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Chapman, Burton.   TELEPHONE ROAD, TEXAS: A HISTORY AND GUIDE TO TELEPHONE ROAD AND SOUTHEAST HOUSTON  
Friendswood, TX: Baxter Press, 2007. Reprint. 157 pages. Paperback. 1888237783 1-888237-78-3. History of the Telephone Road area, Hobby Airport, the many businesses, clubs & studios and the venerable Orange Show House that have made the area distinctive. B/w photos.
New/Wraps. New copies SIGNED by the author, a friend of the store. # Z1000. $17.95   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Chapman, Burton.   TELEPHONE ROAD, TEXAS: A HISTORY AND GUIDE TO TELEPHONE ROAD AND SOUTHEAST HOUSTON (SIGNED)  
Friendswood, TX: Baxter Press, 2007. Reprint. 157 pages. Paperback. 1888237783 1-888237-78-3. History of the Telephone Road area, Hobby Airport, the many businesses, clubs & studios and the venerable Orange Show House that have made the area distinctive. B/w photos.
New/Wraps. New copies SIGNED by the author, a friend of the store. # 29192. $16.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Christianson, Gale E.   IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CREATOR: ISAAC NEWTON AND HIS TIMES (THE EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Collect ed. 623 pages. Leather. Dark red leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. Life, work of the famous scientist and his impact on physics and mathematics. A few b/w illustrations. .
Fine/No Jacket. A tight, unmarked, apparently unread copy. # E4703. $55.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Chute, Marchette.   SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON (THE EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1988. Collect ed. 395 pages. Leather. Dark brown leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, owner name embossed on ffep. Minor imperfections in edge gilt. # E4710. $25.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Clark, Ronald W.   FREUD: THE MAN AND THE CAUSE (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1988. Collect ed. 652 pages. Leather. Red leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
VG/No Jacket. Straight, no wear. Embossed owner stamp on FFEP. Edge gilt imperfect. # E4681. $32.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Curie, Eve.   MADAME CURIE: A BIOGRAPHY (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Collect ed. 412 pages. Leather. Dark teal leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Three raised bands on spine. .
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear. Owner name embossed on preliminary page. # E4691. $24.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Freer Gallery of Art, .   FREER GALLERY OF ART: I CHINA (IN SLIPCASE)  
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. 184 pages. Hardcover. Preface by John A. Pope is a biographical essay of Charles Lang Freer. Explanation of the plates is by Thomas Lawton. There are 131 plates, mostly in full color. Includes very good slipcase. 15 inches tall.
Near Fine/Fine. Tight, no wear on book or dustjacket. Embossed owner stamp on title page. Minor discoloration on slipcase from rubbing against other books. # E0199. $24.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Hale, Leon.   PAPER HERO  
Fredericksburg: Shearer Publishing, 1986. 1st ed. 235 pages. Hardcover. 0940672367 0-940672-36-7. True first edition, first printing released by Shearer Publishing in 1986.
Fine/Fine. Tight, no wear, no marks. Price clipped from dustjacket flap. # E4696. $16.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Harrod, R.F.   LIFE OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1990. Collect ed. 674 pages. Leather. Dark blue leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. Minor imperfections in edge gilt. # E4692. $21.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Jacobs, Herbert.   FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: AMERICA'S GREATEST ARCHITECT (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Collect ed. 223 pages. Leather. Grey leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Three raised bands on spine. .
Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4690. $68.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Kaplan, Fred.   DICKENS: A BIOGRAPHY (THE EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Collect ed. 607 pages. Leather. Dark blue leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, color portrait frontis, ribbon marker. Four raised bands on spine.
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4707. $33.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Keller, Helen.   HELEN KELLER: THE STORY OF MY LIFE (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1988. Collect ed. 404 pages. Leather. Red-brown leather with gilt decoration and title, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Three raised bands on the spine.
VG/No Jacket. Tight, no wear. Owner name embossed on FFEP. Edge gilt has imperfections. # E4689. $18.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Lardas, Mark.   BONHOMME RICHARD VS SERAPIS: FLAMBOROUGH HEAD 1779, DUEL 44  
Reading: Osprey Publishing, 2012. 1st ed. 80 pages. Paperback. 1849087857 1-84908-785-7. Design/development of the ships, how the situation arose, analysis, and aftermath of the battle are all described. B/w and color illustrations and maps, bibliography and index.
New/Wraps. A new copy SIGNED by the author, a friend of our store. # 31282. $17.50   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Loos, Anita.   GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: THE ILLUMINATING DIARY OF A PROFESSIONL LADY (IN SLIPCASE)  
London: Folio Society, 1987. Reprint. 134 pages. Hardcover. Second Folio Society printing in bright yellow-gold cloth-covered boards illustrated front and back with drawings by ffolkes. ffolkes drawings scattered throughout text. Tan slipcase.
Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no marks. Slipcase also without wear. # E4695. $26.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Mabee, Carleton.   AMERICAN LEONARDO: A LIFE OF SAMUEL F.B. MORSE (EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1990. Collect ed. 435 pages. Leather. Brown leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Three raised bands on spine. Color portrait frontis. Life and work of the inventor Morse whose code and improvements to the telegraph transformed communications. B/w photos and diagrams. .
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, unmarked copy. # E4709. $29.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Mackenzie, Catherine.   ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: THE MAN WHO CONTRACTED SPACE (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Collect ed. 382 pages. Leather. Dark blue leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4701. $32.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Maurois, Andre.   DISRAELI: A PICTURE OF THE VICTORIAN AGE (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1990. Collect ed. 383 pages. Leather. Grey leather with gilt decorations and title, three raised spine bands, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis.
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, owner name embossed on preliminary page. # E4687. $24.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Pelling, Henry.   WINSTON CHURCHILL, COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES (THE EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Collect ed. 724 pages. Leather. Dark red leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. Life of the famed English statesman and historian. B/w photos and illustrations. .
Fine/No Jacket. Tight binding, unmarked, sharp corners. A very nice, apparently unread set. # E4705. $90.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Pringle, Henry F.   THEODORE ROOSEVELT: A BIOGRAPHY (EASTON PRESS LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1988. Collect ed. 627 pages. Leather. Red leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Four raised bands on spine.
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4699. $62.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Rodinson, Maxine.   MUHAMMAD (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Collect ed. 363 pages. Leather. Brown leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
VG/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, owner name embossed on preliminary page. Edge gilt imperfect. # E4686. $42.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Shipton, Anna.   SECRET OF THE LORD  
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1875. Reprint. 234 pages. Hardcover. Light moss-green with black decoration, front title in gilt rectangle. Small book, less than seven inches tall. Not dated, but circa 1875.
VG/No Jacket. Tight, square corners, no owner marks. # E4713. $28.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Sward, Keith.   THE LEGEND OF HENRY FORD (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Collect ed. 501 pages. Leather. Black leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Four raised bands on spine. .
Near Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear. Owner name embossed on preliminary page. # E4706. $45.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Terrill, Ross.   MAO: A BIOGRAPHY (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Collect ed. 481 pages. Leather. Red leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Three raised bands on spine. .
Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4688. $55.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Timoshenko, S., & D.H. Young.   ENGINEERING MECHANICS (FOURTH EDITION) IN TWO VOLUMES: PART ONE, STATICS; PART TWO, DYNAMICS  
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 19. 4th ed. 565 pages. Hardcover. Pages numbered consecutively through the two volumes. Drawings and diagrams throughout. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spines. Fourth edition of a classic of mechanical engineering.
VG/No Jacket. Books tight, square, owner name, light wear at spine ends. # E3056. $50.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Viator, Ray.   HOUSTON: SPACE CITY  
College Station: Texas A & M, 2019. 1st ed. 208 pages. Hardcover. 1623497728 1-62349-772-8. A photographic celebration of the city's historic ties to the U.S. space program. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.
New/New. A new copy. # 36832. $32.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Vogel, Donald and Margaret.   VELOX WARD  
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1972. 1st ed. 64 pages. Paperback. An essay and catalogue to accompany the retrospective exhibition of the works of Velox Ward presented at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and other museums around Texas. B/w photos and a few color plates.
Near Fine/Wraps. Two faint spots on back cover, else Fine. # B4786. $18.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Ybarra, T.R.   CARUSO: THE MAN OF NAPLES AND THE VOICE OF GOLD (THE LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES)  
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Collect ed. 315 pages. Leather. Golden tan leather with gilt decorations and title. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. Color portrait frontis. Three raised bands on spine. .
VG/No Jacket. Tight, no wear. Embossed owner stamp on preliminary page. Minor defects in edge gilt. # E4702. $17.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  
Young (editor), Charles H.   GRAPEVINE AREA HISTORY (TEXAS)  
Grapevine: Grapevine Historical Society, 197. 1st ed. 548 pages. Leather. Brown leather with embossed rectangle containing title, and spray of grapevine, grapes and leaves. Rear endpapers have space for family record and family tree. Map on titlepage. B/w photos throughout and index.
Fine/No Jacket. Tight, no wear, no owner marks. # E4712. $90.00   View This Item  Inquire Now  

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