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Barcelona Establecimiento Editorial De Alberto Martin Leather bound 1204pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/4 black leather over decorative purple cloth. Title gilt stamp on front board and backstrip. Front board is handsomely illustrated in full color. Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners of boards. Profusely illustrated throughout ... more information

Koln (Cologne) Taschen 1995 Hardcover First edition 319pp. Folio [32 cm] Rose colored cloth with blue ink stamped titles. Good only. The text block is cracked at the end. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. From the jacket- "Russian film posters of the 20s and 30s bear unique witness to the artistic creativity of the former Soviet Union in the years before Soviet Realism became the official art doctrine under Stalin."... more information

[Salt Lake City, UT] [Bookcraft] 1988 Hardcover First Edition 467pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 maroon cloth over tan boards. Title printed on front board and backstrip. Illustrated throughout. Includes and index, bibliography and genealogy chart. Near fine/Fine. History of the Packer family beginning in Gloucestershire in the 1400's and continuing up to the date of publication. The Packer family were early converts to the LDS faith joining in Kirtland, Ohio. Includes a chapter on Boyd K. Packer th... more information

Racine, WI Whitman Publishing Company 1935 Hardcover 156pp. Square Sextodecimo [13.5 cm] Color illustrated boards. Very good. Rubbed around the edges. Name and date (contemporary) in ink on front pastedown and again on the rear free endsheet. Big little book. ... more information

Springfield, IL Charles C. Thomas 1948 Hardcover First edition Very Good+ in Very Good DJ Quarto, 945 pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth, in jacket. in-depth manual of plastic surgery, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Previous owner's name on jacket and front pastedown. Front hinge loose. Dust jacket frayed at edges, toned at spine. ... more information

Edinburgh and London William Blackwood and Sons 1866 Hardcover Fair 327, 8 pp. Original cloth with stamped title to the spine. Wear and rubbing to boards and extremities. Front board is detached. Rear hinge cracked. Spine sunned and somewhat brittle. Some minor losses to the head, foot and central section of the spine. Signed by "Owen Wister" in ink on the ffep and bookplate on the front pastedown. Light foxing internally. Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an author and composer who moved out west... more information

New York Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1995 Hardcover First edition SIGNED. 203pp. Folio [34 cm] Dark red cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Near fine condition. The dust jacket is in fine condition. Signed by both authors on the verso of the front free endsheet. "This tribe, more numerous than any in North America - some 200,000 in all - now manages an increasingly sophisticated system of self-government, education, and justice." - Jacket... more information

New York Penguin Books 2004 Paperback Later printing asNEW 103 pp. 18x11cm. White covers with red spine. The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision a just society - free from corruption and cronyism - which remains inspiring today.... more information

New York Signet 2003 Paperback Later printing as NEW 381 pp. Mass market paperback. Illustrated covers. In January 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense, which electrified the American colonies. Paine demanded freedom from Britain when even fervent patriots were revolting only against excessive taxation. His daring prose spurred passage of the Declaration of Independence.... more information

Norwalk, CT The Easton Press 1979 Leather bound Collector's Edition 269pp. Quarto [29 cm] Gray full leather with decorative gilt stamped patterns on the spine and covers, raised bands. All edges gilt. Near fine. Includes illustrations by Lynd Ward... more information

Lewiston, ID Confluence Press 1988 Hardcover First Edition NF/VG+ Octavo. Bright green cloth spine and boards with silver lettering and ornament. Very light bump at the head of the spine and a faint rub at the tips of the upper corners. 66 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head of the spine and just a trace at the tail. Light sunning has changed the color of the spine, but left lettering unaffected. ... more information

Lamoni, IA Zion's Religio-Literary Society at the Herald Publishing Office 1908 Hardcover Second edition 226pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Black pebbled cloth with title gilt stamped on front board. Very good. Spine lightly sunned. Short gift inscription in ink on the front free endsheet. Flake/Draper 6078 ... more information

London Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2007 Hardcover First edition SIGNED. 288pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Blue hardcover. Near fine / Near fine Signed by Palin on the title page... more information

Salt Lake City, UT Signature Books 2005 Paperback 282pp. Octavo [23 cm] Wrappers. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Fine. Grant Palmer was the former director for the LDS Church's Institute of Religion in California and Utah. A critical work on what the author saw as selective and apologetic views of LDS history. The publishing of this work hastened the author's dis-fellowship from the LDS Church.... more information

Salt Lake City, Utah Signature Books 1993 Paperback Facsimile Edition As NEW 106 pp. ... more information

London Isolde Films & Steam Press November, 2004 Hardcover First edition, #12 of 100 212 pp. Large octavo. Black cloth. Fine in like jacket. SIGNED by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. Bizarre and beautiful non-history of pop music in the late sixties and early seventies. Includes thirteen full page illustrations by Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman. Foreword by John Lennon.... more information

Salt Lake City, UT Deseret Book Company 1946 Hardcover No Additional Printings Noted VG+/VG+ Tan cloth spine and boards, decorative front board. Very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and just a trace of rubbing at the tips of the lower corners. Illustrations throughout. Dust Jacket - has a fair amount of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and a 1/4" chip in the tip of each of the corners. ... more information

Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Historical Society 1933 Paperback First edition 51-80pp. Thin octavo [23 cm] Light gray wraps. Very good. Ink stamp on the bottom edge of the front cover, and again on the last page. Contents include John Crook's Journal, The Pahute Fire Legend, and a Glossary of Indian Words... more information

New York Vintage 2004 Paperback Later printing as New 463pp. Octavo. White spine with title in blue Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by f... more information

New York Alfred A. Knopf 2003 Hardcover Later Printing As NEW Dark blue boards quarterbound in black cloth spine. "When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself." Dust Jacket. New book with no flaws, now the basis for a film. ... more information