Geography (General). Atlases. Maps The Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World in Six Volumes: Book 3: Europe and the U.S.S.R. by Henry Hill Collins, Jr. [Price: $5.00] New York, Golden Press, c1960, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 288 pgs (Pictorial cover, plastic laminate starting to lift near spine.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Prentice-Hall World Atlas by B.M. Willett [Price: $15.00] Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1984, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 144 pgs (DJ has small closed tear near spine top edge.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Van Loon's Geography: The Story of the World by Hendrik Willem van Loon [Price: $15.00] New York, Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., pub1932 c1937, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, de luxe ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 535 pgs (Spine sunned, edge wear, endpapers foxing, text beginning to yellow) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS CHECK READING LIST (3) New Horizons World Guide: Pan American's Travel Facts About 124 Countries by Gerald W. Whitted, editor [Price: $3.00] New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc., pub1968 c1968, Hard Cover Poor/No jacket, 15th Revised ed, 1st prtg, 18mo (5.75-6.50 in. tall), 704 pgs (missing page 489-502 otherwise very very good) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux by Paul Theroux [Price: $10.00] New York, Random House, pub1991 c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 342 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (1) A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, Illustrated with Photographs [Price: $8.25] New York, Henry Holt and Company, pub1956 c1955, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 5th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 209 pgs (Name of previous owner on ffep. Front hinge cracked but no pages loose. Some soiling and rubbing to front and back boards. Cloth on spine creased. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Diagram of Titanic on lining papers.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Men Ships and the Sea by Alan Villiers [Price: $10.00] Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, c1962, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 436 pgs (Very faint discoloring of white cloth cover) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Physical geography Field Guide to Landforms in the United States by John A. Shimer [Price: $12.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, c1972, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 272 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Anthropology The Human Animal by Weston La Barre [Price: $7.00] Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, pub1955 c1954, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 372 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris [Price: $6.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1967, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st American ed, 5th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 252 pgs (Former owner's signature on front lining. Gentle edgewear to dj. Picture of author on back cover.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) Gluttons and Libertines: Human Problems of Being Natural by Marston Bates [Price: $6.00] New York, Random House, c1967, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 244 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. FFEP torn out. Covered in mylar.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Folklore Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes [Price: $9.00] New York, Ballantine Books, c1992, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 33rd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 520 pgs (Gentle shelf wear and bumping. Some minor discoloring to text edges. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Binding straight and tight. Picture of author on inside back cover of dj.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS CHECK READING LIST (1) Manners and customs (General) Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris [Price: $15.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1985 c1985, Remainder Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 289 pgs (DJ crushed at spine top.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The American Book of Days: A Compendium of Information about Holidays, Festivals, Notable Anniversaries... by George Wiliam Douglas [Price: $10.00] New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, pub1940 c1937, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 666 pgs (Usual library markings. Edge wear.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) Recreation. Leisure Compute!'s Guide to Nintendo Games by Steven Schwartz [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Football Hall of Shame by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Hoyle's Complete and Authoritative Book of Games by Edmund Hoyle [Price: $10.00] New York, Blue Ribbon Books, c1940, Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, Autograph ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 460 pgs (Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Some soiling to book edges. Obvious signs of wear to dj which has some tears.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) How to Win in the Chess Openings by Israel Albert Horowitz [Price: $7.00] New York, David McKay Co., Inc., c1951, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 199 pgs (Edge wear with bumped corners.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Modern Chess Strategy: With an Appendix on GO by Edward Lasker [Price: $20.00] New York, David McKay Company, Inc., c1950, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 442 pgs (Bumping and rubbing to boards and spine. Small tear in top of front board. Spine cracked. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Interior aged, but text is clean and unmarked.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Book of Diversion by Franklin P. Adams, Deems Taylor and Jack Bechdolt, compilers [Price: $16.00] New York, Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., pub1925 c1925, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 282 pgs (Spine sunned. 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Includes bibliographical references. Spine is slightly cocked. Otherwise, a clean, bright, tight copy. DJ has light bumping, but no tears. Price not clipped on dj.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS CHECK READING LIST (1) Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Proess by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning [Price: $100.00] New York, Basic Blackwell Inc., c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 313 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS I Never Played the Game: With Peter Bonventre by Howard Cosell [Price: $9.00] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1985, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 7th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 380 pgs (Small tear on back dj cover. Some bumping and rubbing to spine of dj. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS CHECK READING LIST (1) Baseball's Greatest Quotations by Paul Dickson [Price: $10.00] New York, Edward Burlingame Books, c1991, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 524 pgs (Over 5,000 quotations with illustrations and photos. Some soiling and rubbing to cover. Loose hinge.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3)
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