No date. Original booklet issued by The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department. Very slim twenty-fourmo. Saddle-stitched illustrated wraps. Very good, with light staining to the rear wrap. GPO - 639576. "Don't think the water is safe because you can't see the snail... it's pinhead size!" More
New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. Second printing. Paperback. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in a number of little magazines, and where he grew to..... More
New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. First printing. Paperback. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned, creased, and scratched. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in a number of little magazines, and where..... More
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1982. First edition. Paperback. 85pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Extremities lightly rubbed; binding a bit stiff. A bibliography of the Canadian Editions of the Oz books. More
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 259pp. Square octavo [23x21.5cm]. Pictorial wraps. "'One Voice Rising' is a memoir by a Ute healer, historian, and elder as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Clifford Duncan (1933-2014) was a tribal official and medicine man, a...... More
[Boston]: Brier Hill Press, 2013. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Folio [34 cm] Designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press. Printed by Arthur Larsen at Horton Tank Graphics. Frontis, portrait, (12) pages of text in wraps, plus 32 wood engravings printed directly from the blocks. A retelling in dramatically bold black-and-white..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2020. Royden Card. 2020 Edition. Paperback. 346pp. Illustrated wraps. "The 2020 edition of the revived 'Review' features contributions by nearly 50 writers and artists, including an interview with western novelist/poet Gino Sky; a recently discovered, unpublished essay about the West by Idaho novelish Vardis Fisher (1895-1968);..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Reprints. Hardcover. 676; 410; 409; 373pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Black and olive green textured cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spines, and embossed titles and patterns and gilt stamped animal designs on the front covers. Good. The extremities are rubbed and..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 81pp. Oblong Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. A guide to famous visitors to Utah including Jack Kerouac, Stephen Hawking, Vladimir Nabokov, and more. More
New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1927. Reprint. Hardcover. 347pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Bluish-gray cloth over boards. Spine ends bumped; front board just a trifle warped. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. A collection of 47 short stories. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First trade edition. Paperback. 42pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Bluish gray wraps. Blue free endpapers. With minor fading at the spine, and a previous owner's last name on the front free endpaper. Printed February 1969 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 287pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Pale rose-colored cloth over boards with lettering and decorative embellishments on the backstrip and front board. The backstrip is spotted, and the front hinge has been reinforced. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 387pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with a bold "E" stamped in gilt on the backstrip and front board, and four black ink stamped clovers in each corner of the front board. The front hinge is a little weak..... More
[1931]. 7 3/4" x 10 3/4". The illustration "Bygone Days" is on the reverse (P. 136 printed at the foot). Loose cut page extracted from "The Works of John Held Jr." A humorous depiction of New York which highlights things such as "Policeman watching for prohibition agents" and "A murdered..... More
Slim quarto. String-tied wraps. Housed in a pebbled leather folder with "Herbert S. Auerbach" stamped in gilt on the front board. 18 members have signed their names at the rear. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Signed by author on the title page. Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. 141pp. Oversize trade paperback. Only edition issued. Where the Sonoran desert ends and the tropical forests begin; up against the backside of the fabled Sierra Madre Mountains..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. First edition. Hardbound. Discard stamp in front of book. More
Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2002. Church Employee Gift Edition. Leather bound. 434pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Flexible dark red Invecchiato leather covers with gilt stamped titles. All edges gilt. In the original box. Light scratching to the front cover. Originally published in 1985..... More
Muscatine, IA: Designed and printed by Carroll D. Coleman at The Prairie Press, 1938. First edition. One in an edition limited to 490. Hardcover. 75pp. Octavo [25 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Ex-library (legitimately discarded), with the usual labels and stamps, as well as evidence of..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 219pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark grey paper over boards. Silver stamped title on spine. "The terror comes not from the question of violence spilling across the border. It comes from that word, border. Borders must be gone. I will have..... More
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, Inc, 1965. First edition. Paperback. 36pp. Slim octavo [22 cm] Saddle-stitched tan wraps. The rear wrap has several prominent red ink stains, however the pages are clean. A bibliography which covers McClure's books, pamphlets, broadsides, contributions, recordings, and translations. More
San Francisco: Coyote, 1966. 2nd printing. Paperback. Very slim duodecimo [20 cm] Saddle-stitched pictorial wraps. With some light staining to the pages, mostly in the margins. Several hatch marks in pen here and there. McClure's poem written in protest of the Vietnam War. More
San Francisco: Coyote, 1966. 2nd printing. Paperback. Very slim duodecimo [20 cm] Saddle-stitched pictorial wraps. McClure's poem written in protest of the Vietnam War. More
Salt Lake City, UT: St. Mark's Hospital Nurses' Alumni Association, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 243 pp. Quarto [28 cm]; full light blue cloth covered boards with gold stamped title and design on front board and backstrip. Small ding to fore-edge of front cover. Newspaper article stapled to title page. No..... More
[New Mexico]: Circa 1925. Handbill advertising a performance of the Salt Lake Harmony 5 at Jackson’s (likely Silver City or Truth or Consequences, New Mexico). Printed entirely in red on thin wood-pulp paper, measuring 19 cm x 31 cm. Small reproduction photograph of the group at foot. Band leader Kathryn..... More