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Vintage, Collectable, and hard to find pre-owned (used) book titles available to shop. See Books Main Page for conditions rating information and subject guide.
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Vintage and Antique Books
Educational Instruction
TITLE: Chardenal's Complete French Course
AUTHOR: C.A. Chardenal
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Revised & rewritten with additional selections for reading & illustrations.
Date published: Copyright 1920
Condition: GOOD ,shelf worn on edges, title faded from spine, slightly worn but attractive cover, faded red in color, much pencil within including child's drawing though still quite readable, binding in good shape.
Description: 399 pgs. Classic antique language instruction book. Nice illustrations, still practical educational for today.
$8.00 S&H $3.75
- Title: The Abdomen, Anatomical In-sights by Ethicon
- Publisher: Ethicon SC
- Publication Year: 1969
- Format: Softcover booklet
- Condition: Good, some stains, mild wear, very few small ink marks inside. The stapled binding is tight. The text and illustrations are crisp and sharp in detail.
- Size: 11" x 8-1/2"
- # of Pages: 26
- Basic Category: Nonfiction Educational Teaching Anatomy
Ethicon surgical teaching aid series. Anatomical relationships are presented sequentially, much as they are seen under conditions of actual surgery from delineation of the initial incision through to the techniques of skin closure. The incisions shown in this booklet are artistic illustrative, some with layers of the internal organs that move apart (somewhat like a cut out or pop-up book). Shown is a scan of the exact book offered.
$50.00 S&H $2.50
- Title: Manual of operative procedure and Surgical Knots
- Publisher:
- Publication Year: 1968
- Format: Softcover
- Condition: Good, some stains, wear, slight pencil marks and soiling on cover. The binding is holding. The text and illustrations are crisp and sharp in detail.
- Size: 10" x 7"
- # of Pages: 128
- Basic Category: Nonfiction Educational Teaching Anatomy, internal medicine
Highly illustrated with numerous step by step medical surgery techniques. Detailed skin closure examples and special section on how to tie surgical knots and stitches, broken bones, gall bladder removal, mastectomy, vasectomy and hysterectomy, even how to stretch skin for a graft artistic illustrative.
$40.00 S&H $2.50
TITLE: The Young Housekeeper's Friend
AUTHOR: Mrs.Cornelius
Binding: Decorative Hardback
Publisher: Brown Taggard & Chase
Date published: 1859, this book is an early 1970's exact reproduction of original
Condition: VERY GOOD, very slight nick on lower front corner, some shelf wear page staining, spine not cracked, no inside inscription or other marking.
Description: 254 pgs. This book has no crack to the spine. Highly decorative brown leather look with worn gold gilt on cover & spine. Attractive and lots of good info; tips, house cleaning tricks, cooking recipes plus Victorian era social studies of culture, manners, and the responsibilities of a housekeeping woman.
$25.00 S&H $6.00 Boxed Priority Mail
TITLE: What to Have for Dinner
AUTHOR: Fannie Farmer
Binding: Decorative Hardback
Publisher: Dodge Publishing Co. New York
Date published: 1905, this book is an early 1970's exact reproduction of original
Condition: VERY GOOD, inside inscription bought in 1974, mild dust staining to edges & slight white paint splatters to front
Description: 271 pgs. Red brown leather look hardback with gold ribbon place marker, old gilt decorative front & spine, includes attractive vintage ads in back. Yellow ribbon place holder, cooking recipies, quotes, poetry and sayings throughout chapters, planning family holidays.
$15.00 S&H $6.00 Priority Mail
POETRY
TITLE: In The Clearing
AUTHOR: Robert Frost
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Date published: Fifth printing 1963
Condition: VERY GOOD. W/O dust jacket, very slight wear
Description: 101 pgs. Hardback with grey cloth and gilt metallic silver lettering on spine.
$18.00 S&H $3.75
TITLE: Expressing our Love
AUTHOR: Susan Polis Schutz
Binding: oversized paperback, illus.
Publisher: Continental Publications, First Edition
Date published: 1979
Condition: VERY VERY GOOD. Very minor wear.
Description: 80 pgs. Out of print book, hard to find. Wedding poems for today's couples including a section on personalizing your own wedding ceremony.
$30.00 S&H $6.00 Priority Mail
CLASSIC NOVELS
TITLE: The Life Story Of A Dog
AUTHOR: G. E. Mitton
Binding: Decorative Cloth Hardback
Publisher: A & C Black, LTD. London
Date published: 1928
Condition: Some shelf wear to corners & edges, no dust jacket.
Description: 208 pgs 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very clean copy of hard to find collectible classic book. Colored frontispiece inside with attractive wildlife animals in tan brown illustrated cover and spine. Classic Scottish terrier illustration inside as well in vivid color.
$30.00 S&H Boxed Priority Mail Rate $6.00 add insurance $1.50
TITLE: Bambi
AUTHOR: Felix Salten, Translated by Whittaker Chamber, Forward by John Galsworthy
Binding: Decorative Cloth Hardback
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, Companion Library
Date published: Copyright 1929 Simon & Schuster
Condition: Fair, quite readable, cover is worn on edges and has upper left side scuff, upper portion of spine missing to cloth @ 2", title still visible well on spine, shelf worn, cover slightly indented, foxing on pages but not brittle, inside cover board inscription.
Description: 293 pgs. Green cover is highly illustrated with many figures & also has decorative characters, charming illustrations, classic collectible novel.
$20.00 S&H $6.00 Boxed Priority Mail
Rare Art and Music Books
Marvel Superheroes Art Book Vallejo & Bell, RARE Edition
"Superheroes; the Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell" is a hard to find collectable edition art book with over 170 dazzling full-color paintings of Marvel Comic superheroes. It was later published as "Titans", making this a rare collectible edition. When I compared the two, this book seems to have more illustrations than the newer version, as well as other details I can't recall. This is great coffee table type book, but also a super reference for an art student; offering illustartion art history and daring figure studies. The spine is not cracked open, as it was always viewed with care; I'm it's second owner, and I've enjoyed this book for it's art value but now it's time for it to find a home with a caring collector. The opening bid price is far below the retail collectable value, based on compared online editions.
Bibliographic Details
- Superheroes : the Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell / text by Nigel Suckling
- ISBN: 1560252731
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
- Publication Date: 2000
- Binding: Hardcover
- Book Condition: Excellent, near to new
- Dust Jacket Condition: Great with very slight shelf wear; ie. mild warble to ends of dust jacket. (I've seen new books in stores with much worse wear)
- Edition: First Edition
- Note: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Superheroes is a collection of awe-inspiring original artwork created by husband and wife team Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Along with using a classic sense of style to create and master sensuous full color oil paintings, Boris Vallejo is best known as the visual creator of Conan the Barbarian. Combining strength with sensuality and infusing the human form with incredible power and motion, fantasy artist Julie Bell continues to use her "metal flesh" trademark to produce dramatic works of art. This collection overflows with superhuman characters captured in the act of saving the world, destroying evil protagonists and battling dark beasts. Featuring fantastic figures such as Spiderman, Captain America, and the X-Men, these paintings represent the best of Boris and Julie.
$40.00 + $4.25 SH
MUSIC HISTORY
Wild Bill Davison; A Celebration SIGNED
Shown is the exact signed and inscribed by the author book offered.
Wild Bill Davison, A celebration: an illustrated tribute; A Peronal Behind-the-scene Look At A Favorite Musician,
by Doug Armstrong
- Condition: Good; Moderate cover wear with flattened dog ear fold. Slight age browning to pages. Rubbing/creasing to cover due to shelf wear. Light wear creasing to page edges. Text and images remain in great condition. (Rated by Poor, Fair, Good, Very Good, Excellent, and Like New. All are compared to other like editions.)
Jazz scene biography of historic musician "Wild Bill Davison", William Stethen Davison (1906 - 1989), Cornetist and Bandleader; played with Louis Armstrong. Filled with black and white images of music history; original flyers, banners, ticket stubs, other cool stuff, and lots of great photos. Signed and inscribed by the author in attractive handwriting on the front inside. Reads as...
" To Tom Kono(??): a good friend and close admirer of the Wild One. Thanks for joining in the celebration of Bill and his music. Doug Armstrong".
(A "like" copy not signed and inscribed by the author lists elsewhere for $35.00)
$37.00 + $4.25 SH
