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Lot 156 - Grouping of Four Antique and Vintage Books Including "The Microscope and Its Revelations" By William B. Carpenter, "They Called It Purple Heart Valley" By Margaret Bourke-White, "The Encyclopedia of Ufos," And "A History of Secret Societies"
Lot 156 - Grouping of Four Antique and Vintage Books Including "The Microscope and Its Revelations" By William B. Carpenter, "They Called It Purple Heart Valley" By Margaret Bourke-White, "The Encyclopedia of Ufos," And "A History of Secret Societies"
Grouping of four antique and vintage books. "The Microscope and Its Revelations" by William B. Carpenter is a hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt spine lettering; "They Called It 'Purple Heart Valley': A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy" with text and photographs by Margaret Bourke-White was published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1944, and is a second printing hardcover without dust jacket; "The Encyclopedia of UFOs," edited by Ronald D. Story with consulting editor J. Richard Greenwell, is a first edition hardcover published by Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1980; and "A History of Secret Societies" by Arkon Daraul is a paperback published by Pocket Books, New York.
The Carpenter volume shows wear at the spine ends and joints with toned pages and many loose and damaged pages. The Bourke-White volume shows soiling and wear to the cloth binding. The Daraul paperback has heavy creasing, edge tears, and chips to the covers.