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American Indian Portraits
Farmington Hills, MI Macmillan Reference Usa/Gale Group 2000 0028654919 / 9780028654911 First Edition Thus Hardcover New
Hardcover has red ground with white lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; still crisp; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs and drawings. Individuals are listed alphabetically; also includes historical events; American Indian Movement; Sand Creek Massacre; Fetterman Massacre; Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Gaming on Indian Reservations; Indian Oratory; Museum of New Mexico; Treaty of Fort Greenville; Nampeyo, Hopi Potter; Great Spirit; Women's National Indian Association; Battle of Tippecanoe; The Bozeman Trail; Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Peyote in the Native American Church; Carlisle Indian School; Scalping; Ghost Dance; time line of American Indian History; sources; glossary; index. ; Macmillan Profiles Series; B & W illustrations; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4; 395 pages
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46.50 USD
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Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi Official Collectors Edition
Newtown, CT Paradise Press, Inc. 1983 Softcover Very Good
Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with lots of color pictures from the movie. Sections are: Saga Continues; Pre-Production; On Location; Post Production. Great piece of Star Wars lore for any avid collector. ; Star Wars Series; Photographs; 8 x 11; 64 pages; Cover has some edge wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, bottom 5/8" of spine missing colored paper covering, and the covers are split from spine due to this, but only about 1/2" or so.
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8.75 USD
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Ackah, C.A. Akan Ethics A Study of Moral Ideas and Moral Behaviour of the Akan Tribes of Ghana
Accra Ghana Universities Press 1988 9964301235 / 9789964301231 First Edition (?) Softcover Very Good+
Soft cover is orange with black lettering on spine. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Bibliography; general index. "This book covers an area of Akan Ethics about which, so far, litte has been written, especially in such detail. The chapters contain a largely descriptive analysis of the moral language used by the Akan peoples, the sanctions employed to enforce morality, and some of the proverbs, tales and myths which refer to Akan moral beliefs..." Extremely scarce title. ; 0.4 x 7.7 x 5.8 Inches; 138 pages; Cover has light shelf wear, sunning, rubbing/scuffing; a few, faint, yellow/tan spots on title page, table of contents, and first preface page.
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73.50 USD
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Andrew, Ian & Dugald Steer Egyptology: Search For The Tomb Of Osiris: Being The Journal Of Miss Emily Sands, November 1926
Cambridge, MA Candlewick Press 2004 0763626384 / 9780763626389 Hardcover New Illustrated by Emily Sands, Nick Harris, Helen Ward
B & W and Color; 1.1 x 12 x 10.3 Inches; 32 pages; Hardcover is gold with gold lettering on front and black lettering on spine. Multi-colored bird in center of front. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with maps, drawings, photographs, letters in envelopes, moveable pieces, etc. "Written as an amateur Egyptologist's travel journal from 1926, each spread covers a distinct area of antiquity and is mainly factual in content, except for the author's chatty asides. The type resembles that of an old manual typewriter and the photos, reproductions, and sketches make the journal seem more realistic. There are papyrus pull-outs, pop-up art, minibooks, and fold-out maps and an envelope in the back with period postcards, ticket stubs, etc. " by Carol Wichman. Very oversized, 5#.
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13.50 USD
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Anonymous Disneyland - the First Thirty Years
No Place Walt Disney Productions 1985 First Edition (?) Hardcover Very Good+
Hard cover is purple with gold lettering on front and spine; gold decoration and color photo paste down on front cover. Purple end papers. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 100+ color and b/w photographs, including renderings of early sketches of the theme park. ; Photographs; 0.6 x 11.3 x 8.8 Inches; 122 pages; Cover has very minor bumping.
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18.50 USD
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Asimov, Isaac The Foundation Trilogy Boxed Set Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire
New York Avon N.D. Soft Cover Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Slip cased set of the entire trilogy. No date listed for publication of this set. No date for this boxed set is listed. Each book is paginated separately. "Winner of The Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series". ; 2.4 x 7.3 x 4.4 Inches; Slip case has sunning, shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, bumps, cracks, tearing away of color layer from cardboard, but is intact. Books have some sunning, light shelf wear. `Foundation' is a 1966 date, 30th printing; 'Second Foundation' is 1964 date, 26th printing; 'Foundation and Empire' is a 1966 date, 27th printing.
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26.50 USD
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Bannerman, Helen Little Black Sambo
New York Platt & Munk, Publishers 1955 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket Illustrated by Eulalie
Hard cover is orange with black lettering on front. Illustrated end papers. Pages are very clean and tight. Copyright page has dates in Roman numerals; 1925/1928/1955. Pages not numbered; 23 pages. Charming drawings by Eulalie; the 12 colored ones are vibrant, and almost leap off the paper. There are 11 B/W drawings. Lovely copy of this 1955 edition with a bright dust jacket. ; B&W and color llustrations; maps; 0.4 x 7.9 x 6.5 Inches; Unpaginated pages; Cover has slight bumping. DJ has light bumping, rubbing/scuffing, 1/4" closed tear at top of front, near spine; front flap clipped at bottom; price showing at top of flap; in a mylar cover.
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56.25 USD
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Barbeau, C. M. Huron And Wyandot Mythology With An Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records No. 11 Anthropological Series: Memoir 80
Ottawa, Ontario Dept. of Mines 1915 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good-
Soft cover is heavy, gray paper with black lettering on front and spine. This is the true, first printing of this title, from 1915, not a reprint, nor from a library. Overall, pages are clean and tight, although weakening. Illustrated with 11 pages of b/w plates, which include 21 photographs. Sections are: Introduction; Cosmogonic and Sociological Myths; Folk-Tales; Traditions; Appendix: Myths; Folk-Tales; Traditions and Anecdotes; Abstracts. At the back of the book, after the plates, is a section with vii pages of recent reports of geological surveys, many of them titled as 'memoirs'. ; B&W Plates; xiv, 437, viii pages; Water stain on bottom, front corner and spine, various light discolorations and creases on covers; sunning, shelf wear, rubbing, some pages have light marks, reinforced binding tape at spine edge of text block, front and back.
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43.25 USD
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Baron, Mike, Bill Reinhold and Linda Lessmann The Punisher: Graphic Novel Intruder
United States Marvel Entertainment Group 1989 First Edition (?) Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Bill Reinhold and Linda Lessmann
Hardbound book with DJ. Cover is black with silver lettering on front and spine. Black endpapers. Pages are clean and tight, except for the one leaf, as noted. Another in the popular 'Punisher' series. Oversized. ; The Punisher Series; Color Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11; Unpaginated pages; Cover has light edge wear; one page in middle of book appears to have dampness rippling, but pictures are clean and unblurred. DJ has light edgewear.
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10.50 USD
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Baumgarten, E. Lee Price Guide And Bibliographic Checklist For Children's & Illustrated Books For The Years 1880-1970: 2004 Edition
Martinsburg, WV E. Lee Baumgarten Books 2003 0964728575 / 9780964728578 Fifth Edition Soft Cover New
Soft cover is heavy, glazed paper. White with black lettering on front and back; turquoise lettering and picture on front. This is the final, and fully expanded, edition by the expert, Baumgarten, in the field. Book is divided into several sections, each with its own page count. New for this edition: original DJ prices for many American books published after 1934. Expanded date range, up from 1960, now to 1970, which adds another 3446 titles. Updated market values. Updated and expanded bibliographic information for titles in the original 1996 edition. Full name of authors and illustrators. Data for this edition has 18,150 records, indexed 3 different ways. Sections are: Author-Sorted Index (full information) ; Illustrator-Sorted Index; Title Cross-Reference (partial information). Evne has a title count, by decade! Oversized, 5#. ; 1.7 x 11.1 x 8.7 Inches; 553 pages
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53.50 USD
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Baumgarten, E. Lee Price Guide And Bibliographic Checklist For Children's & Illustrated Books For The Years 1880-1970: 2004 Edition
Martinsburg, WV E. Lee Baumgarten Books 2003 0964728575 / 9780964728578 Fifth Edition Soft Cover New
Soft cover is heavy, glazed paper. White with black lettering on front and back; turquoise lettering and picture on front. This is the final, and fully expanded, edition by the expert, Baumgarten, in the field. Book is divided into several sections, each with its own page count. New for this edition: original DJ prices for many American books published after 1934. Expanded date range, up from 1960, now to 1970, which adds another 3446 titles. Updated market values. Updated and expanded bibliographic information for titles in the original 1996 edition. Full name of authors and illustrators. Data for this edition has 18,150 records, indexed 3 different ways. Sections are: Author-Sorted Index (full information) ; Illustrator-Sorted Index; Title Cross-Reference (partial information). Evne has a title count, by decade! Oversized, 5#. ; 1.7 x 11.1 x 8.7 Inches; 553 pages
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Beston, Henry Five Bears and Miranda [5 Bears and Miranda]
New York The MacMillan Company 1945 Second Printing; Hardcover Very Good- with no dust jacket Illustrated by Frank Dobias
Hard cover is blue with black lettering on front and spine. States 'reprinted February 1945,' on copyright page. Binding is tight. Overall, pages are very clean, minor signs of usage. Pages not numbered, there are 60 pages in this book. Illustrated by Frank Dobias with color and b/w drawings on virtually every page, some pages have more than one drawing. Beston [1888-1968] was a prolific and popular author of juvenile stories. Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 1954. In 1959, he was the third recipient of the AAAS' Emerson-Thoreau Medal, previously awarded to only Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot. Scarce title. ; Ex-Library; B & W and Color; 7 1/2 x 9; Unpaginated pages; 2d printing. Former library book with typical markings. Book plate inside front cover is from Michigan State Library and has an extra piece of information printed on it 'damaged in the sstate office building fire February, 1951.' minor foxing to some pages. Cover has bumping, shelf wear, rubbing, sunning, no DJ.
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66.75 USD
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Bialk, Elisa Tizz: South Of The Border
Chicago Childrens Press 1971 0516031139 / 9780516031132 Decorative Cloth Near Fine with no dust jacket Illustrated by Hildegard Lehmann
Cover is green ground with picture of Tizz; light bumping. While this has ex-library markings of a small tag on the spine and a pocket in the back, there are no other marks of any kind on this book and it appears the book was never put in circulation; the pages are still crisp. Reinforced binding. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with many b/w drawings. One of a series about a horse named Tizz. Aside from the named marks, this book is in new condition. ; Tizz Series; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 8vo ; 95 pages
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11.00 USD
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Blair, Ruth Van Ness Willa-Willa, the Wishful Witch
Minneapolis, MN T. S. Denison & Company, Inc. 1972 0513012249 / 9780513012240 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Illustrated by June Talarczyk
Hard cover is yellow with black lettering on spine, oblong shaped, illustrated cover. Former library book. Sewn binding, pages are, overall, clean and tight. Dozens of lovely, coloful illustration, based upon original sketches by the author. Controlled vocabulary list at the rear. "Willa-Willa is a discontented witch who wants to be someone else...she leaves Drismal Forest to find out what she really wants to be". "Willa-Willa is a discontented witch who wants to be someone else...she leaves Drismal Forest to find out what she really wants to be". "Willa-Willa is a discontented witch who wants to be someone else...she leaves Drismal Forest to find out what she really wants to be". "Willa-Willa is a discontented witch who wants to be someone else...she leaves Drismal Forest to find out what she really wants to be".; Ex-Library; Color Illustrations; 8 3/4 x 7; 56 pages; Cover has bumping, sunning, rubbing, typical former library book markings.
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10.25 USD
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Bowen, Gary The Mare's Nest Warren Kimble Illustrates
New York Harpercollins Publishers Inc. 2001 0060284080 / 9780060284084 First Edition First Printing; Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Warren Kimble
Cover is glazed boards. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated endpapers. Pages not numbered. Absolutely fabulous color pictures, in the traditional New England folk style, are throughout the text. Takes place in Vermont in 1846. "Horses, cows, cats and pigs--kidnapped! The only creatures that seem to have a clue to the thefts are the animals who witness the crimes. But how can the painter figure out what his models are trying to tell him? ...." `Charming children's story. ; Color Photographs; 11 1/4 x 8 1/2; Unpaginated pages; Cover has very slight shelf wear and one tiny dent at bottom of front. DJ has 3/4" closed tear at front fold for flap; light rubbing/scuffing.
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7.50 USD
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Brose, David S, James A. Brown, and David W. Penney Ancient Art Of The American Woodland Indians Exhibition Catalogue
Harry N. Abrams, in Association With the Detroit Institute of Arts 1985 0895581051 / 9780895581051 First Edition (?) Softcover Near Fine Illustrated by Dirk Bakker
Softcover is heavy, glazed paper. Grey spine with burgundy lettering. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with 141 color and b/w plates; 32 figures; and a map. This is an exhibition catalogue for a show that appeared at: The National Gallery of Art, Washington , D. C. , March 17 - August 4, 1985; The Detroit Institute of Arts, September 2 - November 11, 1985; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 16 - March 2, 1986. Printed and bound in Japan. Sections are: Introduction; Late Archaic Period; Woodland Period; Mississippian Period; Continuities of Imagery and Symbolism in the Art of the Woodlands; checklist; bibliography; index; photo credits. Oversized/extra heavy; 4#. ; B & W and color illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11; 240 pages; Cover has minor shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing.
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19.50 USD
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Bruchac, Joseph The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems Of The Land Signed Copy
New York Scholastic 1996 Stapled wraps Very Good+ Illustrated by Thomas Locker
Soft cover is stapled wraps. Inside the front cover is an inscription and SIGNATURE OF THE AUTHOR, dated 1996. Pages are clean and tight, overall; first 3 leaves are loose at bottom, but still attached the rest of the way to the book. Illustrated with lavish, colored pictures. Pages not numbered. ISBN in book is 0590131532. ; Color Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11; Unpaginated pages; Cover has light shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, bumping; owner's name written inside front cover. ; Signed by Author
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15.50 USD
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Byfield, Barbara Ninde THE GLASS HARMONICA A Lexicon of the Fantastical [ 1st ]
New York Macmillan Company 1967 First Edition First Printing; Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Hard cover is red, with gold lettering on spine. Brown end papers. Pages are clean and tight, except for the inscription on front end paper. Book is arranged alphabetically. Charming drawings provided by the author. Stated 'first printing' on the copyright page. "...offers the last word on heralds, hermits, and humbugs. On princesses and apprentices. On crones, thrones, and gnomes. On leeches, trulls and, of course, buried treasure. It distinguishes nicely castles from palaces, witches from warlocks, heretics from apostates..." ; B&W Illustrations; 8 1/4 x 10 1/4; 160 pages; Cover has light bumping, shelf wear, tidily written inscription, on front end paper, dated 1969. DJ has light rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, 1/2" closed tear at top of back; price clipped flap; in a mylar cover.
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46.75 USD
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Campbell, Rod Rod Campbell's Lift-the-flap Book Of Animal Fun
New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0671736337 / 9780671736330 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine
Cover is glazed boards. Yellow endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; not numbered. All of the 'flaps' lift, in very good order. The animals in the 'flaps' are: puppies, bears; spiders; rabbits; birds; various zoo animals; pets; mice; cats; frogs; farm animals; lamb; kangaroo; lions. Oversized. ; Pop-Up; Color Illustrations; 8 1/4 x 11; 24 pages; Cover has slight edge wear and bumping, rubbing.
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9.50 USD
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Capatti, Alberto & Giuseppe Vaccarini The Squash History, Folklore, Ancient Recipes
Konemann 1998 3829014627 / 9783829014625 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Hard cover has illustrated cover, same as DJ. Black spine with orange lettering. Illustrated end papers, showing all kinds of gorgeous squash. Oblong shaped. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with dozens of color photographs to accompany the luscious recipes. First published in Italian, 1996. Translated by Pamela Marwood/Ros Schawartz Translations, London. Printed in Hungary. Background on the squash until page 24. Then recipes, from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. Sections are: recipes by Arneo Nizzoli; Squash recipes from famous Italian cities. ; Color Photographs; 0.7 x 9.6 x 8.3 Inches; 143 pages; Cover has minor bumping. DJ has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing, edge wear.
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11.00 USD
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