Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Forty Years of Connie Maxwell History

Jamison, A.T. · 1932

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Greenwood, South Carolina, Connie Maxwell Orphanage, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no copies available currently on-line in original, true publisher's First Edition state. Written by the Superintendent and Treasu...

Ava's Man

Bragg, Rick · 2001

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The frontispiece photo of a man holding a large catfish, I mean, a really large catfish, entices the reader into this fine biography of the author's mother in the Appalachian foothills during t...

Goat Brothers

Colton, Larry · 1993

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Doubleday, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being inscribed warmly to a fan, March 4, 1997. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright an...

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Davis, Mike · 1998

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Metropolitan Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. An uncommonly good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of a classic in critical sociology by an acknowledged master ...

The Hunting Rifle: Design Selection Ballistics Marksmanship

Whelen, Townsend · 1999

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Stackpole Books, 1999. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Special Limited Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual standards, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showin...

Shotguns by Keith

Keith, Elmer · 1995

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Fairfax, Virginia, The Firearms Classics Library, for the National Rifle Association, 1995. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Special Limited Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Firearms Classics Library Editi...

Guns of the Old West

Chapel, Charles Edward · 1995

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Fairfax, Virginia, The Firearms Classics Library, for the National Rifle Association, 1995. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Special Limited Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Firearms Classics Library Editi...

The Many Mizners, California Clan Extraordinary

Showalter, J. Camille, ed. · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. An unusually good-looking, oblong-shaped homage to the famous California clan, the Mizners. 68 pp., replete with black-and-white illustrations and some in full-color. Faint rema...

Fabulous Farmer: The Story of Walter Knott and His Berry Farm

Holmes, Roger and Paul Bailey · 1956

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Los Angeles, California, Westernlore Publishers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a fine and accessible social history of Knott's Berry Farm of California. Nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Shearing of spi...

Argonauts of '49, History and Adventures of the Emigrant Companies from Massachusetts 1849 - 1850

Howe, Octavius Thorndike · 1923

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1923. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly inside front cover, lightly toned at worst, m...

Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell

Targ, William · 1968

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Los Angeles, California, Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a stiff pl...

California's Frontier Naturalists

Beidleman, Richard G. · 2006

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, SIGNED by the author at title page, inscribed warmly to "Grace" and signed and dated to March 20 2007. Fine-looking, ...

The Pacific Princesses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Northwest Coast

Turner, Robert D. · 1981

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Victoria, British Columbia, Sono Nis Press, 1981. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Laid in are about a dozen newspaper clippings and rack-cards and brochures and other memorabilia related to the Princess fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Sturdy, attr...

San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History

Kemble, John Haskell · 1957

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Bonanza Books, 1957. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine-looking 1957 reprint of the 1947 true First Edition. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, bluish-gray cloth-backed, with blue lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illus...

Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide

Gilman, Carolyn · 2003

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.59 | ¥4,343)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution / Missouri Historical Society, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, dated Sept. 22, 2005, being the ONLY such SIGNED copy on-line currently. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in...

Our Islands and Their People As Seen with Camera and Pencil, Volume I, Volume Iimajor-General Joseph Wheeler

Wheeler, Joseph, with special descriptive matter and narratives by Jose de Olivares; William Bryan, ed. · 1899

$112.00 (€101.62 | £84.78 | ¥17,885)

St. Louis / New York / Chicago / Atlanta, N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine exemplars of a braggadocious U.S. over its "acquisitions" (i.e., theft, annexation) of Samoa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawai'i....

Washington and Oregon: A Map History of the Oregon Country

Parker, Martha Berry · 1988

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Fairfield, Washington, Ye Galleon Press, 1988. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. Reprint Edition of the 1857-58 true First Edition of the Preliminary map of ...

Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon

John Wesley Powell; Don D. Fowler, ed.; Eliot Porter, photographs and Epilogue · 1969

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Massively tall, oversized volume, being a stated Second Printing of the classic presentation of Eliot Porter's photographs and epilogue to augmented John Wesley Powell's diary of t...

The Old Oregon Country: A History of Frontier Trade, Transportation, and Travel

Winther, Oscar Osburn · 1950

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Stanford, California , Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar of an accessible, engaging social history of Old Oregon Territory. Bound simply in mustard cloth over boards, brown ...

A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847

Griffin, John S. & Ames, George Walcott (Intro. ) · 1943

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in red cloth over boards and with rubbed blue lettering to spine and sharper blue lette...