A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY April 2, 1990
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue: Fine Arts, Prints & Illustration. Vg.
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A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY December 11,1989
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue on the "Music & the Performing Arts. Several pages with straightened out dog-ears; couple of ink marks. Vg.
A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY December 4,1989
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Inside this issue: Restoration as a Factor in the Pricing of Books. A few stain spots on front cover, but still vg.
A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY February 13,1989
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue on "Fine Arts, Prints & Illustrations" including "The Watercolors and Prints of Orra White Hitchcock." A few pages with straightened out dog-ears; couple of ink marks/notes; one very small.....
A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY February 19, 1990
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special issue on Labor History & Fiction. Stapled binding skewed, but still vg.
A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY March 12, 1990
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special New York Book Fair Issue. Several ink marks/note by former owner, & his address label on front cover. Vg.
A B BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY March 19, 1990
Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps.
HOOFBEATS ON THE WIND: Tales of a Sagebrush Cowboy (Signed)
Columbus MT: Stillwater Sun, 1989. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 134pp. Illustrated. Signed by Abarr. A nice Montana cattle item. Vg.
RACK, ROPE AND RED-HOT PINCERS A History of Torture and it's Instruments
Brockhampton, London, 1993, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial glossy hardbound. 243pp. Illust. Chronology. Index. Bibliography. "the gruesome history of torture, restraint and punishment from the days of the Normans to the late nineteenth century." The author was Yeoman Warder of HM Tower of London. Fine in dj.
WHERE'S CHARLIE Souvenir Program; starring Ray Bolger
NYC: Al Greenstone, 1948. First Edition. Soft cover. Presumably the first edition. Pink quarto illustrated wraps in pink with white & blue lettering. Illustrated in b/w with bluish tint. 16pp. fos at top of cover. Dances were staged by George Balanchine. Vg+.
THE CANADIAN WORKER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978. 1st Canadian Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 310pp. Bibliographical Note. Front cover corner creased, but vg.
BEYOND FORGET : Rediscovering the Prairies
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 260pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in dj.
AMERICAN BIGFOOT PICTURE SCRAPBOOK: American Researchers Photo's
n.p. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Soft cover. A print on demand book acquired by your bookseller very early. Pictorial trade wraps. Unpaginated, but at least 200pp. Illus. Sorry, no photos of Bigfoot in this book, but lots of photos of habitat where the researchers live and search, several so-called.....
CLUB WOMEN OF NEW YORK 1933-1934
NYC: Club Women of New York Co., 1933. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st printing thus. Royal 8vo gilt-stamped & decorated burgundy cloth. 292pp. Illustrated with wonderful ads and several portraits, some full page. Frontispiece: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Eleanor), who wrote the facing address to the club women. Photo of "Reception.....
HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre (Signed)
NY: Broadway Book, 2004. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reading Copy. Colorful wraps with the avocado green covers. 328pp. Signed by Acito, with words, "Be Splendid" on title page. Acito stamped some copies with reference to his Wallingford High School English Dept, as he did this one. Fine copy.
LOVE AND COUNTRY
Little Brown, Boston, (2003), 2003. ARC. Soft cover. Publishers advance. 4to pictorial, plastic bound wraps. 265pp one side. Publisher's letter bound in. A novel based in Idaho. Fine, as new.
THE LOG OF A COWBOY
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing presumed of 2nd edition published by Houghton Mifflin, their Riverside Library. Cloth with gilt spine titles. 387pp. Illus. Previous owner's signature (fos) in ink on ffep with 1936 date. Vg-. Slight fraying to head of spine; endpapers with browning/oxidation. Dj has.....
ORIGINAL SIGNED PORTRAIT OF ANSEL ADAMS.
Redlands: Jim Sloan, 1968. Hardcover. Not a book. Original black & white portrait of the great American photographer Ansel Adams with original presentation signature by Adams, dated 11-11-68 and taken by Redlands, California, photographer, Jim (James) Sloan, to whom the portrait is inscribed with narrow black felt pen. Image size.....
THE KOHL'S RANCH STORY (Signed)
Mesa AZ: Privately Printed, 2004. Revised Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing of Revised Edition. 4to pictorial glossy wraps (glue bound). 169pp. Illus. Map(s). Signed by the author/compiler. A well-illustrated book on an Arizona ranch family. Fine. Scarce.
THE STRIPPER
Privately Published, n.p., 1954, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 379pp. Gift inscription on front paste down. Frontispiece portrait of Adams on his horse. "A fictitional (sic) portrayal of the opening, settlement, and development of the Cherokee Strip", but based largely on the author's own experiences & those of people.....
THE COWMAN SAYS IT SALTY (Signed)
Tucson: Univ of Arizona, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 163pp. Illustrated with drawings by Vic Donahue. Signed by Adams to no one, "Cordially Yours / Ramon Adams." An excellent work on cowboy words, slang, and phrasing. This is not a glossary but is written in narrative style.....
THE COWMAN SAYS IT SALTY
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth.163pp. Illustrations by Vic Donahue. A good book on the "picturesque speech of the cowboy" by the fine Western authority. Fine in fine dj.
THE LEGENDARY WEST
Dallas: Library of the DeGolyer Foundation & Friends of the Dallas Public Library, 1985. First Edition. Soft cover. Colorful decorated glossy wraps. (64pp). Illus. A useful reference booklet describing 47 rare Western books exhibited at the library. Slight nick at top affecting a few leaf edges, else fine.
THE OLD - TIME COWHAND
Macmillan, NY, 1961, 1961. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Ltd to 350 copies. Pictorial cloth. 354pp. Illustrated with drawings by the incomparable Nick Eggenhofer. Signed & both Adams & Eggenhofer. One of the great modern treatments of the subject. Fine in original labeled slipcase which has a couple of marks & bit of.....
THE RAMPAGING HERD A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Country
Zubal, Cleveland, 1982, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Cloth. 463pp. Several title-page illustrations. Index. An indispensable bibliography for range books up to publication date. The outstanding work for collectors of the subject. 2,651 entries. Fine, like new in dj. Reese 4.