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CAILLEBOTTE and HIS GARDEN at YERRES
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New York: Harry N. Abrams. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0-8109-3167-2 . Green cloth, gilt lettering front and spine, beautifully illustrated (mostly color). Dust jacket with wrap-around color illustration, lettered in white. Heavy, price includes USPS Media Mail shipping within continental U.S. for normal shipping charge. Other locations/methods extra.; 9-1/2" x 12"; 341 pp; Front hinge cracked revealing mull, still fully attached, rear board lightly bumped lower right ... more information
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$38.00
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CALAVERAS, THE LAND OF SKULLS
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Sonora, California: Mother Lode Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1955. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, lettered in red on front and gray on spine, 16 pages of photographs between pp. 78-79. This copy with inscription on FFEP penned simply With Best Wishes and signed and dated by author.; 6 x 9.5"; 158 pp; Little wear, but tiny spot on rear and several spots of faint soiling, internally one speck of stain near signature else fine, . ... more information
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$40.00
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A CALENDAR OF GARDEN JINGLES. A GARDEN GUIDE FOR EVERY CLIME. All of It's Reason and Some of It's Rhyme
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Oakland, California: Printed by The Professional Press, Berkeley. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. No edition noted. Softcover. Green stapled wraps. Poetry for gardeners by month and East/West. Illustrated with linoleum blocks by Marion Lyman. Scarce.; 5 x 7"; 60 pp; Spot on front cover where sticker was removed, covers toned at edges, small creased area on rear cover. . ... more information
Offered by Andrew Langer, Bookseller (California, United States) |
$20.00
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THE CALIFORNIA OF GEORGE GORDON and the 1849 sea voyages of his California Association
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Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0-87062-118-1 . Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, foreword by Richard H. Dillon, frontispiece portrait of subject and 14 additional pages of tinted photographs. Cream pictorial dust jacket. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 271 pp; A very nice copy. Jacket has very slight soiling and a bit of wear at the top of the spine, not price clipped, contained within protective plastic cover. Book has very slight wear top and b... more information
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$20.00
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CALIFORNIA ENGINEER (Vol. I, No. 2, February, 1923)
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Berkeley, California: Associated Students of the University of California. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1923. Softcover. This issue includes an article about the proposed Bridge Across the Golden Gate and two different articles on explosives: Sidelights on Explosives by H. M. Briggs and Causes of Premature Explosions by C. W. Porter. Amber wraps, stapled, illustrated with photos, ads for local businesses at rear. ; 9" x 12"; 20 pp; Slight cover wear, a bit of rust on the staples. . ... more information
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$28.00
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CALIFORNIA RESOURCES and POSSIBILITIES (Twentieth Annual Report of the California State Board of Trade for the year 1909...)
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San Francisco, Cal.: California Development Board. Fair with no dust jacket. 1910. Softcover. Wraps with color cover illustration, illustrated with b&w photos, tables ; 6-3/4" x 9-3/4"; 80 pp; Good condition with overall wear, small losses to rear cover, some corners creased, no writing, but LACKS FOLDING MAP that should be at rear. . ... more information
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$15.00
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CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE: Historic American Buildings Survey
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San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1988. First Printing. Softcover. 0-87701-538-4 . Pink stiff coated wraps with French-fold flaps, perfect bound, front cover with b&w cover photo and blue and brown lettering, brown spine lettering, illustrated with photographs and drawings. First paperback printing with full number line. This copy signed in ink by the author above her name on the title page. ; 7" x 10"; xi, 274 pp; Signed by Author; Spine sunned, ... more information
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$28.00
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THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN LEASE (California Practice Book No. 35)
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California Continuing Education of the Bar. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1967). Hardcover. Orange cloth, front board with decoration in black, spine with black lettering. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/2"; xii, 152 pp; Light soiling to covers, prior owner (firm) name stamped to FFEP, solid binding, pages are clean and unmarked. . ... more information
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$38.00
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THE CALL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: An Address to Young Men
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Boston: Beacon Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1903. Hardcover. Blue paper boards. cream (parchment-like) paper spine, gilt image of Minerva's Owl on cover, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, blue endpapers, printed in black with red detailing.; 5.5 x 7.5"; 75 pp; Spine darkened, boards with waterspots, slight edgewear, gift inscription on front flyleaf. . ... more information
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$10.00
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CALVINISTIC CONTROVERSY: Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election, and Several Numbers, Formerly Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal
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New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1835. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Rev. Fisk became the first President of Wesleyan University in 1830. Printed for the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-street. J. Collord, Printer. Full leather binding, red spine label with gilt titling. Same date on title and copyright pages.; 3.5 x 5.25"; 314 pp; Well rubbed leather binding, some creased pages at both ends (as bound), scattered foxing, 2 pages wi... more information
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$125.00
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CAN OUR CITIES SURVIVE? an ABC of urban problems, their analysis, their solutions
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Cambridge: The Harvard University Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. based on the proposals formulated by the C.I.A.M. (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne / International Congress for Modern Architecture). Gray cloth, orange lettering front and spine, many illustrations. ; Oblong, 12" x 9"; xi, 259 pp; Covers edgeworn, hinges are not visibly cracked but they are loose-front hinge a bit more than the rear, prior owner name on FFEP, illustrati... more information
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$95.00
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CANCER AND VITAMIN C: A Discussion of the Nature, Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Cancer, with Special Reference to the Value of Vitamin C
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Menlo Park, California: The Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0-393-50000-4 . Yellow paper boards, blue cloth spine, white and yellow printed dust wrapper. No edition or printings noted. A bookplate pasted onto the FFEP is to Alice Byrnes (written in Pauling's hand) and bears the signatures of both authors. ; 6 x 9"; The bookplate was pasted in using excessive moisture resulting in rippling of the endpaper (no damage to the signatu... more information
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$25.00
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CARBONIUM IONS - Volume IV Major Types (Continued)
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New York: Wiley-Interscience. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1973). First Printing. Hardcover. 0-471-65337-3 . A volume in the series Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry, edited by George A. Olah. Publishers red cloth, silver spine lettering. Green publishers dust jacket lettered in white and black. Full number line.; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; xii, 1501-1960 pp; Lightly worn boards, prior owner name and bookseller stamp on FFEP. Pages clean, no tears or writing. Jacket sunned, rubbed ... more information
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$32.00
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CARDIFF FREE LIBRARIES: Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department
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Cardiff and London: Free Libraries Committee / Henry Sotheran. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. 1 of 2000 copies, original cloth backed printed boards.; 5.5 x 8.5"; 549 pp; Ex-library with minimal markings or other wear. . ... more information
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$50.00
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CARIBBEAN WRITERS: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia
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Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0-914478-74-5 . This book contains biographical information on some 2000 creative writers and bibliographic detail on upwards of 15,000 works. Teal blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, teal and orange publishers dust wrapper, gold map endpapers, b&w illustrations of selected authors and works. No edition or printings noted. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; 943 pp; Book with little wear. Jacket lightly rubbed wi... more information
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$75.00
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CARPETS & RUGS How they are made, How to select them, How to care for them
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North Canton, Ohio: The Hoover Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titling front and spine, text accompanied with b&w illustrations, three fold-out color plates at rear. Same date on title and copyright pages.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 168, III (plates) pp; Cloth lightly edgeworn and soiled, prior owner name and stamp inside front cover, name inside rear cover, thinned area on front endpaper (as where text was removed). Pages are clean and fre... more information
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$12.00
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THE CARTER-POLLARD DISCLOSURES
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Cream covers, stapled wraps, postscript tipped in at rear.; 6 x 9"; 13 pp; Light cover soiling. . ... more information
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$20.00
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CATALAN CUISINE: Europe's Last Great Culinary Secret
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New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-689-11781-7 . Orange coated paper over boards, front board with blindstamped author name, spine lettered in red, Illustrations by Lauren Jarrett. First printing of this title authored before Saveur, wth full number line.; 7-3/4" x 9-1/2"; xvi, 331 pp; Slight wear to boards along edges, otherwise very nice, solid hinges, pages clean and free of tears or writing. Jacket lightly worn along... more information
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$65.00
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CATALOG OF THE PICTURES IN THE ROYAL GALLERY AT DRESDEN
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Dresden: Kunstanstalt Wilhelm Hoffmann A.G.. Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Stated Seventh Edition. Softcover. Listing of works in the museum accompanied by small b&w illustrations of some works. Tan wraps with red cloth spine, fold-out map of museum.; 5 x 7.5"; 352 pp; Covers soiled, front cover with tiny closed tears, rear cover with a repaired 2" tear. . ... more information
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$10.00
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CATALOGO DELLA LIBRERIA DI GIUSEPPE MARTINI: Compilato dal Possessore da servire come Saggio per una Nuova Bibliografia di Storia e Letteratura Italiana. Parte Prima Incunabuli (all published)
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Milano: Ulrico Hoepli. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Original printed wrappers, glassine jacket, in original publisher's slipcase. Limited to 300 copies. Preface by Achille Pellizzari. Description s of more than 400 incunables, with many facsimiles. Martini, a native of Lucca, Italy, was resident and caught in NY when WWI started. He was a leading authority on Renaissance books and manuscripts, particularly incunabula. For several years, he was a cataloguer for... more information
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$175.00
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