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WHAT'S NEW? WELL, WE JUST PURCHASED A LIBRARY OF VINTAGE YOUNG MEN'S ADVENTURE AND MYSTERY BOOKS FROM THE 1890s TO ABOUT THE 1920s. YOU'LL FIND TOM SWIFT, THE ROVER BOYS, THE BRIGHTON BOYS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE.

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The Wright Book has a terrific, eclectic selection of books on many subjects that are often out of the ordinary. Check our 'Categories' at the bottom of this page, you never know what wonders you'll behold!

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Rock Island Color Pictorial Volume 2: Motive Power Review 1960-1969

Marre, Louis A.

Four Ways West Publications, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 128pp. The second in a series of all color volumes dealing with the locomotives and trains of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad from 1960-1969.

My Alpine Album

Smythe, Frank S.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles black, 1947, second edition. Clean tight 4to. Fairly scarce in this good condition. Dust jacket spine edge is somewhat rubbed, some small chips to edges of d.j., back of d.j. is lightly soiled. Former owner book plate on ffe. The red cloth cover is lightly.....

The Flora of Barro Colorado Island Panama

Standley, Paul C.

1933, Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University V. In wraps, tall 8vo, pp 1-178, 1-21 plates, fold-out map, good condition except front wrap cover is somewhat loose and neatly repaired. The title tells it all.

Cutwater Speedboats and Launches from the Golden Age of Boating

Robert Bruce Duncan

Hardcover. Howell Press; 1993. 15+ stunning color photos of more than 35 classic speedboats and motor launches from about 1900 to WWII. Many are still being used in Canada and the U.S. to preserve the legacy of this era of boating history. 150 color photos.

The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook

David G. Gordon

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1998. not stated. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 99pp. 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Moth meal in every pantry and a chinch bug in every pot!

Historic Ships of San Francisco

Steve Levingston

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. First edition. Softcover. Clean tight 6"x9" oblong 8vo.124pp. Light shelf wear. A collective history and guide to the restored historic vessels of the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco. The stories include The Square-Rigger Balclutha, the Sailing Schooner C.A. Thayer, the Scow Schooner Alma, the.....

Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver

Dobie, J. Frank

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. Tom Lea. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, scarce book, 366pp. Light bumping to the spine ends. Jacket in mylar and has sevrerl small chips and tiny tears to the edges and one open dime-sized tear to the spine cover. Some light rubbing front and.....

The Longyear Cookbook

Longyear Historical Society and Museum

Carl Winkel and Mary Barbara Smith. Hardcover. Massachusettes, Longyear Historical Society, 1989, first edition. Clean, tight, spiral bound cookbook. Recipes and historical vignettes from Longyear's long history. Mary Baker Eddy's creation of the Christian Scientist religion is supported by this organization. The recipes come from Christian Scientists from all over.....