Eureka Books of CA
426 2nd Street,
Eureka,
CA 95501 USA
707-443-9562
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Down That Pan American Highway $19.50 Description: Poor jacket. 352 pages. The author traveled 3231 miles from Laredo, Texas, to Panama City and is claimed to be the first to venture over the entire Pan American Highway at the time of his journey. Photographs in black-and-white by the author. 11 x 9 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a poor dust jacket with tears and small chips. Read More
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$132.00 Description: 376 pages. Two folding maps, numerous photographic plates. A general statistical and historic guide to Argentina, with sections on indigenous peoples, the weather, boundary disputes, and even the wine industry. First edition. A presentation copy inscribed to Eliodoro Villazon, who served as the president of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913. An uncommon book with a great provenance. Attractively bound in half red morocco and red cloth, with gilt decoration on the spine and marbled endpapers. Some minor ... Read More
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Paths Less Travelled: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Exploration $19.50 Description: 168 pages. Read More
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Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century $22.00 Description: 238 pages. This book recounts the story of how interracial vice districts were formed and reconstructs the social experiences of the people who inhabited them. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and ... Read More
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Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes $44.50 Description: 358, 335 pages. Two volume set. This special edition was published for members of 'The Heirs of Hippocrates Library. ' First edition thus. Near fine in quarter leather and cloth covers with gold decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. Silk page marker ribbon present. Slight scuffs to pages edges, else fine. Read More
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My Life: Autobiography of Havelock Ellis $44.50 Description: 647 pages. This book was originally published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1939. First edition thus. Near fine in green quarter leather and cloth covers with gold decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon page marker present. Slight scuff to bottom front edge of gold pages. Read More
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Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes From My Two Villages $22.00 Description: Perfectly pristine ingredients, combined sensibly and cooked properly, are the unmistakable hallmarks of the best Italian food. Chef Mario Batali, known to fans far and wide as "Molto Mario" from his appearances on television's Food Network and as chef of New York's much-loved Pó restaurant, has elevated these simple principles to fine art, creating innovative new fare that pays tribute to traditional Italian home cooking in a distinctly modern way. Now, for the first time, more than 200 of his ... Read More
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The New Poetry: an Anthology of Twentieth-Century Verse in English $57.00 Description: Very Good jacket. 624 pages. This is the 'New and Enlarged Edition' copyright 1923. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket with chips missing from spine top and bottom and edges, largest is 1' x 5/8ths' at spine bottom. Scarce in dust jacket. Read More
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The Development of Embroidery in America $57.00 Description: 152 pages. Numerous examples in black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition (first printing) with 2 letter code 'E-V' on copyright page. A very good copy in tan paper over boards and and black cloth covers. Pasted color illustration on front cover. Title in gilt lettering on spine. TEG. Frontispiece illustration. Additional B/W and color illustrations. Waterstaining to lower page edges. Scuffing to covers with edge and corner wear. Front hinge cracked but binding tight. No dust ... Read More
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