Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Frontier Fiddler: The Life of a Northern Arizona Pioneer, Kenner C. Kartchner

Shumway, Larry V., ed. · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1990. First Edition. . . Farming, poking cows, trading horses, working for the Forest Service; in the later trade particular his fiddle ability allowed him to break down barriers. The book includes 17 original tunes, lyrics and mus...

Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

Klingle, Matthew · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

, Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Lamar Series in Western History has added this fine contribution, a sterling exemplar of social history. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbrui...

Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan

Yu, Wei-hsin · 2009

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in Social Inequality, a deep exploration in "why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequal...

On Their Own Widows and Widowhood in the American Southwest 1848-1939

Scadron, Arlene, ed. · 1988

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Urbana, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine work of social history edited by and with contributions by Arlene Scadron about widows and widowhood the American Southwest, with bracing contr...

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson 1940-1971

Karlinsky, Simon · 1971

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting...

For Us the Living

Evers, Mrs. Medgar, with William Peters · 1967

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1967. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining....

Nasby in Exile: Or Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium

Locke, David R. · 1882

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Toledo and Boston, Locke Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately worn, mildly soiled and scuffed of spine head and tail, tips, but still sturdily bo...

Seacoast of Bohemia

Morley, Christopher · 1929

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Hoboken, New Jersey, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., for The Old Rialto Theatre, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, wit...

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra

C.F. McGlashan · 1937

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Truckee, California , T.C. Wohlbruck Company, 1937. New Edition, Illustrated. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, protected now in stiff Mylar jacket, moderate wear to, minor soiling of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining ...

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman

Heuterman, Thomas H. · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly handsome exemplar of a sturdy copy of a fine social history of typography and an inspiring printing along the Frontier West. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised ti...

High Treasure: Songs of the Sierra

Lindley, Bynum · 1966

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

San Francisco, Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sweet copy at only 9 pp., measuring half a foot by 10" in wide and height, respectively, with a lovely full-color frontis photographic of a twisting giant of a hardy juniper tr...

Surrealism and After: The Gabrielle Keiller Collection

Cowling, Elizabeth, Richard Calvocoressi, Patrick Elliott, Ann Simpson · 1997

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking catalog to augment the exhibition held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 5 July - 9 November 1997. Sterling condition soft...

Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work

Hudson, Derek · 1975

$24.80 (€22.50 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the hunter-green cloth bindings, with sh...

Accordion Crimes

Proulx, E. Annie · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Scribner, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by the author of several fine novels and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the short story "Brokeback Mountain." A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover cop...

Summerland

Michael Chabon · 2002

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by Michael Chabon at the title page. Another fine novel by the author of several fine novels and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A superior copy inside and out, b...

Baudolino

Eco, Umberto · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harcourt, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Name of the Rose." A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding...

The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Eldon, Kathy, ed. · 1997

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, with ...

Standard American Gas and Oil Engine, Automobile and Farm Engine Guide

Stevenson & Brookes · 1912

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Chicago, Illinois, Sears, Roebuck & Company, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy bound in a black flexible, pebbly leather cover with folding flap, minor wear of covers and text-block beyond missing (probably) fi...

The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Eldon, Dan · 1997

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1997. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting an...

The Story of Patsy

Wiggins, Kate Douglas · 1889

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1889. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated blue cloth covers, stamped and lettered in black, are mildly soiled but moderately worn, with bumping to spin...