1899. Leather_bound. Scranton, NJ, International Textbook Co., 1899, Clean tight bound, 8vo, Tips are scuffed. each section is separately paginated. Large index. Quarter calf. Prepared for the students of international correspondence schools and contains in permanent form, the instruction papers, exam questions, and keys used in the course; Geometrical Drawing... More
Hardcover. Four clean, 4tos - tight bound volumes: Vol. I: Ophioglossaceae to Aristolochiaceae (ferns to birthworts), 536pp, 1984. Vol. II: Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae (Buckwheats to Kramerias), 635pp, 1990. Vol. III: Geraniaceae to Scrophulariaceae (Geraniums to Figworts), 866pp, 1984. Vol. IV, Bignoniaceae to Compositae (Bignonias to Sunflowers), 732pp, 1983. (Original editions... More
E. Atkin, 1998. First printing. Paperback. Clean, tight 8vo with minor shelf wear. An exciting and interesting narrative of a 20-year sailing adventure around the world from 1977 to 1997. More
New York: Vendome Press, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Heavy, tight bound, oblong 4to, 232pp. Small tear to top edge at spine head otherwise d.j. (in Mylar) would be fine. A colorfully photographed world of the most beautiful of beautiful trains from the Orient Express to the TGV; the interiors... More
New York: Reinhold Book corp. 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, 8vo, 96pp. Jacket has some shelf wear. Back of dust jacket has a white and blue pattern outline where it rested on a cloth book, probably. Otherwise the jacket is very nice. Book shows very light bump to the... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. Hardcover. Quite scarce and collectible. 1896, first edition. Somewhat soiled, tight-bound 8vo, 218pp, rough cut edges. Cover is rather dirty with some fading. A quite impressive embossed tiger portrait on the front. Frontis of the author and a number of photos from his travels... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Second printing, first edition printed in 1898. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 303pp, 2 maps intact. Book shows minor shelf wear, very faintly scuffed tips. Head and tail of spine are very lightly bumped. History of the middle of the 19th century and to... More
New York: Grossett and Dunlap, 1919. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 260pp, Lightly bumped at top and bottom of spine. Very ligh shelf wear. Good reading copy. More
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Knowledge, Inc., 1940 (second printing from 1938 first). Collectible, clean tight 8vo, 384pp. The dust jacket has numerous tears, chips and a missing 2" strip from the bottom of the spine. The book is in very nice shape, light bumps to tips and spine ends. Former... More
P.G. Napolitano. Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA., Southwest Museum, second printing, 1974 (first in 1965). Clean, tight 8vo, 281pp. A rather scarce history of the Medica (herbalist/healer) in the Hispanic culture as well as a comprehensive and beautifully researched herbal describing the plants and their uses in the Upper Rio Grande... More
Softcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1988, 3rd printing. Clean, tight 4to, 254pp. Photographic essay of the myriad of mining and frontier ghost towns and their architectural remains in the State of Colorado. More
Albuquerque: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1985. Frederick Dockstader. Revised. Trade Paperback. 8vo, 202pp, revised and enlarged edition, old owner book plate on the first title page; lovely color drawings of the Kachina. Reprinted from the 1954 edition. The story of the complexity of the Kachina cult and the Hopi religion. More
1987, 1st ed., Hudson Hills Press, sq 4to, 130pp, with only the very most minor shelf wear, gift quality. Dust jacket in Mylar. A fantastic book of color photos and information on the new traditions in Navajo weaving. More than 100 illustrations; 83 in color of beautiful Navajo rugs, some... More
Copenhagen: Lademann Forlagsaktieselskab, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. An unusual 4to, 238pp, Clean and tight. Book has a very small (1") piece missing from the top of the spine cover and very slight shelf wear. Dust jacket is somewhat tanned and shelf worn with a few chips and tiny tears on... 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
Hardcover. New York/London; Plenum Press, 1996, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 378pp. Minor shelf wear to cover. Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Asia, Africa, southwest Europe, northwest Europe, the Eastern Sub-Balticum, East Europe, Australia, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Siberia, Beringia, North America. More
Hardcover. New York; Harpercollins, 1991, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Book is near fine but has a small note neatly penned on the verso of the bfe. The untold story of the longest running legal fight in American history; the Sioux nation's one hundred-year... More
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
Pennsylvania: Telegraph Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Scarce, clean, tight 8vo, 303pp. Dust jacket has some tanning, chipping to edges and has an open triangle tear to bottom of spine edge. Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, "Custer's Last Fight", where the... More
Hardcover. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1978, first edition. Clean, tight 4to, 173pp. Very slight bumping to tips and spine ends. Dust jacket has minor chipping across edges, top and bottom. The wild and wonderful story of the Comstock Lode in its heyday and Virginia City, Nevada. Fred Hobbs drawings are fabulous... More
Canada: Madison Marketing Limited, 1991. Jane Goodall. First edition. Hardcover. Two clean, tight square 12mos, unpaginated. Both are SIGNED and inscribed by Jane Goodall. Beautifully photographed by the author with the accompnying histsory and biology of the wonderful primates. Written primarily for children 4-up, but still very interesting for every... More
Mcgraw-hill, 1990. Softcover. Chicago, Contemporary Books, 1990. Clean tight 4to, 431pp. Very minor shefl wear to the cover. An intriguing collection of unexplained phenomena and mysteriours happenings, from spirits, poltergeistes, eerie balls of light, and unaccounted for objects dropping from the sky and hundreds of other supernatural apparitions of the... More
New York: Viking Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 504pp. Some light shelf wear and light fading to cover. Very minor bumping to spine ends. Front edge is rough cut. One of Campbell's four illustrated volumes on the Masks of God. We have them all, please inquire. More
Hardcover. New York, Harper collins, 1994, 1st edition, 3rd printing. Clean, tight 8vo, 185pp. Dust jacket is price clipped and has one very small, neatly repaired tear to top edge and some tiny chips to edges. Small bump to the tail of the spine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and inscribed... More
