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Cover of the first edition of Bayles' Seven Were Hanged (1945)
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Seven Were Hanged (1945)
$150.00
Dust jacket of the first edition of Taylor's Economy for Epicures (1943)
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Economy for Epicures (1943)
$60.00
Cover of the first edition of Winged Words (1941)
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Winged Words (1941)
$125.00
Dust jacket of the first edition of Sackville-West's The Women's Land Army (1944)
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The Women's Land Army (1944)
$200.00
Dust jacket of the first edition of Kessel's Army of Shadows (1944)
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Army of Shadows (1944)
$125.00
first edition of Hersey's Into the Valley (1943)
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Into the Valley (1943)
$75.00
the second printing of Paul's Farewell, France! (1941)
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Farewell, France! (1941)
$75.00
the first edition of Heath's Kitchen Front Recipes (1941)
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Kitchen Front Recipes & Hints (1941)
$350.00
dust jacket of the first edition of Good Food in War Time (1942)
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Good Food in War Time (1942)
$150.00
wartime edition of The New Garden Encyclopedia with the Victory Garden supplement (1945)
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The New Garden Encyclopedia (1945)
$275.00
dust jacket of the first edition of the Museum of Modern Art's Britain at War (1941)
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Britain at War (1941)
$150.00
dust jacket of the first edition of Lehmann-Russbueldt's Hitler's Wings of Death (1936)
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Hitler's Wings of Death (1936)
$250.00
dust jacket from the first edition of Mills' Cooking on a Ration (1943)
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Cooking on a Ration (1943)
$350.00
the first edition of Hackett's What Mein Kampf Means to America (1941)
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What Mein Kampf Means to America (1941)
$750.00
the first edition of Ernie Pyle in England (1941)
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Ernie Pyle in England (1941)
$275.00
dust jacket of the first edition of Sackville-West's Country Notes in Wartime (1940)
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Country Notes in Wartime (1940)
$250.00
dust jacket of the first edition of Wolf's Our Children Face War (1942)
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Our Children Face War (1942)
$350.00
Dust jacket of the first edition of Flannery's Assignment to Berlin (1942)
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Assignment to Berlin (1942)
$175.00
the first edition of Olds' Helldiver Squadron (1944)
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Helldiver Squadron (1944)
$125.00
Limited first edition of La Liberation De Paris (1944)
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La Liberation de Paris (1944)
$150.00

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Rare books are heirlooms. They follow us through houses and families and generations.
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When the World Is a Mess...

We are given this wonderful gift--the ability to read and imagine. I'm going to keep reading and I'm going to keep selling books, because I truly do believe that history matters. Even (or perhaps especially) when you're living through it.
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