The Strange Alliance
Deane, John R New York, 1947 Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii] 344 pages. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to spine. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with a couple of chips to edges and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Major General John Russell Deane, United States Army, served as Chief of the United States Military Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during World War II. As such, he was the principal U.S. military official in Moscow through the end of the war and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's key military advisor. He attended the 1943 Moscow Conference and the 1945 Yalta Conference. As the war progressed, he became frustrated by the Soviet government and urged that the U.S. work with the Soviets under a firmer policy "based on mutual respect and made to work both ways." - Wikipedia.- $95
- $95
On Active Service In Peace and War
Stimson, Henry L. New York, 1948 Two volume set. Number 227 of a limited first edition of 1250 signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. Hardcovers in blue publisher's cloth with dust jackets. Octavo. Both volumes clean and unmarked. Price clipped dust jackets show some shelf wear and fading to spines and are protected in archival quality mylar sleeves. Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican Party politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under President William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under President Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.- Wikipedia.- $165
- $165
Winston Churchill and the Second Front 1940-1943
Higgins, Trumbull New York, 1957 Hard cover. Octavo. [xii] 281 pages. Review copy with carbon copy of review laid in. Book clean an unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and slight fading to spine. "An analysis of British and American strategy from the fall of France through the Casablanca Conference in 1943..." from the dust flap.- $23
- $23
Ninety-Two in the Shade
McGuane, Thomas New York, 1973 First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Octavo. 197pp. Top edge stained red. Signed by author on title page and dated 1992. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The author's third novel and the basis of a 1975 movie of the same name directed by him.- $250
- $250
Young Nudes
Masaya Nakamura (Photographer) Tokyo, Japan, 1961 Stiff cardboard cover in pictorial wraps. 9 3/4" by 7". 71 pages of b/w photographs plus an introductory essay by Koen Shigemori and two pages of technical data on the pictures. Slight discoloration to bottom edge of title page otherwise clean throughout. Wraps show shelf wear to edges and slight fading. From the introductory essay, "Another reason for the appeal of his works is that Nakamura is the first Japanese photographer with the skill, taste and sensibility that could combine with artistic creativeness to produce a healthy dynamism and sensual grace that appeal immediately to the imagination."- $80
- $80
The Raven, Le Corbeau
Poe, Edgar Allan New York, 1968 A facsimile of the 1875 edition of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe with French translation (into English) by Stephane Mallarme and illusttrations by Edouard Manet. Copy number 119 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Slim quarto. Hard cover. Unpaginated but 32pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.- $225
- $225
New Year’s In Sokolniki
Kononov, A Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ca 1954 Stapled in wraps. 11 1/4" by 8 1/2" Twelve pages including three full page b/w illustrations by N. Zhukov. Very good. A publication of the Soviet Children's Library For Tiny Tots which tells a story of V.I. Lenin visiting an orphanage outside of Moscow and delivering presents and good cheer. Propaganda in the form of a thinly veiled retelling of the Santa Claus folk tale.- $125
- $125
To A Skylark
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Undated, but likely 1950-1967. Hard cover. Paper over boards. Octavo. Unpaginated but [ii] 14pp. Fore-edge untrimmed. Opening line in gilt. This book has been designed, printed from hand-set type and case bound by Thelma & John Evans at The Goose Rumped Roan Press now situate at Este Es the Northern Edge of the Black Forest near Hilltop near Parker Colorado. Approximately sixty copies have been completed for private distribution as keepsakes.- $75
- $75
Catalogo De La Coleccion De Codices
Glass John B. Mexico City, 1964 Hard cover. Grey publisher's cloth with silver lettering. Quarto. 237pp. plus 139 b/w plates. Marginalia consisting of cross referencing in pencil to the descriptions, and ink to the margins of the plates by a previous scholar. Very good.- $112
- $112
Meditations on Hunting
Ortega y Gasset, Jose New York, 1972 First American Edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. Gift inscription to front free end paper otherwise fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Howard B. Wescott, with an introduction by Paul Shepard and illustrated by Lewis S. Brown.- $200
- $200
The Charlie Chaplin Archives
Duncan, Paul (Editor) No.1068 of a limited first edition with a 12 Frame Strip from "City Lights" cut from an Original 35 MM Print in the Charlie Chaplin Archives. Hard cover. Oblong 16 1/2" by 12 1/4" 560 pages. Tiny blemish to one of the title letters on front cover otherwise fine. In original custom box. Three years in the making, and leaving no document unturned in the vast Chaplin archives, this XL tome follows the making of every one of Chaplin's films. Featuring personal letters and memos, sketches, storyboards, posters, on-set photos, and oral history from Chaplin and some of his closest collaborators, it reveals the impromptu invention as well as the meticulous planning that together made Chaplin the first international film star. - from the publisher.- $375
- $375
Codice Xolotl
Dibble, Charles E. Mexico, 1980 Two Volume set in matching slip case. Cloth bound hard covers with crest in gilt and black to front. Tall quartos. Vol. 1 (text) 164 pages. Vol. 2 Plates. Both volumes clean and unmarked with tight bindings and minor wear to covers. The Codicé Xolotl is a post-conquest cartographic Aztec codex, thought to have originated before 1542. It is annotated in Nahuatl and details the pre-conquest history of the Valley of Mexico, and Texcoco in particular, from the arrival of the Chichimeca under the king Xolotl in the year 5 Flint (1224) to the Tepanec War in 1427. The manuscript consists of six amatl boards measuring 17" × 19" with ten pages and three fragments from one or more pages. While it is unknown who did the binding of the manuscript, it is cast like a European book back to back. The Codex Xolotl has been an important source in giving detailed information on material, social, political and cultural changes in the region during the period. It is one of the few still surviving cartographic histories from the Valley of Mexico and one of the earliest of its type. - Wikipedia.- $350
- $350
Revelations
Arbus, Diane New York, 2003 First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Quarto. 352 pages. Fine in a fine dust jacket protected in an archival quality Brodart sleeve. "The book reproduces two hundred full-page duotones of Diane Arbus spanning her entire career, many of them never before seen..."- $88
- $88
The Magical Record of the Beast 666
Crowley, Aleister (John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, Editors) London, 1972 Limited edition number 233 of 250 signed on the limitation page by editors John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, the latter with the addition of his O.T.O. moniker. Green cloth over boards with gilt to spine Crowley's distinctive signature reproduced in gilt on the front cover. Marbled end papers. All edges green stained. Octavo. [xv] 326pp. In custom slip case. Some white marks to spine and slip case. The diaries of Aleister Crowley from 1914 to 1920 covering almost all of his time in America and the start of his time at Cefalu and travels in between. Including daily events and records of his occult practices.- $800
- $800
The Campus: University of California
Abell, Carl Oakland, 1919 Hard cover 10 1/2" by 8 1/4" String tied. Blue cloth spine, gold cloth over boards with a bear and lettering in blue. 43 full page b/w photographs of the campus of the University of California, each captioned on the page opposite. Previous owner's signature in ink with the inscription, Memories / of my / "Alma Mater" dated Feb 3, 1922 to front free end paper. Slight darkening and shelf wear to cover.- $109
- $109
Catch Me If You Can
Abagnale, Frank W. Jr. New York, 1980 First edition, Third printing. Boldly signed by author on the front free end paper. Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. 253 pp. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with small closed tear to top edge and price clipped. Frank William Abagnale Jr. is an American security consultant known for his career as a con man, check forger and impostor when he was 15 to 21 years old. He became one of the most notorious impostors, claiming to have assumed no fewer than eight identities, including an airline pilot, a physician, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, and a lawyer. Abagnale escaped from police custody twice before turning 22 years old. He served less than five years in prison before starting to work for the federal government. Abagnale is currently a consultant and lecturer for the FBI academy and field offices. He also runs Abagnale and Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. Abagnale's story inspired the Academy Award-nominated feature film, Catch Me If You Can (2002), starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Abagnale and Tom Hanks as the FBI agent pursuing him, as well as a Broadway musical of that name, both of which are based on the book Catch Me If You Can.- $60
- $60
Prints & Drawings By Frank Brangwyn With Some Other Phases Of His Art.
Sparrow, Walter Shaw London, 1919 Hardcover. 4to. [x] 288pp. First edition. With fifty plates and numerous smaller woodcuts. Rebound in brown cloth over boards with gold titling to spine. Very good condition throughout. Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA, a prolific artist in many media, was largely an autodidact but did receive training from Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and in the workshops of William Morris.- $75
- $75
Pen & Inklings
Herford, Oliver New York, 1893 Slim 12 mo. Unpaginated. Green cloth over boards with red initial and black lettering to front cover. A volume of poetry with b/w illustrations throughout. Bookplate of Frank Earle Hayward to the front fixed end paper and another smaller "property of " label of his to the front free end paper. Mr. Hayward had considerable connections to the revolutionary era-- he was a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and apparently of the Order of Washington, where he was the Deputy Vice-Commander-General for the state of New York. He was also a member of the Bibliophile Society of Boston. A copy of this bookplate resides in the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.- $150
- $150
Four Fighters of Lincoln County
Utley, Robert M. Albuquerque, 1986 Hard cover in dust jacket. 8vo. 116pp. Stated first edition signed by the author on a sticker affixed to the half title page. Book is near fine with a small red remainder mark to the top edge. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with a small closed tear yo top edge. This book, based upon the first of the Calvin P. Horn Lectures on Western History and Culture, Robert M. Utley examines four principal actors in the Lincoln County War: Alexander McSween, Billy the Kid, Col. Nathan A.M. Dudley and Lew Wallace (Governor of New Mexico). - from the dust flap.- $30
- $30
The University Club Denver
Denver, 1900 Small hard cover, 7" by 5" Light green handmade paper over boards with gilt lettering. Fore-edge untrimmed. 59pp. Very good. An official publication of the University Club Denver containing lists of Officers and Committee Members, Articles of Incorporation, Constitution, Rules for the Government and a list of Resident and Non-Resident Members.- $75
- $75
Winter Camping
Carpenter, Warwick S. New York, 1920 Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment, Food, Shelter and Beds, Campfires and Stoves, Wildlife in Winter etc. The design on the front cover, which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon.- $49
- $49
Two Women in the Klondike
Hitchcock, Mary E. New York and London, 1899 Green cloth over boards with title in gilt and two colored design to front. 8vo. [xiv] 485pp [2] with fold out map of Alaska in rear pocket. 105 illustrations, primarily b/w photographs. Internal hinges split. Some rubbing to corners with slight loss to top front and top of spine Describes the adventures of Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, a grandniece of President Van Buren, during a perilous and eventful journey taken in the summer of 1898. Owing to the waters of the Yukon River being low, the two women were delayed for some time at Dawson City where they located miner's claims and lived as squatters. Besides the interesting incidents of travel included, the book included graphic descriptions of the Klondike region, and accounts of local customs and superstitions, as well as mining methods. - wikipedia- $125
- $125
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Fisher, Philip A. New York, 1958 Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. [xiii] 136pp. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chipping to edges and small loss at top of spine and front edge. Philip A. Fisher, widely regarded as one of the most successful investors of all time, was a pioneer in the field of growth investing. His book "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" has achieved almost legendary status in the investment community. "I sought out Phil Fisher after reading his Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits...A thorough understanding of the business, obtained by using Phil's techniques...enables one to make intelligent investment commitments." -Warren Buffet.- $300
- $300
A History of New Mexico
Villagra, Gaspar Perez de, Chicago, 1962 Villagra, Gaspar Perez de,Hard cover. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Octavo. 308pp with twelve b/w plates. Translated by Gilberto Espinosa front the original Spanish of 1610. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding Light shelf wear to cover. Very good.- $23
- $23
Observations on the Brumal Retreat of the Swallow
Philochelidon. (Forster, Thomas) London, 1808 Sewn pamphlet. 8 1/8" by 6" 32pp. Gathering of pages 19-30 loose otherwise in very good condition. Although not the first, the author uses observation and research to provide evidence that swallows, and also martins and swifts, are "birds of passage" that migrate annually and do not hibernate or overwinter underwater as previously thought. Additional Remarks include a list of translations of the name "swallow" from several languages and also a list of different names, in English, for each particular species, many not now in common use. In 1808, under the signature 'Philochelidon,' he published 'Observations on the Brumal Retreat of the Swallow,' of which the sixth edition appeared, with a catalogue of British birds annexed, in 1817.- Wikisource.- $200
- $200
With The Colors From Montgomery County, Illinois U.S.A.
Litchfield. Ill, 1919 Hardcover quarto. 190pp. Fully indexed with six engraved color plates. Very good. With The Colors From Montgomery County. An Honor Roll of members of the armed forces and Red Cross nurses from Montgomery County, Illinois, each with a portrait photograph, who gave their lives in the First World War.- $150
- $150
Prohibition Punches
Doran, Roxana B. Philadelphia, 1930 Stated first printing. Hard cover. Octavo. 93pp. Pale purple cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Slight fading at spine otherwise very good. "Several years into the noble experiment (prohibition) Roxana B. Doran wife of James M. Doran, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, earned fleeting fame with the publication of Prohibition Punches (Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1930), the result of a nationwide campaign to popularize fruit drinks. Her own recipe for "1930 Cocktail" was composed of grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, limes and ginger ale, garnished with fruit and a sprig of mint. "Mrs. Doran Introduces New Cocktail at Dinner"- Baltimore Sun [2nd January 1930]. P.2 So that's the background to Harry Craddock's cheekily named "Prohibition Cocktail" in the Savoy Cocktail Book. This one, at least if enjoyed outside the US, was legal, delivered a kick and actually tasted nice. It was everything other prohibition cocktails were not. Even more cheekily, it's almost exactly the same as Craddock's Charlie Lindbergh cocktail: the sole difference is that this recipe calls for a single dash of apricot brandy, not two (the Lindbergh also specifically calls for the proprietary brandy Pricota).- $425
- $425
Selected Readings Translated From Traditions and Myths of the Taiwan Aborigines
Baudhuin, R.F. Hard cover. Red cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering to front cover and spine. 10 1/2" by 8 1/2" [13] 732pp. Partial tanning to end papers. Very good. Manuscript translation of an unspecified Japanese work by Ogawa [Takuji?] and Asai [Susumu?] published c. 1930.- $300
- $300
Shadow & Act
Ellison, Raplh New York, 1964 Hardcover. Octavo. [xxiii] 317pp. Dust jacket price clipped with a small closed tear to back top edge. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "The pieces collected here," Mr. Ellison writes in his Introduction, "are concerned with three general themes: with literature and folklore, with Negro musical expression-especially jazz and the blues-and with the complex relationship between the Negro American sub-culture as a whole.- $30
- $30
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.
Kirk, Robert. comment by Andrew Lang Stirling, 1933 Hard cover. Octavo. Publisher's purple cloth with lettering in black to front cover and spine. Bookseller's label from Hartman's Books, Inc. Seattle inside back cover. Two previous owner's names inside front cover. Dust jacket faded and tanned around spine with small closed tears to head. Very good in a good dust jacket. The Secret Commonwealth is a curious book, the bibliography being extremely obscure. Written in 1691 the work apparently existed in MS, only until its publication in 1815, with Sir Walter Scott as editor.- from the dust flap.- $250
- $250
Wood Words
McCulloch, Walter F. Portland, Ore, 1958 Hard cover. Publisher's orange cloth with pine tree in green to front cover. Title in gilt to spine. Octavo. [vi] 219pp. Frontispiece with a colored illustration tipped in. Previous owner's name and evidence of a bookplate having been removed from front fixed end paper. Very good. A logger's dictionary of 4,000 words and phrases, the working words used by American lumbermen.- $50
- $50
Journey To Love
Williams, William Carlos New York, 1955 Octavo. Grey/green cloth with black and green lettering to front to cover and spine. Top edge grey stained. 87pp. Price of $3.00 at the top and date 10/55 at the bottom of the front dust flap. Bookseller label of The Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge, Ma to bottom of ffep. Some light marks and small split to crease of dust jacket. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Journey To Love is a collection of mellow and tender love poems, all written in the past two years. The long poem, Asphodel That Greeny Flower, is a love poem, and will surely take its place among the great love poems of all time. - from the dust flap.- $65
- $65
Yesterdays On Brooklyn Heights
Callender, James H. New York, 1927 Number 53 of a limited first edition, signed by author. Octavo. Dark blue pebbled cloth over limp boards with gilt stamped front cover and spine. 296pp with b/w photographs. Light water mark to gutter corner of preliminary pages. light crease to corner of rear cover. Hinges firm. Good. Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights is history of a sort. It tells in rather casual manner of early settlement in Brooklyn, describing the Dutch houses and manners of dress, and the shift from Dutch to English presence by the time of the Revolutionary War. But Callender was writing less a history in any currently accepted sense of the term than an elegy to a place he loved, and which he saw losing much of the charm he treasured. He rued the coming of apartment buildings and the telephone, which "began to curtail the running in and out of each other's [sic] houses at all hours. … And one morning we woke up to realize that our Golden Age had vanished, never to return." - Henrik Krogius, Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle.- $55
- $55
Smoky
James, Will New York, 1929 Illustrated classics edition. Small quarto, 9 1/2" by 7 1/4". Publisher's black cloth with large color illustration pasted down to front cover. Gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial end papers. Frontispiece and 14 plates by the author. Light shelf wear, a little more so at spine ends. Very good. Will James expressed surprise at winning the Newbery Medal (1927) for Smoky the Cow Horse, since the book was published for adults. - wikipedia.- $45
- $45
The White Slaves of England
Sherard, Robert Harborough London, 1897 Hard cover. Octavo. Red publisher's cloth with stamped black pictorial front cover. 370pp and 6pp of publisher's advertisements. Over 40 b/w illustrations by Harold Piffard. Wear to covers and spine. Interior hinges starting. Foxing to frontispiece tissue guard. Good. A series of chapters on the conditions of workers in various industries including Alkali Workers, Nail Makers, White Lead workers. After graduating from Oxford University Sherard became a professional journalist writing for a wide range of publications. He became particularly interested in working conditions and urban poverty and was also commissioned to write several articles on child labour.- University of Reading, Special Collections.- $60
- $60
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
Burton, Sir Richard Philadelphia, 1931 First trade edition. Quarto. Publisher's black cloth over boards. Silver stamped spine. Pogany illustration on paper label with a wide silver border to front cover. [xvi] 129pp. Pogany illustrations throughout. Firm binding. Light shelf wear. Very good.- $80
- $80
The Recluse
Wordsworth, William London and New York, 1888 Hardcover. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. 56pp. Housed in a custom made tri-fold case within a slip case all in green cloth over board with gilt lettering to a darker green spine label. Light tanning to endpapers and light wear to covers and slip case. Very good. From a preliminary page "...It is now published for the first time in extenso"- $50
- $50
Diary 2018 Selections
Bennett, Alan London, 2018 Hardcover. Octavo. 30 pages. Number 209 of a limited edition of 350 signed by the author. Printed on Mohawk Ultrafelt Warm White paper and typeset in Monotype Miller. The book was designed by Andrew Stilwell and Patrick Roe and quarter bound in Harmatan leather by The Logan Press of Finedon. The cover illustration is from the Peter Campbell Archive. Fine.- $250
- $250
Colorado Territorial Scrip
Mumey, Nolie Boulder, CO, 1966 Tall octavo. 127pp. Cloth bound hard cover with paper title label. Sectional map end papers. Facsimiles of early Colorado scrip in rear pocket. Fore-edge unopened. Limitation page is present but unsigned and not numbered. Fine in fine original clear plastic dust jacket.- $95
- $95
Monarch The Big Bear of Tallac
Seton, Ernest Thompson New York, 1904 Stated first impression October 3, 1904. Octavo. Hard cover. Blue cloth with oval paste down to front cover and gilt lettering and decoration. Unpaginated but [iv] 214pp with 100 drawings by Ernest Seton Thompson. In this Book the designs for cover, title page, and general make-up were done by Grace Gallatin Seton. Hand written gift inscription to blank preliminary page dated Christmas 1904. Light wear to head and tail of spine otherwise very good. The story of the life of a grizzly bear in the Sierra Nevadas, his capture and last days spent in a cage in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.- $30
- $30
In the Hell of Auschwitz
Sternberg Newman, Judith New York, 1963 Stated first edition. Octavo.Grey cloth over boards in dust jacket. 136pp. with b/w photographs. Signed by author on half-title page. Previous owners name to front free end paper otherwise very good. Dust jacket shows wear with some rubbing to edges. With a summary of the trial of Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz.- $75
- $75
Herbert
Herbert, Anthony B. New York, 1982 Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. 189pp. with b/w photographs. Inscribed by the author 1/84 / To; Carl / & Ann- friend / from / a friend / Tony Herbert. Small closed tear to bottom edge of dust jacket which is in a new brodart sleeve. Very good. A personal record of the author's experiences of the Korean War by the end of which - according to the United States Army - he was the most decorated soldier in American history. Herbert subsequently became a well known and controversial figure after reporting on alleged war crimes committed by the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam war and covered up at the highest level.- $95
- $95
Failure Is Not An Option
Kranz, Gene New York, 2000 First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Octavo. 415pp. SIGNED on title page by author and dated 4/21/00. Fine in fine dust jacket. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Eugene Francis Kranz is a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. He served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He is best known for directing the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13 and bring them safely back to earth after part of the Service Module exploded.- $250
- $250
Ranch Verses
Chittenden, William Lawrence "Larry" New York, 1893 Hard cover. Octavo. [xi] 189pp. Brown cloth over boards with title and vignette in gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard and thirteen additional illustrations including some b/w photographs. Near fine with minor wear to extremities. Tight binding. Original owner's signature to front free end paper dated 1893. Gilt sharp and unfaded. A large collection of poetry about which the author writes "The verses in this little volume are offsprings of solitude - born in idle hours on a Texas ranch." William Lawrence "Larry" Chittenden (1862-1934) is best known for his 1890 poem, "The Cowboy's Christmas Ball," which was included in his 1893 book, Ranch Verses. The poem was inspired by a cowboy Christmas dance he attended in Anson, Texas and the event he made famous still takes place annually. - cowboy poetry.com- $50
- $50
Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke
Walton, Izaak (Joseph Crawhall, Illustrator) London, 1885 Blue paper covered boards, ivory spine with gilt title. 8vo. 120pp edges uncut. Rubbing and chipping of top paper/edges, toning to end papers and title page. No signs of previous ownership. Extracts of songs and poetry from Walton's Compleat Angler profusely illustrated with Crawhall's distinctive hand colored wood cuts.- $400
- $400
Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the Year 1821
Manby, George William London, 1822 Quarto: [vii] 143pp. Original marbled boards rebacked in half leather with gilt title to spine. New end papers. Fold out hand colored map and 20 b/w lithographed plates, many of which show finely detailed "action scenes." Other b/w illustrations throughout. Rebound half calf over original marbled boards and new end-papers. Gilt titling to spine. Foxing to the map and first pages and then occasionally throughout. Boards show wear, heavy at corners. Notable is the appendix which outlines the technical details and advantages of Manby's new harpoon gun. The first of its kind. Manby's spirited account of an Arctic whaling voyage with Scoresby aboard the Baffin, taken ostensibly to test a new harpoon gun that he had developed. After meeting with continued lack of cooperation and obstruction from the crew, who believed the new harpoon gun to be a threat to their livelihood, Manby turned his attention to narrating the whaling activities of the voyage and studying and recording the local wildlife.- $3,500
- $3,500
The Art of Farriery Both in Theory and Practice, Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses…
Reeves, John London, 1771 Third edition. 8vo. Full contemporary leather. [viii] 416pp with one folding and three full page plates. Owner's name handwritten on front free end paper. Front and back hinges starting. Leather rubbed in places. The sub title continues; ...the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As Also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out / By JOHN REEVES, Farrier st Ringwood, Hants. The the whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by a Physician, to which is added, A New Method of curing a STRAIN in the Back Sinews, and the ANATOMY of a Horse's Leg, with some observations on SHOEING, Also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure by an EMINENT SURGEON. Handwritten notes and recipes/remedies to front and rear endpapers and eight small hand written sheets of various case notes tipped in.- $400
- $400
A Dialogue With Solitude
Heath, David New York, 1965 Tall quarto. Grey cloth over boards with pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated but 92pp. With the photographer's signed inscription to the title page. Dear Marilyn- / to share with you this small / measure of my life's / meaning / /with affection / Dave / May Day 1968. Very good condition throughout. Dust jacket shows some distress with closed tears to edges and small loss to bottom of spine along with some discoloration. "A Dialogue With Solitude, an incomparable book that James Borcoman, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Canada, has described as the most important book by a photographer to appear in the 1960's. A Dialogue With Solitude was the product of more than a decade of personal exploration in photographic self-expression and the resolution of Heath's creative search to enunciate his statement in the visually poetic form of sequence." - Museum of Contemporary Photography.- $2,250
- $2,250