New York: Doubleday, 2001. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Large octavo in white DJ, 389 pages ; 25 cm. E-journalist J. Sutter travels to West Virginia for the first John Henry Days celebration. Colson Whitehead's eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a...... More
Jerusalem: Schocken Pub. House, 1965. Third edition. Hardcover. Folio in b&w DJ, [12], [12] pages, 144 plates, b&w illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. Israel -- Pictorial works. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. More
Pleasantville, N.Y. Reader's digest Association, 1945. Paperback. Brown oblong quarto, 168 pages, b&w illus, 28 x 21 cm. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. Meet your army -- Overlord -- Steve early phones -- Grand strategy -- We prepare to fight -- Secret meeting in Africa -- Torch -- A...... More
Hanover, New Hampshire: DeadBase, 1992. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Yellow quarto, xii, 564 pages, b&w illustrations ; 28 cm.Includes bibliographical references and discography (pages 491-495). Appears to be signed (scrawled) by author John Scott on title page beneath his printed name.|| Rock, Grateful Dead (Musical group)..... More
Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1971. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Light red large quarto, unpaginated, approx. 32 pages, b&w illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings. Children's stories, Fantasy. No DJ. More
Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Large quarto in white DJ, gilt to spine, viii, 116 pages, b&w illustrations, 29 cm. Series: Occasional papers in archaeology, v. 1. Contents: Noël Hume, I. Preface.--Noël Hume, A.A group of artifacts recovered from an eighteenth-century..... More
Seattle, Wash. Portland Press, 2009. First printings all (stated). Hardcover. Eight multicolored octavos (of ten total), 110 p, 110 p, 110 p, 109 p, 112 p, 112 p, 110 p, 112 p, color illustrations ; 16 cm + 8 DVDs. Only 7500 casebound copies. Each volumes includes a DVD. ||..... More
Setageya-ku, Tokyo: Hidane Production, 1980. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. White-black quarto, unpaginated, approx 9-10 pages, b&w illus. Exhibition Catalog. Scarce. No records found in WorldCat. Bilingual, in Japanese and English. Two Japanese visual artists commemorate the bloody and vicously suppressed Kwangju Rebellion of 1980, chielfy in..... More
Leiden: S.C van Doesburgh, 1927. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Black octavo, vi, 255 pages, 33 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, charts ; 26 cm. In Dutch. || College students -- Netherlands -- Leiden -- History. More
Oakland, California: E.F. Kiessling & Son, [1925]. Oakland Edition. Hardcover. Grey octavo, 92 pages, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Cooking, Food. No DJ, presumably as issued. Numerous (some illustrated) advertisements of Oakland businesses. An original issue, not a reprint. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue octavo, dark blue spine, 96 pages, color illustrations ; 24 cm. Children's literature, American -- Indiana. No DJ. More
Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1961. Primera ed. Paperback. White octavo, 108 pages, b&w illustrations 21 cm. In Spanish. Trippy b&w, artistic illustrations. Only 1000 copies. Scarce. Poetry. Series: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. || Poetry; poesia, traducciones, translations ; mysticism. Spirituality. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Grey octavo, 258 pages, 21 cm. Contents: The classification of motives -- The murder for gain, William Palmer -- The murder from revenge, Constance Kent -- The murder for elimination, the De Quérangals -- The murder from..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Third edition. Hardcover. Red octavo, 316, 337, 307 pages ; 21 cm. Detective and mystery fiction, Police -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Fiction. Contents: The house without a key -- Behind that curtain -- Keeper of the keys. Lacking DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo in blue DJ, deckled edges, 287 pages, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. DJ protected in mylar sleeve. Article included. || Gastronomy, Authors -- Biography. ||. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906. Reprint. Hardcover. Small grey octavo, deckled edges, 366 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 20 cm. Ship captains -- Fiction. || Classic literary novel depicting life on a Sealing ship. No DJ, presumably as issued. More
Garden City, N.Y. Blue ribbon Books, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Orange octavo, deckled edges, 3-360 pages, 21 cm. Detective and mystery stories, Short stories. Contents: Silver Blaze / by A. Conan Doyle (p. 3-27). Lacking DJ. More
New York: Morrow, 1970. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Small white octavo, American-flag star endpapers, unpaginated, approx. 31 pages, color illus, 15 cm. Spirituality and Religion. A nice copy. || Cool, psychedelic illustrations. No DJ, as issued. More
London: Book Club, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo in grey-white DJ, 248 pages, 19 cm. Novel, Fiction. || A Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. Set in 1817,[2] it concerns a young man temporarily impersonating his missing twin brother. -- Wikipedia. More
Frankfurt/Main: Verlag Marxistische Blatter, 1986. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Red octavo, 253 pages ; 21 cm. In German. Communism; Philosophy. More
Chelsea, Mich. Lewis Publishers, 1991. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Teal-white octavo, 944 pages, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Groundwater -- Pollution -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. || Extra-shipping for heavy book. More
California: Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, 2019. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Large white quarto, 367 pages, b&w illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. Cooking -- Mexico -- Mexico City. Contents: Not your typical Mexican girl -- The evolution of my food in..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. White octavo, xxxv, 331 pages, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Disaster relief -- United States -- Case studies. Contents: From rubble to monument: the pace of reconstruction -- Reconstruction issues in perspective -- Reestablishing homes and jobs..... More