Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (2000). Illustrated by Kent Bash. Leatherbound. Thick octavo, 311pp, gilt decorated black leather, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, moire endpapers, color frontis. illustration and four full-page monochromes in text. Boldly signed by the author on half-title in his characteristic psychedelic style with gilt.....
Pleasant Hill, Oregon: Intrepid Trips, 1977-1975. Paperback. 8vo, multicolored wrappers, fully illustrated. Volume #1 signed and dated (1993) by Ken Kesey on front wrapper in red ink. Volume #1 is 2nd printing (1977), all others are 1sts. Volume #1 - "Old in The Streets," Edited by Ken Kesey with contributions.....
Denver, CO: World Press, Inc., 1979. Illustrated by Richard Ward. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green leatherette over boards, ix, 528pp, epilogue, biblio., index, 925 black & white reproductions, 12 full-color paintings (including dust wrapper front panel), 11 with spider web embossed tissue guards, 22 line drawings. #2144 of a Limited.....
Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, black cloth, xx, 262pp, biblio., index, fully illus., 33 plates, 204 text figures. Built in Chicago in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor.....
Hillsboro, OR: TimberTimes, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth, x, 229pp, fully illus. A comprehensive, copiously illustrated, and uncensored dictionary of logging terms and technology. The lexicon used by loggers or lumberjacks is a language all its own with dialects created by a handful of factors - national origin.....
Seattle: Northwest Short Line, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth, xiii, 189pp, map endpapers, apps., locomotive rosters, biblio., index, 9 drawings, 9 maps, fully illus. with historic photographs. From the author's introduction: "The story of the railroads that made possible the development of the great timber resources of Mason.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, 273pp. First Edition of the author's elusive second book. John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan Guaranty Trust finds that Shaftesbury, Connecticut, the "unspoiled village with rare community spirit," is a place for murder... Foxing to edges and a......
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, green paper over boards, 336pp. Signed by the author on title page. First Edition. Sequel to author's Shamus Award winning first novel set in Boston and featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, "A Drink Before the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, green paper over boards, 267pp. Signed by the author on title page. First Edition. Author’s Shamus Award winning first book and first of a new series featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. As new.....
Mendocino: Pacific Transcriptions, 1994. Softcover. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", stiff pictorial wrappers, 72pp, fully illus. The filming of Elia Kazan’s East of Eden featuring James Dean, Julie Harris, in Mendocino in 1954. Includes area and industry newspaper articles about the film, cast, and location, announcements about filming (extras sign up.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. Pop-ups by Robert Sabuda. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4", pictorial paper over boards. Each of the seven books in the Narnia series has its own pop-up spread rendered in spectacular detail with stunning special effects created by award-winning paper engineer Robert Sabuda. New in original acetate sleeve.....
New York: Arma Press - The Historical Society of York County, (1972). Photographs by Bruce Pendleton. Second printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, beige linen over boards, unpaginated, 77 Kentuckys illustrated in full color. An accurate representation of some of the finest Kentuckys in the world in their true color and detail.....
New York: Walker & Company, 2005. Illustrated by Beth Lo. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 8-3/4 x 11-3/8", glossy pictorial paper over boards, pictorial endpapers, fully illus. Signed with best mahjong wishes by Ginnie Lo. Siblings JieJie and DiDi enjoy witnessing their parents and relatives play mahjong in a house.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES - NPR - THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon.....
Eugene, Oregon: Lone Goose Press, 1996. Intaglio print by Suellen Larkin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo, 9-3/4 x 6-1/2", one-half red cloth, 24 unnumbered pages, green paper over boards with printed title label front board, green handmade paper endpapers, deckled edges, frontis. print. Limited Edition of 29 deluxe, hardcover copies.....
Kansas City: Andrews & McMeel, Inc., (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, 100pp. First Edition. Presentation inscription signed by the author: "For --- - for the landscapes in us." Barry Lopez's paean to the river in his characteristically poetic prose. Mild fading to endpapers, else fine in very good.....
Cambridge: The Technology Press & Harvard University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, vii, 194pp, biblio., index, 62 text figures. Urban theorist Kevin Lynch interviewed inhabitants in Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, and considered the influences of literature, anthropology, psychology and the arts, to formulate new criteria.....
Dublin: Wolfhound Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, blue paper over boards, 192pp, fully ilus. The 9000 year legacy of the Irish vessel, the currach, from its origins as a small skin (or hide) boat to its development as a large, ocean-going craft which secured a primal place in the.....
New York: Grove Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 black cloth, black paper over boards, 261pp. First Edition, signed by the author. Among an unspecified number of first printings signed by Macdonald on a page specially bound in by the publisher. From the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.....
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, 721pp. Same year as first edition, lacking publisher's seal on copyright page, in dustwrapper with unclipped price of $4.00 and author's youthful photograph by G. Maillard Kesslere on rear panel. Tight, cloth bright, clean of owner's.....
Milano: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Folio, green paper over wrappers, 278pp, deckled fore- and bottom-edge, bibliographical notes, fully illus. Limited to 650 copies, 100 of which were printed on special paper and not for sale. From Documenti Sulle Arti Del Libro Collezione Diretta Da Alberto Vigevani XIV.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1967-1973. Hardcover. 3-1/4 x 4", pictorial paper over boards in dust wrappers, illustrated throughout in color illustrated box. 4 volume set in box. A Boy, A Dog and a Frog (1967); Frog, Where Are You? (1969); A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and a Friend.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black paper over boards, 309pp. First Edition. A hunter finds $2 million in drug money beside two dead bodies near the Rio Grande and mayhem ensues. Fine in dust wrapper with a bit of curling and a tiny nick top-edge.....
Portland, Oregon: Art Advocates, Inc., 1990. Woodcuts by Jack McLarty. Limited to 30 copies. Edited by Barbara Lever McLarty. Design by Nancy Ramsay. Printed by Ash Creek Press. Hardcover. 9-5/8 x 8-1/4", Japanese stab binding, off-white linen over thick boards, signed color illustration painted by Mr. McLarty front board. From.....
Portland, Oregon: Image Gallery, 1977. Embossed woodcuts by Jack McLarty. Limited to 35 copies. Hardcover. 9-5/8 x 8-1/8", Japanese stab binding, off-white linen over thick boards. #34 of a special limited edition of 35 numbered copies, signed by Mr. Elliott, Mr. Brannen, Mr. McLarty and Mr. Van Cleve, and including.....
