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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

The Thirty Year Journal of Acedemic Papers

A Feast from the Far Reaches: Being a Compendium of Recipes Compiled for a Twelfth Night Banquet Held in Caid on January 16, AS XVI (1982)

Two Kingdom of the West Publications: Combat Standards Manual, Insert to The Page, April/May A.S. XXV/1991; and West Kingdom Art and Science III, Arts and Sciences Publication No. 3, A.S. XXVII

Outlandish Arts and Sciences, Volume II Numbers 3 and 4 (January and March 1978): Early Tudor Female Costume; Byzantine and Barbarian Costume; A Celtic Script; Tengwar for English; Gothic Capitals; Wide Bodied X-Chairs; A 14th Century Liturgical Script

Tournaments Illuminated, Six Early Issues: Numbers 25, 32, 33, 35, 36 and 38 (Winter 1972 - Spring 1976)

Chronicles of Dragonspire, Complete Set: Our First War Story; An SCA Wedding; An S.C.A. Divorce; Freaking the Mundanes; A Peculiar Sense of Propriety; Barony; Baron Butthead; with Unka Folo's Stories and Stuff

The Compleat Anachronist, Numbers 1-4 (July 1982 - January 1983): Medieval and Renaissance Eyeglasses; Selections from The Hammer, Parts I and II; Indoor Games, or How to While Away a Siege

1868-1993: 125 Jahre Pfarrkirche und Pfarrgemeinde Ensdorf (Saar). Festschrift zur Hundertjahrfeier 1868-1968 and Chronik der letzten 25 Jahre 1968-1993

Peter Shelton: sixtyslippers (MATRIX/Berkeley 177)

A. Lincoln: Railsplitter to Rushmore

Zwei Sonatinen fur Klavier (Two Sonatinas for Piano)

American Artist, Volume 30, Number 1, Issue 291, January 1966: Ivan Albright, Franklin Booth, Lewis Brown, 11th Annual Buyer's Guide

A Separate Peace: Moods & Setting. A Photographic Essay with Excerpts from the Novel by John Knowles '45

The Pilot's Mind and His Memory

Marine Life: Pacific Tidal Regions. 24 Subjects in Full Color

Porzellanmalerei - Moderne Techniken / Porcelain Painting - Modern Techniques: Zeichnungen, Entwurfe, Beispiele / Drawings, Designs, Examples

Our Island

Un Estilo Inconfundible / A Unique Style: Arte en Porcelana / Porcelain Art, Volumen I

The Map of Dreams (Meng de ditu)

La porcelaine francaise

Une certaine histoire d'amour

Bari d'altri tempi

Bari la zita me

Sandy's Sketches

Painting Fruit with Jayne Houston

The Joy of Luster in Porcelain Art (Rasuta de Tanoshimu Poserin Ato): The Techniques of Shining and Fantastic Porcelain Painting

34 Hit Parade Extras: Dixieland Song Folio

Reuzen ter Zee en in de Lucht

Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers

The Half-Share Man: Peter Folger of Nantucket, Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin

Hellcats over the Philippine Deep

Sumi-e

Portrait of London River: The Tidal Thames from Teddington to the Sea

The Acropolis of Athens

Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Prince

Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco

The Philosophy of Jnanadeva

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