London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1801. 2 volume set. 436, 446pp. Octavos [21 cm] Full leather with decorative gilt stamped borders to the boards. Title and decorative gilt stamping to backstrips. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Bookplates on the front free endsheets and pastedowns. Hinges have been professionally repaired. Very good..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. 280pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Green cloth with a paper label on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Backstrip gently faded. Spine of jacket shows minor sunning. This novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and..... More
[Fort Collins, CO]: [The Associated Students of Colorado State University], 1975. Single sheet [56 cm x 43 cm] of white stock printed in color. Gentle bumping to corners, otherwise nice. Promotional poster for a Sherlock Homes symposium that was held February 2-5, 1975 at Colorado State University. This symposium was..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. First Edition. 388pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Tan cloth with the title in brown on the front panel and backstrip. Minor age toning to jacket's spine, otherwise both book and jacket are better than very good. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Spine..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah Bibliographical Society, 2021. Broadside [31 cm x 20 cm] Fine. Keepsake printed for the first meeting of the Utah Bibliographical Society. Printed on Crane Letra paper by Robert Buchert at the Tryst Press and designed by Travis Low. Broadside features an illustration by Bernard Partridge of..... More
San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1958. First Edition. 286pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with the title in red on the front board and backstrip. Both book and jacket are better than very good. Jacket is price clipped. Nice map endsheets and pastedowns of Hopiland. Signed by the author..... More
Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1993. Broadside [27 cm x 24.5 cm] printed on tan stock in red and lavender ink. Near fine. Broadside printed on the occasion of Kingsolver reading at Black Oak Books from Pigs in Heaven. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press. More
Oklahoma City, OK: Lusk Publishing Company, 1939. First Edition. 62pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board. Near fine. Very clean copy of this rare work, in the preferred orange cloth. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free..... More
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1841. First Edition. 2 volume set. 534, 336pp. Octavo [23 cm] 3/4 dark green leather over marbled boards Title gilt stamped on the backstrip with decorative floral gilt stamping. Very good. Illustrated with tipped-in engravings from Phiz. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. First Edition. 411pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with decorative green floral pattern and the author and title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Gentle wear to extremities of boards and backstrip. 10pp of advertisments at end of text..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. 322pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with the title in red on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price-clipped jackets is nicked at the corner and has a gently sunned spine. Uncommon biography and autobiography combined, as the author tells..... 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
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Louisville, KY: 1993. Single sheet [91 cm x 28 cm] white stock printed in black. Nice condition. Event poster for the literary and musical event 'Rant for the Literary Renaissance: 59 Hour Non-Stop Insominiacathon' that began October 7th and ran until the 10th at 'Rant's Moving Mystery Theatre - The..... More
Franklin Library, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. 733pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Full tan leather with decorative gilt stamping. A.E.G. Near fine. This is Wallace Stegner's big book, that is a semi-autobiographical work about his childhood in the west. "The Big Rock Candy Mountain came to me in big lumpish..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. 206pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Gray cloth with the title in yellow on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor nicking to the corners of the jacket. Gentle foxing to pastedowns and endsheets. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Collection of eight short stories that previously..... More
New York: Random House, 1987. Third printing. 277pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over orange boards with title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Signed by Stegner on the half-title. Nice copy of Stegner's celebrated novel. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist..... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1987. First Edition. 292pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full blue leather with decorative gilt stamping. A.E.G. With prospectus. Fine. Signed by Stegner. Nice copy of Stegner's clelebrated novel. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean..... More
New York: Random House, 1987. First Trade Edition. 277pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over orange boards with title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by Stegner on the front free endsheet. Nice copy of Stegner's clelebrated novel. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First Edition, Second State. 286pp. Duodecimo [21.5 cm] 1/2 green cloth over light green boards boards with title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown with two stamps on the front free endsheet. Tape across the top of the..... More
London: Heinemann, 1963. First U.K. Edition. 306pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown. In this work Stegner mixes together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait..... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983. First Edition. 207pp. Octavo [24 cm] Orange cloth with title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Signed by Stegner on the half-title. This rich harvest of Stegner's ideas and opinions is an indispensable source book for scholarly..... More
Hanover, NH: Montgomery Endowment, 1989. Second Printing. 72pp. Sextodecimo [18 cm] Decorative tan boards with the title on the front board and backstrip in white. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. This informal commentary by Stegner is based on recorded discussions engaged in by him before Dartmouth audiences, with Professors..... 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