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Charles Dickens: His Life and Work

Stephen Leacock

Doubleday, Doran, 1936

Moufflou and Other Stories

Louisa de la Ramé (Ouida)

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910

Mother Carey's Chickens

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930

Selected Poems and Parodies of Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935

The Adventures of Prickly Porky

Thornton W. Burgess

Little, Brown, and Company, 1916

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

Harper & Brothers, 1917

Rubin: My Life, My Art

Sabra Books / Funk & Wagnalls, 1974

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by Frances Winwar)

The Modern Library (Random House), 1955

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Dell Publishing, 1960

The Holcroft Covenant

Richard Marek Publishers, 1978

$30Near Fine/Very Good

Make Bright the Arrows

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Harper & Brothers, 1940

The Diary of a Mouse

Dodge Publishing Co., 1907

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser

The Modern Library, 1944

The Adventures of Pinocchio

C. Collodi (transl. by Carol Della)

The Macmillan Company, 1939

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Doubleday, Doran, 1938

First editionSigned

This Man Gibson

Robert W. Lawrence

Gospel Teachers Publications, Dallas, 1974

Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi

Simon and Schuster, 1984

$35Near Fine/VG+

Metropolitan Life

E.P. Dutton, 1978

$60Near Fine/Near Fine

The Optimist's Daughter

Random House, 2002

$30Near Fine/VG+

Redemption

HarperCollins, 1995

$30Near Fine/Near Fine

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Dell (Laurel Edition)

Readings in Social Psychology

Theodore M. Newcomb and Eugene L. Hartley

Henry Holt and Company, 1947

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Easton Press, 1980

Of Mice and Men

Easton Press, 1977

Brave New World

The Easton Press, 1978

In a Dark Garden

Frank G. Slaughter

Doubleday & Company, 1946

Politics & Poetics

Easton Press, 1979

The Marines

Edwin Howard Simmons (Editor-in-Chief); J. Robert Moskin (Editor)

Universe Publishing, 1998

The Years of MacArthur, Volume III: Triumph and Disaster 1945-1964

D. Clayton James

Houghton Mifflin, 1985

$40Near Fine/Near Fine

Dali

Max Gérard (editor), Salvador Dalí

Harry N. Abrams, 1968

$100Very Good/Good

Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany 1944-1945

Russell F. Weigley

Indiana University Press, 1981

$40Very Good/Very Good

Moby Dick, or The Whale

Herman Melville

The Modern Library (Random House), New York

$85Very Good/Good

Rights of Man

Easton Press, 1989

Monty 3 Volume Set (Marshall Montgomery)

McGraw-Hill, 1983

$85Near Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

In the Midst of Winter

Atria Books, 2017

$30Fine/Very Good

Truman

David McCullough

Simon & Schuster, 1992

$30Near Fine/Very Good

Gray Ghost

William G. Tapply

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

$25Near Fine/Near Fine

Clock Repairing as a Hobby

Harold C. Kelly

Association Press, 1972

$20Very Good/Good

First editionSigned

Islands

Anne Rivers Siddons

HarperCollins, 2004

$30Very Good/Very Good

Remedy

Independently published, 2021

Introduction to Radar Systems

Merrill I. Skolnik

McGraw-Hill, 1980

$30Very Good/Very Good

Bill Mauldin's Army

Presidio Press, 1983

Memoria de mis putas tristes

Gabriel García Márquez

Alfred A. Knopf, 2004

$20Near Fine/Near Fine

Spider Bones

The Runaway Jury

Doubleday, 1996

$25Near Fine/Near Fine

A Man in Full

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

$20Near Fine/Very Good

77 Shadow Street

Bantam Books, 2011

$20Near Fine/Very Good

The Hate U Give (Collector's Edition)

Balzer + Bray, 2018

$18.68Near Fine/Very Good

The Angel of Darkness

Random House, 1997

$35Near Fine/VG+

Order of the Majestic: Lost Kingdom

The Skull Beneath the Skin

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982

$25Near Fine/VG+

A Path to Peace

George J. Mitchell and Alon Sachar

Simon & Schuster, 2016

$20Fine/Very Good

Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

Houghton Mifflin, 2003

$20Fine/Very Good

Birthday Letters

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

$25Fine/Near Fine

Chesapeake

Random House, 1978

$25Near Fine/Very Good

The Witches of El Paso

Primero Sueño Press / Atria, 2024

$25Fine/Near Fine

The Dark Side of Camelot

Seymour M. Hersh

Little, Brown, 1997

$25Fine/Very Good

The Dangerous World of Spies and Spying

Platt & Munk, 1967

$25Very Good/Good

Letter to an Imaginary Friend: Parts Three & Four

Copper Canyon Press, 1985

$45Fine/Near Fine

The Poetry of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine (selected and edited by Frederic Ewen)

Citadel Press, 1969

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

$20Near Fine/Near Fine

Independence Day

Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

$25Near Fine/Very Good

Nabokov: His Life in Art

Little, Brown, 1967

$30Near Fine/Very Good

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988

$30Fine/Near Fine

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

$25Near Fine/Near Fine

The Search for Joseph Tully

William H. Hallahan

Bobbs-Merrill, 1974

$20Very Good/Very Good

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Houghton Mifflin, 1960

$20Very Good/Good

The User Experience Team of One

Rosenfeld Media, 2013

When All the World Was Young

Longstreet Press, 1991

$20Near Fine/Very Good

Johnny Osage

Janice Holt Giles

Houghton Mifflin, 1960

$20Very Good/Very Good

The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Modern Library (Random House)

The Executioner's Song

Little, Brown, 1979

$55Near Fine/VG+

Georgia Institute of Technology 1974-75 General Catalog

Georgia Institute of Technology

Office of Publications, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1974

Peachtree Road

Anne Rivers Siddons

Harper & Row, 1988

$25Near Fine/Near Fine

The Japanese House: Its Interior and Exterior

Kiyoko and Tatsuo Ishimoto

Bonanza Books, 1963

$25Very Good/Good

Rabbit Is Rich

Alfred A. Knopf, 1981

$30Near Fine/Very Good

Tinkers

Bellevue Literary Press, 2009

The Boys from Brazil

Random House, 1976

$20Very Good/Good

Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Customer Alignment Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams

O'Reilly Media, 2021

A Maggot

Little, Brown and Company, 1985

$35Near Fine/Very Good

The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Whole No. 71) — Science-Fiction Future Histories: A Special Issue

John F. Carr (editor)

Science Fiction Writers of America, 1979

The Tailor of Panama

Alfred A. Knopf, 1996

$25Near Fine/Very Good

City of Night

Grove Press, 1963

The Essential Jung

C. G. Jung; selected and introduced by Anthony Storr

MJF Books, 1983

$20Fine/Near Fine

The Deep

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020

Ragtime

Random House, 1975

$25Near Fine/VG+

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

Anthony McCarten

HarperCollins, 2017

$25Near Fine/Very Good

Conrad Aiken: Poet of Savannah and Man of Letters

Ted Spivey with Julia Spivey

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

The Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul Getty - Richest Man in the World

Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1986

$20Very Good/Very Good

Yosemite

Little, Brown and Company, 1995

The Twelve Caesars

The Folio Society, London

Lost Victories

Field-Marshal Erich von Manstein

Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1958

$50Near Fine/Very Good

Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems

Rudyard Kipling (edited by John Beecroft)

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1956

$20Very Good/Good

The Words

Jean-Paul Sartre

George Braziller, New York, 1964

$40Very Good/Good

The Best Plays of 1922-23 and the Year Book of the Drama in America

Burns Mantle (editor)

Dodd, Mead and Company

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

Winston S. Churchill

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Antipoems: New and Selected

Vizcaya

Doris Bayley Littlefield (text); Steven Brooke (photographs)

Martori Enterprises II, Inc. / Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami — First edition July 1984

Cézanne

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. / Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York, 1996

$50Near Fine/Very Good

Teeth: Prepared for Those Who Sell Teeth and for Tooth Selectors

Jack Nevin (assisted by Alfred King and Ray E. Munn)

American Dental Trade Association, Washington, D.C., 1946

The Real Estate Handbook

Lawrence G. Holmes (editor)

PRENTICE-HALL, INC.

Buddhism Plain and Simple

$20Near Fine/Near Fine

Bewilderment

W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

$20Fine/Near Fine

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Grosset & Dunlap (reprint), copyright 1919 by George H. Doran Company

Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter

Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company (Boston · Toronto), 1962

$25Very Good/Good

Growing Orchids III: Vandas, Dendrobiums and Others

Lothian Publishing Company Pty Ltd, first published 1982 (this copy reprinted 1984/1985)

The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times

Henry-Russell Hitchcock

The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts — this copy: Third printing, July 1975

Head Off & Split

TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011

Selected Poems

Vintage Books (Random House), March 1979

Twice-Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Heritage Press, New York — 1966

Once: Poems

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Harvest/HBJ), 1976 paperback reissue; copyright 1968

Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos

Black Widow Press (Boston, Mass.), December 2007

Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie

University of Iowa Press, 2006

$35Near Fine/Very Good

A Last Bridge Home: New and Selected Poems

Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana, 1992

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi Book), 2009

$25Fine/Near Fine

Young Folks Library 1047 Set of 3 Vintage Children's Lit

Joel Chandler Harris (editor);

Auxiliary Educational League, Chicago, 1947

The Listener

Taylor Caldwell

Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1960

$40Very Good/Good

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Harper & Row (Book Club Edition), n.d.

$20Very Good/Good

Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education

Charles E. Silberman

Random House, New York, 1970

$45Very Good/Good

The Mask of Apollo

Pantheon Books (Random House), New York, 1966

$20Very Good/Good

On Beauty

The Penguin Press, 2005

World Without End

Dutton (Penguin Group USA), 2007

$20Near Fine/Near Fine

Death of Kings

Bernard Cornwell

$20Very Good/Near Fine

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

William Shakespeare

Warman's Eighth Antiques and Their Current Prices

Edwin G. Warman

E. G. Warman Publishing Inc., Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1966

Weaving on Cardboard: Simple Looms to Make and Use

Marthann Alexander

Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1972

$30Near Fine/Very Good

Marriott Hot Shoppes Cookbook: Sixty Years of American Cookery

Marriott Corporation

Parsons, Friedmann, Stephan & Rose, Inc. (for Marriott Corporation), Boston, MA, 1987

$25Very Good/Very Good

Daughter of Fortune

HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

$35Fine/Near Fine

Pioneers of Flight

Henry T. Wallhauser

Hammond Incorporated, 1969

Clocks

Douglas H. Shaffer

Smithsonian Institution / Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1980

$20Near Fine/Very Good

Collecting Toys

Richard O'Brien

Books Americana, Inc. (Florence, Alabama), 1979

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America

Frank G. Carpenter

American Book Company, copyright 1898

Capital Crimes

Lawrence Sanders

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1989

$25Near Fine/Very Good

Yossele Rosenblatt: A Biography

Samuel Rosenblatt

Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1954

$30Very Good/Good

Total Immersion

Allegra Goodman

Harper & Row, 1989

Goya en tiempos de guerra

Mena Marqués, Manuela B. (ed.); Francisco de Goya

Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959

Robert Michael Craig

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

$20VG+/Very Good

How to Win Friends and Influence People

$30Very Good/Very Good

Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State

Jonathan L. Fairbanks

The Complete Angler

$25Fine/Near Fine

The Early Architecture of Charleston

Albert Simons and Samuel Lapham, Jr.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent

$30Near Fine/Very Good

The Indian Drum

William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer

Beyond Metabolism: The New Japanese Architecture

Michael Franklin Ross

$40Very Good/Good

Handbook of Applied Mathematics

Grazda, Brenner, Minrath

Handbook of Applied Mathematics

Martin E. Jansson

Ring of Fire

Lawrence Blair with Lorne Blair

$20Near Fine/Very Good

Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide

Kevin Trainor, General Editor

$20Fine/Near Fine

Survival Through Design

Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings

Frank Lloyd Wright (selected by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn)

The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation

Glenn H. Mullin

$20Fine/Near Fine

Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan)

Gaudi

Illustration Guide

The Shadows of Laughter

Max Ernst

Sarane Alexandrian

$50Very Good/Very Good

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

$20Fine/Near Fine

Mind in the Balance

B. Alan Wallace

$20Fine/Near Fine

Picasso Érotique

Jean Clair (Ed.)

$35Near Fine/VG+

The Union of Bliss and Emptiness: Teachings on the Practice of Guru Yoga

The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso); translated by Thupten Jinpa

Architectural Graphic Standards

Charles George Ramsey, Harold Reeve Sleeper

Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life

$25Fine/Near Fine

The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge

B. Alan Wallace

The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character

$32.26Near Fine/Near Fine

A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W.C. Fields

Richard J. Anobile (editor); introduction by Judith Crist

$25Very Good/Good

Architectural Graphic Standards

Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim Chen Mo), Volume One

$28.80Near Fine/Near Fine

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim Chen Mo), Volume Three

$30Near Fine/Near Fine

Ideas and Opinions

Albert Einstein

$20Very Good/Very Good

Winston Churchill: His Wit and Wisdom

Winston Churchill (selections; introduction by Jack House)

The Tall Woman

$25Very Good/Very Good

Time's Arrows Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time

Steven F. Savitt (editor)

$25Fine/Near Fine

Shakespeare's Sonnets & A Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare

On the Origin of Species

Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet

Steven M. Kossak and Jane Casey Singe

$50Fine/Near Fine

Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa

$15Near Fine/Very Good

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman

$13Near Fine/Near Fine

The Family Mark Twain

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

$15Very Good/Very Good

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

$17.20Near Fine/Near Fine

The Oxford Companion to World Mythology

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth Knowles (ed.)

$15Near Fine/Near Fine

Cassell's Chronology of World History

$15Very Good/Very Good

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness

B. Alan Wallace

$26Fine/Near Fine

Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science & Spirituality

B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel

$15Near Fine/Very Good

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Editor

$60Fine/Near Fine

Tibet: Life, Myth, and Art

The Face of Tibet

William R. Chapman

The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection

David Weldon and Jane Casey Singer

$150Very Good/Very Good

The Tree Where Man Was Born

Peter Matthiessen

The Illustrated Tao Te Ching

Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay

$15Near Fine/Near Fine

Cities of Destiny

Arnold Toynbee (editor)

$20Very Good/Very Good

First editionSigned

Bridge of Clay

$20Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

The World for Wedding Ring

Daniel Berrigan

$40Near Fine/Very Good

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

$20Very Good/Very Good

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Joseph J. Ellis

$15Ex-library/VG+

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

$25Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

March

Geraldine Brooks

$50Fine/Very Good

Energizing Georgia: The History of Georgia Power 1883-2004

Martha Elrod and Julie Groce

$25Fine/Near Fine

The serpents of paradise

$25Fine/Near Fine

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf

$20Very Good/Good

Selected Poems

Vladislav Khodasevich

The Big Lonesome

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich

First editionSigned

Chenneville

A Georgian at Princeton

Robert Manson Myers

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

First editionSigned

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

$80Very Good/Very Good

First editionSigned

Skydog: The Duane Allman Story

First editionSigned

The Valley of Amazement

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923 and Yearbook of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1918 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite

First editionSigned

A Buzzard Is My Best Friend

Margaret Anne Barnes

$25Near Fine/Very Good

Short Stories from the 'Strand'

Selected by Geraldine Beare

$24.95Near Fine

The Belli Files: Reflections on the Wayward Law

Melvin M. Belli

$45Very Good/Very Good

World of Wonders

Robertson Davies

$29.05Near Fine

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

$35Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

$25Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham

$25Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

Nutshell

$30Fine/Near Fine

In Sunlight and in Shadow

$29.99Very Good

First editionSigned

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham

$29.99Fine/Fine

First editionSigned

Bright Ambush

Audrey Wurdemann

$60Very Good/Very Good

First editionSigned

Amsterdam

$60Fine/Near Fine

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

$35Fine/Near Fine

First editionSigned

The Crossing

Michael Connelly

Everyman

First editionSigned

These Precious Days

First editionSigned

Letters of J.B. Yeats

J.B. Yeats (Joseph Hone, intro by John McGahern)

$290Near Fine/Near Fine

Midnight's Children

$290Fine/Near Fine

Principles of Physical Cosmology

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