Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Committee, 1956. First Edition; first printing. Paperback. 8.25" x 5.25". 42pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Light soiling to the rear wrapper, else nice VG+ condition. A discussion of McCarthy Era persecution of supposed Communists and of the Smith Act. An interesting record of Cold War hysteria.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983. First edition. 11" x 6.75". 441pp. Red cloth with silver lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket's spine tips have a light bit of wear.
Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press, 1935. First edition. 8" x 5". 146pp. Red cloth, stamped in black. Fine condition. With illustrations from drawings by Cleanthe. The Kingfish's political tract.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 252pp. Black and red cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. VG+ price clipped jacket. With a foreword by T. Harry Williams. A study of Huey Long's colorful younger brother who served as governor of Louisiana...
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993. 11" x 8.25". 109pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Second printing. With illustrations by Eichenberg throughout. With depictions from scnes from the Old Testament, from the life of Christ, saints, The Catholic Worker, war and peace.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Third printing. Hardcover. 9.25" x 6.25". 427pp., plus a glossary of Indian language words and an index. Pink and black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Light soiling to the cloth, ownership signature else nice VG+ condition. The jacket has a lightly.....
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1917. First edition. 8.25" x 5". 548pp. Blue cloth with two printed paper labels. Mild soiling to the spine label, else nice VG+ condition. With a color illustrated frontis and six additional tipped in color illustrations by F. [Frederick] Cayley Robinson...
Zurich & New York: Edition Stemml, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 11.75" x 11.75". 135pp. Blue cloth with white spine letterin, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. With 124 full page color photographic illustrations of people's tattoos.
Boston: The New York Graphic Society, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 12.5" x 10.25". 375pp. Brown cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Lightly musty from storage, small stamp along the top edge, else near fine condition; the nice jacket has a small bit of soiling. Includes 52 color plates and over.....
Victoria, B.C. The Empress Hotel, circa 1910. Single sheet, folded to form a 6" x 3.5" brochure. A descriptive advertising brochure describing the amenities of one of Canada's most opulent hotels. With black & white photo illustrations.
Seattle: Ouroboros Press, 2015. First edition thus. Hardback. 10" x 6.75". 134pp., plus appendix. Full black leather with gilt lettering and decorative device on the front board. Fine condition. One of 75 specially bound copies. This edition of this alchemical text features reliable editions of the original German and Latin.....
Boulder, Colorado: Alpine House, 1983. Hardback. 12" x 8.75". 215pp. Red cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. With many color photo illustrations. With a foreword by Royal Robbins. Kor was probably the leading American rock climber of the 1960s.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 5.5". 39pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Fine condition in a lightly sunned dust wrapper with a very small bit of edge wear. This work is a modern rendition of the Book of Jonah, and the second of.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922. 7.5" x 5.25". 126pp., plus 2pp. ads. Brown cloth stamped in black, in dust wrapper. the cloth is lightly soiled, else near fine condition. The jacket is edge worn and soiled, but the color illustrated front panel is nice and bright. A decent example.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. First edition. 11.25" x 8.5". 309pp. Black paper covered boards with a green cloth spine. Near fine condition. The jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing. With the lyrics and music to many Coward songs, as well as an introduction and annotations by.....
New York: Times Books, 1986. First edition. 9.25" x 7". 296pp. Blue buckram stamped in silver. Fine condition. VG+ condition jacket. This copy signed and inscribed by both authors on the first leaf. Franey (1921 - 1996) was a French master chef, best known for his televised cooking shows and.....
Oakland, California: (circa 1943). Single sheet, folded once to form a 9" x 6" menu. Fine condition. Nicely printed in green and red. Planters Dock was a general merchandise shop at the foot of Broadway in Oakland California during the 1940s. It had a small restaurant inside called "Chow". A......
New York: The Mystery League, Inc., 1931. First edition. 7.5" x 5". 290pp. Black cloth stamped in green, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The jacket is very bright, with just a tiny bit of edge wear. The marvelous jacket is by the legendary designer Arthur Hawkins, jr. It decpicts a......
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1993. First American edition. 9.75" x 7.25". 175pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Fine (price clipped) jacket. With numerous color and black & white illustrations. "An important survey of artistic and literary output during a key period of Russian.....
Nottingham, England: John Player & Sons, circa 1925. A full set of twenty 3" x 2.5" cigarette cards. In the very scarce original glassine wrapper, which has never been opened, hence a fine condition set. Each card depicts a black & white photographic scene from the 1924 British Expedition to.....
Dublin: The Cuala Press Limited, [no date, circa 1975]. 15" x 11". Single sheet, printed on one side. Fine condition. Handcoloured Print No. 236. The picture, by Beatrice Glenavy, depicts a bundled up elderly lady, with an inset image of a kitchen and a smaller image of a cottage below.....
Great Neck, New York: Channel Press Inc., 1956. Hardcover. 8" x 5.25". 190pp. Black cloth with white lettering. Fine condition. The jacket has a mild bit of edge wear. First issue jacket with no reviews on back panel. This non-fiction work by the prolific "Puritan of the Pen" describes how.....
(New York): Bernard Geis, 1963. First edition. 8.25" x 5.5". 214pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The jacket has mild soiling and edge wear. This book by the legendary humorist addresses affairs of the heart, the stunning parallels between Groucho and Lawrence of Arabia.....
Springfield, Mass. & New York: Samuel Bowles & Company & Hurd & Houghton, 1866. Hardcover. 7.5" x 4.5". 452pp., plus ads. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine faded and a bit soiled and some light edge wear; generally else VG+ condition. With the color folding map of the (now).....
New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1944. First edition. Paperback. 7.5" x 5.5". [44pp.] Bound in the original stapled paper wrappers. Fine condition. This very uncommon book includes darkly humorous illustrations by Artzybasheff...as the first leaf says, "He hates in paint!" To call these drawings bizarre is understating the case.....