MURDER IN THE COTSWOLDS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 194pp. Novel set in England by the famous Montana writer. "Montana Sheriff Chick Charleston Confronts an English Crime." Fine in dj.
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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.
LITERARY HAUNTS IN LONDON
Newton: Privately Printed, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Paper over boards with label. 43pp. Light pencil fos/year on ffep. Moderate rubbing to corners. Vg. No dj.
ROUND THE WORLD (Signed)
n.p. Privately Published, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial 4to wraps. 128pp. Illus. Warm inscription on front cover by Anderson to C. C. Simpson. Also signed Mrs. Woods ("Mary"), Anderson's sister. Anderson, the author of the classic biography of Chief Seattle, had her 1962 world travels published from place to.....
SUPPLEMENT zur ERSTEN AUFLAGE von RICHARD ANDREES HANDATLAS enthaltend de 33 Seiten neuer Karten der zweiten Auflage von 1887 Apart fur die Besitzer der ersten Auflage, etc.
Bielefeld und Leipzig: Von Velhagen & Klasing, 1887. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st printing of the supplement, so far as we can tell. Folio in 1/2 leather & cloth. Only a fair copy. Hinges sound but covers spotted & worn & leather degraded. Maps good with marginal stains. The lower fore.....
YAMATOZAKURA: A Sketchbook of Japanese History (as translated)
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1945. Soft cover. In Japanese. This is a stunning book printed in Japan in 1945. Apparently it is a later printing. It is a book of greatly detailed and colorful Japanese musha-e prints depicting various historical (we presume) and legendary events and exploits from the past, including Samurai.....
Victory through Harmony : The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (Signed)
NY: Oxford, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardbound. 275pp. Illus. Notes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by Baade. Thoroughly researched & smoothly written book packed with information. Interweaves subjects of dance music & dance bands (live and recorded), popular music, role of music for wartime workers, BBC policies & programs, influence of.....
BLESSED BY THUNDERr: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood (Signed)
Seattle: Seal Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Hardcover. 244pp. Glossary. Signed by Barrios in the year after publication. Fine, like new in dj.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RUSSIAN SNOWMAN: A Record of Investigation (Signed)
Moscow: Crypto-Logos Publishers, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 239pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Signed "With best wishes / Dimitri Bayanov. An important early work in the modern era on the wild men / snowmen, (sasquatch, Bigfoot), Yeti of Eurasia. Sections: The Caucasus, The Pamirs and Tien Shan.....
THE AMPHIBIAN: A Novel (BEFORE THERE WAS AQUAMAN, THERE WAS ...)
Moscow (Russia): Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1950. First English Language Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing in English translation of 1928 Russian novel Small 8vo decorated cloth. 284pp. Beautifully pictorially decorated endpapers of large in water. The cloth cover art is elegant showing on the side of the board a woman.....
FAMOUS SOUTH AFRICAN MURDERS
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparently the 1st printing. Cloth. 221pp. Illustrated with photographs. Index. An ex library copy, so a reading copy only. Stamps and check out sheet for Mill House Library, Dovercourt. The front cover has a large light colored square representing the original.....
DEVIL DOLPHINS OF SILVER LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES: Adventures of a Reluctant Photographer's Assistant (Signed)
n.p. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. First Edition. Soft cover. Apparently a 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 219pp. Signed (signed only) by Bennett. "... a behind-the-scenes view of the making of many of Flip Nicklin's National Geographic magazine stories..." Fine, like new.
LET'S LEARN MAORI A Self-Help Guide to the Study of Maori Language
n.p. Privately Printed. First Thus. Soft cover. No printing stated; used by a college professor. Mimeograph printed probably, with metal bracket binding. 196pp. Also, 1 page Addenda and Corringenda. Library call number on front cover. Owner's signature & his name/address stamp. Vg.
THE STRUCTURE OF NEW ZEALAND MAAORI (Maori)
Auckland: Privately Printed, 1961. Offprint. Hardcover. Offprinted from Anthropological Linguistic, vol. 3, No. 3. Printed library boards with call number on spine; fos/address stamp of a professor inside front board. 54pp. Very scarce. Good copy.
BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO THE TROSACHS: Loch Catrine, Loch Lomond, and Central Touring District of Scotland Including the Great Highland Routes to GLENCOE AND FORT-WILLIAM, LOCH AWE AND OBAN, TAYMOUTH AND ABERFELDY
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Just about every bookseller has a few books he wants to keep forever for himself, and this is one of mine. The first edition of Black's great guide to the Trosachs: Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, North Bridge. 1853.....
THE KING OF THE MOUNTAINS from the French of Edmond About
Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1861. Hardcover. Early if not first US printing. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. 300pp. Mid-19th century French novel translated into English. Pencil fos of T. L. Allen dated 1860. Moderate wear to extremities. Vg.
LAS CLIMB: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory
Wash D. C. National Geographic, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth and boards. 239pp. Illus. Index. Former owner's sticker / address label on ffep. Fine in dj.
OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBORS
Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Oblong pictorial wraps. 47pp. Illustrated with drawings by Dorothy Bayley Morse. Map. Reading list. A remarkably straightforward and compassionate, religiously-based (Christian) book on living with love for our neighbors around the world. Sample chapters: "Ways Families Have Found to Stop.....
THE LION & THE UNICORN (Signed, & with special laid in ephemera)
London: Collins, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 2nd impression. Cloth. 349pp. Presentation copy to H____ S____. Laid in is a printed folder (4pp) for a "Luncheon in honour of Sir Arthur Bryant... to mark the publication of his book 'The Lion and the Unicorn'..." This luncheon was "Organised by Foyles Bookshop.....
VOODOO - EROS Ethnological Studies in the Sex-Life of the African Aborigines
United Book Guild, NY, 1964, 1964. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Ltd to 500 copies. Cloth. 251pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Slightly musty, else vg in slightly soiled, slightly edgeworn dj.
DICTIONARY OF INDIAN BIOGRAPHY
NY: Haskell House, 1968. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. 1st printing of facsimile reprint. Cloth. 494pp. Bibliography. First published in 1906. This book is a biography of people and history associated with INDIA, not American Indians. Fine. No dj, probably as issued.
WELCOME TO POW STALAG LUFT 1 - BARTH - GERMANY
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial paper over boards. (74pp). Illustrated with full-page Kriegie cartoons produced by the authors. This Prisoner of War book, published probably between 1947 & 1950, depicts with both humor & gravity what life was like in the German POW camp.....
CATALOGO PROPAGANDA TAURINA 1960
Valencia: Imprinta - Litografia Ortega S. A., 1960. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Stamped on the ffep is "Edicion Limitada Num 237. 1st printing thus of the 1960 edition of the attractive Ortega printing catalogs specializing in bullfighting prints, posters, bills, tickets, etc. 40 leaves (80pp) with some items such as.....
TWO TITLES: BIRTH OF A KOALA & THE KOALA
Victoria AU: Buttercup Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Two koala books in apparently first edition. Both pictorial glossy hardcover. Birth of a Koala by Burt published 1986 & The Koala by Barbara Burton and published by Young Nature Library, no date. Birth fine copy; The Koala near fine. No dust.....
CAMPBELL'S NEW REVISED COMPLETE GUIDE AND DESCRIPTIVE BOOK OF MEXICO
Chicago: p.p., 1909. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 352pp. Illus. Index. fos on front blank page & red stamp of "T. G. Weston's Mexican Art Shop Mexico City." Nice original purchase provenance copy thus. Couple of small marks on front cover; near fine.