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Gold Rush; A Literary Exploration

California Council for the Humanities

Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight, fat, trade paperback 8vo, 477pp. Light shelf wear and small curl to the bottom front tip. From Mary Austin to Miriano Vallejo these are more than 100 diverse, boisterous, thought-provoking stories by 24 different authors of the gold rush on the...

Bungalows; Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New

Connolly, M. Caren

Connecticut: Taunton, 2002. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 202pp.Dust jacket shows very slight curling to top and bottom edges, but is in Mylar. Bungalows are making a resurgence as Americans are once again drawn to homes with character, detail and comfortable layouts that make sense. Designs, inspiration for renovating...

Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo

Rivera, Guadalupe and Marie Pierre Colle

9-20. ignacio Urquizaq. Hardback. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1994, later edition. Clean, tight 4to, 224pp. Lushly photographed, colorful and loaded with delicious sounding recipes from the kitchen of Frida Kahlo. Written by Diego Rivera's daughter with her memories of living with Rivera and Kahlo. Everything sounds yummy. Many photos...

Doctors, Drums and Dances

Laszlo, Andreas E., M.D.

Hardcover. New York, Hanover House, 1955, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 284pp, dandy photography. Dust jacket is lightly shelf worn, small chips across top edge, some toning to spine. A medical doctor explores the life and rituals of the primitive tribes of West Africa, mostly Angola. He says: "A strange...

The Rose; A Complete Handbook

Genders, Roy

1965, 1st ed., Robert Hale. HB, lg. 8vo, 623pp, VG/G+ with minor chipping to d.j. and in a protective cover, slight mustiness. Contains 48 colour photos, 69 b/w photos, 33 figures in text. .Every aspect of the rose and rose growing is covered, including the history of the rose and...

Quantity Cooking; Menu Planning and Cookery for Large Numbers

Treat, Nola & Richards, Lenore

Hardcover. Boston; Little, Brown & Co., 1944, completely revised edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 343pp. Cover is mildly faded. A few pages mid-book are mildly dog-eared. A fun, collectible cookery book that was originally meant for managers of food departments in restaurants, schools, colleges, and institutions. However, the quantity measurements are...

A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: the Memoirs of Corporal E. A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882

E. A. Bode

University Of Nebraska Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 237pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear with a tiny 1/16th inch hole on the spine gutter on the front and a small closed tear on the top edge by the spine head. Bode was a German immigrant who...

An Illustrated Historical Atlas Map of Jasper County, Missouri

Greene County & Jasper county Records Centers

Missouri: Brink, McDonough & Co., 1876. Facsimilie Reprint of the original. Softcover. Clean, tight spiral bound folio, 89pp, very light shelf wear. Maps, history and biographical sketches of citizens, illustrations, patron list, plat book index of major and minor cities and settlements with the county.