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Death Valley Scotty Told Me
by Houston, Eleanor Jordan
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st limited printing
- Published
- 1985
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$160.28
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Limited First Printing number 44 of stated 500 copies, Fine book with no dust jacket in brown boards with gold gilt lettering. Essays about Scotty and his castle in Death Valley. Numerous B/W photos. Laid-in is a four page brochure relating the history of how Scotty's Castle came to be. Item Price
NZ$160.28
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The Man Made of Words
by Momaday, N. Scott
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1997
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$379.62
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Subtitled: Essays Stories Passages, Near Fine book with slight slant bottom of spine and tiny ding top corner back board, in a Fine minus jacket that is slightly shifted on spine toward back board. This copy has been signed by Momaday on the title page and is apparently unread. Item Price
NZ$379.62
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The Ambulance Drivers
by Morris, James McGrath
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 2017
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$37.96
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Book is subtitled: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a friendship made and lost in war. Book covers interactions between these two famous writers from World War I to after World War II. Includes seven pages of glossy B/W photos and additional sections reporting Notes, references and bibliographis. Near Fine book that has crimps at spine ends and opens easily to title… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$37.96
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A Gentle Madness
by Basbanes, Nicholas A.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 3rd printing
- Published
- 1995
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$50.62
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First Edition THIRD printing – not the Owl edition – Good book that has ridging, bowing and wrinkling to spine edge wear and some bowing to boards. No Remainder Mark. In a Near Fine dust jacket that has light edge and corner wear. Basbanes wide-ranging, and well received, look at book collectors, bibliophiles, and bibliomaniacs. Basbanes first book. Item Price
NZ$50.62
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The Essential John Nash
by Kuhn, Harold W. and Sylvia Nasar
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine minus
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 2002
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$59.05
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Fine, apparently unread book in a Fine minus dust jacket with slight touch of edge and corner wear. Nasar wrote the book "A Beautiful Mind", which is essentially a biography of Nash. In contrast, this book focuses on Nash' work and findings that gained him a Nobel Prize, thus the contents are fairly technical. Item Price
NZ$59.05
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Sewards Icebox
by Shiels, Archie W.
- Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$101.23
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Book is sub-titled: A Few Notes On The Development Of ALASKA 1867 – 1932. Good to Very Good book that has soft spine ends, some light soiling and rubbing to boards, touch of looseness to spine, page block edges are sprinkled in light blue, two previous owner identifications on front end page - one in ink and one on… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$101.23
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
by Matthiessen, Peter and Eliot Porter
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1972
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$50.62
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First edition 1st printing, Eliot Porter's photographs are given a separate title, The African Experience, even though the photos are interlaced through the text. A Near Fine book with light edge and corner wear, previous owner info written front paste-down, in a Very Good jacket with light edge and corner wear, age yellowing along edges of white portions, and rubbing… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$50.62
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Sacagawea's Nickname
by McMurtry, Larry
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 2001
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$50.62
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Subtitled - Essays on the American West - Very Good book that has a tiny bump to lower corner back board, with bumps, pushing and fading to both ends of spine; in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear and mild bumping and wrinkling to spine ends. Twelve wide-ranging essays about the West. Item Price
NZ$50.62
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Tony Hillerman: A Bibliography – From The Blessing Way to Talking God
by Hieb, Louis A.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1990
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$59.05
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Fine, unread book, no dust jacket as issued. Covers Hillerman mysteries through Talking God, plus articles, awards and details regarding Hillerman's career. Limited to 1000 copies. This copy signed by Hieb on the title page. Included is a worksheet that Hieb used to determine pricing for Hillerman titles as he was preparing this book. Sheet is also… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$59.05
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Tony Hillerman: A Bibliography
by Hieb, Louis A (Tony Hillerman)
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1988
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$210.90
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A Fine, softcover booklet (5 ½ by 8 ½ inches, stapled at spine) of 16 pages, un-paginated, that preceded the considerably expanded hardcover version of 1990. Booklet covers fiction through A Thief of Time; Non-Fiction through Indian Country; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; and a list of ten works about Hillerman. This bibliography was issued in only 100 numbered… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$210.90
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Tony Hillerman: A Bibliography From The Blessing Way to Talking God
by Hieb, Louis A. (Tony Hillerman)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1990
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$126.54
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Fine, unread book, no dust jacket as issued. Covers Hillerman mysteries through Talking God, plus articles, awards and details regarding Hillerman s career. Limited to 1000 copies. This copy signed by Hieb and Hillerman on limitation page. Also included is a Fine copy of the 1990 Univ. of Arizona 8 page pamphlet, On Collecting Hillerman which has been… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$126.54
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Stephen Crane
by Funke, Sarah (Glenn Horowitz Bookseller)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 2001
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$25.31
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First edition, a bookseller catalogue for Stephen Crane titles. Near Fine book in French wraps has small areas of light orange staining bottom page edges; in a Very Good acetate jacket with rubbing, several dings and overwrite impressions. Contains 10 color plates and has a price list laid-in. An excellent Stephen Crane reference; 96 pages with a list of sources. Item Price
NZ$25.31
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After Hours - Conversations with Lawrence Block
by Block, Lawrence and Ernie Bulow
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1995
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$42.18
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Fine, unread book in a Fine dust jacket. Univ. Press News Release re this book is laid-in. Signed by Block and Bulow on the title page. Included are aspects of Block's early career, and his first published short story, along with four previously uncollected essays and a Block bibliography. Item Price
NZ$42.18
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The Great American Desert
by Hollon, W. Eugene
- Condition
- Used - Fine minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1966
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$42.18
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First edition 1st printing, A Fine minus book with a touch of shelf wear and a slight push at top of spine, in a Very Good plus jacket that has light edge wear, a crease along part of the top of back panel, some color loss at top of spine and an internal old tape repair there, with sun fade… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$42.18
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Twentynine Palms
by Stillman, Deanne
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Signed 1st printing
- Published
- 2001
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$43.87
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Subtitled: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave. Fine, unread book in Fine dust jacket. This copy signed by Stillman
on the title page. Stillman unravels details of the murder of two young girls by a marine. Twentynine Palms sits between the world's largest marine base to north and Joshua Tree National Park to the south. Item Price
NZ$43.87
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The Dinosaur heresies
by Bakker, Robert T.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good to Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Published
- 1986
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$126.54
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Very Good to Near Fine book that has light pushing to bottom of spine, hint of a bump top corner front board, and gift inscription to the front end-page; in a Very Good jacket that has edge and corner wear with bit of color loss, touch of sun fade to spine, and with light rubbing to panels, and couple of… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$126.54
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Rubbing Out the Rubber Rubbish (Classified internal report)
by Oberfell, George G. (Phillips Petroleum Co.)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- Internal confidential report
- Published
- 1952
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$253.08
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Near Fine in plain wraps, punched and held in variable thickness metal clasp binding – some age yellowing a couple of pencil marks in text. This is a 180 page, single sided, CONFIDENTIAL/CLASSIFIED report that was apparently only distributed internally to 20 persons in Phillips and its author, who had developed the Phillips Research Lab after WWI (first in the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$253.08
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In Texas with Davy Crockett
by McNeil, Everett
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- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1908
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$168.72
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Subtitled - A Story of the Texas War of Independence. Very Good book with wear to edges of boards and spine, some board just exposed along top of front board, corners are soft, and with mild soiling and fading. NO DUST JACKET. An early account, for young readers, of Davy Crockett in Texas at the Battle of the Alamo. Illustration… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$168.72
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Maps and Legends - Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by Chabon, Michael
- Condition
- Used - Fine minus
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st printing of essays by Chabon
- Published
- 2008
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$33.74
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Fine minus, unread book with slight crimping at spine ends, in a Fine, unusual, three piece, multi-layered partial jacket, with each piece having wrap-around art and no text nor price. Essays on the borderlands of Chabon's thinking about writing and fiction. Item Price
NZ$33.74
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Ernest Hemingway A Comprehensive Bibliography
by Hanneman, Audre (Ernest Hemingway)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 1969
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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NZ$67.49
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First edition, Second Printing with Corrections, Near Fine book with tiny spot to front, oatmeal board, light pushing bottom of spine, slight looseness at spine, tiny black rub to front edge of bottom of page block, and with small sticker from Gilbert's Books Hollywood and Vine at bottom edge of front paste-down; in a Very Good, PRICE-CLIPPED jacket that has… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$67.49