Chicago: J. Thompson Gill, Manager Confectioner and Baker Publishing Co., 1882. First edition. hardcover. Very scarce, especially in such nice condition. Clean, tight bound 8vo, each section is paginated separately. Extremely collectible. The cover is faded and somewhat soiled. Tips and spine ends are bumped. Ffe is slightly stuck along... More
Halbert's Family Heritage, 1999. First edition. softcover wraps. Fat 4to, clean and tight. This is not just a genealogy of the Briggs family name, though it has many thousands of entries of Briggs and Briggs offshoots. It is also a history of immigration from Preindustrial Europe to the 1990s. Researchers... More
Barnes & Nobel, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, unpaginated. Heavy padded hardcover with demon on the front, pages are light board. There are several intact pastedown envelopes and drawings. Hard to describe; sort of a Demon Hunter guide to rooting out and destroying demons. Excellent art work and... More
1993. Softcover. Corvallis, Oregon; Oregon State University, Center for the Study of the First American, 1993, first edition. Clean tight 4to, two studies in one book, each paginated separately. Many photos and illustrations. Small gift inscription on first title page, very slight shelf wear to the back cover. Anthropological and... More
Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 1983. First Bison Book printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 463pp. Light shelf wear. The author was sent to study the Southern Arapaho in 1899 in Oklahoma. In 1900, he lived with the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming, and in 1901 he visited the related tribe, the... More
Oakland, California: Sunset Publishing, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 275pp. Light bumping to the spine ends. Slight scuff to the tips. Nice blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and embossed picture. A most unique book chronicling the story of music in schools and public places and the singers... More
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Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Nevada; W.L. Hawes, Gov't Printer, 1981, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 421pp. A companion volume to the author's 1990 second volume (our seller ID 14802). Errata laid in. A good history of Nevada printing and printers. Also an excellent bibliography of... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. Corinne Pauli Waterall. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, small 12mo, 48pp. Dust jacket has seen better days; it is all there except for about 1" at the top of the spine cover and 1" at the bottom, but the spine of the dj... More
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1970, 1st American edition. Sq 4to,118pp, some soiling and fading to d.j. Inside clean, tight and crisp. Eighty representations of some of Rembrandt's most unique and fresh drawings using pen and brush scenes from daily life and the spiritual world. Rembrandt the Great Draftsman. More
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight oblong 4to, 224pp. From the tragedies of Italy, his time in France, Spain, Key West, Cuba, Africa, and Idaho, these recipes are for meals that shaped the life of a great writer of American fiction. 125 recipes from Hemingway's haunts... More
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight, fat, trade paperback 8vo, 477pp. Light shelf wear and small curl to the bottom front tip. From Mary Austin to Miriano Vallejo these are more than 100 diverse, boisterous, thought-provoking stories by 24 different authors of the gold rush on the... More
Connecticut: Taunton, 2002. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 202pp.Dust jacket shows very slight curling to top and bottom edges, but is in Mylar. Bungalows are making a resurgence as Americans are once again drawn to homes with character, detail and comfortable layouts that make sense. Designs, inspiration for renovating... More
Hardcover. Hokuseido Press, no date, probably post-World War I. Clean, tight 12mo, 75pp, many photos. Tips are lightly bumped, light shelf wear. FFE has a small closed (taped) tear to top tip where someone erased an old price. The tribes of formosa (now Taiwan( belong racially to the Indonesian race... More
Tao Publishing, 1993. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 224pp. Very light bumping to bottom spine end. Chapters include the philosophy of The Tao, healing arts, sex wisdom and energy theory, the circulation, seven glands, and nerve theories. Internal exercises, meditative, contemplative and breathing exercises, immortal breathing, cycles, and healing prescriptions. More
Washington state: Martingale And Company, 1996. Later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 160pp. Former owner name neatly penned on the verso of the front cover. A system of layering simple processes to produce intriguing surface designs of visual complexity an depth. Fiber-reactive dyes, bleach, fabric paints, water-based resists, photocopy transfers... More
Hardcover. Chicago; Charles C. Thompson Co., 1916, 3rd edition, original from 1911. Tips lightly bumped and scuffed. Light shelf wear. Some architectural drawings pencilled on verso of the ffe and back of frontispiece. Blue cloth cover is clean and tight. Copiously illustrated with house construction drawings. Scarce and collectible. "A... More
University Of Nebraska Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 237pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear with a tiny 1/16th inch hole on the spine gutter on the front and a small closed tear on the top edge by the spine head. Bode was a German immigrant who... More
1965, 1st ed., Robert Hale. HB, lg. 8vo, 623pp, VG/G+ with minor chipping to d.j. and in a protective cover, slight mustiness. Contains 48 colour photos, 69 b/w photos, 33 figures in text. .Every aspect of the rose and rose growing is covered, including the history of the rose and... More
Hardcover. Washington, D.C.; Counterpoint Publ. 1997, 1st edition, Clean, tight oblong 4to, 119pp. "A Welcoming Life captures in photographs and text the remarkable life of one of America's most beloved writers, M.F.K Fisher. Gathering more than 240 family snapshots with extended selections from her writings, this photographic biography shines with..... More
Missouri: Brink, McDonough & Co., 1876. Facsimilie Reprint of the original. Softcover. Clean, tight spiral bound folio, 89pp, very light shelf wear. Maps, history and biographical sketches of citizens, illustrations, patron list, plat book index of major and minor cities and settlements with the county. More
New Mexico: Aquarian Systems, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 187pp. The story of a Plains woman warrior who was captured at the age of ten. She was a fearless rider and warrior who, over time became their leader. She was a Crow Indian (Absaroke.) This is a blend... More
Softcover. Leiden; KITLV Press, 1998, first thus edition. SCARCE. (Bibliotheca Indonesica) Clean, tight 8vo, 504pp. Very slight shelf wear. Written in Balinese with an English translation. The story of the journey of Partha which relates the physical and spiritual journey of the Pandawa hero, Arjuna, as he undertakes a period... More
Iowa: The Gateway Group, 1994. Gloria Joy. First limited edition, #526, signed by the author. Hardcover. Square 12x13" 4to, grey cloth in grey cloth slip case. Excellent gift quality. Twenty-two "goddess" paintings and their inner dialogue from the original paintings, oil on canvas, 48" x 35" collection of W. Brugh... More
Paperback. Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing, 2010, first Englishh edition, translated from German. Clean, tight, internal wire spiral bound, 112pp, heavy, slick paper. How to construct a simple forge, make all necessary tools, forge a stub tang blade from an old automobile coil spring, make a complete knife. A practical guide of... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1992. Softcover. Clean, tight, folio, 160pp. 35 of Fassett's gorgeous, unique designs for seaters, dresses, vests, and shawls. More