Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 320 pages plus section of black & white photographs. Light soiling to endpapers. Dust jacket with creases and closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Nick Lyons Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1960. With a new introduction by the author. Clean copy.
NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.
Hardcover. NY, Irvington Publishers, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Hypnotic Realities is a verbatim transcript of Dr. Erickson's induction of clinical hypnosis and his approaches to trance training. It provides students and professionals with clear examples of the evolution of clinical hypnotic phenomena. Two major innovations in this volume are the utilization theory of hypnosis and indirect forms of suggestion.... Each chapter includes an essay by Ernst Rossi which clarifies and elaborates on the relevant issues of Dr Erickson's work just illustrated. In these essays, Dr. Rossi analyzes Dr. Erickson's approach in order to uncover some of the basic variables that can be isolated and tested by future experimental work. These sections are a bridge between the clinical art of Dr. Erickson's hypnotherapy and the systematic efforts of the science of psychology to understand human behavior. 326 pages. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original illustrated yellow wrappers. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. by Matta. In Spanish (the poet was born in Chile) with English versions on facing pages by Matthew Zion and Lennart Bruce. Printed on blue and pink paper and profusely illustrated. One of 800 copies.
Softcover. South Orange NJ, Serving House Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 432 pages. SIGNED BY SOLONCHE on the title page. A generous offering of his favorite poems from past books, including the two nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Invisible (2017) and Piano Music (2020) and the 2020 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Book, The Porch Poems. In her introduction to Selected Poems: 2002-2021, Grace Cavalieri says, 'The absolute best remark I can make about this book is that I would give it to non-readers of poems as a conversion to poetry, for its language is as available as rain; hopeful as sunshine; and fresh as the wind. It's a perfect book to let the reading public know that this is America's poetry. This is a serious book disguised as playfulness, and we are its lucky recipients. 'J.R. Solonche has published poetry in more than 400 magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Sauk City WI, Arkham House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. 394 pages. Limited to 1559 copies; the sixth Arkham House book, Introduction by R. H. Barlow. 14 weird stories, 11 from WEIRD TALES (from 1924 to 1933) and all but one set in the West Indies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with illustrations by Paul Brown. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Available Press/Ballantine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Last Words is the first major collection of poems by a Milwaukee poet born soon after World War II who reached maturity during the late 1960s. It contains his highly acclaimed epic "Factory,"described by Allen Ginsberg as "a definitely powerful epic by one of Whitman's 'poets and orators to come.'" Antler was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He "worked his way through college" in various factories. As John Muir left the University of Wisconsin at Madison for "the University of the Wilderness" in 1863, Antler left the Milwaukee campus for the same destination in 1973. Besides factories, he has explored wildernesses in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Colorado, and California. Clean copy.
Softcover. Venice, Cataloghi Marsilio, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. A catalog of drawings and architectural watercolor sketches done by Le Corbusier on a trip to Italy in 1907. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. (1907) - Catalogo della Mostra. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY APPLEMAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine. Light tanning to pages. Spine straight. Binding tight. Takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but it is a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the history of the City and of the urban renaissance.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1985-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two Volume set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Volume 1: 568 pages. Volume 2: 517 pages. Hardcovers. In slipcase, very good. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated edges. Black cloth cover boards. Pages clean and bright. Spines straight. Bindings tight. North's reputation among historians has varied wildly, reaching its lowest point in the late 19th century, when he was depicted as a creature of the king and an incompetent who lost the American colonies.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 311 pages, 2 b&w fold-out maps in rear. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 1st, June 24, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out color plate in rear. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Previous price sticker inside front cover. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Pen marking to several pages. Else a very nice, tight copy. Although published almost fifty years ago, Reiff's information and conclusions are fundamental and don't seem to have been superseded by any subsequent study.
Softcover. Guilford CT, TwoDot, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w illustrations. The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation. November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the passengers were shot dead. One man and the lone woman, severely wounded, escaped into the desert. Debates raged over the identity of the murderous ambushers -- Indians? Mexican bandits? The two survivors? After a massive investigation, the U.S. Army concluded that a band of local Yavapai Indians were responsible, which led to a policy of "removal and concentration" that altered the fate of nearly every Indian in America's Southwest. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.
Softcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages, color illustrations. David Miller and Robert Hull created the Pacific Northwest style which is energy-conscious, structural expressive and uses local materials. This book has 29 projects. Miller/Hull's energy-conscious designs combine with a love of local materials and structural expressiveness to define the essence of the Pacific Northwest style. Here, where climate plays such a critical role, each Miller/Hull building responds with simple but inventive forms, straightforward plans, sensible siting, and careful detailing. Miller/Hull is the only comprehensive monograph of the architects' practice, which spans civic buildings, office and retail structures, educational and institutional projects, and their award-winning houses. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. With minor wear to covers and dust jacket edges.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Burrows Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 549 pages plus 19 page publisher's catalog in rear. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Novelist and critic Colm Toibin provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work. Colm Toibin--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Toibin examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Kayak Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps. One of 800 copies, decorative blue wraps, colored papers, colorful silkscreen art prints by George Hitchcock mixed in text. Second book by the Swedish-American poet, 68 pages. Small name on copyright page otherwise clean.
Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BYRD. "Byrd sure shoots a mean game with words. His language, his subject matter, his sensibility are there to remind us that 'we really inhabit / the holy body of God,' that we are all 'hungry ghosts / all of us." Ultimately, Byrd's book is about the community Byrd has learned to embrace--his book is a work that pays homage to those who have formed him--his neighbors, his children, his wife, the poets whose voices still urge him to write. This is a book for everybody." --Benjamin Alire Saenz. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED). In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image). 1916-1945 The Radium Era. 1845-1875 The Anesthesia Era. 1876-1900 The Antiseptic Era. 1901-1915 The X-Ray Era. Limited to 6,500 copies including a special edition of 500 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. Boston, Williams Book Store, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 409 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of American firearms. Begins with a treatise advocating the personal possession of guns and rifles. Then describes hundreds of rifles with their images and technical details from the flint lock to carbines used against us. Also covers present manufacture and manufacturers, rifleman and much more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Flatiron Books, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 389 pages. Traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants-all members of Baseball's Hall of Fame. They were Bill Veeck, the eccentric and visionary owner of the team; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken hard-hitting pioneer who shattered stereotypes that many Americans had of black ballplayers; ace pitcher Bob Feller who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige, legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues too long excluded from professional baseball because of his skin color. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Red Hen Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. 4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image). The Biological Era, 58 pages Hospital Care, 58 pages Seeing Insanity, 47 pages Modern Therapies, 60 pages Limited to 10000 copies with a special edition of 300. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. White, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. (SIGNED) Domestic shipping only. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image). 4 Volumes: Nonpagenated (SIGNED) In slipcase. The Face, 56 pages The Torso, 55 pages The Extremities, 57 pages The Back, 56 pages Limited to 5000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. Port Washington NY, Kennikat Press, 1ST, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown covers with yellow and green lettering on front and spine and green sports figures on front. 112 pages. A Critical Look at Game, Sport, and Survival in Contemporary American Fiction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hearst's International Library, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a black leather spine with gilt lettering. This volume combines 3 different titles in one: "Mother Goose Rhymes and Tunes" - Arranged with easy accompaniments including fourteen new melodies * "Playtime Songs New and Old" - Arranged with easy accompaniments including fourteen new melodies * "The Dansant for Little Folks" - Old-time game songs with easy accompaniments, new simple piano pieces for children's home dancing parties and a musical recitation. Features wonderful color illustrations throughout by Paul Woodroffe. There are dozens of rhymes set to music (arranged by Raymond Perkins), including many favorites such as Humpty Dumpty, Ring Around A-Rosy, London Bridge, Hush-a-by Baby, Three Blind Mice, Yankee Doodle, Jack and Jill, Little Bo-Peep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, etc. NOTE: Rear fly leaf gone and spine cloth is separating from spine. Inside front cover with pencil notes, rear inside with pasted sheet music. Interior pages clean and bright.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Middle issue of this great book-format review edited by Barrett Watten and Lyn Hejinian. Clean, unmarked copy. Contributors include Jackson Mac Low, Lydia Davis, Bruce Andrews, Fanny Howe, Johanna Drucker, Bob Perelman, Jed Rasula, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, Kit Robinson, Peter Seaton, Beverly Dahlen, Stephen Ratcliffe, Norman Fischer, George Lakoff, Paul Hoover, Larry Price, Claire Phillips, Andrew Ross, Michael Amnasan, and Watten.
Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished black calf, raised bands on spine, stamped with gilt design, leather label with title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers, 609 pages. The engraved plates suffer from oxidation (tanning) and have no captions other than the page numbers. The vignette illustration on the title page has "Weller" (rather than "Veller") indicating a later issue. The binding is sound, light edgewear to leather covers. Has the two title pages, errata slip and binders directions. The 2 Buss plates included. Pictures available.
Hardcover. NY, Humanities Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 276 pages. George Lukacs on Appearance and Essence, Erwin Pracht on Socialist Realism, S. Petrov on Realism, Robert Weimann on point of view in fiction, B. G. Zhantieva on Joyce's Ulysses, Werner Mittzenzwei on the Brecht-Lukacs debate, and five other major essays. Clean copy.
Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Over 100 etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and serigraphs by New Mexicans or relating to New Mexico, are accompanied by a review of the art over the past century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Reilly & Britton Co., 1st Edition, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Hardcover. Also included: "The Bells", "Annabel Lee" and "The Philosophy of Composition", an essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Gorgeous Color & B/W Illustrated Drawings by John Rea Neill, Cover boards bound in green cloth, with illustrated paste-on on front cover board. Previous owner's bookplate on verso of front fly leaf. Some wear and soil to covers. Top edge gilt. Tanning to edges and pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous bookstore proprietary stamp on page 21.
Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1997-04-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and damp-staining to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 81 pages. Clean copy. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport.
Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image). 1845-1870 The Pioneer Era 1871-1895 The Antiseptic Era 1896-1920 The X-Ray Era 1921-1945 The Serology Era Limited to 2,150 copies including a special cased edition of 1000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006-04-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 52 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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