Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2003. Hardcover. Easton Press signed edition. 9"x6" 326 pp. Bound in forest green leather with gilt designs to front and rear boards, gilt titles with raised bands to spine, all edges gilt. Elegant apricot moire endpapers, signature to limitation page, certification of authenticity to signature and.....
Rand McNally, 1947. Wesley Dennis. Hardcover. Based on true stories of two ponies, and a brother and sister intent on owning them. "On Chincoteague live men, but on Assateague, "the isle of the wild things", live only the wild ponies descended, legend says, from the survivors of a Spanish galleon.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. Hardcover. From the dust jacket: "When A Season in the Life of Emmanuel first appeared in 1966, it was hailed as a masterpiece both in North American and in Western Europe. Marie-Claire Blais's stunning accomplishment was to evoke rural Quebec with both the knowledge and.....
McKinsey & Company. Hardcover. "Perspective on McKinsey" contains Bower's account of the development and success of McKinsey. This 2004 new edition of the 1979 original has an introduction dated May 2004 from Ian Davis. 317 pp., including index. Beige dust jacket with blue and black titles to cover and spine.....
Simon & Schuster Audio. Audio Book (CD). Standard hard plastic case, complete in 2 CDs. Case has minor wear, CDs like new.
Crowell, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Canadian novelist Frank L. Packard used his early experience working as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway as inspiration for his writing career. 8" x 5 ¾". Grey cloth boards with pictorial front cover featuring a navy blue train with orange cliff side.....
Ocho Y Medio Coleccion Espiral, 2004. Soft cover. Bad Education was a film dealing with child abuse and mixed identities. Themes included corruption in the church, transsexuality, drug use, and metafiction. 8.25" x 6". 176 pages plus 31 photos from the film. In Spanish. Signed by Pedro Almodovar in thick.....
Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. Hardcover. An interesting little curiosity that combines two things you might adore: cocktails and literature. So Red the Nose includes comical cocktail recipes from writers starting with Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon Cocktail (absinthe + champagne, drink 3-5 of these). An introduction states the goal.....
The American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1940. Soft cover. According to the card from The Keepsake Committee, "This book contains the address delivered by Thomas Maitland Cleland at the preview and private opening for members of the Institute of the 18th annual exhibition of Fifty Books of the Year on.....
Griffith & Farran, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Interestingly enough, Charles Dickens heard this ghost story second hand, used it in his magazine, then was contacted by Thomas Heaphy, the original author who claimed to experience it first hand. This rare volume includes the correspondence between Thomas Heaphy and Charles Dickens.....
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast, 1913. Hardcover. The Architectural League of the Pacific coast was organized in Portland, OR in 1909, which organized annual architectural exhibitions and organized scholarship work, and published the book. This yearbook contains lists of the club's members, patrons, exhibitors, photographs, illustrations, and sketches of.....
University of New Mexico Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A unique collection of essays about life in New Mexico. Description: 8vo. 147 pages. Tan cloth boards with black lettering. Signed on title page above printed name. Stated first edition. Cream and yellow dust jacket. Condition: Book and dust jacket are.....
Caxton Printers, Vanguard Press, 1943. Special Edition. Hardcover. The first volume in Fisher's "Testament of Man" series, which went on for twelve volumes and traced the development of the human race from prehistoric times. 8.25" x 5.75". Black leather covers with gilt titles, T. E. G.. Boards have been protected.....
Caxton Printers, Vanguard Press, 1944. Special Edition. Hardcover. Fisher's novel explores what life and thought processes may have been like for early humankind. Description: 8vo. 324 pages. De Lux Edition, numbered 19 of 125. Signed by Vardis Fisher under limitation. Dark blue leather covers with gilt titles to cover and.....
The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. Edwin Grabhorn, with his brother Robert, produced some of the finest of American independent press books during the twentieth century. The Duke of Sacramento is a comedy in four acts by Warren Baer reprinted from the rare edition of 1856, to which is added a......