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Cresco, Iowa: Cresco High School, 1928. Quarto, black pebbled cloth, 144 pp. Photos, portraits, ads. Good; some shelf wear.

Silver Spring, Maryland: Silver Spring Press, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 2000 copies, of which this is Number 1427. Quarto, paperbound (stiff blue illustrated wrappers), [242] pp. Near-Fine, with darkened edges. From letter at start of book: The wide range of Civil War cartoons... collected provides, I think, a good cross-section of those typical of that time, and they are very revealing of the attitudes toward Lincoln. As we all know, caricaturists found in him an ideal subject for ridicule, for homely jest, and for praise. He was the butt of rancor, sarcasm and abuse not only in the South, but more astonishingly in the Northern press and in England. Northern weeklies account for most of these 175 graphics. About one-fourth are from the pens of two Englishmen who never met him. The rest are campaign posters or such smuggled cyanide as the half dozen or so reproduced here from the stylus of the Baltimore dentist, Adalbert Volck. This collection of cartoons affords an interesting… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, (2006). First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver letters, x, 420 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air Force and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying Hitler in the darkest early days of the war and taking the battle to the German homeland when no one else would. Toward the end of the conflict, too, they continued to sacrifice their lives to shatter an enemy sworn never to surrender. Blasted out of the sky in an instant or bailing out from burning aircraft to drop helplessly into hostile hands, they would die in the tens of thousands to ensure the enemy’s defeat. Especially vulnerable were the “tail-end Charlies” 00 for the Americans, the last bomber in the formation who ended up flying through… Read More

New York: Putnam, (1968). Industries of America Series. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 256 pp. Photos, illus. Fine, with bookplate, in dust jacket.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2019). First Edition. Octavo, white boards (hardcover), red letters, x, 281 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. Advanced weapons, including V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming “wonder-weapons” that would turn the war decisively in the Axis’ favor. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize “intellectual reparations” from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O’Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. They seized or copied all kinds of documents, from… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Octavo, white cloth (hardcover), 121 pp. Near-Fine; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The poet’s traditional task -- to take notice of, and make notes on, the world’s sensory textures and wonders -- is worked out in these poems with the vividness we have come to expect from Marilyn Hacker. But intensity of gaze, in this, her third book, has been put in service to what we must finally call vision -- a vision that is as precisely analytical of the passions as it is dispassionately responsive to the political; a vision that illuminates, necessarily, the crucial interface between the two...

New York: A Golden Book, 1982. Large, square octavo; full-color illustrated boards (hardcover), [20] pp. Good+, with edgewear.

A Centennial Project of The Woman’s Club of Sanford, (1970). Octavo, paperbound (stiff white stapled slick wrappers), 15 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting) to upper cover.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, (1886). Two Volumes. Small octavo, paperbound, 287 pp; 288 pp + 13 pp ads. Good+, with foxing (age darkening) and edgewear that includes light chipping.

St. Petersburg, Fla.: Great Outdoors Publishing Company, n.d. Octavo, stiff, full-color illus. stapled wrappers, 109 pp. Very Good, with light soiling to upper cover. Contents: About the Author, Foreword; The Fall and rise of Bonnie Becker; Being of Sound Mind and Memory; A Coconut Palm, Best Friend to Man; A Whale of a Time at Naples; Bradenton’s Bad Boy; Davis Did It; Wild Life Along Florida’s Sun Coast; Overheard on a Green Bench; Success at Sarasota; The Nurse from Mendigo Key; The Yellow Quitter; Not For All the Gold in Cuba; The Early History of Fort Myers.

Published by the Author, 1962. Hudson, Florida: Albert J. Makovec, Printer. Duodecimo, softbound (stiff red textured wrappers), x, 108 pp. Fine. Contents include: The Port Richey Story; The New Port Richey Story; Bailey’s Bluff; Dade City, County Sea; The Colorful Little Town of Elfers; The Early Day Feud; The Massacre; Citizens of Elfers; How Elfers Got ITs Name; Jesse Mitchell, Minister, Businessman and Statesman; A Ku Klux Klan Funeral; The Shivoree; An Extinct Institution, The Country Store; A Family Fish Fry; A Gourmet’s Delight; How to Cook a Saw-Bill; Tarpon Springs’ Contribution to Culture; Hudson on the Golf; Hudson-Aripeka Board of Trade; Old Hotels at Hudson and Aripeka; Aripeka Baptist Church; The Old Lady Carter; Gip Brown’s Green Key; A Trip up the Pithlachascotee River; Ed Haley’s Moon Lake Dude Ranch; The Passing of a Generation; The Yankee and the Cracker; A Bit of the Steamy Side; A Haven for Criminals; Of Indians and Pirates; A Gracious Lady; Miss Essie’s Occult… Read More

Secaucus, NJ: Castle, [1988]. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 472 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. “Reproduced with illustrations from the actual turn-of-the-century New England magazines in which they first appeared, these articles by the well-known authors of [the turn of the century] bring the magic of the New England Coast to life a no modern-day author can achieve.”

Orlando, FL: Rollins Press Inc., (1982). Octavo, paperbound (stiff, black & white photo. illus. wrappers), vi, 110 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner inscription (“Christmas - 1982”). Illustrated with black & white photographs.

New York: Edward DUnigan & Brother, 1849. First American Edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated red cloth (hardcover), all edges gilt, [i] - iv, [7]-170, [iv], [7] - 152 , [ii], [7]]-72 pp. Illustrated with 110 engravings on wood. Very Good; light foxing, light shelf wear.

St. Petersburg, FL: Great Outdoors, (1966). Octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color illus. white wrappers), 232 pp. Very Good, with wear to wrappers. From lower cover: Every state in our great nation has one area so famous -- and so fabulous, that the entire state image is built around this wonder of nature. The mountains, deserts, geysers, rivers, valleys -- and their inhabitants, are blazoned on many a state seal. Florida has the Everglades, palm trees and Indians on her state seal -- and the heart of this glamorous Florida image, is the Tamiami Trail. A wondrous place, which every visitor to Florida must see, at least to answer the neighbor’s questions back home. It was left to that “master of the adjective,” Will Horne, to people this heartland with characters who, for the benefit of enchanted readers, live out the day by day existence in this unbelievably exciting tropical paradise. The characters created by Will Horne to give life and meaning to the Tamiami Trail country include… Read More

Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc., 1995. Royal octavo, full-color illus. laminated boards (hardcover), full-color illus. throughout, [24] pp. Very Good, appearing unread and as new, other than a nick to upper cover. From lower cover: Deep within the ice cap called Antarctica, lies the primordial landscape known as the Savage Land, where the Jurassic Age is alive and well. Or, at least it was. From what his sources tell Professor Xavier, a mutant code-named the Pacher, is now prowling the Savage Land capturing and killing some of the most endangered species on earth! The X-Men must put a stop to this. So they travel to the Savage Land to track down the poacher. A ferocious battle erupts and eventually the X-Men prevail, saving the endangered creatures!

Florida State University, 1969. Quarto, illustrated buckram, 403 pp. Illustrations throughout. Near-Fine.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1896. First Edition. The Lotos Library. The Lotos Library. First edition. Duodecimo, illustrated cream boards, top edge gilt, uncut, 277 pp. Plates. Near-Fine.

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1969. First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 176 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: ...incidents such as the above abound in the literature on thunderbolts. This terrifying phenomenon, which can fall from a clear sky or enter an enclosed room, has mystified man from classical times onward. Citing examples of Flying Saucer sightings, the activities of poltergeists, and reports of death by spontaneous combustion, the authors demonstratge the strange similarities between these apparently inexplicable phenomena and the bahviour of thunderbolts. From a comprehensive study of the case histories of ball lightning we see how, even in the most bizarre instances, certain physical properties common to most cases can be deduced. The authors examine all the scientific theories that have been advanced to account for the enormous energy output of… Read More

Norfolk, VA: The Donning Company, (1985). Quarto, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 224 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The city of Tampa has a long and colorful history. Ever since the first conquistadore set foot on Florida soil and drove the Indians westward, the area has been under a Hispanic influence which gives a unique quality to its architecture, its food and restaurants, and its cultural events. Other ethnic groups such as Italians and Hebrews have also staked a share in Tampa’s luscious climate to blend their heritages with the Hispanic. These various influences come alive in Hampton Dunn’s new pictorial history of Tampa which portrays the city as it was and as it is today. It introduces the individuals and groups who helped make it great, as well as famous individuals who were born there, and it portrays the unnamed throngs. Events come to life, modes of transportation advance, wars are weathered, businesses are born and flourish or die, prices fluctuate, life goes on --… Read More