THE NIGHT MY MOTHER MET BRUCE LEE: Observations on Not Fitting In (Signed)
NY: Pantheon, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 209pp. Signed (to no one) & DATED IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine, like me in dj.
NY: Pantheon, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 209pp. Signed (to no one) & DATED IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine, like me in dj.
Grosse Pointe: Junto, 1961. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo gilt-stamped cloth. (22pp). Chapter vignettes. A fine press reprint ltd to 75 copies. This copy is unnumbered. Back cover has rub spots. No dj (as issued?). Good+.
Stanford, 1970. 1970. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged. Royal 8vo cloth. 611pp. Vg in dj (shadows on front panel from long exposure to light from an overlaid book).
Montclair & London: Allanheld & Schram, 1978. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st U. S. edition. Cloth. 209pp. "Short Title Lists". Index. One of several fine books on the book trade, hunting, collecting, dealing, cataloging, etc., written by these long time New York City business partners & nearly life long friends. Hardly.....
Waco: Texana, 1965. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of Vol. III No. 3. Decorated wraps. (197 - 296pp plus ads). Illus. Three additional essays including, of interest to Texas book collectors, one on a famous, or infamous, rare book dealer -- "John H. Jenkins, Bookseller" by Otho Plummer. Additionally.....
Tipographia de los Huerfanos, Madrid, 1890, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo original cloth & boards. 326pp. Index (Indice de Titulos). Extensive introductory material & Appendices. Further stated on title page: "OBRA PREMIADA POR LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL en el concurso publico de 1887 Y PUBLICADA A EXPENSAS DEL ESTADO. This.....
American Library Assoc., Chicago, 1948, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 331pp. Name & Subject Index. Most copies are ex-lib; this one is not. Moderate wear to extremities. Good+.
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 230pp. Illustrated with Russell's works, including four in color. On the front cover is a broken line where the orange of the cloth did not take in some places. It looks like a scratch but it is not unless on.....
Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth with printed title label on spine. 318pp. Illustrated with portraits of some of the book collecting world's most recognized dealers and collectors from the 1930s. Endpaper maps. Presentation copy inscribed on the verso of the ffep. Laid in is the.....
Portland OR: Binfords and Mort, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Silver-stamped cloth. 381pp. A massive 11,298 biographical entries. Fine, no dj as issued. PLUS PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 1949-1974: A Supplement to the Third Edition. Blue wraps. Wear to extremities else in vg condition. These are essential resources for a......
London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1926. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Decorated & pictorial wraps. 578pp. Facsimiles. A great historical booksellers reference listing for sale hundreds of books on Americana, The Far West, etc. Indices by author, title, & subject. Soiled & spine wrinkled, yet still at.....
London: Henry Stevens, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. No date, but published around 1926. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. 578pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. Index. Last few pages with information on other Henry Stevens publications. Ink stamp of Ahrens Book Shop / 756 Davie Street, / Phone MU 3-2014 / Vancouver.....
Chicago, 1968. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo cloth. 854pp. A key bibliography & reference book, with 4,801 thoroughly described entries & an extensive index. Fine in dj.
NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of Volume Six. Gilt-stamped cloth. Unpaginated, but 3,958 cataloged books. Illus. Index. Reference Books. Maps. There is a tiny and elegant black and red personal ex libris stamp on the front paste down. This volume represented the sale of the following.....
Ohio State, Columbus, 1961, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 360pp. Three illustrations. "Directory of Cincinnati Publishers, Booksellers, and Members of Allied Trades, 1796-1880." Extensive Bibliography. Index. Also, extensive notes at the end of each chapter. A scholarly & obviously important treatment of the city that was known as the "Literary.....
Glenwood IL: Meyerbooks, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 356pp. Frontispiece of Waters. Index. Foreword by Waters. Presentation copy signed & dated by Tanner on front paste down. Fine in dj.
Santa Cruz: Privately printed, 1993. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. COPY # 4 in an edition of 195 copies. "Copies numbered one through twenty-five each have seven additional samples of handmade paper." Quarter-bound full leather, decoratively embossed, and blindstamped "PAPER" on the front cover and spine. Laid in is a letter signed by.....
NYC: Stein & Day, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 223pp. Illus. Memoirs of travel from the pen of the wife of the famous theologian. Fine in moderately worn dj. Ignore the stock image of a library card that shows on most listings.
Alexandria: Time Life, 1980. First Thus. Hardcover. Facsimile reprints of the original editions, bound in full genuine leather. This beautiful set was released beginning in 1980, concluding in 1984. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Silk ribbons. Illustrations in each volume calling for them. A COMPLETE SET, 30 titles in 31.....
(Morongo Valley), 1989. 1989. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition ltd to 890 copies. Cloth. 98pp. Illust. Appendices: "Bibliographies Cited", "Titles Mentioned in the Text". Fldg map. An important bibliography of the most important books on the Pacific Northwest as related to Washington, compiled carefully by Mr. Tweney & published.....
NY: Octagon, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. 492pp. Former owner's private library small label on ffep. Chapters: "The Pioneer's Own Story", "The Indians' Captives Relate Their Adventures", "The Frontier Land Agents Offer Their Wares", "Conclusion", "A Bibliography of North American Frontier Literature", "Key to Locations". Following these long introductory chapters.....
Octagon, NY, 1970, 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Octagon, NY, 1970. Reprint. Decorated cloth. 492pp. A key bibliography on pioneers, Indian captivities, etc., of the old Eastern frontier. Substantial essays by Vail, who was President of the Bibliographical Society of America, form the bulk of the first 80pps. Fine, no dj.....
NY: Alliance Book Corp, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. 749pp. Three pages of "Who's Who" in the back. It appears this is a fascinating and well-written memoir. From Wiki: "Richard Julius Hermann Krebs (December 17, 1905 - January 1, 1951), better known by his alias Jan.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a hardbound print-on-demand title in the 1st edition. 236pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. For anyone who has any interest in Western Americana, Jenkins was the dealer who for years repeatedly had incredible material. Your bookseller purchased a lot of.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a hardbound print-on-demand title in the 1st edition. 236pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. INITIALED by Vinson & dated soon after publication. He notes a correction on a page. For anyone who has any interest in Western Americana, Jenkins was.....