Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2018. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 9-5/8", light grey paper over boards, 358pp. In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred.It's.....
New York: Sterling Children's Books, (2017). Illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, pictorial paper over boards, fully illus. in color. Signed by author and "Rufus" in red ink on title page. Rufus the Pig has already gone to school and sailed the seas. Now, for his third.....
New York: Browndeer Press / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 10-3/8 x 11-5/16", glossy pictorial paper over boards, fully illustrated in vivid color. Presentation copy, signed by the author with best wishes on the first free endpaper. The author/artist pairs and illustrates.....
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., (1992). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-3/4 x 10", green cloth, 159pp, 160 intricately imaged full-color illustrations. First Edition, Second Printing. In this first book in the Dinotopia series set in 1860, Arthur Denison and his young son, Will, set out on.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (1999). Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 10-1/2 x 10", blue cloth, 60pp, 160 intricately imaged full-color illustrations, easy-to-learn folding board game bound in with game cards. Signed by the author on half-title. The third book in the Dinotopia series takes us back.....
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.....
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: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 420pp, biblio., 405 illus. First paperback edition. Essays by Kurt Andersen, Steven Heller, and Rick Poynor. Book originated by Edward Booth-Clibborn. A comprehensive overview of the design work and social conscience of Tibor Kalman and M&Co.....
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: 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, grey pictorial cloth over boards, 211pp, apps, map of building locations, glossary of terms, notes, index of proper names, fully illus. Presentation inscription signed by the author dated in year of publication on first free endpaper. An exploration.....
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. With art by Lynn Green Root. 4to, bright pink cloth, gold endpapers, xiv, 96pp, 17 full-color full-page illustrations. Presentation inscriptions signed by both the author and artist. Invitation to the World Premiere Exhibition of Painting from the Debutante Ball laid in.A family.....
Boston: Joy Street Books / Little , Brown and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8-3/8 x 10-3/4", pictorial paper over boards, 5 double page pop-ups, lift-the-flaps and tab-operated mechanicals. Tintin, his dog Snowy, Captain Haddock, master mariner and reluctant astronaut, and Professor Cuthbert Calculus, inventor, scientist and rocket designer, take.....
