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London: Grant Richards, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Two volume set, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with more than 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Title in full: The Works of Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais in the French tongue and now faithfully translated into English. xlii, 377; xxviii, 350 pages. Pages heavily foxed and tanned, as often. White cloth soiled; spines tanned. A decent, but not great, set.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first American trade edition of the first volume of the Ring of the Niblung Trilogy. Translated by Margaret Armour. With 34 color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on blank leaves with tissue guards with printed captions. 160 pages. First American edition (no indication of later printings). A very good copy with moderate shelfwear, a bit of staining to the cloth, and some darkening to the spine. The tissue guard facing p. 32 is loose, but present. All illustrations are present and intact.

London: Gollancz, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sequel to The Quantum Thief, the second book in the Jean le Flambeur trilogy. This is one of 100 signed and numbered copies with a tipped in limitation leaf. It's not clear to your cataloguer who issued the limited edition. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is copy no. 89 of 100 signed by the author.

New York: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A science fiction debut novel. This is the first American edition (the book was initially published in the UK in 2010). First US edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Gollancz, 2014. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The final volume in the Jean le Flambeur trilogy. This is the first book in the series that appeared first in the US (two days before publication in the UK). First UK edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page.

Albuquerque: Pajarito Publications, 1979. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 53 pages plus ads. Literary criticism focused on de Hoyos's poetry. Text in Spanish. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers.

New York: Amistad, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel set in the African American music community of Detroit. The author is a professor and writer-in-residence in the Department of African American Studies at Vanderbilt University. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. With an information card from the Parnassus Books Signed First Editions Club laid in.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. An exuberant first-hand accout of cattle ranching in Montana on the Crow Indian Reservation...In the 1940s and the 1950s Edmund Randolph spent twelve years as a partner in the Antler Ranch, one of the most important institutions in this still sparsely settled area, one of the greatest beef producers in the United States." 286 pages. First edition (first printing, with no additional printings noted). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author to Diana Kendrick. Mrs. Clara Diana (née Cumming) Kendrick was the husband of Manville Kendrick, the heir to Sen. John B. Kendrick, the owner of a very large Wyoming ranch. The books is inscribed, "To my old friend Diana Kendrick, with best wishes. Edmund Randolph," with Diana C. Kendrick's ownership signature above. A one-page typed letter, signed, from the author to Manville and Diana Kendrick is laid in. The letter concludes, "I… Read More

Nashville, TN: A. M. E. Sunday School Union, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A collection of speeches by a leading bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and a tireless campaigner for social justice. "Ransom was torn between two concepts of Christianity: Christianity as an instrument of (possibly bloody) revolution, and Christianity as the means by which the Negro would save democracy and the white man's soul."* This volume of secular speeches, which are influenced by Ransom's Christian beliefs, includes many of his notable orations, including "The Reno Prize Fight," a critique of the white race riots that erupted in response to the black boxer Jack Johnson's defeat of avowed racist James Jeffries in a heavyweight match in 1910. Other speeches include "The Spirit of John Brown", "Martyrdom of John Brown", "Crossing the Color Line", "The Negro As a National Business Asset", and Lynching and American Public Opinion." 175, [1], pages, plus… Read More

Wanganui, New Zealand: A. D. Willis, Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Very good. A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were the lost tribe of Israel. The Ratana church advocated for Maori rights and delegations travelled to England and the US seeking support. Its members also played an important role in New Zealand politics. Early Ratana publications are quite scarce. This book opens with the order of service (15 pages) followed by song lyrics (with the tune noted below each title). The book is not dated, but some of the hymns are and the latest with a year is from 1929. None of the editions of this book appear to be dated. OCLC records only an edition printed by the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Coy, which produced very few books, all between 1930 and 1940. Another edition, with a slightly different title but the same… Read More

Austin: Alturas Press, 2006. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Short biographies and poems by some of the contributors to Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul. 66 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in stapled wrappers. Signed by the editor on the title page.

(Austin): (the author), 2002. First edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (pamphlet). Signed by the author on the title page.

Austin: Alturas Prss, 2006. Pamphlet. Fine. [8] pages. Poetry. Small format (4 x 5 inches). Second (?) edition; first published in 2002. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. Fine in wrappers (pamphlet). Signed by the author on the title page.

Austin: Alturas Press, 2011. Second Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. With seven additional poems from the first edition. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. 22 pages. Near fine.

Austin: Alturas Press, 2011. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. [8] pages. 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches. One of 100 copies. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. Not recorded on OCLC. First edition (first printing). Fine in stapled wrappers (pamphlet). Signed by the author.

Austin: (the author), 2002. First edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (pamphlet). Signed by the author on the title page.

[London]: [H. M. Tennent] Printed by Scripts Limited, 1973. Ephemera. Near fine. An early draft of Rattigan's two part play, presented here with the main play, about a marriage (based on Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), followed by a short work, featuring the same actors, based on Tosca. The second play underwent a number of changes and when the play premiered at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1973, it had become a prelude to the main play. By the time the play went to Broadway, In Praise of Love stood alone. [3], 45, 35, [2], 49, [1] pages. Sheets printed on light green paper bradbound in plain red cardstock covers with a die-cut hole revealing the title. Numbered 12 on the title page. Some old tape stains on the covers. With a typed letter signed from Bernard Gordon, the general manager of H. M. Tennent Ltd. and the Globe Theatre, to the American theater producer Waring Jones. Dated August 14, 1973, about a month before the play opened, Gordon writes that "15 minutes have been cut from the first… Read More

San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. A collection of poems, most written in the late 1970s and 1980s. Texas Chicano poet. 83 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author.

San Francisco: Los Siete de La Raza, 1970. Ephemera. Very good. A single issue of this short-lived community newspaper which sprang up in San Francisco's Mission District to gather support for Los Siete, a group of Latinos who were then under arrest for the murder of a police officer. The men were ultimately acquitted. This issue includes interviews with the defendants and a long article about a family that was victim to police violence. 16 pages, eleven in English and five In Spanish. 11-3/8 by 17 inches. Very good. Yellowing from age, as expected.

St. Louis: Amerika Print, 1919. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. An offprint from the Fortnightly Review, in which the leading Mexican American historian of his time argues that Native Americans and African slaves were treated better in Spanish America than in the United States. His view of the enslaved people is best expressed by quoting his summary of the situation in 16th century Spanish America, "The Negroes not only retrograded to their original savagery, but dragged the Indians with them." Benjamin Maurice Read (Las Cruces, NM, 1852 - Santa Fe, NM, 1927) was the leading Latino historian in New Mexico. His father, Benjamin Franklin Read, was an American soldier who married a New Mexican, Maria Ignacia Cano. Read became a lawyer and served in the territorial legislature and as speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives. In 1910, he began publishing a series of historical works looking at New Mexico history from the viewpoint of its residents of Spanish origin. His view of history, as a… Read More