AGONY DANCE; Death of the (Dancing Dolls
Portland, OR: Prensa de Lagar, 1969. First edition. Staplebound wraps. 8vo. Unpaginated. Stapled wraps. 1/450 copies. Few small marks on front cover. Also a small faint water stain.
New Arrivals
A STUDY OF BRITISH GENIUS
London, UK: Hurst and Blackett, 1904. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xiv. 300pp. Hardback. Original publisher"s brown cloth, lettered gilt on spine and black on the front cover. First Edition. No Dust Jacket. Neat name of former owner on front endpaper . Small name on middle of front flyleaf. Exceptional condition.....
Skeleton Sky
Finland: Hypnopolitics Institute, 1990. Marita Liula. First edition. Wraps. 28pp. Illus. Drawings by Marita Liula. Wraps. First Printing. Ihalainen is a Finnish poet and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2010. Ihalainen has written 33 books of poetry, mostly in Finnish, but also in English, Danish and Swedish, since.....
GLEAN
Cold Spring, NY: NIGHTBOAT BOOKS, 2007. First Printing. Softbound. 8vo. 91pp.
APERTURE 186; SPRING 2007
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2005. First edition. Softbound. 4to. 88pp, Illus. color and b&w photographs. Fine in wrappers. First edition. Features portraits by Pieter Hugo, a conversation between Luc Sante and Stephen Shore, an article on the centennial of Lee Miller, Also includes Anne Wilkes Tucker on Jay DeFeo's America.....
APERTURE 179; Summer 2005
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2005. First edition. Softbound. 4to. 80pp, Illus. color and b&w photographs. Near Fine in wrappers. Features images by: Hazel Larsen Archer, Needa Madahar, Martina Mullaney, Kerry Skarbakka, and a remembrance of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Also includes an article by Martin Parr on the Photo Book.
APERTURE 178; Spring 2005
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2005. First edition. Softbound. 4to.]84pp, Illus. color and b&w photographs. Near Fine in wrappers. Minor to corners, otherwise clean, firmly bound, no tears or creases, no markings. Contains: "The images of Lalla Essaydi (Muslim women)" by Isolde Brielmaier, "Laura Kurgen's satellite imagery by Geoffrey Batchen, "Plight.....
A DREAM COME TRUE; The Homme Homes at Wittenberg
Wittenberg, WI: Nels and Ruth Englund Paulsen, 1956. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 184pp. Illus. B&w Photographs. Hardback. First Edition. Near Fine brown cloth with gilt lettering & design. "Deep concern for the needs of people in the wilderness brought The Rev. E. J. Homme from Winchester, Wisconsin, to the Wittenberg.....
STANLEY'S EMIN PASHA EXPEDITION
London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xvii, 378pp., [xxv, publisher's ads] complete with 33 plates including frontis portrait of Stanley, folding colored map (tear) showing the route in red, index., original brown pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering. Bright clean copy. Travels across central Africa by.....
WRITING, WRITING; A Composition Book
Portland, OR: Trask House, 1971. Reprint. Staplebound wraps. 8vo. 1/1000. Printed by Carlos Reyes in 1971. Errata sheet, which includes an entire extra poem, laid in.
INSIDE OUT; SPARROW 14
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Printing. Staplebound wraps. 8vo. 11pp. Staplebound. First Printing. A transcript of Creeley's lecture "Inside Out: Notes on the Autobiographical Mode," originally given as part of the Buffalo Conference on Autobiography.
AUX MORTS; SPARROW 18
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. staplebound wraps. 8vo. 13pp. Stapled Wraps. First Printing. Poems by Clayton Eshelman founder of Caterpillar. Small round stain at the bottom of front cover.
Nymphs; A Complete Guide to Naturals and Imitations
New York: Winchester Press, 1973. First edition. Cloth. 4to. [9], 339p., illustrated, 18 color plates, bibliography, index. Bruns S82. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.
PORTRAITS OF THE AFRICAN WILD
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, 1986. First American edition. Cloth. 4to. 208pp. Illus. Photos. Profusely illustrated with beautiful photos of African wildlife.
ORCA Volume 1, Number 1; A collection of Alaskan Poetry and Prose
Cordova, AK: Orca Press, 1980. First edition. Staplebound wraps. 8vo. 38pp. Illus. drawings. Illus. by Kate Boesser. Softcover book, stapled wraps. Limited to 500 copies. A collection of prose and poetry by 16 Alaskan residents living generally in the Sitka and Fairbanks area, In cludes a poem by John Haines.....
IF ONLY
Eugene, OR: Toad Press, 1969. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 8vo. 12pp. Stapled Wrappers. First Edition. First Separate Publication. Cover silkscreen by Richard Trojan. A long poem by Krauss, who is better known for her children's books.
KAKO; ONE MAN SHOW PARIS
Paris: Editions Lisette ALIBERT, 1995. First Edition. Softbound. 4to. Unpaginated pp. Illus. 18 color plates. A Georgian painter living in Paris.
Spell of New Mexico, The
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1978. Second printing. Cloth. 8vo, 105 pp. Light sunning/tanning to edges of boards, page edges, and edges of endpapers. Jacket sunned, handled, rippled. Former owner's signature on front flyleaf.
POMAS DE LA ISLA; Translation by Carlos Reyes
Spokane, WA: Eastern Washington University Press, 2000. First edition. Softbound. 8vo. 72pp.Softbound. First Printing. Spanish poet/actress, the last surviving member of Spain's Generation of 1927 which included Garcia Lorca and Alberti. Translation by Carlos Reyes.
LA REINA; Los Angeles in Three Centuries
Los Angeles: Security Trust & Savings, 1929. First edition. 8vo. 208 pp. Illus. b/w photos throughout. Issued by the bank as a commemorative volume. Good. Wrappers dustsoiled, rubbed, significantly worn and chipped at edges, with a few faint stains.
Granby Missouri; Oldest Mining Town in the Southwest
Granby, MO: Newton County News, 1984. First edition. Softbound. 4to., 241pp. illus. b&w photos plus ads & index of names. Softcover.
LEWIS AND CLARK ; Across the Divide
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution/Missouri Historical Society, 2003. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 424pp. illus. Cloth. First Edition. "A companion to Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition " offers a expansive overview of the famed expedition, examining the lands traversed, the people they met along the way, and the Native American.....
A DOCTOR COMES TO CALIFORNIA; The Diary of John S. Griffin, M.D.
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1943. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. 97pp. Illus. Maps. First Edition. Foreword by George D. Lyman M.D., Book printed by Lawton R. Kennedy with black and white portrait frontispiece. Dr. Griffin was Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons during 1846-1847, all of the maps printed on blue.....
The Aristocratic West
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925. First edition. Cloth. 8vol. 220pp.Illus. Frontispiece of Columbia River. Contains: The Aristocratic West; Salt Lake: City of the Saints; Our Northwestern States; New Mexico and the Backwash of spain; Reno; San Fransisco Revisited.
LAWS PASSED AT THE TWENTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
Denver, CO: Eames Brothers, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 1018pp. State of Colorado. Indexed. Very good, with very light rubbing to extremities. Light stain to front cover. Leather binding w/ bands.