Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Governor Joseph Gale and His Indian First Lady

Densley, Lillian Cummings · 2010

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Baker City, Oregon, Lightning Source, for Snake River Secrets, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED by the author at title page boldly in Sharpie. The "First Lady" was Eliza Gale, and her brother was Young Chief Joseph. Fine-looking, structurally so...

Lessons

McEwan, Ian · 2022

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, another New York Times Bestseller from the author of Atonement and Saturday. This novel tells the epic and intimate story of one man's life as spun out a...

Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

Vonnegut, Kurt · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shi...

Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery

Johnson, Craig · 2015

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Viking Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected in...

Mantissa

Fowles, John · 1982

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Little, Brown, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, with minimal rubbing to extremities, and with slight forward cock to spi...

Mantissa

Fowles, John · 1982

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, Little, Brown, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An odd novel by a self-absorbed novelist, revolving around the putative sufferings of a poorly disguised novelist that are imposed on him by his seeming muse. By the author of the French Lieutenant...

Bring Up the Bodies

Mantel, Hilary · 2012

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, A John McRae Book, for Henry Holt, 2012. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, slight sunning to page edges along bottom and top edges, else with a bright interior, unmarked but fo...

The Romantic South

Harnett T. Kane, ed. · 1961

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Coward-McCann, 1961. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the American Vista Series by the author of Louisiana Hayride, The Bayous of Louisiana, Deep Delta Country, Plantation Parade, Natchez on the Mississippi and oth...

Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through Te Rocky Mountains

Stansbury, Howard · 1852

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Collated as complete and with remarkably clear, sharp, distinct duotones galore. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States; Senate, Special Session, March 1...

Chief of Scouts. As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains Across the Plains of the Wild West of Fifty Years Ago

Drannan, W.F. · 1910

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Chicago, Illinois, Rhodes and McClure, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Simply but handsomely rebound in two-tone, light brown and dark brown cloth over boards, and featuring new endpapers. An apparent First Edition, published by Rhodes and McClure but also ...

Soldiers of the Overland

Rogers, Fred B. · 1938

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

San Francisco, California, The Grabhorn Press, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This is the 1938 printing by The Grabhorn Press of the account written originally by Connor, one of 1000 copies printed, as stated at the Colophon. The title continues:...

The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir

Wheelewright, Jane Hollister · 1988

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Santa Monica, California, Lapis Press, 1988. Second Printing . 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 beyond slight furling to re...

Then and Now: A Photographic History of Vegetation Change in the Central Great Basin Desert

Rogers, Garry F. · 1982

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. Light green softpaper wraps with brown lettering and photographic illustration to front co...

The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds

Dohner, Janet Vorwald · 2001

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmark...

The George Catlin Book of American Indians

Royal B. Hassrick · 1977

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered at first free endpaper, being of the recently deceased oil-b...

Animal

Balog, James · 1999

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Graphis, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, James Balog, to Suzanne and Simone, "for the animals." Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jack...

Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII

Buck, Stephani and Jochen Sander · 2004

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

London , Thames and Hudson, 2004. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First American Edition, First Printing thereof, following the true First Edition published a year prior following the exhibition held to memorialize the life and works of a p...

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

Rand, Paul · 1996

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The author has for a long time been a leading graphic designer in the fields of advertising design and typography. He begins with the Lascaux cave paintings to assert that ...

The Art of Egypt Through the Ages

Ross, E. Denison, ed. · 1931

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, England, The Studio Ltd., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, binding in original publisher's blue buckram cloth over boards, slightly beveled, gilt-stamped eagle des...

The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, the Allure of North Africa and the Near East

Stevens, MaryAnne, ed. · 1984

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London / New York, Thames and Hudson / The National Gallery of Art, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Simple original publisher's blue cloth over boards, gi...