Helprin, Mark.
Swan Lake.
Ariel Books; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1989
- $100
10" x 7.75". 81pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and a color illustrated abel mounted on the front board. Fine condition. Near fine jacket. This copy signed by the author on the title page. With color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg.
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Watership Down.
Adams, Richard. 9" x 6". 429pp. Cream paper covered boards with a cream cloth spine, in dust wrapper. With a couple small spots to the boards, else fine condition. The bright, near fine jacket has just a touch of edge wear. Considered a classic of literature for youngsters, this book won Adams the 1972 Carnegie Medal which recognizes the year's best children's book by a British subject. He also won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and in 1977 California schoolchildren selected it for the inaugural California Young Reader Medal in the Young Adult category, which annually honours one book from the last four years.- $85
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Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. (The Casket and Gentleman’s United.) Embracing Every Department of Literature: Embellished With the Finest Mezzotinto and Steel Engravings, Elegant Embossed Work, Fashions and Music. Volume XIX, June to December, 1841 and Volume XX, January to June, 1842.
Poe, Edgar Allan, editor & contributor. 9.5" x 6". 309, 356pp. Bound in three quarter dark green morocco with marbled boards. Binding somewhat rubbed some light scattered foxing, bookplate, a few pencil margin checks; generally VG+ condition. A couple leaves appear to have not been bound in; the Poe contributions are all complete. This volume contans ten hand colored plates. Also included are 11 poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe. These include the stories The Colloquy of Monos and Una; Never Bet Your Head; A Chapter on Autography (in three installments; A Few Words Abou Brainard; Life In Death; The Mask of the Red Death; and the poems To Helen; Israfel and To One Departed. Many of these contributions almost certainly represent their first appearances in print.- $250
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Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance. Studies of a rational Basis for earthquake Insurance also studies of Engineering data for earthquake – Resisting Construction.
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The Bomb For 1941. The Annual Publication of the Student Body of Iowa State College at Ames.
Fuller, Jack, editor. 12" x 9". 430pp. Bound in the original embossed buckram with gilt lettering. One corner rubbed, else near fine condition. With the usual black & white illustrations after photographs of students, facultysports teams & clubs, etc.- $25
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Men Behind the Seattle Spirit. The Argus Cartoons.
Chadwick, H. A., editor. 10" x 8". 365pp. Bound in full brown flexible leather, with gilt lettering. The binding is a bit worn, ownership signature and bookplate, several leaves with tears. VG+ condition; NOT near fine. The bookplate is that of Ome and Matie Daiber. Ome Daiber was a noted Seattle mountaineer, inventor, hiker and specialist in mountain rescue missions. This book features cartoon illustrations that appeared in the Seattle magazine. "The object of this book is to present the fads and idiosyncrasies of the leading business and professional men of Seattle in a way that will amuse, and not offend."- $75
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Home is if you find it.
Nye, Bud. 7.25" x 4.75". 251pp. Orange cloth, in dust wrapper. With a small gift inscription, lse near fine condition. The jacket is worn and price clipped. This copy signed by the author on the first leaf. With funny illustrations by Paul Galdone. "The laugh - loaded legend of how the Busbys beat the housing shortage - and vice versa."- $18
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A Mind That Found Itself. An Autobiography.
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The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
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A Souvenir of Early Colorado Presented by Fred A. Rosenstock, Books on the Occasion of the Formal Opening of His New Book Shop at 1228 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, October 11, 1962.
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Northwest Traditions.
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A Chapter on Autography.
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Never Late For Heaven. The Art of Gwen Knight.
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Some Recollections of the Merrymount Press.
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Tepee Fires.
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The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs. Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo.
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