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Ann Arbor MI: UMI Research Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 315 pages. Issued w/o a dust jacket. Clean copy. Record # 371625

London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 640 pages 16 plates (including portraits, facsimiles). Clean copy. Record # 383881

NY: Atheneum , 1967. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Two paperback volumes, 469/514 pages. Mild wear to paper covers. Clean set. Record # 379203

London: John Murray, 1889. 2nd Ed.. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at edges. 456 pages with color frontispiece map, 139 illustrations of which 27 are full-page and 14 maps of which some are folding. School ex-library copy with spine label, minimal stamping to front endpapers and title page. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Interior clean with no marking, all fold-out maps in great condition. NOTE: The Marchesa a schooner yacht sailed from England in 1881 to the seas of China and Japan the East Indies and New Guinea before returning to England in 1884. First published in 1886 as a two volume set. Record # 378351

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 997 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals―the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major… Read More

NY: Harcourt Brace And Company , nd. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 424 pages, 10 tipped-in color plates & 48 double-sided b/w plates. index. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. No date, most likely early 1950s. Clean copy. Record # 381425

Chicago: Haase-Mumm Publishing, 1986. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Black card covers with silver lettering, 9 X 12", 40 pages, 22 works reproduced in color, 4 b/w photographic reproductions. First edition. Love's text, "Kenneth Noland, Master of Modern Color" accompanies the reproductions. Record # 372835

NY: Clarion Books, 1991. 1st. Very Good/Good. Leon Vermeulen. Black & white illustrations by Leon Vermeulen. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. A tale set in Soth Africa. With his mother and father staying in the village near the copper mine to await the family's new baby, Seth decides that rather than remaining at home with his grandfather he will cross the Kuiseb Canyon alone to join them. Record # 203580

New York: Harper & Row , 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 115 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Haas. Clean, tight copy. Record # 511560

Canada: Steidl, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas (1921-86), one of the most accomplished photographers of the 20th century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image. Haas worked with a variety of eminent directors--from Vittorio de Sica to John Huston, Gene Kelly and Michael Cimino--and depicted cinema genres from suspense (The Third Man, The Train) to the Western (The Oregon Trail, Little Big Man), and from comedy (Miracle in Milan, Love and Death) to musicals (West Side Story, Hello Dolly). Haas inscribed a temporal, filmic dimension into his stills which, when viewed in a sequence, generate movement and narrative. So accomplished was his mastery of color, light and motion that Haas was frequently asked to photograph large group actions--from the battle scenes of The Charge of the Light Brigade and the dances of West Side Story to the ski slopes… Read More

Los Angeles: Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat. Record # 350275

Los Angeles: Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, 2006-11-13. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat. Record # 350274

Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2004. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY HAAS on the title page. This is the story of a 19th century German-American industrialist who made his fortune manufacturing hard rubber combs thanks to his friendship with Charles Goodyear and his invention, vulcanized rubber. Poppenhusen founded a town, College Point, New York, and became a much-loved philanthropist funding churches, libraries and an educational institute that is today both a National and New York City landmark, the Institute that bears his name. He was an innovator in education introducing the first free kindergarten for his workers and the people of the town, perhaps the first corporate day care facility in the U.S. He made the catastrophic mistake of getting involved in the railroads in the late 1860's and used his vast fortune to bring about the consolidation of what has come down to us today as the Long Island Railroad. Record # 383136

self-published, 2017. 1st. Softcover. Softcover, 238 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. An historical and biographical study of the men from College Point, Queens, New York who rendered valuable service to their country in World War One. More than six hundred fifty served in the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Merchant Marine. Twenty-eight died. What gives the book its relatively unique character is that the hamlet was basically German in origin, primarily industrial, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a destination place for large numbers of entertainment-seeking New Yorkers. The book includes an overview of these elements, illustrating how each played its role before, during and, to a limited extent, after the war. These subjects are woven into a detailed analysis of how College Point, and its people weathered movements and events; labor strife, anti-German sentiment, espionage, the influenza epidemic, and a host of other forces that impacted American… Read More

NY: Greenwillow, 1996. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Jos. A. Smith. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jos. A. Smith. Nora and Gramp are collecting sap from maple trees to make maple syrup. The horses, Bonnie and Stella, are working hard, too, pulling the heavy sap tank through the snow from tree to tree. This third story about Nora and her grandparents brings the beautyof a Vermont farm in early spring vividly to life. Clean copy. Record # 66967

New York: Greenwillow, 1994. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HESS on title page. Bottom corner slight bump. Tight copy. Record # 58629

Candlewick, 2012. 3rd pr. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Alison Friend. Hardcover, pictorial boards, 52 pages illustrated in color by Alison Friend. Maggie wants a pony to ride and take care of, and to prepare she's been reading a big book on horse care. Meanwhile, Bramble is bored with giving riding lessons and walking in circles. She's looking for just the right person to take her away from her routine. Is it a perfect match? Maggie loves Bramble as soon as she sees her, but there are some things Bramble has to be sure of. Will Maggie let Bramble venture into new places? Will she protect Bramble from strange objects in the yard? Will she, most importantly, know when Bramble needs her undivided attention? This charming and funny early reader is an ideal match for young animal lovers and anyone who has ever longed for a friend who truly understands. Clean copy. Record # 385277

New York: Greenwillow, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy, otherwise. Record # 804269

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1887. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 260 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brief notes in pencil on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Habberton spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life and for his hugely successful book 'Helen's Babies.' Record # 608290

NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Tod Dwiggins. Hardcover, decorated green cloth stamped in 3-colors and gilt. 357 pages. Fifty illustrations by Tod Dwiggins. Front end page ripped, previous owner's signature. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 385181