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London: Peter Davies, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Alexander Fullerton on an Eileen Cond bookplate affixed to the front flyleaf. Cond was a noted English book collector who sent her bookplate to favorite authors, who signed and returned them by mail. A submarine thriller loosely based on a patrol the author took part in during World War II. Fullerton (1924-2008) served as gunnery and torpedo officer of HM Submarine Seadog in the Far East, 1944-45, in which capacity he was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The boards are ever so slightly bowed. The dust jacket is price-clipped; else especially crisp and bright.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Robert B. Parker. A murder draws Boston private investigator Spenser into the dramatic world of theater. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Dean Koontz on the title page: "To Gary Elswick, This last of the three Tucker books. I thought, if this gentleman thief, Tucker, was going to steal something, he might as well steal something big. Best, Dean R. Koontz". The third and final Tucker novel Koontz wrote under his Brian Coffey pseudonym, in which the modified modern-day Robin Hood learns about an imminent transaction in Mexico involving the exchange of a large sum of money for a pre-Columbian wall featuring carvings of exotic masks. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some mild edgewear.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A tale of New York and a young man's relations with two women: a young stenographer and his wealthy fiancee. Frontispiece and six illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with pictorial dark brown and orange stamping. Period previous owner's ink signature and date to the front flyleaf. Light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Trade paperback. Fine. A volume in the Key Contemporary Thinkers series. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, #103 of 300 copies signed by Morris. Written twenty years before it was first published, this novel features themes and characters that reappear in later works like The Field of Vision and Ceremony in Lone Tree. Original printed paper-covered boards over a cloth spine, with a printed paper spine label. Light fading and wear along the extremities of the boards; otherwise a near fine copy in the original acetate dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 263 p. "An informal history of the part played by the western states in the Civil War." Inscribed and dated by Lewis on the half-title. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original tan cloth binding, with blue titles. Internally crisp and clean. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, with a few small, unobtrusive bits of tape from an old dust jacket protector to the pastedowns and the verso of the dust jacket. Some mild rubbing to the dust jacket, which is price-clipped; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 p. Introduction by Sir Martin Conway. Frontispiece portrait, with 47 plates and a folding map. Includes a chapter on the dogs of Constantinople. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Scattered minor foxing, with some dust staining to the top edge. The boards are a bit shelfworn, more so at the corners and tips; else about very good.

Boston: Printed for the author and proprietor by Kidder and Wright, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Two parts in one, with an index. Job Plimpton (1784-1864) was an early American composer and organ builder who supplied the music at many gatherings of the Washingtonians, a temperance fellowship founded in 1840. This collection of nearly 70 songs features several of Plimpton's compositions, including "Come join the Cold Water Army," and "Oh, say, can you see thro' the dark mental night" with lyrics by Plimpton set to "The Star Spangled Banner." 79 p. Octavo. Original printed paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine. The contents are lightly toned, with minor evidence of moisture. Mild creasing to the rear flyleaf. The front hinge is cracked and separated. The top half of the rear panel has perished, exposing the board below. Some general browning to the boards, which are showing along the extremities. Not in Sabin. Scarce, OCLC locates only five copies (UCLA, Trinity College, Boston… Read more

Raleigh, North Carolina, July 8, 1840. 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. An autograph letter signed (ALS) from Joseph B. Hinton (1788-1872) to H.M. Morfit, asking for prices and descriptions of lots of property offered for sale in Washington, D.C. "Please inform me what are the most accommodating terms upon which said property can be sold to an actual resident intending to improve it for permanent residence," wrote Hinton, the state legislator of Beaufort County and Raleigh. It appears Morfit's notes concerning his negotiations are written on what was a blank page of the bifolium, indicating his willingness to sell certain lots at 1/3 cent per square foot over the assessed value; therefore square 527 was offered at $1,107 and square 624 at $1,964. This one-page letter has a few bits of loss along the left edge, as if removed from a gathering, not impacting the contents.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 441 p. Frontispiece, with 24 textual photographs. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with elaborate gilt decorations and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in the original sateen dust jacket, which is a trifle sun faded along the spine, and the publisher's slipcase.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Diane Goode. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First edition. Grandma tells her granddaughter of her own Mama's voyage "on a big boat to America." Signed by Riki Levinson and Diane Goode on the title page. Minor erasure to the front flyleaf; otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The poet's first book, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Cassity on the half-title: "For Mr. + Mrs. Morton, this collection of stills from the late movie, Turner Cassity, 13 Oct 1966". Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with black and blue titles. Some mild foxing along the edges and to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

London: Headline, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First UK Edition, first printing. Inscribed by Dean Koontz on the title page: "To Gary - This British edition in which the dog eats scones instead of Milk-Bones. (God knows, I think they went overboard when they insisted he wear a monocle, too.) Your friend, Dean R. Koontz" When a genetic research project in California is destroyed by Russian saboteurs, two mutated creatures escape from the lab: one is a golden retriever with enhanced intelligence; the other is a vicious monster created from a baboon and bred to kill. Cited by Dean Koontz as a personal favorite among his own works. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with red titles. Typical light toning to the contents; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Dean Koontz on the title page: "To Gary- Woof, woof, woof! May this set your tail a'waggin'. Your friend, Dean R. Koontz". When a genetic research project in California is destroyed by Russian saboteurs, two mutated creatures escape from the lab: one is a golden retriever with enhanced intelligence; the other is a vicious monster created from a baboon and bred to kill. Cited by Dean Koontz as a personal favorite among his own works. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1935. Pamphlet. Near fine. Second printing (August). [24 p.], illustrated with black and white photographs and a two-page color folding map of the route of Colorado River Aqueduct. Oblong octavo. Original colorful paper wrappers (9" x 6"), bound with two staples. A near fine example with just a hint of rubbing along the top edge. This pamphlet was initially prepared as a "Water Exhibit Souvenir" for the California Pacific International Exposition held in San Diego. It explains briefly how the aqueduct was built by the MWD, which was formed in 1931 after voters from the thirteen cities in Los Angeles and Orange counties approved a $220 million bond issue to address the increased demand for water in Southern California's growing communities. More than 6,500 jobs were created for the construction of the system of tunnels, canals, and conduits built to move one billion gallons of water per day.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition, signed by Sara Gruen. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. This historical circus novel served as the basis for the 2011 film starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz. Octavo. Full burgundy leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, five raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Moorhead, Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...explores the relationship of two art forms: poetry and painting. It is a relationship of equals, where Leila Philip's words are not a comment and Garth Evans's watercolors do not have meaning as an illustration. Rather, in this beautiful book, the fragility and boldness of poems and watercolors interact, underscoring and blurring the limits of time and space with each turn of a page." With review materials from the publisher laid in. Oblong quarto. Original decorative paper-covered boards, with blind-stamped titles. Accompanied by a printed paper vellum dust jacket. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: VION Publishing Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Authorized biography of the Austro-Hungarian-born American competitive swimmer and actor. Best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and '40s, Weissmuller (1904-84) won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records. Frontispiece illustration, with textual photographs. This copy is inscribed by Johnny Weissmuller on the title page. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of dust staining and spotting to the top edge. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some unobtrusive staining; otherwise very good.

Los Angeles: The Haynes Foundation, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 297 p. Seven maps (five folding) and four tables. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Internally crisp and clean. Just a hint of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.