OREGON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1974. 4th Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Cloth. 8vo. 835pp. Maps on the endpapers. Cloth. 4th edition, Revised and Enlarged. Small gift inscription on upper front endpaper.
New Arrivals
ROADSIDE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO; Roadside History Series
Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2002. Later printing. Trade paperback. 8vo. 483pp. Trade Paperback. Photographs. The authors traveled extensively in New Mexico for forty years. Softcover, 483 pp., generously illustrated with photos and maps. Mild wear. No owner names or gift notes. Clean text, tight binding.
RAY'S NEW HIGHER ARITHMATIC
New York: American Book Company, 1880. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 408pp.Sewn binding. BrownCloth over boards with clean and unmarked text block. Corners are slightly bumped.
HIGH HATS AND LOW BOWS
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 222pp. Cloth. First Edition. A narrative travelogue of a young man who traveled the world on crutches and the stories of the people who he encountered, from paupers to kings. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Remains of a bookplate on the.....
FOLK TALES OF NEW MEXICO
NP: Self-Published, nd. Staplebound wraps. 8vo, 12pp. Collection of New Mexican Folk Tales from the collection of Elba De Baca, well known writer and collector of New Mexican folklore. This item is held by only 6 World Cat member libraries.Signed (?) by De Baca. (could be printed).
Staplebound wraps. 8vo. 33 pp. Stapled Wraps, Letterpress on Laid Paper. Illustrated. VG+. Fourth annual booklet issued by the Curtis Paper Company, designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at The Spiral Press, New York. The paper used is Curtis Rag Natural Laid, with the cover in Tweedweave Chartreuse. The type.....
THE BOOK OF BIRDS
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1925. First printing. Cloth. 7" x 10". 215pp. illus. wth 331 color portraits of North American Birds from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 94 illus. in b&w. Previous owners signature at the top of the front flyleaf. Includes forward by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, Common.....
THE J.D. BERGEN CO; MANUFACTURES OF RICH CUT GLASSWARE
Ramona, CA: American Cut Glass Association, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. 80pp. Illus. b&w of cut glass products. Spiral Bound. Reprint of 1893 catalog. Small pwnership label at the top of the title page.
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics [
New York: Norton, 1993. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 304 pp. Fine copy in fine dj.
BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND OTHER NEW ENGLAND STATES VOLS I&II ONLY
Norwood, MA: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1925/1927. First editions. Cloth. Volume One & Two only. 481pp./461pp. Illustrated with color plates by L.A. Fuertes, drawings and b&w photographs, text figures and diagrams. 8" x 10". 461 pp. Green cloth. Volume one covers the Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore birds. Volume.....
LIFE OF EDWIN FORREST WITH REMINISCENCES AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1874. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 524pp + 4pp (adds). Illus. Frontispiece. Full Brown Pebbled Cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, stamped lines in front cover gilt border on spine, modest wear at extremities. Brown endpapers. Edwin Forrest was American actor, was.....
; BY CANOE AND DOG TRAIN AMONG THE CREE AND SALTEAUX INDIANS
New York / Cincinnati: Hunt & Eaton / Cranston & Stowe, 1890. Early Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. 267pp. Illustrated with engravings and photographs. Introduction by Mark Guy Pearse. Introduction to the American edition by J.T. Gracey. Mild wear to the extremities, light soiling. Some scattered pencil annotations. Account of Cree and.....
LITHIUM FOR MEDEA
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Cloth. 8vol. 251pp. Cloth. First printing. SIGNED/DATED BY AUTHOR ON THE TITLEPAGE. Author's first novel Unclipped dj. Small crease at bottom of rear panel of dj.
MAPS OF THE ANCIENT SEA KINGS; Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
Philadelphia & New York: Chilton, 1966. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 316pp. Illus. maps, charts,foldouts, drawings. Notes, Index, Bibliography, Geographical Tables, and Appendix. This book provides the first concrete evidence of a world civilization that existed thousands of years ago. Dust jacket shows some wear at the corners and 2 short.....
EL DIABLO EN TEXAS; LITERATURA CHICANA
Tucson, AZ: Editorial Peregrinos, 1976. First Printing. Trade paperback. 8vo. 99pp. Text in Spanish. The English translation of Brito's masterwork won the Western States Book Award in 1990.
KURT WEILL ON STAGE; From Berlin to Broadway
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 403pp. Illus. Photos. Index. Utilizing Weill's letters, journals, and notes as well as interviews with Weill's friends and colleagues, the author examines Weill's life, his experimental political composing in Germany, his Broadway music in America and everything in between to.....
MY MUSICAL LIFE
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1936. Second printing. Cloth. 8vol. 390pp. Illus. b&w photos. Sheet Music, Gold spine & cover titles on dark blue textured hard covers. Covers Rimskly-Korsafoff's musical career, from its extremely amateur beginnings to his final eminent status as a kind of father of Russian music. Gift inscription.....
FLIGHT TO CANADA
New York: Random House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 181pp. Paper over boards. First edition.
CITY OF NIGHT
New York: Grove Press, 1963. First printing. Cloth. 8vol 410pp. Cloth over boards. First Printing. Dust Jacket has original $5.95 price. Author's first book. Collectible. In an acetate protective jacket.
THE UNGODLY; A Novel of the Donner Party
New York: Charterhouse, 1973. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 371pp. Cloth. First Edition. Author's first novel. Maps on endpapers. Binding slightly slanted.Dj unclipped.
The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry; Bilingual Edition
New York: Random House, 1984. later printing of paperback edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 635pp. Trade paperback. 6th printing of paperback edition. Bilingual text with translations by American and British poets. 49pp. Introduction by Paul Auster.
VITAL PARTS
New York: Richard W. Baron, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 432pp. Cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears, minor wear at the corners of dj.
THE ENDLESS SHORT STORY
New York: Fiction Collective, 1986. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 134pp. Cloth. First Edition. A brilliant combination of fantasy, parody and satire by one of America's leading proponents of experimental writing.
MEA CUBA
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 503pp. First Printing. Cloth. Autobiography of one of Cuba's greatest writers. 3'' light scratch on rear panel of dj, otherwise fine copy in unclipped jacket.
MALABAR FARM
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 405pp.Illus. drawings. Later printing (August 1948) of the first edition. Blue cloth in lightly worn dj. A beautiful copy of Bromfield's classic narrative about his life on Malabar Farm his legendary experimental farm in Ohio. Light soil on rear panel.....