Phoenix/New York: Anozira Press/Greenberg, 1952. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 69 pages. Limited to 50 copies. The present copy is "ak" and signed by the author and by Paul Coze. This is either the author's proof copy or personal copy. The book was designed and illustrated by Paul Coze. The cover..... More
Tucson: Mission Publishing, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. . 67pp. Mining beginning in the 1840's. One shipment of $5,000 of rich ore made a huge profit but the second large shipment was lost at sea ending the operation. As gold was discovered by Wickenburg and rich deposits of gold, silver and..... More
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1899. Octavo. 144 pages, with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Jessie E. Nash Cadell who learned Persian while her husband was a British officer in India, devoted herself to the study of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer and poet. Not..... More
Tempe AZ: University of Art Collections, Arizona State University, 1970. Quarto. 8 8 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author to Joe Beeler. Harry Wood was the Professor of Art at Arizona State University who also wrote this interesting 29 line letter to Joe Beeler, dated December 29, 1974. "...After..... More
London: Macmillan, 2012. First UK Edition. Thick Octavo. . Limited edition signed by the author. (no limitation stated) 693 pages. There is a reason Herbert was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was awarded an OBE by the Queen for his services to literature..... More
Boston; (1893): Estes and Lauriat. Small Octavo. 203 pages. illustrated with a series of etchings and photogravures. Besides the account of Saint-Simone, she has written on many of the controversial women of the French court. She was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe. She and her sister Maud Howe Elliot..... More
Clinton, New Jersey: Amwell Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1,000 copies signed by Tony Henley and Jim Rikhoff. The present copy is number 434. Frontispiece, 187 pages with a foreword by Jim Rikhoff. A fine copy bound in full faux leather pictorially stamped in gilt depicting a Kudu..... More
Clinton, New Jersey: Amwell Press, 1982. Limitd Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1,000 copies, the present copy is number 924 and signed by the author, the illustrator, and the president of the NSFL. 498 pages Illustrated by Irene Bowers. Outside of the fabled game fields of Africa, the world has never..... More
(New York 1974): Winchester Press. First Edition. Octavo. . 308 pages, index. The hunter-naturalists who soon collected the Rocky Mountain Bighorn, desert bighorn, Stone and Dall as well as other sheep in Iran and South Asia. He was the executive editor of Hunting Magazine and a member of the Hunting..... More
(Cambridge, 2011)): Cambridge University Press. First Edition. Octavo. First soft cover edition in two volumes. xvi, 1407 pages (continous paging). Pages 1141-1407, appendices, bibliography, indexes making this easy to find exact references or key access points. The journal Philosphy notes: "a major work on eighteenth century philosophy". While aimed at..... More
Deadwood, SD: Old West Trail Association, 1968. Oblong 16mo. [24] unnumbered pages, illustrated by Frank Holub, published in the first year of the association in a very small print run, issues are not found in OCLC. Each legend deals with such figures as Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Theodore Roosevelt..... More
(Niwot, CO, 1995): Prarie Lark Productions. First Edition. Octavo. vi, 78 pages. Much on a neglected topic since road ranches preceded the stagecoach and were also prepared just before the Pony Express. The author has uncovered sources that allow the reader to understand. The Little Blue River Valley was an..... More
Paris; Nd[ca.1899]: Librarie Historique De La Revolution et De L'empire. Large Octavo. Volume I, xliv, 839 pages, Volume II, 868 pages. One of the most useful works since its author attempted to include even minor figures. One of the best on Abbe Gaudin and other philosophers who often did not..... More
Paris: Henri Vivien, 1900. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to only 45 copies. Produced by a member of La Sabretache, a French society of military history studies. Hand-colored title page, regular title page, hand colored frontispiece and three other hand-colored plates. The catalogue lists every plate in order as they..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 469pp., illustrated by C.D. Williams. This is Dixon's on going work, from The Clansman and The Traitor to this novel, a large-paper illustraited edition in the Deluxe Binding. Dixon notes that whereas The Leopard's Spots offers the "historical outline of..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1892. First Edition. 16mo. 156 pages [2] pages of ads. Title page lettered in silver and gilt. A lovely example of 19th-century Oriental exoticism in which a traveler tried to track down the beautiful golden rug of Kermanshah. In addition, there are two fishing..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Octavo. Author's household edition. 727 pages. The nostalgic tone, simple style, and natural and domestic scenes of Ingelow's poetry connect it with Wordsworth's. Her lyrics also resonate with those of her Lincolnshire countryman Alfred Tennyson who told her: "Miss Ingelow, I do declare you do the..... More
London: Printed at London: [by Nicholas Okes], 1621. Quarto in 6s. Decorative engraved title page, [9], 222 pages, one column. Daniel had broken free of the Tudor chroniclers, he was minutely examining sources and citing them for his readers, in what was a more serious work of history. DNB says..... More
London; 1872, 1873 and 1874: Chapman and Hall. Octavo. In three volumes, mixed set. Illustrated. Portrait frontispieces to each volume. Volume I, 398pp. 1812-1941-6th edition; Volume II, 462pp. 1942-1952-Twelfth Thousand; and Volume III, 552pp. 1852-1870-1st edition. Volume I has a special inserted image of the author John Forster. Forster met..... More
Boston; 1834-1837: Ball and Marshal; John L. Sibly and Benjamin H. Greene, and William D. Ticknor. Small Qurarto. This comprises all three volumes, each in the original monthly parts fully illustrated throughout.. Volume I: 536 pages (Sept. 1834-August 1835). Voluime II: 520 pages (Sept. 1835--Aug. 1836) and Volume III, 486..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852. First Edition. Octavo. Hand colored frontispiece, 511 pages. While a leading geologist of his era, the author was also a Congregational minister who believed that the Bible and geology had no contradictions. Many of his contemporary geologists of the time dismissed the Bible and..... More
London; Nd( but 1823): W. Simkin and R. Marshall. First Edition. Small Octavo. In three volumes: Each volume has a different vignette title page. Vol. I: 332, Vol. II: 316 and Vol. III: 349pp. A very scarce set on the German ghost, fairy tale and ghost stories that influenced many..... More
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbruns, 1994. First Edition. Quarto. 325 pages, index of sites, and an extensive bibliography. A multi-dimensional seriation analysis of arrowhead assemblages from Neolithic sites in the Levant is presented. An attempt is made to correlate the relative dating obtained by seriation with stratigraphy evidence and available C-14..... More
Privately Printed (ca.1955): Privately Published. First Edition. Octavo. An extraordinarily rare printing of perhaps 12 copies, 38, [7] pp. Privately printed by mimeograph by the author who, after suffering a horrible accident when a horse fell on him during a London Hunt and Country Club, retired from hunting and became..... More
New York; (1995): William Morrow and Co. First Edition. Octavo. 252 pages. Nice inscription from the author dated 6/95: "Dear Dwayne, I think I might take up golf! Enjoy the story. Love, Steve." The seven-line quote above inscription is from Chapter 11, pages 69-70 about the quest in golf for..... More