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HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS; Around the Coral Sea

Mytinger, Caroline · 1942

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Very Good+ The Macmillan Company Light wear and darkening to boards. Front hinge not tight; Real headhunters and cannibals enliven this account of an expedition intended to record the lives and cultures of the 'uncivilized' peoples of the region. Map in front endpaper.; B&W Il...

TALES AND NOVELS; Volumes I and II in One Book

Edgeworth, Maria · 1853

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

Very Good Harper & Brothers Boards a bit faded and with light rubbing to extremities. First and last few pages foxed. Light foxing through the book; Harper's stereotype edition (18 vols bound in 9). With numerous steel engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall New York

THE HIGH VALLEY

Read, Kenneth E. · 1965

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket Charles Scribner's Sons DJ browned and worn with small open tear upper right rear.; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 267 pages New York

SEASONED TIMBER

Canfield, Dorothy · 1939

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Very Good Harcourt, Brace & Company Endpapers a bit browned. Back hinge started; Including beautiful color frontispiece; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 485 pages New York

ADAM WITH ARROWS; Inside Aboriginal New Guinea

Simpson, Colin · 1955

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Praeger DJ price clipped and with moderate wear. DJ back corner missing.; Author Simpson was the first outsider to journey to aboriginal New Guinea, and the first to travel there.; B&W and Color Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages New York

A MEASURE OF TIME

Guy, Rosa · 1983

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Holt, Rinehart and Winston First Edition Front free endpaper has very small area of glue residue from removed tape. Slight wear to DJ; INSCRIBED by the author on front free endpaper to the photographer Gordon Parks; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pa...

RACE HOSS; Big Emma's Boy

Sample, Albert Race · 1984

$110.00 (€99.80 | £83.26 | ¥17,560)

Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Eakin Press Including a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the literary agency and addressed to Gordon Parks. The book is stamped on front free endpaper by the literary agency; 8vo; 320 pages Austin

WHERE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS SHINE

Stallworth, Anne Nall · 1977

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Vanguard Press Nicely INSCRIBED by the author on front free endpaper to the famous photographer Gordon Parks, dated January 3, 1988; 8vo 8" - 9" tall New York

THE STONES OF SUMMER

Mossman, Dow · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Barnes & Noble Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper; SIGNED by the author on title page - dated Nov. 03; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 586 pages New York

THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem · 1940

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Very Good+ Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition Slightly rambling account of the Panama Canal area, Polynesia, the Pacific Ocean, etc.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages New York

THE STORY OF THE GUIDES

Younghusband, G. J. · 1908

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Very Good Macmillan and Co. Endpapers a bit yellowed. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages London

AT THE FOOT OF SINAI

Clemenceau, Georges · 1922

$155.00 (€140.63 | £117.32 | ¥24,744)

Very Good+ Bernard G. Richards Company First Edition Fraying to spine ends. Bookplate to front pastedown. Ex-lib with inkstamps to title page and due date register tipped to rear endpaper. Binding loose in spots; Author Clemenceau was Prime Minister of France on two separate o...

THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE

Pinkerton, Allan · 1875

$155.00 (€140.63 | £117.32 | ¥24,744)

Very Good+ W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co. Light rubbing and a few minute tears to spine heels. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; Green cloth boards with decoration in gilt and black. Pictorial gilt decoration of an eye, undertitled "We never sleep" in gilt letterings. Rare!...

SHIPBUILDING IN IRON AND STEEL; A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details of Construction, Processes of Manufacture, and Building Arrangements; with Results of Experiments on Iron and Steel, and on the Strength and Watertightness of Riveted Work

Reed, E. J. · 1869

$390.00 (€353.84 | £295.20 | ¥62,258)

Good+ John Murray Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Two small closed tears to outer hinge top spine. Light occasional foxing not affecting readability or illustrations. Hinges weakening.; Including numerous sketches, tables, fold-outs and an index; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" -...

HISTORIA DA FILOSOFIA; Vida E As Ideias Dos Grandes Filosofos

Durant, Will · 1935

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,735)

Very Good- Companhia Editora Nacional Boards browned and chipped along edges. Several spine creases. Pages browned and with quite some foxing expecially to first and last few pages.; INSCRIBED on front endpaper by the renowned historian Will Durant to an antiquarian bookdealer...

SOVIET STRENGTH

Johnson, Hewlett [Dean Of Canterbury] · 1943

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.97 | ¥22,349)

Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Frederick Muller Ltd. Second Edition DJ with small chips. Light occasional foxing; SIGNED by the Dean of Canterbury with ink on the title page; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 154 pages London

MUSIC FOR ALL OF US

Stokowski, Leopold · 1943

$490.00 (€444.57 | £370.89 | ¥78,222)

Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Simon and Schuster First Edition; Third Printing DJ spine browned and with small chips. Front endpaper yellowed. Rear endpaper browned and lightly foxed from related newspaper article laid-in; SIGNED by Leopold Stokowski with ballpoint pen o...

AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE

Child, Harold · 1911

$215.00 (€195.06 | £162.74 | ¥34,322)

Very Good+ A & C Black First Edition White boards a bit darkened and with minimal rubbing to extremities. Endpapers browned. Former owner's name on front free endpapers.; Scarce. Illustrations by A. Anderson - tissue guarded color paintings with nice decorative gilt border.; 4...

A GOLDEN TREASURY OF SONGS AND LYRICS

Palgrave, Francis Turner · 1911

$340.00 (€308.47 | £257.35 | ¥54,276)

Very Good+ Duffield & Company Light rubbing to extremities. Front hinge not tight; Blue boards with tipped in color illustration to front cover and gilt linear design. Gilt spine lettering. Numerous tissue guarded color drawings by Maxfield Parrish; 8vo; 373 pages New York

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON; A Character Sketch with a Small Selection from Letters Addressed to Him and Bibliographical Notes on a Few of the Books Formerly in the Rowfant Library

Birrell, Augustine · 1920

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Very Good+ Charles Scribner's Sons Nice contemporary bookplate; Scarce. With etched frontispiece; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 206 pages New York