, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 605966

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Child and the Book, The by: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Child and the Book, The by: Lee, Gerald StanleyChild and the Book, The by: Lee, Gerald Stanley

Child and the Book, The
by: Lee, Gerald Stanley

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Reprint, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Gilt top edge. Light pencil markings to a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750609

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

China Collecting in America by: Alice Morse Earle
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China Collecting in America
by: Alice Morse Earle

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Light blue cloth-covered boards illustrated w/floral porcelain design. Gilt lettering on spine. Classic resource on collecting China and English Porcelains including histories of porcelains, early arts in America, designs, and manufacture. The author tells about her china-collecting experiences and tells the history of the pieces she has chosen to illustrate. She also describes how china was made at various American sites. B&w illustrations, previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

Record # 385041

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Chinese Biographical Dictionary, A by: Giles, Herbert A.

Chinese Biographical Dictionary, A
by: Giles, Herbert A.

Hardcover. NA, NA, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1022 pages. Red cloth covers with titles in gilt. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 609153

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century by: Siren, Osvald
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Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century by: Siren, OsvaldChinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century by: Siren, Osvald

Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century
by: Siren, Osvald

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, four volume set complete. Matching gray-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Set from architect Albert Kahn's library with his pencil signature on each fly leaf. Vol. 1 Text, cxlvi plus 168 page index with detailed descriptions of plates. B&w frontispiece. Vol. II Plates 1-205. Vol. III Plates 206-421. Volume IV Plates 422- . Small stickers on bottom of spine. An exceptional set and reference. Very heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399506

Price: $6,000.00
Price: $6,000.00 

Chittenden County, Vermont, Look Around by: Carlisle, Lilian Baker/Samuel J. Hatfield
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Chittenden County, Vermont, Look Around
by: Carlisle, Lilian Baker/Samuel J. Hatfield

Hardcover. Burlington, Chittenden County Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 494 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612951

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Chris Burden by: Hoffman, Fred and John Berger
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Chris Burden
by: Hoffman, Fred and John Berger

Hardcover. Newcastle UK, Locus + Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages, gray hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket all in very good condition. Contains 377 illustrations, including 244 in color. Five essays, documentation of pieces, reference material. the most comprehensive monograph on Chris Burden to date. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 350644

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man: A Challenge to Semidetsia by: Ivor De Wolfe
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Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man: A Challenge to Semidetsia
by: Ivor De Wolfe

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, in yellow linen boards with titling in gold. 156 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man, addresses "urban living" in the mid- to late twentieth century with reference to the impact of technology, new town planning, the death of the automobile, and a tongue-in- cheek attitude towards the then contemporary issues informing the development of urbanism in both academic and public imagination. At times bitingly critical, and at others erudite if not wholly 'politically correct' Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man is a refreshing look back at 'cutting edge' developments in architecture and urbanism from the 1970s, and is surprisingly relevant given our current situation. An uncommon title by the great promoter of modernism. the author edited Architectural Review and wrote several articles for it as well as books under the pseudonym, Ivor De Wolfe. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399436

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Cleo de 5 a 7 (BFI Film Classics) by: Steven Ungar
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Cleo de 5 a 7 (BFI Film Classics)
by: Steven Ungar

Softcover. NY, British Film Institute/Palgrave, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 119 pages, b&w photos, Cleo de 5 a 7, Agnes Varda's classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Cleo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda, the only major female French director of the period, never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du Cinema group of critics turned filmmakers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic context, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cleo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cleo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a document of a specific historical moment.

Record # 374736

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise
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Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, LouiseCluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise

Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers
by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise

Hardcover. Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, black title on spine and front cover. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Brown endpapers. This book challenges widespread asumptions about common-sense philosophies and provides a major reassessment of an influential segment of the history of ideas.

Record # 99067

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Collector's Encyclopedia of American Dinnerware, The by: Cunningham, Jo
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Collector's Encyclopedia of American Dinnerware, The
by: Cunningham, Jo

Hardcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 334 pages. Black & white and color photographs.

Record # 204180

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Colonial Houses of Worship in America, The by: Rose, Harold Wickliffe
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Colonial Houses of Worship in America, The
by: Rose, Harold Wickliffe

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 574 pages. Nearly 400 photographs pictures 345 still standing houses of worship ranging from English medieval Gothic to classical Georgian, most of them pinpointed on 15 maps. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Dust jacket with minor edge wear. Original blue slip case, edge wear at bottom and opening edge. previous owner's inscription in front. Otherwise a clean, tight and crisp copy.

Record # 804956

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Colonial Interiors: Federal and Greek Revival/Third Series by: Eberlein, Harold Douglas & Cortland Van Dyke Hubbard
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Colonial Interiors: Federal and Greek Revival/Third Series
by: Eberlein, Harold Douglas & Cortland Van Dyke Hubbard

NY, William Helburn, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers stamped in gilt. 153 b&w plates, mostly photographic. American domestic interiors, homes from New Jersey, Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland pictured in detail. An exceptional reference book in excellent condition, clean.

Record # 379636

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Colonial Riflemen in the American Revolution by: Huddleston, Joe D.
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Colonial Riflemen in the American Revolution
by: Huddleston, Joe D.

Hardcover. York, George Shumway, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 71 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Stain along dust jacket spine and edge of front and rear dust jacket cover. No slipcase. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611411

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00