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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes "Thrift" by William Faulkner and "Cider of Normandy" by Booth Tarkington. Black cloth binding, with silver stamping. A very good copy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Includes "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, "A Bottle of Milk for Mother" by Nelson Algren, "I'm Going to Asia" by John Cheever, "The Old People" by William Faulkner, "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico, etc. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. The dust jacket is price-clipped and a bit shelfworn, with some mild sunning along the spine; otherwise a very good copy.

Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Laid in is the clipped Henry Clay signature, the printed invitation to a February 27, 1844 ball for Clay in Mobile, and a ticket signed by sculptor Leonard W. Volk for one chance for a marble bust of Clay. Memorial volume for the American statesman famous as "The Great Compromiser" for his role in defusing sectional crises. Leader of the Whig party and five times an unsuccessful presidential candidate, Henry Clay (1777-1852) played a central role on the stage of national politics for over forty years. He was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams, Speaker of the House of Representatives longer than anyone else in the nineteenth century, and the most influential member of the Senate during its golden age. 135 p. with frontispiece portraits of Henry Clay and Hernan Cortes, respectively (the latter is not called for and may have been inserted by mistake). Octavo. In a period one-quarter black calf over marbled paper… Read more

London: Frederick Muller, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 pp. photographs. The lengthy history of Europe's preoccupation with the occupation of Egypt from the time of Alexander to the Suez Crisis. In particular, Blaxland focuses on the long-standing strategic rivalry between France and Britain for the control of Egypt and North Africa. From the library of Bruce Bryan, the long time curator of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped and a bit shelfworn, with a small scuff to the top corner of the front panel; otherwise a very good copy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. Spence (1699-1768) was a historian and literary scholar, most famous for this collection of anecdotes, first published in 1820, which is an invaluable resource for historians of 18th century English literature (Augustan literature). 24 illustrations. Octavo, two volumes. Original blue cloth bindings, with gilt titles. A fine set.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edited and annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Illustrated with photographs by A.C. Vroman. First edition, limited to 400 copies. This copy is signed by Msgr. Weber on the title page. A collection of 22 articles on the California Missions by the congenial California journalist who was at various times a Civil War correspondent, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, and editor in chief of the Los Angeles Star. The ninth volume in the Los Angeles Miscellany series. Original patterned paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. A near fine copy. Signed by Editor.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited and annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Illustrated with photographs by A.C. Vroman. First edition, limited to 400 copies. This copy is signed by Msgr. Weber on the title page. A collection of 22 articles on the California Missions by the congenial California journalist who was at various times a Civil War correspondent, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, and editor in chief of the Los Angeles Star. The ninth volume in the Los Angeles Miscellany series. Original patterned paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. Minor wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. Signed by Editor.

Arlington Heights, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Deluxe First Edition, this is copy 153 of 500 signed by 32 contributors, including Dean R. Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Dan Simmons, Joe R. Lansdale, Kevin J. Anderson, and Richard Christian Matheson. Horror anthology of original stories, each about a particular obsession. Illustrated by Roger Gerberding. Octavo. Full gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Berkeley: WisdomOcean Publications, 1998. Trade paperback. Fine. Octavo: 270 p. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy.

1980 1st, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with charts, figures, graphs, and photos. New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1980. First edition. ISBN 0444418393. A detailed and comprehensive summary of current views concerning the geodynamic processes of the oceanic ridges and subduction zones on the sea-floor crust presented by more than fifty international authorities on global convection and continental motion. Includes general discussion concerning the viscosity of the earth's mantle and global convection; kinematic models of large scale convection illustrating the potential link between ocean ridges, plate motions, subduction zones and large scale flows in the earth's mantle; geodynamic processes involving continents; etc. A volume in the Developments in Geotectonics series. Boards rubbed and a bit worn at the corners; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Warner Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in. Inscribed by Dean Koontz on the half-title: "To Gary - From the oldest kid of 'em all, Dean R. Koontz, Beware the bad toys." Additionally inscribed by illustrator Phil Parks and accompanied by a postcard invitation to the book signing event. "When the death of their creator leaves them without protection, a band of magic living toys must attempt a dangerous journey across the city to another toyshop, while under attack from evil toys serving the Dark One." Based on an idea by Chrstopher Zavisa. Oblong quarto. Original blue cloth binding, with green and blind-stamped titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy 19 of 100 signed by Dick Francis. The author's fourth book. A former jockey turned investigator with the Racing Section of the Radnor Agency, Sid Halley becomes entangled in the most complex and dangerous case of his career while recuperating from a gunshot wound. This edition includes a new introduction by Robert Reeves. Octavo. Full burgundy cloth binding, with a portrait of Francis inset on the front board and decorative gilt stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Edmonds, Washington: Sure Fire Press, 1993. Soft cover. Fine. 34 p. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 218 p. First edition, limited to 100 copies printed for private distribution. This collection was described by Lawrence Clark Powell, who helped arrange for its publication, as containing "erudite discussions of Oriental and European philosophy, explicitly footnoted, and was apparently written years before when Brent was undertaking an unfinished Columbia University doctorate in philosophy. What was really unexpected is the inclusion of a short four-act play, a searching morality on adulterous love." Presentation copy, inscribed by Brent to esteemed Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is a trifle tanned along the spine and folds; else very good or better. Inscribed by Author.

San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited with an Introduction by Thomas D. Clark. Seven illustrations, one two-page, with several textual drawings. As a member of the Newark Overland Party, Gray traveled from Independence, Missouri to San Francisco in 1849. Distinguished by its erudition, his previously unpublished journal recounts the trek with vivid descriptions of the scenery and the many hardships encountered by his party. Blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering. The dust jacket is price-clipped; otherwise a near fine copy.

Hornsea, England: Stanza Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Jo Fletcher and nine contributors: Ben Baldwin, Michael Smith, Tanith Lee, John Kaiine, Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley, Joel Lane, Peter Crowther, Dana Gioia. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. Just a hint of wear to the tips; else fine.

Berkeley: University of California, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1963. First edition. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. The boards are a bit edgeworn, with some fading along the extremities; otherwise very good.

New York: William Morrow, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 305 p. Carhart, a 1966 West Point graduate, was fighting in Vietnam the following year and like many of his fellow servicemen felt it was a patriotic duty to risk his life for his country. In combat he discovered not only the horrors of jungle warfare but also the dangers of being given orders by superiors unfamiliar with a situation on the battlefield (he was branded a coward for pointing out that a certain tactic would bring heavy casualties). He was briefly in Saigon, where he had a romance, then was an adviser in the Mekong Delta, where he went on what he terms "search-and-avoid" missions, allegedly to find Vietcong but actually designed not to encounter the enemy. Presentation copy, inscribed by Clark on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Minor edgewear to the dust jacket, with some prominent sun fading along the spine and the top of the front panel; else very good. Inscribed by Author.

Miami Beach, Florida: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. This first edition of the original draft of The Office by Fredric Brown is limited to 425 copies, each of which is signed and numbered by the author of the introduction, Philip Jose Farmer. This is copy no. 376." Features dust jacket and endpaper art by Joe Servello. Small octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap.

A pair of albums filled with 106 photographs taken during World War II by the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army. Many of the images are marked "not for publication" with stamps or notes on the verso. The photographs are from the China Burma India Theater (CBI) and range from images of surgery on a soldier to extract a bullet to GI's interacting with the indigenous populations and the transport of supplies across the Burma Road. Congress established the U.S. Army Signal Corps on March 3, 1863, and today it is in charge of communications and information systems support for the armed forces. Signal Corps photo teams, carrying what was then state-of-the-art equipment, would go out into combat operations, often by themselves, and cover the events where civilian journalists either wouldn't go, or couldn't go. All of the photographs in these two unmarked albums are printed in black and white with the Signal Corps seal imprinted in the lower right-hand corner. They are all linen backed with identifying numbers… Read more