HOW TO REASSESS YOUR CHESS: Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances
Los Angeles: Siles Press, 2010. Fourth Edition. Trade paperback. Tall octavo. Original paper wrappers. A very good or better copy.
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A GREEK GRAMMAR
Richmond, Surrey: Tiger Xenophon, 2008. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine copy.
THE ELEMENTS OF LATIN GRAMMAR
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1862 fourth edition. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.
ANSELM HOLCOMB BARKER, 1822-1895: Pioneer Builder and Early Settler of Auraria, His diary of 1858 from Plattsmouth, Nebraska Territory, to Cherry Creek Diggings, the present site of Denver, Colorado
Denver: Golden Bell Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 420 of 500 copies signed by the editor, Nolie Mumey. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait, with a tipped-in illustration, a folding map, and nine facsimile keepsakes...
THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY, MOUNTAIN MAN
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. From London Corsetier to Pioneer Farmer in Canada, Bookkeeper in St. Louis, Superintendent of Bent's Fort, Fur Trader and Mountain Man in Colorado and New Mexico...
THE RESOLUTION JOURNAL OF JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER, 1772-1775
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. The complete four volume set. The previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage, edited by Michael E. Hoare. The Hakluyt Society, Second...
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THE VOYAGE OF GEORGE VANCOUVER [or] A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN AND ROUND THE WORLD, 1791-1795, With an Introduction and Appendices
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1984. Hardcover. The complete four volume set. The first annotated edition of Vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication in 1798, edited by W. Kaye Lamb. 46 illustrations, including the...
DIARY & SKETCHBOOK OF A JOURNEY TO "AMERICA" IN 1866, & RETURN TRIP UP THE MISSOURI RIVER TO FORT BENTON, MONTANA: Reprinted from the Virginia City Montana Post of January 1867
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Plantin Press. With an Introduction by Carl Schaefer Dentzel. Bibliographical Notes by Glen Dawson. 41 sketches, with a map...
HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, a volume in the Greek Classics series. Translated by Rex Warner. Introduction and Appendices by M.I. Finley. Frontispiece by Richard Sparks. Printed note from the publisher...
TAO TE CHING ON THE ART OF HARMONY: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece, Translated by Chad Hansen
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2009. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. Octavo. Full red leather binding, with elaborate gilt and black stamping. four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. An unsigned (blank) Easton Press...
FAHRENHEIT 451
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, a volume in The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. Arguably Bradbury's most important work, a dystopian novel set in the not too distant future when firemen...
THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS: From Babylonian Numerals to Chaos Theory
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. An enlightening and highly readable history of math, with numerous textual illustrations. Tall octavo. Full purple leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, three raised bands, moire...
A CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH MISCELLANY, Comprising: The Original Journal of Alexander Barrington, Nine Unpublished Letters from the Gold Mines, Reproductions of Early Maps and Towns from California Lithographs; Broadsides, &c., &c.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 550 copies. "The journal of Alexander Barrington of St. Mary's, Ohio, begins at sea on April 1, 1850, and concludes on December 11, 1850...
WIVES, WHEELS, WEAPONS
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...
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA: Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 180 of 350 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, and signed by the author. Garcia Marquez's most romantic novel, the story of...
E.E. CUMMINGS: A Life
New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. This rich, illuminating biography traces the development of the poet and his work, and provides a brilliant reassessment of the freighted path of his legacy. Textual photographs...
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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...
PLAY THE PIANO DRUNK LIKE A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT UNTIL THE FINGERS BEGIN TO BLEED A BIT
Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 82 of 100 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, signed by Bukowski, and accompanied by an original silk screen print by...
THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey Visual Companion
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2012. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. Richly illustrated with more than 100 color photographs from the Peter Jackson film, and accompanied by a folding map charting the journey from Bag End to...
JAMES PIERSON BECKWOURTH, 1856-1866: An Enigmatic Figure of the West - A History of the Latter Years of His Life
Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 459 of 500 copies signed by the author. Beckwourth (1798-1867), a Virginia-born hunter, adventurer, and mountain man of the...
THE CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill
Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 96 of 100 copies in a special edition printed on Ticonderoga text, specially bound, boxed, and signed by the author. "The most comprehensive...
THE CHINOOK JARGON AND HOW TO USE IT: A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent
Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, Inc., 1909. First Edition. Wraps. The most extensive of the early dictionaries of this nearly extinct American indigenous language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. Octavo. Original...
ATLAS OF THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Moulton on the title page. "When the Corps of Discovery left the vicinity of St. Louis in 1804 to explore the American...
FOOTPRINTS ON THE FRONTIER: Saga of the La Ramie Region of Wyoming
Douglas, Wyoming: Virginia Cole Trenholm, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to one thousand copies of which this is No. 353, signed by the author. "Delightfully presented history of the region south of the North...
TRANSITION OF THE WEST: Portrayal of the Indian Problem in the West and the Trials of the Pioneers Who Reclaimed this Country from Savagery to Civilization
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mokler to General George B. McClellan on the front flyleaf. The signature of Wyoming historian Paul Frison appears...