New York: Random House, 1972.
Limited First Edition. Hardcover. #34 of 300 copies of the first edition that have been specially bound and signed by the author.
A winner of the National Book Award winner comprised of three novellas drawn from classical themes - of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.
Limited First Edition. Hardcover. #234 of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the author.
Barth’s groundbreaking satirical novel of human George Giles, raised as a goat-boy, who makes his way to Tammany College, comes to perceive himself as the much anticipated.....
Seattle: Scala House Press, 2008.
First North American Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/8 - 6-1/8", black spine, brown paper over boards, 391pp. First English publication of Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol’s near-forgotten masterpiece based on the life and legend of the original assassin, 11th century Ismaili leader Hasan ibn Sabbah. Fictional Sabbah develops.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2014.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. The work of contemporary figurative painter Hernan Bas, focusing on his paintings, film stills, and illustrations and featuring 200 color plates and texts by Christian Rattemeyer, Jonathan Griffin, and Nancy Spector. 9-1/2 x 12-1/4", 1/2 burgundy cloth, vivid pictorial paper over.....
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1988.
First Edition. Hardcover. Tommie Bass's wry stories, recollections, and classic southern recipes - among the 33 recipes included here are recipes for sawmill gravy, pumpkin butter, cornsilk tea, cornbread, pancakes, relish and pickles, sweet potatoes, vinegar pie, and squirrel or rabbit. The Bass.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on title page.
From the dust wrapper flap: “These tales simultaneously embrace vibrant images of ordinary human life and exuberant descriptions of the natural world. In the title story, a man remembers his youth.....
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1992.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Presentation inscription signed by Rick Bass to fellow author dated in year of publication on half-title.
Bass writes an inspired essay advocating wolf reintroduction, which he sets in the context of the fate of a small.....
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author Pamela Bates Richards "With Best Wishes" on half-title. Edited by Bob Warren, forewords by Keith Fulsher and Bill Taylor, fly photography by Michael D. Radencich, paintings and pencil sketches recreating Joe Bates's fishing-camp days by John Swan. With additional.....
London & New York: The Blackamore Press / Random House, 1930.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/8 x 8-1/4", blue cloth, 125pp, notes, gilt top-edge, deckled fore and bottom-edges, 8 illus. Translated by Ch. Isherwood; Introduction by T. S. Eliot. #304 of a first limited English edition of 400 copies; one of.....
Paris: Payot, no date.
Cloth over limp boards. Miniature book published ca. 1917-1925.
Poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal chosen by Henri Derieux. In French. 2-11/16 x 3-13/16", decorated cloth over limp boards, title lable front board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 126pp, 2pp publisher's ads.
Owner's presentation inscription.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black boards, xi, 192pp, notes & texts, bibliography, index, 38 black & white text figures & illustrations, photograph credits, appended by 16 color plates. From the dust wrapper flap:
Michael Baxandall draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual.....
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967.
First Edition. Quarto, 9-3/8 x 11-3/8", blue cloth, 210pp, yellow endpapers, biblio., fully illustrated First Edition. A compete chronological retrospective including over 200 color and black and white reproductions of the artist's paintings, architectural projects, exhibition and graphic designs, which also contains his findings.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of reminiscences from Sylvia Beach's soon to be published memoir, Shakespeare and Company (1959), printed as a New Year's greeting for friends of the author and publisher. 4-7/8 x 7-3/4", pictorial paper over boards (cover.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco.
37 disenos, or sketches, that were among those presented to the Mexican governors of California with the original petitions for land grants between 1822 and 1846. Together.....
London: The Folio Society, 2000.
Illustrated by Tom Phillips. First Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this Folio Society edition. Preface by Edward Beckett. Color illustrations by Tom Phillips. Frontis. illustration depicts Godot rehearsing the San Quentin Players in 1985 (with a caption reading “No Matter – Try Again – Fail.....
York, England: R. Sunter, 1844.
Illustrations by and after Francis Bedford. Hardcover. Published as the Act Directs, March 1844. 15-1/4 x 21-3/4" linen-backed folding chart depicting the chronology of Anglican church architecture with fifteen 5 x 4-3/8" folding sections.
The timeline stretches from 600 to 1640 with four columns: Name.....
East Sussex: Southover Press, 1996.
Hardcover. First published in 1861. Facsimile of the very rare first impression of the first edition with its splendid colour plates. Samuel Beeton launched The English Woman's Domestic Magazine in 1852. Much of it was edited by his wife Isabella. The Beetons invited recipe contributions from readers that.....
Newburgh, NY: Thornwillow Press, 2013.
Limited Edition. Paperback. Thornwillow Press Libretto VII, one of a limited edition of 4,810 copies bound in paper wrappers, set in Jenson type, and printed letterpress. The edition was designed and produced under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell.
A beautiful reminiscence of Harry Belafonte's.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1990.
First Edition. Paperbound. Presentation inscription to fellow poet Garrett (Hongo) in Port Townsend in 1991: "With much pleasure, affection, and respect" signed by the poet in Port Townsend in July of 1991. Published simulaneously in hardcover. 6 x 9-1/8", stiff pictorial wrappers, 83pp.....
Silver Spring, MD: Adventure House, 2003.
First Trade Paperback Edition. 7x10", stiff pictorial wrappers, xix, 195pp, illustrated. Introduction by John Wooley. 13 mysteries featuring no-nonsense Hollywood private eye, Dan Turner. Each story is accompanied by the spot illustrations that accompanied them in Spicy Detective, the pulp magazine that originally published them.A......
Woodbury, NY: Acoustical Society of Americal / American Institute of Physics, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover. 7-1/2 x 10-5/8", dark blue cloth, viii, 643pp, appendices, references, name & subject indexes, 3pp publisher's ads. The photographs, drawings to the same scale, and architectural and acoustical details on 76 concert halls in 22.....
New York: Philomel Books / Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy with signed initial (BHB) and flying heart illustration by the author.
Inspired by the question "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" The people living.....
San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1990.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Complimentary card from the publisher laid in.
Foreword by Robert B. Hawkins, Introduction by Peter L. Berger, Contributions by Robert M. Grant, David Novak, Michael Novak, George Weigel, Walter Block, and Richard John Neuhaus.
“Is capitalism moral? The.....
The Criterion Collection, 2009.
First Printing. Blu-Ray Disc. Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, The Seventh Seal.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994.
Limited Edition. Leatherbound. Limited edition of 2500 copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin at the Derrydale Press. Volume XXII of the Flyfisherman's Gold Library. Letter from the printer to a "Trout Unlimited Member" thanking them for reviewing the book and detailing the 24 titles available.....
