New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First edition, first printing of an early '90s hip-hop photo book. xx, 108 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial wraps. Near Fine with very light wear. Portraits of hip-hop musicians from the 1980s and 90s, including Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane, Tribe Called..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989. Oversize color reproduction of Nuremberg apothecary and botanist Basilius Besler's beautiful 1613 work Hortus Eystettensis, describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's creme cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near..... More
Berkeley & Forest Knolls: Burton Weiss & Jams Musser, 1999. First edition. xviii, 124, [1] pp. Publisher's marbled paper-covered boards with crimson cloth backstrip. One of 75 copies, signed by Keith Abbott on rear colophon. Fine and unread. More
London: Cassell & Company, 1955. First British edition. Signed by Big Bill Broonzy on the half title in blue ink. xii, 139 pp. with eight pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a bright unclipped dust jacket, hint of shelfwear, else Fine..... More
Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., ca. 1952. Second edition, circa 1952, copyright date 1950. Signed by subject Richard Zenor on the front pastedown below an equation in a seemingly different hand. xix, [1], 232 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with..... More
Sante Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1989. Revised edition. Signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on the title page. viii, 88 pp. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth affect lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with slight wear at extremities and previous gift inscription on front..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by C.V. Wedgewood, the author of the foreword, on the title page, inscribed to a former owner. 160 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with light rubbing and shelf wear. Uncommon in the advance format. A posthumously-published autobiographical..... More
New York: Hermitage Press, Inc., 1948. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freda DeKnight on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a previous owner. xiv, 426 pp., text printed in brown. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in maroon; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing to..... More
Los Angeles: Feral House, 2006. First edition. (Paperback original, first printing with full number line on copyright page.) xxiv, 286, [2] pp. Very light shelf wear, else Fine and unread. The rare, out-of-print autobiography by the author of the seminal conspiracy essay "King-Kill/33," which first appeared in Feral House chief..... More
[No place]: Scanuscryption, 2006-2007. First edition. Complete in four volumes.lxxvi, 490; [ii], [491]-1020; [1021]-1428; 1429-1774 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps. Very Good+ with a few minor scuffs and stains to edges. Small scratch to front wrap and peeling to laminate on bottom of back wrap of Vol. 1. Nice..... More
Fort Meade, SD: [No publisher], 1930. History of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment, nicknamed "Quarterhorse." 33 pp. plus 20 typewritten leaves tipped to stubs at rear, originally written by James W. Foley and typed by his son Edgar Shryock Foley, whose notes in blue ink appear throughout the text. Bound in..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1916. First edition. 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly toned wraps, tiny stain to back wrap, slightly bumped corners, bookplate on verso of front wrap. An early German language work on Einstein's theory of gravitation with a foreword by the man..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by co-author James O. Long on the title page. [7], 12-388 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, printed endpapers. Very Good with light fading to extremities and rubbing to spine, faint staining to upper..... More
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1854. First English language edition of a Swiss clergyman's denunciation of Irvingism and Mormonism. xxiv, 94, [2] pp. with two pages of advertisements at rear. Bound in publisher's blindstamped green cloth boards lettered in gilt. Very Good. Light wear and soiling to cloth, short split..... More
New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. xxii, 200pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in white. About Very Good with speckled staining to boards; toning to spine, crimped ends, rubbed white lettering. Moderate foxing to deckled edge; offset..... More
[Portland, OR]: [Mississippi Records], [2018]. First edition. Co-author and Portland musician Mark Sten's copy, signed by Toody Cole of Dead Moon in silver sharpie at the front with a long personal inscription (she and Sten having a long history of playing together in various bands). Additionally inscribed by Eric Isaacson..... More
New York: Aperture, 1987. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) 206 pp. Quarto. Cream buckram with silver stamping. Fine in an attractive example of the dust jacket with faint shelf wear, else Fine. The definitive edition of the Hungarian-born photographer's work, one of 3,00 copies..... More
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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2006. Signed limited numbered edition. Number 8 of a limited 148 copies signed by Stephen King. Bound in pale green Matka silk over quarter leather blue spines lettered in green. Fine in a Near Fine matching silk slipcase with moderate uneven fading. King's horror fantasy serially..... More
London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960. First edition. Signed by Frank Kitson on the title page xii, 211 pp. with illustrations. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with tape stains to cloth, light foxing to edges, former owner's name written on paste down, in a Very..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. First edition. Signed by Thomas Kuhn on the front free endpaper, inscribed to his pupil Norman L. Thomas (1925-1997), "For Norman Thomas who ought to correct it. [signed] Thomas Kuhn." Thomas was a professor of philosophy at Bakersfield College; his inkless emboss and personal..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition. 296 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with purple spine label, gilt spine lettering, blindstamped front, black topstain. Near Fine with dulling to spine lettering, light wear, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, chipped along top edge, smaller chip at foot, a...... More
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications Limited, 2009. First edition, collector version. Signed by Jeff Lynne on publisher's bookplate, one of 3,000 copies thus. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's linen in cloth slipcase, silver edges. Near Fine, a little overopened, corners slightly bumped, in slipcase with a spot of rubbing to front..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1965. First edition. 189 pp. with photos. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver spine lettering. Good+ with underlining and notes in margins to a few pages, dog-eared pages, rubbing to paste down, in a Near Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped, shelf worn. The famous..... More
Paris: [Printed by the author], 1922. First edition. Number 183 of a limited 600 copies, signed by Frans Masereel in pencil on the limitation page at the front. Recased, publisher's tan paper covered boards lettered in black laid down on tan cloth spine. Very Good with chipping and light soiling..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1982. First edition. Signed by Elaine Morgan "with best wishes" on bottom corner of front free endpaper. From the library of paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould, although not marked so. 168 pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos. Black cloth with silver lettering. Very..... More