New York: Farrar & Reinhart, 1938. First Edition. 369pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket chipped at the spine ends with minor nicking at the corners. "Action at Aquila is a romance of the Civil War. Because it gives you..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. 317pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor damp stain to fore edge of front board. Jacket price clipped. Illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings. Nicer than usually seen..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915. First Edition. Two Volume Set. 341, 346pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Gilt top edge. Very good. Bookplates and names on pastedowns. "The 'Founding of a Nation' is the only book in the historical..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1977. Fourth Printing. 166pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 purple cloth over blue boards. Very good/Near fine. Signed by the author on the half-title. This is the second mystery to feature Joe Leaphorn and was the Edgar Award winner in 1973 for best novel. Hieb A4..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. 319pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth over blue boards. Fine/Fine. Housed in a black cloth Buffalo Medicine slipcase. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes an original color drawing by Ernest Franklin on the half-title. This..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First Edition. 212pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over blue boards. Better than very good in a near fine jacket. Faint ink stamp at foot of fore-edge. Discoloration to rear free endsheet that has bled on to jacket's rear flap. Signed by the..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1988. First Edition. 209pp. Octavo [24 cm] Cream boards. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Signed by the author on the half-title. This is the eighth published novel by Hillerman in the Leaphorn and Chee series. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery set in..... More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. First Edition. 135pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth. Fine/Fine. Signed by Hillerman, Bulow and Ernest Franklin on the half-title page. In Talking Mysteries Hillerman discusses the craft of mystery writing, his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. First Edition. 469pp. Duodecimo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with titles stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price clipped jacket is nicked at the corners with small losses. Uncommon Butch Cassidy romance novel, by the author of Peaceable Kingdom. "It is..... More
Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co., (c.1960). 61pp. Sexagesimo-quarto (64mo) [5.5 cm] White buckram covers with the title stamped in dark green on the front panel. Very good. Illustrated with six full-page woodcuts. "Your Little Bible: When the early Hebrews went to prayer in the morning, they wore on..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. 241pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth. A few small chips to the extremities of the jacket otherwise book and jacket better than very good. "In that game Jim Stanton, by profession a gambler, and by avocation a connoisseur of guns, won a store..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First Edition. 160pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Gilt stamped image of the Whittier home on the front board. Better than very good. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Ellen..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1950. 218pp. Octavo [20 cm] Red cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Faint damp stain at the foot of the rear board with some minor corresponding discoloration to the jacket's rear..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition. 418pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Drab tan boards. Better than very good. Name in ink on the pastedowns. Corners square. This novel tells the story of the first three generations of Mormonism from the early days in Ohio and Missouri to the Manifesto..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. 443pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over salmon boards. Very good/Near fine few small nicks and closed tears to the jacket. Nicer than usually seen copy of this fictionalized biography of one of Brigham Young's plural wives, by the best-selling author..... More