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Games Dogs Play Baker, Stephen McGraw-Hill 1979 0070034516 / 9780070034518 First Hardcover Fine Very Good Jacket Roy McKie, Illustrator First Edition (full number line) in original dust jacket. Very clean blue-white boards with turquoise blue cloth spine, white lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with very appealing drawings by Roy McKie. 170 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap, curved closed corner tear to back panel corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. 025291
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County Baker, Tiffany New York Grand Central Publishing 2009 0446194204 / 9780446194204 First Hardcover Near Fine Fine Jacket First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped jacket. Clean brown boards with tan spine, black lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 341 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's first novel, a poignant story of friendship, love, and identity laced with magic and humor. 020854
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The Bridge of The Gods - A Romance of Indian Oregon Balch, F. H. Chicago A. C. McClurg 1912 Illustrated Edition Hardcover Very Good no dust jacket L. Maynard Dixon, Illustrator Decorated American trade binding, with publisher's pamphlet enclosed, preface by the author. Dark blue cloth boards with blue, black, and pale blue decoration on cover, stamped gold lettering. A few small faint spots to rear cover, otherwise clean. Tiny closed tear at top spine edge (1/16"). Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date (neat) on front free endpaper. Eight full-page illustrations by L. Maynard Dixon. Sixteenth Edition. 280 pages. All-time Oregon classic, an intensely interesting story with faithful portrayal of Northwest Indian life, customs, and legends. 023349
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50.00 USD
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The Siege of Paris Baldick, Robert New York Macmillan 1964 First Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket Stated First American Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with burgundy title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece illustration of huge hot air balloon, many beautiful illustrations throughout taken from contemporary engravings and photographs. 248 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, small closed tear to spine center, not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap). Jacket is reproduced from a plate in "Paris Assiege", by Jules Claretie. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. 024209
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Innocent Bystander Baldwin, Faith New York Grosset & Dunlap 1934 Reprint Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good Jacket Grosset & Dunlap edition in original illustrated jacket. Clean green cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Slight fading at top and bottom spine edges. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date (1936) on front paste-down, brief previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. 312 pages. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (.75 on front inside flap), has some chipping at top and bottom spine edges, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of a married couple going through a scandal and separation - in a delightfully scandalous dust jacket! 021506
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The Wonder-Book of Horses Baldwin, James New York Century Company 1903 First Hardcover Very Good no dust jacket First Edition, published November, 1903 with 1903 on title page. Clean brown cloth boards decorated with two horseheads, blue-green lettering on cover and spine. Very slight fraying to top edge of spine. Pinhead size spot of wear to top board edge. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white glossy plates. 249 pages with Explanatory Index. 025244
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Radio Telephony for Amateurs Ballantine, Stuart Philadelphia David McKay 1923 Second edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket Second edition in scarce original dust jacket. Clean ribbed burgundy cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear through - very small bump at base of rear board. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with small previous owner name and date neatly stamped on front free endpaper. No other marks. Thoroughly illustrated with drawings and photographs. 296 pages with index. Scarce dust jacket Has a few tiny shallow chips at top spine edge, a few short closed edge tears, very minimal soiling, small surface scrape to lower spine; front panel illustrated with photo of man sitting in an old radio room speaking into a hand-held microphone. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. 024802
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Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble Ballard, Mignon F. New York Minotaur Books 2014 1250035627 / 9781250035622 First Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket Stated First Edition (first printing, with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. As new condition. Clean light gray boards with green metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpaper. 262 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A murder mystery set in the summer of 1944 in the state of Georgia. Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, who has taught the town's first graders for decades, and her colleagues are busy at summer jobs in the apple orchard where the murder occurs, and she and her fellow teachers-turned-sleuths won't rest until it solved. 025669
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Beer: Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing Bamforth, Charles W. Insight Books 1998 0306457970 / 9780306457975 First Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Unfaded black boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Foreword by Dave Thomas. Illustrated with photographs, drawings. 245 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A book that enables the nonspecialist to understand the science and technology of brewing beer, written by an esteemed authority on brewing science. Written in a witty and easy-to-understand manner, covering everything from the basis of selection of the best barley, hops, and yeast through the composition of beer as it affects the taste, head, and wholesomeness of the finished product. 027717
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Vanishing Wings Bancroft, Griffing New York Franklin Watts 1972 531-02041-X First Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Jacket John Hamberger, Illustrator Signed First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by author. Clean unfaded gray cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers, no names, writing or marks. Boldly signed by author on front free endpaper. 149 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has two edge chips on rear panel (top and bottom edge), small corner chip on front panel, slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A compelling novel where the main characters are three native American birds--an eagle, a falcon, and an osprey. 8vo. Birds of Prey. 016250
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Cobwebwalking Banerji, Sara Bethesda, MD Adler & Adler 1987 0-917561-40-6 / 9780917561405 First Hard Cover Fine Near Fine Jacket Stated First U.S. Edition. Very clean beige cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 155 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A children's novel about fairies, nature, and the power of love and imagination. 8vo. Children's. 016425
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Mrs. Raffles - Being the Adventures of An Amateur Crackswoman Bangs, John Kendrick New York Harper & Brothers 1905 First Hardcover Good+ no dust jacket Jacket First Edition, Published October, 1905. Decorated American trade binding. Gray cloth boards with decorated cover (woman with two pistols aimed at man with arms up). Black lettering and single rule line border. Gold lettering on spine. Light soiling and fading. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers (previous owner name in erasable pencil on front free endpaper). Frontispiece illustration by Albert Levering with tissue guard, 15 illustrations throughout - should be 16 - missing one illustration (opposite page 66). 180 pages. 024280
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The Enchanted Typewriter Bangs, John Kendrick New York Harper & Brothers 1899 First Hardcover Good no dust jacket Peter Newell, Illustrator First Edition (1899) decorated American trade binding. Beige cloth boards with gold, orange and black typewriter decoration + two faces on cover, bright gold lettering on cover and spine. Spine cloth has darkened, with a little wear to spine corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Old previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper; circular blind-stamp in upper corner of title page. Illustrated by Peter Newell, including frontispiece. Small four-digit number in ink on copyright page. 171 pages. 027071
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The Idiot Bangs, John Kendrick New York Harper & Brothers 1895 First Hardcover Good No Dust jacket First Edition, decorated American trade binding. Green cloth boards with decorated cover (in dark green), gold lettering on spine. Light soiling to boards. Binding is tight, no cracking. Small previous owner name stamped at top edge of front fixed endpaper; same name neatly penned on front free endpaper. Tiny spot of wear to one corner tip; very slight surface wear to other corners. Pages and edges are clean. Illustrated with black and white plates (drawings). 115 pages + six pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book. 022019
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The Inventions of the Idiot Bangs, John Kendrick New York Harper & Brothers 1904 First Hardcover Very Good+ No Dust jacket First Edition decorated American trade binding. Dark green cloth boards with red, black and gold decoration, gold lettering on cover and spine. Slightest hint of surface wear at corners, no bumping or fryaing. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 185 pages. 022119
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The Pantanal - Brazil's Forgotten Wilderness Banks, Vic San Francisco Sierra Club Books 1991 First Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine Jacket Signed First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped jacket, with author-signed typed letter laid in. Clean gray boards with blue-black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with full color photographs. 254 pages with index. Typed letter on author's letterhead, signed by author, to Chair of the Environmental Studies Program and Syracuse College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Clean jacket is not price clipped (22.50 on front inside flap), unchipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Photojournalist and Cinematographer Vic Banks chronicles his adventure in an area of South America that is home to the greatest concentration of wildlife on the continent. 022510
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Cinderella (And Five Other Fairy Plays) Barbee, Lindsey Chicago T. S. Denison & Co. 1922 First Hard Cover Very Good No Dustjacket Jacket Illustrated Signed Mauve embossed boards with delicate white flower design bordering black designed titlebox with mauve lettering on cover. Cloth boards are clean, title box on cover has smudging to printing. Crisp clean black lettering and white flower design on spine. Very light surface wear to top/base of spine and corners. Binding is tight and square. Dated gift inscription SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. No writing on pages. 146 pgs. 5" x 7-1/4". Plays. 014691
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Merritt Leads the Nine Barbour, Ralph Henry New York D. Appleton Century 1936 First Hardcover Near Fine no dust jacket George M. Richards, Illustrator First Edition, First Printing, with (1) on last page of text. Clean orange cloth boards with small black illustration, black lettering on cover and spine. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Small neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front fixed endpaper. Four illustrations by George M. Richards. 256 pages. 024515
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Amedeo Barclay, Daphne New York E. P. Dutton and Company 1958 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Jacket Clean blue cloth boards with small illustration on cover. Very little wear. Binding is tight & square. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. 253 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few very faint speckles to rear panel, several closed edge tears. Enclosed in new mylar cover. 8vo. Novel. 006589
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