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Non-Fiction

• The Quiet Crisis by Stewart L. Udall . Priced at $50
  4th printing, inscribed by author, w/dust jacket
• The Slang Dictionary by John Camden Hotten . Priced at $28
  or The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "Fast" Expressons of High and Low Society many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced. Ex Lib, 1870, sixteenth thousand, hardcover
• Thicker'n Thieves by Charles Stoker . Priced at $110
  1951. Hardcover. Ballpoint pen mark on spine, otherwise in good shape. No dust cover.
• Trunk Locks, Suit Case Locks, Sample Case Locks, and Trimmings by Eagle Lock Company, Terryville, CT . Priced at $250
  Vol. #48, an Illustrated Catalogue, in good shape, RARE This book will be shelved beside the clerks in the white rack on the wall.

Poetry/Plays/Classic

• Love in the XIXth Century by Harriet W. Preston . Priced at $30
  1873. Library discard. Center pages loose.
• Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century by Susan Hale . Priced at $5
  1898
• Sketches and Essays; and Winterslow by William Hazlitt . Priced at $45
  1890, ex-library, 466 pages
• The Bible in Spain, The Zincali, Wild Wales, Lavengro, The Romans Rye by George Borrow . Priced at $30
  different publishers, all small old books, selling as a 'set'
• The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby . Priced at $30
  1852, first series, 320 pages,red cloth cover, spine cover missing, NY D. Appleton & co.
• The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Priced at $75
  Vol. 1,2,3,4,7,8,10,11 of 13 vol. set. 1899, Harper & Bros., marbelized boards, 1/2 leather, library discards
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas or, The Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner by Jules Verne . Priced at $75
  1875, no front or rear flyleaf, author's edition
• White Writing, On the Culture of Letters in South Africa by J. M. Coetzee . Priced at $40
  softcover

Religion

• A Book of the Passion of Our Lord. Priced at $17
  w/dust jacket and color plates, 55 pages, early 1916,Frederick A. Stokes Co, NY
• Counsels for the Cottage and the Mansion by S. B. Emmons . Priced at $100
  1854, L. P. Crown, Boston,288 pages.Gypsies, superstitions, witchcraft, spirit knockings, false prophets, Great Harmonia, spiritual telegraph
• Questions on the Life of Moses, Embracing the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy by John Todd D.D. Pittsfield, Mass. . Priced at $50
  small book, 1858 Northampton, Mass, Bridgman and Childs, hardcover
• Religions of China in Practice by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. ed. . Priced at $6
  Soft cover, 1996, 499 pages
• The Argument of the Vision of Piers Plowman by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom . Priced at $30
  ex-lib, loose page, no title page, text all there ....RARE
• The English Reformation, How it Came About, and Why We Should Uphold It by Cunningham Geikie . Priced at $25
  1879, library discard

Sports

• Born for the Mat, A Kodokan Kata Textbook for Women, Judo by Keiko Fukuda . Priced at $160
  In clear cover, like new, 1973, author signed in English & Japanese
• Danny Fists by Walter Camp . Priced at $35
  1913, well read, library discard, football classic