(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)

(B-026892) Nicklaus, Jack and Bowden, Ken. My Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 505 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. ISBN: 0684836289 (Golfers)

(B-026302) Lingat, Robert. The Classical Law Of India. Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 305 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. For many centuries the Hindu population of the Indian subcontinent has largely observed a legal system derived from the Dharmasastra, or 'science of righteousness, ' the indigenous holy law of the land. ISBN: 0520018982 (Hinduism, India)

(B-026296) Lincoff, Gary, and Mitchel, D. H. Toxic And Hallucinogenic Mushroom Poisoning: A Handbook for Physicians and Mushroom Hunters. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 267 pages. Fine in Very Good+ DJ. B&W Illustrations, Color Photographs. Small printed name sticker with name blacked out on front pastedown. DJ lightly foxed. ISBN: 0442245807 (Poisonous Mushrooms, Toxicology)

(B-026651) Marshall, George N. A. Powell Davies And His Times. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1990. 1st Edition?. Hardcover. 8vo. 263 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Davies (1902-1957) was a Welsh minister whose calling took him from a tiny Methodist pulpit in Maine to the widely visible All Souls' Unitarian Church in Washington, DC. ISBN: 1558961720 (Davies, A. Powell, Unitarian Church)

(B-026711) Stover, John F. History Of The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ. Press, 1992. 4th Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 419 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ has edgewear and two small chips. ISBN: 0911198814 (Baltimore And Ohio)

(B-026714) Worster, Donald. Rivers Of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 402 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Small rubber stamped name on front endpaper. ISBN: 039451680X (Water Resources, Water Supply, Western States)

(B-026730) O'Malley, Patricia Trainor, and Tedesco, Paul H. A New England City: Haverhill, Massachusetts: An Illustrated History. Northbridge, CA: Windsor Publications, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. 127 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Small rubber stamped name on front endpaper. ISBN: 0897812182 (Haverhill, Massachusetts)

(B-026710) Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 359 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Small rubber stamped ink name on front endpaper. DJ price clipped. ISBN: 0684145650 (Pennsylvania)

(B-026707) Pomfret, John E. Colonial New Jersey: A History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 327 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Small rubber stamped name on front endpaper. DJ price clipped. ISBN: 0684133717 (New Jersey)

(B-026670) Behnke, Leo, editor. Impromptu Magic From The Magic Castle. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 235 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Magic Castle Library Series. The first volume in the Magic Castle Library Series.. ISBN: 0874771358 (Conjuring)

(B-026655) Childs, Herbert. An American Genius: The Life or Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 576 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Name rubber stamped on front endpaper, on the last page of the book and on the bottom edges . Lawrence ( 1901-1958) earned a Ph.D. at Yale University and taught physics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1929, where he built anddirected (from 1936) its radiation laboratory. In 1929 he developed the cyclotron, with which he accelerated protons to speeds high enough to cause nuclear disintegration. He later produced radioactive isotopes for medical use, instituted the useof neutron beams to treat cancer, and invented a colour- television picture tube. He worked with the Manhattan Project, converting the Berkeley cyclotron to separate uranium-235 by mass spectrometry. For his invention of the cyclotron, he was awarded a 1939 Nobel Prize, (Lawrence, Ernest O., Physicists, Cyclotron)

(B-026653) Grant, Nellie. Nellie's Story. New York: William Morrow And Company, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 326 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. With a memoir by her daughter Elspeth Huxley. Biography of Elspeth Huxley's mother Nellie who lived in the East African Protectorate (Kenya) and was a farmer and gardener. With her husband, Jos, she emigrated in 1912. In the 1950s whe witness the terrifying events of the Mau Mau revolt. ISBN: 068800475X (Grant, Nellie, Kenya)

B-026648) Lourdaux, W, and Verhelst, D., eds. Benedictine Culture, 750-1050. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven Univ. Press, 1983. Softcover. 8vo. 239 pages. Very Good with no DJ. Contains papers in German, French, and English . Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series I, Studia XI. ISBN: 9061861446 (Monasticism, Catholic Church)

(B-026616) Bland, Bill. Yourowquains, A Wyandot Indian Queen: The Story of Caty Sage. Elk Creek, VA: Published By The Author, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 266 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Biography of Caty Sage, a white woman born in 1787 into a pioneer family who lived on Cripple Creek in Southwestern Virginia. Caty lived to be sixty-six, and all but the first five of those years she lived as a Wyandot Indian. As the wife of the head chief of the Wyandot nation she became a Wyandot Indian Queen. ISBN: 0963413309 (Sage, Caty, Wyandot Indians, Virginia)