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Truckee, California : T.C. Wohlbruck Company, 1937. New Edition, Illustrated. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, protected now in stiff Mylar jacket, moderate wear to, minor soiling of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Staples rusted. Nice range of black-and-white photographs of the tragic circumstances of The Donner Party. New Edition, Illustrated. Fine black-and-white portrait of three surviving Donner Party women standing at the 1918 dedication of the Donner Museum. [23], 24-234 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "A" in the "number" line present. SIGNED by the author under his name at title page, and with University Bookstore sticker to front cover advertising so. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, little worn and without blemish, now protected by Brodart. Born in Holland, raised in Australia, and now living in the Scottish Highlands, author also of several critically acclaimed novels including Under the Skin and The Book of Many Strange Things, this being Faber's breakthrough work and that was adapted into a four-part BBC turn, starring Gillian Anderson, Chris O'Dowd and the incomparable Romola Garai as "Sugar," a girl prostituted by her own mother in the latter's brothel and then who as a young woman goes freelance. Much mayhem ensues, and she… Read More

London: Hogarth, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound copy of the stated First Edition, a novel that really sits up and barks. Half-dystopian, half-utopian; the magnum opus of any but the most talented writers, this being his second best novel. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Some flaking to the unexpected gilt edges, as per usual. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Prelims + 4-500 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: W. and G. Foyle, Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Certainly a sturdily bound copy in Edition, First Printing state, being Number 878 of a limited edition of 1000. xvii + 93 pp. Bowed boards, former price sticker to rear panel, ding to top edge of front panel. Rough-cut bottom and fore-edges, with some untrimmed of the later. Clean, remarkably bright interior, and printed handsomely on hand-made paper, protected by a Brodart sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a gallery exhibit catalog, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine survey of contemporary ceramics and American ceramicists including Laura Andreson, Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Walter Darby Bannard, Anthony Caro, Stephen Destaebler, Friedel Dzuras, Viola Frey, Wayne Higby, Margi Hughto, Jun Kaneko, Richard Shaw, Rudolf Staffel, and Betty Woodman. Replete with black-and-white and full color reproductions. 87 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Two-tone, light gray paper over boards, blue cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond a bit of sunning to spine, front panel near spine, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Augmented by 100 full-color plates and 1300 black-and-white illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [1], 1-561 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Penguin Books, 1950. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Stated Second Printing from 1950 following from the First Edition of 1949. Cute little, near pocketbook-sized tome, black-and-white pictorial covers, moderate edge-wear. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Fine, accessible treatise of the history of the development of handwriting, the story of civilization itself. An introductory essay about the changes in our writing technique from the Romans until "today." 64 pp., and each page featuring a different script.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum / University of Washington Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at half-title, being inscribed warmly to two friends. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Big, tall, glossy pictorial wraps in gate-fold, illustrated inner wraps, and with 69 pp. of homage to Leonardo da Vinci in formal art history and popular culture. Index, bibliography, checklist. As New condition catalogue for the exhibition of the original Codex Leister, which was held from October 23, 1997 to January 4, 1998 at the Seattle Art Museum.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Duckworth, 1928. Revised and Expanded Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Edmund Blampied. Eight lovely duotone illustrations by Edmund Blampied make this fascinating fictionalized memoir by Michael Fairless the more so, being a good-looking, structurally sound copy in hardcover, bound in orange buckram cloth, mildly soiled, moderately worn to tips, spine, bumping to head and foot, light toning to endpapers, else clean and neat of interior. Sales invoice laid in. 150 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Dublin, Ireland : Arts Council, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Tony O'Malley. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being currently only two additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Sponsored by The Arts Council in Dublin, Ireland, a thick, square softcover format , with 111 pp. and replete with full-color and black-and-white plates. The catalog presents the work of the somewhat enigmatic Irish artist, Tony O'Malley, largely self-taught, late-starting, the two decades plus he spent in virtual exile in Cornwall. Foreword by Martin McCullough, Chairman of the Arts Council, then several lengthy chapters by Fallon devoted to "The Context-No Irish Art," "Cornwall," "Fingerprints," "Indian Summer," "Self Image," "The Real Essence, Outscape/Inscape," and more, then… Read More

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy of the First American Edition but for a slight forward cock to spine and previous owner's embossed stamp at first free endpaper, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. x [1], 2-236 pp., with 62 maps, charts, plates and illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, original cloth. "Niall Fallon has made a comprehensive and definitive contribution to sixteenth- century history, for the role which Ireland played in the Armada campaign has been largely understated."Member,… Read More

Helena, Montana: Falcon Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Some black-and-white photographs and also full-color, printed on high-gloss card stock. 266 pp., with full notes, bibliography and index and appendixes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Sylvan Press, 1946. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated second impression of this fine collection of musings and essays on wood-engraving, craftsmanship, and the artist's life. Chapters on art education, wood-engraving, painting, artist exhibitions. Includes essays on painting, textile design, book production, wood engraving, and fine crafts. Handsomely produced in light gray linen cloth over boards, stamped reproduction of a design to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear and some chipping along top edge, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Nine half-tones, 14 line drawings, and 11 wood engravings. [5], 6-97 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: University Books, 1966. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. The sub-title continues: A Dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than Three Hundred Year with synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc." This revised and expanded edition reprises two of the seven volumes of the original, published in seven parts between 1900 and 1904. Of the two compilers, the mysterious John S. Farmer was the principal slang expert of all time and a ranking Elizabethan-text editor. The original publication was limited only to subscribers. This has become a definitive edition. From the personal library of the noted erotophile, bibliographer, folklorist, literary sleuth and former book scout, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me through his widow, the fabulous Judith Legman. Legman provides the Introduction, "On Sexual Speech and Slang," Bound in red cloth over boards, black lettering to spine.… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. First English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine festschrift put together in 1981 by his German publisher to honor the life and work of Elias Canetti (1905-1994), plentiful essays that are translated from the original Germany by Michael Hulse. Stated First American Edition, with essays by Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Walter Allen, Alfred Hrdlicka, Serge Moscovici, Franz Schuh, Johnn Bayley, and a host of German authors. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter plus 322 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine festschrift put together in 1981 by his German publisher to honor the life and work of Elias Canetti (1905-1994), plentiful essays that are translated from the original Germany by Michael Hulse. Stated First American Edition, with essays by Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Walter Allen, Alfred Hrdlicka, Serge Moscovici, Franz Schuh, Johnn Bayley, and a host of German authors. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter plus 322 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author, being inscribed at first free endpaper to a friend. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 421 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York, New York: Abbeville Press,, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Rock stars, Porn stars, celebrities and other kinds of artists in black Leather jackets. Stated First U.S Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black leather over boards, silver stamping of designs (zipper, stars, etc.) and lettering, lettering to spine. Many score fine black-and-white photographs of iconic makers and wearers of leather jackets. 06 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine work of ethnohistory of the Maya Indians of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, roughly from 1421 to 1821 by an acknowledged master of the anthropology of the area. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format in very light brownish-gray over boards, very lightly foxed, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, some light foxing to page edges, dust soiling along top edge, else clean. Bright and shiny dust jacket, a bit foxed, illustrated, little worn beyond some light edge-wear, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [1], 3-585 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Big, tall quarto format, with printed, illustrated wrappers, stiff endpapers, Profusely illustrated with eight color plates and 210 black-and-white illustrations. Comprises an exhibition catalogue published to accompany the 1989 showing at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art of French a very large number of lithographic caricatures produced in France between 1816 and 1848 by over a dozen artists, including Boilly, Daumier, Pigal, and Vernet. [5], 6-188 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.