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Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Fascimilie Copy of the 1925 First Edition. Paperbound. AS NEW/No. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Radford Architectural Company's output over the years comprised more than 40 books on various types of construction and more than 1000 plans and specifications for buildings ranging from homes to small commercial buildings. Radford founded this company in 1902, and his publications were collaborations with prominent authors in the field at the time including Frank E. Kidder, Alfred G. King, and Ira O. Baker. He was also the founder of various magazines: Beautiful Homes, Farm Mechanics, American Carpenter and Builder, and Cement Homes. Although, in the opinion of his biographer Neal Vogel, some of his designs were "lackluster versions" of Queen Anne or American Foursquare designs, some of his designs… Read More

Glastonbury: The Abbey Bookstall, No Date, circa 1950. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy octavo, [18.75cm/7.5inches], paperbound with blue pictorial covers, pp. 36. Illustrated with b-w halftone plates as well as textual sketches. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community where communities have grown up to include people with New Age beliefs. In a 1904 novel by Charles Whistler entitled A Prince of Cornwall Glastonbury in the days of Ine of Wessex is portrayed. It is also a setting in the Warlord Chronicles, a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell. Modern fiction has also used Glastonbury as a setting including The Age of Misrule series of books by Mark Chadbourn in which the Watchmen appear, a group selected from Anglican priests in and around Glastonbury to safeguard knowledge of a gate to the Otherworld on top of Glastonbury Tor. John Cowper Powys's… Read More

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Department of Antiquity and Tourism, c. 1980. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.95. Fully illustrated with numerous maps, colour and b-w halftones, drawings, &tc.. 24 full-page figures, including 4 archaeological maps (Middle East, Oman Peninsula, Al Ain, Hili and Qattarah). . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Incorporates Serge Cleuziou's first expedition to Al Ain with the French Archaeological Mission (1976-77). Serge Cleuziou, (1945-2009), was an archaeologist and social scientist attatched to the Sorbonne. Cleuziou was deeply interested in studying the multifaceted relationships between population and environmental resources by reconstructing ancient landscapes and manufacturing processes.

Moscow: State Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed May Day red cloth with mylar-protectect dust jacket, unpaginated Illustrated exclusivly with colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [24cm/9.5inches], full ebony-embossed puce-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 428, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... John Singleton Mosby, also known by his nickname, the "Gray Ghost", was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning-quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby's Confederacy. After the war, Mosby became a Republican and worked as an attorney,… Read More

Vilnius, Lithuania: Vaga, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [32.5cm/13inches], full gilt-embossed Tyrian purple cloth with a mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 186. Illustrated with 106 colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Algimantas Stoskus (b. 1925) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist. He is considered a master of the form. He studied under Stasys Ušinskas and along with fellow pupil Kazys Mork nas began creating new methods incoporating thick panels of glass which have been widely emulated the world over. 

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed grey flannel cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 374, indexed. Illustrated with 150+b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Reviewer Paula Frosch noted: "What is it about New York City that makes it a constant source of inspiration for the artistic imagination? This book, the catalog of a recent exhibition at New York's PaineWebber Art Gallery, examines two centuries of reflections upon the ever-changing nature of the city. Using the extensive collection of the Museum of the City of New York as it resource, the work addresses the entire range of city images in scholarly essays and elegant illustrations ..." -Library Metropolitan Museum of Art .,

Missoula, Montana: Society of North American Goldsmiths. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 70. Fully illustrated with colour plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: Serious Fun, Nature and Nurture, and States of Being, Reiko Ishiyama, Sue Amendolara, and Adult Toys.

Missoula, Montana: Society of North American Goldsmiths, 2002. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 76. Fully illustrated with colour plates &ct.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: Fork Lifting, Instruments of Imagination, and Immediacy and Presence, The Fork, Rachelle Thiewes, and Gina Pankowski. 

Brooklyn, New York: Metalsmith, 2001. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [25cm/11in], paperbound journal format, pp. 79. Fully illustrated with colour plates. In exceptionally good condition. Paperback. 

Sacramento: California Native Plant Society, 2022. Magazine. AS NEW/No. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 45. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... White Sage is widely used by Native American peoples on the Pacific coast of the United States. The seed is a primary, traditional ingredient in pinole, a staple food. The Cahuilla people have traditionally harvested large quantities of the seed, then mixed it with wheat flour and sugar to make gruel and biscuits. The leaves and stems are a traditional food among the Chumash people and neighboring communities. For healing use, several tribes have traditionally used the seed for removing foreign objects from the eye, similar to the way that Clary sage seeds have been used in Europe. A tea from the roots is traditional among the Cahuilla women for healing and strength after childbirth. Different parts of the plant are also used in… Read More

London: Readers International, 1986. edición en inglés. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full gilt-embossed Norfolk-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 110. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ,,, Ramírez began his literary career as a short story writer. His first story, "The student", was published in 1960 in Ventana, a magazine in León. His first book, published three years later, was just a collection of stories, but the following, published in 1970, was a full-length novel. Since then, he has alternated these genres with essays and journalism. His international breakthrough came in 1998 when he won the Alfaguara Prize with his novel Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea. In 1990, he founded La Quincena, a political journal based in Managua that would be published for ten years. He is presently a columnist for La Prensa as well as several newspapers around the world,… Read More

Merrimac, Massachusetts: Destiny Publishers, 1966. Second Impression. Paperbound. As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 24. Fully illustrated with maps, schematics &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Publisher's blurb notes: "This booklet contains a thoroughly comprehensive account of the revelation-measures monumentalized in the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, which is truly the Bible in Stone. It was prepared for the purpose of offering a fundamental and concise presentation of the findings of recognized authorities on the signal importance of the chronological information incorporated in the construction of this monument, emphasizing its prophetic importance."

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed verdant-green cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 197, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftone plates, Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Railways Magazine's obituary noted: "Patrick John Leonard Cosnett Ransome-Wallis was born on January 10, 1906 at Carlton Road, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. From September 1940 to December 1941 Pat served in the new anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Dido, mainly in the Mediterranean theatre and on North Atlantic convoys. He saw action during the evacuation of British forces from Crete, during which Dido was bombed and severely damaged. ... This was followed by a spell of duty in Washington DC, where periods of leave gave the opportunity of photographing and riding behind the giants of American steam, a subject that was… Read More

Pensacola, Florida: Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc, 1989. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The U.S. Navy still has an unknown number of senior officers on active duty in the Regular Navy or serving in the Navy Reserve who were originally accessed as NAVCADs (naval aviation cadets). These individuals entered service via the NAVCAD program during the mid/late 1980s and early 1990s when the program was reinstated following a hiatus of over twenty years. NAVCADs were non-commissioned cadets who were required to have a minimum of 60 college credit hours to enter flight training (rather than the bachelor's degree normally required for entry into the flight training program) and were accessed only through the now defunct Aviation Candidate Officer School (AOCS) program. Upon completion of AOCS, NAVCADS would… Read More

Hardcover. as new/as new. Demy folio, [23cm/9.25inches], full pictorial cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 96. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. . Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Google Books notes: "Swamped in World War II with requests from the military to use the world-famous Disney characters in creating distinctive unit insignia, the Disney Studio had to set up a special five-man crew of artists to meet the demand for designs. "They meant a lot to the men who were fighting," said Walt Disney. "How could you turn them down?" Imaginative, colorful, and well-executed, these insignia occupy a unique place in Disney history. Over a five-year period, as a contribution to the war effort, the Studio created some 1,200 insignia, the best of which have been selected for this volume - the first comprehensive survey of this relatively unknown body of Disney art. For the most part, these delightful designs exist today only as… Read More

New York: Abbeville, 1988. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed blue cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 288, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Berkeley, California: The Berkley Citizen,, 1966-1967. First Impressions. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Folio, -(smaller newspaper format)-, As of this blurbing,The Berkeley Citizen is still around. Simply google berkeleycitizen.org It's a fine community paper. This batch of papers were saved by a former Berkeley news vendor who ran away from the Haight and joined a commune in Oregon [Until it was "discovered"]. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.  

Genèva: Sotheby's , 1987. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo [27.5cm/10.75inches], paperbound auction catalogue with pictorial covers, pp. 87; 253 lots. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

Los Angeles: The Rowny Press, 1924. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition/VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full faux calf-backed quarter-bound ebony cloth w/ tipped-on spine and cover title plates, pp. 162, deckled and t.e.g. Illustrated with tipped-in b-w woodcuts by Stuart Taber and Esther Betty Lewis, Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In 1875 Dr. P.C. (Peter Charles) Remondino In , Dr. Remondino was appointed City Physician and was the first President of the City Board of Health, a position he intermittently occupied until his death. He was the Surgeon of the Southern California Railroad Company and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and for many years he was the Surgeon of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. In 1877, Dr. Remondino married Sophia Ann Earle, a niece of the Bishop of Marlborough of London, the late Honorable Alfred Earle. In 1891, Dr. Remondino and his wife Sophia built one of the first houses on San Diego’s… Read More