Collectibles:
SHOWCASE BOOKS

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COFFEETABLE BOOKS certainly qualify as showpieces, conversation starters. But a few small publishers, such as Peter Pauper Press, Coach House Press, or Heritage Press, spent the energy to create books that it was a pleasure to hold and to read. Knopf did OK, but most publishers "streamlined" their operations and cut the "frills."

TYPES OF COLLECTIBLES

• Small Presses: limited editions, unique formats, early publications
• Poetry, an enduring tradition
• Old Technology (geek history)
• Older Literature
• Language books
• Showcase books
• Other

OVERSIZE BOOKS

• C.D.B. Bryan. The National Air and Space Museum.
• Christopher Chant. Warfare of the 20th Century. Armed Conflicts Outside the Two World Wars.
• A Lasting Tradition. The Studio Portraiture of Phillip Stewart Charis. Edited and text by Robert A. Sobieszek.
• Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two. A complete illustrated directory of German battle tanks, armoured cars, self-propelled guns, and semi-tracked vehicles 1933-1945. By Peter Chamberlain and Hilary L. Doyle. Technical Editor: Thomas L. Jentz.
• Natural History of Britain and Ireland. Photographs by Heather Angel.
• Arboretum Foundation. Cultivated Palate. The Arboretum Foundation Cookbook.
• Charles Bukowski. Shakespeare Never Did This. Photographs by Michael Montfort.
• Robert Crumb. R. Crumb's Head Comix. "Introduce Yourselves" by Paul Krassner.
• Diana C. du Pont. Point Counter Point. Two Views of 20th-Century Latin American Art. Exhibition foldout.
• Beatrice Farwell. The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848. Engravings, 8 color plates.
• Howard Fast. Literature and Reality.
• Le Grand Livre des Fleurs Séchées. Malcolm Hillier and Colin Hilton. French edition of The Book of Dried Flowers.
• Michael Jenkinson. Wilderness Rivers of America.
• Johnstone and Dodd. Aphrodisiac Foods. Eat Your Way to Ecstasy.
• Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. The Joy of LIFE (Magazine)
• Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Paperbound.
• Life Magazine. 4 issues 1944-1945
• Eli Luria. Travel Sketches, Arabian Nights Travel Adventure. Color cartoon sketches.
• Mauritshuis Dutch Painting of the Golden Age.
• Doug Mitchel. Harley-Davidson Rolling Sculpture. A Pictorial Celebration of the First 95 Years.
• Jake Rajs. Manhattan. An Island in Focus.
• Rick Smolan and David Cohen. A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. Photographed by 100 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on One Day in 1988. Paired with A Day in the Life of the United States on One Day.
• Surfing Wild Australia.

SMALLER SHOWCASE BOOKS

• Aesop's Fables. for Modern Readers.
• William Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience.
• Buddha. Sayings of Buddha. Wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna.
• Jules Feiffer. Tantrum.
• S.A. Mansbach. Standing in the Tempest. Painters of the Hungarian Avant-Garde 1908-1930.
• Dr. AirWair Martens with Bouncing Soles.
• National Geographic. Journey into China. Kenneth C. Danforth, ed.
• National Geographic. Nature's World of Wonders.
• National Geographic. Primitive Worlds: People Lost in Time.
• Wil Pietersen and Leidy Venekamp. The Hindeloopen Painter's Guide. A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Dutch Folk Art of Hindeloopen.
• An Uncensored Anthology. Peter Pauper Press.
• Steve Wall and Harvey Arden. Wisdomkeepers. Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders. White Deer of Autumn, editor.

MINIATURE BOOKS

• Abraham Lincoln. Speeches and Addresses.
• Mao Tse-Tung. Quotations from Chairman Mao. (the Little Red Book).

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WW II THIS WEEK

LEAD UP TO WAR
Days of Wrath. Malraux
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Map Room.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Rose Garden.
E. Roosevelt. Murder and the First Lady.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the West Wing.
Civilization on Trial. Toynbee

PACIFIC THEATER
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown.

EUROPEAN THEATER
Leon Uris. Mila 18.
The Last 100 Days. War in Europe.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW II.
Russia at War 1941-45.
The Battle for Rome.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
Pocket Book of the War.
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944. Warsaw Uprising
Psychology for the Fighting Man.

BACKGROUND
The Story Pocket Book.
The American Legion. 1919-1989.
4 Life Magazines 1944-1945

RADIO
Arch Oboler. 14 Radio Plays.
Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other
Free World Theatre. 19 New Radio Plays. Oboler/Longstreet.
Radio's Best Plays
Cooke. Just Passing Through.
How to Write for Radio.

AFTERMATH
Michener. Return to Paradise.

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday.
Isak Dinesen. 7 Gothic Tales.
Selected Poems of John Keats.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt.
John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong.
Zweig. The Royal Game.

VIDEOS ABOUT BOOKS
Joy of Life
Luria Travel Sketches
Jewel in the Crown
Hungarian Art
New Yorker 50's cartoons
Who Is Bookaholic?
Bollinger Bands
French Lithography
Designing with Flowers
Jerry Hall's Tall Tales
Blake drawings/Dante

THIS MONTH: WWII COVERS

Days of Wrath, Malraux
Murder and the First Lady
Murder in the Map Room
Murder in the Rose Garden
Murder in the West Wing
Civilization on Trial, Toynbee
Making of The Jewel in the Crown
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
We Were There at the Battle for Bataan
Mila 18, Uris
The Last 100 Days. WWII in Europe, Toland
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII
Russia at War 1941-45, Karpov
The Battle for Rome, Katz
Up Front, Bill Mauldin
Pocket Book of the War
American Servicemen in Britain
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944
WWII, James Jones
Navies of WWII
Psychology for Fighting Man
Story Pocket Book
The American Legion
Life Magazine. 4 issues 1944-1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Skinner
Green Dolphin Street
14 Radio Plays, Arch Oboler
Ivory Tower and Other, Arch Oboler
Free World Theatre, Oboler/Longstreet
Radio's Best Plays, Joseph Liss/Norman Corwin
Just Passing Through, Dwight Cooke
Best of Rob Wagner's Script, Rob Wagner
How to Write for Radio
Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower
Return to Paradise, Michener
Murrow interviews Oppenheimer

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton
Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen
Selected Poems of John Keats
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
My Family Right or Wrong, John Philip Sousa III
The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig