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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 are adding 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, you never know what wonders you'll behold! Happy and Prosperous 2021 from our staff to all our terrific customers.

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Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion

Blackstone, Harry Jr.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1985. First edition. Unknown. Clean, tight 4to, 230pp. Very slight shelf wear and a 1", neatly repaired tear to bottom of the dust jacket. For the first time, America's [then] Premier prestidigitator tells the Blackstone story and examines the history, science, and art of illusion. Features.....

Pictorial Review Standard Cook Book

Hardcover. New York, Pictorial Review Co., 1934 edition, later printing. Clean, tight-bound 8vo, 481pp w/empty pages for one to write their own recipes in the back. The cover is lightly rubbed and tips and spine ends are somewhat bumped and chipped, pages are all in good shape except pages 108-116.....

Everett Raymond Kinstler; The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture - 1942-1962

Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Jim and Kinstler, Everett Raymond

Hardcover. Brand new in the plastic wrapper. SIGNED AND NUMBERED. Profusely illustrated with more than 375 illustrations, this is a biography and artist's retrospective. Kinstler transformed himself over the 20 years covered in this work from an apprentice comic and graphic book artist to a renowned painter of celebrity portraits.....

Ship Figureheads and other wood carving art in the Nautical Collection of the State Street Trust

State Street Trust Co.

Softcover. Boston, State Street Trust Co., 1959 first edition. Clean, tightbound in heavy wraps, 41pp, copious photos. A +-really interesting description of the figureheads owned by the State Street Trust, including a short history of figureheads, photos of the figurehead, name, the quarter-board or trailboard and its history...

Greasy Luck; A Whaling Sketch Book

Grant, Gordon and Payson, William Farquhar

New York: Caravan Maraitime Books, 1970. First thus reprint of the original from 1932. Hardcover. Scarce. Clean, tight 4to, 127pp. Small, neat former owner stamp on the ffe. Book is bound in sail cloth! Dust jacket has two tiny, neatly repaired chips to edges and very minor shelf wear. A.....

Steamcars to the Comstock

Beebe, Lucius & Clegg, Charles

Berkeley: Howell-North, 1970. Later printing. Hardcover. Slender 4to, 107pp. Dust jacket edges have some tiny chips and very slight rubbing, price clipped, otherwise clean and tight. More than 130 illustrations and three color plates from the original oil paintings by Howard Fogg. All about the Virginia and Truckee Railroad and.....

Cheyenne and Sioux; The Reminiscences of Four Indians and a White Soldier

Marquis, Thomas (compiled by) and Ronald Limbaugh (editor)

Stockton, CA: Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 78pp. SIGNED by the Editor. Book is mostly pristine except for the gift inscription and signature of the editor. Interesting Northern Cheyenne Portrait Gallery. Contains interviews with Iron Teeth, A Cheyenne Old Woman, A Cheyenne.....

The Art and Science of Raja Yoga: Fourteen Steps to Higher Awareness Based on the Teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda

J. Donald Walters

Hardcover. Nevada City, CA, Crystal Clarity Publishers, 2002, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 471pp. A former owner name penned and crossed out on the front pastedown. A comprehensive 14-lesson book of the philosopohy, meditation, postures, diet, breathing, routines, and health involved in the Raja Yoga system, proven for realizing one's.....