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From time to time, some of our books go out of print. When this happens, we often receive letters and emails asking us to bring these books back. Since Dover values the input of our readers, we have made many of these favorites available again at the lowest possible prices. From classic math texts and music scores to children's books and fine art collections, you'll find them all right here.
Recommendations... The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
Two married couples find their long, ongoing friendship is severely disrupted when one husband learns that his wife has been the mistress of his British friend for years.
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| |  Art and Geometry: A Study in Space Intuitions
by William M. Ivins
This highly stimulating study observes many historical interrelationships between art and mathematics. It explores ancient and Renaissance painting and sculpture, the development of perspective, and advances in projective geometry.
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 The Orchestra: Orchestral Techniques and Combinations
by Ebenezer Prout
Thorough treatise on elements, character, and function of orchestral sound defines how each section of the orchestra functions both alone and in concert with others. Includes generous examples from standard concert literature.
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| |  Handbook of Pictorial Symbols
by Rudolf Modley
These 3,250 visual symbols by government agencies, giant corporations, and foremost designers graphically display modern messages for trains, autos, road rules, women, factories, Olympic Games, tourism, do it, don't do it, and much more.
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 Looney Limericks
by Frank Jacobs
60 zany limericks by such masters of the form as Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford, Edward Lear, and others. Fun to read, easy to memorize and great to share with friends and family. Illustrations.
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| |  Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century
by C. Willett Cunnington
Fascinating account of what "proper" 19th-century Englishwomen wore. Enlivened with extracts from contemporary novels, correspondence from columns in ladies' magazines, fashion descriptions. Collection of period advertisements. 8 black-and-white illustrations.
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 Abraham Lincoln
by Lord Charnwood
The stranger-than-fiction story of a self-taught backwoods lawyer's transformation into the savior of a nation. Well-researched, engaging biography, written in 1917 by an Englishman, was one of the first major works on Lincoln.
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| |  First Fig and Other Poems
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay. Excellent anthology comprises Second April (1921) and A Few Figs from Thistles (1922), featuring such well-known poems as "First Fig," "Recuerdo," "The Philosopher," more.
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