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Soft Cover. Etat : Fine. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-89865-405-X. 156 pages.

Hardcover. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration, all edges are tinted purple; color illustrated frontispiece; 215 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Issued in a color illustrated slipcase. Contents include: Foreword; Preface; The Methods; The Shapes and their Makers; Designers and Artists; Collecting; Victorian; Edwardian; Twenties and Thirties; Ephemera; Acknowledgements; Biscuit Making Firms; Selected Bibliography; Index to Text and Plates. VG/VG (light scuffing to slipcase. Book is like new, very clean and clear. Binding tight.). …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing (No Additional Printing Indicated). Includes Index And List Of Illustrations. Red Wraps With White And Black Lettering On The Spine. Light Fading To The Cover.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; SIGNED by author of half-title ; ISBN 9780898652017, 0898652014 ; OCLC 9080972 ; LCCN 82023455; LOC No BF1472.U6 D42 2000 ; Dewey 133.1/09758/724 ; Color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Savannah and the Georgia coast, with its old plantations, huge ancient oaks hung with Spanish moss, and tales of pirates, wars, fevers, African voodoo, and other supernatural doings, has always been a legendary and tragically romantic place. In this book, antebellum estates, house museums, long-conquered forts, and restored townhouses are visited with a noted psychic investigator in order to learn what it is like to live and work in these places today. The result is some seventy stories, skillfully interwoven with the heritage of the area's colorful past, and illustrated with over thirty photos and sketches by local artists. Incidents of precognition, extrasensory perception, deja vu and possible reincarnation are included in this personal and highly readable account of a search for the deeper meaning of life and death through psychic experience." ; Contents: The door opens - The man with a knife - Reflections on a mixed blessing - The restless past: shadows in a new house - Seance at the Pirates' House - Coldbrook:Can this plantation be saved? - That House on east St. Julian Street - Willie and Nellie:a love story - The case of the missing marbles - Grove Point Plantation: rumors of war and piracy - The faithful nurse of the Old Pest House - The house on Victory Drive - To catch a ghost, try a drawing - The message on the chimney - Crashing a seance - The most beautiful house in America - Mary Telfair's Museum - A spectral cat at the Davenport House - A rocking ghost at the Scarborough House - The Doll Museum's uninvited guest - The haunted Rectory - The presence in the church - Unrequited love at the 17Hundred90 - Ghosts a la carte - A house on Monterey Square - A determined Victorian presence - Uncle Wilbert, the loyalist ghost - The ghosts of Fort Pulaski - Remebering Major Gallie - Full moon at Fort Screven - The presences on the parade ground - Ghost-hunting at Race Path School - Brief encounters: a few more Savannah ghosts - The girl in the bathroom - The scent of roses, the swiss of taffeta -- The chill on the stairs - The calculating ghost on West Perry StreetThe woman in the bedroom - Animals, ghosts and ESP - Shades of the men in grey - A Children of PRide ghost story - THe girl who came back - The woman in the chair - The littl ehouse that is now at peace - Deja vu at Candler Hospital - An evening with a psychic - A Savannah House of Usher - The phantom Tunderbird - Bonaventure: the most elegant graveyard - The honest ghost of Greenwich - The haunted library - Sunlight and shadow at Colonial Cemetery - Echoes from Laurel Grove Cemetery - Memories of a shipbuilder - The psychic life of John Wesley - Who is Lady Huntingdon, and why is she walking at Bethesda? - The possessive presence at the Pink house - Closed encounters of the spectral kind on Jones Street - Enough ghosts on which to build a reputation - Shadows on the brick - Through the eyes of children - Sometimes they want to help you - A few more selected Savannah ghosts - Long-distance farewells : premonitions of death - Flowers from the dead - To lay a ghost - Reincarnation: the second chance? - ESP: A bond across time and space - Such stuff as dreams are made of - Rapping with the spirits - A spectral jest - The man who cursed Savannah - Spectres: in conclusion" ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Full Leatherette. Etat : Fine. First Edition. A fine copy, other than lacking the slipcase, of this thorough and beautiful pictorial survey of collectible British biscuit tins, most of which were created to be collected and used by their buyer long after this delectible edibles had been consumed. Oblong quarto. 27 by 33 cm. 215 pp. Over 300 colored illustrations of highly decorative biscuit tins from Huntley and Palmer, MacFarlane, etc. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. No dustjacket, boards very good with few light scuff marks and depressing to top and bottom of spine, internally appears generally clean and good.

hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.