Rare Stampin
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Rare Stampin
Rare Stampin
God Forbid & Stampin' Ground UK tour 2001 behind the scenes
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Ol Stampin Grounds and Other Poems (1905) $38.44 Author: Smiley, Howard Dwight Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2009/04/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inches |
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Rare Breeds $49.99 David Nockels Rare Breeds - Giclee Print |
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On Rare Birds $22.48 In this beautifully illustrated book, Anita Albus recounts the sad histories of several extinct bird species, including the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, and the great auk. She offers a detailed account of six rare birds: the hermit ibis, the elusive corncrake, the Eurasian nightjar, the barn owl, the northern hawk owl, and the kingfisher. Her unique blend of natural history and investigative reporting weaves together mythological and cultural information and, above all, tells a compelling story. Complemented by Albus's own superb artwork, "On Rare Birds "shows that the extinction of these bird species is a great loss not only to the natural world but also to human culture. This passionate and provocative book will appeal to all those who love birds and care about their survival. Anita Albus is an award-winning writer and artist based in Munich and Burgundy. She is known for her detailed nature paintings as well as for her essays, stories, and writings on art history. Her books include "The Art of Arts, The Botanical Drama, The Garden of Songs, "and "The Botanical" "Spectacle." Her prizes include the Medal of Honor from the Federal Republic of Germany (2001). |
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A Rare Find $3.94 How does a rule-abiding, accomplished woman fall for a rebel college dropout? It's something rare-books curator Penelope Bigelow is still trying to figure out Regardless of what logic she tries to use, the proof remains that when celebrity chef Nicholas Rheinhardt is around, her composure takes a vacation. With all the reunion festivities, it's hard to avoid him...especially since he needs her expertise in antiquities for an upcoming episode of his cable travel show. Too bad the past isn't what Penelope's focusing on when she's with Nick. There's more to him than his infamous reputation--and that intrigues her. Penelope isn't looking for perfection...even though Nick's coming very close |
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Rare Exports - Sign $12.49 Rare Exports - Sign - Masterprint |
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Rare Exports - Santa $9.99 Rare Exports - Santa - Masterprint |
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Rare Exports - Group $9.99 Rare Exports - Group - Masterprint |
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A Rare Chance $3.95 Gabriella Starr has silk suits, champagne tastes, and a great new career. She also has a strange man following her around Boston. Two of them, actually. When she tries to chase down the first, she encounters the second -- ex-cop and new D.A. Cam Yaeger. He's sure she's in trouble, but Gabriella bristles when he offers to help. She's way too attracted to him, and it's not like her to go for law-enforcement types anyway. She's far too independent, too naturally defiant. And she's spent too many nights in jail.... Cam Yeager likes cold beer, his Bruins sweatshirt, and shaving every other day. He knows all about Gabriella Starr, her eccentric father, and their years rescuing rare, endangered orchids no matter the stakes. Now something shady is going on in Boston. And something explosive is hovering on the horizon as well: the wild fireworks of two intense opposites falling in love.... |
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A Rare Thing $21.39 A Rare ThingA Rare Thing is a story of redemption and forgiveness. In the small New Mexico town of San Carlos in the 1950s and 60s, a motherless Chicano youngster, Javier Jimenez, finds himself forced into manhood by circumstances not of his own choosing. The boy's father, Nicolas, a Korean War veteran who earned his singular moment of glory when he was awarded the military's Medal of Honor, loves and cares for his son dearly. But as he drinks himself into the depths of alcoholism, he struggles through life wallowing in self-pity.Javier tries his best to cope not only with his own loneliness but the day-to-day hardships of living with an alcoholic father. Nicolas finds his sobriety when he meets Ramona at a local bar. He marries her, thinking that will fulfill his needs, but his hopes are short lived, soon discovering he can't escape his loneliness.Into this setting enters Deborah Perkins. She moves into Javier's neighborhood. Deborah's father, fascinated by Southwestern culture, chose where his family was to live. Javier and Deborah eventually fall in love, much to the chagrin of Deborah's mother, who doesn't' share her husband's fondness for the area's culture and believes her daughter can do much better than what she thinks Javier has to offer.Tragedy strikes, and Javier moves to California to live with an aunt and uncle. Deborah and he struggle to continue their relationship despite the distance and Deborah's mother's prejudices. Confused and unsure of his future, Javier leaves college to join the Army and ends up in Vietnam, where he sees his fellow soldiers dying every day.Reminiscing about his father, he must face his own mortality, as he grapples with his own identity. Nicolas's spirit appears at a critical moment with words to give Javier strength. Contemplating the real possibility of his death and that he may never see Deborah again, he reconciles with himself, gaining strength from visions of his father as a good man who had more than his share of bad luck. Javier comes to grips with whether he has forgiven him for his frailties and failure as a parent. |
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Rare Birds $3.95 What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way. Dan Bessie begins the journey through his family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed Atlantic. What follows are stories of his grandfather's various entrepreneurial schemes (including a folding butter box business), a grandmother who was voted "New York's Prettiest Shop Girl" (and who resisted the recruitment efforts of various city madams), and his uncle Harry's Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles (a renowned puppet theater drawing patrons as diverse as Shirley Temple, Ray Bradbury, and Albert Einstein). Through inherited journals and literary effects, Bessie comes to a new understanding of his father, Alvah. An actor and writer, he fought in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. When he returned to the States, he headed to the Warner back lots to begin a screenwriting career. But as congress began investigating radicals in the film industry, Alvah was blacklisted for his Communist sympathies and was soon sent to jail as one of the Hollywood Ten. His grandmother's cousin, Sidney Lenz, wrote Lenz on Bridge, a classic guide to the game of contract bridge. Bessie describes what was billed as the Bridge Battle of the Century, a 1931 match between Lenz and an upstart opponent that was covered by journalists from all over the world. Bessie's brother-in-law Wes Wilson designed rock and roll posters for the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco during the 1960s, living a counterculture existence vastly different from the bridge-mad Depression Era. Cousin Michael was heir to the compulsive storytelling characterizing many of the Bessies. He found his niche in publishing, co-founding the Atheneum Press and shaping books by people such as Anwar Sadat, Edward Albee, and Aldous Huxley. With an equally impressive career, Uncle Leo built the country's fifth largest advertising agency. A passion of a different sort led cousin Phoebe Snetsinger to travel from Webster Groves, Missouri, to the far corners of Africa and Asia. The world's leading birder, she sighted 8,400 different birds-nearly 85 percent of the species known to exist. An extraordinary strain of creativity runs through the Bessie and Burnett clans, and Rare Birds celebrates the colorful diversity of a remarkable and accomplished family. While their choices and professions run the gamut of the American experience in the twentieth century, the history of the nation can be traced in these people's lives. Bessie's passionate birds of a feather |
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Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths $245.05 Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths compiles information from scattered sources that is often available only to specialists. It provides a complete and usable survey of the rare earth resources, extraction, and production of numerous end products that translates to both laboratory and industrial settings. This book is a source of industry expertise and objectives that integrates a wide spectrum of scientific backgrounds. It presents the latest developments in rare earth extraction, production, and processing technology, design, and procedures in the preparation and purification of rare earths from minerals and ores to useful compounds and alloys. |
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Medium, Rare $9.68 What happens when a suburban housewife befriends a renowned psychic? In this dual memoir, self-proclaimed "soccer mom" Kelly O'Rourke Johns recalls her other-worldly journey of friendship and self-discovery as she works to write the life story of renowned psychic channeler, Debra Yeager. |
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A Rare Benedictine $3.95 Finally, Brother Cadfael's many fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order Lavishly illustrated, these three tales show Cadfael at the height of his sleuthing form. "Three classic stories featuring Brother Cadfael . . . whose powers of deduction are practically miraculous."--Booklist. |
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Stamped Out (A Stamping Sisters Mystery) $1.86 First in the Stamping Sisters mystery series. Featuring small-town stampers who are sure to leave their mark.A professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls, April Buchert is back home in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, helping her father restore the famous Winchester mansion. But when a human skull tumbles out of the rubble, all eyes are on Aprils father, who oversaw the constru... |
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Inked Up (A Stamping Sisters Mystery) $1.89 Halloween is scarier than ever in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, when professional rubber stamper April Buchert discovers a dead body in a "haunted" corn maze. The police suspect the victim's husband murdered her, but April knew the couple, and she and the Stamping Sisters are determined to find the real killer before he catches another in his murderous motif.... |
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