The People Could Fly, American Black Folktales Told by Virginia Hamilton PRICE PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile New York, A. Knopf, 1985, edition not stated. Clean, tight 4to, 178pp (includes bibliography). The dust jacket edges have several neatly repaired, short, closed tears and some tiny chips. Book is unmarked and a very nice copy. Near Fine in a very good d.j. hardcover. A book filled with a rich treasure of folk tales from the heritage of African American Blacks told from the author's own American Black ancestry and including Bruh Rabbit, riddles, laughter, spine-chilling ghosts and devil tales. And, moving tales of freedom, including true slave narratives and fantasy escapes. 40 stunning illustrations by Caldecott winners Leo and Diane Dillon. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from The Wright Book The King Ranch, volumes 1 & 2 See Item Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years with Pogo by Walt Kelly See Item Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest, Five Volume Set See Item The People Could Fly, American Black Folktales Told by Virginia Hamilton See Item Navajo Trading Days by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann See Item The Brighton Boys with Engineers at Cantigny See Item Opere, Volume I by Pietro Metastasio See Item Cookery for Seamen by Alexander Quinlan and N.E. Mann See Item The Down Easters by Basil Lubbock See Item The Orphant Annie Book See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Timbuktu Books OWNER: Susan Eggleton Member since: 2017 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): susan_eggleton@hotmail.com 206-523-3465 5441 40th Ave. West, Seattle, WA, 98199, United States More about this bookseller We are a small, owner-operated online antiquarian and collectible book business specializing in travel and exploration (especially China, other parts of Asia, Africa and far-flung regions of the world); the West and Northwest; history of all parts of the world; Americana; mountaineering; military and war; and attractive leather-bound volumes. We are located in Seattle, Washington. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

HUBBLE, Edwin - The Realm of the Nebulæ PRICE $ 2500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Published by Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, London, 1936. First British Edition of the American Yale imprint. Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, London 1936. Gr.-8°. With 14 plates on art paper and 16 text figures. vii, 1 Bl., 210 S. Publisher s blue cloth binding with gilt spine and original dust jacket. Copy from the library "The Theosophical Society Shanghai, China" [Shanghai Lodge]. Scarce first edition in book form of these lectures by the foremost observational astronomer of the 20th century, illustrated with 15 photographic plates, including frontispiece, and numerous in-text charts and diagrams. Hubble s scientific achievements made him the foremost observational astronomer of the 20th century and one of the most influential scientists of all time in changing our understanding of the universe… The rapidly increasing number of nebulae observed and the estimated 150,000 within reach of existing instruments emphasized the need for a classification scheme… Hubble s classification scheme was announced in the 1920s, contemporaneously with his demonstration that the nebulae are galaxies, and his diagram of the sequence of nebular types became famous in the 1930s… Recognition of Hubble s achievements and stature included invitations to present prestigious lectures… [among them] the Silliman Lectures at Yale in 1935, published as The Realm of the Nebulae… More popular indices of Hubble s fame are the appearance of his face on the cover of Time magazine in 1948 and the attachment of his name to the space telescope in 1990… Hubble s cosmology should be appreciated for the assumptions it overthrew, for the vistas it opened and as one of the great accomplishments of the human intellect (ANB). Among his other achievements, Hubble proved that the universe is not static he changed no less a mind than Albert Einstein s on the subject thus verifying what has become known as the Big Bang theory. See Simmons, Scientific 100 30. Cover binding slightly rubbed, bumped and stained. Endpapers slightly shaded with glue. Front endpaper and title page with small discreet Chinese stamp, otherwise a very good copy. Very uncommon in the dustwrapper. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Reginald C Williams Rare Books LLC NIETZSCHE, Friedrich -The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche contra Wagner, Twilight of the idols, The Antich See Item VIRCHOW, Rudolf - Cellular Pathology as based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology See Item BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis - From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt See Item POE, Edgar Allan - THE WORKS OF THE LATE EDGAR ALLAN POE, WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTICES OF HIS LIFE.. See Item HUBBLE, Edwin - The Realm of the Nebulæ See Item PASTERNAK, Boris - Doctor Zhivago. Russian edition (Cyrillic). PUBLISHERS ARCHIVAL COPY with stamp. See Item MAYNARD, Nettie Colburn - Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? or, Curious Revelations from the Life See Item BUDGE, Ernest Alfred THOMPSON WALLIS - Amulets and Superstitions See Item CLARKE, Arthur Charles - Interplanetary Flight: An introduction to astronautics See Item GODWIN, William - Lives of the Necromancers. or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons...... See Item FLEMING, Ian - From Russia With Love See Item ELLIS, Havelock - Studies in the Psychology of Sex See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Hughes Rare Books OWNER: Gregory Hughes Member since: 2025 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): hughesrarebooks@gmail.com 4752930180 4752930180 PO BOX 139, Bloomfield, CT, 06002-0139, United States More about this bookseller Specializing in important works of literature, philosophy, and science, with a particular emphasis on first and early editions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focus areas include American and British literary high spots, banned and censored books (e.g., Tropic of Cancer), modernist fiction, and notable authors such as Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Ernest Hemingway. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

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Angelo, Valenti. Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio PRICE $ 400 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Angelo, Valenti. Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio . New York: Valenti Angelo, 1949. Octavo. [14] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 75 copies. Signed by Angelo. In later marbled paper over boards with the board edges and turn-ins exquisitely trimmed in black morocco. A very clean, bright copy in cloth clamshell. An elegant production printed by Angelo with a lovely hand-illuminated opening initial by him. Here in an exquisite binding. Valenti Angelo: Author, Illustrator, Printer p. 79. Emelson, Earl and Gloria (eds). PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Michael Pyron, Bookseller [Broadside] Courtney-Morgan Co. in "A Fair Rebel." Monday Evening, Sept 5, 1898 See Item [Mexico] [Catholic Church] Benedict XIII, Pope. [Broadside] Devotas Oraciones, que Rezaba.... See Item [Design Binding] [Starr-Baum, Katy] Grabhorn Press, First Part of Henry the Fourth See Item [Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra See Item Angelo, Valenti. Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio See Item [Artist's Book] Suzanne Moore. Rescuing Q: Quandaries and Queries See Item [Artist's Books] Don Glaister, Complete Instructions See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Head to Tail Books OWNER: Michele Wan Member since: 2024 Miniature books, bindings, handpress era, books and ephemera about dogs, and more. (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Reciprocal discount to the trade info@headtotailbooks.com 203-293-6462 132 Compo Rd S, Westport, CT, 06880, United States More about this bookseller Head to Tail Books is a bookstore for rare, vintage, and collectible books, open online and by appointment in Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut. We sell books of all eras, from handpress to modern. We are interested in the quirky and unusual, miniature books, books by authors of color, bindings, books and ephemera about dogs, and other subjects. Let us help you develop your book collection and enhance your library. The proprietor is a former Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS) and Rare Book School, and a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and the Miniature Book Society (MBS). 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items 1548 Aldine Press edition of Cicero's Epistolae Familiares VIEW DETAILS Master's Violin, by Myrtle Reed, in binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, 1910 VIEW DETAILS Collection of books from the personal library of author Erica Jong VIEW DETAILS 1904 autograph letter signed from bloodhound breeder C.A. Appley to prospective buyer VIEW DETAILS Maya Angelou's The Aristocrat, miniature book by Tamazunchale Press VIEW DETAILS Tauchnitz 1926 "Copyright edition" of "The Forsyte Saga" in custom block-printed paper bindings VIEW DETAILS Patricio Tricasso's "Epitoma chyromantico," 1535 treatise on palmistry, with 78 woodcuts VIEW DETAILS Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union cookbook, annotated with recipe for dandelion wine VIEW DETAILS Letter from a father to his son, with a charming illustration of dog driving a car, dated 1959 VIEW DETAILS Advertising card for Dandy, a high-diving King Charles Cavalier and Cocker Spaniel mix, circa 1900 VIEW DETAILS Soviet-era miniature book about Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels VIEW DETAILS Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Swineherd," hand-colored miniature book VIEW DETAILS Terms of Sale

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Continue VISIT WEBSITE Arches Bookhouse OWNER: Adam McInturf Member since: 2022 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): arches@archesbookhouse.com 5032515383 5037587373 8900 N Wall Ave, Portland, OR, 97203, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

Limited Signed Edition. Le Visionnaire - Julien Green. Illustrated by André Marchand. PRICE £300.00 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Paris: Les Editions du Grenier A Sel, 1950. Limited edition in sheets. Total limitation 180; this being copy # 111. Printed on Velin de Lana. Front., 43 initials, 24 illustrations in the text and 13 plates. The text has been reworked compared to the original edition of 1934. This copy is signed by Marchand to the colophon. Slipcase, card folder, soft (stiff paper) folder printed in red, half title with colophon to verso, frontis and title. [viii], 9-324 pp.340 by 260mm (13½ by 10¼ inches). A very nice copy of this work, with charming illustrations. The slipcase is a little bumped, but still in good, strong, clean condition. The spine to the hardback folder is slightly darkened. The book itself is in excellent condition. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Harrison-Hiett Rare Books Limited Signed Edition. Le Visionnaire - Julien Green. Illustrated by André Marchand. See Item