Living Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine copy signed by photographer Halus on the half title. More
New Arrivals
BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD Photographs, Diaries, Notes, Sketches, and Collages; Phantasmagoria, Metamorphoses, Natural Horrors, and Prehistoric Memories: Last Voices of a Lost Africa.
Universe, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread/unused copy. Pictorial wraps (not issued in hardcover). Catralog for an exhibition curated by Peter T. Tunney. More
ZACKARY RAFFLES
NY: Doubleday, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine, apparentlu unused / unread copy, in glassy pictorial covers, issued without dustjacket, gift inscription on the ffe dated 1992. More
WOMEN AND OTHER VISIONS
Dobbs Ferry NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second printing, apparently unread/ unused book. Neat owner name and address on pastedown hidden by dustjacket flap. More
Stanley Kramer: Film Maker
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by director Kramer on the ffe. Very good dustjacket, apparently unread book. More
Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. More
THE AMAZON
BY: Horace Licerright, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Lacking dustjacket, slightly cocked, moderately soiled, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the verso ffe and dated by him Auguts 8, 1930. Neat ownername on the ffe. More
History of the Conquest of Peru 1524-1550
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1957. 1st Edition Limited Thus. Hardcover. #379 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Jackson and printer Harry Block on colophon. Printed for the LEC at Imprenta Nuevo Mundo in Mexico City. Solid, clean copy. Leather spine darkened a tad in worn slipcase. More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son (2 volume set)
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1957. 1st Edition Limited Thusd. Hardcover. #397 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator Pitz on colophon. Red buckram, spine labels. Spines toned, as is slipcase. Solid, clean copies. More
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1957. 1st Edition Limited Thus. Hardcover. #387 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator Chamberlain on the colophon. An apparently unread copy in toned slipcase split along one seam. More
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1944. 1st Edition Limited Thus. Hardcover. #646 of 100 copies, signed by artist. Red cloth, pressed in gilt, gte, spine slightly faded, worn/chipped slipcase with pictorial label. Bookplate front pastedown. More
THE DIVINE COMEDY
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1946. 1st Edition Limited Thus. Hardcover. #807 of 100 copies, signed by artist. Black cloth, pressed in gilt, gte - near fine in worn/chipped slipcase with pictorial label. More
(The Beauties of England and Wales) Westmoreland (and) Lancashire (and) Cumberland: Original The Beauties of England and Wales: or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of That County. The Result of Personal Survey.
London: Printed for J. Harris, 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or early editions for delineations of three counties bound as one volume, spine perished, rear cover missing and front detached; reference or rebinding candidate. All maps and plates in each section called for are extant; foldout maps in original..... More
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - The Private Collections and The Public Collections (2 volume set)
NY: Sotheby's, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 2-volume set, apparently unused, in pictorial slipcase. Auction catalogue at Sotheby's September 11 - 19, 1997. More
DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ
Toronto: Copp Clark Co. Later Edition. Hardcover. Later Canadian printing, published as complete series by Copp Clark. c 1940. Green cloth covers with pictorial front pastedown in matching dustjacket. Slight dampstain rear gutter not affecting text. Dustjacket moderately soiled, still presentable. Leaves toned as expected (high pulp content). Firm binding..... More
THE PARIS REVIEW - ISSUES 1 -69
New York: The Paris Review, 1953. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A continuous run issues 1-69, from spring 1953 through spring 1977, of the premiere literary magazine of the US founded by George Plimpton. The first eight issues show the most wear, with spines variously flaked, the most obvious flaws unartful..... More
LATE, PASSING PRAIRIE FARM
Northampton MA: Main Street, 1976. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The first printing, 75 copies, printed at Main Street, Northampton MA. Printed on paper by Kitakata & Dover, set in Eric Gill's Perpetua type. Bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery. Design and presswork by Barry Moser. This copy numbered..... More
The World Crisis 1911-1914; The World Crisis 1915; The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part One and Part Two; The World Crisis. The Aftermath; The World Crisis. The Eastern Front. (6 volumes complete)
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First British editions of Churchill's definitive history of World War I. Octavo, six volumes, bound in full light blue leather, gilt to spine with red and mauve labels, Illustrated throughout with maps and charts. Errata slips to volumes I and IV bound in..... More
MOROCCO ITS PEOPLE AND PLACES
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin. Presumed First or Early Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, undated (c1900), red cloth, stamped in black and gilt, amply illustrated, viii 406 (2), aeg. Minor cloth loss spine ends, darkish area rear cover and front cover lower edge, solid binding, internals quiet nice. Ownership copy fo international..... More
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (and) RIP VAN WINKLE (and) THE GREAT MISSIPPI RUBBLE (3 volume set in slipcase)
NY: Random House, 1930. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, 750 copies, three uniform volumes - quarter cream cloth over marbleized boards - house in plain publishers slipcase. Printed at The Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, NY. Neat stamp same owner in each volume, spines tanned, internals fine..... More
THE COMPLETE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF J. D. SALINGER MARCH 1940 VOL. 1 and VOL. 2 (2 volume set)
(Berkeley): ("John Greenberg"), 1974. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Unauthorized, anonymous publication, in two uniform volumes, of 22 of Salinger's early short stories written between 1940 - 1948 that originally appeared in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and Esquire. Two of the short stories feature Holden Caulfield, the..... More
LOT OF EIGHT BOHEMIAN GROVE PLAYS (1941 - 1958) PLUS CLUB MAP AND STATIONARY
Monte Rio CA: Bohemian Club. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Eight play titles from 1941 - 1958. THE GOLDEN TALISMAN (1941); JOHNNY APPLESEED (1946); A CHRONICLE OF OUR YEARS (1947); TETECAN AN AZTEC TRAGEDY (1950); TANDEM TRIUPHAMS (1952); A ROMANY LEGEND (1953); A GEST OF ROBIN HOOD (1954); and ALOHA OE A...... More
LONG ISLAND COLONIAL PATENTS, ANCESTRT OF GOVERNOR DONGAN, HOURS WITH OLD ENGRAVINGS, GLEANINGS FROM OLD ENGRAVINGS, and SELECT PATENTS OF TOWNS AND MANORS (5 titles)
Boston: A. A. Beauchamp, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 5 titles, printed 1935-1938, by native Gothamite and historian hobbyist Frederick Van Wyck (1853 - 1938?), author of "Recollection of an Old New Yorker" (NY: Liveright, 1932). Each title focus on some aspect of New England or New York colonial history, printed..... More
TOM BURR EXTROSPECTIVE: WORKS 1994 -2006
Zurich: JRP/ Ringier, 2006. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Exhibition catalog for Burr's show at the Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne in 2006, with extensive text in dual column French and English. Squarish 4to, pictorial covers, 175 pages, illustrated with b&w and color photos. Inscribed by artist Burr on the..... More
PASTORAL ADDRESSES
NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1841. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, mauve blind-pressed, ribbed cloth, gilt spine titles, 213p + 3 p publisher's lits, polished yellow endpapers. Uncommon first US edition. John Angell James (1785 - 1859) was an English Non-conformist clergyman of Congregational faith, his doctrine moderate Calvinism..... More