Doctor Illuminatus
New Jersey: Princeton. first Edition. Blue Cloth. More
First Editions
Penny Magazine a Bound Volume
New York: 1833. First Edition. Original leather spine and boards - hinges solid. More
Adventures of Jack Ninepins
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, (1944). Illustrated by the author. Stated First Edition. 8vo.8-1/2" x 6-5/16". Beige cloth covered boards with ninepin stamped in red on front cover and title in red on spine. 64 pp. More
The Woggle-Bug Book
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. Pictures by Ike Morgan. First edition. 15" x 11-1/8". Perfect bound, green cloth spine, pictorial heavy card stock boards. 48 colorful pp. With custom made clamshell box covered in green cloth to match the book's spine. More
The Battleground Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1936. With 16 illustrations in Aquatone and 7 maps. FIrst edition. Large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-7/8". 337 pp. including index. Crimson endpapers. More
The History of The Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918)
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (September 1925). With 12 illustrations and 36 maps. First Impression. Thick 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6". Red cloth stamped in gold. 502 pp. including index. With a preface by H.R.H The Prince of Wales, Counel-in Chief and frontis portrait of him. More
Co-Pilot Trott
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1944. Illustrated by Bruce Hale. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2" Pictorial blue cloth colored boards stamped in darker blue.133 pp. Black and white pictorial endpapers. "Mrs. Bullard has told a warm, sympathetic story about a little animal of unusual sagacity, a...... More
The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969). Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". 342 pp. Black cloth covered boards with title stamped in copper on spine. Top edge of text block stained light green to match endpapers. "Don Carpenter emerges, in this book, not just as a superb storyteller..... More
The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordships Manuscripts
London: Printed by T. Bensley for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. 10 Engraved Plates (4 by Richard Westall) engraved plan of Martello Tower, Corsica, 4 battle plans by Nicholas Pocock, 4 vignettes. Plates are numbered 311 in pencil indicating that this set is #311 of a limited edition of..... More
Life & Times of Michael K
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). 0670427896. First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses..... More
Laughing Anne & One Day More, Two Plays
London: John Castle, 1924. With an Introduction by John Galsworthy. First Edition. 12 mo. Green moiré cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on spine. These plays share a common theme - the suffering of a woman capable of self-sacrifice. The fact that they are adaptations from stories makes it..... More
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
New York: New Directions, (1981). 0811208192. More
The Milwaukee Road, Its First Hundred Years
New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. Photos. First Edition. Grey cloth 8vo. stamped in red. Decorative, informative map endpapers. 330 pp. including index. Third Volume of the Railroads of America Series. To tell the story of The Milwaukee Road is to tell the whole vigorous, romantic story of railroading. For..... More
The Public and Its Problems
New York: Henry Holt, (1927). First Edition. Small 8vo.7-5/8" x 5-3/16" blue cloth covered boards. Blind stamped rules on front cover. Spine stamped in gold. 224 pp. including index. "This volume is the result of lectures delivered during the month of January, nineteen hundred and twenty six, upon the Larwill..... More
Around the World in 18 Days and How to Do It
New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-7/8". Front endpapers are map of the North Pole. Back endpapers are a map of the KNILM Airlines in Connection with World Traffic covering China, Siam, Sumatra and Java. 186 pp. plus 16 pp. of..... More
Libbey Glass, Pictorial History & Collector's Guide
Toledo, Ohio: Len Beach Press, (1979). Over 1,300 collectible items are shown with 71 individual color plates. Signed on title page by author. First Edition. Mustard colored cloth stamped in brown. 415 pp. including index. A compilation of the history and noteworthy wares of Libbey Glass, this book records the..... More
Memorials of Prison Life
Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, (1850). 8vo. 7-7/16"x 4-7/8". Blind stamped brick colored cloth covered boards. 354 pp. Frontispiece engraving of the Ohio Penetentiary and several other plates presenting prison life. The following work, kind reader, was not premeditated, when I accepted the appointment of chaplain to the penitentiary of Ohio;..... More
Pillars of the Earth
New York: William Morrow and Co., (1989). 0688046592. Stated First Edition. Large 8vo. 973 pp. Light brown paper covered boards with chocolate colored cloth spine. More
The Mary Frances Garden Book, Adventures Among the Garden People
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, (1916). With Illustrations by William F. Zwirner. Large 8vo. 9-3/8" x 7". Green cloth covered boards. Color pictorial cover plate. Lovely color frontispiece of "The Garden which Mary Frances and Billy Planted" plus one color fold-out plate of the playhouse and four plates to be cut..... More
The Crossing of Antarctica, The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58
London: Cassell, (1958). Illustrated with ninety-three black and white and some color photos. On 24 November, 1957, twelve men set out from Shackleton Base equipped with eight vehicles, sledges and two dog teams to cross more than two thousand miles of unexplored snow and ice. In front of them lay..... More
The Broken Wings
New York: The Citadel Press, (1957). Stated first printing. 8vo. Patterned blue-green paper covered boards. Red cloth spine stamped in green. 128 pp. THis is the exquisitely tender story of a love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity and lyricism, Gibran describes his passion..... More
Photographs
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. 0942642422. First Edition. Large 4to. 14-1/4" x 11-3/8". Blind stamped grey cloth. Unpaginated. Black endpapers. 90 of Ginsberg's black and white photos, selected by him and Raymond Foye and Jack Woody, followed by a Commentary on Sacramental Companions and printed transcriptions of Ginsberg's handwritten captions..... More
Drawing With Pen and Ink and a Word Concerning the Brush
New York: Pencil Points Press, Inc., 1928. First edition. Black cloth 4to. 12" x 9". 431 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations and several in color. Color frontispiece plus an another full color illustration. Illustrated endpapers. This book deals sufficiently with method, for the method of the pen and ink..... More
Old Testament Wisdom, Keys to Bible Interpretation
Los Angeles: Philosophic Reach Society, 1957. Signed on verso of half title page with notice that Old Testament Wisdom was prepared in appreciation for those whose pre-subscriptions helped to make this edition possible. First Edition, Signed limited edition. Blue pebbled cloth 8vo. 312 pp. including index. Table of Contents: The..... More
The Mystical Christ, Religion as a Personal Spiritual Experience
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, (1951). Frontispiece "Head of Christ" by Toussaint Dubreuil (1561-1602). Inscribed and signed on free front endpaper "To N. Harris Ades Very sincerely Manly P. Hall." Stated First Edition. 8vo. hardcover. Grey cloth covered boards stamped in red. 248 pp. Table of Contents: The Path of..... More