Recent Arrivals from Book Happy Booksellers

Los Angeles, CA: Holyland Bible Knowledge Society, Inc., 1939. Softcover. Very Good-. Wraps; 48pp; Green illustrated card covers, covers & pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce, vintage booklet pertaining to A. F. Futterer's Eyegraphic (or Eye-o-graphic) System for Bible training and the Holyland Bible Knowledge Society in Los Angeles. Attractive illustration on front cover. Included… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 94pp; Navy blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, slight forward slant, minor staining to rear board, slight wear to spine ends, original brown endpapers, gift inscr. to flyleaf, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Scarce, antique volume containing the text of the Bedell… Read more about this item

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 252pp; DJ age-toned, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG condition. Scarce, vintage compilation of articles on the selection of police officers. Topics include: the administrative setting, selection standards, recruitment, psychological testing, psychiatric evaluation and more. Foreword by Earl Warren, Chief… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1962. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Modern Library #187; Cloth in DJ; 532pp; DJ clean & bright with slight scuffing & edgewear, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine/VG condition. Two novels by the Nobel Prize winning Southern American author.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/None. 159pp; No DJ, blue boards with minor staining & slight edgewear, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. DJ panel with author bio laid in. Scarce, vintage volume by American industrialist, inventor, public speaker, political candidate and income tax resister Vivien Kellems (1896-1975) containing first-hand account of… Read more about this item

Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1924. Softcover. Good. 160pp; Textured card covers age-toned with faded gilt titling to front & spine, pages age-toned, underlining to a few pages, binding is sound, Good condition. Vintage Christian faith healing material by Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947) a British evangelist who was influential in the early history of Pentecostalism.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House. Twelfth Edition. Softcover. Good+. Wraps; Twelfth Edition; 44pp; Covers clean & bright with wear to top to spine & slight handling wear, pages slightly age-toned with corner creases to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Quaint, vintage evangelical Christian tract warning against the dangers of dancing. Published circa 1950.

Chicago, IL: Testimony Publishing Company. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 128pp; Covers bright with corner crease to back cover & slight handling wear, small stain to spine, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce, antique 12th volume of set containing evangelical, fundamentalist Christian material. Published circa 1915.

Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Harold J. Whitney. Softcover. Very Good. Wraps; 88pp; Yellow textured card covers, covers slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce vintage evangelical Christian pamphlet containing five radio talks by New Life Evangelist of Presbyterian Church of Queensland, Australia. Contents: Why Not Scrap the Churches?; The Church and National Affairs; Why Then Those Empty Church… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 148pp; Blue cloth boards with gilt emblem to front, gilt titling to spine, boards slightly age-toned, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage volume containing study of the motifs of Franciscan mission theory in 16th century New Spain. Monograph Series Volume XI.

Enterprise, OR: Pika Press, 1985. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 110pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Sketches of the natural history of northeastern Oregon. Originally published in 1937. This new edition includes new introduction, appendix and biographical sketch by the author's daughter. Illustrated with photos.

Oakland, CA: Merritt College Press, 1968. Softcover. Good. 6-1/4" x 8-1/4" Wraps; 36pp; Covers age-toned, covers & pages dampstained, previous owner's name to title page, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Vintage poetry collection dedicated to Elijah Muhammad (of Nation of Islam), the Black Panthers, the Afro-American Association, the Black Power Association and other individuals and organizations, mostly in… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; First Edition; 284pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine/Near Fine condition. Mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession. The partial basis for the 2002 film, "Adaptation."

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Cloth in DJ; 146pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, small red dot to bottom edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG+ condition. Vintage cook book with over 100 authentic recipes from around the world, for one-course meals.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 272pp; DJ chipped & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, gift inscr. to flyleaf, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good condition. Vintage volume containing observations on the Near and Far East. Illustrated with photos & map.

Beaverton, OR: The Touchstone Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" Softcover; 80pp; Covers clean & bright with slight edgewear, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Vintage cook book of Italian peasant recipes by Portland, Oregon newspaperman whose parents came from Guardia Lombardy, Italy. Illustrated with line drawings.

Cerrillos, NM: San Marcos Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 144pp; Covers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Vintage volume containing collection of over 1600 Spanish proverbs of the American southwest, collected and translated by Ruben Cobos, arranged in alphabetical order, and with indices in both Spanish and English. Text in Spanish and English.

Mexico: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion, 1955. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 49pp; Pink card covers slightly age-toned & edgeworn, minor creasing to back cover, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Signed by Author (Guzman) on half title page. Speech by Martin Luis Guzman (1887-1976), celebrated Mexican novelist of the revolutionary period, with response by Carlos Gonzalez Pena, scholar… Read more about this item

Nevada, IA: William C. Hall, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 11 Spiral-Bound Softcover; First Edition; 158pp; Covers slightly age-toned, previous owner's name to inside front cover, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Scarce, vintage volume containing history of Thomas Gorsuch of Baltimore County, Maryland and his descendants of Mahaska and Poweshiek counties, Iowa.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 337pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. Thriller set in contemporary London. The novel was the basis for a three-part BBC/A&E television series shown in 2001.