100 OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS.
RTV Sales, 1966. Paperback. 12 x 15, 200 pgs, full color art reproductions accompanied by information about each artist. Great collection. More
Outdoor & Miscellaneous
ARTISANS AND KINGS; Selected Treasures from the Louvre
Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. 9 x 11, 166 pgs, color photos throughout. Catalog Originally Titled "Kings as Collectors: Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts from the Musee du Louvre" organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. More
THE BEST OF GEORGE STRAIT; Piano - Vocal - Guitar
Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation. Second edition. Paperback. 9 x 12, 160 pgs. 34 of his greatest hits including Blue Clear Sky, Check Yes or No, Does Foret Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, Love Without End, Amen and many others. More
A BILINGUAL DICTIONARY OF SCHOOL TERMINOLOGY; English-Spanish
1990. Revised. Spiral Bound. 8 1/2 x 11, 119 pgs. Prepared to assist school employeed who need to communicate with Spanish speaking members of the school population. More
IDEALS MAGAZINE; Adventure Issue
Milwaukee, WI: Ideals Publishing, 1958. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, pages unnumbered (about 200), b&w and color photos and illustrations. Neat old children's magazine with poetry and prose about adventurous life around the world. More
JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE; November 11, 1953
Dayton, OH: 1953. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 35 pgs, b&w photos. Remeber these? Old Junior High school weekly magazine. Fun to read the 'current' happenings! More
KENNY G; Easy Solos for Saxophone
Milwaykee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1995. Paperback. 9 x 12, 16 pgs. 12 of his best for the beginning player, including: Forever In Love, Silhouette, Songbird, The Wedding Song and more. More
LIFE; The First Decade
New York: Time-Life Books, 1979. Paperback. 8 x 10, 206 pgs, b&w historical photos throughout. Includes photographs by Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carl Mydans, Charles Sheeler, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, and others. Introduction by Robert R. Littman; essays by Ralph Graves and Doris C. O'Neil. More
LITTLE CHUM STORIES; Stories to Read or Tell Children.
New York: Hurst, 1912. Hardcover. 7 x 9 1/2, 56 pgs, b&w and a few color illustrations. Inludes The Grocer's Boy, Good King Grin (poem), Brown John, Tom and the Sugar, Up Came A Little Ant, How Roy Lost His Hat, Treasure Trove, Japanese Birthdays, A Trip to the Moon..... More
DREAMS OF DISTANT LIVES.
New York: Putnams, 1989. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 206 pgs. Prize winning author's fourth book of short stories. Abbot probes the frailties of love, marriage, and divorce--- matters of the heart, of human failing, of regret, and of first love. More
STRANGERS IN PARADISE.
New York: Putnams, 1986. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 255 pgs. "This collection of extraordinary stories from Lee K. Abbott examines life at the edge and the return to more prosaic ground. From a man's forty-year obsession with his brother's death in the Bataan Death March to a divorced..... More
BROMO DE LA TAURO-MAGIA.
Mexico: Talleres Offset Miranda, 1979. First edition. Paperback. 9 x 6 1/2, 16 pgs, b&w cartoons. All in Spanish, cartoons about bullfighting. More
THE PRINT; Contact Printing and Enlarging
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1950. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 120 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. Presents easy to follow instructions and hints by the wellknown photographer and author, Ansel Adams. Basic Photo 3 Edition. More
HORSE COP.
Canada: Megamy Publishing, 2001. Second printing. Paperback. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, 226 pgs. Memoirs of a Canadian Mountie in the mid-20th century. More
THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLY PAPERS; From The Spectator, London: 1711-1712
New York: The Heritage Press, 1945. Hardcover in slipcase. 6 x 9, 198 pgs, beautiful color illustrations. Prefatory notes by W.M. Thackeray. Written originally for The Spectator, the wonderful stories of this fictional, 16th century gentleman. More
THE NEW AGE OF ADVENTURE; Ten Years of Great Writing
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2009. Paperback. 6 x 9, 427 pgs. 30 of the best articles reported from the ends of the earth in an unbeatable anthology. More than great travel writing, gripping narratives and excellent reportage, the stories collected here explore our world and its inhabitants and ask..... More
DO YOU'LL KNOW...
Phoenix: Once Again, Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11, 358 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The author's 35 years of columns written for Alexandria, Minnesota newspapers. More
IN THE LAND OF WHITE DEATH; An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic.
New York: The Modern Library, 2000. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 202 pgs, index. A beguiling and valuable record of polar exploration before the planes landed, and a miraculous testament to what the human spirit can achieve. More
EIGHT COUSINS; Or The Aunt-Hill
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 288 pgs, b&w and color illustrations, decorated endsheets. 19th century young adult fiction. More
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1911. Orchard House Edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 371 pgs, b&w photo of the Orchard House on endsheets, color illustrations. Originally published in 1870, Alcott's famous young adult novel of Polly and her girlish experiences. More
UNDER THE LILACS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 316 pgs, b&w and color illustrations, decorated endsheets. 19th century young adult fiction. More
KNOW YOUR AMERICA PROGRAM; Five booklets in decorated box.
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1968. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 booklets, 64 pgs each, b&w and color photos. Kind of like today's National Parks "Passports", stickers were added to these books as the family traveled to visit the different places. Books are: The Twin Cities, Indians of..... More
VOYAGE TO THE GRAND BANKS; The Saga of Captain Arch Thornhill
Newfoundland: Creative Publishers, 1998. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 351 pgs, b&w photos. Through Thornhill's story is the history of Newfoundland deep sea fishing. More
CONTRACTOR COMBATANTS; Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 305 pgs. The enemy is everywhere in war-torn Iraq, and suppliers and construction workers run the same risks as uniformed combatants: guerrilla attacks, suicide bombings, rocket bombardments, and road mines. This is the compelling story of Carter Andress..... More
THE LOST EXPLORER; Finding Mallory on Mount Everest
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 191 pgs, index, section of b&w historical photos. A dramatic account of the expeditions of 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine dissappeared, and 1999, when Anker found Mallory's body. Captures the passion and spirit of two men..... More