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A collection of sayings collected during the author's life. From the back cover: "One hobby I have long pursued is collecting witticisms."

A highly conversational guide for creating flower arrangements with great beauty and meaning. "Do you want to know how to make someone a beautiful gift that costs nothing at all? ...The secret is ikebana, a Japanese word which author-artist Bruno Munari interprets as 'a flower with love'."

"What wonderful beings are the Gods that men have imagined out of hopes and fears in the twilight of faith!" A Classic!

Important original source material for this Panama Pacific International Exposition

Wonderful imagery created with words; 5 books in one binding with multiple chapters in each. "In the midst of a grove of pines, well up on the slope of a hill, there was sparkling a fountain of melody..."

Wonderful gift copy. RARE to find author signed copy. "The Grand Canyon country of the 1880s is the setting of Oakley Hall's compelling new novel."

22 soldiers' experiences in the Korean War. The author "entered the U.S. Army directly from high school at age 17, enlisting specifically for airborne training..."

Transcripts of Sermons by the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. California.

The artwork is magnificent. The artist has a distinguished career as an illustrator for Field and Stream and Outdoor Life. This book documents the disappearing part of our world - the wild animals. Photo is of the title page.

RARE signed copy. Important source material. First-hand recollections of very early 1900s education in rural New York.

RARE. Very hard to find, particularly as an inscribed, signed copy. Collection of nitty-gritty poems about the rough places in life. "Dedicated to ... my parents who taught me how to live on both sides of the mask."

This photographic itinerary "is based on one of the finest collections of spectacles existing in Italy today."

Beautiful gift copy. Lou Ella Archer's poetry captures the beauty of the Arizona landscape. Pastedown picture of the Grand Canyon on the cover. Illustrated with black and white scenes plus 7 color artworks by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (1882-1974) including her magnificent paintings of Zion Canyon, the Desert After the Rain, Dawn at Bryce Canyon, From Grand Canyon Lodge, Seven Palms, and the Temple of Sinawava.

The author "shows you how to increase your happiness by following these proven procedures..."

This book is filled with stories that are "full of humor and imagination - just the kind of folk tales all small children like best."

Hmong food is simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh. Author signed copies are RARE.

RARE. Becoming hard to find as a new condition HB. Contains 70 Meditations as listed, along with 82 Aphorisms throughout.

RARE as author-signed. "The financial loss of a lifetime savings during the Wall Street fiasco at the end of 2008 was almost too much for Maureen. Grieving over major losses she begins to write her story."

Dialogue rich novel in French. RARE; as of this listing, none are available in North America.  Photo of back and front covers is specific to this listing.

Stapled, w/o original cover as shown, 5 1/4 x 4". Has photo of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania plus line drawings scattered throughout. RARE. Important source material. Slightly better than a working copy.

RARE for a nearly new hardcover at this highly advantageous price. The author learned the game under Knute Rockne.

This book contains "A detailed description of the kind of football attack that has averaged 36 points per game for six years."

"With breathtaking descriptions of aerial dogfights and vivid portraits of the men who fought, this is a dramatic, gripping story of courage and sacrifice... from the first day of the war to the last, this is the story of one of history's leading fighter aces."

Not a reprint, this is an original printing. "If the year 1917 marked the opening of a new era in China's foreign relations, perhaps the year 1931 marked the end of that era..."

"This book invites readers to hear John's story anew. Rather than forcing John's story into our time, it takes the reader back to the time of its original telling..."

Five Irish musicians have combined their experiences since the early 70's into this collection of wonderful personal stories.

"When the wyrd-woman warned Ivor he was going to meet a monster, he didn't believe her. He thought he had worse things to worry about. He was wrong about both."

This diary shows the life of an every-day-person in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1870s and 1880s.

  "There is an earthy awareness, a sensory quality to the telling that brings Alta, California and its Spanish settlement completely alive." Winner of the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award for Children's Literature (the unanimous choice of the judges).

This is the author's first novel. "...an intimate look at a suburban family living on the outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1950's and '60's...But Flora Jackson feels like a fugitive there..."

RARE. This particular printing 1907 seems to be the rarest. Today, this would be classified as a fine press volume. "I am going to demonstrate that it is easy not only to refute the Baconians but to show that they are lamentably wrong in many of their strongest assertions, which, moreover, prove them to be very badly versed in Elizabethan literature..."

The authors write:  "We sincerely believe that defense is by far the most difficult part of the game of football to coach and possibly the most neglected."

Photo shows front cover and Contents showing 8 separate novels within this binding. From the first page of Actor's Blood:  "The death of a famous actress is the signal, as a rule, for a great deal of maudlin excitement..."

Explore America's beloved winemaking country in this visual tour of Northern California's distinctive vineyards and winemaking facilities. Includes recommended Inns and Restaurants.

"A photograph opens a window upon the past, revealing the way it was..."

Filled with black and white photos. "San Lorenzo has been a desirable place to live since 1847 when squatters built their cabins on the north side of the San Lorenzo Creek."

Each Psalm is set to music in a Hymnal type publication, with all the indexes usually associated with Hymnals. This revision effort was begun in 1946.

"The artist beckons the viewer to make a personal connection to isolation and stillness."  "A personal friend of the artist for more than a decade, Conrad uses a narrative form that combines incisive art historical observation with details of Register's early life..." This monograph, with more than 170 color plates, was published at the time of a traveling retrospective exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art and Register's 60th birthday.

Filled with color and black and white reproductions of this fine collection. Exhibition Catalogue at the time of gifting this collection to the Wichita Art Museum.

3 1/2 x 4 3/4", RARE, unique wooden covers, may be olive wood.  Dual language publication.

"I have a clear lens as crystal in my heart... I want to live, believing a peaceful tomorrow rather than today."

The "author is a leading educator in the clothing and textile field."