Rowland Ward Publications, 2006. Hardcover. This most long-lasting work by British taxidermist Rowland Ward became a "who's who" of big game hunting among celebrities. This is the 27th edition of 2006, with both volumes numbered out of 1500. 11" x 8 ½". Brown cloth boards with gilt titles to front.....
Harper & Brothers, 1917. Hardcover. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer Prize -winning poet known for her exciting performances, portrayal of both hetero and homosexuality, and her description of new kinds of female experience and expression. 8 ½" x 5 ¾". Blue covers with three-quarter black cloth. Title.....
New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. William Carlos Williams was both a Pulitzer Prize -winning modernist poet and a doctor. Williams' health declined after a heart attack and series of strokes during the last 14 years of his life. It was during this time that he signed this copy of his selected.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. Creatively bound, this signed first American edition of Love in the Time of Cholera is a treasure for any fans of Nobel Prize -winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Claimed by some to be one of the greatest romances of all time as well as the.....
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.....
Hicks-Judd Company, 1906. Hardcover. This fourth edition of the San Francisco Block Book was published just 6 months after the 1906 earthquake. "On account of the recent fire that visited our City, we were called on, within a period of twelve months, to issue a second volume of our Block.....
John Murray, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In Darwin's penultimate work he aims "to describe and connect together several large classes of movement, common to almost all plants" (Introduction). This text is interesting in that it "contradicted the results of Julius Sachs, stimulating an argument that disintegrated into a nationalistic contest.....
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, paper label, near fine, spare label attached to back of last page. Unmarked.
Bedford Square, London: Jackdaw Publications. Soft cover. A set of documents from the Assassination of JFK in facsimile.13.75" x 9" blue portfolio folding envelope with gold, orange, and black titles. Fourteen components, including a model of Dealey Plaza, facsimiles of advertisements, and paper weapon reproduction in publisher's original wallet-style sleeve.....
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.....
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Find out some fun skiing tips about equipment, management of the skis, jumping, and how to run across country. 7.75" x 5.25". Green boards with white and tan pictorial cover and spine. Half-title, frontispiece, full-title, copyright, v-vii preface, viii contents, 286pp.. Condition: Spine repaired. Cracks.....
John E. Potter, 1859. Hardcover. A description of Nicaragua's "Inhabitants, Customs, Mines, Minerals, Early History, Modern Fillibusterism, Proposed Inter-Oceanic Canal And Manifest Destiny." According to the Evening Journal's review, "It treats of one of the most important topics of the political world--is well written--full of pleasant sketches--and takes the reader.....
The Great Courses The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio Book (DVD). Four DVDs in two cases, and accompanying 132-page course guidebook.
Horace B. Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. A charming and whimsically illustrated children's story: "Being a true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part of the world which does not exist. . Written and drawn for the fun of it by Hendrik Willem van Loon" (title page). 10.25".....
J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912. Hardcover. The illustrations of Charles Robinson in this volume are almost as magical as the timeless fairy tale itself! 9" x 6 ½". Tan cloth boards with gilt titles/illustration to front cover and spine, T.E.G., gilt decorated endpapers. Half-title, frontispiece with caption printed on tissue.....
Dorrance & Co, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Louis Bovet describes an expedition with his two brothers and a team of Native Americans to hunt moose in the Yukon. According to the introduction, "The writer recalls instances of a bull moose having been shot with .22 caliber rifles, and bows and arrows.".....
Live Oak Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This work is dedicated "To all my treasured gun and hunting writer friends who walk proudly in Jack O'Connor's footsteps, and for all of the countless readers, yesterday and today, who admire the work of a true master of these genres. -Jim Casada-.....
Chapman and Hall, 1837. Hardcover. By "Quiz." with six illustrations by "Phiz." This volume was written by Edward Caswall under the pseudonym "Quiz", but is often attributed to Dickens because Dickens wrote two sequels: Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Sketches of Young Couples. Our copy indeed has "Dickens" as the.....
The Derrydale Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From 1898-1900, author Malcom D. Whitman won "every important tournament, including the National Championship and the first International matches, and retire[d] an undefeated champion" (introduction). "This edition, limited to four hundred and fifty copies, printed upon Van Gelder hand-made paper, is designed by.....
Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. In this travelogue, Dickens doesn't hold back his critique of American society. His humorous dedication reads: "I dedicate this book to those friends of mine in america, who, giving me a welcome I must ever gratefully and proudly remember, left my judgment free; and who.....
D. Bogue, 1847. Hardcover. A presumably satirical little work examining the word "Humbug". Fans of Dickens' Christmas Carol may find it amusing. From the Introduction: "But 'tis Humbug that sets this big globe a spinning. 'Tis Humbug that sends all its buzzing inhabitants forth, to smile, cry, laugh, flirt, strut.....
Chapman and Hall, 1870. Soft cover. This final novel was never finished as Dickens had only written enough for six installments before his death in 1870. Readers never found out what happened after Edwin Drood disappeared. Six original issues in original blue paper covers. Second issue includes advertisement for cork.....
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.....
Chapman and Hall, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit was published in monthly installments 1842-1844 following the popularity of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickelby. In this novel, the character Martin Chuzzlewit travels to America, where Dickens takes the opportunity to satirically portray Americans as selfish.....
Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Hardcover. This set includes the complete works of the iconic crime fiction author, including of course the four novels and over fifty short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, as well as all his non-Sherlock works such as his plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.....