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Holiday Book Haul

 


Before Christmas I went to my favorite secondhand bookstore, where I also got those vintage postcards from an earlier post. On that trip, I got some books for loved ones as gifts. So I haven’t posted them before just in case someone checked this blog. 



Degas by Camille Mauclair 







A Beachcombers Botany- Essays and comments by Loren C. Petry & Illustrations and Captions by Marcia G. Norman


The Poems of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Hiroshima by John Hersey






Theater & Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage by Frederick Brown







Finding of Jasper Holt by Grace Livingston Hill Second Edition






A Journal of Faith and Love: Mother’s Memories to Her Child by Thomas Kinkade





Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales by Ludwig Bemelmans. With an introduction by Anna Quindlen.  




The Seven Ages of Frank Lloyd Wright by Donald W. Hoppen


Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water: The House and Its History by Donald Hoffmann

116 illustrations. With an introduction by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Second Revised Edition  





The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The complete texts of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. New Translation by Paul Roche



Love and the English by Nina Epton First Edition




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