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New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982 Hardcover First edition SIGNED. 158pp. Oblong quarto [18.5 cm x 26 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped title on the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are very gently bumped and faded. The front endsheet has glue stains along the hinge. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly rubbed. There is a 2 and 1/2 inch closed tear in the top edge of the front panel. The rear panel is lightly soile... more information

New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982 Hardcover First edition SIGNED. 158pp. Oblong quarto [18.5 cm x 26 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped title on the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently bumped and rubbed. The rear cover is slightly damp stained and soiled. The rear pastedown is very lightly soiled. Several pages at the center have very small nicks in the fore edge margins. The dust jacket is in good condition. Lightly rub... more information

Santa Fe, NM Ancient City Press 2000 Paperback Reprint As NEW Trade paperback, 249 pp. Includes a new Author's Note for the 2000 edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs. ... more information

Tucson University of Arizona Press 2004 Paperback Later printing As NEW 209 pp. 21 cm. "From the discovery of vanilla to how chilies spread since Columbus, this is packed with culinary lore and regional history, and will complement the shelf of any food enthusiast who loves history." (The Bookwatch) ... more information

Flagstaff Northern Arizona University, Ralph M. Bilby Research Center 2004 Paperback First Edition As NEW 108 pp. 21 cm. "In recent years, the West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. This forest crisis has led to much controversy over the Healthy Forests legislation passed by Congress in 2003. On the Colorado Plateau, it has also spurred heated debates regarding the degree to which thi... more information

Tucson University of Arizona Press 2002 Paperback First paperback printing As NEW 148 pp. Essay of ethnobotanist Nabhan's experiences living with the Tohono O'odham people of southern Arizona. ... more information

New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1966 Hardcover First edition thus 222pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Very good. The edges of the covers are very slightly faded. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The edges are lightly creased and chipped, and have several short closed tears. "Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladimir Nabokov has given to world literature."- Front Jacket. A somewhat briefer version of this nov... more information

Oslo J.W. Cappelens Forlag 1959 Hardcover Norwegian edition Octavo [23 cm] 311pp. 1/4 beige cloth with decorative lavender and white paper covered boards. Gilt stamped diamond patterns on the spine. Very good condition. The covers are lightly rubbed. The spine and edges of the front cover are slightly darkened. The spine is subtly rolled. First Norwegian translation.... more information

New York Alfred A. Knopf 1995 Hardcover Fourth printing 659pp. Thick octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. Unfortunately, the dust jacket and plastic cover have been adhered to the pastedowns of the book. The dust jacket is also lightly rubbed. From the jacket- "Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume."... more information

New York Phaedra Publishers 1966 Hardcover First printing VG+/VG+ Army green denim patterned cloth boards and spine are clean. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with just a trace of accompanying rubbing. Light foxing on the upper edge of the textblock. Dust Jacket - has 1/8" chips in the head and tail of the spine, one in the tip of the upper front corner, and one in the tip of the lower rear corner. Just a trace of rubbing along the upper and lower edges. 3/4" closed tear in th... more information

Published by the author 2005 Hardcover First edition NEW Miniature book. 3.25" X 3.25". Accordion-style foldout book. with 12 panels between brown pictorial letterpressed boards. Signed by artist on the first panel (ffep). Gold wrap-around title band. Limited Edition. 1/200 Surreal and nebulous ink sketches from the renowned guitrarist who has worked with artists such as Thurston Moore and Daniel Higgs. Figures of the alien, amoebic, and aquatic dimensions float across the page in dream-like suc... more information

Tokyo Splash Words 2006 Paperback Second edition 77pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Dark gray and white illustrated wraps. Near fine. Text is in Japanese and English. "Naga we call him, in Sanskrit a magic giant water and underworld serpent of wisdom, sometimes a dragon. He is an open-boat commercial fisherman living far south in the Tokara retto, in the shadow of volcanoes, in the East China Sea. He's tough as a whip, no wasted words." - Gary Snyder... more information

Tokyo and Denver ARC International, Ltd. 1984 Hardcover First edition INSCRIBED. Oblong folio [27 cm by 37 cm] Natural beige cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Fine / Near fine. Inscribed by Robert White, chairman and CEO of ARC International, Ltd., on the front free endsheet. White actively supports the Sarvodaya community development organization in Sri Lanka. "All the photographs are pictures of people- people around the world working, playing, loving, celebrating. The text and captions... more information

New York Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988 Hardcover First Edition 458 pp. Octavo [24 cm.] 1/2 black cloth over yellow boards. Near fine/Near fine. Slight rolling to volume. Faint rubbing to corners. Includes an index. In 1985 a string of the bombs went off in Salt Lake City, leaving two innocent people dead and uncovering years of fraud and forgeries leading to those murders, all caused by Mormon forger, bomber and murderer, Mark Hofmann.... more information

New York Alfred A. Knopf 2004 Hardcover First edition As NEW 280 pp. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Nobel Laureate Naipaul's novel about Willie Chadran who was first introduced to readers in Half a Life and his return to England after serving time in jail for working with revolutionaries in his native India. After arriving in England he comes to find himself once again attracted to underground revolutionary movements and he begins to wonder if his life will amount to anything more than "an endle... more information

Salt Lake City, UT Joseph Bull, Jr., Printer 1888 Paperback First edition 40pp. Quarto [27 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. There are 1 and 1 and 1/2 inch losses from the paper at the ends of the spine, and there are several tiny losses from the edges of the paper of the front wrap. The first page has a 2 inch closed tear, and is beginning to detach. The pages are clean. Articles include, Why I Became a Mormon, Domestic Economy, The Home Circle, and much more. Mission statement- "Will be issued in th... more information

The Photograph Architecture 1997 Paperback Bilingual text 158pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are rubbed. The bottom right corner of the front cover is lightly creased. There is an ink stamp on the first page. The edges of the pages are barely perceptibly yellowed. The Photograph Architecture is a monthly architectural journal which highlights new works by architectural design firms.... more information

Kodansha 1989 Hardcover Illustrated Quarto [30.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with embossed titles and designs on the spine and front cover. In a slipcase. The book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly rubbed. The slipcase is also in very good condition, with mild rubbing. This volume illustrates two decades of design and corporate identity (CI) projects undertaken by Paos since its founding.... more information

Chicago Medical Book Company 1914 Hardcover Original edition 151pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Good. The edges of the covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The front hinge is weak and there is a 2 and 3/4 inch crack in the front endsheet along the hinge. The rear endsheet is split along the hinge, and the rear free endsheet is creased. The fore edge of the rear flyleaf is darkened. There are small ink stamps on the front endsheet and title page. The pages are browned... more information

New York Harper & Brothers 1897 Hardcover First edition 567; 714; 4pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Gray cloth with gilt, silver, red, and green ink stamped designs and titles to the front covers. Gilt stamped titles on the spines. Top edges gilt. An etched frontispiece, photogravures and 4 maps in pockets of volume 1. Complete. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed and bumped. The spine of volume 1 is slightly indented, and the text block is cracked at the beginning. Small damp stains on the f... more information