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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Important biographical study of the English-born photographer renowned for his pioneering work in studies of motion, and early work in motion picture projection. Among other things, Haas untangles the different versions of Muybridge's work for Governor Leland Stanford, which was intended to settle an apocryphal $25,000 wager as to whether a trotting horse can have all four feet off the ground at once. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Oblong octavo. Original black buckram binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing.

Tewkesbury: Privately Printed, 1973. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good/Very good. Inscribed by Irmadene on the front flyleaf. Intimate portrait of the British naval officer and Chipping Campden collector. Frontispiece portrait, with eleven illustrations. Octavo. Original stiff blue paper wrappers, with a pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy.

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 162 p. Foreword by Karen Armstrong. Inscribed by editor Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad on the front flyleaf. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed By Editor.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1975. Trade paperback. Very good. Octavo: 262 p. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean, very good copy.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 46 p. Introduction by Leo Politi. Textual photographs and illustrations. First edition, limited to 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Delightful little essay on the Santa Catalina Island Pigeon Messenger Service that was founded in 1894 by the Zahn brothers: Otto Johann, Oswald F., and Lorenzo. The sixteenth volume in the Los Angeles Miscellany series. Original blue cloth-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with pictorial white stamping on the front and gilt titles on the spine. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition, a volume in The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. First published in 1887, this novel is widely considered to be one of the great classics of adventure fiction. It concerns two British explorers and their search for a supernatural white queen called Ayesha, ruler of the lost African city of Kor. Introduction by Everett F. Bleiler, with artwork by Frank Kelly Freas. With the Collector's Notes laid in. Octavo. Full red leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, decorative endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: California State University, Los Angeles, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 500 copies. This is one of thirteen copies bound by Bela Blau and signed and dated by Robert O. Hahn. Laid in is a program for the Upton Sinclair Centenary Conference, which was held on October 20 and 21, 1978 at California State University, Los Angeles. The program is signed by five speakers and panelists: Jerry Voorhis, Dr. Ronald Gottesman, Sol Lesser, David Sinclair, and Edward Allatt, and is accompanied by a photograph from the event. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with a printed paper title label on the front and gilt titles along the spine. A fine copy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first full-fledged biography of this singularly important figure in the history of Enlightenment science. Textual illustrations. Octavo. Original dark gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

1962 1st, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962. First edition. The son and grandson of eminent Texas Rangers, Harper B. Lee (born Harper B. Gillett, 1884-1941) became one of the leading matadors in Mexico from 1909-1911. He was the first American to perform as a professional bullfighter, long before the rise of American interest in bullfighting that was stimulated by Ernest Hemingway and Barnaby Conrad. Jacket a bit soiled and lightly edgeworn, with a crease to the rear flap, and an ink price stamp and the remnants of a removed label to front flap; otherwise a very good copy.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Navajo Orthography by Irvy W. Goossen. Edited by Karl W. Luckert. American Tribal Religions, Volume Six. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with black titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with photographs. Fifth printing. Original red cloth binding, with black stamping. Some general minor rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise an especially crisp, very good copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with photographs. Fifth printing. Original red cloth binding, with black stamping. Some general minor rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise an especially crisp, very good copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. This novel about the fear and heat that plague a group of American soldiers awaiting an enemy ambush offers a realistic portrait of the conflict in Vietnam. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with orange titles. Just a hint of foxing to the top edge. The dust jacket is a trifle edgeworn; otherwise very good.

New York: Ace Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joe Haldeman on the title page. Additionally signed by Gay Haldeman, to whom this book is dedicated, on the dedication page. The second book in the Marsbound trilogy. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Adam Hall on the title page. The seventh Quiller spy novel. Octavo. Original black paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with black titles. Slender smudge to the top edge, with a few tiny bumps to the bottom edge. Some minor fading and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Mesa: Fairborn Press, 1986. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated with photos and figures. Mesa, AZ: Fairborn Press, 1986. First edition. ISBN 0911351086. A record of the proceedings of the seventh annual Fairborn IAPPP Symposium, consisting of 22 technical papers concerning the design, use, and special applications of photoelectric telescopes (APTs) in astronomical research. A very good copy in the original printed wraps.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York First edition. Signed by James W. Hall on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Delacorte Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York First edition. Hall's fifth action adventure novel featuring the vagabond knight errant Thorn. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by James W. Hall on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York First edition. Signed by James W. Hall on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Delacorte Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York First edition. Yet another violent romp through the Florida Keys courtesy of James W. Hall. Signed and dated in the year of publication by James W. Hall on the title page. Some mild bubbling in the dust jacket lamination; otherwise a fine copy. Signed by Author.