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Geofroy Tory, Painter and Engraver: First Royal Printer: Reformer of Orthography and Typography under François I. An Account of His Life and Works (signed by Bruce Rogers)
Boston and New York: Printed at The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 332pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Black cloth spine with green paper over boards with ornamental gilt stamping. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Printed on English handmade paper. With areas of fading to the..... More
Faces & Masks; Memory of Fire Volume 2
New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. Later printing. Paperback. 290pp. Octavo [21cm]. Paperback. NEW. From back cover: "The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our..... More
A Cautionary Tale; Peer into the lives of sever New York performing poets
New York: Uphook Press. Paperback. 70pp. 21.5 cm. Blue wrappers with illustration on front cover. Covers show signs of rubbing. Includes work by Theo Coates, Pete Dolack, Bob Hart, ICE, Brant Lyon, Jane Ormerod, and Frank Simone. SIGNED by Jane Ormerod on the title page. "Reading these personal, sharply observed..... More
Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 290pp. Brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. Large quarto art volume on the painters of Southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau. Designed as a companion volume to "Painters of the Wasatch", this is the first volume to comprehensively gather all of..... More
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
New York: Random House, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Black boards quarterbound in paper of the same color. "Electrifying. A spectacular book." - Cynthia Ozick. New book. More
The Last of the Menu Girls
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 190 pp. Softcover with illustrated wraps. Minor wear to edges. Spine lightly sunned. A spot of soil on the front fore edge. Inscribed by the author on the ffep and dated June 1986. More
Selections from the Book of Mormon in the Deseret Alphabet
New York: Published for The Deseret University, 1869. First edition. Leather bound. 116pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 1/4 blue leather with printed blue and black paper over boards. The spine rubbed, however the gilt is still bright. There are minor areas of soiling and discoloration to the boards. Internally, exceptionally bright..... More
The Ugly Duckling
New York: Macmillan, 1987. Thomas Locker. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED Unpaginated. Oblong quarto [22 x 28 cm] 1/4 Navy cloth and paper over boards. Title stamped in gilt on backstrip. Front hinge is cracked. Dust jacket has three 1" closed tears. Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale reimagined by Marianna Mayer..... More
Whose Chick Are You?
New York: Greenwillow Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED Unpaginated. Quarto [26cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Illustrations were created using watercolor and brush pens. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915; The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938; The Later Years, 1938-1963 (3 volumes)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966-1976. Second printing; Second printing; First edition. Hardcover. 641; 743; 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards. With very light wear to the extremities. In dust jackets with moderate rubbing. There is a bit of insect nibbling along the fold of the rear..... More
The Lost Cases of Ed London
Norfolk: Crippen & Landru, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Octavo [23.5cm] Maroon cloth over boards with title stamped in blue on backstrip. Signed and numbered limited edition. More
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems
New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED 134pp. Octavo [20cm] Olive green cloth over boards with title stamped in white on front board. Blind stamp boarder. Deckle edges. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Gift signature from the author on front free endsheet. More
The Wild Swans
New York: The Dial Press, 1981. Susan Jeffers. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED 40pp. Quarto [31cm] Navy cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on backstrip. Top edge of boards are faded. Dust jacket has some chipping and tearing. Retold by Amy Ehrlich. Signed by the artist on the title..... More
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
London: Verso, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. 288pp. Octavo [19.5cm] Pink wraps. "With race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis..... More
Art Work of Utah, Published in Twelve Parts
Chicago: The W.H. Parish Publishing Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. In twelve parts [185pp.] Folio [35 cm] Rebound in 1/4 black cloth with red cloth over boards. Original wrappers not bound in. 18 pages of text. 76 unnumbered plates. Spine lightly rolled. All parts very good or betters. Marbled endpapers..... More
Chasing the Dime
London: Dennis McMillan, 2002. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5cm] Black cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on backstrip. In a black paper covered slipcase. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Limited numbered edition in slipcase. More
Are Prison's Obsolete?
New York: Seven Stories Press. 21st printing. Softcover. 127 pp. Duodecimo. [18 cm]. Pictorial wraps. "ith her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life..... More
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World
New York: Ten Speed Press, 1996. Paperback. 245pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "The only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Later printing. Paperback. 289pp. Duodecimo [17.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment..... More
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007. Revised. 190pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class..... More
Women, Race & Class
New York: Vintage Books, 1983. Reprint. 271pp. Octavo [20 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "A powerful study of the women’s liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From..... More
Abolition Democracy; Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. Later printing. 126pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding..... More
The Communist Manifesto
New York: Signet Classics, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. 127pp. Duodecimo [17cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
Soul on Fire (signed, with signed letter tucked in)
Waco, TX: Word Books, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 240pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black paper over boards, with a slant to the spine, and bumping at the spine ends. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels, and a number of small closed and open creased tears to the..... More