Hardcover. New York: Macmillan Company, 1969, 16th printing of 1930. Clean and tight with some bumping to spine ends, light scuffs to tips. Bottom tip is mildly soiled. A taxonomy to account for all the species and botanical varieties of plants in cultivatuon in the contental United States and Canada..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Clean tight square 4to, 100pp. Some light shelf wear to dust jacket. One small brown stain, about 1/2" wide on the bottom front edge of the ffe, otherwise flaw-free. Ikat is a method of tie-dyeing yarn that produces a pattern with..... More
Thailand: Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1995. Appears first edition, not stated. Softcover. Scarce. Clean, tight 4to, 181pp, slight shelf wear to edges and one slightly bumped tip. Lovely color illustrations. "Sucitto weaves his meanderings around the Buddha's First Discourse with a collage of color and text that is both witty and profound..... More
Burns Studio, 2004. Second edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, square 4to, unpaginated. Signed by Burns; "Ron" on the ffe. Burns, whose love of dogs shows in every page, has done wonderfully expressive portraits of various dogs who have been in his life. Each dog has a short biography. He is "an..... More
9-06. Softcover. Xulon Press, 2009, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 441pp. Tips are lightly curled top back and front. Discusses such topics as ancient Babylon (the inception place of secret societies), Egypt and Rome, ceremonial magick, kundalini power, evil spirits, the Talmud, Kabbalah, apostasy of the Christian church, alchemy, Papal..... More
Hardcover. New York: G.P. Putnam''s Sons, 1932, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 367pp, book is slightly shelf woirn with light bumping to tips and tail of spine. Former owner stamp on front pastedown and ffe. Edges are lightly dusty. Dust jacket price clipped top and bottom, torn and taped in..... More
Hardcover. California, Collector's Editions, Inc., 1998, first edition. Clean, tight folio, 151pp in a clean tight slip case. Four limited edition giclees, printed on 100% rag paper from Sabzi and also three by Hessam (another Iranian artist of renown) laid in. The life and career of Sabzi. His subjects are..... More
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1998. not stated. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 99pp. 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Moth meal in every pantry and a chinch bug in every pot! More
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1946. Left Book Club Edition. Softcover. Slender 8vo, 191pp, clean and tight. Tips bumped, spine somewhat faded. The Left Book Club (collectible), was a key left-wing, Socialist, anti-fascist institution of the late 1930s and 1940s in the United Kingdom providing monthly choices of books on political..... More
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997. Second printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 80pp. Twenty-five irresistible designs for knitted bears. Full instructions. A knitter will love them and so will the children for whom they knit them. Start now for birthdays and Christmas gifts. They really are too darned cute!... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Maritime Initiative, 1990. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 302pp. Shows minimal shelf wear. In 1986, the National Park Service created a computerized inventory of large, preserved, historic vessels, 40-feet in length or longer and 20-tons or more..... More
Hardcover. Colorado, Sundance Books, 1977, first limited edition, first printing. Clean, tight tall 4to, 416pp, SIGNED and numbered, of which this is #766, beautifully photographed and mapped. Has a thick Mylar dust cover as have all the Sundance Railroad series. An illustrated history, featuring the Denver, South Park & Pacific..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. Tom Lea. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, scarce book, 366pp. Light bumping to the spine ends. Jacket in mylar and has sevrerl small chips and tiny tears to the edges and one open dime-sized tear to the spine cover. Some light rubbing front and..... More
Indiana University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2005, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 353pp. Mylar cover on dust jacket. "A comprehensive examination of railroads in Iowa from the introduction of the iron horse to the present. More than a study of a single, albeit significant American state, Hofsommer..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, 8vo, 255pp. The jacket is well worn with some chipping along the edges. Interesting photos of his adventures and compatriots. The extraordinary life and times of Fred Meyer Schroder, frontiersman, prospector, gun runner, and soldier of fortune, in California, Mexico..... More
Iconografix, Inc., 1997. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 128pp, More
2002. Hardcover. Cologne; Konemann, 2001, first thus in English, clean, tight oblong 4to, very slight shelf wear. The I Ching is at least 5,000 years old. The author's interpretation on the four natural elements that make up the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, a hermetic labyrinth. More
New York: Viking Juvenile, 1994. Steven Guarnaccia. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, oblong 4to, unpaginated. When the we know world was made all the animals wanted names. This is how, the first man Adam, named the animals with the help of Steven Guarnaccia's excellent drawings. A sweet book for preschoolers..... More
San Francisco: Ringsmith and Wellman, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. San Francisco, 1924. Clean and tight tall 8vo, 500 pp., somewhat darkened cover with light rubbing to spine gutter and minor bumps to spine ends. Two small white (paint?) spots on the front. . A very scarce vintage cookbook with recipes which..... More
Harper Collins, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 437pp. The dust jacket has a few small chips and a small wrinkle on the back tip edge. Another exciting teen and older adventure from the series of Alexander and Nadia who travel with Kate Cold to the high Himalayas to..... More
Seattle, WA: Alaska Northwest Books, 1994. Second printing. Softcover. Clean, tight trade paperback, 219pp. Very slight shelf wear. Gift inscription on the ffe. Alaska's Brooks Range is a magical place, still mostly untouched at this writing by the denigrations of "progress". Jans lived with the Inupiat Eskimos where grizzlies and..... More
Creative Publishing Int'l, 2009. later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 176pp. The author takes the intimidation out of high fashion. This witty wise book is the savvy sewer's you-can-do-it-too guide to professional, design quality construction and finishing techniques. Step-by-step instructions in the basics of classic coutoure from pleats, ruffles, and..... More
Hollywood, CA: Galaxy Press. Reprinted. Softcover. Clean, tight, 4tos. Originally published in the mid-1930s and now reprinted in the 2000s. Four pulp fiction thrillers from the Golden Age of Pulp by Hubbard, a writer on a par with London, Burroughs, and Hammett. Sold as a 4-book gift set: 1. Under..... More
Carl Winkel and Mary Barbara Smith. Hardcover. Massachusettes, Longyear Historical Society, 1989, first edition. Clean, tight, spiral bound cookbook. Recipes and historical vignettes from Longyear's long history. Mary Baker Eddy's creation of the Christian Scientist religion is supported by this organization. The recipes come from Christian Scientists from all over..... More
