History of Jewell County, Kansas, with a Full Account of its Early Settlements, and the Indian Atrocities Committed Within its Borders
WINSOR, M. and James A. Scarbrough Facsimile reprint of the 1878 first edition. Octavo; printed wrappers; 37pp. Silverfishing to covers and a few pages, heavy enough to result in marginal perforations to several leaves, not affecting text. Otherwise a complete and well-preserved pamphlet, Good or better. The 1878 edition has not been recorded at auction in nearly a century. This facsimile is itself now rather scarce, with no examples recorded in commerce and only eight copies noted in OCLC. HOWES W-580.- $66
- $66
Phineas McCray Henry, Jr. [Inscribed]
HENRY, Phineas McCray Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; 101,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait. Inscribed by the author to Helen Whitaker on front free endpaper. Sound and clean, though with old dampstain to lower left corner: around Very Good. Henry, Jr. was killed in WWII. [63575].- $66
- $66
Back Down the Ridge [Advance Review Copy]
WHITE, W. L. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [x],182pp. Advance slip tipped in at front. Lightly rubbed at corners, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.00), spine-sunned and edgeworn with small chips, Very Good. Account of soldiers' experience in the Korean War. [63573].- $55
- $55
Back to Mandalay
THOMAS, Lowell Octavo (21cm). Blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, in yellow pictorial jacket; 320pp; black and white plates. Bookplate and stamp of George and Louise Hawse. Light shelfwear and dust, but generally clean and sound: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), rubbed and spine-sunned, with small perforation at lower rear spine fold: Very Good. Account of theexperiences of members of the Air Force in the Burma campaign during World War II. [63576].- $55
- $55
South Moon Under
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan Second Printing, with the publisher's seal (though lacking the 'A') on the copyright page, and the length of the alligator mentioned on p.184 reduced to "twenty feet." Octavo (19.25cm); light green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and dark blue on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; [viii],334,[2]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, contemporary owner's ink name to front endpaper, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing light wear and dust-soil to extremities, and a few small surface abrasions to front panel; Very Good+ or better. The author's first book, a novel spanning three generations of a family in the Florida swamps. COAN, p.7; HANNA 2964.- $83
- $83
Audrey Rose
FELITTA DE, Frank 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's purple cloth spine over orange paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine and decorated to front board with a blind embossed tombstone angel; very light wear, bright and handsome, in a clean, strong dustjacket, with two small pieces of tape reinforcement to the verso. A very good copy indeed. 374pp. Internally clean. Orange endpapers. An unsettling novel of death and reincarnation, filmed in 1977 with Anthony Hopkins in the role of the father seeking the wandering soul of his dead child. [63439].- $275
- $275
Shaft
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] TIDYMAN, Ernest First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [iv],188pp. Author's copyright notice on copyright page blacked-out by publisher (found in some copies, and not in others), else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £1.75 net), showing light wear to extremities, with two small abrasions and a touch of dustiness to rear panel. Not the first, but certainly the best-known of the Blaxploitation novels that proliferated in the 1960's-70's. First published by Macmillan in 1970, Tidyman introduced the world to fictional detective John Shaft, spawning a trio of films between 1971-73 starring Richard Roundtree (Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and Shaft in Africa). A significant and somewhat underrated debut; Tidyman, a White author, would create perhaps the most iconic Black fictional character of the 1970s. HUBIN, p.404; BLOCKSON 6353.- $165
- $165
The Mad Mullah of Somaliland
JARDINE, Douglas Facsimile reprint. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown cloth titled in gilt; [i]-xiv 15-336pp; black and white plates, folding map. A firm, clean copy, with slight rubbing to extremities: Near Fine. British colonizer's account of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who led a two-decade struggle against British, Italian, and Ethiopian colonization in Somalia. [63443].- $66
- $66
Children of the Wind
WILHELM, Kate 8vo. 20cm x13cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine, in a clean, bright dustjacket with a little soiling to the white rear panel. A very good copy indeed. 263pp. Internally clean. A collection of 5 tales, most of which are deeply unsettling, including the disturbing "A Brother To Dragons, Companion to Owls", for those of us who enjoy post-apocalypse dystopias, and packs of cannibal children. [63441].- $61
- $61
Account Rendered
FORBES, Rosita First Printing. Octavo (19cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 355,[1]pp ads. Light wear to spine ends, top edge dust-soiled, with mild biopredation to text edges; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, showing moderate wear, some dust-soil, several splash marks to spine, with a semi-circular stain to base of spine (extending onto lower rear panel), a few shallow losses, with some nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good. Sixth novel by the English travel writers and explorer - a romantic adventure novel set in North Africa. Basis for the 1928 British silent film The White Sheik, starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Warwick Ward, and Jameson Thomas.- $330
- $330
Hypnotism and Spiritism: a Critical and Medical Study
First printing. Octavo. Maroon cloth gilt; xi,273pp. Front hinge thinly cracked (holding); just mild external rubbing and soil, including to text block edges; text clean and unmarked - Very Good. With ownership signature, printed bookplate, and ink stamp of prominent St. Louis gynecologist and book collector E. Lee Dorsett, M.D. (1883-1967). First American edition of a work first published in Rome in 1897. Mrs. Gibbs' translation was first issued in London, Chapman & Hall, 1906. CRABTREE 1576 (citing the 2nd Italian edition, 1906): "Lapponi, a Catholic author, writes of many remarkable spiritistic phenomena, which he believes to be the work of the Devil."
An Oration Spoken Before “The Connecticut Society, for the Promotion of Freedom and the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage.” Convened in Hartford, on the 8th Day of May, A.D. 1794
AFRICAN-AMERICANA] DWIGHT, Theodore Early such piece arguing against slavery, delivered by the Federalist lawyer and cousin of Aaron Burr. The Society was founded just four years previously, in 1790, and Dwight would work assiduously as an attorney representing free black New Yorkers who had been kidnapped to be placed on the slave market. "Although he wrote too much and too rapidly for lasting fame, his political articles were bright and spicy" ("Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1888), Vol. II, p. 282). EVANS 26922; SABIN 21530. Octavo (19.5cm.); disbound; 24pp.; [A]-C4. Title page and last leaf of text (serving as upper and rear wrappers) separated but present, upper wrapper rather soiled, extremities chipped and a bit brittle. A Good, serviceable copy only.- $550
- $550
Cameo Recollections of Women’s Army Corps Veterans (WAC Vets) – [title from cover: Daughters of Pallas Athene]
Octavo. Decoratively gilt-stamped green card wrappers (softcover); 288pp. Mild external rubbing, but a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy, free of markings or notable wear. Anecdotes and vignettes by WAC veterans of WW2. Clarke of St. Vith: The Sergeants’ General [With Signature]
First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Tan cloth in army green jacket; [xiv],344pp; black and white plates. Bookplate signed by General Clarke to front free endpaper. Former owner's address label to title page. Gently rubed and bumped, with minor marks to textblock edges, but sound and internally clean: Very Good. Jacket rubbed and scuffed with minor creases at spine ends: just Very Good. General Bruce C. Clarke (1901-1988) was a career US military officer who served in both World Wars and the Korean War. This volume is an account of the Battle of St. Vith, in the Ardennes, in December 1944--a battle in which Clarke's forces were outnumbered eight to one. [63590]. History of Natrona County, Wyoming, 1888-1922: True Portrayal of the Yesterdays of a New County and a Typical Frontier Town of the Middle West. Fortunes and Misfortunes, Tragedies and Comedies, Struggles and Triumphs of the Pioneers
Octavo (22.5cm). Yellow cloth backed in orange, stamped in black; xiv,477,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. A firm, straight copy with minor marks to cloth and textblock edges, internally clean: Very Good. Reprint of the 1923 original. [63607]. The Great Escape: The Apache Outbreak of 1881
First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Red paper over boards, in off-white dust jacket; [xiv],218pp; black and white illustrations. Signed by author on halftitle. Bumped at head, else Fine. Jacket lightly creased at head, else Fine. Great West and Indian Series, volume 62. [63608]. Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica
First Printing. Octavo (24cm); burnt orange cloth, titled in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [10],11-240pp; illus. faint, shallow tide-mark to base of spine and lower front board edge, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some scattered underlining and marginal annotations to a few preliminary leaves; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped, with printed price crossed out and re-priced $4.20 in ink directly above; light wear to extremities, corresponding faint tidemark to base of spine and lower front panel, with a few tiny tears; Very Good+. GILBERT B6b.(1). The Mountain Massacre
First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust jacket; viii,97,[1]pp; Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, mild discoloration to endleaves, else a firm, clean, Near Fine copy. Jacket with mild dustsoil, toning to spine, rubbing to edges, short tear at head neatly mended with paper tape to verso: Very Good. "A True Story of the Massacre of the Court Officials at Hillsville, Virginia, by the Allen Clan." [63585].