Vasarely GEA
Hardcover. Editions Hervas, Corvina Kiado, 1982, first edition. Paris, Printed in Hungarian. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear and one closed tear to bottom edge. Color photos of some of Vasarely's best work. More
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The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vol. 1 (Abies-Canadenesis Atropinum)
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 622pp. Volume 1 of a 12-Vol. set. We also have Vol. 4, and the indices Vols. 11-12. Some light shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket. A record of the positive effects of drugs..... More
The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vol.4, (Cundurango hydrocotyle)
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 622pp. Volume 4 of a 12-Vol. set. We also have Vol. 1, and the indices Vols. 11-12. Some light shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket. A record of the positive effects of drugs..... More
The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vols.11-12, (Index A-J and Index K-Z)
New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vos, 1330pp combined. Volume 11 & 12 of a 12-Vol. set, indicies 1 & 2. We also have Vol. 1 & 4. Some light shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket. Price is for the..... More
The life and times of an involuntary genius
New York: Giorge Braziller, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo,192pp, rough cut front edges. Dust jacket has a couple of small v-shaped chips alonng the bottom edge. Book has very minor bumping to head and tail of spine. The true story of a poet's childhood spent in a haunted..... More
Steamships and Motorships of the West Coast
Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co., 1968. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 175pp. Very light shelf wear to bottom edge and tips. A story in fascinating historic pictures and text about many of the famous and unusual vessels that visited and put into ports from all over the world along the Pacific..... More
The Last Cannibals
New York: Wm Morrow Co, Not given, ca. 1950s. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo., 192pp. The dust jacket is somewhat shelf worn, edges are somewhat chipped and scuffed. Black cloth cover is in good condition but has light scuffs to tips and light bumping to spine ends. Hinges are..... More
The Poet of Loch Ness
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005. Second edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 302pp. A couple spends a summer in the highlands studying Loch Ness, meet the wife's old flame, two odd sisters, and a Highland poet. The story is beautifully written and full of secrets that glide beneath us all..... More
Unkulunkulu in Zululand
Minnesota: Board of Foreign Missions, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 263pp. Orange cloth cover is fading at the spine and edges. Former owner signature penned on the half title. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Some minor bumping to tips. Liberally photographed treatise on the "christianizing"..... More
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg; The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Chicago: UniUniversity of Chicago Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 320pp. Incredible photos and illustrations of some very unusual critters. An ode to toads and snakes, newts and tuatara, crocodiles and tortoises. From a herpetological point of view this not just a scientific tome but a witty, informative..... More
Triggernometry; A Gallery of Gunfighters
Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Reprint of 1934 edition. Hardcover. Fat 8vo, 441pp, 21 illustrations/photos, clean and tight. Gift inscription and plate on ffe. Chapters on the lives of some of the West's most famous outlaws, rangers, gunfighters, lawmen, and characters including Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, the Earps..... More
The White Blackbird
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Rodale Books, 1955, 1st thus reprint of the 1848 original by Curwen Press in England. 12mo, 56pp, very good with some bumping to bottom of spine and small scuffs to bottome edge, no d.j. as issued. Lovely colored graphics by Grandville. One of the best of Alfred de..... More
Teddy Bears: Twenty-Five Irresistible Designs for Knitted Bears
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
THE GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD: A CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY
Hardcover. Washington State, Superior Publ. Co., 1977, first edition. 4to, 173pp, clean and tight. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket and one tiny scuff at top of spine. Photographs, maps, timetables, and engineering drawings as well as an excellent history of the Canadian Grand Trunk Western Railroad. More
Arthur C Clarks World of Strange Powers
Hardcover. New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 248pp. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear and slight fading. Book is clean and unmarked. Eyewitness accounts of some of the strangest phenomena ever told. Tales of ghosts, poltergeists, dowsers, firewalkers, stigmatas, , and many more from one..... More
Superpen, The Cartoons and Caricatures of Edward Sorel
Hardcover. 1978, stated first edition, Random House, 4to, no page numbers, slight tanning to edges of d.j., but all in all clean, tight and crisp. News article about Sorel laid in. "One of the funniest and truest satirical cartoonists, alive or dead," said the NY Times. Sorel is dedicated to..... More
PostSecret - Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
New York: Harper Collins, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to 277pp. A book of secrets - the author handed out postcards and told people to anonymously add their deepest secrets of regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession,or humiliation, and art work as well. He was overwhelmed with the response and..... More
Frederic Remington Selected Writings
New Jersey: Castle, 1981. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean tight 8to, 484pp. Dust jacket has several closed tears and a few very small chips out of the edges. The book is good with only a neatly penned f.o. name. Fine, authentic western writing. One sees a lot of Remington's fabulous paintings..... More
Design in the Theatre
London: 1927. First edition. Hardcover. London; The Studio Limited, 1927, first edition. Very scarce London/Berlin Edition. Clean and tight 4to, 56pp plus 120 magnificent plates in photogravure, 8 in color. Slight bumping to tips and spine tail. Cover lightly faded, spine and back cover sunned and slightly rubbed. Scans available..... More
Heaven Knows What
Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1962. Reissued in 1937, copyright in 1962 by Llewllyn Publications. Hardcover. A very scarce edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 215pp plus tables from 1890 through 1964. The blue cloth cover with silver gilt is lightly faded. The head and tail of the spine are slightly bumped. Some, small..... More
Panhandle Pioneer; Henry C. Hitch, His Ranch and His Family
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 294pp, gift inscription on ffe, some fading to d.j. spine and a few scuffs and tiny chips. Lightly bumped tips and tail. Otherwise clean and tight. Henry Hitch's story is a story of the social, cultural and economic fortunes..... More
The Cruising Cook
Colorado: S Deal & Assoc, 1997. Later printing. Paperback. Clean, tight 3-ring binder with plasticized cover. Front edge is NOT smudged, it is just the scanner glitch. One of the best boat-cook cruising chef cookbooks around. What to buy, how long things keep, gear and gadgets, how to stow, use..... More
North of 53; The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Fronteir 1870-1914
New York: Macmillan, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, clean and tight, 328pp, many photos. Book is inscribed "To Ed Brooker, Chatanika soudough at the request of Jack Bernet. I hope you enjoy this look at an earlier Alaskan era. Bill Hunt, Feb. '77" Hard land, hard life and hard men..... More
Steam Turbines & Steam Turbine Calculations
Pennsylvania: International Textbook Company, 1927. First edition. Small 8vo, 68pp, lots of graphs and charts and two fold-outs in excellent shape. Small (about 1/2"+ high) damp stain on bottom edge on spine side, leaks to about 5 pages, but does not effect the book. For the collector of steam engine..... More
Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley
Phoenix: Falcon Press, 1982. Third printing. Paperback. Clean, tight, very scarce 8vo, 525pp. Covers show some shelf wear and the bottom of the spine has a very neat taped repair. There is a small round smudge on the cover between the eyes of Crowley. More