England: Vikinng Arkana, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Heavy, relatively scarce 8vo,779pp, clean and tight. Old price sticker on the inside d.j. flap. The myth of the Goddess is the oldest myth we know; the evolution of that myth tells the story of how we have developed over the millennia of..... More about The Myth of the Goddess - Evolution of an Image
Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Folio size, 256pp, text is in English, French and German. Small rippling to very edge of the top of the d.j. In Mylar, still gift quality. Beautifully executed full color book of an art exhibition featuring 150 artists, each witih a message... More about Art for Survival: The Illustrator and the Environment
Chicago: A. C. McClurge & Co., 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Clean 8vo, 435pp. Rough cut edges. Profusely illustrated from photographs by the author. Brown cloth cover is somewhat faded and soiled. Gilt titles are lightly toned. There is a spot on the spine and front cover. Front hinge is cracking... More about A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia
Herts, England: Little Elephant, 1979. Second edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 200pp +indices. Very slight shelf wear. Copious color and B&W illustrations. The theory, interpretation and practice of esoteric astrology. More about Esoteric Astrology, Part Three Houses Ten, Eleven and Twelve
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1982. Facsimilie edition of the 1935 edition. Hardcover. Scarce. Clean, tight, thin 8vo, 64pp, Copiously illustrated, green cloth, with what looks like a library binding. F.O. name pencilled on the ffe. Copious pictures and information about the then (1930s) most modern locomotive engines. including The... More about Modern Locomotives
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner, 1889, second edition. Well worn 8vo, 209pp +several pages of illustrated adverts of Books for the Young. The the cover is faded, lightly soiled, loose from its binding, there is a split along the spine edge about 3" long, and the tail of the spine... More about Little Lord Fauntleroy
Hardcover. London; George Routledge & Sons, 1888, 2nd edition. Tight 8vo, gilded edges, 398pp, first few and last few are very lightly foxed. Cover is very light concave. Spine slightly sun tanned. Some extraordinary illustrations by John Pedder, H. Sheppard Dale, George Bicham, and the author. A well written, not-at-all... More about A Trip Round the World in 1887-8
New York: Arno Press, 1981. Reprint of first edition circa 1890s. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 392pp + index. Very light bumping to spine ends, otherwise seems unread. Complete and authoritative organization and history of one of Chicago's many railroads - the Milwaukee & St. Paul. Railroads of Wisconsin prior to... More about The Organization and History of The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Softcover. Nebraska, Bison Books; 1968 reprint of 1938 original. Clean, tight 8vo, 378pp. Some shelf wear, otherwise very nice shape. A frank, disarming and simple autoboiography of a Navaho boy whose life we follow through childhood, puberty and manhood. Nomadic cattle-raising, farming, ttrading, communal enterprises, tribal dances and ceremonies, love-making and marriage. More about Son of Old Man Hat; A Navaho Autobiography
2000. Softcover. Albuquerque, N.M., University of New Mexico Press, 1999, 1st edition, 2nd printing. Clean, tight 8vo, trade paperback. A revolutionary acheological synthesis which argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. More about Bones, Boats, and Bison; Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
199. Hardcover. New York/London: Plenum Press, 1991, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 315pp. Former owner blind stamp on ffe and name penned on ffe. More about The Interpretation of Archaeological Spatial Patterning; (Interdisciplinary Contributions to...
Hardcover. New York, Clarke, Given and Hooper, 1888, Second edition, University Editon. Clean, tight 8vo, 454pp, quarter calf with marblized boards. Tips somewhat bumped and scuffed. Two-inch split to leather on top corner of spine top, some brown stains to leather spine. Front hinge is mostly loose, but the book... More about A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 186pp. Very slight shelf wear. A book plate on the front pastedown. There is a small bookshop sticker on top of the publisher on the title page and a small forner owner stamp above that on the title page (see photo). There are a couple of... More about The Culinary Handbook
Softcover. Goldfield, NV, ca. 1990. Clean, tight, spiral bound 4to,116pp. Somewhat shelf worn and white back cover is soiled. Some light rippling of the front edge of the back cover. Scarce. Stories and memories with historiic photographs from private collections of the one-time boomtown of Goldfield, Nevada, located about half... More about Goldfield Remembered
Softcover. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2001, 0811828255. Clean, tight 4to, 196pp. Simple, delicious recipes in the Italian wine bar tradition. More about Enoteca
Hardcover. London, Century, first edition, 1995. Clean, tight 8vo, 182pp. Good photo section. However, it would be fine except the paper is lightly tanning. Dust jacket has very minor shelf wear. No tears or chips. Historic detective, Phillips, discovered an astonishing confirmation of Robert Vernon's early 1600s claim that the... More about The Search for the Grail
Sutton Publishing, 1986. Hardcover. Gloucester, England, Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1986, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 257pp. Illustrated. Contains all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult-objects, and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples from Ireland to Austria. Describes the geographical and chronological scope of the book and examines... More about The Gods of the Celts
New York: J.B. Ford & Company, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo., 413pp, front hinge is beginning to crack, but still tight, rear hinge is fine. Greenwood was actually Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904). She was a highly respected writer and journalist, contributing stories and poetry to many publicatons of her... More about New Life in New Lands; Notes of Travel
London: Haus Publishing Limited, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 122pp. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) had an exciting life. He was a poorly educated artisan in England, but he blossomed in America into a giant of agitational journalism. He galvanized the colonists to... More about Tom Paine; The Life of a Revolutionary
Softcover. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bear & Co., Publishing, 1997, Second edition. Clean, tight 4to, 372pp, illustrated. Some minor shelf wear to bottom front tip at spine. Top tip is lightly bent. A multi-disciplinary, scientific study that examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years... More about Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers Inc..,, 1962, first edition. CleaFirst editionn, tight 8vo, 408pp, 450 illustrations, 300 in color. An excellent reference for the beginning or accomplished artist. Nearly everything one could need to know about painting and drawing - a classic tome. More about How to Paint and Draw
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 172pp, copiously illustrated. A brilliant look into the life of Dashiell Hammett, mystery writer of such classics as The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. It is a wonderful remembrance by his daughter. Hammett was notorious for his... More about Dashiell Hammett A Daughter Remembers
Maine: International Marine Publishing Co., 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight tall 8vo, 140pp. It has one small ding to the top of the spine which has been neatly repaired. Bottom of spine is very slightly bumped. A step-by-step pictorial guide to building a seaworthy little skiff. In these days... More about Building the Skiff 'Cabin Boy'
1989. Hardcover. New York; Academic Press, 1989, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 534pp. F.o. name in small, neat stamp on ffe. Whenever an archaeologist finds something significant there is always a debate as whether it is what he/she says it is, etc. Archaeologist love to debate. This book will debunk... More about Debating Archaeology
Hardcover. San Jose, California; Supreme Grand Lodge of Amorc Printing & Publishing, 1982, later edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 320pp + Explanatory. Dust jacket is lightly soiled with minor chips to head and tail of spine. Book is near fine but has a penned number of the ffe. "The true story... More about Mystical Life of Jesus; An Astounding Account of the Known and "Unknown" Periods of the...