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Recent Arrivals from The Curiosity Book Shop
B . . .was for Butter and Enemy Craft
by Evelyn M. Richardson
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1976
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- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780919380226
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- 1
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€30.76
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Halifax, Nova Scotia: Petheric Press Limited, 1976 Color card covers. The personal experiences of a family on the coast of Nova Scotia and their contributions to the war effort. Light-to-moderate wear overall, including faint vertical rippling to front cover. Faint cover soil. Short handwritten notation about the author's death written below dedication. Interior otherwise intact and clean. Item Price
€30.76
Mining Methods and Costs at the Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
by Julius Kruttschnitt & V.I. Mann
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1937
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- Soft cover
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€18.64
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University of Michigan Library, 1937 Glossy card cover REPRINT from the collection of the University of Michigan Library. Containing information originally published in 1937, this volume is produced from digital images created at the library. The original document was Information Circular 6978 produced for the Department of the Interior, Bureau ofMines. Location sketch and all figures are reproduced. Clean,… Read more about this item Item Price
€18.64
Immortal Life: How It Will Be Achieved
by Stephens, M.D., Charles Asbury
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- Used - Very Good +
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1920
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- Hardcover
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€28.43
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Norway Lake, Maine: The Laboratory, 1920 Dark red cloth; gilt title and spine lettering. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with drawings (figures) of brain and other living cells, presumably by the author. Exploration of topics such as: Human Personality in Relation to the Ether of Space; The Intimate Causes of Old Age and Organic Death; Where is Spirit-Land?; and The… Read more about this item Item Price
€28.43
Writings of the Luddites
by Kevin Binfield, Editor
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 2004
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
- ISBN
- 9780801876127
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€41.94
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Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 Light gray cloth. Following a historical overview of the Luddites, the editor examines more closely their rhetorical strategies while illuminating the literary contexts of their writings. Documents are presented in three sections--Midlands, Northwestern and Yorkshire. Bibliography in rear. Faint short crease to upper front flap of dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight, and… Read more about this item Item Price
€41.94
A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku
by Shoson [Kenneth Yasuda]
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First U.S. Edition
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- 1947
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€65.24
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947 Green cloth; embossed cover illustration of exotic plant in rectangular planter; gilt spine lettering. Published simultaneously in Canada by The Ryerson Press. Translations of classic and modern Japanese poems in Haiku form, together with some original Haiku written in English. Foreword by John Gould Fletcher. Upper and lower edges of cover cloth lightly-to-moderately darkened.… Read more about this item Item Price
€65.24
The Sandy River & Its Valley
by Vincent York
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- Used - Poor
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- Ex-Library
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- 1976
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- Soft cover
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€20.50
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Farmington, Maine: Knowlton & McLeary Comapny, 1976 Illustrated glossy card covers. Map inside front cover of Sandy River System "shows how Townships have superimposed themselves on the Watershed." With black-and-white illustrations. Text prepared under advices of Ernest Cummings Marriner , L.H.D. Colby College historian, who wrote the Foreword. READING COPY ONLY with all information present but with library marks… Read more about this item Item Price
€20.50
The Maine Sonnet Writing Tradition: A Resource Guide for Teachers and Students
by Nancy Merrow and H.R. Coursen
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- Used - Very Good +
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- 2001
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- Original Wraps
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€13.98
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Maine: Self-published, 2001 Illustrated stapled card covers. Funded through a New Century Arts and Heritage grant from the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Humanities Council. Second printing. Five poets and their sonnets are discussed in Part One. Part Two provides history of the form and hints on sonnet writing. Clean, intact, and unworn. Item Price
€13.98
The Book of Case Remedies: A Manual Covering Preclear Difficulties and Their Remedies--CLEARING SERIES, VOLUME 11 [2] Expanded Edition
by L. Ron Hubbard
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- Used - Good -
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- 1971
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- Soft cover
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€20.97
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Los Angeles: The American St. Hill Organization, 1971 Glossy card covers; plastic comb binding. Preface states that this volume becomes, "with Ron's H.C.O.Bulletins of 9 November 1967 and 13 January 1968, a new book and a new technical breakthrough. This expanded edition contains all the material of 1964. It also releases new technology resulting from upper level discoveries… Read more about this item Item Price
€20.97
42 Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
by Peter Gill
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 2011
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781907616129
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€97.86
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London: Beautiful Books, 2011 Color illustrated matte card covers. In "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" it was revealed by Douglas Adams that the answer to life, the universe and everything is . . . forty two. Over the . . . years since his early death the genius that created the joke has maintained Douglas Adams' reputation as one… Read more about this item Item Price
€97.86
Memoirs of a Bullfighter [Bull Fighter]
by Conchita Cintron
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Very Good -
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- First U.S. Edition
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€29.82
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 Textured vinyl cloth; gilt cover illustration (bull) and spine lettering; illustrated endpapers. Published simultaneously in Canada. Sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs. Introduction by Orson Welles. One of the twentieth century's most renowned and respected woman bullfighters traces her life and career on three continents and offers insights and revelations into… Read more about this item Item Price
€29.82
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H.Gebhard
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- Used - Good+
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- 1970
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- Mass Market Paperback
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€32.62
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New York: Pocket Books, 1970 The "Kinsey Report," based on surveys made by the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. Fifth Pocket Books printing. First published 1953 by W.B. Saunders Company. With figures, charts, and graphs. Light-to-moderate cover edgewear; light diagonal crease to lower rear cover; very faint cover soil. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn. Item Price
€32.62
Particle-Lung Interactions
by Peter Gehr & Joachim Heyder, Editors
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- Used - Very Good +
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 2000
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- Hardcover
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- 9780824798918
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- 1
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€51.26
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New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000 Laminated boards. Volume 143 in the Lung Biology in Health and Disease series edited by Claude Lenfant. Wide-ranging, comprehensive reference presenting the latest developments in aerosol science and interactions between particles and the respiratory tract--utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. It contains the work of more than 40 internationally recognized experts. With black-and-white figures and… Read more about this item Item Price
€51.26
Rheology and Texture in Food Quality
by Edited by J.M. DeMan, Ph.D., P.W. Voisey, V.F. Rasper, Ph.D., & D.W. Stanle,Ph.D.
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Jacket
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- Ex-Library First Edition
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- 1976
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
- ISBN
- 9788750551973
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€46.60
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Westport, Connecticut: Avi Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 From the Preface: "No longer is it satisfactory to deal with texture on a commodity basis. Food scientists are increasingly concerned with relating food texture to basic physical properties, standardizing measuring methods and instruments, and relating physical properties to the results obtained by sensory evaluation." Illustrated with… Read more about this item Item Price
€46.60
The Chicken Book
by Page Smith and Charles Daniel
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- Used - Good+
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- Good
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- Ex-Library First U.S. Edition
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- 1975
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€27.96
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975 Green cloth; gilt cover decoration (rooster) and spine lettering. Decorated endpapers with repeating rooster pattern. With chapters on the origin of the chicken, chickens in fable and other writings, and the chicken in various historical settings, from ancient to modern times. Final chapters are "On Keeping Chickens,"--a step-by-step guide-- and "The Culinary… Read more about this item Item Price
€27.96
Missing Men: The Return of Cheri-Bibi
by Gaston Leroux
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1923
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€41.94
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New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923 Gray cloth. Cover title lettering formed with bone-shaped fragments. Published in England under the title "Cheri-Bibi and Cecily." Black-and-white frontispiece illustration by George W. Gage. Features Leroux's popular recurring character, the convict, Chéri-Bibi. Varying levels of wear to extremities, with light rubbing to spine tips, moderate rubbing to front cover corners, and cloth worn… Read more about this item Item Price
€41.94
Zakladni typycastic mesicniho regolitu z Luny 16 (More Hojnosti-Mare Fecunditatis) [Basic types of lunar regolith particles from Luna 16 (Sea of Abundance-Mare Fecunditatis)]
by Alena Cimbalnikova and Marie Palivcova
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- Used - Very Good-
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- Ex-Library First Edition
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- 1975
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€69.90
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Prague: Academia, 1975 Forward and Introduction in Czech only. Thereafter contents and all photograph plate captions are in Czech, Russian, and English. Detailed descriptions of geologic features of rocks and particles collected from the moon's surface, accompanied by numerous photograph text plates in black-and-white and color. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Spine moderately sunned. Tiny spot stain to rear cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
€69.90
Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation
by Edited by: David H. Ellis, George F. Gee, & Claire M. Mirande
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- Used - Very Good -
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- Good +
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1996
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- Hard Cover/Cloth
- ISBN
- 9780160486388
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- 1
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€35.42
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Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior/ National Biological Service & International Crane Foundation, 1996 Black cloth; gilt title, spine lettering, and decoration. Color illustrated endpapers. Sixteen color plate illustrations. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Many graphs, charts, figures. Author of a couple of sections wrote a personal inscription to prior owner underneath his photo on page 39.… Read more about this item Item Price
€35.42
Pharmaceutical Inhalation Aerosol Technology
by Edited by Anthony J. Hickey
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- Used - Very Good +
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- No Jacket
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- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9780824742539
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€51.26
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New York: Informa Healthcare, 2010 Laminated boards. Volume 134 of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Sciences series by this publisher. Second edition, Revised and Expanded. India Special Edition. "[P]rovides authoritative discussions on the physiological, pharmacological, metabolic, molecular, cellular, and physiochemical factors influencing the efficacy and utilization of pharmaceutical aerosols and analyzes the latest science and developments. . ." With many black-and-white… Read more about this item Item Price
€51.26
Dylan to English Dictionary
by A.J. Weberman
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- Used - Very Good -
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- 2005
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- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9781419613388
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€27.96
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New York: Yippie Museum Press/BookSurge, LLC, 2005 Glossy illustrated card cover. A new look at the poetryof Bob Dylan, with a vocabulary of about 600 words. "Dylanology. . . is exclusively concerned with digging behind the text of Dylan's poetry to find the subtext." Two Appendices and Endnotes at rear. Light-to-moderate wear along cover edges; light scuffing to… Read more about this item Item Price
€27.96
Hand Knits by Beehive: Socks for Men, Women and Children
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- Used - Very Good -
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- 1944
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- Original Wraps
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
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€19.11
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New York: Patons & Baldwins, Inc., 1944 Staple-bound illustrated light card cover; 34 page book of knitting patterns and instructions, along with black-and-white photographs showing finished products. Beehive Book No. 127, distributed by Royal Society, Inc. Prose accompaniment is old-fashioned ("Any man goes soft and romantic over the little woman who makes socks 'just for him.'" ) but patterns… Read more about this item Item Price
€19.11
