New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 10" x 7.5". 28pp. Color illustrated cloth boards. With beautiful color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. A charming story of a girl visiting her father's place of employment. More about At Daddy's Office
New York: James B. Pond, 1917. First edition. 7.25" x 5". 96pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth a bit soiled, else nice VG+ condition. A very funny collection of limericks and "copiously visualized with with illustragraphs by the perpetrator." The illustrations are reminiscent of Oliver Herford's wonderfully humorous drawings... More about The Limeratomy. A Compendium of Universal Knowledge For the More Perfect Understanding of the...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 42nd "Rainbow" Infantry Division / Army & Navy Publishing Company, 1946. First edition. 11" x 9". Appr. 125pp. Blue, red and gold buckram. Nice VG+ condition. With the ownership stamp and signature of John W. Keithahn, a member of this outfit and a prominent leader of their... More about 42nd "Rainbow" Infantry Division. A Combat History of World War II
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, 1929. First edition. 8.75" x 5.75". 294pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Near fine condition. With illustrations by Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw. This volume is, in the words of one reviewer, "a glowing and poetic narrative of the woods and streams and forests of the Puget... More about On Puget Sound
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 8.25" x 5.5". 256pp. Yellow and black cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Nice VG+ condition; the jacket is worn and chipped. MacDonald is best known for her book The Egg and I. This book is Betty's memoir of... More about Onions in the Stew
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. 9.25" x 5.75". 456pp. Beige wrappers. Near fine condition. With chapters on the principles of atomic explosions, a description of the explosions, the shocks from air bursts and underwater bursts, physical damage from atomic bursts, nuclear radiation, etc. More about The Effects of Atomic Weapons Prepared for and in Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense...
New York: The Bankers Publishing Company, 1910. 7.75" x 5.25". 120pp. Brown cloth with black lettering. Nice VG+ condition. The author was the founder of Kansas City Southern Railway. He served as the railroad's president from 1897 to 1900. He was also the founder of Port Arthur, Texas. This volume... More about Confidence, or National Suicide
[Seattle?]: Circa 1957. Paperback. 9.25" x 6". Appr. 75pp. Bound in flexible suede with gilt lettering. Nice VG+ condition. Second edition. An account of the mountaineering / outdoorsmen's club established in 1919 at Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier. More about The Book of Soyp
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967. 8.5" x 5.25". 517pp. Rust red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ownership signature on the copyright page, else fine condition. An essential reference work for genealogists and scholars of Tennessee history. More about Tennessee Records. Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts, Historical and Biographical
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Hardback. 7.5" x 5". 111pp. Paper covered boards with a black cloth spine and printed paper labels on the spine and front board. Bookplate, light edge wear and rubbing, else VG+ condition. With decorations by Charles Cullen. More about Copper Sun
Dallas, Texas: The Southwest Press, 1928. 7.5" x 5.25". 108pp. Pretty patterned paper covered boards with a black cloth spine. Light edge wear, bookplate, else VG+ condition. The first book by the Texas teacher and award-winning Poet Laureate of Texas from 1939 to 1941. More about Red Heels
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Hardback. 7.25" x 5". 89pp. Paper covered boards with a black cloth spine and printed paper labels on the spine and front board. Bookplate, light edge wear; generally VG+ condition. Early printing. With decorations by Charles Cullen. More about Copper Sun
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. 6.75" x 4.25". 351pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing to the edges, else near fine condition. A gothic novel by the American novelist, historian, and editor. Brown is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. More about Wieland, or the Transformation. Together With memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, a Fragment
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1872. First edition thus. 7" x 4.5". 179, 138pp. Brown pebbled cloth with copper spine lettering. Spine slightly faded, ornate ownership signatures, else near fine condition. A pair of temperance tracts. With sections on the aspects of these drugs as poisons, medicines... More about Alcohol and Tobacco. Alcohol: Its Place and Power. [AND] The Use and Abuse of Tobacco
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 11" x 8.25". 199pp. Brown illustrated cloth, dust jacket. Fine condition; nice VG+ jacket. This copy signed by John Collier, jr. on the title page. "The photographic record of a social miracle among the Indians of Ecuador." Collier was an American... More about The Awakening Valley
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., [no date, circa 1910]. 9.75" x 7.5". [90pp]. Red cloth stamped in black and gilt, in the scarce original dust wrapper. Spine gilt a little rubbed, else very bright near fine condition. The jacket is rubbed and edge worn. With brilliant color plates on... More about Slovenly Peter or Cheerful Stories and Funny Pictures For Good Little Folks. Illustrations...
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1941. First edition. 10" x 6.75". 67pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Small ownership signature and bookplate, else fine condition. Near fine jacket with features a beautiful woodcut illustration. A production of the Federal Works Agency, Work Project Administration. With charts... More about Mexican Migratory Workers of South Texas
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First edition. 9.25" x 7". 93pp. Beige linen cloth stamped in blue and black. Cloth lightly spotted, bookplate, else nice VG+ condition. A book length poem illustrated with black & white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee... More about Land of the Free
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1931. First trade edition. Hardback. 7.25" x 4.75". 64pp. Orange paper covered boards, in dust wrapper. Bookplate, else near fine condition. The jacket has light edge wear and a one inch chip at the bottom of the spine. More about The Wild Red Deer of Exmoor. A Digression on the Logic and Ethics and Economics of Staghunting...
Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2003. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 233pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Near fine jacket. This copy signed and inscribed by the author on the first leaf. Also signed by the author on the title page. An account of legendarily fast... More about The Swifts. Printers In the Age of Typesetting Races
Chicago: Socialist Party, 1927. First edition. Hardback. 9.25" x 6.25". 248pp. Green flexible cloth with gilt lettering. Light rubbing, ownership signature, else VG+ condition. The noted socialist's study of prison, with chapters on convicts' place in society, prison as an incubator of crime, his own incarceration, ,capitalism and crime, and much more. More about Walls and Bars
New York: Richards Rosen Associates, Inc., 1958. Paperback. 3.5" x 4". 140pp. White spiral binding with heavy illustrated paper covers. With the original publisher's box. Fine condition. VG+ box. With many illustrations. Rosen's series of charming and handy illustrated recipe books are one of the great underappreciated contributions to American culinary literature. More about Wurst You Were Here. The Choice Cuisine of Germany
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1899. Paperback. 9" x 5.75". 57pp. Stapled wrappers. Mild soiling, else nice VG+ condition. This report includes sections on the Alaska fisheries, the fur trade, timber, agriculture, mineral resources, schools, missions, the revenue cutter service, military forces in the territory, postal services, railways, light... More about Report of the Governor of the District of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior
Tokyo: Ongaku-no-Tomo Sha, Inc., 1958. 12" x 9". 81pp. Cloth wrappers. Wrappers a bit faded, else near fine condition. This work won several prizes, inspiring Ishii to do further work inspired by nationalist primitivism. The work is based on the composer's study of the folk music of the ancient race... More about Sinfonia Ainu
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 7.5" x 4.5". 188pp. Maroon cloth with silver spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Binding slightly cocked, bookplate, else near fine. The jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing. Second issue. More about The Moon Is Down
