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The Whites of Their Eyes. An account of the military and naval adventures of the Agnews of Lochnaw ....

By: Agnew (Major Douglas)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: Agnew Association, 1982.

Seller ID: 56792

Blue boards designed and lettered in white. Illustrated. A clean, basically fine copy.
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NHL Guide. National Hockey League Guide. Including Jim Hendon's Hockey Guide and Who's Who in Hockey. 1969-1970 through 1974-1975. 6 Volumes.

By: Andrews (Ron) and Norm Jewison -editors. (Hockey)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: (Montreal?): National Hockey League, 1969-1975.

Seller ID: 56775

6 issues of this yearly guide. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear, nice condition. Some great cover shots, such as Gordie Howe on the cover of the 1970-1971 issue.
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Striped Marlin. Alternative Tactics. (Title inside: The Art of Catching Striped Marlin)

By: Archer (Fred)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Dana Point, Ca.: Blue Water Publications, 1993.

Seller ID: 56930

Black plasticized wrappers, ringbound. Illustrated. 152 pages. Slightly bent, nice condition. Limited edition with an author-signed page in the front, this is copy #226 of an unknown number of copies.
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The Art of Chunking Tuna (and Dorado, Yellowtail, Sharks, Swordfish and Inshore Species).

By: Archer (Fred)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Dana Point, Ca.: Blue Water Publications, 1993.

Seller ID: 56932

Black plasticized wrappers, ringbound. Illustrated. 143 pages. Nice condition. Limited edition with an author-signed page in the front, this is copy #155 of an unknown number of copies.143
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The Turn of the Road. Being the Story of the Part Played by the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the Landings in Algeria and French Morocco....

By: Bartimeus [pseudonym of Lewis Ritchie].

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Chatto and Windus, 1946. First edition.

Seller ID: 55482

Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Some discoloration of cloth at fore edges, ownership inscription dated 1947, a very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket. Several diagrams, three folding maps. A better than usual copy of this book. An account of the Allied landing in North Africa, covering November 8, 1942 through May 9, 1943.
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Crystal Sets and the Brookman's Park Transmitter.

By: BBC Radio

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54799

London: BBC, 1929. Decorative printed wrappers, stapled. Illustrated with drawings of circuits and antenna placement. Staples rusted, covers dust soiled, very good. Laid in is a subscription form the THE LISTENER. This booklet was issued by the BBC when they changed the strength and location of some of their transmitters. "The pamphlet .... was distributed free of charge to large numbers of listeners." [Briggs: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume Two].
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Screen Star Album.

By: Blatz Screen Star Album

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Milwaukee: Blatz Gum, [1928].

Seller ID: 57034

Original decorative stiff wrappers, tied. A little wear to the lower corner of the first couple of pages, a clean and unmarked very good copy otherwise. This album contains all 20 Favorite Screen Stars Trading Cards issued by Blatz, with facsimile signatures, mounted in the album. This set includes the key "Our Gang" card. The 20 cards are: 1. Ben Lyon2. Vera Reynolds3. William Haines4. Jack Mulhall5. Anita Stewart6. Billie Dove7. Charli...
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The Genealogy of the Braley Family.

By: Braley (Ellison L.)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Westborough, Mass.: Chronotype Printing Company, 1907.

Seller ID: 51480

20pp. Original gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. Some marginal notes in pencil throughout, and in pen on last leaf. A few small stains to wrappers, corners a bit worn, very good. A scarce booklet.
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The Western Intellectual Tradition. From Leonardo to Hegel.

By: Bronowski (J.) and Bruce Mazlish.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 55160

London: Hutchinson, (1960). First British edition. Black cloth, spine designed and lettered in brown and gilt. A clean, fine copy in a very slightly worn dust jacket, just a bit of shelf wear to edges and tips. A very nice copy.
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Image for Catalogue of Broodmares, Property of W. O'B. Macdonough, Esq. At Auction on Friday, January 13th, 1899. At 10 A.M., at Salesyard, cor. Van Ness Ave. and Market St.

Catalogue of Broodmares, Property of W. O'B. Macdonough, Esq. At Auction on Friday, January 13th, 1899. At 10 A.M., at Salesyard, cor. Van Ness Ave. and Market St.

By: Broodmares.

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 52847

San Francisco: Killip & Co., Live Stock Auctioneers, 1899. Original wrappers, stapled. A 16-page booklet. Staples rusting, otherwise fine. 12 broodmares are described, with extensive details.
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The Inner Life of the Court of the Tuileries. From the French of Madame Carette by Edward Wakefield.

By: Carette (Madame, nee Bouvet)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY: Collier, 1889/1890/1891.

Seller ID: 51059

3 volumes. Original wrappers. All issued in the Once A Week Library: Volume 1, No. 9, December 15, 1889 / Vol. 1, No. 24, August 1, 1890 / Vol. III, No. 9, December 10, 1891. The first volume is in pink pictorial wrappers, the second in white wrappers, and the third, smaller format, is in salmon printed wrappers. Old stains to the covers of all three volumes, most notably the first two, otherwise all are generally very good. Translated from the French work: Souvenirs intimes de la cour des Tuileries. There is also an Appleton edition of 1889.
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Lenses For Ships' Lights. Communication by William Dyce Cay.

By: Cay (William Dyce)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53162

Paris: Imprimerie Generale Lahure, 1900. Original printed wrappers. An 8-page pamphlet. Issued as the VIII International Congress on Navigation. Paris 1900. Third Section. Some splitting to upper spine, a few folds and a bit of wear to wrapper edges, a nice copy otherwise. The short text, with one diagram, is printed in both English and French.
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Leyendas de los Indios Quichuas. Ilustrado por F. Fortuny.

By: Cezar (Filiberto de Oliveira)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Buenos Aires: R. Puig, 1892 (1893). Segunda Edicion.

Seller ID: 50767

Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Wear and foxing to spine, foxing to edges of covers and pages, old dampstain to fore-edge and margins of last half of the book; spine is partly detached, and somewhat chipped at base of spine, but basically complete. The title page is dated 1892, but the cover is dated 1893, and bears the legend "Segunda Edicion".
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Chambers's Papers For The People. Volume XI.

By: Chambers (William and Robert) -publishers.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: Chambers, 1851. First edition.

Seller ID: 50872

Volume XI only. Glazed yellow decorative boards, designed in green and red. Patterned end papers. This volume contains Numbers 81 - 88. Moderate shelf wear to edges, some rubbing at hinges, erasure from front end paper, but in general a very nice, clean copy. The ads on the front endpaper go up to Volume XI, and indicate "To be completed in Twelve Volumes".
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Four Modern Naval Campaigns. Historical, Strategical, and Tactical. With Maps, Plans, and a Frontispiece Portrait of the Author.

By: Clowes (Sir William Laird)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1906.

Seller ID: 55483

Second Edition; originally published in 1902. Green cloth, spine patterned and lettered in gilt, Hutchinson's Popular Classics insignia in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece and 16 maps & plans. Inner hinges cracking but intact, some cloth soiling, a very good copy.
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The Parish of Lerwick. An Ecclesiastical and Historical Sketch.

By: Crawford (James M.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lerwick: Manson, 1901. First edition.

Seller ID: 57058

Burgundy cloth, covers stamped in blind, front cover lettered in gilt. 94pp. Frontispiece & numerous illustrations. Bookplate of Alexander Moffatt on front end paper, some discoloration of end papers, a bright and attractive copy.
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Surveying for Settlers. A Simplified Handbook for the use of Pioneers, Farmers, Planters and Others Settling in New Countries.

By: Crosley (William)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Crosby Lockwood, 1926. Second Edition.

Seller ID: 55445

Green cloth lettered in black. Issued in the Lockwood's Manuals series. End papers bear ads for Stanley optical instruments. Frontispiece and two inserted plates, and many illustrations in the text. A nice clean copy.
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Le Savant Du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques sur les Objets Usuels de la Vie. Ouvrage Illustre a L'Usage de la Jeunesse.

By: Figuier (Louis)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Paris: Hachette, 1862.

Seller ID: 50081

Later half-cloth & marbled boards, marbled end papers. Original printed front wrapper bound in. Name on title page, scattered foxing, slight damage to the lower corner of a few late leaves; in general, a very nice, clean copy. Numerous plates, and illustrations in the text. A pleasant illustrated overview of science, encompassing the atmosphere, plants & animals, minerals, etc.
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Economics of Inter-Urban Railways.

By: Fischer (Louis E.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY: McGraw-Hill, 1914. First edition.

Seller ID: 56543

Dark green cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Ownership ink stamps on front end papers and title, a bright very good copy. Many charts & tables, indexed.
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Historia General de Chile. In Four Volumes.

By: Gajardo (Carlos Fortin)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Santiago: Interprovincial Libros, 1972.

Seller ID: 55417

Four volumes. Red boards, blue spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Volume 1 has a gilt coat of arms on the front cover. This 1972 edition "corregida, aumentada y actualizada", limited to 2000 copies. Illustrated with photographic plates, facsimiles, and illustrations in the text. Some illustrations in colour. Light rubbing to boards, basically a near-fine set. 1795 pages, paged continuously, index at the end of Volume 4. Text is entirely in Spanish. This set is quite heavy, and will incur extra postage charges.
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Category: General