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The Wright Book has a marvelous selection of very eclectic books on many unique subjects for you this year. And, we are always searching for new and more interesting tomes to round out our inventory. We added the 'Age of Sail' section with books about the exciting and romantic era of square-rigged sailing ships, schooners, and any number of other boats and ships propelled by sails throughout the world from way back to the end of the the Age of Sail in the early 1900s. We still have our Maritime/Nautical section, too, with books about the more modern world of sailing, boat building and repair as well as exotic sail trips around the world. But don't neglect the other wonderful sections such as our Vintage Children's books, our fabulous Ethnic and Vintage Cookbooks, the Wild West and Native American area and what we call the "woo woo" section; our Metaphysics. Check our Categories at the bottom of this page, you never know what wonders you'll behold!

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Cooking with the Ancients : Bible Food Book

Stadd, Arlene

Colorado: Glenbridge Publishing, 1997. Patricia Hobbs. Third printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 195pp. One chocolate smudge on the bottom of the table of contents page otherwise nearly pristine. Nice gift. Ancient diets were healthy and surprisingly varied and interesting. The food came from many cultures in the Holy land where.....

Williams-Sonoma Bride & Groom Cookbook and Bride & Groom Entertaining Collection

Gayle Pirie with John Clark and Binns, Brigit Legere &...

New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2005. David matheson. Later printing. Hardcover. Two-book set of clean, tight 4tos, 255 & 190 pp respectively. They are in a very slightly shelf worn slip case which has kept them pristine and will both make fine wedding gifts. The wedding month is here;.....

The South and East African Year Book & Guide; with atlas and diagrams

Samler Brown & Marshall Simpkin

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1929 edition (edited annually). Tight bound 8vo, more than 1000 pages, but not consecutively numbered. Many pages of maps in the back, and in the far back and front are many pages of advertisements which were printed on inferior paper and have tanned.....

The Arts of the Sailor

Hervey Garrett Smith

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1953, first edition. A very scarce, clean, tight, small 8vo, 234pp. Jacket is in a very nice plasticine cover, but the spine of the dj has a hand-printed label that says "Canvas, Rope & Wire Work" on the top 2" of the spine, covering.....

The Second Mayflower Adventure; The official account by the originator of the project

Charlton, Warwick

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, 8vo, 245pp, copious photographs. Book shows light shelf wear and some bumping to spine ends, light fading to the spine and edges. There is a book plate on the verso of the ffe. Dust jacket is protected by.....

The West Indies

Fiske, Amos Kidder

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 414pp plus 1 appendix. Cover shows minor shelf wear and light bumping to spine ends and tips. Three fold out maps; Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands, and a general map of the West Indies. All.....

The Hook and Eye: A History of the Iowa Central Railway

Hofsommer, Don L.

Minnesota: 2005. First edition, Fourth printing. Hardcover. Minnesota, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005, first edition, 4th printing. Clean tight tall 4to, 151pp. Iowa Central Railway supporters fought for a north-south route across the state that would link Minneapolis and St. Paul and St. Louis. This is the history from station.....

Elena's Favorite Foods California Style

Zelayeta, Elena

New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1967. Philip Little and Norman Gordon. First edition. Hardcover. Tight bound 8vo, 310pp. Dust jacket has some serious chips to top and bottom edges and one open tear to top edge (see picture). Very slight tanning to the back cover and very slight shelf wear.....