Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1955. Paul Blaisdell. First edition. Hardcover. 216pp. Octavo. [22cm] Red cloth over boards. Title stamped on spine in black. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. There is scuffing on head and foot of spine on the boards. Dust jacket has minor tears on edges and..... More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1835. Edward Lear. Hardcover. Odd volume. 228pp. plus 30 hand-colored plates by Edward Lear (with tissue guards). 32 plates in all. Sextodecimo [18 cm] Brown cloth over boards, with fading to the backstrip and edges of the boards. Green endpapers. No adverts for the publisher following..... More
New York: Knopf, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 289pp. Octavo. [20.5cm] Illustrated wraps. In September 1857, a wagon train passiung through an area of Utah called Mountain Meadows was brutally attacked and 140 men, women, and children were slaughtered. In the immediate aftermath, the Mormon church placed blame for the massacre..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1958. Alex Schomburg. Third edition. Hardcover. 206pp. Octavo. [22cm]. Dark blue cloth over boards. Title stamped in yellow on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Minimal rubbing to front cover and ends of spine. Dust jacket is in great condition for age with minor losses on..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1958. Alex Schomburg. Second edition. Hardcover. 210pp. Octavo. [22cm]. Dark green cloth over boards with the title stamped in light gray on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor scuffing on cover and small losses on edge of spine. Jacket corners clipped, but..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. Kenneth Fagg. First edition. Hardcover. 201pp. Octavo. [22cm] Light green cloth over boards with title stamped in black on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Boards have some soiling and minimal rubbing on front and spine. Spine is ever so slightly rolled..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. [SIGNED]. 274 pp. Octavo. Rust colored cloth over boards. Deckled edges. Original dust jacket with no major signs of shelf wear. With an inscription from the self proclaimed "biblio dick" Ken Sanders. More
Library of Congress, Washington: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 441 pp. Octavo. Grey cloth over boards with red stamped design on front board. Accompanying ap of Sweden laid in to Volume I. Volume I has previous owner's notes penciled in to front paste down and front free endpaper..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Red paper over boards with debossed buffalo pattern on covers. Deckled edges. Scuffing to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. Pages toned. Binding cracked. Gilt title stamped on front board and spine. Previous owner's pencil markings on front..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: [The Fourth Ward of Salt Lake City], [1949]. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pp. Octavo. Illustrated paper over boards with spiral binding. Signed by Glen L. Rudd on page 23. Missing one rung of spiral binding. Boards toned. A history of the Salt Lake City Fourth Ward..... More
Reading, MA: W.A. Benjamin Inc., 1972. 333 pp. Octavo. [23 cm]. Purple and white paper over boards. Covers toned and scuffed. Previous owner's name penned on title page. From the Mathematics Lecture Note Series. Gerald Sacks was a professor at Harvard University and is known for his work in recursion..... More
Tuscon, Arizona: Westernlore Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 165 pp. Octavo. [22.5 cm]. Red cloth over boards. No noticeable flaws. Resulting in a two hundred day pursuit, Ralph Lopez murdered and evaded authorities in one of the most iconic stories of Bingham county and the state of Utah. Volume 54..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1940. Fourth Printing. 231 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Original dust jacket toned with some tearing to head of spine. Boards toned, corners scuffed. Edges and fore edges of pages toned. "America's foremost skiing authority is the author of the first..... More
Canton, OH: The Stellar Media Group, 1992. Uncorrected page proofs. Paperback. 287pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Printed wraps. Minor mark to front wrap and light soiling to rear wrap, else bright and fresh. Appears unread. A true story by Robert W. Morgan. "From midnight encounters with Bigfoot and UFO's on rumbling volcanos..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 166pp. Quarto [27 cm] Light blue wraps. Illustrated with black & white photographs, maps, and drawings. Very good. The wraps are subtly age-toned, rubbed and soiled. The spine is very mildly faded and creased. There is a former..... More
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. [SIGNED]. 162 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Maroon paper over boards with very minimal scuffing to spine. Original dust jacket shows now obviously visible signs of shelf wear. "In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Angela Carter, and H.P. Lovecraft, here are nearly..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York. First edition. Hardcover. [SIGNED]. 223 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Blue paper over boards. Very slight toning to spine. Original dust jacket with no clearly noticeble flaws. Critically acclaimed Native writer Sherman Alexie paints a fictional picture of the Spokan Indian Reservation drawn from..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. 390pp. Octavo [25 cm] Black and red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Fold-out frontispiece map of Hawaii. The cloth is frayed at the edges (more so the spine ends), and the underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. [SIGNED]. 274 pp. Octavo. [22 cm]. 1/4 blue paper over maroon boards. Deckled edges. Sharpie mark on bottom edge. Original dust jacket showing some minimal signs of shelf wear. The story of the tenuous relationship between two book lovers: one a collector..... More
Minneapolis: The Campbell-Logan Binder, 1985. Paperback. Unpaginated. Octavo. [23 cm]. Burgundy perfect binding. Slight scuffing and toning to spine. A catalog of the books and publications of the Bieler Press from 1975-1985. "As the Bieler Press enters its second decade amidst doomsday predictions for the book as we have come..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. First edition, Later printing. Hardcover. 188 pp. Duodecimo. [19 cm]. Blue paper over boards. Pages toned at fore edges. Original dust jacket is price clipped, with some spot, minor tears, toning, and signs of shelf wear. Corners bumped. Haddon Craftsmen printing noted on copyright..... More
[Paris]: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1968. First Edition. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of matte pictorial boards and folding color lithographic interior. Lacks lucite slipcase. A bright and colorful symbolic reinterpretation by the noted Swiss artist, 'La Fable du Hasard' combines elements of 'The Poor Man and the Rich..... More
United States of America: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 1160pp. Quarto [26cm]; red cloth covered boards in original dust-jacket. The covers are cocked (however when placed on the shelf, they are supported and look just fine). In dust jackets with minor surface rubbing. This copy is signed..... More