THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
New York: Book League of America. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 391 pgs. Sir Richard Burton's famous translation of The Thousand Nights and A Night with modernized spelling and punctuation and new illustrations. More
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MR. CREWE'S CAREER.
New York: Macmillan, 1908. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 498 pgs, b&w frontispiece. This work is by the other Churchill, the one who insisted that the now more famous one use his middle initial so as not to confuse the public as to who he was. Though most famous for..... More
ALONE AGAINST THE ARCTIC.
Canada: Heritage House, 2007. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 191 pgs, b&w photos. In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea quest ran..... More
RAILROAD FEVER; Songs, Jokes & Train Lore
Asheville, NC: Native Ground Music, 1998. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 64 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Relive the glory days of railroading! Discover railroad oddities, poetry of the rails, railroad diner lingo, strange railroad laws, flying railroads, train heroes and villains, hobo lingo and porters' secret codes. Also..... More
MISSING MOUNTAINS; We Went to the Mountaintop But It Wasn't There
Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2005. First edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 210 pgs, b&w photos. Kentuckians write against mountaintop removal. More
CURRIER & IVES; Printmakers to the American People.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. Hardcover. 9 x 12, about 250 pgs, 192 b&w and color plates. An interesting history of this printing company which includes lots of plates of their classic works. More
ON LEOPARD ROCK; A Life of Adventures
London: Zaffre, 2018. Paperback. 5 x 8, 333 pgs, section of color photos. Adventure author Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. More
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