CATALOG OF DOVER BOOKS

PIANO TUNING, J. Cree Fischer. Clearest, best book for beginner, amateur.
Simple repairs, raising dropped notes, tuning by easy method of flattened fifiths._No
previous skills needed. 4 illustrations. 201pp. 5«x 814. 23267-0 Pa. $5.95

A SOURCE BOOK IN THEATRICAL HISTORY, A. M. Nagler. Contemporary

observers on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, stage props,■

design, from Ancient Greece to Chekhov. 611pp. 5И x 814. 20515-0 Pa. $11.95

THE COMPLETE NONSENSE OF EDWARD LEAR, Edward Lear. All nonsense
limericks, zany alphabets, Owl and Pussycat, songs, nonsense botany, etc.,
illustrated by Lear. Total of 320pp. 514 x 814. (USO) 20167-8 Pa. $5.95

VICTORIAN PARLOUR POETRY: An Annotated Anthology, Michael R.
Turner. 117 gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, many lesser-known poets.
“The Village Blacksmith,” “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight,” "Only a Baby
Small," dozens more, often difficult to find elsewhere. Index of poets, odes, lust
lines, xxiii + 325pp. 514 x 8«. 27044-0 Pa. $8.95

DUBLINERS, James Joyce. Fifteen stories offer vivid, tightly focused observations
of the lives of Dublin's poorer classes. At least one, "The Dead,” is considered a
masterpiece. Reprinted complete and unabridged from standar:d edition. 16iOpp.
51/16x8«. 26870-5 Fa. $1.UU

THE HAUNTED MONASTERY and THE CHINESE MAZE MURDERS,
Robert van Gulik. Two full novels by van Gulik, set in 7th-century China, continue
adventures of Judge Dee and his companions. An evil Taoist monastery, seemingly
supernatural events; overgrown topiary maze hides strange crimes. 271*1“s5at*°"s'
328pp. 514 x 8«. 23502-5 Pa. $7.95

THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE,

translated by S. MacGregor Mathers. Medieval manuscript of ceremonial magic.

Basic document in Aleister Crowley, Golden Dawn groups. 268pp. 514 x 8«.

1"Ь i3. ^/.УЭ

NEW RUSSIAN-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY, M. A.
O'Brien. This is a remarkably handy Russian dictionary, containing a surprising
amount of information, including over 70,000 entries. 366pp. 4« x 6«

20208-9 Pa. 58.95

HISTORIC HOMES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, Second, Revised
Edition, Irvin Haas. A traveler's guide to American Presidential homes, most open
to the public, depicting and describing homes occupied by every American
President from George Washington to George Bush. With visiting hours, admission
charges, travel routes. 175 photographs. Index. 160pp. 8« x 11. 26751-2 Pa. $10.95

NEW YORK IN THE FORTIES, Andreas Feininger. 162 brilliant photographs by
the well-known photographer, formerly with Lije magazine. Commuters, shoppers,
Times Square at night, much else from city at its peak. Captions by John von Hartz.
181pp. 9« x 10«. 23585-8 Pa. $12.95

INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE, William Tomkins. Over 525 signs developed by
Sioux and other tribes. Written instructions and diagrams. Also 290 pictographs
111pp. 6« x 9«. 22029-X Pa. $3.50

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THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783, A. T
Mahan. Influential classic of naval history and tactics still used as text’in war
colleges. First paperback edition. 4 maps. 24 battle plans. 640pp. 514 x 8«.

25509-3 Pa. $12.95

THE STORY OF THE TITANIC AS TOLD BY ITS SURVIVORS Jack
Winocour (ed.). What it was really like. Panic, despair, shocking inefficiency’, and a
little heroism. More thrilling than any fictional account. 26 illustrations. 320pp.
5ii x 8ii- 20610-6 Pa. $7.95

FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY, William Butler Yeats
(ed.). Treasury of 64 tales from the twilight world of Celtic myth and legend- "The
Soul Cages," “The Kildare Pooka,” "King O'Toole and his Goose," many more.
Introduction and Notes by W. B. Yeats. 352pp. 5« x 8«. 26941-8 Pa. $7.95

BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS, E. B. Cowell and Others (eds.). Superb,
accurate translations of basic documents in Mahayana Buddhism, highly important
in history of religions. The Buddha-karita of Asvaghosha, Larger Sukhavativyuha
more. 448pp. 5« x 8«., 25552.2 Pa 7J9 g¿

ONE TWO THREE . . . INFINITY: Facts and Speculations of Science, George
Gamow. Great physicist's fascinating, readable overview of contemporary science:
number theory, relativity, fourth dimension, entropy, genes, atomic structure,
much more. 128 illustrations. Index. 352pp. 5H x 8& 25664-2 Pa $8 95

ENGINEERING IN HISTORY, Richard Shelton Kirby, et al. Broad, nontechnical
survey of history's major technological advances: birth of Greek science, industrial
icn n UOn’ eleCtridtV anc* аРР*‘е(1 science, 20th-century automation, much more.
181 illustrations. ". . . excellent. . .”—Isis. Bibliography, vii + 530pp. 5« x 8«.

26412-2 Pa. $14.95

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