[020241] Steiner, Rudolf. Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature. Vancouver, BC Canada: Steiner Book Centre, 1981. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good ISBN: 091992414x. "Ten lectures, given in Helsinki, 3-14 April 1912." 210 pp. Gray wraps are lightly soiled and worn, show slight water damage. Interior is sound and clean with light marginal toning, faint water marks, and previous owner's and bookseller's labels. $20.00
[020244] Steiner, Rudolf. The Gospel of Saint Mark. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1986. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Acceptable ISBN: 0880100834. "A Cycle of Ten Lectures." 211 pp with notes. Yellow wraps have very light soil and wear, interior is clean and tight with minor water damage. $12.50
[020245] Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New York: Macmillan, 1904. 12 Mo. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 504 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt ilk are lightly bumped, soiled and worn at the extremities. Interior is clean and sound, end papers have very light soil, previous owner's name on FFEP. $45.00
[020246] Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler's Wife. San Francisco: Macadam Cage, 2003. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 193156146x. 518 pp, blue cloth boards, black spine has very minor shelf wear. Black pictorial dust jacket is very lightly rubbed. Interior overall clean and tight. $175.00
[020247] Jones, Franklin D.. Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (4 Volume set). New Yerk: Industrial Press Inc., 1930. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-8311-1031-7. Burgundy cloth fine condition inside and out, vol 1- 536 pages, vol 2- 538 pages, vol 3- 536 pages, vol 4- 486 pages, a classis reference set for the designer or inventer. reprint edition $175.00
[020248] Unknown. Sino-Japanese Disturbances Souvenir Album. Tokyo: Japanese Government Publication, 1932. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Oblong. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Photo album produced by the Japanese government depicts battle scenes, troop movements and officers' portraits from the first Japanese conflict with China. Black and white photographs are arranged one, two or three to a one-sided page, with captions in Japanese and English. Includes maps of Cha-Pei and Shanghai, also labeled in Japanese and English. Brown alligator-textured leatherette wraps are stamped with a military helmet and flat straw hat in gold ink and title in silver, bound in Japanese style with purple silk ribbon, show light wear at extremities. Interior is sound with very light soil and toning on the end papers. $450.00
[020249] McKay, Claude. Banjo. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Subtitled "A story without a plot." 326 pp. Red and blue paper boards with black cloth spine are printed with a wave pattern, are in very nice condition with minor shelf wear. Very light toning on end papers, interior is clean and sound. $75.00
[020250] Muller, Martin. Prelude to the New Man: An Introduction to the Science of Being. Rancho Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe Associates, 1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Acceptable. 217 pp. Brick red cloth boards are straight and clean with very light wear to the extremities, interior is clean and tight. Orange dust jacket is faded to yellow on the spine, lightly rubbed. $65.00
[020251] McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 340 pp. Gray and violet plaid paper boards with black cloth spine and corners are very lightly rubbed and soiled, interior is clean and sound. $110.00
[020252] McClellan, Max C.. There Must Have Been a Tree. Bellingham, WA: Self Published, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good No date. Historical novel based on the lives of the McClellan family of Bellingham, Washington, fictionalized as the McIntyres. 240 pp. Inscribed by the author to Bea and Al. Brown paper wraps have very light wear to extremities, top page edges show very light soil. Interior is tight and clean. $40.00
[020253] Mandelker, Scott. From Elsewhere: Being E.T. in America. Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Birch Lane Pr, 1995. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1559723041. "The subculture of those who claim to be of non-earthly origins." 256 pp with index. Orange paper boards with black cloth spine are very lightly worn, interior is clean and tight. Black and orange pictorial dust jacket is in very nice condition with a small curl on upper front edge. $65.00
[020254] Merrill, Ruth Robertson; Haight, Barbara McCabe. Barbara 'N Me on Lichening and Learning. ill. Haight, Sarah Caverly. Olympia , WA: Sherwood Press, 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Plastic Comb. Very Good A personal travelogue and manual of lichen gathering and wool dyeing in Washington state. Unpaginated on heavy cream stock with brown type and spine. Each article describes the adventure of gathering a particular variety of lichen, and includes a plastic-encased lichen sample and several strands of the resulting dyed wool. Book is vertically oriented with plastic comb spine on top edge, front cover illustration shows the authors at work in the woods. Covers show very light wear, interior has dye offset from samples on some pages. $75.00
[020255] Miller, Preston E.;Corey, Carolyn;Corey, Carloyn. The Four Winds Guide to Indian Trade Goods & Replicas: Including Stone Relics, Beads, Photographs, Indian Wars, and Frontier Goods. Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1998. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Good ISBN: 076430531x. 192 pp, profusely illustrated with color photographs. Gray pictorial wraps are lightly rubbed, interior is clean and tight. Copy is slightly rippled, as from storage in a damp place. $60.00
[020256] Sheehan, Donald C.; Warren, Janet I.. Suicide and Law Enforcement. Quantico, VA: FBI Academy, 2001. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Good "A compilation of papers submitted to the Suicide and Law Enforcement Conference, FBI Academy, Quanitico, Virginia, September 1999. 726 pp. Red pictorial wraps are lightly rubbed and soiled, interior is clean and tight. $100.00
[020257] Smith, Charles R.. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: High Mobility and Standdown, 1969. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 1988. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Acceptable. Generously illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. 403 pp with index and notes. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt are very lightly soiled and worn, interior is clean and tight, label on FFEP. Green pictorial dust jacket shows some rubbing and light chipping, stain on front. $75.00
[020258] Whitlow, Robert H.. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 1977. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 190 pp with index, maps and photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt are very lightly soiled, interior is clean and sound with light must. $25.00
[020259] 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division . 4th Infantry Division, 8th Infantry Regiment . Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Publishing Company, 1946. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Photo history of the 4th Infantry Division. End paper maps show advance of the Division in Normandy and Northern France. 204 pp. Blue pebbled boards stamped in gilt with green division insignia. are lightly bumped and soiled, interior is sound and unmarked with very light soil and must. $125.00
[020260] Various. Lucky Bag 1945. Annapolis, Maryland USA: U. S. Naval Academy, 1945. Folio. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Yearbook of the United States Naval Academy class of 1945. Maroon cloth boards are beveled and richly textured to resemble leather, stamped in gold with the USNA insignia and the dates 1845-1945, show light soil and wear to the extremities. Interior is beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs of the graduating men and bold ink illustrations, is clean and sound with very slight marginal toning, slight offset on pages opposite illustrations. Previous owner's name on FFEP. $57.50
[020261] Various. Lucky Bag 1946. Annapolis, Maryland USA: U. S. Naval Academy, 1946. Folio. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Yearbook of the United States Naval Academy class of 1946. Includes pamphlet "Graduating Class of 1946, Supplement to the 1945 Register of Graduates." Blue boards are embossed with a golden eagle soaring over ships at sea, trident insignia on spine, clean and straight with very light wear to the extremities. Binding is solid, a few pages show light soil, two pages are torn, but complete. Half title page has long crease. $47.50
[020262] Dement'ev, G.P.; Gladkov, N.A.; Ptushenko, E.S.; Spangenberg, E.P.; Sudilovskaya, A.M.. Birds of the Soviet Union 6 Volume Set with Waterfowl Resources Summary. Jerusalem: Isreal Program for Scientific Translations, 1968. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good Includes 6 volumes of "Birds of the Soviet Union" and "Waterfowl Resources of the USSR and Their Development: Summarized Information No. 5." Books are illustrated with drawings and maps. Translated from Russian, published for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and the National Science Foundation from 1967-1970. Light blue wraps show some soil and wear, former owner's name on upper right, interiors are solidly bound with light soil and underlining, have faint must. Additional postage may be required. $575.00
[020263] Allouse, Bashir. Birds of Iraq, 3 Volumes. Baghdad: Ar-Rabitta Press, 1960. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Acceptable Volume I General Ornithology, Podicipitiformes-Falconiformes; Volume II Galliformes-Piciformes; Volume III Passeriformes. Text is in Arabic, illustrated with color plates and black and white line art. Light green wraps on V. I are lightly soiled and creased, have small open tear in middle of front cover, interior has light cribbing, toning and moisture damage. Green wraps on V. II are lightly soiled and worn, interior is sound with very light soil and visible staples with rust. Orange wraps on V. III are very lightly soiled and sunned, interior is clean and sound with signs of moisture and several stuck corners. $175.00
[020264] Johnson, A. W.. The Birds of Chile and Adjacent Regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, Two Volume Set. ill. Goodall, J. D.. Buenos Aires: Platt, 1967. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good / Good. "Naturalists and other travellers interested in the birds of foreign lands will find in this authoritative book a competent account of the avifauna of an attractive part of the great continent of South America," from the foreword. Both volumes are illustrated in color and black and white with maps and indices. Volume 1, 1965, is softcover, cream wraps show light wear and previous owner's name on front, yellow dust jacket has light soil and wear with a tape repair on spine. Interior of this volume is clean and tight with gentle crease on upper edge of some pages, correction fluid on half title. Volume II, 1967, is hardcover with dark green cloth wraps, very lightly soiled and bumped, yellow dust jacket has light soil and wear, small closed tear on front. Interior is clean and sound. $125.00
[020265] Novikov, G.A.. Fauna of U.S.S.R. No. 62, Carnivorous Mammals. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1962. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Keys to the fauna of the USSR published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR No. 62, translation published for the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, and the Department of the Interior. 293 pp with illustrations and index. Black cloth boards are lightly soiled, bumped and shelfworn, interior is clean and sound with light must. White dust jacket is lightly chippped and soiled with name inked on upper front corner. Previous owner's address and bookplate on FEP, book is slightly musty. $75.00
[020266] Cabrera, Angel L.. Flora De La Provincia De Buenos Aires . Buenos Aires: Instituto Nacional De Tecnologia Agropecuaria, 1963. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Acceptable. "Coleccion Cientifica, Tomo IV Parte 6a."443 pp, in Spanish, with index and illustrations. Tan cloth boards are very lightly worn with label residue, interior is clean and tight, slightly musty. Green pictorial dust jacket with white spine is lightly rubbed, soiled and water damaged with small tears at the edges. $35.00
[020267] Bradley, O. Charnock; Grahame, Tom. The Structure of the Fowl. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1951. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Acceptable. 128 pp with index and illustrations. Green cloth boards show light shelf wear and sunning on edges, interior is clean and tight with a light must, bookplate. White dust jacket is lightly soiled and toned, has small open chips on spine and on flap folds. $35.00
[020268] Gabrielson, Ira N.; Lincoln, Frederick C.. Birds of Alaska. ill. Murie, Olaus J.; Kalmbach, Edwin R.. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1959. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Acceptable. 922 pp with index, color plates. Green cloth boards are lightly bumped and cocked, interior is clean and tight with 1/2" split at top of front hinge and light must. $30.00
[020269] Grinnell, Joseph; Dixon, Joseph S.; Linsdale, Jean M.. Fur-Bearing Mammals of California: Their Natural History , Systematic Status and Relations to Man, Two Volume Set. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1937. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Illustrated with black and white photographs and color plates. 777 total pages, with list of illustrations and index. Brick red cloth boards are very lightly soiled and shelfworn. Light underlining noted in v.1, interiors are otherwise clean, bright and tight with very light must and bookplate on FEP. White dust jackets are lightly soiled and chipped, previous owner's name inked on top edge of v. 1. $145.00
[020270] Latta, Frank F.. Joaquin Murrieta and His Horse Gangs. Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1980. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by One Source. Very Good / Very Good. The story of California bandit Joaquin Murrieta, dubbed the "Robin Hood of El Dorado" and inspiration for the Zorro series, is shrouded in myth. Here Latta dives into the history and folklore surrounding Murrieta and his nemesis, Harry Love, and the California Rangers, to find the truth. 683 pp with photographs, illustrations and images of historical documents. Signed by Joaquin Juan "Tex" Muiretta, whose story appears on page 271. $200.00
[020271] Delacour, Jean. The Waterfowl of the World, Volume 3. ill. Scott, Peter. London: Country Life, 1959. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Covers Eiders, Pochards, Perching Ducks, Scoters, Golden-eyes and Mergansers, and Stiff-tailed Ducks. 270 pp with index, maps and color plates. Blue cloth boards are stamped in red and gold ink on the spine, flock of birds in flight on front, show very light shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight with bookplate, light must, upper page edge embellished with red. Gray pictorial dustjacket is lightly rubbed, chipped and soiled. $95.00
[020272] Fukukita, Yasunosuke. Cha-No-Yu: Tea Cult of Japan. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1940. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Acceptable / No Jacket. History and customs of Japan's tea ritual. 147 pp with index, glossary, bibliography, and list of illustrations. Lovely trifold green silk case with peg and loop closures has very light soil and spotty fading on short edges, has cream label, pastedown plates within, very light wear at hinges. Book cover boards are covered in colorful striped cloth with green spine, gilt title on spine and characters on upper left front board. Interior has two small gutters, broken front hinge. Gray card slipcase has light wear, soil and toning, cream pictorial label on front. $85.00
[020273] Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2001. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0586091599. Bound photocopied edition. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 463 pp. Light blue wraps are very lightly soiled and bumped, interior is clean and sound, faint notations from original on p. 5. $35.00
[020274] Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 2nd Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 206 pp. Red paper boards are slightly bumped, interior is tight with light soil and must. Red and blue pictorial dust jacket depicts a train in flames, is lightly chipped, rubbed and soiled with small tears at the fold. $45.00
[020275] Saubidet, Tito. Vocabulario Y Refranero Criollo Con Textos Y Dibujos Originales. Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft, 1962. 6th Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Criollo/Spanish dictionary of Gaucho words and phrases by Argentine watercolor artist Tito Saubidet. In Spanish, copy numbered 2037. 421 pp with 16 color plates and in-text illustrations. Bound in beige leather with brown leather lacing around edges, spine has brown leather label with gilt titles and gilt raised bands. Boards and spine show minor soil and wear. Purple, red and yellow patterned end papers are slightly bowed, last blank page has crease. Interior is clean and sound, stitching is visible in places. $325.00
[020276] Titcomb, Margaret. The Voyage of the Flying Bird. ill. Feher, Joseph. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good / Very Good. First Tuttle edition, published and printed in Japan. 236 pp, black and white illustrations. Blue cloth boards are very lightly soiled, show small fraying on lower front corner. Interior is clean and tight with very light must and foxing on end papers. Multicolored pictorial dust jacket is in very nice condition with slight soil on inner flap. $25.00
[020277] Hudson, W. H.. Idle Days in Patagonia. California: Creative Arts Book Company, 1979. Soft Cover. G+ / No Jacket. ISBN: 0916870251. 249 pgs., blue pictorial wraps are rubbed, chipped, and slight worn, internally clean with sound binding. $15.75
[020278] Wildash, Philip. Birds of South Vietnam. Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Illustrated with color plates and black and white in-text drawings. 234 pp with bibliography and glossary. Red satin boards stamped in gold are very lightly bumped on lower back, interior is clean and tight, light must, previous owner's name on FEP. Cream dust jacket is very lightly soiled, sunned and chipped, corner clipped on front flap. $22.50
[020279] Patterson, Robert L.. The Sage Grouse in Wyoming. Denver, Colorado: Wyoming Game and Fish Commission/Sage Books, 1952. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. "The first comprehensive account of the decline and subsequent restoration of the sage grouse--the most magnificent of western game birds," from the jacket. Illustrations, fold-out map. 341 pp with index and bibliography. Green cloth boards show very light wear to the extremities, spine is slightly cocked. Interior is clean and sound with bookplate and light must. Cream dust jacket is lightly chipped, worn and soiled. $75.00
[020280] Brandt, Herbert. Alaska Bird Trails: Adventures of an Expedition By Dog Sled to the Delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay. ill. Brooks, Allan; Kalmbach, Edward; Dufresne, Frank; Murie, Olaus; Mitchell, C.G.; Moodey, J. R.; Towle, L.B.. Cleveland OH: Bird Research Foundation, 1943. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. A lively account of ornithology in action. Illustrated wtih 40 color plates faced with heavy tissue overlays printed with detailed captions, black and white photos, and line art. 464 pp with index. Brown cloth boards are gold-stamped with a swallow in flight on the front, motif is repeated on spine with gold bands, boards show very light wear and bumping. Interior is sound with very light soil, name on FFEP, end paper maps show route of expedition. Brown and white dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly rubbed, chipped and sunned. $60.00
[020281] Various. National Atlas of Kenya. Kenya: Survey of Kenya, 1970. 3rd Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Physical geography, weather, agriculture, industry, historical, and population maps, gazetteer and list of authors. 103 pp. Red cloth boards are very lightly soiled and worn at the extremities, stamped in gold wtih title and national seal, interior is clean and sound with ex libris stamp on FEP. $60.00
[020282] Unknown. Biographies of Twelve Chinese Great Scholars. China: Unknown, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Undated, circa 1880. Accordian fold book within wooden boards. Pages are printed on one side with biographies in English and Chinese, with brightly colored portraits of the scholars painted on silk panels bordered with cream ribbon. Pages are trimmed in gilt ink at top and bottom. The design of this book make it an ideal display piece, either standing on edge lengthwise or with boards back-to-back and pages in a spoke formation. Boards have very light soil and wear, Chinese character embossed on front is filled in with green. Interior shows very minimal soil, some foxing on the end papers. A lovely piece of Asian book art. $245.00
[020283] Suzuki, David; Grady, Wayne. Tree: A Life Story. ill. Bateman, Robert. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Greystone Books, 2004. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Very Good / Near Fine. ISBN: 1553650166. The biography of a 400-year old Douglas Fir and the forest it lives in, with delicate black and white illustrations. 190 pp with index and bibliography. Brown paper boards show very minor soil, interior is tight and fresh. Green pictorial dust jacket has no noted flaws. Signed "to Will, let's celebrate life" by Suzuki. $25.00
[020284] Ahlstedt, Harold. Happy to be Alive . ill. Ahlstedt, Harold Jr.. Bellingham, WA: Cleo K. Ahlstedt, 1982. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. VG- Reminiscences of a Whatcom County man, illustrated with pen and ink drawings by his son. 104 pgs., tan pictorial wraps are in nice condition, internally clean. Signed "to Harold, from Harold." $35.00
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