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How Can We Lose When We're So Sincere? by T Willard Hunter first edition trade paperback The Paige Press, Claremont, CA (2005)

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A collection of sayings collected during the author's life. From the back cover: "One hobby I have long pursued is collecting witticisms."

A Flower with Love by Bruno Munari translated by Patricia Tracy Lowe first edition hardcover Thomas Y Crowell, New York (1973)

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A highly conversational guide for creating flower arrangements with great beauty and meaning. "Do you want to know how to make someone a beautiful gift that costs nothing at all? ...The secret is ikebana, a Japanese word which author-artist Bruno Munari interprets as 'a flower with love'."

Minute Myths and Legends by Marie Schubert first edition hardcover Grosset & Dunlap (1934)

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"What wonderful beings are the Gods that men have imagined out of hopes and fears in the twilight of faith!" A Classic!

The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Stella G S Perry First edition - this is NOT A REPRINT. staple-bound paperback The Wahlgreen Company, San Francisco (1915)

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Important original source material for this Panama Pacific International Exposition

The Garland of Defeat by Florence Mary Bennett first edition hardcover Harold Vinal Limited, New York. (1927)

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Wonderful imagery created with words; 5 books in one binding with multiple chapters in each. "In the midst of a grove of pines, well up on the slope of a hill, there was sparkling a fountain of melody..."

Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature Essays in Honor of Katharine Luomala edited by A L Kaeppler and Harry Nimmo SOLD by Global Booksearch and Sales

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Separations by Oakley Hall signed trade paperback University of Nevada Press (1997)

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Wonderful gift copy. RARE to find author signed copy. "The Grand Canyon country of the 1880s is the setting of Oakley Hall's compelling new novel."

Tsushima by A Novikoff-Priboy hardcover with dust jacket SOLD by Global Booksearch and Sales

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Caddisflies by Gary LaFontaine hardcover. Lyons Press (1981) SOLD by Global Booksearch and Sales

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Schutzhund Obedience Training in Drive by Gottfried Dildei and Sheila Booth signed first edition trade paperback Podium Publications (1992)

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Notes from an Airborne Rifle Company 1950-1951 by Robert T Brown trade paperback Trafford, Canada (2003)

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22 soldiers' experiences in the Korean War. The author "entered the U.S. Army directly from high school at age 17, enlisting specifically for airborne training..."

Crossing Life's Wilderness by G Clyde Dodder signed first edition trade paperback Mayadan Publishing, Palo Alto, CA (1996)

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Transcripts of Sermons by the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. California.

The Man Who Paints Animals by Bob Kuhn first edition hardcover not paginated Ken Meyer Productions, Boulder Colorado (1980)

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The artwork is magnificent. The artist has a distinguished career as an illustrator for Field and Stream and Outdoor Life. This book documents the disappearing part of our world - the wild animals. Photo is of the title page.

Dryden High School Then and Now by Stella M Trapp signed first edition paperback DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY (1963)

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RARE signed copy. Important source material. First-hand recollections of very early 1900s education in rural New York.

Behind the Mask A Collection of Poems by James W Blake signed trade paperback Julian Richardson Associates, San Francisco. (1974)

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RARE. Very hard to find, particularly as an inscribed, signed copy. Collection of nitty-gritty poems about the rough places in life. "Dedicated to ... my parents who taught me how to live on both sides of the mask."