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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2015. INSCRIBED / SIGNED and DATED (9/17/2015) by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. VERY SCARCE signed. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips, tears, creases, rubbing or fading. NOT price clipped ($25.95). Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. 2015. First Printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (1234567890) on the copyright page. Bound in the original baby blue boards with a black spine stamped in gold. Complete with pristine dust jacket. From the publisher: "Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. A New York Times Notable Book of 2015. Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about growing up in a land shaped by love, loss and violence. With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co, 1949. A bright, beautiful, pristine copy. Appears unread -- fresh and crisp. Fine condition. Sharp corners. No wear. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 4.5" wide by 6.75" tall. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with map and tissue-guarded plates. Thirty page "Historical Introduction" by scholar Milo Quaife. Number 47 in "The Lakeside Classics" series. Contains selections from writings on the California Gold Rush, involving three of the most important routes - the voyage around Cape Horn by Hinton R Helper, the journey by sea and across the Isthmus of Panama by J. D. Borthwick, and a journey by sea, and overland across Mexico by Daniel B. Woods. Also reprints a contemporary survey of the gold regions in the spring of 1848 by an unidentified California correspondent of the New York Herald, selections from Bayard Taylor's… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: The Caxton Club, 1916. A handsome copy that appears unread. Fine condition. Spine shows none of the usual age toning. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. 1916. First Edition. Limited to 175 copies. Printed for the Caxton Club on Italian handmade paper at the Alderbrink Press by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Complete with four tissue-guarded plates. Bound in the original grayish-green boards with cream-color vellum spine and corners. Gilt stamping is still bright and shiny. 7.75" wide by 10.5" tall. Piehl XXII: "Bound in half vellum with vellum tips." Howes Q2.. First Edition, Limited 175 copies. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket. 290pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1976. Very Good condition. The spine is square and flat. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1976. Volume XXXII (vol. 32). Bound in the original tan wraps, printed in red and black. This large book (6.75" wide by 9.75" tall by 1.25" thick) will NOT require any extra postage for International shipments. Also, only the standard charge for priority or media mail.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. (vi), 474pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Tract Association of Friends / Samuel S. & William Wood, 1861. 4" wide by 6" tall. Lower corners worn through else Very Good+ condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Inner hinges are sound. Biographical profiles of American Quakers who died in 1860, arranged alphabetically. Many listings are brief, but others are quite substantial. For example, the entry for Richard H. Thomas (of Baltimore) fills more than 13 pages. Original brown cloth, with spine lettered in gold, and covers blind-stamped. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 204pp.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895. Good condition. Light cover soil. Spine ends frayed. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. A Catalogue of Geography, Voyages, Travels, Americana. Offered by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London, 1895. Priced. Unnumbered entries (perhaps 600?), expertly described and with many interesting annotations. Bound in the original eggshell white wraps, printed in black.. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. (iv), 200 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. , 1955. 6" wide by 925" tall. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Some soil/foxing on the cover. Pages browning else Very Good condition. This catalogue of rare books has 936 entries. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 60pp .

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2003. Very Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 1947. First Edition. A bookseller's catalogue of 138 expertly annotated mountaineering books. Cross referenced to standard authorities (ACLC, Cox, Neate, Perret, Yakushi, etc). Bound in the original tan pictorial wraps.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Unpaged. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. BRAND NEW in Perfect Condition (lucky warehouse find]. NO rubbing. NO fading. NO shelfwear. Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1968. Reprint of the 1892 original. Contains portraits, biographical sketches, brief accounts of their libraries, etc. for Henry Huth, Lord Spencer, William Beckford, William Gladstone, James Lenox, Edward Fitzgerald, Duke of Roxburghe, Sir Richard Burton, Gabriel Harvey, etc. Hazlitt's Alphabetical Roll of Book Collectors from 1316-1898 is also reprinted. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine.. Reprint of the 1892 original. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket, as issued. 445pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1899. Very Good condition. Bound in the original printed beige wraps, lightly soiled at the edges. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue. 1,839 priced items (including items listed on the recto and verso of the rear wrap). Laid in is a prospectus for FACSIMILIES OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM by George F. Warner. The cover title differs from the title page. The cover title reads: "No. 188… A Catalogue of Geography, Voyages, Travels, History of America, Africa, Australasia, and Asia with Books on the Languages of America, Africa and Oceanica Offered at the Net Prices Affixed by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London, May, 1899." Bernard Quaritch, 1819-99, was one most famous antiquarian booksellers of Europe. From the front cover: "The printing and posting of my Rough Lists is a considerable expense to me. I therefore appeal to the… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1930. 2 volumes, complete. Very Good condition. A few heavy erasures. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. A landmark catalogue from Bernard Quaritch, one of the greatest of booksellers. 1930. First Edition. Illustrations in the text, plus numerous tipped-in plates (binding photos, title page reproductions, some in red and black, etc.). Part I, A-J and Part II, K-Z with Supplement and Indexes. 2,050 entries. Extensively annotated. Includes Subject Index and Index of Printers. Uniformly bound in the original tan wraps.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 via media mail. 2 volumes: 664pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1947. Near Very Good condition. Mild creases to corners. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1947. First Edition. Well illustrated, including with a few full color plates. Subtitle: "With a Portrait-Study of the Founder by His Daughter Charlotte Quaritch Wrentmore." A catalogue of 229 expertly annotated books and manuscripts issued to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the firm of Bernard Quaritch in 1847. Bound in the original tan wraps.. First Edition. Softcover. Near Very Good condition. xvii, 91pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1923. Good+ condition. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Pages are clean and unmarked. With 58 pages of illustrations. Plus many tipped-in plates, some folding. Detailed descriptions of 358 incunabula. Extensively annotated. Several indexes. A landmark catalogue. Bound in the original tan wraps.. First Edition. Softcover. Good+ condition. 162pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Sette of Odd Volumes, 1886. Good condition. NOT a library discard. Bound in the original printed boards. Spine label mostly perished. Housed in a Fine custom case made of blue cloth and marbled paper. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Sette of Odd Volumes Miscellanies 14. 1886. Limited to 255 numbered copies, this being # 106. This volume by the distinguished bookseller, Bernard Quaritch, provides historical background on the Roxburghe Club, Hakluyt Society, Sette of Odd Volumes, the Philobiblon Society, etc. Quaritch, was "Librarian of the Sette of Odd Volumes." Includes some bibliographies of club publications. Printed by C. W. H. Wyman.. First Edition, Limited 255 copies. Hardcover. Good condition/in Fine custom case. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 64pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Northamptonshire: : Patrick Stephens, 1987. 5" wide by 7.75" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The spine is square and flat. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with photographs throughout, some in full-color. Bibliography. Index. From the rear cover: "The first book to introduce every aspect of warfare in miniature on land, at sea or in the air, from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans up to the Second World War; Explains the background to wargaming and how it works; Includes ready-to-use playing rules and illustrates typical wargames in dozens of photographs, many in colour; Also discusses fantasy role-playing and science fiction games, board games and the use of home computers; The ideal introduction to a fascinating and wide-ranging hobby." . Second printing.. Soft Cover. Near Fine condition.. 8vo. 319pp..

Washington D. C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1974. NOT library discards. Complete 2 volume set. Near Fine condition. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Volumes 1 and 2: (vI), 292pp + xvi, 432pp. First Editions. Index. Both volumes are bound in their original full-color pictorial wraps. Volume 1 was published in 1973 without an ISBN. The ISBN listed is for Vol. 2 only. It was published in 1974. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost. . First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1. 2 vols: (vI), 292pp + xvi, 432pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Military History, 1999. 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. Heavy book: shipping at cost. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (69.95). Well-illustrated with 30 maps and over 460 b/w photos. From the Dust Jacket: "The 1st Company Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the original cadre of the later Waffen-SS was formed in March 1933 as the 'SS Headquarters Guard Berlin.' From the first 117 volunteers emerged more than 50 senior SS officers, all of whom received high decorations for bravery in the 38 Waffen-SS divisions that were formed later. Twenty former members of this company alone won the Knight's Cross... In the years of peace the 1st Company of this elite force took part in the most important functions of the Third Reich as an honor formation. In war these men fought bravely, sacrificially and loyally on almost every front. This… Read More

New York: Burt Franklin, Publishers, 1974. NOT a library discard. Very Good condition (light finger soil on the cover). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. An Index and Bibliography to Douglas C. McMurtrie's A History of Printing in the United States (i.e. Middle and South Atlantic States -- all published). With chronological checklist of Bibles, and geographical checklists of almanacs, and serials. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine.. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 94pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. Appears unread. Fine condition in a bright Near Fine dust jacket (price clipped). NO chips, tears or creases. NO fading. The jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. Corners are NOT bumped. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. This is a full dress bibliography, comparable to those in the Soho or Pittsburgh series. Included for each edition and variant are collation, binding description, length and height in inches, etc. Useful annotations address original price, date of publication, periodical appearance, discuss the author's inspirations, etc. Illustrated with 10 plates on glossy stock. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 128pp. + 10 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Studio Vista, 1971. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is lightly rubbed at the corners but has NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1971. First Edition. A beautifully illustrated book, with many full color plates. Has chapters on Juvenile Incunabula, 18th Century Children's Books, Fairy, Folk Tales and Fantasy, Books of Instruction, Poetry, Periodicals, Nursery Rhymes, Boy's Adventure Stories, Moveable Books, etc. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. 8.75" wide by 12" tall.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Monro, Gabriel (photographs). 144pp. Great… Read More