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Pacific Rim Used Books started selling books on the internet in 1995 as a part of "The Business" , a bricks-and-mortar store .
The Business, founded in 1978 by Glen Des Jardins and now owned by Nick Rennis, continues to serve Anacortes
and online customers via its selection of fiercely independent new music.
Thanks to all our customers who have made 25 plus years of online book selling worth while.

Glen Des Jardins


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The Birth of NASA

The Diary of T. Keith Glennan

17455 1993 first edition, Signed by the author, Hardback with 389 pages, ISBN 0160419360.
Very good. A few vertical pencil marks in the margins in early pages. In a lightly worn dust wrapper.
Inscribed and signed to artist Dick Van Wagoner on 12/18/93.
There are a few b&w photos, illustrations an index and a list of NASA publications.
Also included is a folded 8.5 x 11 funeral program for Glennan on April 18, 1995.
NASA, aerospace, aviation, autobiography $100


One of the few loud arguments I heard from my parents as a kid was when my dad discovered my mother had thrown
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Shakespeare 16 Volume Set

17257 Shakespeare, William, The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited By William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, in 16 Volumes George Barrie & Son Circa 1899 Good condition. Volume 10 has a 1 inch gouge on the front cover. Light shelf wear and soiling. This set is copy # 481 of 500 printed on Japanese Vellum Paper, bound in dark blue cloth "silk? "...with 171 engravings on steel after the Boydell Illustrations; and sixty-four photogravures Chiefly from life" The Interlinear edition. Literature, limited editions $300


Happy Endings

17310 Henry, Hazel, editor Happy Endings AAUW South Lake Tahoe Branch Circa 1980s? Rings Very good. Cookbook 5.5 x 4.25 inches, many pages (1/2 inch + thick) of recipes. Cookbook, AAUW, Lake Tahoe, Nevada $20


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A Miner's Copper Business Card

15376 Hall, Ernest R., Ernest R. Hall business card on thin copper, Ernest R. Hall circa 1940s? Good. 3.5 x 1.75 inches, the business card of Ernest R. Hall, gold, copper, barite properties in Salome, Arizona. Salome "Where She Danced." Mining, Ephemera, Salome, Arizona $25
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16447 The Bison Hotel, Fargo, North Dakota, Circa early 1950s? 4 pages, Good. 9 x 12 inches,
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16864 Zi-Chang, Tang, Fundamentals Of Chinese Culture 3 Volumes:

Poems of Tang
Principles of Conflict
(Has blotter tissue for the chop)
Wisdon of Dao
(Has blotter tissue for the chop)

Hardbacks bound in silk with leather spines, clear plastic wrappers, all in slip cases. Author chop on all title pages.
T. C. Press 1969, Good condition. Lightly worn slip cases. Plastic dust wrappers - wrappers have some wrinkles.
Tang poetry, wisdom of Dao, Taoism, Principles of conflict a rewrite of Sun Zi's "Art of War".
Includes the original 10 x 7 inch prospectus. $800