Zaharoff. The Armaments King
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 143 pages, cloth covers, sources, index. --. More
New Arrivals
Diamond Grading ABC. The Manual
Antwerp, Belgium: Rubin & Son, 2001. 9th new revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo., 320 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w and color, bibliography. Occurrence, mining and trade. Quality evaluation of colour, clarity, cut and weight. Fancy cuts. Artificial colour changes. Diamond simulants. 750 illustrations and figures, 5 overview tables... More
Windbells of Summer
Boston: Richard G. Badger (Gorham Press), 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., black boards with stamped design, 42 pages. -- Signed and inscribed by the author. Former owners small personal stamp on the front pastedown and the first free endpaper. More
When Hannah Var Eight Var Old
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Narrow 12mo., unpaginated, light blue covers with gilt bordered oval pastedown. Illustrated by Alfred James Dewey. An eight year old girl tell her story of life in Sweden and of how she came to America. -- A scarce book, especially in... More
Ye Sylvan Archer. Vol. 2 - May, 1930
Corvallis, Oregon: 1939. Original wraps. 8vo., 20 pages, illustrated. Covers sunned around the extremities. -- Contents: "Treeing Stumps with Bloodhounds" by Earle Stanley Gardner, plus other articles of interest. More
In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 8vo., 343 pages, maroon cloth, title page lettered in red and black. More
The Maltese Falcon. With a New Introduction by the Author
New York: Modern Library, 1934. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover. Short 8vo., red cloth, 267 pages, #45 on spine of dust jacket. 309 books listed on inside of the jacket. -- Moderately rubbed and worn dust jacket. -- Condition:. More
Field Guide to the Common Diseases and Insect Pests of Oregon and Washington Conifers
Washinton, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006. First Edition. Spiral bound wraps. 8vo., 325 pages, many color illustrations, references, glossary, index. -- No notable defects. The original edition, not a reprint. More
Computer Programs for the Kitchen
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, Inc, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 246 pages, white decorated boards, b&w illustrations. -- Light water stain inside front cover with a resulting quite light wave to the following pages that gets smaller as you progress to approximately the center of the... More
Where are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing (Bull Market Edition). Octavo., quarter bound cloth & paper boards, 215 pages. Illustrated by Peter Arno. More
The Everlasting Man
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1925. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 8vo., maroon cloth, 344 pp. -- Dodd Mead imprint at heel of spine has gilt lettering faded, tiny water stain to back cover, light wear to the extremities. Internally clean, binding sound. -- Condition. More
Tommy and the Wishing Stone (The Wishing Stone Series)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1923. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo., 109 pp., olive cloth covers with pastedown illustration, illustrated by Harrison Cady. -- One small nick to pastedown. Inked gift inscription on the front endpaper. White portions of the dust jacket evenly dust soiled -- Condition:. "Thornton Waldo Burgess was... More
The Lone Ranger: Trouble on the Santa Fe
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1955. First Edition (Assumed). Hardcover. 8vo., decorated endpapers in , frontispiece in black and white, light tan tweed covers lettered and decorated in maroon, 181 pages + page of advertisement to next book in the series "The Lone Ranger on the Red Butte Trail". dust... More
El Camino 1929 North Hollywood High School Yearbook
North Hollywood: Senior Class of the North Hollywood High School, 1929. First Edition. Flexible cloth. Limited Edition of Which This is Number 362. -- 4to., decorated endpapers,127pages, Photographs, illustrations, students signatures, advertising. -- Condition:. "Built in 1927, Lankershim High School was named for the town of Lankershim (first called Toluca... More
The Early Indian Wars of Oregon. Compiled From the Oregon Archives and Other Original Sources with Muster Rolls
Salem: Frank C. Baker, State Printer, 1894. First Edition. Full leather. Royal 8vo., 719 pages, letters, documents, muster rolls, index. Other than splits starting to the leather at the head and heel of the spine joints this is a tight, clean, sound copy. -- Condition Overall:. More
Leaves of Grass
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881-2. Hardcover. (Copyright 1881 / By Walt Whitman / All rights reserved). 8vo., 382 pages. -- Hinges weak, water stain to spine, spine tips moderately rubbed. -- Signed, "Frank Keck from Walt Whitman Nov. 2 1881". -- Condition:. More
Princess Kalisto and Other Tales of the Fairies
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. "Published in October 1902" on the verso of the title page. 4to., 138+1 pages, illustrated in color by Harriette Amsden. Spine moderately dulled, head and heel of spine have some wear, corners bumped, internally clean and sound. Binding tight. See photos. -- Condition:. More
The Vizsla
Springfield, Ohio: Behi Publishing Company, 2000. Second Revised Edition. Glossy boards. 4to., 342 pages, illustrated, index. -- Signed on the title page. --. More
The Way it Was
Hemet, California: Hemet Printing, 1977. Quarto, 375 pages, frontispiece: Tepees at the Kah-Nee-Tah Hot Springs Tribal Resort, Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Illustrated. -- The book is "Dedicated to: Phillip Risingsun who served under General Nelson A. Miles at Fort Keogh, Montana territory in the late Eighteen Seventies and to his... More
Logging to the Salt Chuck. Over 100 Years of Railroad Logging in Mason County, Washington
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Short Line, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto, dark green cloth, 187 pages, map endpapers, maps, profusley illustrated, some in color, bibliography, index. -- Photograph doesn't show true color. Cloth is dark green lettered in gilt. -- Pictorial history of Simpson Timber Company, associated logging railroad operations... More
Woman's Work: The Art of Pablita Velarde
Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 1993. Pictorial wraps. Squarish 8vo., 32 pages, illustrations in color and black and white. -- A catalog produced on the occasion of the exhibit held at The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, January 16 - May 12, 1993. -- Signed: "To Janet, Best Wishes" Pablita Velarde. More
All My Love. Till Death Do Us Part -- History of the 14th Armored Division by Captain Joseph Carter
No Place: Self Published, No Date, circa 2007. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover. Tall quarto, not paginated, illustrated with photographs and maps.-- Letters and photographs of Bill (William) Skaggs interspersed with and matching them to dates and places in Bill Wymans copy of a "History of the 14th Armored Division" by... More
Gary Middlecoff's Master Guide to Golf
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. According to Zempel and Verkler's "First Editions: A Guide to Identification". No edition or printing on the copyright page by this publisher indicates first edition. -- tall quarto, 266 pages, illustrated with over 275 unusually graphic, step-by-step illustrations, index. More
Ahead of the Hounds
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1899. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover. (Assume First). 12mo., 268 pages. -- Head and heel of spine rubbed. Corners rubbed. -- Sound binding and internally sound. -- Signed "Compliments Author". -- A very scarce book, Condition is overall:. "The Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company was... More
Clason's Touring Atlas of the United States and Canada
Chicago - Denver: Glason Map Co, 1931. New Census Edition. Original wraps. Small folio., 48 pages, Forty large maps. Atlas Folded is 12"x8-1/2", folded out 16"x12". -- Internally the maps are in very good condition. Rubbing and wear to the extremities. Covers have some surface scuff marks and some soiling... More