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Rare and Used Books for Sale
The books listed on this site can be purchased by cash (if purchased locally), check, or money order. Prices are shown, but ALL REASONABLE OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED. Shipping costs, including packaging, will be charged at cost. Please email Jane McNeel if you are interested in purchasing one or more titles. Depending on your purchase and your location, we will acquire the cost for packing and shipping and advise you of the total cost.
Title
Author
 
Description
Price
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection Cindi Strauss, Helen Williams Drutt English,Keelin Barrows, Kristen Wetzel

Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart
Publish Date: 2007. ISBN 13: 978-3897-90273-2 Text in English. Binding: Hardcover-soft suede-like binding. 528 pages. Condition: Very good to Excellent. Pages are in pristine condition-book has only been opened for inspection. Binding has shows minor signs of handling. Shipping weight approx. 8 lbs.

$75.00
         
Animal Farm Orwell, George Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: VG, Green/Olive cloth covered boards, w/gilt lettering on spine . Dust Jacket Condition: Good (small tears & minor wear at edges). 5.25" x 7.5", 118 pgs. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946.
         
Tony's Scrap Book 1935-1936 Edition Wons, Tony Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: VG. Hardcover, clean pages, darkened with age. 5.5" x 8", 113 pages. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1935
         
The Mystery of the Ivory Charm Keene, Carolyn Book Description: Hardcover. Book condition: VG, Blue tweedy boards, top edges are tinted navy blue. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (small wear and tears at edges, tear on front cover at edge of board). A silhouette of Nancy holding a magnifying glass on front cover. End papers show Nancy looking down at a mill where someone is digging.Pages show some foxing. 5" x 7.5", 216 pgs.Grosset & Dunlap, 1936
         
The Message in the Hollow Oak Keene, Carolyn Book Description: Hardcover. Book condition: VG, Blue tweedy boards, top edges are tinted navy blue. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (small wear and tears at edges, tear on back cover at edge of board). A silhouette of Nancy holding a magnifying glass on front cover. End papers show Nancy looking down at a mill where someone is digging. A small handwritten inscription is on the first page after end paper. 5" x 7.5", 218 pgs.Grosset & Dunlap, 1935
         
TheClue in the Crumbling Wall Keene, Carolyn Book Description: Hardcover. Book condition: G Blue boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (small wear and tears at edges). A silhouette of Nancy holding a magnifying glass on front cover. End papers show Nancy with magnifying glass plus silhouettes of 3 other young women. Pages are brownish, especially at edges. 5" x 7.5", 217 pgs. Grosset & Dunlap, 1945
         
Simplified Roof Framing Wilson and Werner Book Description: Hard Cover VG. Navy boards with green lettering, no dust jacket. Indcludes the information on the use of the steel square. 160 pages. Clean with unmarked text, pages show some foxing. 5.5" x 8.25", 154 pgs.McGraw Hill & Co., 1948 Second Edition
         
Steel Square Townsend, Gilbert Book Description: Hard Cover. Book Condition: VG - some foxing on pages and end covers. No Dust Jacket. Minor wear on edges of covers. Clean with unmarked text, pages show some foxing. 5.5" x 8.5", 93 pgs. American Technical Society, 1939
         
Carpentry Townsend, Gilbert Book Description: Hard Cover. Book Condition: VG - some foxing on pages and end covers. No Dust Jacket. Clean with unmarked text. 5.5" x 8.5", 436 pgs. American Technical Society, 1944

Kiki and Muffy Steiner, Charlotte

Book Description: Hard Cover. Book Condition: G. Cover has light marks from crayon or chalk. Inscription on interior cover. Pages in very good condition, some foxing but no marks. 8.5" x 8", 24 pgs. Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943

     
 
The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement Book Description: Hard Cover. Book Condition: VG. Very clean cover and pages. Beautiful illustrations by Gyo Fujikawa. 9" x 12", 24 pgs. Grosset & Dunlap 1961, 1987 printing.
         
A Treasury of Little Golden Books Buell, Ellen Lewis

Book Description: Hard Cover, Book Condition: VG. No dust jacket. Inscription on front end paper. Glossy picture cover with little wear, illus endpapers. Clean, crisp & unmarked. 10.5" x 12", 92 pgs. Oversize Book. Golden Press, 1982, Revised and Abridged Edition.

         
Remembrance of Things Past Proust, Marcel

The definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.Volume I - Swann's Way, Within A Budding Grove.Volume II - The Guermantes Way, Cities Of The Plain.Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, Time Regained. Boxed set in very good condition- one top seam in slipcase is damaged. Pages in all 3three volumes are fresh and unmarked. Vintage, 1982.

$30.00