1935. Leather-bound. This is an actual white leather baby shoe, not a book. SIGNATURES Amelia Earhart Roscoe Turner; Frank Hawks (aka “Meteor Man”); (Later-to-become Admiral) R.E. Byrd (VERY faint, above bottom seam, down and to the left of Earhart’s signature) Shoe is nested in a decorative, hinged, wooden box, with... More
New York: Pocket Books, 1964. Charles Addams. First Thus. Paperback. Pocket Cardinal Edition, Pocket Books (mass market) paperback printing of this beloved and now scarce collection of Chas. Addams, creator of The Addams Family. First revised, in that cartoon choice differs somewhat from original Simon and Schuster paperback publication of... More
Honesdale, PA: Himalayan International Institute, 1979. Paperback. Second printing. Systematic presentation of material of beginning Sanskrit aimed at undergradualtes with emphasis on structural united needed for spoken and written composition. Contains sixteen individual lessons and emphasizes learning through sight and sound. Spiral-bound. Just a bit of light creasing to top... More
NEW YORK: Artisan, 2000. Hardcover. Reprint. By the authors of "Flatbreads and Flavors" and "Seductions of Rice." Includes more than 175 recipes culled from the authors' travels through Tibet, Vietnam, China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Lavishly photographed, this volume doubles as a travel narrative. 346 pp. Olive-green casing to... More
Chicago: university of Chicago Press, 2000. Hardcover. FINE. Dustjacket Fine. 325 pp with notes and index. Clean, tight, bright. Alschuler on the life of Supreme Court Judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes. More
New York: Routledge, 2003. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Errata laid-in. Brick red lettering to brick red and olive green illustrated front board. 296 pp with bibliography, contributors and index. Clean, tight, bright. An overview of medieval studies and a collection of new research on the work of Christine de Pizan, a.... More
Barcelona, Espana: Ediciones Grijalbo, 1974. First Spanish Edition. HARDCOVER. Translated from the second Houghton-Mifflin edition of I COME AS A THIEF by Marcelo Covian. Association copy inscribed to the dedicatee, George T. Keating, a legendary collector of, among other things, the works of Joseph Conrad: "For George Keating, This Spanish... More
Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA: SITO (Ken Kesey), 1981. Paperback. Shelfworn, tear to bottom of spine. This issue features work by John Clellon Holmes, Larry McMurtry, Diane Kesey, Stewart Brand, Jerry Garcia, William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Ken Kesey, Grandma Whittier and others. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Ken Babbs. "SPIT IN THE... More
London: T. Foulis, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 311 pages, index, plus four page catalogue at end. 24 plates [23 are tipped-in]. Navy blue cloth with titles in gilt. Bottom corners bumped, cover bright, textblock square. More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. 1916. Hardcover. Previous owner's blank book plate to front paste-down and name to front free endpaper. Sunning to spine. Light age-tanning. Untrimmed pages. Bumped corners. Moderate edgewear. Staining to boards. Gilt lettering to spine and front with gilt illustration of ship to front. With 26... More
NEW YORK: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. By noted theologian who helped organize the first anti-slavery society in Illinois, a work of extensive scholarship which assesses the history and theology of Christian notions of retribution for the wicked. 334 pp. with ads to rear of text. Light... More
Missoula, Montana: University of Montana / Department of Anthropology, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Light shelfwear, with just a bit of rubbing to extremities. Color pull-out map precedes Contents page. Numerous color, and black and white photographs. Maroon lettering on spine, white lettering on front of watercolor-illustrated covers. 152 pp with... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, in brick-red, cloth-covered boards, with contrasting (black) square, lettered in red, to front board and spine. Bright copy with just a bit of light rubbing to extremities at spine caps and corner, two of which are bumped, but not... More
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. Profusely illustrated with photos. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Quarto. Bright and clean copy in dust jacket that shows edgewear, some chips and wear at top. Jacket is price-clipped. Photo journal of 1,200 mile, two-month hunting trip by dog... More
Verona, Virginia: McClure Printing Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 261 pages, notes, appendix, index. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Five maps, 20 illustrations. Maroon cloth with titles in gilt. Corners square, cover bright. In pictorial dust jacket with short closed tear at bottom, jacket bright and clean... More
London, England: C. and J. Rivington, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. ii, 467, vi, 280, [16] pp. Two parts in one. Part I consists of THE LIVES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS, and Part II, LIVES OF THE PROTESTANT BISHOPS. 6 plates, ncluding one folding. Lightly foxed. Original printed... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11.25" x 8.75" x 2.125") in handsome blue boards. A bit of sunning to dustjacket. Very bright and tight. 903 pp. Heavy -- 6 lbs before packaging. May include extra shipping. This monumental work - decades in preparation, offers stunning... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED, ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed to L.L. Winship, noted journalist of the New Yorker and other publications. A very tiny little dent to front upper edge, slight edgewear to book. Two faint sticker shadows, about .5" squares, to FFEP. Very light speckling to top... More
England: Helion & Company, Ltd. 2010. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page, 194/1000. Crisp gilt lettering on spine of pine-green boards. Red and green lettering to glossy tan pictorial jacket. Illustrations, maps. 9.5 x .6.5". 410 pp with appendices, bibliography and index. Advertisements to rear of book... More
Harlan Quist, 1969. HARDCOVER. In ancient Japan a Samurai warior named Tsuneyo was robbed of his ancestral lands while fighting for his prince in a terrible war. Virtually reduced to poverty, the only possessions he had left were the three dwarf trees in his garden, which were a symbol of... More
Fresno, CA: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Light marking to head and tail, and sunning to dustjacket spine. Clean, tight, and bright! More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Lacks fourth (map) volume. Green cloth with spine tites in gilt. Covers bright, Usual slight bumps to bottom of spines from shelving and also slight bumping to corners as usual. Previous owner's name to front pastedown of two volumes and front... More
London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Hardcover. 64mo (2.5" x 2.25") Violet boards (front board faded), bound with original violet cord. Paste-on to front board showing a little green-clad Brownie seated atop a toadstool. Color frontis depicting the Brownie named Nimble-te-Hop (who had been asked to the Brownie's Ball, due... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Arvilla Parker. Hardcover. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. 1933. [10],100,[8] pages. Colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. Number Seven of Grabhorn's Rare Americana Series. Tan spine over brown boards with color drawing by Parker. Spine label. "Subscribers" folded 8x10 sheet laid in which has news of upcoming... More
