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1971Best.-Nr. 89818Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; magenta paper-covered boards and purple cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket xiv1113pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $5.00 with a barefly discernable crease to upper rear joint. The poet's fifth major collection with a preface by Kurt Vonnegut and black & white illustrations throughout by Barbara Swan. 89818. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 89316N.p.: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions 1981. First Edition. Deluxe Issue one of 26 lettered copies with the front cover hand-colored by illustrated Tom Clark this being copy 'L'. Slim quarto 28cm; mimeographed sheets rectos side-stapled into illustrated card covers; 17pp; illus. Signed by Creeley on the terminal leaf beneath his four-line "Death" which appears in this volume on p.13. Tanning and wear to cover extremities; contents clean; Very Good. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. 89316. Am Here Books / Immediate Editions unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 86946Chicago: Chicago Review Press 1973. Softcover. Oblong octavo 22cm x 28cm; white pictorial paper wrappers; 64pp; black-and-white comic illustrations throughout. Light tanning and trace shelf-wear with tiny tear to lower front wrapper; Very Good. Some parts first published in the Chicago Review and Creem this collection explores human behavior through comics of animals and includes "I dreamt" "Momma" and Living in Vernon California". Additionally this text is "one of the first graphic novels whose interior landscapes of a leviathan Midwest show" see Chicago Review Press Blog Reflections from the Publisher. "While most readers won't know what to make of Prairie State Blues the book represents a new breakthrough in combining the written word with the visual image to portray a deeply personal but unmistakably American view of the nature of existence" see Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature M. Thomas Inge. 86946. Chicago Review Press unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 87969Paris: Librarie D'Amérique et D'Orient 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 25cm; pictorial paper wrappers; xii12-495128pp of plate illustrationspp. Bibliothéque du Centre de Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale et la Haute Asie series. Text in French. Some pages of text unopened. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial ownership blind stamped to half-title page. Modest shelf-wear with light creases to wrapper edges; Very Good. French specialist of Buddhist iconography with this text introducing symbols of Tantrism. 87969. Librarie D'Amérique et D'Orient unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 88160Boston: Little Brown and Company 1952. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; illustrated map endpapers; viii34-344pp; illus. An Atlantic Monthly Book. Previous owner's label to upper front pastedown with name blindstamped to half-title page. Modest shelf-wear with light sunning to spine edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Samuel Bryant price-clipped spine-faded with modest soil shelf-wear and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Mowat discusses his travels to the arctic beginning in 1935 with attention towards the Ihalmiut in Canada. 88160. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 88277London: Simon and Schuster UK LTD 1980. Later Edition First Impression. Quarto 28cm; white paper-covered boards with titling stamped in red and black on spine and titling and decorations stamped in red and black on front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 65pp; black-and-white and pink illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear with upper corners gently nudged and erased markings to front endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced £12.99 has modest shelf-wear and trace soil; Very Good. First published in 1955 this the first of Thompson's Eloise series and includes Knight's drawings. It received a television play 1956 and film adaptation 2003. 88277. Simon and Schuster, UK LTD unknown books
2010Best.-Nr. 88279Austin: University of Texas Press 2010. First Edition. Octavo 26cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii1653; black-and-white illustrations. Signed by Bowden on title page. ISBN sticker to lower rear cover with pencilled notes to front endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $40.00 spine-faded; Very Good. American journalist discusses the violence and security on the Mexican-United States border at Ciudad Juarez with detailed illustrations by Briggs throughout. 88279. University of Texas Press unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 88557Seattle WA: Fantagraphics Books Inc 2006 and 2007. Reissue. Three softcover Octavo 24cm volumes; pictorial paper wrappers; 104pp; 103pp; 112pp; colorful illustrations. Vol. 3 has remainder mark to lower edge of textblock and bookshop price sticker to front cover; all three volumes have light shelf-wear; overall Very Good condition. Three volumes of comic illustrations based on American series of short comedy films The Little Rascals Hal Roach's Rascals. Comics first published in The Dandy with illustrations by Dudley D. Watkins these reissues include illustrations and text by Kelly. Each volume includes an introduction by Steve Thompson and cover illustrations by Jeff Smith. 88557. Fantagraphics Books, Inc unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 85862Norfolk CT: New Directions 1960. Revised Edition. Octavo 22.5cm; orange cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xii23-1773pp; illus. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For my Friend Sol. Affectionately Edward / Jan 5 '70 N.Y.C.". Designed by Stefan Salter. Light rubbing to board edges with pencilled notes to front pastedown else Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $4.75 lightly tanned with trace soil 0.5" tear to lower front spine fold tiny chip to front upper corner and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. First published as Sing O Barren and Do These Bones Live this new edition includes illustrations by Kearns throughout and a preface by Sir Herbert Read. 85862. New Directions unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 86498Mountain View CA: Flying Machine Press 1995. First Edition. Folio 31cm; red boards with titling and decorative element stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; xii23-5453pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to recto of front endpaper. Light shelf-wear to lower board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Sections include "Overview of Main Branches of Imperial Russian Aviation" "Aces in Foreign Service" and "Russian Aircraft Manufacturers" with Suir's and Woodman's three-view scale drawings alongside illustrations by Durkota Terry Waldron and James Dietz throughout. 86498. Flying Machine Press unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 86922Oxford New York Delhi: Oxford University Press 1990. Sixth Impression of Flowers of the Himalaya with Second Impression of its Supplement. Two octavo volumes 22cm; navy blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spines; map endpapers; dustjackets; xxx5802pp; xii862pp; illus; black-and-white illustrations and colorful plates. Both copies are from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to half-title page of Flowers of the Himalaya and his bookplate to title page of the Supplement. Flowers of the Himalaya has lightly nudged spine ends creating very slight lean; Very Good. Its dustwrapper has a price sticker to front flap with trivial surface wear and light creases to extremities; Very Good. Flowers of the Himalaya: A Supplement has modest shelf-soil with light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Its dustwrapper has a price sticker to lower rear flap with 1" tear to lower front spine fold trivial surface wear and light creases to extremities; Very Good. Explores Himalayan flowers including Aconite Burning Bush and Prince's Feather with discussion on geographical division and distribution of species and a concluding glossary and index. Stainton's supplement includes an additional bibliography colour plates and map illustrations. 86922. Oxford University Press unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 51499Cambridge: Robert Bentley Inc 1965. Second Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket red topstain to textblock; xii 147pp. 12 b&w plates inserted illustrated with line drawings throughout. Mild shelf wear to boards including light bumping to bottom edge of boards. Some foxing to textblock appearing as a few small spots affecting the first quarter of textblock. Otherwise a tight clean unmarked copy. Jacket showing some damp staining to interior of spine crown exterior and boards unaffected. A few nicks chips and closed tears along the top and bottom edges of jacket. Bottom 1.5" of jacket spine torn but attached. Very Good. Robert Bentley Inc unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 84616Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1928. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; navy blue cloth-covered boards with illustrated title labels on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 151pp; illus. Previous owner's birthday gift inscription with advice so 'a lady musn't be caught off her guard' inked to front endpaper. Sunning to cover edges with light rubbing to spine ends and board edges and off-setting to rear endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped tanned with shelf-soil tiny chips and tears to extremities and tape mends to verso for numerous tears; Good. Collection of verse includes "Love Sonnets of a Cave Man" "Old Pals Meet at Dinner" "Abridged History of the U. S." and "A Rich Bootlegger". 84616. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 58834Easthampton: Warwick Press 1996. First Limited Edition. One of seventy-five copies the total edition signed by Donald Hall and Carol J. Blinn illustrator and binder. 12mo; linen-backed paper-covered boards; 31pp; illus. As-new. Warwick Press unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 18824Iowa City: University of Iowa 1983. First Limited Edition. One of 260 copies. Square quarto; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and flowers embossed on front panel; 28pp; illus. A Fine copy without dustjacket as issued. The first time Williams' sequence of poems has been published since they were anthologized in Others Magazine 1919. University of Iowa unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 18302Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1966. First Edition. First Printing with publication date on title page and "47G" code present in lower gutter of p.405. Octavo; rust-colored cloth with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 406pp. Inscribed by Bradbury on the front endpaper in an early though not contemporary hand. Small wrinkle to crown else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped with a touch of sunning to spine faint stain to front panel a few short edge tears and a single tape mend verso. Comprised of the 44 stories from The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy including many of the author's most beloved stories. An attractive copy. Doubleday & Company unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 1269291939. New York: Random House 1939. Folio xviii 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map 10 color plates. Original marbled boards backed in cream leather red leather backstrip label lettered in gilt. Backstrip somewhat worn and flaking otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. § Limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox U.S.N. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Meyers was a gunner on the first USS Dale during the War with Mexico. His drawings of the American conquest of California and gold mining activities are of great historical importance. The color plates were reproduced from the original drawings in the collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. unknown books
1842Best.-Nr. 54385London: Fisher Son & Co 1842. Hardcover. Good- to near fine condition. Large Quarto. 6 II 3-80 2 76 2 100 4pp. 120 plates incl. two maps and three vignette titles. Original green pebbled morocco with gilt tooling and ruling along edges of covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spines; raised bands and protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Endpapers yellow. Engraved vignette titles. The author John Carne left England in 1821 and spent much time traveling in Israel/Palestine and in Constantinople Greece the Levant and Egypt. It is one of the few works of that time to include what is present-day Lebanon. The book with plates by Bartlett Purser and Allom was published some time after Carne returned to England initially in thirty parts of four plates each. Many of the plates in volume 3 are after drawings by Thomas Allom commissioned by the publishers to complete the illustrations. This work contains 2 full page maps and 118 steel-engraved plates depicting views throughout Syria and Asia Minor all protected by tissue-guards. All volumes with list of engravings at front volume three with general index at rear. Binding with light rubbing and scuffing along edges slightly more pronounced at top foredge of front cover of volume three. All three volumes lightly starting at inside covers but firm. Volume one with engraved bookplate on inside front cover signed Alfred Bilbrough May 1908. All three volumes with medium seize O printed to front free endpapers. Volume three with bump at lower spine lightly at foredge and some pages and plates with water stains at top margins not affecting images. Eighty of the engravings are fine with none or very light foxing in margins. Thirty-six engravings with light or minor damp-staining in plates four engravings with heavy damp-staining in images. Blocks lightly age-toned. Fisher, Son, & Co hardcover books
1961Best.-Nr. 9026393Stamford: Stamford Thing Press 1961 1961. 1st. Paperback. Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Author's first book. Drawings on front cover and in text. Fine condition. Stamford, Thing Press, [1961] paperback books
1949Best.-Nr. 9014367New York: Harper & Brothers 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. Bound in publisher's original cloth. The spine of the dust jacket is sunned. Gift presentation in ink on the front free endpaper. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 9012910New York: A. S. Barnes and Company Inc 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Drawings by Sanford Strother. The dust jacket has chips and closed tears to the extremities. Previous owner's name and address stamped on the front pastedown endpaper. A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 9012102Washington D. C.: Wildlife Management Institute 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Signed by the author on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. The spine is sunned. Wildlife Management Institute hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 9012384Lyon Mississippi: Derrydale Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 2500 facsimile copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin. Derrydale Press hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 9012383Lyon Mississippi: Derrydale Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 2500 facsimile copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin. Derrydale Press hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 9012325Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Stackpole Books hardcover books
