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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
First Edition
Salt Lake City, UT: Charles Kelly, 1938. 337 pages. One of 1000 copies. A history of the cowboy-outlaw period that accompanied America’s expansion westward in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes histories of the bandit hideouts Hole-in-the-Wall, Brown's Hole and Robbers' Roost. Illustrated with reproductions of black-and-white photo and drawings by Bill Fleming. ISBN: 281AIB1046028.
First edition (first printing). Black-red cloth with gilt lettering and gold cowboy figure on the cover. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Minor wear to the spine ends and light offsetting to the endpapers apparently from scotch tape used to secure a dust jacket protector (now replaced). A near fine copy in a dust jacket color faded on the spine and lightly along the top inch of the front cover; with some toning to flap edges and rear cover. Signed by the author on the first blank. A very nice copy. Six-Guns 1221; Howes K58.
Book ID: 243820More details Price: $500.00 -
Home Ranch
First Edition
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. xi, 346 pages. Illustrated by the author. "The story tells of life, struggles and pleasures from the time the ranch was started in 1880 up till today in 1935"--from the promotional bookmark issue for this title. ISBN: 281AIB1040508.
First edition (first printing with publisher's seal and A on the copyright page). Previous owner's name, else a near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with light wear to the edges. With the promotional bookmark that accompanied at least some copies with a short introduction to the book on one side and a list of Will James' books on the other, reproduced from James' handwritten copy. Arguably, this is a separate Will James publication, however slight and ephemeral, and undoubtedly missing from many James collections. [JSP01]
Book ID: 204994More details Price: $500.00 -
Isaac Roosevelt (1726-1794) Soldier, Statesman, Citizen of New York: A short genealogical record of the Roosevelts from 1649 to 1934 and notes in reference to John Bailey sword maker to the Officers of the American Revolution
Bound in yellow half morocco over blue cloth. Spine tanned, with a bit of spotting to the leather, else a near fine copy in a very good slipcase. Bookmark ribbon detached but laid in. Copy 3 of 12, numbered, signed Fred Peters and dated on a sheet of House of Peters letterhead, tipped to the first leaf. [JSP01]
Book ID: 78327More details Price: $500.00 -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Director's Scrapbook
Fine or nearly so. One call sheet is signed by both Reed and Smits (and all the other actors). [JSP02; JHG2019]
Book ID: 206630More details Price: $500.00 -
Mathematisches Worterbuch, oder Erklarung der Begriffe, Lehrsatze, Aufgaben und Methoden der Mathematik ... [Complete, 7 volumes in 8]
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Very good or better in contemporary cloth and decorated paper bindings; old gymnasium library stamp on each title page; some paper adhesions to the covers of a few volumes, but a remarkably well-preserved set.
Book ID: 206707More details Price: $500.00 -
A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892-1906; 1906-1928. (2 Volume Set)
First Edition
London: British Museum, 1908; 1928. 2 Volumes: 1095, 1694 pages. ISBN: 281AIB1048836.
First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in original green cloth with bright gilt lining and lettering on spine. Spine edges are rolled. Black endpapers. Pages edges to 1906 volume have mild foxing. A handsome set.
Book ID: 264156More details Price: $500.00 -
Hawai'i One Summer: 1978 [Deluxe Edition]
First Edition
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987. 52 pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2inches. An autobiographical story of a summer spent in Hawai'i. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Deng Ming-Dao. Printed by Leigh McLellan on Korean Kozo papers. One of 75 deluxe copies specially bound by the printer and signed by the author, the artist, and the printer. There were also 75 case bound copies. ISBN: 281AIB1044024.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. In a fine original slipcase. Signed by the author, artist, and printer on the limitation pages.
Book ID: 223304More details Price: $400.00 -
M. Fabii Quinctiliani, ut Ferunt Declamationes XIX majores, et Quae ex CCCLXXXVIII SupersuntCXLV Minores. et Calpurnii lacci Declamationes. cum Notis Doctorum Virorum; Curant Petro Burmanno.
First Edition
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Joannem de Vivie, 1720. {4} 838 {132} pages. Edited by the great classical scholar Pieter Berman, the 19 major Declamations and selected minor ones are heavily annotated (approximately half of each page is notes), and occupy the first 790 pages. Calpurnius Flaccus takes up the next 46 pages, followed by the extensive index. Some have questioned the authorship of the Declamations, but apparently Berman felt they were Quintilian's. ISBN: 281AIB1047610.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green-stained vellum. Title page in red and black, with printer's device.. The first few pages have some mends and an unsuccerssful attempt to erase some later writing in ink.
Book ID: 262203More details Price: $400.00 -
The Villa Farnesina in Rome (Marabilia Italiae)
First Edition
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2003. 230 pages in text volume; 291 pages in plate volume. Housed in beautiful cloth covered box with silk ribbon. Text volume is in Italian. Plate volume has text and plate descriptions in Italian and English. ISBN: 9788882900083.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copies in black coth covers with bright gold lettering and illustrations. Blindstamp of prior owner on last page in text volume. Housed in near fine cloth covered slipcase with very slight surface wear.
Book ID: 262756More details Price: $400.00 -
The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians
First Edition
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960. 286 pages. The author's first book. A look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. ISBN: B000N7FXVG.
First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, and top of page block toned, thus near fine. In a dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, else near fine. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author in 1974 to the previous owner and signed both as "Jerzy" and "Joseph Novak." [JSP01]
Book ID: 177061More details Price: $400.00 -
The Man Who Murdered Goliath
First Edition
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1938. 274 pages. Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977) writing as Homes wrote a series of mystery novels before going on to a career as Hollywood screenwriter for films including The Big Steal, This Woman is Dangerous (starring Joan Crawford) and the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ISBN: 281AIB1050609.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in black cloth with yellow lettering. Edge wear along lower spine. Some tanning in gutters. In a dust jacket with light fading to the spine and some loss at the head not affecting text, tear to the flap fold and a 2-inch tear at top of front edge.
Book ID: 267225More details Price: $400.00 -
Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966 & Grabhorn-Hoyem 1966-1973. [With a check-list 1916-1956 and a Complete Specimen of Types].
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. ISBN: B000SVQIB6.
Very Good
Book ID: 49506More details Price: $400.00 -
Americana
First Edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. 388 pages. A novel; the author's first book. ISBN: 9780395120941.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Some uneven fading and spotting to top of page block. Jacket lightly toned on the spine and spotted on the verso, else near fine. A very nice copy of an acclaimed author's first book.
Book ID: 197840More details Price: $400.00 -
Din literatura poporana a aromanilor: Volumul 1
First Edition
(N-pl. but perhaps Bucharest?): (the author?), 1900. xxiii, 1055 pages. Papahagi, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know) was "an acknowledged authority on the life and languages of the Romance-speaking peoples from south of the Danube, the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians; he wrote several foundational texts on the subject that are classic models of sociological and folkloristic monographs" including Din literatura poporana a aromanilor. OCLC locates one copy, in Romania. ISBN: 281AIB1039626.
First edition (first printing). Very good in a twentieth-century cloth binding. Rare hinge repair with Japanese tissue. Rare.
Book ID: 200930More details Price: $400.00 -
California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State
First Edition
Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press, (1998). 1676 pages. ISBN: 9781884995149.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated covers. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 260886More details Price: $400.00 -
The Magic Flute
First Edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Oblong, about 10-1/4 by 7-3/4 inches. "With Musical Themes By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" -- from the cover. Library binding edition, with illustrated boards. Illustrations in color. Also issued in a trade edition bound in yellow cloth with dust jacket. ISBN: B004OGAU06.
First edition (first printing). Library binding but not an ex-library copy, thus uncommon. No dust jacket, as issued. Some wear to spine ends and corners, and one corner lightly bumped, thus very good.
Book ID: 171410More details Price: $375.00 -
Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane: Les six livres, le Musnad d'al-Darimi, le Muwatta' de Malik, le Musnad de Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Istanbul: Cagri Yayinlari, 1988. Eight volumes, complete. A new edition of an important reference work to the key scriptures of the Islamic faith. Publication began in 1936 and was finished but for the indexes in 1969. This set includes the indexes compiled by Wim Raven and Jan Jus Witkam, first published in 1988.
The text, in Arabic throughout, is printed in red and black. ISBN: 281AIB1042853.
A very good set. Dust jackets are scuffed and faded at the spine. The paperback edition is in print at US$450.
Book ID: 215947More details Price: $375.00 -
Dubin's Lives
First Edition
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. 361 pages. By the winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ISBN: B000N38DT4.
First edition, first state; one of 70 or so copies with the five final words missing from pages 231. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning to the top edge. Slight sunning to top of cloth covers. Scarce.
Book ID: 266739More details Price: $350.00 -
Brother Grasshopper
First Edition
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1990. 34 pages. A short story that originally appeared in the New Yorker. With a new four-page introduction by the author. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Updike, all of which were reserved for the author and publisher and none offered for sale. An additional 150 numbered and signed copies were offered for sale. ISBN: 281AIB1041437.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy L of 26.
Book ID: 208590More details Price: $350.00 -
In the Cemetery High Above Shillington: A Poem
First Edition
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. [10] pages. Relief Engravings by Barry Moser printed directly from blocks. Limited to an edition of 150 copies signed by both Updike and Moser. This is one of 50 printed on Rives lightweight paper and handcased in boards. ISBN: B003XEROOK.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed by both the author and the illustrator.
Book ID: 209552More details Price: $350.00