New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 224pp, black boards. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page: "To ---. You know I love you. Dear Friend." An intimate and honest portrayal of a mother's struggle to understand her two runaway daughters and keep them safe...
Berkeley: Bios, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3-5/8 x 7-3/4", green cloth, 43pp. One of a limited edition of 100 copies bound in cloth by Wesley B. Tanner. An additional 500 copies were paperbound. A novella set in post-World War I Europe depicting the ravages of war. As new in very.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publications, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. 8-1/2 x 11-1/8, silver decorated and titled burgundy leatherette, grey endpapers, 223pp, glossary, biblio., biological supply houses, index, fully illus. #13 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Signed by both authors on half-title.With a foreword by "Polly" Rosborough; Illustrations.....
Salem: Beaverdam Press, 1992. Illustrated by Richard Bunse. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 16mo, first five volumes quarterbound in dark forest green Harmatan goat skin with multicolored paper over boards designed by Richard Bunse and produced by Sandy Tilcock, invoking the natural imagery of the Pacific Coast region, five diary volumes have.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xiv, 416pp, index, 44 plates, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable bookplate laid in. Originally published in 1913, Halford's classic covers everything.....
Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., Publishers, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration front board, 260pp, 3pp ads. An updating and thorough revision of a work originally titled "Notes on the Western States". Chapters: The Western Plain-its limits-its topography-the general character of its formation; The River.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, blue paper over boards, 275pp. First Edition, First Printing author's first book. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 orange cloth, grey paper over boards, 76pp. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker. "Women in the Dark" was published in Liberty magazine in three installments in April of 1933 and was published in a pulp paperback edition in.....
New York: Random House, 1966. First Printing, Book Club Edition. Octavo, black cloth, xxi, 355pp, top-edge green. Edited and with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman. A collection of nine stories which have never appeared in hardcover before plus first publication of an unfinished novel, "Tulip." The stories mostly feature the.....
New York: Dell Publishing, ca. 1950. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 189pp, 3pp publisher's ads. Copyright 1927, reprint ca. 1950. Dell mapback #308Hell takes a holiday and a city block becomes a slaughterhouse when a gang of crooks takes the richest pickings ever got with civilian guns. And all.....
New York: Random House, 1974. Octavo, 1/2 red cloth, red embossed paper over boards, xxix, 287pp. Selected and with an Introduction by Steven Marcus. A collection of seven early Hammett stories which first appeared in "Black Mask" and introduced the Continental Op, a hard-boiled operative of the Contintuental Detective Agency.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1950. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Introduction by Ellery Queen, Cover Painting by Robert Stanley. Dell mapback #538Six tough stories with subject matter ranging from homicide to political intrigue in far-off places. Three feature the Continental Op at his man-eating best plus three other.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1947. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 191pp. Selected & edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #308Six stories by master hard-boiled storyteller Dashiell Hammett.Edge-wear to spine, fragile lower hinge, good.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1946. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Collected and Edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #223Six stories by the master of hard-boiled detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett. What are they about? A HOUSE in Turk Street which is the scene of a hair-raising adventure...PALE FRECKLES that.....
San Francisco: Vince Emery Productions, 2005. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 6-3/8 x 9-1/4", blue cloth, 342pp. Introduction by Joe Gores.Publisher's description: "Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century's most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett's.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. 6th Printing, November 1930. Octavo, orange cloth with black falcon front board, 267pp, 11pp ads, green top-edge. 6th Printing of the Grosset & Dunlap edition published November 1930, same year as that of the first edition, of this classic hard-boiled whodunit featuring the iconic.....
New York: Dell Publishing, 1945. Paperback. 4-3/16 x 6-5/16", pictorial wrappers, 160pp. Collected and Edited by Ellery Queen. Dell mapback #223Six stories by the master of hard-boiled detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett featuring the Continental Op. What are they about? A pair of CRINKLY EARS at a prize fight, remembered after.....
Seattle: National Park Service Pacific West Region, 2004. Final Draft. Spiral bound. Quarto, spiral bound with stiff pictorial wrappers, 171pp + appendices, biblio., fully illus. with photographs of the structures and ground, 34 fold-out maps and restoration plans. Established in 1976, the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site is located near.....
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, decorated green cloth, 301pp. A first edition (published in an edition of 2000 copies) of Hardy's third volume of short stories.A bit of modest rubbing to edges, bumping to corners, light foxing, cracking to front hinge, clean of owner's marks.....
London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. First Edition. Half Leather. 5 x 7-1/4", half brown leather, marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers, raised tooled bands, ix, 480pp, 511pp, index each volume, text illustrations throughout. Bound by Mudie.Two volumes of strolls through 19th century London. The first volume focuses chiefly on the.....
New York: Viking, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4", black paper over boards with green print, 561pp, green pictorial endpapers. . Signed by author on first blank page. All Souls Trilogy #3, First Edition, First Printing.After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series.....
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1989. Illustrated by Russell Chatham. First Paperback Ediiton. Pictorial wrappers. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 77pp. Presentation insciption signed by the author on half-title with author's doodle.A collection of poems dedicated in memoriam to the author's niece Gloria Ellen Harrison (1964-1979). Fine.
Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8-7/8 x 10-3/4", forest green cloth, xviii, 210pp, appendix: formulas, index. Introduction by Andre Puyans; Foreword by John Randolph. A collection of informative articles by fly-fishing guide and master angler Rene Harrop, with sections on insects, artificial flies, and.....
San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1868. Hardcover. Thick octavo, green cloth over thick green boards, gilt bear decoration to spines and 584pp each volume. Bindings tight, some soiling and foxing throughout. Missing last blank page, front hinge cracked Volume 1; lower quadrant rear free endpaper torn away Volume 2;.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4", black cloth, 167pp. First Edition. Visiting Venice with her mother, a Boston ingénue is drawn to an attractive Venetian gondolier and grapples with her desire and guilt.Clean, square, tight, leaves toned, very good in complete very worn.....
