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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Vancouver City Guide 1923-1924: Complete Street Directory with All Intersecting Streets, Street Car Routes, etc. and Miscellaneous Information

The British Isles: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - Edition for 1948

Wheat Gems: Wheat Recipes by Oregon Wheathearts

The Presumptuous Dreamers: A Sociological History of the Life and Times of Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915). Volume One, 1834-1871

Scientific Alteration of Women's Apparel

Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan: Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art - Japanese-language publisher's brochure

Adventures of Benjamin Beetle [Play]

Sea Frontiers, Bulletin / Magazine of the International Oceanographic Foundation - seven issues, 1960-1963

A Brave Little Tomboy: A Play of the Revolution

Modern Chinese Commemorative Gold and Silver Coins and Medals Pictorial, Vol. 2, 1988-1990

French Folk Art: An Exhibition Organized by the French National Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Concerning Christopher: Fun with a Parrot

Clark County Boys in Blue

The Woods of Wicomico

Edward Gordon Craig: A B I Books Catalogue of 338 Items

The G.-Albert Petit Collection of Angling Books. Christie's South Kensington, 8 October 1999, Sale BKS-8635

Jack London & His Circle: The Collection of Donald Bauer, Sale 368

The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots

Alicia Austin: A Collection of Limited Edition Fine Art Prints 1990

Oaks of California

Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California

Indian Uses of Native Plants

The Riemann Approach to Integration: Local Geometric Theory

Oregon Estuaries

Speaking in Cloth: 6 Quilters, 6 Voices

The California Quail

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror (3 Volumes, Complete)

Peckerneck Country: The Selected Poems of Walt Curtis

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Tales of Del Norte County

The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2

Early Days of the Olympic Peninsula in Photographs, From The Collection Of Bert Kellogg: Indians

Le Viandier de Taillevent: 14th Century Cookery. Based on the Vatican Library Manuscript

The Medieval Gourmet

The Best of A Watched Pot

The "Libro de Cozina" of Master Ruperto de Nola, 1529 Edition: Full English Translation with Commentary

Iron Dream of Camelot: The Society for Creative Anachronism Inc. From a Backyard Paean to Chivalry To an International Neo-Monarchist Authoritarian Cult

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

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