Moab, Utah: Back of Beyond Books, 2018. Facsimile edition. 262pp. Small folio [31cm]. Unbound sheets with printing on recto. Printed on 80# Smooth Text Pacesetter Opaque Digital paper by AMP Printing + Graphics. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box with title stamped in white on spine, and blind... More
London: William Heinemann, 1937. First British edition. 148pp. Duodecimo [20 cm]. Rust colored cloth over boards. The covers are a bit cocked and the spine ends are bumped. The pages are sporadically lightly foxed. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with chipped edges and darkening. First published work of fiction from... More
New York / London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018. First Liveright Paperback. Paperback. 651pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated... More
Firenze (Florence): Studio Per Edizioni Scelte, 1987. Reproduction. Oblong quarto [24 cm x 32 cm] Pale blue card boards bound with two industrial steel bolts. Fading to front board and along edges of rear board. Edizione Italiana. Futurist artist Fortunato Depero designed this book to showcase his multi-faceted artistic career... More
HBG Press, 2017. Second edition. Hardcover. SIGNED: 264pp. Oblong Quarto [26cm]; quarter red cloth over illustrated boards. Gilt stamped title on spine. Signed by authors Blake Spalding & Jennifer Castle on half title. From publisher's website: This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness is 288 pages, filled... More
New York: New Directions Books, 2011. Paperback. 103pp 20cm. Red wraps. Preface by Patti Smith. From the cover: ... a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths" More
Ellison Bay, WI: Wm Caxton Ltd, 1996. Later printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 148pp. 20.5 cm. Beige wrappers. SIGNED by author. More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1978. Seventeenth impression. Hardcover. 570pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black paper over boards. The pages are darkened, and a handful of the pages have markings in pencil. In a dust jacket, with general light soiling, an old price sticker on the rear panel, and several short... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 137pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with numerous small areas of insect nibbling to the edges and surface of the spine. "Sing Down the Moon" received the Newbery Honor Book award in 1971. The story takes... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 253pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine. The spine and boards are moderately rubbed at the edges, and the cloth at the foot of the spine is a bit frayed. In the dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels... More
New York: Covici, Friede, 1937. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. 186pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in tan cloth with brown and black spine and cover devices, top edge pale blue. Light edgewear and some light soiling to price-clipped jacket; slight lean to spine, boards crisp and unworn; interior unmarked. This is... More
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2013. Edmund Dulac. Reprint. Hardcover. 122 pp. [29 cm]; full tan cloth, blind stamped designs and gold stamped titles on front board and spine. No dust jacket as issued. This lavish hardcover compilation features the best of Poe's verse, including "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," "To... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1994. First Vintage Classics Edition; later printing. Paperback. 136pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 279pp. Octavo [21 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with red ink lettering on the backstrip and front board. The spine is prominently rolled, there are a couple of trivial white stains at the foot of the spine, and there is... More
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press; The Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Early printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 238pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 dark brown paper with beige paper covered boards. Dust jacket is a bit scratched and rubbed. Signed by both Doug and Andrea Peacock on the title page. From the jacket- "Doug... More
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press; The Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Early printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 238pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 dark brown paper with beige paper covered boards. Slightest amount of rubbing to dust jacket. Signed by both Doug and Andrea Peacock on the title page. From the jacket- "Doug Peacock... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Printed by Tryst Press for Ken Sanders Rare Books & Back of Beyond Books, 2018. Claire Taylor. 1/100. Broadside. SIGNED. 40.5cm by 25cm. Four broadsides featuring the powerful words of Amy Irvine, Doug Peacock, Terry Tempest Williams, and Wendell Berry, and the gorgeous artwork of Claire... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Steinbeck Centenial Edition; later printing. Paperback. 181pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Thin quarto [28.5 cm] Brown paper over boards. Pictorial free endpapers. The spine ends are gently bumped and the boards are a bit warped. In a very attractive dust jacket, with subtle toning and minor edge wear. Charles Addams is... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Fleuron Press, 1974. Limited Edition. 32pp; 9pp; 17pp; 5pp. Octavo [25cm]. Paper covered boards. Each volume is housed in a matching paper covered slipcase. Slight edgewear to slipcases, and a few light bumps. Series of Christmas books by The Fleuron Press, limited to 195 hand numbered copies... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 292pp. 1/4 black cloth with light gray paper over boards. The spine is slightly rolled, and the spine and boards show light edge wear. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels (a bit more so to the... More
Salt Lake City, UT: 1980. Illustrated. Paperback. 256pp. Quarto [26 cm] Brown, white and black illustrated wraps. The covers are heavily rubbed and creased, and subtly faded. From the Preface- "Long before Utah skiers had become mere digits on a marketing statistician's computer readout, they possessed names and personalities. Long... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 122pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] in decorative brown cloth. Light edgewear and a few short tears to jacket, 1" closed tear to jacket front cover at top, small closed tear to jacket rear cover halfway up, near spine; corners and foot lightly... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 619pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] in decorative light brown cloth. Edgewear and short tears to jacket, chipping to jacket spine, 3/4" tear to rear cover at top; toning to spine, joints, and extremities, else boards are crisp and unworn; damage to leaves... More
Burbank, CA: DC Comics, 2015. Dick Giordano; Neil Adams; et al. Slipcase Edition. Hardcover. 368pp. Small folio [31.5cm]. Glossy pictorial paper covered boards. Green satin-ribbon pagemarker. Several small faint scratches to boards, and bumps to the edges of boards. In pristine publisher's slipcase. From publisher: "What does it take to... More