Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. A very good SIGNED and INSCRIBED copy of Dr. Anderson's 1979 contribution to the difficult study of an organized crime family. Dr. Anderson is a research fellow emerita at the Hoover Institution. From 1981 to 1983, she was associate.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. 448 pages. Gently bumped corners, else fine in a very good jacket that shows some wear to edges.
New York: Penguin Classics, 2006. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. A very good unread copy of the the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker. 656 pages with deckled edges. "The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one.....
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. First Harper Perennial Edition. Softcover. A very good reading copy of Watson's encyclopedic inquiry into the scientific achievements of Germany during the 19th and 20th Centuries. James Buchan, writing for The Guardian in 2010, wrote that "Watson has not simply written a survey of the.....
New York: Penguin Classics, 1999. First Penguin edition, later printing. Softcover. A very good reading copy of the Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories perfect bound in Penguin's classic black and white banded covers that famously stands up to even the roughest handling. The.....
New York: Dorset, 1989. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover in quarter cloth. In P. J. O'Rourke's 2014 review of the Library of America edition he opined "if we exclude Mark Twain, whose reminiscences suffered the rapine of fiction and whose attempt at autobiography is a mess, the three best memoir.....
New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. The third installment of Harris' Psycho-horror Hannibal Lector series, preceded by Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. A near fine copy of the 1st printing of the first edition published in 1999. 486 pages in a very good.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. There is doubtfully a better time to read Ian Kershaw’s masterful study of the demagogue than today. The first part of a two-part biography, Hubris looks at how “ripe a demoralized Germany was for demagoguery after.....
Random House, 1974. First edition, 2nd Printing. Cloth Hardcover. A nice copy of Blotner's two-volume expansive, and often meandering, biography of William Faulkner. Coming in at 2,115 pages (1,846 pages with 269 more of notes and index) and a whopping 9 pounds, Blotner and his editor made sure your forearms.....
London: Crescent Books, 1977. Later reprint edition. Oversize Hardcover. The later Crescent Books reprint of the 1959 Rathbone edition of Bertrand Russell's Wisdom of the West, delightfully produced in a large hardcover by Cresent Books. This edition edited by Paul Foulkes was designed by Edward Wright and has quite a......
Broomall, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House, 2004. First. Softcover. A very good unread copy without any marking or highlighting. Pages are clean and bright. The perfect binding is square. Some gentle scuffing to covers and a 3-inch gentle crease. Bumped corners. Bottom edge has a few marks of unknown origin. 358 pages.....
Blaine, Washington: Phoenix Publishing, 1984. Second Edition. Laminated Softcover. Good books like this one make it difficult to remember that I am in the business of selling books and not keeping them. Alas, this is a very good copy by the Irish couple Janet and Stewart Farrar. Both of whom.....
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. Charles Doyle, Howard K. Elcock, D. H. Friston, A. Gilbert, James Grieg, George Hutchinson, William H. Hyde, Charles Raymond Macauley, Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Arthur Twidle, Frank Wiles, et al. Second Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Lovely copies of both volumes that would display nicely.....
Williamsburg, Virginia: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 2001. First. Comb Binding. From the estate of Ivor Noel Hume. Letter size (8.5x11 inches) 80-page report accompanied by a December 2001 letter to Noel from Mary Peacock, Chairman of the Research and Project Direction of the Arlington Foundation who sent.....
Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1926. Softcover. Pocket booklet measuring 3.5 x 4.75 inches and with 104 numbered pages. In good condition with well worn covers showing the soiling accumulated from the devotional thumbing of the book. Printed on quality papers to tolerate the heavy use intended by the.....
Minneapolis: William Madison, 1940. Softcover. A fine and scarce booklet containing sixteen, unnumbered pages that captures the history and tradition of Ojibway wild rice. The only other copy of this booklet is housed in the Library of the Minnesota Historical Society and is in a poorer condition. This copy is.....
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1961. First. Hardcover. Chapel's detailed study of old west guns. This copy is in fine condition and in a like jacket. The book has been in its original unopened box since it was published. It was only opened recently to verify contents. This copy is new.....
Seattle, Washington: Marine Salon Photo Shop, 1941. An original 8x10 print of the Russian cargo ship Vazlav Vorovsky" that ran aground near Cape Disappointment after it lost steering. Taken by Joe D. Williamson (1909-1994) who operated the Marine Salon Photo Shop at 81-A Marion Street, Seattle, Washington from 1937-1962. Print.....
Seattle, Washington: Marine Salon Photo Shop, 1941. An original 8x10 print of the Russian cargo ship Vazlav Vorovsky" that ran aground near Cape Disappointment after it lost steering. Taken by Joe D. Williamson (1909-1994) who operated the Marine Salon Photo Shop at 81-A Marion Street, Seattle, Washington from 1937-1962. Print.....
Spokane, Washington: Frank Palmer, 1908. Early 8 x 10-inch print of Frank Palmer's photograph called "The Vanishing Race" taken in 1908. From the collection of Inland Northwest author and historian Jerome Peltier. Mat photograph on gray paper without titles. The title was added to the later colored prints made by.....