(B-026159) Bernstein, Jeremy. Dawning Of The Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 319 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. The story of the roots of the British Empire in India and of the man who planted them. ISBN: 1566632811 (Hastings, Warren, India)

(B-026011) Fleay, David. Nightwatchmen Of Bush And Plain: Australian Owls and Owl-Like Birds. Brisbane, Australia: Jacaranda Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 163 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Photographs. (Owls, Australia)

(B-014552) Davis, Martin. The Greatest of Them All: The Legend of Bobby Jones. Greenwich: The American Golfer, 1996. Hardcover. Folio. 200 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. Classic photography of Jones (1902-1971) and with essays by Dave Anderson, Ben Crenshaw, Peter Dobereiner, Nick Seitz, and Larry Dorman. Original reporting by Bernard Darwin, O. B. Keeler and Grantland Rice. (Jones, Bobby, Biography, Golfers)

(B-013852) Fukuoka, Masanobu. The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming. Emmaus: Rodale Press, 1978. 4th Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 181 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ stretched and has a small coffee stain at the bottom tip of front panel. A practical and philosophical book about farming, diet,health, cultural values, and the limits of human knowledge. ISBN: 0878572201 (No-tillage, Organic Farming)

(B-026778) Fukuoka, Masanobu. The Road Back To Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost. New York: Japan Publications, Inc., 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 377 pages. Near Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs. Front edges slightly foxed. Author of the highly acclaimed The One-Straw Revolution and The Natural Way of Farming, Fukuoka is one of the foremost agricultural thinkers of our age and shows why and how we should stop our ecological war on nature. ISBN: 0870406736 (Farming, Ecology)

(B-026829) Von Klass, Gert. Krupps: The Story Of An Industrial Empire. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1963. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 436 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Top protruding cover edges lightly bumped . Krupps was a famous armament manufacturing firm founded in 1812.

(B-026842) Symons, Julian. The General Strike: A Historical Portrait. London: Cresset Press, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 259 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ has some discoloring on the rear panel. A history of the General Strike on 1926 in Great Britain. During nine ominous days volunteers drove buses and railway trains, teams of undergraduates worked in the docks and special constables were enrolled in tens of thousands. (Strikes, Labor)

(B-000152) Beaumont, Roger. Sword of the Raj: The British Army in India, 1747-1947. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 237 pages. Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ shows a bit of fading. (Great Britain, India)

(B-026546) Fox, James M. The Scarlet Slippers. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 214 pages. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Some foxing along inside hinges. DJ has light edgewear. A Johnny and Suzy Marshall mystery. When an old-time copy goes wrong, there's the devil to pay for anyone who crosses his path.

(B-026526) Andrews, Mrs. Lewis R, and Kelly, Mrs. J. Reaney. [Maryland's Way] The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book. Annapolis, MD: Hammond-Harwood House Assoc., 1966. 12th Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 372 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Ink gift inscription on front endpaper. (Hammond-harwood Hou, Maryland, Cookery)

(B-026512) Krauss, Bob, and Alexander, W. P. Grove Farm Plantation: The Biography of a Hawaiian Sugar Plantation. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1966. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 400 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. (Sugar Plantations, Agriculture)

(B-026395) Elkins, Sharon K. Holy Women Of Twelfth-Century England. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. Of North Carolina, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 244 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. The first systematic study of the most creative and expansive phase of women's religious life in English history. Monasteries for women multiplied from approximately a dozen at the beginning of the 12th century to ten times that many at its close. ISBN: 0807817759 (Monasticism, Women, Hermits, England)

(B-026394) Compton, Arthur Holly. Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1956. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 370 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Five pages toward the rear of the book have some wrinkling along the very outer edge of the pages. DJ slightly rubbed and spine slightly faded. The author was director of the Metallurical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project and a major participant in the research which led to the production of the atomic bomb. (Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project)

(B-026393) Smith, Simon J. and Bee, Fanna K. Canaan--Garden Spot By The Cuttacochee, 1818-1968. Bessemer, AL: Canaan Baptist Church, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 229 pages. Very Good with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Red cloth with gold lettering. Ink owner name and information on where she purchased the book on front endpaper . History of Canaan Baptist Church. (Alabama, Baptist Church)

(B-026345) Moore, Kevin Z. The Descent Of The Imagination: Postromantic Culture in the Later Novels of Thomas Hardy. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1990. Softcover. 8vo. 319 pages. Very Good with no DJ. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Tight and clean. ISBN: 0814754996 (Hardy, Thomas, Romanticism, England)

(B-026337) Coloquhoun, Kate. A Thing In Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton. London: Fourth Estate, 2003. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 307 pages. Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. Signed by Author. Signed by the author on the title page under her printed name. Another non-author gift inscription neatly done at top of title page . Paxton was head gardener at Chatsworth, and encouraged by the Duke of Devonshire, he set about transforming the Derbyshire estate into the greatest garden in England. ISBN: 0007143532 (Paxton, Joseph, Gardeners, Great Britain)

(B-026316) O'Boyle, Ita. Gertrud Von Le Fort: An Introduction to the Prose Work. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 106 pages. Very Good in Good+ DJ. DJ lightly rubbed with two small price stickers on front panel. Thin skin of paper pulled away from inside of DJ has adhered to the front cover cloth at upper corner . Von le Fort is a German writer whose work has been compared favorably with Isak Dinesen, Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac. Her perennial theme is the great Christian paradox of attainment in sacrifice, accomplishment in retirement, life in death. Many of her tales are situated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Von Le Fort, Gertru)

(B-026305) Knox-Shaw, Peter. The Explorer In English Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 236 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. ISBN: 0312277636 (Explorers, Travel)

(B-026570) Taylor, Frank J, Welty, Earl M, and Eyre, David W. From Land And Sea: The Story of Castle and Cooke of Hawaii. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 288 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. Samuel Castle and Amos Cooke arrived in the Sandwich Islands in 1837 as lay members of the " Seventh Reinforcement" of missionaries in Hawaii. Castle became the business agent for the missionary contingent and Cooke became head of the Royal School whose pupils included five future Hawaiian monarchs. Castle & Cooke started as a humble business partnership in 1851 with a general store and later expanded to sugar, shipping and pineapple and eventually to bananas, seafood and other lines to become a worlwide leader in the food industry. ISBN: 0877010811 (Castle, Samuel N., Cooke, Amos Starr, Business, Food Industry)

(B-026893) Palmer, Arnold, and Dodson, James. A Golfer's Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 420 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. ISBN: 0345414810 (Golfers)