Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Leatherbound with fore-edge painting. 5 x 7-5/8", full brown leather, raised bands, tooling to leather both boards and spine panels, all edges gilt, marbled boards, gilt dentelles, frontis. portrait of the poet with tissue guard, ribbon marker, viii, 406pp, illus. Fore-edge painting of a......
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 green cloth, green paper over boards, 331pp, illus. with maps of Kauai, glossary of characters and Hawaiian terms. A narrative poem depicting the story of the government's capture and isolation of Hawaiian victims of leprosy and one family's resistance.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, orange cloth, 139pp, endpapers from the Jo Mielziner sets, dust wrapper drawing of Willy Loman by Joseph Hirsch. First Edition. Arthur Miller's iconic tale of Willy Loman's growing recognition of his failures as a salesman, husband and father. A bit.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, terracotta cloth with gilt titles and decoration, 4pp publisher's ads, 299pp, dark brown endpapers, top-edge gilt. The author has penned a rearrangement of a stanza appearing on p.264 of this work on the first blank. The six line excerpt is from "Burns.....
Gottengen & London: Steidl Hauser & Wirth, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 10-1/4 x 12-7/8", aqua cloth, 63pp, exhibitions, collections, 12 single page color plates and 5 two-page color spreads. First Edition. Essay by Helen Molesworth. From an exhibition held at Hauser & Wirth in London in 2007, a catalogue.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publications, Inc., 2002. First Printing. Softcover. 4x5", pictorial wrappers, 30 waterproof pages, illus. This handy waterproof booklet that details insect hatches that stir trout to feed in Western streams fits in a flyfisher's pocket. Fine.
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xii, 272pp, illus., 3pp publisher's ads front and back of book, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable bookplate laid in. Originally.....
New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Square quarto, 10x11", red cloth, 315pp, notes, biographical note, bibliography, sets and costumes in chronological order, index of works, 398 illustrations, 90 in colour. Monograph on the art of A. M. Cassandra (1901-1968), poster and theatre designer, lithographer, painter, and creator of.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 436pp, 1/2 blue paper, beige paper over boards, Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister. As Kafka flees, so.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black paper over boards, 213pp. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. An intricate examination of an age-old romance: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy meets girl again--under very different circumstances. As new in dust wrapper.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985. Drawings by David L. Wood. Hardcover. Quarto, blue cloth, xv, 240pp, apps., sources, biblio, index, illus. with historic photos and drawings. Illustrated with rare photographs and specially commissioned drawings by David L. Wood, this book presents a comprehensive design history of the 12 armored.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, black cloth, 456pp, biblio., illus. with 3504 illustrations, including 2107 plates in full color and 2 gatefolds. The work of designers Charles & Ray Eames from 1941-1978, encompassing more than 200 projects and featuring drawings, plans, models, period photographs.....
Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1967. First Edition. 5-1/8 x 7", blue cloth, 75pp, illus with map, two sketches, and 4 of Nims' photographs of the expedition, notes. First Edition limited to 600 copies. The diary of Franklin A. Nims, who was the staff photographer on two Brown-Stanton railroad survey expeditions.....
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, original dark green embossed cloth with elaborate gilt fishing motif decorations front board and spine, 604pp, frontis. engraving, 80 engraved plates, tissue guards. First Edition. With the bookplate of David B. Ledlie, noted fly-fishing writer and contributor and.....
New York: Center for Art & Visual Culture, UMBC, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 391pp, 166pp color plates illustrating the artist's work and vision. Issues in Cultural Theory 6, Center for Art & Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County. An investigation of Rand's.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 blue cloth, blue paper over boards, 532pp. Omnibus edition of the Country Girls trilogy with a new epilogue. First Thus. The painful and comedic saga of two friends, one a romantic, the other a pragmatist, over the course.....
Spring Valley, NY: Mercury Press, 1994. Second Printing with revisions. Softcover. Octavo, 268pp, notes, biblio, index, folding chart laid in. Second Printing. Compiled, edited, with a concluding chapter by Florin Lowndes. George and Gisela O'Neil led work at the New York branch of the Anthroposophical Society in America for 14.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black paper over boards, 290pp. First Edition. Signed by the author on first blank. A young man looks back at the year 1945 in war-torn London when he and his sister were left with a crew of eccentric colleagues by.....
Woodinville: Mindcastle Books, 2000. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 11-3/8 x 9-3/8", blue cloth with gilt decoration front board, beautifully illustrated in full color. Presentation copy, signed by the author/illustrator verso first free endpaper. Grandma teaches a young girl how to call sleep ponies to ride.....
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, white titled red cloth, 334pp, 62 illustrations including frontis. portrait of the author. Opie served in the 6th Virginia Confederate Cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia. Opie relates his experiences at Harper's Ferry, Manassas, M'Dowell, Antietam, Rowlesburg, Faimont, and.....
Manchester, Vermont: C. F. Orvis, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black and gilt illustrated and titled embossed green cloth, 299pp, floral endpapers, 15 chromolithographic plates of flies (all present). Presentation inscription signed by author A. Nelson Cheney in year of publication. Charles F. Orvis started the Orvis sporting good.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 burgundy cloth, black paper over boards, 208pp. A first edition, first printing of Chuck Palahniuk debut apocalyptic novel - a notable tour de force, both literally and figuratively. A very fine copy in dust wrapper and protective.....
New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1997. Illustrated by Roberta Wilson. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 8-7/8 x 11-1/4", glossy pictorial paper over boards, charmingly illlus. in full color. First Edition this illustrator. Signed by the author in year of publication on first free endpaper. After traveling from the jungle to America.....
New York: Minotaur Books, 2009. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth, 322pp. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the.....
Seattle: Wild Steelhead & Atlantic Salmon Magazine, 1994. Spring 1994. Softcover. Folio, colorful pictorial wrappers, 64pp, fully illus. in color. Premier issue of the quarterly with contributions by Dan Callaghan, Trey Combs, Herb Curtis, Hugh Falkus, Al Hassall, Jack Hemingway, Alec Jackson, Thomas McGuane, Bill McMillan, Craig Orr, Tom Pero.....
