New York: Bantam Books, 2014. Later printing. Hardcover. 326pp. Folio [31cm]; illustrated paper boards. If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork--the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time--warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice... More about The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and The Game of Thrones
New York: Bantam Books, 2019. 2019 Bantam Books trade paperback tie-in edition: later printing. Paperback. 694pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark... More about Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 141pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan paper covered boards with title printed in black on the backstrip. From the jacket- "Heywood's account of life in Utah is balanced and perceptive, her self-examination rigorous. Among pioneer diarists she has few peers." More about Not by Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Heywood, 1850-56
New York: Vintage Books, 2018. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. 381pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Wallace Stegner’s remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his..... More about Joe Hill: a Biographical Novel
Fort Worth: The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 67pp. Small square quarto [25 cm] Purple cloth over boards, with light rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the covers. In a dust jacket, with periodic areas of light abrasion. Inscribed by Russell on... More about Custer's Last or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn In Picturesque Perspective
New York: Ecco Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 297pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black paper with light gray paper over boards. The boards are slightly warped, and there is a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with subtle moisture staining along the... More about The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1986. First Paget Press paperback printing. Paperback. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] Paper wrappers, with some darkening and foxing to the front wrap. Illustrated by the author. More about The Day It Snowed In L.A.: The Adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Octavo [24 cm] White paper over boards, with very slight warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with light edgewear. "Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most... More about The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 270pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark and light brown paper over boards. The spine ends and corners are gently bumped. "Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated... More about Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Cloth trade edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with illustrated paper over boards. There is a barcode sticker on rear board, and there is a small indentation along the bottom edge of the rear board. These poems were written between 1970... More about The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps: New Poems
New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 143pp. Quarto [22.5cm] illustrated wraps. Artificial Intelligence, which once felt like a far-off futuristic fantasy, is now changing everyday life. The past sixty years have witnessed astonishing bursts of growth in the field of AI--the science and computational technologies that teach... More about Will AI Replace Us: A Primer for the 21st Century
New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 292pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people--but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible... More about The Mad Hatter Mystery
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 606pp. Octavo [24.5cm]; blue and brown paper covered boards with title in gilt on spine and publisher's colophon in gilt on front board. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation... More about Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, June 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 400pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; paper covered boards with title in gilt on spine and front board. William Bickerton is the founding prophet of the third-largest Latter Day Saint denomination, known as the Church of Jesus Christ. Remarkably, his life has... More about William Bickerton: Forgotten Latter Day Prophet
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Norton Paperback Edition. Paperback. 277pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch's epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of... More about The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
New York: W. W. Norton, 2018. First Norton Paperback. Paperback. 280pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. From publisher website: An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth..... More about The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Revised edition. Paperback. 90pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Printed wraps. From the rear cover- "M.D. Herter Norton's translations were the first to open Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in accurate, sensitive, modern versions free from both embroidery and slavish adherence to rhyme." (Book... More about Letters to a Young Poet
New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. Later printing. Hardcover. 416pp. Quarto [39cm]. Hardcover in publishers shrinkwrap. From the publisher: The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. “The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life..... More about The Red Book; Liber Novus
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2008. Second edition. Paperback. 356 pages. Oversized soft cover filled with photographs, diagrams, labels, letters, advertisements, and much much more! "From fires and avalanches to con men and murderers, Beer in the Beehive covers them all. Here we offer an in-depth, often humorous... More about Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah (Second Edition
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1952. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Charcoal colored cloth spine and boards. Very light bumping at head and tail of spine and a fair amount of bumping at the tips of the lower corners. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Dust Jacket -... More about Captain Marooner
New York: Dial Books, 2002. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Brown paper spine and boards. Bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Black publisher's remainder mark on the lower edge. Dust Jacket. More about Mississippi Trial, 1955
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED 337 pp. Very good in like dustjacket. Book shows minor shelf wear and foxing to the endsheets and page edges. Dustjacket has some small, closed tears at extremities, wear and one small piece missing at the top of the... More about Three Ways to Mecca
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2005. Later printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 490 pp. with notes, bibliography, and index. Maroon full cloth binding with gold stamped titles, in pictoral dust jacket. A monumental new biography on one of the twentieth century's most beloved Mormon leaders. (Book was in... More about David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Salt Lake City, UT: The Church Historian's Press, 2009. Facsimile Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 707pp. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with stamping in purple and gilt on the spine and front cover. The boards are just a little bit warped. In a dust jacket, with only minor edge... More about The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations. Manuscript Revelation Books
New York: W. W. Norton, 1986. Later printing. Paperback. 213pp. Octavo [21pp]; illustrated wraps. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex... More about A Clockwork Orange