New York: Ziff-Davis, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 262p. When the publisher's blurb boldly stated that this work "far surpassed the best of science fiction", it would seem a rather ambitious note. However, Lovecraft already considered him a "master in the genre". He stated that Weinbaum's writing was ingenious, and he... More
Las Cruces, NM; (1996): Yucca Tree Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. xiii, 561 pages, illustrations, with a foreword by Leon Metz. . Albert Jennings Fountain and Albert Bacon Fall were powerful, influential, and hostile adversaries to fought over political control of the southern section of New Mexico Territory in... More
College Station, TX. (1991): Creative Publishing Company. First Edition. Octavo. 160 pages, index. From a 1932 unpublished manuscript are the firsthand experiences with Billy the Kid. Paco dictated his story to his son Louis Anaya of Clovis, New Mexico in Spanish in 1931. A remarkable story of the death by... More
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 315 pages, signed by the author on the half title page. From a comfortable life as a doctor in New York, he went west to the towns in the mountains of California. Cowboys and miners were his clientele and for fifty years... More
1860. 1 autographed document signed, measuring 8" x 6", James Johnson identifies himself as Guardian for Julia Russ, signs for receipts of four (4) named slaves, John valued at $700, Sarah valued at $1,000, George valued at $375, Bella valued at $700, total $3,050.00. More
1 autographed letter signed, measuring 8" x 5 1/4", states that he has known "...Sally tulip, a servant in the family of Mr. H. Talliaferro….I have known her from her infancy to this day ...Mr. & Mrs. Talliaferro treated her as though she had been their respective daughter ...they are... More
Los Angeles: Ivan Deitch, 1934. Octavo. . xxii, 370 pages. The Second Edition with the scarce dust jacket. Signed with a marvelous inscription: "My dear Townsend, If you will promise to read this book, will tell nothing about the bad little boy in the bad little town of Visalia who... More
London: R. Norton, for R. Royston, 1675. First Edition. Folio. Two parts in one. The first part, containing the Life of Christ, written by Jeremy Taylor, late Lord Bishop of Down Connor. The second, containing the Lives of the Apostles, with an enumeration, and some brief remarks upon their first... More
London: for Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1820. 12mo. Fifth edition, in two volumes, 501 and 406pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title pages, These are Homer's two epic poems of Greek literature. While Pope and others have done a wonderful translation of Homer in rhyme, Cowper's translation is... More
Np. (Arizona): The Optics Press, 2015. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to 15 numbered copies and 5 lettered copies. No pagination. The present copy is number 5. This work was produced with high quality scans taken from the original copies and presented in full color on 100# acid free paper... More
London: Whittaker and Co. 1839. First Edition. Small Octavo. Unopened copy. Vignette title page, 200pp. "This work was designed for eveyone who buys wine. The chapter on fermentation, is necessary to be thoroughtly understood by everyone who keeps wine in his cellar. The dealer in wine can be no master... More
Philadelphia,k PA. (1900): Globe Bible Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. 505pp., Color folding frontispiece map..... The matchless drama of the dark continent from Pharaoh to "Oom Paul". The transvaal War and the final struggle between Britain and Boer over the gold of Ophir. A story of thrilling romance and adventure... More
New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 260pp. with and introduction by Frank B. Kellogg, illustrated. The author writes about Billy the Kid and life in old Tascosa. He also writes about Jesse James. A very nice copy bound in light brown cloth lettered in green, spine... More
London: J.M. Dent and Col, 1901. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to only 350 copies, In three volumes, large paper edition. The present copy is number 156. Edited by Arnold Glover, with an introduction by Austin Dobson, illustrated with 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton with color portraits and black and... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1877. First Edition. Small Octavo. A fine, unopened copy. 148pp., (2)pp. ads, Agamemnon is the first play in a trilogy of tragedies. Browning decided he would like to become familiar with these plays and its author but did not want to learn Greek. He found... More
(New York 1961): Pantheon books/ Bollingen Series XIX, 1961. Small Quarto. 215pp. A study of the great 18th century English collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, and above all, letterwriter. Presented in a series of lectures by the seaoned collector of Horace Walpole, with 72 full-page illustrations of Walpole... More
New York; (1925): The Century Co. First Edition. Small Octavo. 207pp. illustrated by John Richard Flanagan. The poignant story set in Ireland of the heartbreak of youth, set in the rural fields of Ireland. Bound in rust cloth lettered and ruled in black, near fine in pictorial dust jacket lettered... More
New York; (1903): G. P. Putman's Sons. Octavo. 469pp. (4)pp. ads. A warm account of the early Quaker history in a little corner of Chester County. Vivid days of farm & home, rich rural lives in pre-revolutionary Pennsylvania. Bound in light brown cpictorial cloth leetered in black with photographic paste... More
Nd(ca.1995): (Sri. Meghshyam, T. Ajgaonkar, India). Octavo. 88pp., Printed for the 125th Birth-anniversary of Mhatma Gandie. Here is presented the thoughts, and wisdom of Gandi and the way in which he lived his life. Includes glimspes of his life with events and the dates they took place. His arrest and... More
(Lepp and Associates, Los Osos, CA: 1997). First Edition. Quarto. 159pp.. Exquisite color photography of the most remarkable wildlfe scenes andthe author show how he took these shots. Bound in white pictorial paper covered boards lettered in blue and yellow, spine lettering blue. A near fine copy. Very nice. More
(Nathaniel Brandon Institute, New York, 1964). Octavo. 11(1)pp. This article originally appeared in two parts in the October and November 1964 issues of The Objectist Newsletter for which Ayn Rand wrote articles from 1962-1965. She was the first to intorduce the term Psyucho- Epistemology in For the New Intellectual. Staple... More
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1978. Quarto. 34 pages of the final script. Hawkeye falls for a visiting Swedish doctor, but was distracted by her take charge ways. As a result he is forced to confront his chauvinistic views toward powerful women. His attraction to her physical beauty is a.... More
London: Innes, 1896. Octavo. xii, 441 pages. Major-General Osborne Wilkinson and Johnson Wilkinson were twin brothers who served with disinction in that privileged era. Reminiscenes of military life and adventure in the Raj in the heyday of Britain's Victorian Empire, with sections on many of the distinguished Officers known personally... More
London: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1905. First Edition. Octavo. Third impression. xvi, 304 pages, folded map, plates. Two things are of quite diverse interest regarding this scarce volume. First, the 1903-1904 British campaign in Tibet where they entered the "Forbidden City" which had not been approached by the Britons in nearly a.... More
Marlborough, Mass. Pratt Brothers, 1886. Octavo. 280 pages, index alphabetically arranged. Feltons are found in virtually every state of the union. While they initially settled in Salem, they eventually moved to the Carolinas and across the country. John B. Felton, a former Oakland, California mayor, a judge and a San... More