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Some Magic at the Dump.

By: Bye, Reed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Song Birtd Editions / Angel Hair Books, (1978). First edition. One of an edition limited to 500.:

Seller ID: 5577fd

Octavo, softbound, 56 pp. Fine. African-American literature.
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Fairfax County, Virginia, A History.

By: Netherton, Nan; Sweig, Donald; Artemel, Janice; Hickin, Patricia; Reed, Patrick.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fairfax, Virginia: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 50479bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 780 pp. Very Good+, with neat former-owner inscription; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping.
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Treasury of Maori Folkore.

By: Reed, A. W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, (1974).:

Seller ID: qms615

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 491 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine & lightly rubbed edges. From jacket: The majestic sweep of Maori tradition moves through the pages of this book; here, for the first time, is a full collection of the myths, legends, and religious beliefs of the New Zealand Maori. Maori folklore and legend has its own peculiar quality, being closely allied to nature in all its manifestations, and with a depth of thought and of religious feeling which is an important part of the Maori life. No other book has attempted to make ...
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Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies, from Parrots to Bluebirds.

By: Reed, Chester A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.:

Seller ID: 5151fd

Oblong 24mo, flexible brown illus. boards, 228 pp + ads. Full-color illustrations. Very Good+, with neat former-owner inscription and light rubbing to boards; in original, torn slipcase.
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Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946.

By: Reed, Merl E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, (1991). First Edition, First Printing.:

Seller ID: 1863mls

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 384 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket jacket. From dust jacket: During World War II, influential black leaders, tired of discrimination in the defense industries and segregation in the armed forces, called for a massive demonstration of protest in the nation's capital. Concerned that the proposal 1941 March on Washington Movement would spark a racial violence, embarrass the government, or possibly even fracture the Democratic party, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, creating the President's Commi...
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The Bird-Nest Boarding House. Illustrated by Oliver Herford.

By: Reed, Verbena.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922.:

Seller ID: 51236ns

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, illustrated endpapers, uncut, 228 pp. Upper hinge (interior) cracked; otherwise, bright, tight and attractive. Numerous illustrations. From Prologue: There's a green path that leads to the country where the little creatures of this story live. You must tip-toe soft-ly and knock gent-ly at the gate of their city. For it is walled about with caution, and sentinels are stationed on watch-towers to give warning at the first far-off approach of a mortal enemy. The coun-ter-sign that may win you ad-mit-tance to their joys and sorrows, their fest-...
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The Sea for Sam. Edited by F. C. Brown and Charles M. Breder, Jr. Illustrated by Wilfrid S. Bronson.

By: Reed, W. Maxwell and Wilfrid S. Bronson.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1935). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 12573scs

Large octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 360 pp. Illustrated with plates, in full-colour and black & white. Very Good+, with light edgewear, in a Good+ dust jacket with chipping along edges and to spine. From jacket: To most of ust the ocean means salt water, waves, seaweed and an uncertain percentage of fish. Yet actually the ocean is full of mystereis, involving a field of science which is staggering in its immensity and implications. It is a gigantic problem to compress between two covers even a brief summary of the science of the ocean...Yet this book gives us a rea...
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The Annotated Clerihew. Brief Lives by Paul Horgan. Effigies by Joseph Reed. Introduction and Notes by W. Leeming.

By: [Leeming, W.]. Horgan, Paul; Reed, Joseph.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut: The Piratical Primrose Press, 1984. First Edition.:

Seller ID: bas25

16mo; stiff, string bound white cardstock covers; blue cardstock dust wrapper; paper label; 35 pp + 4 pp Index. Fine (As New). From Introduction: In an enterprise not unsuggestive of ambition so blithe as to summon up an almost unbecoming daring, the American literary figure Mr. Paul Horgan here proposes once again his own further essays in the genre of the clerihew, the original creator of which, Mr. E. C. (lerihew) Bentley, in yielding to a schoolboy impulse, brought into being a whole new dimension of the English comic jingle to which his middle name gavie its distinguishing designation....
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Author:Reed, A. W