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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Not Issued. First Collected. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, virtually as issued. Oblong format. Approx. 9.5" x 12". Unpaginated, illus. w/ full page color + b&w prints with facing page commentary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Main book - covers have very slight wear to the extremities. Private owner's name written on front free endpaper in pencil. ; Included is a separate softcover Esperanto Handy Pocket Vocabulary, English-Esperanto and Esperanto-English (fair condition, covers are detached and chipped but present, spine is missing. Contents are very good. ) ; 175 pages.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Not Issued. First Collected. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, virtually as issued. Oblong format. Approx. 9.5" x 12". Unpaginated, illus. w/ full page color + b&w prints with facing page commentary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0854520864; 9780854520862 ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.15 ; OCLC: 9040807 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents : The Days of My Youth -- Affairs of Home and School -- I am a Cause of Strife -- How I Heard Stories in My Young Days -- The Day of the Races -- The Same Old Story Ever and Always -- Farewell to My Youth -- The New Life -- Christmastide -- Shrovetide Doings -- Exciting Stories in Dingle -- More Adventures -- I Return to My People -- Seamas who was called Pleasc -- A Feast an Escort and a Farewell Forever -- In Service again -- My Last Days in Service -- Match and Marriage -- A New and Different World -- The Birth of My First Child -- My Life on the Island -- Comfort and Grief -- Scattering and Sorrow -- Life Alone and Lonely -- Fireside Tales -- Adventures of Mine -- The Last Chapter ; "Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition." ; required reading for all Irish students ; remains of labels on covers ; VG. Book.

No edition/printing statement provided. 511 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket with large losses to front panel and spine ends; other lesser chips, jagged tears, and creasing; some toning to flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Paper boards; small losses to spine ends with heel also bumped; glue repairs to surface paper tearing along front and rear joints; slender wear to boards' top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with several stains. Personal bookplates of two different owners on front endpapers; toning to pages 100-101 from removed newspaper clipping; paper clip impressions at tops of pages 362-363, 404-405, and 428-429. Binding is firm. Page 511 notes that the publishers of the Looking Glass Library are Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and Edward Gorey with consulting editors being W.H. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, and Edmund Wilson. Book's spine heel notes "LGL | 14" with page 511 listing fifteen books in the series (but citing "The Looking Glass Book of Stories" as twelfth sequentially) which may or may not be an issue point although it seems unlikely that the book would have enjoyed more than one printing. Edward Gorey (Edward St. John Gorey, 1925-2000) is credited as the illustrator of the dust jacket and boards (which share a matching design) as well as the title page and the four section titles on pages 9, 61, 255, and 403. An anthology of short stories compiled by Yale graduate and Phillips Andover Academy English instructor Hart Day Leavitt (1909-2008) which features thirty-three contributions by James Thurber, John Collier, Robert M. Coates, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White [Elwyn Brooks White], Saki [H.H. Munro - Hector Hugh Munro], Oscar Wilde, Stephen Vincent Benet, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Frank R. Stockton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekov, Conrad Aiken, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells], Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, et al.

Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. No Jacket. Soft cover. 2nd printing, 1998. Moderate wear with bumped and scuffed edges and extremities. Firmly bound. Clean, unmarked pages. Acceptable as a reading copy.

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 239 pp. Profusely illustrated. Scarce.

Orig. paper hardcover, gilt. xxxii,544 pp.; 24 cm. Text in English. - (covers sl. worn, top edge sl. soiled/ foxed, name on endpaper, although still good). 1150g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 541 pages; [1936] Office of the Comptroller of Currency; Washington DC. Volume V, (1933-1936). HC in original burgundy red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and cover. Soundly bound and clean; prior owner name penned to front endpage. Mild silverfish evidence to paper at edges of rear pastedown. Uncommon issue, relating in large part to changes made to the banking system after the Great Crash and during the Depression - including the Banking Act of 1935 which created the FDIC and modern Federal Reserve. VG-.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

#270 of a limited edition of 1000 copies SIGNED BY EDITOR JIM RIKHOFF. Issued as the twenty-seventh volume in Amwell Press' African Hunting Heritage Collection. No slipcase, i.e. lacking. No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. [2], i-xxiv, 1-637 pages plus unpaged plates. Bright red textured leather (imitating a game animal skin); vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; slight rubbing/soiling to front board; stronger soiling and flaked gilt marks to rear board caused by previous light adhesion to an adjacent book on a shelf (henceforth called Easton Press adhesionitis as that was its unfortunate shelfmate). All edges gilt; red silk moire endpapers; sewn-in red silk ribbon page marker. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. Limitation statement, copy#, and ink signature of editor-compiler-publisher Jim Rikhoff on special unpaged leaf preceding frontispiece. Published by Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited as the twenty-seventh volume in its African Hunting Heritage Collection. Features contributions by Errol Trzebinski, Col. Richard Meinertzhagen, J.H. Patterson, Theodore Roosevelt, A. Blayney Percival [Arthur Blayney Percival], Arthur H. Neumann, Martin Johnson, J.A. Hunter, Elspeth Huxley, Beryl Markham, Kermit Roosevelt, Joy Adamson, Jack O'Connor, Craig Boddington, Gene Hill, et al. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Amwell_Shelf#2}.

Cloth. Zustand: Good/Very Good. John O'Connor (illustrator). Unlimited. Internally near fine with slight tanning to the endpapers, edges of textblock a little dusty, cover reasonably bright with a few small marks , spine a little dull Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.