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Mission Hills Mid Century Time Capsule

Wed, Jul 31, 2024 01:00PM EDT - Wed, Aug 21, 2024 08:00PM EDT
Lot 301

Book Collection #2

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A hardcover four book slipcase edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Chicago Press, 1960. Treasures of The Library Of Congress. A two-volume hardcover slipcase edition of "Wildflowers Of The United States Volume 5: The Northwestern States, Harold William Rickett/McGraw Hill, first edition. Books on quantum mechanics, wave mechanics, nuclear physics. Pictorial histories of Stonehenge and Victorian Cemetery art. 1940's vintage pictorials on electric railways. Books on how to draw; perspective, anatomy, heads. Art books on Dali, Klee, Degas, Saul Steinberg. Fiction from G.K. Chesterton, Tolkien, Thomas Pynchon, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hardcover first edition (1943) of T. S. Eliot "Four Quartets". Vintage "How To Improve Your..." pamphlets from Wheaties Sports Federation on golf/swimming/archery/baseball. A large collection of modern and  vintage travel guides and histories, from old Chicago to "Old Saint Jo Gateway To The West 1799-1932" (Sheridan A. Logan, second edition, 1983, SIGNED) to San Diego on foot to national parks to the Pyramids. Condition ranges, from vintage fair/good to newer very good. More!

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