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The Self Beyond Yourself.

Gregg, Richard B., · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1956). G. Man does not live by bread alone. He has an infinite and insistent hunger for understanding for a meaning in and to his. life, a faith by which he may live. He must know something much greater than himself and feel himself in significant rela…

Amedeo's Continental Magic.

Garcia, Frank and George Schindler, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

NY, Million Dollar Productions, (1974). 1st ed. VG hardback spiral bound. A tribute to the great vaudeville artist and a living legend in magic, Amedeo Vacca, a world famous magician for over 65 years. Amedeo performed in more than 23 countries playing nightclubs and theatres. H…

George Bellows: painter of America.

Morgan, Charles H., · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Reynal, 1965. G in G DJ. Morgan art department head at Amherst College has written this first full length biography of the great modern American realist. painter. Born in the Midwest in 1882, Bellows came to immediate prominence in NY and was featured among Americans at the …

The Perfect Tribute.

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, · 1926 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, 1926. VG. Brown binding with dark brown lettering and pictorial of Lincoln. Frontis show Lincoln on deathbed with Lincoln shadow. over him. Tissue guard. Owner name ft endpaper & tanning, sl edge wear. Laid in news clippings from Syracuse, NY, about the death of au…

Private Peat: his own soldier story.

Peat, Harold R., Ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). VG. From how Private Peat enlisted to the moment he "got his". Nice clean copy, minor corner wear, corner bumping. The call to arms, camp life in Canada, England and France, life in the trenches and behind the lines, rations and equpment, the…

Private Peat: his own soldier story.

Peat, Harold R., Ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. From how Private Peat enlisted to the moment he "got his". Top corners bumped, edge wear, DJ tattered edges. The call to arms, camp life in Canada, England and France, life in the trenches and behind the lines, rations and equpment, the ne…

The Other Room.

Abbott, Lyman, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1937. Reprint. VG. "My father was the head of a school in Boston.after opening exercise he would often go out of the school-room, leaving the. hundred girls without teacher or monitor.he would test the girls and see wht kind they were, that he might make true girl…

The Happy Isles of Oceania: paddling the Pacific.

Theroux, Paul, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Putnam, (1992). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Theroux compares the vast Pacific to the universe. His travels begin in New Zealand where he walks the mountain trails of. Fiordland wilderness to Australia where he hikes the red ranges around Alice Springs, and camps among crocodiles & …

When I Was a Young Man: a memoir.

Kerrey, Bob, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Kerrey came from a family of soldiers so when the Vietnam draft loomed, he volunteered for the elite Navy SEALs but soon came to. face the brutal reality of the war. In his first firefight, women & children died. His second enco…

Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott.

Donaldson, Scott, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, (1972). G in G DJ ex-library. Back ep partially removed. Biography of Scott (1910-1968) which describes the predicament of the artist in contemporary. American society. Scott suffered deeply from what he considered to be a lamentable lack o…

Still Standing

CROSS, PERRY · 2005 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,762)

Random House Australia. 2005. (ISBN: 9781741660678). Paperback. Paperback internally good but cover creased. Aged nineteen Perry Cross broke his neck in a football accident and was left a quadriplegic. Most people in this situation never leave the hospital but Perry made a decis…

Blades

GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON · 1928 · Marion Pitman Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London, John Lane Bodley Head. 1928, Reprint same year as first edition. Red Cloth. Book, By author of Brewster's Millions. Curious novel about a man who leaves the fleshpots of New York when he inherits his uncle's house in the remote, strict religious community of New Scrooby,…

The Defence of Democracy.

MURRY, JOHN MIDDLETON. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. 1st edition. "Asserting that communism, just as much as fascism, is incompatible with democracy, he[Murry] conducts a critical examination of the theories of Karl Marx, and although he evidently finds Marx worthy of the respect due to 'a Hebrew proph…

Special Edition Illustrated : Oakland Enquirer : Descriptive of Oakland and Vicinity. First Edition

Leach Sr., Frank Aleamon L (Frank A. Leach , 1846-1929), publisher and editor; Britton & Rey, S.F., lithograph cover; M.J. Laymance & Co., provenance · 1888 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

Oakland, CA: Oakland Enquirer; January. 1888. 4to. 23.5 x 30cm. Front cover with lithograph partially detached. 76pp. with numerous wood-engravings and ads. Loosely inserted is a contemporary flyer on Oakland by the M.J. Laymance & Co. whose stamp also appear on several pages.OC…

[Album amicorum of Carl Gottlieb Heinrich with entries written in Bischofswerda and surroundings, The Netherlands, France, Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, Bengal, and Reading, England].[Bischofswerda and surroundings, etc., 1802-1818]. 8vo oblong (12.8 x 18.2 cm). Richly illustrated with 13 watercolour drawings, some full-page, of tombs, a temple of friendship, vases, hunting scene, nice portraits, basket with fruit, etc., 2 views: washed drawings of Cape Town (folding) and Jamestown, St Helena, 2 drawings of children and an altar, 6 (stippled) engraved small plates pasted down of Amor, the military camp of Wallenstein, children and exotic people, and 3 embroideries. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with a lighter brown leather oval inset as a centrepiece in both boards, gold-tooled spine with red and green morocco labels lettered in gold "Denkmal der Freundschaft" and an initial "H" (= Heinrich) in a gold-tooled laurel wreath, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[ALBUM AMICORUM - HEINRICH, Carl Gottlieb]. · 1771 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

120 ff., irregularly paginated: some ff. apparently cut out, some added.Fascinating album amicorum of the German Captain Carl Gottlieb Heinrich (b. 1771) from Bischofswerda, east of Dresden in Saxony. Heinrich chose a military career and went - as so many other Germans - to the …

DE VOLLEERDE HENGELAAR

WALTON,IZAAK · 1974 · Moby Dick

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Naarden 1974, 310 pag., tekstill., reprint van het werk uit 1653/1676 (code He-1)

VISSEN EN VANGEN MET DE VLIEG

KAMMAN,JAN · 2007 · Moby Dick

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.00 | ¥1,056)

Amersfoort 2007, 148 pag., rijk geill., softcover (code He-2)

VLIEGVISSEN IN DE PRAKTIJK tweede druk

ALPHENAAR,WIM · 1999 · Moby Dick

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Huizen 1999, 183 pag., rijk geill., nette hardcover 9789024010318 (code He-2)

FISHING WITH START WALTER

WALTER,START · 1961 · Moby Dick

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

London 1961, 160 pp., photos and ill. (by the author), hardcover (code He-2)

THE GALACTIC ARENA

Dane Christopher · 1981 · Fantastic Literature

£1.95 (€2.34 | $2.58 | ¥412)

Carousel 1st print. He came to do battle for her, to the death. very good paperback