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SPRING BOOK SALE
Thursday,
March 25 -  - Saturday, March 27th, 2010
10 am - 7pm Thursday & Friday
10 am - 4 pm Saturday
Sale is conducted at Pittsboro Kiwanis Club
309 Credle Street (one block west of 15-501)
Pittsboro, N.C.
DETAILED DIRECTIONS TO THE SALE
 

SPECIAL BOOKS - SPRING 2010 SALE
List updated: 02/04/2010 

Kenneth Roberts,  Arundel, Doubleday & Co, 1953, 300th anniversary of Arundel.    15.00

T. Bailey Saunders, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Willey Book Co., no date stated, Mylar, hc.    25.00

Barrett Parker & Ahmed Javid,  A Collection of Afghan Legends, Afghan Book, 1972, hc, 2nd.  13.00

Roger Kafka & Roy L. Pepperburg, Warships of the World, Cornell Maritime Press, 1944, hc, 1st.  10.00 

John Hart, Down River, Thomas Dunne NY, 2007, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  10.00

The History of the 413th Infantry Regiment, Warren F. Lewis, Los Angeles, 1946, hc.  35.00

Wesley Stace, by George, Little Brown & Co., 2007, hc, dj, 1st, signed.   15.00   

John Jacob Astor, A Journey in Other Worlds, D. Appleton & Co. NY, 1894, hc, some condition issues.    13.00

Silvanus P. Thompson, Lectures On the Electromagnetic, W.J. Johnston Co. NY, 1891, hc, American edition.    50.00

Amerigo Parrini & C. Danyell Tassinari,  With Dante In Florence,  Giulio Giannini & Sons, Florence, 1930 reprint (in Italian), hc.   17.00

Dan Brown,  Deception Point, Atria Books, 2003, hc, dj, 1st.  10.00
 
Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, Sierra Club, 1988, ex library, signed, hc.   12.00

Bergen Evans, Comfortable Words, Random House, 1962, hc, dj, signed.   20.00

John Grisham, The Associates, Doubleday, 2009, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  25.00

Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know, I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books, NY, 1989, hc dj, signed.    10.00

Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, Villard Books, NY, 1989. hc, dj, 1st, signed.    12.00

Anne Parrish, The Story of Appleby Capple, Harper Bros., NY, 1950, hc, exterior worn.    15.00

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Viking, 1973, sc, (0365).  32.00

Julius Schmidt, Sculptures 1967-1971, Exhibition catalog, 1971.     10.00

King C. Gillette, The People's Corporation, Boni Liveright, NY, 1924, hc.   25.00

Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Birds of North Carolina, Bynum Printing Co, Raleigh, 1959, hc, dj.    20.00

W. B. Allen & Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames, Volumes 1 & 2, Liberty Classics, 1983, sc, 1st.   10.00

Jack Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus: My Most Memorable Shots in the Majors, Golf Digest, NY, 1988, hc, signed.    15.00

John Saul,  The Blackstone Chronicles (six volumes), Fawcett, NY, 1979, sc, 1st.  10.00

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, Viking, 1996, hc, dj, 1st, signed.   30.00

Linda Orr, Jules Michelet: Nature, History and Language, Cornell U. Press, 1976, hc, dj, 1st,  12.00

Lee Smith,  On Agate Hill. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2006, hc, dj, 1st, signed.    15.00

Douglas Brinkley,  American Heritage: History of the United States, Viking, 1998, hc, dj, 1st.   10.00

Arleen Keylin, The Depression Years, Arno Press, 1976, hc, dj.   10.00

Page One: Major Events 1920-1975, Arno Press, 1975, paper wrapper.   10.00

Ferrol Sams, When All the World Was Young, Penguin Books, 1992, sc, signed.    13.00

Martin Clark, The Legal Limit, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  15.00

Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose, Harcourt Brace, 1984, hc, dj, 1st.  10.00

Prints:  European Regional Design Annual,  1997, sc.   13.00

Tim Burton, Nightmare before Christmas, Hyperion, NY, 1993, sc, 1st.   13.00

Colin McDowell,  Manolo Blahnik, Harper Collins, 2000, hc, dj, 1st.   20.00

Sidney Bradshaw Fay, The Rise of Brandenburg- Prussia to 1786, Henry Holt, hc.   10.00

Deborah Rudolph,  Impressions of the East:  Treasures from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley.  2007.  10.00

 Robin Lenman,   The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.   Oxford University Press, 2005.  20.00

Pina Ragionieri,  Michelangelo:  Drawings and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence.  Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 2001.  10.00

Calderon de la Vara, Valentin.  Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahaia.   15.00

J. Pereira,  Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.  2006.  20.00

LeRoy Nieman,  Monte Carlo Chase.  New York, Van Der Marck Editions, 1988.  Inscribed by the author, 1st printing.  30.00

Chagall by Chagall,  New York, Harry Abrams, 1979.  10.00

 Homage to Yaacov Agam,  New York, Leon Amiel Publisher, 1980.  10.00

 Anna Roosevelt Dall and Marforie Flack,  Scamper:  The Bunny Who Went to the White House.  New York, Macmillan, 1934. 10.00

 Eudora Welty,  Early Escapades.  Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2005.  1st edition.  10.00

Francie Troy and Sue Glenn,  Philip Moose in Blowing Rock.  Blowing Rock, NC, The Blowing Rock Art and History  Museum, 2002.  10.00

Stephen Davis,  Bob Marley, Doubleday, NY, 1985, sc, 1st.  12.00

Charles Strouse & Lee Adams,  Bye-Bye Birdie, Trams-Witmark, NY, 1960-62, sc.  12.00

Camilla Trinchieri, The Price of Silence, Soho, 2007, hc, dj, 1st, signed.    15.00

Sheila Kay Adams, My Own True Love, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2004, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  25.00

Rick Dillingham, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery, New Mexico Press, sc, new.   20.00

Harlan Ellison, Slip Page,  Houghton Mifflin, NY, 1997, hc, dj, 1st, ex-library.   13.00

Pearl S Buck, Words of Love, The John Day Co., NY, 1974, hc, dj. 10.00

Allan Hayes & John Blom, Southwestern Pottery, Northland Publishing., 1997, sc, third, signed. 20.00

James M. Goode, Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington’s Destroyed Buildings, Smithsonian Press, 1979, hc, dj.   18.00

Ursula Loy & Pauline Marion Worthy, Washington and the Pamlico, hc, out of print.    15.00

The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Brentano’s, NY, 1923, hc, 2 volumes.    20.00

Ted Hughes, The Journals of Sylvia Plath  Dial Press, 1982, hc, dj.  10.00

Gigi Mahon, The Last Days of The New Yorker, McGraw-Hill, 1988, hc, dj, 1st., signed   12.00   

Arthur Miller, Death of A Salesman, Viking Press, March, 1949, hc.  15.00

Marcel Proust & Stephane Heuet, Remembrance of Things Past, Part Three, Swan in Love, Vol. 1, NBM Comics Lit, 2007, hc, dj, 1st.    15.00

David N. Spires, Patton’s Air Force, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002,  hc, dj, 1st.  13.00

Ronald J. Drez, Voices of D-Day, Louisiana University Press, 1994,  hc, dj, 1st.  15.00

Colin Fletcher, The Man from the Cave,  Knopf, Borzoi,  1981, hc, dj, 1st.   11.00

Earl J. Hess,  Lee's Tar Heels,  U of North Carolina Press,  2002, hc, dj, 1st.    14.00

Dan Brown,  The Da Vinci Code,  Doubleday,  2003, hc, dj, 1st., both points are present 25.00

Derek Nelson & Dave Parsons,  A-2 and G-1 Flight Jackets; Hell Bent For Leather MB1 Pub., Wisconsin,  2002, sc.  14.00

David Boyle,  World War II Photographs,  Rebo,  2001, hc, dj  13.00

English and Arabic Koran,  The Holy Qur-an; English Translation of The Meaning and Commentary,  King Fahd Holy Qur-an  Printing Co. ,  1410 H,  1989-1990.  10.00

J.R.R. Tolkien,  The History of The Lord of The Rings,  Houghton Mifflin,  1998,  slipcase    20.00

L. Robert Morris & Lawrence Raskin,  Lawrence of Arabia,  Anchor,  1992,  30th Anniversary edition,  sc   10.00

 Wales, Dirk.  The Further Adventures of a Lucky Dog:  Owney,  U. S. Rail Mail Mascot.   Chicago, Great Plains Press, 2009, signed  by author.  10.00

J.P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies, Thames - Hudson, 2000, hc, dj.  30.00 

Jerome Hart, Two Argonauts in Spain, Payot, Upham and Co. San Francisco, 1904, hc.  10.00

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Farrar and Rinehart, N.Y., 1927, hc.    19.00

W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, Blakiston Co., 1945, hc, signed.    16.00

Robert Burnett, The Life of Paul Gauguin, Oxford U Press, 1937, hc.  15.00

Alan Cheuse, To Catch the Lightning, Source Books Landmark, hc, dj, 1st, signed.   12.00

Charles J. Munson, Westward to Paradise, University Press of Idaho,1978, sc.  25.00

Marshall Karp, Flipping Out, Minotaur Books, 2009, advanced reading copy, sc, signed.   11.00

Amy Dickinson, The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Hyperion, N.Y, 2009, hc, dj, 1st, signed, 2 books.  25.00 each

Anita Renfroe, Don't Say I Didn't Warn You, Voice, 2009, hc, dj, 1st, signed, 2 books.   22.00 each

Holbein's Dance of Death, Sylvan Press, 1947,review copy, hc, limited edition.    12.00

Thomas Nelson and Walter M. Zillgitt, A Forest Atlas of the South, Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans, 1969, sc.   19.00

Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare – Lexicon:  A Complete Dictionary of all the English Words, Phrases & Constructions.   Reimer, Berlin, 1902, 3rd Edition, 2 Volumes, hc.  35.00
 
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Modern Library, 1982, hc, Norman Rockwell Illustrations.   11.00

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scholastic, N.Y, 2007, hc, dj, 1st.    10.00

Rosemary Cobham, Kaleidoscope, West Brothers, 1971, hc, dj, 1st.   10.00

Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter, Mysterious Press, NY, 1992, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  15.00

Joseph Hergesheimer, The Presbyterian Child, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, slip cover, #12 of 950, signed.  15.00

Minnie M. Brashear and Robert M. Rodney, The Art , Humor and Humanity of Mark Twain, Norman U of Oklahoma Press, 1959, hc, dj,1st.   10.00

Dr. Paul B. Barringer, The Natural Bent, U. of North Carolina Press, 1949, hc, dj.   10.00

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, James Nesbit & Co., Prior to 1895, hc.  12.00

Charles Van Doren, The Trans\vision Book of Health, Chicago Encyclopedia Britannica, 1974, hc, signed.    10.00

Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine, Simon & Schuster, 1969, hc, dj, 1st, signed.    30.00

Bill Mollison & Reny Mia Slay,  Introduction to Permaculture, Tagari, 2002, sc.  15.00

  Pullman, Philip.  Clockwork.  New York, Scholastic Press, 1998.  1st American edition.   10.00

Chilvers, Osborne and Farr.  The Oxford Dictionary of Art.   New Edition.  UK, Oxford University Press, 1997.  20.00

H. P. Gerhard.  The World of Icons.  London, John Murray, 1971.   15.00

Hind, Jan Garrett.  The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.   North Carolina, Old Salem, 1979, hc.   15.00

Anne Chotzinoff Grossman & Lisa Grossman Thomas, Lobscouse And Spotted Dog, WW Norton & Co., 1997, forward by  Patrick O'Brien/ Gastronomic Companion to Aubrey/ Maturia Novels, hc, dj, 1st.  10.00

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, Alfred Knopf, 1994, hc, dj, 1st.  20.00

Toni Morrison, a mercy, Knopf, NY, 2008, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  18.00 

Dean King,  A Sea of Words, A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brien's Seafaring Tales, Henry Holt, 1995, sc, 1st.  10.00

Erik Larson, Thunderstruck, Crown Pub., NY, 2006, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  13.00

Buckner F. Melton, Jr., Aaron Conspiracy to Treason Burr, John Wiley & Sons, 2002, hc, dj, 1st, signed.  15.00

Susan Jackson Keig, Trade with the World's People: A Shaker Album, Beckett Paper Co., 1976, sc.  10.00

Poster Originals Limited, plus supplement, Vol. 4, Number 1, 1978, sc.  15.00

Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, Pantheon Books, 1998, hc, dj, signed.  12.00

James Enyeart, Land, Sky, and All That Is Within, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1998, sc, 1st, signed.  35.00

How To Find The Stars and Planets, University of Cincinnati, sc.  10.00

Bryan Gilmer, Felonious Jazz, Laurel Bluff Press, 2009, sc, 1st, signed.   10.00

Margaret Maron, Death's Half Acre, Grand Central Pub. N.Y. , 2008, hc, dj, 1st, signed.   20.00

A. B. Facey, A Fortunate Life, Viking, 1986, hc, dj.   10.00

Hugh and Marguerite Stix and R. Tucker Abbot, photographs, H. Landshoff, The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design, hc, illustrations include 82 hand-tipped plates in full color and several fold-out plates.    15.00

Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen, B.T. Batsford, London, 1945, hc, dj, 1st.  17.00

Warren Schultz, A Man's Garden, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, hc dj, 1st.   10.00

Montaque Summers, The Supernatural Omnibus, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY, 1932, hc.  10.00

Arthur Machen, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, Knopf, 1948, hc, dj, 1st.  25.00

The World's Heritage: A Complete Guide To The Most Extraordinary Places, UNESCO, 2009, hc dj 1st.    13.00

Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness, Henry Holt & Co, NY, 1995, hc, dj.  13.00

Nicholas Biddle, The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Capts. Lewis & Clark, Heritage Press, 1962, two volumes, hc, slipcase.   17.00

Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, Universe Pub, NY, 1979, hc, dj, 1st.  10.00

Margaret G. Watson, Silver Theater: Amusements of Nevada's Mining Frontier 1850 to 1864, Arthur H. Clark Co., CA   1964, hc, dj, 1st.   10.00

Rutu Modan, Jamilti, Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, 2008, sc, 1st, advance reader's copy.   10.00

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Turnstone Press, London, 1973, hc, dj, 1st.  10.00

William Styron, Sophie’s Choice, Random House, 1979, hc, dj, 1st.    10.00

Joan Walsh Anglund, A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You, Harcourt Brace, NY, 1958, hc, dj, 1st.  12.00

The Compact Complete Oxford English Dictionary, 12th ed., 1982, 2 vols. plus supplement.   50.00  

Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant, Subway Art, Chronicle Books, 2009, 25th anniversary edition, hc.   10.00

W.C.C. Animation Comics, Vol 1, 1983, sc.   20.00

 W.C.C. Animation Comics, Vol 4, 1983, sc.   15.00

 Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse, Del Rey, 1986, hc, dj, 1st.  13.00

 Jane T. Stoddart, The New Socialism, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909, hc.   10.00

Damon Neal, Treasures of North Carolina, new, hc, dj, in wraps.  10.00

Louis I. Kahn, Light is the Theme, Kimbell Art Pub., 1975, sc.  10.00

Old Sleuth Young Dash: The Detective’s Apprentice,  Ogilvie Pub. Co., N.Y., 1897, original paper version    12.00

Old Sleuth: On the Wing or Detective Bird's Great Capture, Ogilvie Pub. Co. 1897, original paper version     10.00

Katharine M. Jones, Ladies of Richmond, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, N.Y., 1962, hc, dj, 1st.    10.00

Robert Lawlor, Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 1991, sc, 1st.     10.00

Manilal B. Nanavatt & J.J. Anjaria, The Indian Rural Problem, Bombay, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, 1960, hc, 5th.  10.00

L.A. Krishna Iyer, Anthropology in India, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1961, hc, 1st.     10.00

Marzieh Gail, Persia and the Victorians, George Allen & Unwin, 1951, hc, dj, 1st.     17.00

Albert Schweitzer, Indian Thought and it's Development, Adam & Charles Black, 1951, hc.  10.00

David Nevin & Robert S. Bills, The Schools That Fear Built, Acropolis Books, Washington, 1976, hc, dj,     10.00

Persian Phrase Book
, United States War Department, March 1944, sc.    11.00

S.B. Syed, Hindustani: Without a Master, D.B. Taraporevala & Sons, Bombay, Appr. 1943, sc.    12.00

The Great Ages of Western Philosophy, Houghton Mifflin, 1957, six volumes, hc, slipcase.    13.00

Willis Reed, A Will to Win: The Comeback Year, Prentis Hall, 1973, hc, dj (tears), signed.   11.00

R.A. Fisher, Statistical Methods for Research Workers, Oliver & Boyd, 1950, hc.  15.00

Katherine M. Watson, Purity Cookbook, Purity Flour Mill, Toronto, Canada, 1945, hc.    15.00

Gary W. Gallagher & Stephen Dodson, Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General, U of North Carolina Press, 1985, hc, dj.     12.00

Chris Bellamy, Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War, Alfred Knopf, 2007, hc, dj, 1st.   10.00

Dr. Jay Luvuss & Harold W. Nelson, The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg,
  Southern Mountain Press, 1988, hc, dj, 1st.     12.00

Robin Hanbury-Tenison,  Seventy Great Journey's in History, Thames-Hudson, 2006, hc, dj.  10.00

Philip De Souza, The Ancient World at War, Thames-Hudson, 2008, hc, dj.    10.00

Geoffrey C. Ward, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, Knopf, 2007, hc, dj, 1st.   15.00

Neil Kagan & Stephen G. Hyslop, Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History from Secession to Reconstruction, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2006, hc, dj, book club edition.   15.00

Neil Kagan & Stephen G. Hyslop, Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History from Secession to Reconstruction,  National geographic, Washington, D.C., 2006, hc, dj.  20.00

Laura C. Martin, Southern Wildflowers, Longstreet Press, Atlanta, Ga., 1981, hc, dj.    11.00

Captain Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, Scribner's & Sons, 1899, hc, 1st.    12.00

Gunnar Myrdal, Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions, Vora & Co., Bombay, May 1958, hc.  35.00

Talcott Parsons, Structure and Process in Modern Societies, The Free Press, 1960, hc.   15.00

Hugh Tinker, India and Pakistani: A Short Political Guide, Pall Mall Press, London,1962, hc, dj. 1st.  12.00

Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books, N.Y., 1984, hc, dj, 1st.    12.00

Jane Goodall, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, Houghton Mifflin, 1990, hc, dj,1st., signed.  50.00

Farid Ud-Din Attar, Mantiq Ut-Tair: Conference of the Birds, The Janus Press, London, 1954, hc, illustrations by Kate Adamson.    15.00

Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home, Simon & Schuster, 2001, hc, dj, 3rd, signed, from the author to the daughter of Moe Levy,   NBC reporter.   15.00

Galleri Norge, Norwegian Nature Photography and the Four Seasons, Hilt & Hantseen, Oslo, 1992, hc, dj,     10.00

Bethany Tudor, Drawn From New England: Tasha Tudor, A Portrait In Words and Pictures, Philomel Books, 1979, hc, dj,    25.00

E.A. Burbank & Ernest Royce Burbank, Among the Indians, Caxton Printers, Idaho, 1944, hc.  10.00

Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers, Allied Military Deception in the Second World War, Skyhorse, 2007, sc, 1st.     35.00

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008, sc, 1st.    10.00

 Theodore N. Kaufman, Germany Must Perish, Argyle Press, Newark, NJ, 1941, sc.   50.00

 Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Modern Library, 1979, hc, dj, 1st.     20.00

 Charles Henry Ambler, West Virginia Stories and Biographies, Rand McNally & Co., 1942, hc.     10.00

 Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons, Random House, 2006, advance reading copy, sc, signed.   35.00

Jan Karon, A New Song, Viking, NY, 1999, hc, dj, first, signed.     10.00

 Evan King, The Rickshaw Boy, Reynal & Hitchcock, NY, 1945, hc, dj.   13.00

 Hank Aaron & Dick Schapp, Home Run: My Life in Pictures, Total Sports Kingdom, 1991, hc, dj, 1st.     15.00

 David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books, U. of Illinois Press, 1997, hc, dj, 1st.    20.00

 Mattie Phipps Todd, Hand-Loom Weaving, Rand McNally Co., 1902, hc.   15.00

 

 

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