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Louisiana:

Abbot, F. A. . SKETCHES IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SCOTLAND AS THEY ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN LETTERS TO THE NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE
NY 1858 Wynkoop, Hallenbeck. 8vo., 116pp., original light bluegreen cloth. Owner signed. VG, minor foxing. Not in Smith. (a19546)
$200.00 Robinson, Ray . CAJUN TALES OF THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS
Houma 1984. 8vo., 156pp., illus., wraps. VG. (a24127)
$30.00 Carter, Hodding . JOHN LAW WASN'T SO WRONG THE STORY OF LOUISIANA'S HORN OF PLENTY
Baton Rouge 1952. 8vo., 105pp., photo illus., stiff wraps. VG plus. (a31925)
$20.00Konczal, Michael and Gerald Flannery. DEFAMATION LAW IN LOUISIANA, 1800-1988
1989 1st edition. University Press of America. red cloth octavo., 149pp, hardcover. Fine, no DJ. (a3251)
$89.00 Wilds, John . JAMES W. PORCH AND THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
1984 1st Schwartz. 8vo., 133pp., photo illustrations, index, hardcover. near Fine in near Fine DJ (dj spines a bit faded). No ownership marks. (a3257)
$22.00Hammond, John Martin. WINTER JOURNEYS IN THE SOUTH
Philadelphia 1916 1st Lippincott. Pen and Camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the Blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida Palms to the pines of Virginia. 8vo., 262pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth.Top edge gilt. Fine. no ownership marks, no dj. (a3290)
$25.00 Nolte, Vincent . FIFTY YEARS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE LIFE OF A FORMER MERCHANT
NY 1854 first edition. Redfield. Hardcover. Long chapters on a shipwreck, on New Orleans, Napoleon's Defeat at Waterloo and its effect on himself and other seafearers, the election of Andrew Jackson, the 1848 Revolt in France. 8vo., 484pp., original cloth hardcover. Howes 7440. Good, small bit of light foxing, wearing along spine ends and along one inch of outer hinge. (a3485)
$33.00 Tate, Donald J. . AS THEY SAY IN MISSOURI A CLOSER LOOK AT THE AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY'S PROGRAM FOR JUDICIAL SELECTION
New Orleans 1964. 8vo., 33pp., wraps.wraps. 33p. On the occasion of the 1964 Louisiana Conference on Judicial Selection and Tenure. Owner signed. Good, light soiling. (a40399)
$35.00(law). IN MEMORIAM JUDGE ALVIN BENJAMIN RUBIN
Baton Rouge 1992. Complete issue of Louisiana Law Revew, Volume 52, No. 6, July 1992. Sm.4to., pp.1358 - 1606, wraps. VG. (a45051)
$38.00 (college yearbook) . CHACAHOULA 1968 - NORTHEAST LOUISIANA STATE COLLEGE AT MONROE
Monroe 1968. Northeast Louisiana State College, Monroe, Louisiana. Hardcover. large4to., 336pp., illustrations, printed hardcover. Near Fine, no ownership marks. (a45766)
$49.00Cadman, Charles Wakefield. DARK DANCERS OF THE MARDI GRAS, FANTASY FOR ORCHESTRA WITH PIANO
NY 1938 Affiliated. Study score (music only). Sm.4to., 51pp., printed wraps. Review copy. A few small ink numbers on front. VG. (a50002)
$45.00 Lester, John . I'LL TAKE NEW ORLEANS (signed)
New Orleans 1948 Bachelor House. Poetry about New Orleans. Sm.8vo., 126pp., illustrations by Tilden Landry, pictorial endpapers, hardcover. Book designed by Bob Riley. **Inscribed and signed by Lester, Good, light wear to spine ends, no DJ. (a50882)
$44.00Hecht, R. S.. AROUND THE FACE OF THE GLOBE
New Orleans (c. 1952) Upton. World tour taken to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Wet Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Ceylon, India, Burma, Indo-China, Japan, Formosa . 8vo., 199pp., original wraps. Good plus, edges a bit frayed. (a58990)
$33.00 (womer) . TRENDS IN LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
New Orleans 1954 1st Newcomb College, Tulane University. 8 articles by various authors including Avery Craven, Blanche Weaver, Lawrence Frank and Lynn White Jr.8vo., 144pp.., original printed wraps. VG. (a59103)
$45.00 Roark, Garland . THE CRUEL COCKS
NY 1957 1st Doubleday. Fiction about cock fighting in Louisiana. 8vo., hardcover. Near Fine, inch depression on lower edge of front cover, in VG DJ, light wear and fraying of spine ends. (a59416)
$34.00Bornstein (Boernstein), Heinrich ; Patricia A Herminghouse (herau). FUNFUNSIEBZIG JAHRE IN DER ALTEN UND NEUEN WELT - MEMOIREN EINES UNBEDEUTSENDEN (1881) BAND 1. and 2. ISSN 0741-2096
NY 1986 first edition. Peter Lang. two hardcover octavo volumes. ISSN 0741-2096. Herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung in englischer Sprache von Patricia A. Herminghouse. Travels by a German in the southern United States, especially Mississippi and Louisiana . In German. Octavo, 448p, 445pp., bright blue cloth spine with pale blue clothcovered boards. VG plus, no wear but slight toning of text. no ownership marks. no DJs. Two volume set complete. (a61090)
$125.00 Browne, Turner . LOUISIANA CAJUNS CAJUNS DE LA LOUISIANE
Baton Rouge 1977 1st Louisiana State. Introduction by William Wills. Text in English and in French. 4to., about 50 full page monochrome photo illustrations, hardcover in original clear acetate Dust Jacket with printed lettering in blue and yellow ink. Fine in VG DJ, a few tiny chips and one short closed tear. (a61854)
$24.00Goldman, Marcus I.. DEFORMATION, METAMORPHISM, AND MINERALIZATION IN GYPSUM-ANHYDRITE CAP ROCK SULPHUR SALT DOME, LOUISIANA
1952. Geological Society of America memoir 50. Octavo, 169pp., illustrations, red cloth hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Goldman. Good, corners bumped, no DJ. (a62715)
$29.00Woods, Frances J.. VALUE RETENTION AMONG YOUNG CREOLES
Lewiston 1989 1st edition. Mellon. Hardcover. Octavo, 146pp., blue cloth with silver lettering. Fine. no owner marks , no dj as issued. (a64409)
$35.00 (lottery tickets) . 10 ORIGINAL LOTTERY TICKETS FOR THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COM 1889 AND 1890
5-3/4 x 2 inches each, Colorful. VG. Group of 10: (a76691)
$90.00Johnston, Mr. of Lousiana. SPEECH (IN CONTINUATION) OF MR. JOHNSTON OF LOUISIANA: THE RESOLUTION OF MR. FOOT OF CONNECTICUT RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC LANDS
Washington 1830 Gales & Seaton. Octavo, 76pp., original stringbound wraps. Good, edges curled, light soiling. (a78589)
$35.00 Lynn, Stuart M. . NEW ORLEANS
NY 1949 Bonanza. Sm.4to., 168pp., 150 fine photo illustrations of New Orleans with text, index, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a8269)
$20.00Cruise, Boyd.. SIGNOR FARANTA'S IRON THEATRE
New Orleans 1982 1st Historic New Orleans Collection. True story of a ten-cent family theatre in New Orleans in 1880s. Ltd to 1000 copies.Hardcover. Sm.4to., 144pp., some photo illustrations, cloth. VG plus, no DJ. (mu79)
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