San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Title and some reproductions in color. Divisional titles in red, marginal decorations in red and black. Inserts with some initials and decorations in color... More about THE ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date, Including a...
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. This paean to the high California desert consists of fourteen sketches based on personal observation following solitary sojourns tramping through desert trails and... More about THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN
London: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Published in association with the Royal Geographic Society, Alpine Club, and Mount Everest Foundation, this is the official publication celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest... More about EVEREST: 50 Years on Top of the World
Tallahasse, Florida: The Naiad Press, Inc., 1983. Mass market paperback. First Volute Edition. ISBN 0930044347, 0930044355, 0930044363, 0930044371, 093004438X. First published between 1957 and 1962, Ann Bannon's pulp lesbian series follows the lives and loves... More about The Beebo Brinker Chronicles: ODD GIRL OUT, I AM A WOMAN, WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS, JOURNEY TO A...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "...examines the Nereids, mythical goddesses of the sea, who occupied an important role in Greek literature, art, and religion. The author identifies the iconographical... More about DIVINE ESCORTS: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2013. Hardcover. 211 p. Illustrated throughout. Second printing. "In 1970, fresh out of law school, Bianchi began traveling to New York, and was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines... More about TOM BIANCHI: Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975-1983
Tokyo, Japan: East-West, 1951. Third Edition. Hardcover. The second in a series of six photographic books by American photojournalist Horace Bristol (1908-97). His book on Korea is particularly notable for its humanistic concern for the... More about KOREA
New York: Thomas Hamilton, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. This is one of the first book-length works on "emigrationism" - the return of freed slaves to Africa. It presents a host of arguments - sociological, political... More about A PILGRIMAGE TO MY MOTHERLAND
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1969. Hardcover. Numerous textual photographs, including many never before published, and some from Goodman's personal files. Second edition, first printing thus. An indispensable work on the distinguished jazz clarinetist... More about BG - ON THE RECORD: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman
cambridge: harvard university press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 205 of 350 copies signed by E.E. Cummings. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1952-1953. In 1952, Cummings came full circle with his Cambridge roots... More about i: six nonlectures
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Military Service Publishing Company, 1942 and 1947. Hardcover. The first volume is a second printing, while the second volume is a first edition. This much-respected work traces the history of German military... More about WINGED MARS: The German Air Weapon, 1870-1914 [and] The Air Weapon, 1914-1916
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Hardcover. Illustrated with stroboscope photographs by Frank J. Scherschel. Second printing. A book of pictures of Tuffy, the black bear. Some wear to the spine ends and corners. The... More about TUFFY
New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. First edition. Contains thirty poems on love, childhood, religion, and the anguish of war and poverty. Signed by Dubie on the title... More about THE SPRINGHOUSE
London: George Philip & Son, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 268 p. Three maps, including the folding frontispiece. The so-called "cheap edition" of this Klondike Gold Rush guidebook, also published as The Routes and Mineral Resources... More about THE GOLD FIELDS OF CANADA AND HOW TO REACH THEM: Being an Account of the Routes and Mineral...
London and New York: Allison & Busby, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition of Ellroy's second novel, which earned him an Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America in 1982. Extensively inscribed... More about CLANDESTINE
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorations by Edward Shenton. New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. This collection of four hunting stories includes one of Faulkner's most famous short works, The Bear... More about BIG WOODS
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing (1,500 copies), with the publisher's prospectus laid in. Contains fourteen uncollected short stories and six uncollected essays by Fitzgerald and includes reproductions of... More about AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR: A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays
New York: John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 16 of 100 copies signed by James Frey, Terry Richardson, and Richard Prince. A pairing of three stories from Frey's... More about WIVES, WHEELS, WEAPONS
New York: America Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Numerous illustrations, facsimiles, and maps. A remarkable work of scholarship, relating the history of the Jesuits in the territory lying between the forty-ninth parallel, Mason... More about THE JESUITS OF THE MIDDLE UNITED STATES
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1855. First edition. Soft cover. 184 p. First American edition, with the publisher's ads at the front and rear. "General Sir Edward (1824-93)[,] who illustrated his account with his own drawings... More about THE STORY OF THE CAMPAIGN: A Complete Narrative of the War in Russia. Written in a Tent in the...
London: Macmillan, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The finest expression of Henderson's culinary oeuvre: using everything that is possibly edible of fowl, beast, and fish, creating dishes that fuse high sophistication with... More about NOSE TO TAIL EATING: A Kind of British Cooking
Modesto, California: Morning Star, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. With an introduction by Briane Keene and a frontispiece by Alex McVey. Modesto, Calfiornia: Morning Star, 2008. First edition, limited to 26 signed and lettered deluxe hardcovers... More about TERMINAL: A Play in Three Acts
London: Martin Secker, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. The second half of Mackenzie's lengthy bildungsroman. F. Scott Fitzgerald, among many others, was an admirer of this work and his first book, This Side of Paradise (1920)... More about SINISTER STREET: The Second Volume
Shreveport, Louisiana: Raton Books, Ltd., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Leo Miles has spent more than thirty years in the pipeline industry, and has long wanted to put in writing the true story of this crazy... More about HIGH PRESSURE: A Pipeliner's Story
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 176 of 250 copies signed by Dale L. Morgan. An extensive compilation of letters, newspaper reports, and diaries collected from the Missouri... More about THE WEST OF WILLIAM H. ASHLEY: The International Struggle for the Fur Trade of the Missouri, the...