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.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. 9.5" x 6.25". 347pp. Black cloth with gile spine lettering, in dust wrapper. With underlining on a few pages and a few corners creased, else nice, bright condition. The jacket is in fine condition. A scholarly treatise on skin art in New Zealand, Samoa.....
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.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First American edition. 8" x 5.25". 270pp. Brown patterned cloth stamped in black, in dustwrapper. Fine condition; the bright VG+ jacket has some light soiling on the rear panel. With a foreword by Loncoln Steffens. A grim account of a committed Communist spy in.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Early printing. 8.25" x 5.5". 92pp. Gray buckram with a green cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Near fine jacket. This copy signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the first leaf. This novel was the basis for the.....
Seattle: The Deers Press, 1960. 8.75" x 6". 53, (17pp.) Spiral bound with heavy card covers. Mild soiling, else nice VG+ condition. Nicely printed in a variety of colors. An extensive collection of typefaces, with scripts and cursives, machine faces, borders and flowers, initals, and much more. Also with a......
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 7.75" x 4.75". 137pp. Pictorial wood grained boards with black lettering and illustration. in dust wrapper. A really attractive and unusual binding. Neat ownership signature, else near fine condition. The jacket has a very small bit of edge.....
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1938. First edition. Hardback. 8.5" x 5.25". 300pp., plus ads. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has light edge wear and rubbing. An account of life as a British political officer in Nigeria. With tales of the.....
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8.25" x 6". 76pp. Brown cloth spine and tan paper covered boards hardcover in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition. The poet's third book, poems inspired by three days of events on Lummi.....
Yakima, WA: Franklin Press, Inc., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 5.5". 176pp. Green cloth. Fine condition. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. An account of Matt Warner, an outlaw member of the Robber's Roost gang along with Butch Cassidy, Elza Lay, Bill Tibbetts, Jim Peterson and Tom.....
New York: Horace Thayer, 1858. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 334pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex - Concord Free Public Library, with faint white spine markings and several small internal stamps. Spine cloth with a one inch tear and some light soiling, otherwise VG+ condition. Early American printing.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First edition. 7.25" x 4.75". 187pp. Brown illustrated cloth, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket has a little edge wear. A short novel about a group of American soldiers seving in Italy during WWII.
Orcas, Washington: Orcase Publishers, 1970. Paperback. 8.25" x 5.25". 95pp. White spiral binding with heavy illustrated paper covers. Light soiling, gift inscription, else VG+ condition. With many black & white photo illustrations of San Juan island scenes and a folding map at the back of the book...
Albany, California: Rowena Godding Ruggles, 1972. Second edition, with supplemental material. 9.25" x 6". 144pp., with the section of photo illustrations at the end. Fine condition. Fine jacket. This copy signed by the author on the second leaf.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 432pp. Bound in full blue calf with gilt rules and spine lettering and decorations. Light general wear, spine somewhat faded, gift inscription and a tasteful bookplate; generally a nice VG+ condition example. With a color frontis, four.....