Recent Arrivals in Rare and Out of Print Books - June 
Here are the lastest additions to our online catalog. Call 360-733-6272 or e-mail info@michaelsbooks.com to order.

[019333] Stafford, Peter. Psychedelics Encyclopedia. California: Ronin Publishing, 1992. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. VG- / No Jacket. 420 pgs., a thorough history of psychedelic drugs, over 200 illustrations. Gold pictorial wraps are lightly chipped, and soiled, back cover has a large chip not effectiong text. $22.50


[019334] Abbott, Paul Bergen. Understanding the Gyroplane: A Handbook of Technical Information for the Non-Technically Minded. Indianapolis: Abbott Co., 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 85 pp, illustrated, with glossary and index. Red wraps are lightly soiled and rubbed, interior is clean and tight. $15.75


[019335] Ford, Betty Davenport. Ceramic Sculpture. New York: Reinhold Book Corporation, 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Square. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Detailed and generously illustrated. 100 pp with index, glossary and bibliography. Red paper boards are lightly bumped and soiled, interior shows light soil and shaking. Green dust jacket has soil, rubbing, creasing and chipping, including a 2" tear where the front meets the spine. $25.00


[019336] Foglio, Phil. Xxxenophile Collection Volume One. ill. Various. Seattle: Xxxenophile Books, 2000. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Comic. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good ISBN: 1890856002. Erotic comic collection. Red and orange wraps with black spine show minimal rubbing and chipping, interior is clean and tight. $35.00


[019337] Lowman, Bill. 220 Million Custers. Anacortes, Washington: Anacortes Printing and Publishing, 1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good 128 pp with index and bibliography. White and yellow wraps are lightly soiled, scratched and chipped, interior is clean and tight. Signed and inscribed to "Wilma, my classmate," dated 1983 Anacortes High School reunion. $18.50


[019338] Doyle, Mona (editor). Packaging Strategy: Winning the Consumer. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Technomic Pub Co, 1996. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus / No Jacket. ISBN: 1566762987. 179 pp, illustrated. Glossy black paper boards are very lightly rubbed and bumped, interior is clean and tight. $75.00


[019339] Hord, Michael R. Remote Sensing: Methods and Applications. Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Wiley-Interscience, 1986. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0471828246. From the Wiley Series in Remote Sensing, series editor Jin Au Kong. 362 pp, illustrated, with index. Blue paper boards are clean and straight, interior is tight and clean. White dust jacket is lightly toned and scratched. $55.00


[019340] Stamets, Paul; Weil, Andrew. Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World : An Identification Guide. Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Ten Speed Press, 2003. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus ISBN: 0898158397. 245 pp with index, color and black and white photographs, glossary, bibliography. Purple pictorial wraps are very lightly rubbed and edgeworn, interior is clean and tight. $27.50


[019341] Lamb, Harold. The Earth Shakers: The March of the Barbarians and Tamerlane. New York: Doubleday, 1941. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good Plus. Two books in single volume. 689 pp with indices. Gray cloth boards stamped in brick and gold on the spine is very lightly soiled and creased at the bottom of the spine; interior is tight with very light soil. Brown and yellow dust jacket is lightly soiled, rubbed and chipped. $45.00


[019342] Montella, Ralph. Plastics in Architecture: A Guide to Acrylic and Polycarbonate. Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Marcel Dekker Inc, 1985. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0824773969. 219 pp, illustrated, with index. Green glossy boards with white and green spine are very lightly soiled and worn, interior is clean and tight. $45.00


[019343] Spess, David. Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen. Rochester, Vermont, U.S.A.: Park Street Pr, 2000. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Plus / Very Good Plus. ISBN: 0892817313. 198 pp with index and bibliography, lightly illustrated. Beige paper boards show light soil and edge wear, interior is tight with light soil. Beige and purple dust jacket shows minimal edge curling. $45.00


[019344] Hemley, Robin. The Last Studebaker. St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Graywolf Press, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good / Good Plus. ISBN: 1555971679. 246 pp, inscribed to Rose. Green paper boards with black cloth spine are very lightly bumped and soiled, interior is clean and tight. Green and pink dust jacket lightly rubbed and chipped. $22.50


[019345] Hemley, Robin. Nola : A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1998. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1555972780. 338 pp with black and white photographs. Brown paper boards show very minimal edge wear, interior is tight and clean. Beige pictorial dust jacket is very lightly rubbed, chipped and soiled. Previous owner's name on FFEP, inscribed to Rose. $22.50


[019346] Leonard, Elmore. The Hot Kid (large print). Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2005. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0060787163. Large type edition, 426 pp. Black wraps show minimal rubbing and wear, large print sticker on front and sticker residue on back. Interior is clean and tight. $11.75


[019347] Dickinson, Peter. The Blue Hawk. Little, Brown, 1976. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0316184292. 229 pp. Gray cloth boards with black spine have no noted flaws. Gray and cream dust jacket is very lightly soiled and sunned on the spine. $25.00


[019348] Benoist-Mechin, Jacques; Weaver, Denis (translator). Arabian Destiny. Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1958. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good Plus.
Blue cloth boards are clean and straight with minimal wear to the extremities, interior is clean and sound. Green dust jacket is lightly soiled and chipped. $25.00


[019349] Aristotle; Peck, A. L. (translator) . Loeb Classical Library 366: Aristotle XIII, Generation of Animals . Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1979. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Square. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0674994035. 608 pp, in English and Greek, with index and preface by the translator.Green cloth boards show very light soil, interior is clean and tight. Green dust jacket is very lightly rubbed and soiled. $18.50


[019351] De Montaigne, Michel; Cotton, Charles (translator); Hazlitt, W. Carew (editor). The Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Complete in Two Volumes. New York: A. L. Burt, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Undated, gift inscription reads 1903. Blue cloth boards show very light soil and bumping, interiors are clean and sound. V.2 contains index to both volumes. Bookplate on FEP. $25.00


[019352] Coben, Harlan. Promise Me (large print). New York: Doubleday, 2006. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 644 pp. Black paper boards show very light wear to the extremities, interior is clean and tight. White and blue dust jacket is very lightly creased at edges. $9.50


[019353] Tychsen, Olai Gerhardi. Introductio In Rem Numariam Muhammedanorum Plus Addendum, 8 Bound-in Plates. Rostochii (Rostock, Germany): Libraria Stilleriana, 1794. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Text on ancient coins, in Latin and Arabic. 246 numbered pages, 6 engraved illustrative plates bound at the end. These plates are followed with 112 page addendum dated 1796, which has two additional bound-in plates at the end. Rebound in red cloth boards with gilt titles. Interior is sound, deckle-edged pages are sturdy with only light foxing and soil. $750.00


[019354] Arthur, William. New Building Estimators' Handbook. New York: U.P.C. Book Co., 1922. Revised. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Black flexible leather boards are very lightly worn, soiled and bumped. 1002 pp, illustrated, with index. Former owner's name on FFEP, gilt page edges show some scratches. Interior is sound and unmarked with very light soil, a few pages are creased on the bottom corner. $25.00


[019355] Foster, A. E.. Daily Life in Carthage at the Time of Hannibal . New York: Macmillan, 1961. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good Plus. 263 pp, illustrated, with index and bibliography. Brick cloth boards are clean and straight with very light bumping, interior is clean and straight. Maroon and black dust jacket is lightly rubbed, chipped and soiled. $25.00


[019356] Ophiel. The Art and Practice of Getting Material Things Through Creative Visualization. St. Paul, MN: Peach Publishing, 1970. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Plus / Good.
115 pp. Black leather boards are very slighly bowed, pages are lightly soiled in solid binding. Black dust jacket has rubbing, light soil, and chipping, including a small open chip at top of spine. $32.50


[019357] Salomone, Joe. Indonesian Tai-Chi Exercise: An Alternative for Health and Well Being, Volume 1. Phoenix: AISDA Publishing, 1996. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good
"A guide to the science, principles and fundamentals of Tai Chi exercise." 155 pp, illustrated. White wraps are lightly scratched and chipped, interior is clean and tight. $35.00


[019358] Ghyka, Matila. The Geometry of Art and Life. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1946. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fair Plus. 174 pp, illustrated. Red cloth boards are lightly worn at the extremities, end papers show very light toning and wear. Interior is clean and tight. $27.50


[019359] Carter, Lin . Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown, in the Volcano Ogre: A Case from the Files of Omega . Garden City NY: Double Day, 1976. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0385088078. 177 pp. Beige paper boards stamped with purple on the spine are very minimally worn at the spine ends, interior is clean and tight. Blue dust jacket has light soil, rubbing, and chipping at the spine ends. $15.75


[019360] Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Shah. Mission for My Country. New York: McGraw Hill, 1960. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fair Plus. Autobiography of the Shah of Iran. 336 pp with index and photographs. Maroon boards stamped in light blue and gold ink are very slightly worn at the extremities, interior is clean and tight. Red and white pictorial dust jacket is lightly rubbed, chipped and soiled, with small tears at the corners. $25.00


[019361] Svensen, Carl Lars. Drafting for Engineers: A Textbook of Engineering Drawing for Colleges and Technical Schools. New York: Van Nostrand Company, 1922. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fair. 363 pp with index, generously illustrated with drawings and photographs. Maroon cloth boards are straight and clean with slight wear at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name and light toning on end papers, interior is clean and sound. $30.00


[019362] Friar, John G.; Kelly, George W.. A Practical Spanish Grammar for Border Patrol Officers. Washington DC: U.S. Dept. Of Justice, 1951. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 194 pp. Gray wraps are lightly soiled and sunned, interior is clean and tight. $12.50


[019363] Bessey, Ernst Athearn. A Text-Book of Mycology. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1935. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 495 pp, illustrated, with index and bibliography. Green cloth boards show very light bumping and soil, interior is clean and tight. $42.50


[019364] McKenny, Margaret. The Savory Wild Mushroom: A Pacific Northwest Guide. Seattle: University of Washington, 1962. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Gathering, identifying and cooking with wild mushrooms. 133 pp, illustrated, with index and bibliography. Yellow and black pictorial wraps are lightly soiled, spine has creasing. Page edges show some soil, interior is clean and tight. $18.50


[019365] Stevens, Jule & Gee, Rich. How to Identify and Grow Psilocybin Mushrooms . Seattle, WA: Sun Magic Publishing , 1978. 2nd Printing. Small 8vo. Soft Cover. Good / No Jacket. 84 pgs., illustrated with B/W and color photographs. Black pictorial wraps are lightly rubbed and chipped, interior is clean and sound. $28.50


[019366] Stamets, Paul. Psilocybe Mushrooms & Their Allies. Washington: Homestead Book Company, 1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good / No Jacket. 48 full color photographs, scanning electron micrographs, 76 species descriptions, cultivation techniques, new keys to facilitate accurate identification. Green pictorial wraps are creased, rubbed and chipped. $35.00


[019367] Gawain, Shakti. Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life. Novata, California, U.S.A.: New World Library, 2000. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Good Plus / Good Plus. ISBN: 1577310802. FFEP is signed "In Royalley (sic), love, Shakti ." 158 pp. Beige paper boards show very light soil. LFEP has small stain, interior otherwise clean and tight. Beige pictorial dust jacket is very lightly soiled, has "autographed" sticker on front. $22.50


[019368] Ballantyne, J. R.; Deva, Govind Sastri. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Calcutta: Susil Gupta, 1955. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Poor. The foundation of Indian yoga philosophy. 112 pages in English, 8 in Sanskrit. Green boards illustrated in brown and black on the front show light soil, bumping and chipping. Pages are lightly toned, last few Sanskrit pages are creased on the bottom corner. Light green and brown dust jacket shows toning and soil, spine is sunned/toned to light brown, has vertical splits on spine and small open chips on edges. $22.50


[019369] Wiehl, Andrew M.. Creative Visualization: How to Unlock the Secret Powers of Mind and Body for Full Realization and Happiness . New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1958. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Good Plus / Fair. 112 pp. Red cloth boards are lightly worn at the extremities, interior is clean and sound with very light foxing on the end papers. Yellow dust jacket is lightly sunned, soiled and chipped, with small tears on the spine. $45.00


[019370] Detzler, Robert E.. Spiritual Healing. Redmond, WA: SRC Publishing, 1997. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Spiral Bound. Very Good
193 pp, illustrated, with bibliography. Pink and blue cloud-patterned wraps are very lightly chipped, soiled, and creased on the back. Interior is clean and sound. $35.00


[019371] Luk, A. D. K.. Law of Life, Books I & II. Oklahoma City: A. D. K. Luk Publications, 1973. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Reprint of a 1959 edition. 435 pp in two volumes plus index. Yellow cloth boards show very light soil and wear. Volume 1 is clean and tight within, Volume 2 has some cribbing and underlining. $45.00


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