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Robert Moffat, The Missionary Hero of Kuruman
London: S. W. Partridge & Co., Second edition, no date, ca. 1890. Tight bound 8vo, 160pp, cover is somewhat faded and scuffed, spine is faded and tips, head and tail or spine are bumped. Some soiling back and front. Gift inscription on the verso of the ffe "An Award to.....
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Twenty-First Century Grail The Quest for a Legend
London: Virgin Publishing, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Clean tight 4to, 259pp, dust jacket has some very minor chips along bottom edge in back. A profoundly compelling study of the Grail Mythos including 26 chapters, 31 plates, and 9 figures. Questions the relationship between the grail and the Knights Templar, Alister.....
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The Great Lakes Car Ferries
Berkeley: Howell-North, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fairly scarce. Clean, tight 8vo, 282pp. Good reading copy. The jacket is extant but torn and missing the front flap as well as several pieces, In mylar. The text block is okay, but the first few pages, including the ffe, have a small tear.....
The Log of the Bowdoin
Hardcover. Cleveland & New York, World Publishing Co., 1947, 1st ed, SIGNED by Horr . Somewhat scarce, Clean, tight blue cloth 8vo, 140pp + 16 plates in the back with some great photos. The book is in near fine shape with fold out of the schematics of the ship intact.....
Blue Dog
New York: Penguin Books, 1994. Second edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to. The exquisitely painted and written journey of a Cajun artist and his dog. The story is Blue Dog's biography as well as his own, during her lifetime. It is tender, funny, silly, and poignant. A lovely gift for a......
The New Laurel's Kitchen
Ten Speed Press, 1986. Later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 511pp. Shows light shelf wear, rem mark on bottom edge. Used but not abused. Pages 169-172 has some damp wrinkling. (It's the soup section, maybe clear broth or water?) which does not impair the text at all. A complete cookbook.....
Twilight Fairy Tales
Sacramento, CA: Jo Anderson, 1914. Mary Crete Crouch. First edition. Hardcover. Tight-bound, short 4to, unpaginated. The tips are bumped as are the head and tail of the spine. There are a few scuffs and small stains, front and back. There is a gift inscription on the second title page dated.....
Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 272pp with a great glossary and bibliography. Jamieson explopres how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other costal ports rose to the apogee of their powers extending as far as the British Isles and Iceland from the 1500s on.....
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