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Piney Creek, North Carolina: Myst of the Oracle Corporation, 2006. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS to preliminary page. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of deep-orchid colored boards. Dustjacket very good. Mylar protected. Color photographs. 229 pp. Clean, tight, bright. A Gnome's Story" is a present-day first-hand account of life with the Nature Spirits. The tale shares the learning process and suggests how you too can perceive the Kingdoms of Nature...
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IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE . . . A GNOME'S STORY : A GROUNDBREAKING FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE KINGDOM AS TOLD BY THE GNOMES, LEPRECHAUNS, ELVS AND FAERIES THEMSELVES
by Valentine, Christoper ; Christian von Lahr
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SOLO : THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN WILD DOG
by van Lawick, Hugo
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Bygott, David. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Tape marks to top and bottom of both front and rear boards. Small bump to front bottom corner. Text edges lightly spotted. Dustjacket very good plus. Light shelf/edgewear to jacket. Now mylar protected. Eight color photographs and many drawings. Clean, bright, tight. 159 pp. With an introduction by Jane van Lawick Goodall. The true story of Solo's puppyhood, her persistent fortitude, and her so nearly tragic end. Solo is the subject of Hugo van Lawick's epic television film, "The Wild Dogs of Africa".
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EMMA BEAN
by Van Leeuwen, Jean
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New York: Penguin , 1997. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Wijngaard, Juan. SCARCE. Minimal shelfwear. Yellow and black lettering to spine and front of blue, illustrated cover. Adorable watercolor illustrations. Clean, bright, solid binding. 40 pp. Emma Bean, a homemade toy rabbit, joins Molly at birth and shares her trials and triumphs as she grows from infant to little girl.
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GHOSTS OF THE SPANISH STEPS
by Varè, Daniele
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London: John Murray, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Tiny crimps to upper corners of two pages. Dustjacket good plus. Moderately scuffed surfaces. Small chips and tears, less than .5", to edges. Sticker scar to bottom, rear panel. Lightly soiled. Black debossed lettering to spine of cadet-blue cloth-covered boards. With 12 black and white illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 213 pp. Partly autobiographical, partly historic, partly reflective. The Spanish Steps are associated with all sorts of people, Popes, statesmen, philosophers, villians, children, and dogs. People of all nationalities and of many generations such as Von Bülow, Pope Pius IX, Madame Récamier, Ouida, Marconi, D'Annunzio, and Madame Mère have association with the Steps. "The result is something of an historic cavalcade...", (rear panel).
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ENGLISH PHONETICS (A NORMATIVE COURSE)
by Vassilyev, V.A., OI.V. Burenkova, A.R. Katanskaya,NM.D. Lukina, L.P. Maslova, E.I. Torsuyeva
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Leningrad, USSR (Russia): State Text-Book Publishing House of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Tan boards with navy blue lettering to front board and spine. Numerous illustrations and a fold-out chart. Pages age-tanning. The bulk of the material presented in the book has beenused for manyyears in teaching students at the First State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow) and has, in the authors' opinion, passed the test of time...The authors have, however, considerably enlarged the original material...the theoretical treatment of many phonetic phenomena in the book is different from what is to be found in the curent works of British and American phoneticians (the concept of thep honeme, the classification of English phonemes, intonation, etc.)...
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A PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES (SEOANE'S NEUMAN AND BARETTI BY VELAZQUEZ)
by Velazquez De La Cadena, Mariano
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. Reprint. Leather_bound. VERY GOOD. In two parts: 1) SPANISH-ENGLISH, AND 2) ENGLISH-SPANISH. In both parts of this thoroughly comprehensive work, each word in caps, accented, TRANSLITERATED, and Defined. Leather to spine fraying at top. Corners rubbed and frayed, and light wear to raised bands on spine. Stain to fore edge. 1280 pp in all. Binding Solid. Heavy. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.
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PUEBLOS DEL PERU / PUEBLOS OF PERU
by Instituto Linguistico de Verano
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Lima, Peru : Instituto Linguistico de Verano , 2006 . Paperback. NEAR FINE . FIRST EDITION. Adapted from "People of Peru." Spanish-language volume explores, with extensive full-color photography, the indigenous peoples of Peru's various regions and their culture. 187 pp. Light shelfwear with some light scratching to both covers, visible only in direct light, and several very small indentations to rear cover. A bit of light edgewear with light folds to the very tips of corners, both covers. Light corner curl to first and last 20 or so pages of text.
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IN AND OUT OF FLORENCE : A NEW INTRODUCTION TO A WELL-KNOWN CITY
by Vernon, Max
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New York: Henry Holt, 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lanktree, Maud. FIRST EDITION. Top edge gilt. Front hinges starting. Some scuffing to surfaces. Mild edgewear to board extremities. Spinecaps gently folded under. Pages very lightly age-tanned, would still consider bright. Gilt lettering, black design to spine and front of dark green, cloth-covered boards. Illustrated with 68 drawings and 47 photographs. Clean, tight. 370 pp with index. Advertisements to rear of book. This is a sort of guide-book or introduction to Florence. "It tells something about Florence and the Florentines of today as well as about those glorious people of the earlier centuries," (prefatory note).
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ASSASSINATION IN ALGIERS : CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, DE GAULLE, AND THE MURDER OF ADMIRAL DARLAN
by Verrier, Anthony
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LONDON: Macmillan , 1991 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST U.K. EDITION. On Christmas Eve, 1942, a member of the French resistance entered the office of the French High Commissioner in Algiers and murdered Admiral Darlan, formerly heir-apparent to Marshal Petain and involved in a plot to keep the defeatist Vichy regime in power. Examines U.S. and British involvement in the assassination. 302 pp. Black cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to spine. Small ding to top spinecap, bottom spinecap. One tiny corner bump, hardly noticeable. A bit of light dust to top edge. DJ archivally protected. Some very light soiling to DJ spine, rear DJ panel; a bit of light creasing to DJ edges.
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LET'S HAVE A PARADE : A BUILD-UP BOOK
by Victor, Jeffrey
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NEW YORK: Capitol Publishing Co. , 1945 . Hardcover. Very Good. Wells, Frances . No edition designated by publisher. Two small children, playing on the sidewalk, envision a parade which might fill the scene, and with every turn of the cardstock pages, a new element is added, eventually creating a single image of "the best parade anyone had ever seen". Spiral bound. Light thumbing with moderate wear to corners on both boards. Some slight spotting and soiling to both boards. Dime-sized area rubbed-out to front board. Some slight creasing to extremities of boards. Writing in pencil to very small area of rear board. Some slight creasing, scratching, or soiling to several pages. One inch closed tear to one page. Light wear to spine edge of boards with one small chunk missing.
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THE RISE OF ROMANCE
by Vinavery, Eugene
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Minus. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Slight lift to boards. Surfaces mildly scuffed. Lightly foxed edges. Dustjacket very good minus. Sunning to spine and extremities. Light foxing. Scuffed jacket with a bit of wear at spinecaps. With fourteen black and white plates. 158 pp with appendix and index. The author explores medieval French and English romances in their relation to the literary aesthetic of that vanished age as well as to the evolution of narrative.
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SAUMELLS : ESCULTURA, PINTURA, DIBUJOS, DEL 18 AL 31 DE ENERO 1958
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Barcelona: Sala Gaspar, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. STAPLEBOUND. Cover scuffed with minor edgewear. White lettering to dark green, illustrated cover. Photograph of Luis M. Saumells on preliminary first page. Fourteen black and white illustrations. 9 pp. Translated title : Sculpture, painting, drawing from 18 to 31 January 1958. Luis M. Saumells, (1915 -- 1999), was a Spanish sculpture and painter. His art is exhibited in numerous museums from Germany, Sweden, Spain and France to North America. In addition to his work, Saumells was also know for having been the director for 37 years to the School of Art Workshop of Tarragona. Many call his work "El Greco of Catalan sculpture," (taken from Wikipedia).
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MEDIAEVAL CULTURE : AN INTRODUCTION TO DANTE AND HIS TIMES (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE)
by Vossler, Karl
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New York: Frederick Ungar, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. FOURTH PRINTING. Just a bit of shelfwear. Red top-stain to volumes. Blue boards with gilt lettering and rules on spines. Gilt titles in black panels on spines. 354 / 454 pp with index in volume two. Clean, bright, tight. The first volume discusses the "background of the poet in the religion, philosophy, ethical and political thought, and imaginative literature of the Middle Ages is discussed ; in the second part, his work alone. Hence the second part can be enjoyed, perhaps can best be enjoyed, apart from the first, for the first part takes for granted a thorough familiarity with the poem . . .," (preface).
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