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Poortenaar, Jan (translated By Horace Shipp) Listings

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	1	Poortenaar, Jan (translated by Horace Shipp) An Artist in the Tropics Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company G/P in dust jacket; Large chips missing from spine edges and corners. Rubbing and soiling to DJ covers. Offsetting to feps. Spotting to top pages. Corners bumped a bit. ; Illustrations; 8vo Price: 36.00 USD
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	2	Beck, Horace FOLKLORE AND THE SEA Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press 1973 First Edition Hardcover VG+/NONE On front board a thin line running along spine edge is tinged with light rust color of cloth board ( book is bound in one quarter cloth with paper over boards) . Slip case is VG; there is some soiling and light bumping at its edges; but it is tight and solid. ; Photographs by Jane Beck. Limited First Edition (in slipcase) signed by the author, of which this is number 364 of 500. Numbered and signed on colophon. ; American Maritime Library; B&w Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 463 pages Price: 40.00 USD
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	3	Kallen, Horace M. LIBERTY, LAUGHTER, AND TEARS Reflections on the Relations of Comedy and Tragedy to Human Freedom De Kalb Northern Illinois University Press 1968 Hardcover VG/VG- Signed by Author Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Very light edgewear/rubbing; top textblock slightly yellowed. Dust jacket: light edgewear/rubbing; very light soiling; spine, front panel nearest spine, and top edge of front panel sunned. ; Inscribed by author on dedication page.; 8vo; 402 pages; Signed by Author Price: 14.40 USD
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	4	Dunbar, Horace MARCY'S MILL and the Men who Winnowed the Facts San Diego Privately printed by Watson-Jones 1944 Hardcover G/NONE Illustrated by Hedden Johnson Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends, boards slightly warping outward at corners, waterstain to lower edge of text block, light foxing to edges and endpapers. Protected in mylar jacket, which is yellowed and soiled and edgeworn. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo; 92 pages Price: 9.60 USD
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	5	Aristotle (translated by Benjamin Jowett and S. H. Butcher, intro. by Horace M. Kallen) POLITICS & POETICS Norwalk, Connecticut Easton Press 1979 First Edition Thus Hardcover VG+/NONE Illustrated by Leonard Baskin Full green brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering, all edges gilt, four raised bands on spine, peach moire silk endpapers, satin marker ribbon. Publisher's bookplate with previous owner name to half-title.; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 4to; 331 pages Price: 25.00 USD
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	6	Dobbs, Horace E.; foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales SNORKELLING AND SKINDIVING An Introduction Oxford Oxford Illustrated Press Ltd. 1976 0902280376 / 9780902280373 Hardcover VG/NONE Illustrated black paper-covered boards, corners bumped, edges rubbed with several small scuffs in paper, rubbing and several light indentations to covers, textblock edges slightly yellowed. ; B&W Photographs; 4to; 96 pages Price: 12.00 USD
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	7	Haydn, Joseph; continued and indexed by Horace Ockerby (new preface by Norris and Ross McWhirter) THE BOOK OF DIGNITIES [Haydn's Book of Dignities 1894] Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co. , Inc. 1970 0806304316 / 9780806304311 Hardcover VG/VG Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, mild soiling and foxing to text block edges, label stain to ffe, blindstamp to half-title. Dust jacket protected in removable, clear, mylar sleeve; edges worn with a few small tears (longest is 1"), slightly sunned and soiled. ; 8vo; 1170 pages Price: 65.00 USD
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	8	Clay, Horace F. ; and James C. Hubbard THE HAWAI'I GARDEN Tropical Shrubs Honolulu University Of Hawai`i Press 1987 First Paperback Edition Softcover VG/NONE Some very light rubbing/wear to wraps; light edgewear and some light bumping at corners. ; Color photographs by Rick Golt. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 294 pages Price: 19.20 USD
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	9	Clay, Horace F. and James C. Hubbard THE HAWAI'I GARDEN: TROPICAL EXOTICS Honolulu University Press of Hawaii 1977 0824804651 / 9780824804657 First Edition Hardcover VG-/P Illustrated by Rick Golt White cloth spine and olive cloth-covered boards, musty smell, hard bump to lower rear corner, other corners and spine ends gently bumped, light foxing to text block edges and to first/last pages. Dust jacket: only front panel and front flap and spine remain, now protected in removable, clear, mylar sleeve; this remnant is scuffed and edgeworn, but still presents a reasonably nice cover for the front of the book, and all front flap text (incl. price) is intact. ; Color Photographs; 4to; 267 pages Price: 11.20 USD
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	10	Gregory, Horace THE WORLD OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER A Portrait of the Artist Against the Backdrop of His Period New York Thomas Nelson & Sons 1959 First Edition Hardcover VG/VG Blue cloth pictorial boards, minor bumping to spine/corners, top edges faded, light soiling to top of text block. Minor fraying/creasing, light soiling. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 255 pages Price: 10.40 USD
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