Call It Sleep
New York: Picador, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. 457pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
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On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess (Second edition inscribed by Everett's brother, Waldo Ruess)
Palm Desert, California: Desert Magazine Press, 1950. Second edition [Advance Readers Copy?]. Paperback. 80pp. Slim quarto [25.5 cm] Brown cloth spine with tan wraps. Title in gilt on front wrap. Light wear to the wraps. The book includes facsimiles of Ruess' woodcuts and facsimile photographs of Ruess and his travels..... More
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.; Peregrine Smith Books, 1983. First edition, association copy, signed by Pat Jenks. Hardcover. 228pp. Octavo [22 cm] Melon-colored paper over boards with gilt lettering and decorative stamping on the spine and front cover. With light edgewear to the spine and boards, and..... More
Paper Talk: Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 120pp. Quarto [30 cm] Black and white photographically illustrated paper over boards, with a cover photograph of Charles M. Russell by Dorothea Lange. Light rubbing to the extremities; previous owner's name on the front pastedown; embossed stamp..... More
Paper Talk: Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 120pp. Quarto [30 cm] Black and white photographically illustrated paper over boards, with a cover photograph of Charles M. Russell by Dorothea Lange. Very good condition, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. There is..... More
William E. McLellin's Lost Manuscript
Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 304pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Black paper over boards stamped in gilt. Thefront board is bent through the center. In the dust jacket, with light rubbing to the surface. Signed by Mitchell K. Schaefer on the title page. This..... More
Ceremony
New York: Penguin Books, 2006. 30th Anniversary Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition: Later printing. Paperback. 243pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the..... More
Old Charleston: Twenty-Four Woodcuts
Richmond, VA: The Dale Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Quarto [32 cm] Black cloth spine with black and white illustrated paper over boards. The spine is sunned, the boards are mildly warped, and the front hinge is a bit weak. There is a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown..... More
Old Virginia in Block Prints
Richmond: The Dale Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth spine ( a bit faded, and lightly frayed at the ends) with decoratively patterned paper over boards. The boards show light edgewear. Number 983 in an edition limited to 1000. Signed by Charles Smith on the..... More
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith, 1624
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1966. Facsimile reprint. Leather bound. 248pp. Folio [33 cm] in full vellum with gilt spine title and cover device, with woven cord ties; printed on laid paper. Housed in publisher's pale blue cloth clamshell case with vellum spine label and paper cover label, royal..... More
Lehren Des Profeten Joseph Smith
Kirche Jesu Christi Der Heiligen Der Letzten Tage, No date. Erste deutsche Auflage (First German Edition). 299pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt stamping on the spine and front cover. Good. The boards are a bit warped, and the gilt on the spine and front cover has..... More
The Roedeer. A Monograph
Southampton: Ashford Press Publishing, 1987. Limited edition. Leather bound. SIGNED. 192pp. Quarto [25 cm] 3/4 brown leather with green cloth covered boards, raised bands, gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, gilt ruled lines on the spine and covers, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front cover..... More
The Chace: A Poem
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. 118pp. Quarto [31 cm] Light green cloth covered boards with a red gilt stamped title label on the spine. Top edge gilt. Other edges deckled. Very good. There is minor staining on the rear board. The cloth at the..... More
The Man Who Never Died
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1972. Hardcover. 157pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over tan boards. Gilt stamped title on the spine. In a clipped dust jacket with moderate soiling. Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad at the old territorial prison in..... More
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Includes an index and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime," by William H. Holmes. Previous owner's..... More
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Includes an index and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime," by William H. Holmes. Moderate bumping..... More
Mormon Country
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 362pp. Octavo [20 cm]; red illustrated wraps. Stegner's history on his childhood home. 'Mormon Country' is a term that applies to the area that Brigham Young and his followers colonized in the mid to late 19th century. The area includes..... More
William Steig: Drawings
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Square quarto [28.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the artist's name in large embossed letters on the front cover. The covers are just a bit rubbed and scuffed, and there..... More
William Steig: Drawings
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Square quarto [28.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the artist's name in large embossed letters on the front cover. The covers are just a bit rubbed and scuffed, and there..... More
The Winter of Our Discontent
New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 291pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct..... More
Tortilla Flat
New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Later printing. Paperback. 174pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. When Danny returns to Tortilla Flat in Monterey, California, after the First World War he moves into a small house left to him by his grandfather. One by one, various ne'er-do-wells are drawn to Danny's house -..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Helen Smithson. First Folio Society edition with illustrations by Helen Smithson. Hardcover. 104pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brightly illustrated cloth over boards. Printed with a design by the artist. In a maroon paper covered slipcase. Fine in a near fine slipcase. With charming illustrations by Helen..... More
The Master of Ballantrae
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 900pp. Octavo [27 cm] Dark blue leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine and front cover, and gilt stamped vignettes on the covers. All edges gilt. Blue moire endsheets. Brown silk ribbon page marker. Designed..... More
The Master of Ballantrae
New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Heritage reprint. Hardcover. 302pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] In a silver paper covered slipcase. Navy blue cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and silver stamped fleur de lis patterns and single ruled borders on the spine and front..... More
Josef Sudek: The Pigment Prints 1947-1954
Cinubia, Circa 1995. Exhibition catalogue. Paperback. Thin quarto [29.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine. The covers are very lightly scratched. The edges of the covers are ever so slightly bumped and rubbed. From the Editor's Note- "The exhibition was organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rencontres Internationales de..... More