London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1947. Later revised edition with a new Preface and Additional Chapter. Hardcover. Clean, tight, small 8vo, 299pp. Blue cloth with red lettering. Light shelf wear, map pastedowns. The log of a ship's surgeon in a voyage from Liverpool through the Mediterranean, to the Arabian Sea... More
Hardcover. New :York; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924, stated first edition. Clean, tight, fat 8vo, 977pp. Cover is somewhat faded and worn. Only real problem with the book is that pages 437 through 444 are missing and appear torn out. 445 is partly torn, but extant. There are some damp... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1963. Hardcover. Tall 4to, 176pp, clean and tight. Minor shelf wear, a couple of minor strips of bubble in the back of the d.j. Andrews was a scholar of the Native American tribes and his book is a compendium of simple, truthful tales taken direct from... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 208pp. Two small, open triangle tears to spine of dust jacket at top and bottom. Jacket is somewhat faded. Former owner name and date penned neatly on the front pastedown. Otherwise a nice copy. The American Far West, 1865-1900;... More
Hardcover. 1979, 1st edition, Orbis Publ., London (Times Books) 0812908260. Clean, tight, tall 8vo, 1914pp, very slight shelf wear. An excellent anthology about the colonization of countless isolated and independent societies in Africa, America and Australasia. A wide selection of these natives' responses to the arrival of the first Europeans... More
Hardcover. Ukiah, CA. Sun House Guild; 1978, first edition. Large folio, 188pp in very good shape except for some slight sun fading to front edge of dust jacket and a few scuffs, rubs and small edge tears. One v-shaped open tear to top edge near the head of the spine... More
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight tall 8vo, 333pp. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear and very minor soiling. According to Craig Claiborne, this book is the most comprehensive book of Asian cooking ingredients ever published in English. If you sometimes go to the... More
Softcover. Reno, Nevada, Great Basin Press, 1976, No. 95 of 200 limited edition portfolios of drawings, signed by Datin. It contains eight 10" x 7-1/2" detailed line drawing of some of the only extant antiquarian buildings left in Reno, Nevada, where historic preservation is not the most popular sport. Several... More
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1968, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 341pp. Some light toning on the edges of the rough cut pages. Lotta Crabtree was a household name in the last third of the 19th century. She was a comedienne and actresss who toured the country... More
Kansas: White River Production, 1994. first edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 192pp. Very slight shelf wear to jacket, Mylar cover. A chronicle of the history of the diesel on the Missouri Pacific, which slowly ended the age of steam railroads. More
Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, first UMP edition. Clean, tight 4to. The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series. The history of the railway that serviced the nation's largest iron ore deposits in Minnesota. In the 1880s and 1890s the Duluth and Iron Range, and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern... More
Morning Sun Books, Inc, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 128pp. Mylar cover. The 118 year old "Katy" was among the last medium sized carriers serving the southwest. More
Hardcover. Toronto, Canada; Royal Ontario Museum, 1977, first edition. Very scarce tall 4to, 370pp, clean and tight. Slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. An international perspective containing 25 articles by specialists from ten countries. Beautifully and copiously illustrated. Textiles reveal the technological achievements and artistic aims of a culture... More
2007. Softcover. New York, Disinformation Company, 2007, revised US edition, previously published in Great Britain. Clean, tight 8vo, 468pp. Illustrated with contemporary Ayahuasca color visions of Peruvian shaman Pablo Amaringo and ancient cave drawings from the Drakensberg caves, Chimera from Heaven Cave in the Karoo, and other cave drawings. An... More
Missouri: White River Productions, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to 175pp, copious photos and illustrations. Very light shelfwear to the jacket. The story of the streamlined era of the Rock Island Railroad line lasted 43 years, beginning with the delivery of the first reborn Rockets in 1937 and ending... More
Carson City, NV: Purple Coyote Corp, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 176 pp. A beautiful, goregously photographed book on the vast expanses of the west and the cowboys, horses and other folks that live there. Very special book and a great gift. Buy books of quality from dealers with experience. More
Hardcover. Canyon, Texas; Palo Duro Press, 1972, first edition. Signed by both authors. Clean, tight 8vo, 312pp. Rather scarce in this excellent condition (in Mylar cover.). Though he was a southern gentleman of the first order, classically educated, and fine breeding, James Hamlin was also a Texas character, extempraneous and... More
Colfax, California: Victorian Video Productions, 2001. New VHS color video in original plastic cover. Exploration of warp and weft interlocking tapestry techniques as they relate to weaving. Tips on joining welts, edge control, weft direction, and the cause and elinination of those dreaded ridges. Tips on horizontal and vertical stripe... More
Softcover. Los Angeles, California; International Publishing Co., 1914. A collectible booklet from the International Cooking Library. Tight bound 12mo, 64pp. The wraps are in poor condition around the edges with numerous chips and cracks but the book is quite good condition. More
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First annotated edition. Hardcover. Fairly scarce in this condition. Clean, tight 8vo, 424pp. Numerous prints and photos. Jacket has some shelf wear and chipping to edges, light rubbing. Price clipped. Green cloth cover is lightly bumped at spine tail. The marvelous adventures of one... 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
Wraps. Jerusalem, Jewish National Fund, 1949191pp with fold out map and an insert if back of book. Wraps are toning, chipped and missing a couple of small pieces from tips and back. Front cover is beginning to come loose but is still taped and attached. A very scarce description and... More
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. First edition. Book. 8vo, 268 pp. some fading, shelf wear and chippuing to d.j. Introduction by Joh Redhouse. Wasi'chu means "greedy one" and has come to stand for those corporations and indiviuals who continue to ravage and steal Indian land and resources for their... More
New Jersey: Chilton Book Co, 1970. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. A rather scarce small 4to, 322pp. Dust jacket is badly worn and missing a scoop out of the front, the protective plastic coating is peeling, but it is in a Mylar cover. The book is clean and tight except for some... More
New York: Frederick Stokes Co., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, green cloth 8vo, 363pp. Top edge of spine is missing about 1/8", tail of spine is bumped, tips are lightly scuffed, otherwise in nice shape. Front edge is rough cut. The history of the Santa Fe Trail from the... More