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Andy Warhol's Marilyn x 100
Sotheby's, 1992
8-1/4" x 10-5/8" Pictorial card wraps. Auction catalogue for lot 25, the largest version of Warhol's serial image of Marilyn, reproduced in color within on a three-leaf folding panel. Price realized laid in. Fine.
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15.00 USD
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Dake's Annotated Reference Bible: The Holy Bible
Lawrenceville: Dake Bible Sales (1963 - Second Printing, 1981) Large Note Edition
About 8-1/2" x 11" Black genuine leather. Burgundy endpapers, all edges stained pale burgundy. Fine bible paper. Containing the Old and New Testaments of Authorized or King James Version Text. With four equal-sized columns on each page -- two of text and two of notes and comments, self-pronouncing text, and a Complete Concordance and Cyclopedic Index. By Finis Jennings Dake. As New in original publisher's box (one corner archively repaired).
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45.00 USD
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Park System of Kansas City Showing a Portion of Its Many Pretty Views
Souvenir issued by the Board of Park Commissioners, 1908. 7-1/4"x5" Stiff brown paper wraps titled in gilt, tied with cord. 20pp printed on coated stock. Many views of the parks, including: A Ball Game on the Parade Twenty-one Acres; View on the Paseo Between Tenth and Eleventh Streets; Play Ground in Holmes Square; Driveway in Penn Valley Park; Wilderness in Roanoke Park One Square from Fine Residence Section; Flower Garden and Golf Course, Swope Park; Canyon in North Terrace Park; etc. "The park and boulevard system now comprises: 2,100 acres of parks; 28.32 miles of boulevards; 25.63 miles of park drives." Near Fine.
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25.00 USD
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Pasadena Summer and Winter
Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association of Pasadena, ca 1928
8vo Stapled wraps. 32pp with many illustrations from photographs. An attractive and informative brochure designed to interest both tourists and potential future residents. Minor cover soil, spine rubbed. Penciled name lightly written in the lake at Busch Gardens, "Los Robles" lightly written along the top of a building in a double-page aerial view of a portion of the city. Good.
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25.00 USD
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Spectrum/200 Photographs from the History of Los Angeles 1860-1940
Los Angeles 200 Bicentennial Committee (1983)
8-1/2"x11" Illustrated wraps. [132]pp. From the earliest known photograph of outdoor Los Angeles taken in 1862, through now vanished buildings and the marvelous diversity of inhabitants, this is a not-to-be-missed retrospective of our exciting city. Minor wear. Very Good.
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20.00 USD
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Stories About Dogs
Concord: Rufus Merrill, n.d. [ca 1850]
48mo. Printed yellow wraps. [16]pp with seven woodcuts, one of the cuts a duplicate of that on the upper cover. Publisher's advertisement to lower cover surrounded by elaborate wood-engraved illustration. Contents include: The dog, Esquimaux dogs, Hare Indian dog, Anecdotes of dogs and a poem about dogs. Near Fine. A very nice little chapbook.
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150.00 USD
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The Young Business Man, Vol. 5, No. 9
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, July, 1931
9"x12" printed wraps. 16pp including covers. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Article on the members' Sequoia National Park Tour: Bears and Big Trees, another on the upcoming La Fiesta De Los Angeles in September to celebrate the city's 150th birthday. Other articles, lists of members, many adverts. Covers lightly soiled, California Title Insurance Company stamp to lower cover. Very Good.
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25.00 USD
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Attwell, Mabel Lucie
Lucie Attwell's 'The Giant's Boot'
London: Dean & Son, 1959
12mo. Pictorial boards. [20]pp plus endpapers illustrated with Mabel Lucie Attwell's delightful color images. Little Prunella Pansy and her dog Jane are swept away by her green umbrella and carried to Fairyland! A title in Dean's Little Poppet Series. Covers with minor soil and wear, edges lightly rubbed else Very Good.
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45.00 USD
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Barrows, Ruth
Bunny Boy's Book: A Story for Children
Chicago: George S. Carrington Co. 1923
16mo Illustrated wraps. 39pp with four delightful color plates on coated stock signed by Broun. Bunny Boy and his friends, Ella Phant, Doggy Dan, and Kitty Kute, are animal dolls that belong to the children Dick and Polly and this is the story of some of their adventures. Spine rubbed, covers a little soiled and edge worn, gift inscription verso of upper cover. Child's penciled name to recto of lower cover. Good.
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25.00 USD
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Bemelmans, Ludwig
Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales
(New York): Viking / Penguin Group (1993) First Edition
4to Pictorial boards. 320pp. The complete texts and illustrations of: Madeline, Madeline and the Bad Hat, Madeline's Rescue (which won the Caldecott Award), Madeline and the Gypsies, Madeline in London, and Madeline's Christmas. Includes an introduction by Anna Quindlen and an essay by Bemelmans, "The Isle of God," on how he invented Madeline, plus his working sketches of her and photos of the Bemelmans family. Fine in lightly frayed dustjacket.
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15.00 USD
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Bond, Guy L. and Marie C. Cuddy
Stories in Pictures with Teacher's Guide: A Non-consumable Readiness Book
Lyons and Carnahan, 1953
9"x10.75" Cloth tape-backed pictorial wraps. Color illustrations. Contains the 64-page student book and 32pp of instructional material for the teacher, including nursery thymes and stories which accompany some of the illustrations: Red Ridiing-Hood, Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, The Three Little Pigs, and The Gingerbread Boy. A title in The Developmental Reading Series, A Basic Reading Program. Minor wear, penciled name and classroom number to upper cover else Very Good.
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40.00 USD
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Briggs, Katharine
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends
Pantheon (1978) New York: First American Edition French, Mary I.
8vo Decorated blue cloth. 218pp with black & white illustrations by Mary I. French. We learn about the origin of fairy beliefs; about the different types of fairies, about fairy powers, fairy sports, fairy mortality, and much more. Includes a glossary of fairies and a book list. Fading to cloth along upper cover edges, remainder mark to lower edges else Very Good in dustjacket.
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20.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm / retold by Nancy Garden
Favorite Tales From Grimm
New York: Four Winds (1982) First Edition Mayer, Mercer
8vo Cloth-backed gilt decorated dark salmon boards. 224pp with 20 exquisite color illustrations by Mercer Meyer plus additional small silhouettes. Twenty stories including: Little Snow White, Rapunzel, The Valiant Little Taylor, The Goose Girl, The Two Brothers, The Six Swans, Cinderella, The Golden Bird, Hansel and Gretel, The Girl Without Hands, Thumbling and others. Fine in dustjacket with light edge wear, a little rubbing at corners.
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40.00 USD
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Brown, Margaret Wise
The Little Fir Tree
New York: Crowell, 1954 Reissue Cooney, Barbara
Oblong 12mo. Red boards. [34]pp with lovely color illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Caldecott medalist Barbara Cooney. The little fir tree became a living Christmas tree for a little lame boy but each spring the tree was returned to grow in the forest. Finally, one special Christmas.... Fine in lightly frayed, price-clipped dustjacket.
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50.00 USD
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Bunker, Edward
Dog Eat Dog (SIGNED)
New York: St. Martin's Press (1997) First Thus
8vo Trade paperback. xi, 240pp. Realistic crime novel about armed robbery by ex-con turned successful writer. Uniquely signed and inscribed by the author: "Charlie, If you were still in the slam, this would be a helluva read. Eddie Bunker PS: Now, too." Light cockling to upper corner of pages from liquid spill. Corner creases to lower cover. Good.
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25.00 USD
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Bunker, Edward
No Beast So Fierce (SIGNED)
New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (1993) First Edition Thus
8vo Trade paperback. 283pp. Ex-con's gritty crime novel of the Los Angeles underworld, originally published in 1973; this reprint with an introduction by William Styron. Bunker's first book was made into the film "Straight Time" which starred Dustin Hoffman and introduced Kathy Bates, Gary Busey, and Theresa Russell, with Bunker in a bit part. Signed and inscribed by the author: "Charlie, Read it, think remake (with small drawing of a winking smiley face) Eddie Bunker" Small stain top edge of upper cover through first dozen pages. Edge wear and a little scuffing to lower cover. Good.
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200.00 USD
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Castaneda, Carlos
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
New York: Simon and Schuster (1972) Stated First Edition
8vo Brown cloth gilt. 315pp. The third book by Casteneda, in which the Yaqui brujo, Don Juan, initiates him into the mysteries of sorcery -- of becoming a "man of knowledge." Slightest fading at utmost extremities, small faint spot at base of fore-edge else Near Fine in like dustjacket (small crease to corner of lower flap).
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45.00 USD
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Cavanah, Elizabeth
Kitty Kute's Kapers: A Story for Children
Chicago: George S. Carrington Co. 1923 Broun
16mo Illustrated wraps. 33pp with four delightful color plates on coated stock signed by Broun. Kitty Kute and her friends, Ella Phant, Doggy Dan, and Bunny Boy are animal dolls that belong to the children Dick and Polly and this is the story of some of their adventures. Spine rubbed, covers a little soiled, gift inscription verso of upper cover. Child's penciled name to upper cover and in an upper page margin, in ink to (blank) last page. Good.
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25.00 USD
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