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1958réf. 010744Austin Texas: University of Texas Press 1958. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper "For Willis & Helle with love & merry Christmas - George Garrett". Very Good. Octavo. Damp spotting to front and rear boards. Foxing to textblock edges. In a Very Good Dust Jacket. Edges bumped with some small tears. Sunned spine. Rear flap and jacket creases rubbed. The relationship between George Garrett and Willis Barnstone was a lifelong friendship and professional partnership. They taught together at Wesleyan University in the late 1950s and early 1960s where they co-directed and organized the highly regarded Spring Poetry Festival at Wesleyan in 1960. . University of Texas Press Hardcover books
1954réf. UJENTEE00ajsScott Foresman and Company 1954. Very Good. Jenkins Gladys Gardner. Teen-Agers: A Health and Personal Development Text for all Teen-Agers With Special Interest for 14 15 and 16 Year-Olds. Bauer W.W.; Schacter Helen S.; Moran illustrator Connie; Ryan medical drawings Arnold; Destro medical drawings Jane. San Francisco: Scott Foresman and Company 1954. 288pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Publisher bookplate on front paste down. Library stamp on front free endsheet and title page. Former owners name in ink on front free endsheet. Date stamps on rear free endsheet. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Four double-sided illustrated anatomy transparencies. Two short tears in the last trasparency. Scott, Foresman and Company hardcover books
1948réf. RTAYAFR00LAWThomas G. Samworth 1948. Very Good. Taylor Pondoro John. African Rifles & Cartridges: The Experiences and Opinions of a Professional Ivory Hunter with some Thirty Years of Continuous Living in the African Bush. Smith drawings E. Stanley. Georgetown South Carolina: Thomas G. Samworth 1948. 1st edition. 431pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Sage cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with subtly rubbed corners and small stain on front cover. Two former owners' names on front pastedown. Light unobtrusive soiling on a couple of pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with chipped edges and subtle soiling and having several short closed tears with tape repairs. Soft creasing in front panel. In dust jacket protector. Thomas G. Samworth hardcover books
1961réf. 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
1949réf. 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
1960réf. 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
1949réf. 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
1990réf. 9012384Lyon Mississippi: Derrydale Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 2500 facsimile copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin. Derrydale Press hardcover books
1990réf. 9012383Lyon Mississippi: Derrydale Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 2500 facsimile copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin. Derrydale Press hardcover books
1970réf. 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
1980réf. 9010600New York: Harper & Row 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket has minor chips to the head of the spine. Harper & Row hardcover books
1929réf. 9007578Paris: Fortune Press 1929. Hardcover. Near fine condition. One of 1200 numbered copies. Bound in quarter blue cloth and marbled boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Tears to the corners. Uncut. Fortune Press hardcover books
1978réf. 9007625New York: Atheneum 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Atheneum hardcover books
1981réf. 9007675West Branch Iowa: Toothpaste Press 1981. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 50 copies signed by the author and the artist. Hand-bound in green cloth by Constance Sayre at the Black Oak Bindery with an illustration on paper of a Mercury automobile's grill pasted onto the front cover. Toothpaste Press hardcover books
1971réf. 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
1981réf. 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
1973réf. 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
1986réf. 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
1952réf. 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
1980réf. 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
2010réf. 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
2006réf. 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
1960réf. 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
1995réf. 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
1990réf. 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
