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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Black-Robed Samson: The Story of Peter De Smet, S.J., The Apostle of the Indians

All About Budgerigars: A Concise but Comprehensive Treatise on Housing, Management, Breeding and Exhibiting, with Notes on Colour Varieties and their Reproduction

Rowlandson's Drawings for a Tour in a Post Chaise

Bears & Theirs: A Book for Bear Lovers

The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe l'Oeil Tradition in American Painting

Port Economics

Cordage and Cables: Their Uses at Sea

Compass Work: Notes for the M.O.T. Examinations

Electricity and General Magnetism: Illustrated Notes for Masters and Mates

Badal: Knocknarea Writers' Anthology

The Dragon Who Giggled: A Playlet for Children in One Scene

Chan Yu: The Absence of Self and the Presence of Images

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume I: The Hsiao Ching

War and Art: Destruction and Protection of Italian Cultural Heritage during World War I

Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgita

Florence: A Map of Perceptions

Hearst Castle Fare: Featuring Authentic Recipes Served in Hearst Castle

Old Forts of the Southwest: Second in a Series on Historical Western Military Posts 1850-1890

Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects

Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads

We Come From The Sea

Vanishing Americana

Orange County and Life Before Disneyland: The Story of the World Famus Belisle's 1955-1995

Lessons in Lightness: The Art of Educating the Horse

Esteban Vicente

Esteban Vicente: The Garden Paintings

Space Odyssey: The Art of John Little (1907-1984)

Norman Kanter: Early Paintings

Esteban Vicente

Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family

Ignaz Friedman: Romantic Master Pianist

Around the World with Mom, Dad and Punkin

California's Gabrielino Indians

Art West: The Foremost Western Art Journal, Volume VI, Issue Five, July/August 1983

The L.A. Art Show: October 5-7, 1990, The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Festival '80: Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, A Presentation of Exhibiting Artists for the Year 1980

The Redfern Gallery: Seventh Annual Small Painting Exhibition 2000

John Moran Auction Catalogues: California and American Paintings, 1992-1998

Selected California Paintings: Sale 2124P, October 12, 1989

American Art Review, Volume IX, Number 3, May-June 1997: The Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail

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