New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Peter Parnall. First edition. Hardcover. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth. Very good/Very good. Light rubbing to corners. Name ink on the front free endsheet. Item #23074 The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument of the 1950s was quietly published in the raucous sixties in a first edition of 5,000 copies and has now gone on to sell almost two million copies, taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as an environmental and wilderness classic. The late author's reflections transcend the mere genre of the environmental essay; the individual pieces part of a fully realized whole that defined a whole new style of environmental and wilderness writing, inspiring new generations of writers (Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind) while becoming the author's best known and best loved work in the process, and yes, becoming what Abbey always feared, "a classic"

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Octavo [20 cm] in blind-embossed pictorial wraps. Unpaginated with black and white photos throughout. Light toning and wear to lightly soiled wraps, light creasing; second leaf completely disbound (but present), binding brittle. Good. Item #54414

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New York: Abrams, 2012. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 301pp. Small folio [30.5 cm] in bright green cloth. Fine / fine. Item #53356 ISBN: 9781419702808 From the jacket: "This major work redefines [Hockney] as an important painter of the English countryside, presenting his recent landscapes for the first time."

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New York: Dial Books for Young Readers; E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1983-1985. Edward Gorey. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 168; 170; 147pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 navy blue cloth with various shades of paper over boards. With only very minimal edge-wear to the covers. Erroneously, Bellairs began to sign the rear free endpaper of The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost. All are in the dust jackets, featuring the artwork of Edward Gorey. There is a small glitter stain on the rear panel of the dust jacket of The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt. The bottom fore-edge corners of the jacket flaps are clipped, however the prices are intact in the top fore-edge corners. Very good + / very good +. Item #52635 ISBN: 0803700296 Three books from the series of children gothic horror novels written by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls. The books feature dust jacket art, frontispieces and maps by Edward Gorey. All three books are signed, with "Best wishes," by John Bellairs on the front free endpapers.

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Bethany, VA: Printed and Published by the Editor, 1831. First edition. Leather bound. 574+48pp. Octavo [20 cm] in 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Good only. Boards rubbed, corners rubbed through, leather splitting at joints, backstrip split at tail, ink stamps on fore edge, notes in pencil on front free endsheet, foxed throughout. Item #51369 Contains the first printing of Campbell's "Delusions." Delusions is the important first printed article on Mormonism in book form, reprinted in pamphlet form as the first anti-Mormon tract in 1832. "Campbellites" is a term to describe adherents of the beliefs derived from the American Restoration Movement [Baptist]. This was a rival (to the Mormons) religious movement in Ohio in the 1830's. They were called the "Campbellites", because one of the most prominent leaders was Alexander Campbell. Many Campbellites left the fold to join the Mormons, including Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt. Scallawagiana 3.

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