Authors starting with A from Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB

Chicago:: A.C. Becken Co.,, 1907.. Annual Catalogue. Hardcover. Quarto in blue cloth stamped in gilt. 688 pages illustrated with product drawings, some in color. Includes watches, rings, gems, clocks (mantle and upright), silver, canes, bicycles, pens, optics, phonographs, silver, more. A full line catalog, beautifully illustrated. Alas, a pretty grubby copy. HInges quite shaken but holding, title page detached (and if there was a table of contents, it isn't present), paper toned, previous owner n... more information

No place:: Bureau of Reclamation,, 1984.. 1st edition. Softcover. Softcover. Quarto, Light extremity wear, owner initials on cover. Drawings. ... more information

Johannesburg:: Chris van Rensburg,, (1982).. Annual. Hardcover. Hardback. Large octavo, Large report covering business, industry, government, economics and social conditions (from the Government's point of view). Photos. ... more information

Chicago:: American Medical Assoc.,, 1938.. 4th ed.. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Library marks not obtrusive. ... more information

New York:: Dial,, 1983.. First Edition. Hardcover. A humorous novel set in Northern Georgia. In lovely condition with a slightly worn dustjacket with to-die-for cover art. ... more information

New York:: Broadway Books,, 2001.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 9.5 inches tall, in gray and black paper covered boards. 225 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE. The author was the author of a previous book, "Catch Me If You Can" about his life as a forger and con man which was made into a movie starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks. In this one he teaches how to defeat the sort of crook he was in the earlier book. Both the book and jacket have just a hint of extremit... more information

New York:: McGraw-Hill,, 1968.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in brown cloth. 269 pages. Illustrations by Peter Parnall. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A FIRST NAME INSCRIPTION. The author's first nonfiction book which relates his experiences as a ranger in Arches National Monument. A classic and seminal work in the environmental awakening to follow. Previous owner embossing stamp on the front endpaper; covers lightly rubbed; a spot of fading to the lower front adjacent to the spine; minimal extre... more information

New York:: E. P. Dutton,, 1982.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in gilt stamped white cloth spine on blue paper covered boards. 242 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER. A moving series of essays on rivers and things lost to "progress". Previous owner embossing stamp on the front endpaper. Otherwise clean, bright and soundly bound. The jacket spine is very lightly rubbed and there is a tiny nick at the foot of the rear spine fold. ... more information

Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, 1988.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo in white cloth stamped in gilt and blind. 255 pages illustrated by pen and ink drawings. A classic and seminal work in the environmental awakening to follow. This edition published about a year before Abbey's death contains a new preface by him. A clean, bright, crisp and unworn copy in a crisp and unworn jacket. ... more information

New York:: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,, 1984.. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Trade paperback, about 8 inches tall, in black wraps with white, yellow and red. 203 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF TITLE. A collection of essays on wild places in the western U.S. Covers have a touch of edge wear; previous owner embossing stamp on the title page. ... more information

New York:: McGraw-Hill,, 1968.. 1st edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 8.5 inches tall, in gilt and silver stamped brown cloth. 269 pages. Illustrations by Peter Parnall. The author's first nonfiction book which relates his experiences as a ranger in Arches National Monument. A classic and seminal work in the environmental awakening to follow. Publisher's invoice laid in. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities, but clean and soundly bound. The jacket spine's white lettering is ever so sli... more information

New York:: Viking Press,, 1977.. First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Oblong hardback quarto, about 12 inches wide, in black cloth. 135 pages illustrated by color photographs. One of Abbey's more elusive titles, his commentary on this trip is interspersed with the words of John Wesley Powell at the same point of the river. An attractive copy, clean, bright and sound. However, the rear endpaper and the last several leaves are rippled at the bottom edge but with barely visible staining only to t... more information

New York:: Harry Abrams,, 1981.. 1st edition. Hardcover. Hardback. Quarto, Limited edition, #1296 of 3000. Brown and Bigelow leather binding with circular color illustration on cover, title blind stamped, owner name in gilt on cover. Presentation bookplate tipped in on front endpaper. Clean and bright but extremities lightly worn. Photos. ... more information

Pierre SD:: South Dakota Dept. of History,, 1932.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in gilt stamped red cloth. 458 pages. Illustrated with facsimile manuscripts and portraits. Francois August Chardon spent the majority of his adult life on the upper Missouri as one of the most successful fur traders, receiving a top salary of $800 a year. In 1833 he was sent to build and occupy Fort Jackson at the mouth of the Milk River in Blackfeet country, in 1834 he was sent to Fort Clark among the Mandans. Fort Clar... more information

Tulsa OK:: American Association of Petroleum Geologists,, 1985.. First edition. Hardcover. Part 2 in two hardback quarto volumes in gilt stamped blue cloth, pagination by chapter. Part 3 is a folder of loose plates (maps). Part 1, which is not present, is apparently a short summary of the contents of part 2. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the feasibility of the use of remote sensing technology for geologic mapping and exploration. The test site was in Wyoming. This rather exhaustive repor... more information

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1981.. First Edition. Wraps. 347, Uncorrected Proof in red wraps with publisher's description stapled inside front cover, one leaf, p.243 laid in, front cover li ghtly creased diagonally. ... more information

Garden City:: Doubleday,, 1954.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) tall, in black cloth titled in red and green. 281 pages illustrated by photographs by the author. A memoir of more or less solitary travel in the jungles of, primarily, Venezuela. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown and a touch of extremity wear, but otherwise clean, bright and sound. The jacket is complete but for very shallow chipping at the foot of the spine; a little soiled on rear panel; minor... more information

New York:: Millbank Memorial Fund,, 1965.. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback. Octavo, Red cloth. Book is very slightly soiled at foredge of textblock. Jacket has extremely mild edge wear. Collection of papers presented at Princeton in 1964 at the Fourth Conference of the International Epidemiological Association ... more information

Rutland VT:: Charles Tuttle Co.,, 1965.. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Privately published in 1937. Twelve mo, just under 7 inches tall, in blue cloth (silk?) with a target worked into the weave on the front cover. 84 pages illustrated by drawings. A small but authoritative work on the differences between Japanese style and that of the west. A lovely copy, clean, bright and sound inside, covers unworn. The jacket is rubbed with some extremity wear and a tiny abrasion at top rear panel next to the s... more information

Boston:: Little Brown & Co.,, 1997.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 112 pages Photographs by Ansel Adams with writings about California by classic and contemporary authors. Edited by Andrea G. Stillman. Introduction by Page Stegner. A celebration of California by its most renowned photographer. Faint dust shadow of about 1/4" across the bottom of the front cover - most likely from the jacket having schooched up exposing the cloth. ... more information