New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 597 pages. The great classic that Philip Roth voted as a wonderful book which covered the San Pablo (called the Sand Pebbles) in China which protected missionaries, businessmen, and government agents from the pirates, bandits and those who would not..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pp. (2)pp. The author's marvelous book after his classic Giants in the Earth. The author arrived in New York from Norway with an American dime in his pocket, a Norwegian penny, and a railroad ticket to Minnesota. He knew not..... More
Tucson; 1940): The University of Arizona. First Edition. Small Quarto. Signed by the author. 128pp., illustrated with photographs of ecavation sites, and with 35 colored plates. The Kinishba people lived in Arizona 1000-950A.D. and then disappeared. The author and his students began work of exavating Kinishba. It emerged slowly from..... More
Philadelphia; (2009): Quirk Books. First Edition. Small Octavo. 221 pages, appendix. An essential work for the devotee of Sherlock Holmes. Besides discussing what he thought about the various methods of crime, it discusses his view of drugs, women, and a variety of police and other private detective methods. A very..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1958. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 256 pages. This was the first of the Ian Fleming works made into films that made Sean Connery the "James Bond" character. Bound in black cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red. A very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, edges..... More
(Charlotte, NC): For Public Library and Mecklenburg County By McNally of Charlotte, 1961. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 511 pages, index. Appendix with a helpful calendar of history. The book begins with a helpful history of the founders who labored to subdue a wilderness. It continues with a fascinating picture of..... More
Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Society, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 468 pages, index, maps in pocket of book, foreword By John Francis Bannon, S.J. Signed by Paul Roca on the half-title page. Considered to be the most accurate and most interesting book ever written about old churches of Sonora. Included is a...... More
Norwalk, Connecticut; (1991: Easton Press. First Edition. Octavo. 540 pages, index. signed boldly by Stephen Jay Gould. This is one of the two essays he considered best for biology teachers to read (the other is Dinosaur in a Haystack). Beautifully issued by the Easton Press is a lovely leather edition..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 265p.index, bibliography, eleven other illustrations. 2 folded color maps in rear pocket. The frontispiece has rich color painting by Keith Eddington which shows Escalante and an Indian viewing the Utah Valley. What took Bolton more than twenty years to..... More
New York; (1967): Holt, Rinehart and Winston. First Edition. Octavo. 216p. index. This was Von Bruan's explanation in layman's language of the new discoveries in the two years before the moon landing. Bound in full black leather printed in blue foil, pictorial spine lettered and decorated in red, blue and..... More
This 14 page letter gives an account of the work of the Woman's Board of Missions; particularly, among the poor women of the Near East, India and China. This missionary report is well written and is composed of 340 lines with an indepth report which we summarize here: "The Woman's..... More
Of the 620 photos over 200 are either of the military in action (including with the Russian front), and several others of officers identified in German on the verso. Others show various German activities including some of women in auxiliary uniforms, another of a forced march showing what appear to..... More
He outlines his service in the Pacific Theatre in World War II in the 19th Naval Construction Battalion. After enlisting in March 1942 he was trained for the Construction Regiment, was released to go home but recalled to active duty in June 1942 where he was sent to Noumea, New..... More
American Anthrpologist, 1918. pages 432-436, offprint from the American Anthropologist (New Series, v. 20, Oct-Dec, 1918) with two pages of plates showing the Powell monument which was designed by Pieter Burggraaf. Dellenbaugh as a seventeen-year-old of life embarked with Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of amateur scientists at..... More
4 Page Autographed Letter. Signed and dated March 11 and 16, 1862, the original mailing envelope, and a Imperial CVS photograph of Charles A. Davis, 23rd Mass. Infantry, 1st Brigade, Company D-Coast Division. Letter from Charles A. Davis to Sarah E. Horton (his cousin) at New Bedford, Mass. in original..... More
Presented in a new creme mat, image size: 6" x 4 1/4". She was the first woman to produce a book on wood engraving (1932). She had studied wood engraving under Noel Rooke in the early 1920's and emigrated to the U.S. in 1939 where her themes of the virtues..... More
32 pages. The issue devoted to Arizona History Makers, tells story with pictures of Dr. Frank C. Lockwood, Jeff Milton, Edwin Hill. Major George B. Willcox who was one of Theodore's Roosevelt's Roughriders and was the last of that august group. The Desert Rats who these literary writers called themselves..... More
London; (1955): William Heinemann. First Edition. Octavo. 247pp., This work is a modern variant on a theme which in the last century attracted Mark Twain and other writers: a study of New World hope and innocence set in an old world of violence. Unlike his earlier works, The Quiet American..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Small Octavo. Later printing. frontispiece, Vignette title page and regular title page, 138pp., (6)pp. publisher's ads. illustrated with sixteen illustrations. The story of sea serpents, octopus, cuddle-fish, sperm whale and others. Bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth lettered and decorated in black..... More
(Utah): By the Author, 1924. First Edition. Small Octavo. Frontispiece and one other full page illustration, a few textual illustrations. [5]-414pp. (1)pp. errata. The author has written an excellent source of the early history Provo including the Provo Indian wars, Indian troubles, famine, pioneer life, the rivers, lakes, Brigham Young..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut. (1991): The Eason Press. First Edition. Octavo. First edition before the regular trade edition signed by the author.196pp., with an introduction by James Gunn, color frontispiece artwork by Frank Mayo. This is the author's companion piece following his successful 1973 novel Frankenstein Unbound. Dracula has never gone out..... More
New York; (1990): The Mysterious Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. First printing, (June). A special limited to only 100 copies signed by the author. The present copy is number 24. This is the ninth book for Ellroy. His story picks up where The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere left off..... More
New York;(1985): Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Thick Octavo. . 843pp. A Western masterpiece, the last of the American West as it really was. Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and much more. It embraces all the..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Octavo. 462p. index. bibliography. It was rugged frontiersmen like Al Sieber that were essential to winning of the Army's battles in the West. As Thrapp repeatedly shows when Sieber was not present, Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles were in losing battles..... More
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 343 pp. The story of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka's gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards. Bound in beige cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red and green, top edge stained green..... More