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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"

Steig, William The Lonely Ones. Copyright 1942, First Edition. Duell Sloane and Pearce, NY. USED. VG/VG Original dust jacket. QUITE RARE THUS. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine contributor and author and illustrator of SHREK!, WILLIAM STEIG. 102 pages, 5 3/8 X 7 ¾.

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. Pocket Books. Softcover. 5th Printing Thus, September, 1939. Pocket Books #1. Complete Text. Good Condition. Summary: Thousands who saw the haunting movie will want to read the whole story of this strange airplane journey to Shangri La, the miracle Tibetan valley where time stood still." 4 1/4 X 6 1/2. 219 pages. Nice cover illustration of a 1930's era passenger aircraft winging its way toward Shangri La.

Charles E.O. Carter The Principles of Astrology. The Theosophical Publishing House, London. 1963, Fifth and revised edition. EXLIB 188 pages. Good Condition/ VG- original dust jacket. 5 3/8 X 8.

By Chogyam Trungpa. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian. 1984, Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boulder and London. TIBETAN BUDDHISM. By Chogyam Trungpa, Founder of Naropa Institute and Shambhala Training. ILLUSTRATED. USED. Good condition softcover. 199 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ½.

Malvina Reynolds. The Sierra Club Survival Songbook (Malvina Reynolds). Intro by Pete Seeger. ENVIRONMENTALIST FOLK MUSIC. LARGE FORMAT. USED. VG Condition. Copyright 1971, Stated Second Printing Thus. THE SIERRA CLUB. 143 pages. 9 X 12. Music and lyrics. Featuring Malvina Reynolds (composer of Little Boxes) and many other nature-minded folk music artists of the time.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. VG Condition. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation."