New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Hint of soil-darkening to bottom board edges, else Fine in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Excellent scholarly monograph on the history of European pottery manufacture and decoration. More
Basel: Museum Jean Tinguely, 2003. First Edition. Quarto. Heavy card wrappers; 263pp; illus. Fine copy. Published to accompany the 2003 exhibition of Puni's work at Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel. More
New Brunswick: Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp; illus. Fine in lightly edgeworn jacket. Foreword by Paul Dempster; Introduction by Karl Kortum. More
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xvi,411pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. More
[Davis, CA: 1975]. Substantial single-page letter to literary critic Henry F. Pommer (Ripon College). On U.C. Davis letterhead; signed "Richard Eberhart" at close. "Received" stamp at upper margin; a few hand-corrections in Eberhart's hand; Very Good. Eberhart responds to Pommer's query about an early poem, "At Lake Geneva," then diverges... More
[Enniscorthy: Cesara Publications], 1975. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 440pp; Illus. Mild external rubbing and wear; many page corners turned-down, else clean, tight and unmarked within. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. 12mo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 306, (4)pp; top edge gilt; gravure frontispiece portrait. Ownership signature (illegible) to half-title. Mild external rubbing; still a tight, attractive, Very Good or better copy. In the publisher's series "Women... More
Gerabronn und Crailsheim: Hohenloher, 1980. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 192pp. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; Near New. Late collection of work by the German modernist poet. Text entirely in German. More
New York: Viking Press, 1968. Creative Mythology is a first printing; all others are later (1968) printings. Ex-church library, with clear tape labels to jacket spines, card pockets at rear; jackets moderately worn with rubbing and shallow chips to extremities. Texts clean, tight and unmarked. A sound, complete reading set... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, N.d. [ca 1962]. Nineteenth printing. Original green cloth boards; pictorial dustwrapper; 315pp; map endpapers; illus. Cloth slightly aged, with faint foxing to upper edge of text block; gift inscription at upper margin of front free endpaper dated 1965. Jacket is price-clipped, rubbed at flap folds, with small... More
Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1928. Toghether, fifteen octavo volumes in original tan buckram in Arts & Crafts style, each with paper spine label (but for "Little Journeys Guide Book," which has printed title to spine cloth). Faint shadows to paper labels from die-cut dustjackets (the jackets now lacking); occasional dusting... More
Mexico: Imprenta [Antonio Vanegas Arroyo], 1905. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in black and bright pink; 16pp. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good or better. One of the most reprinted of the Vanegas Arroyo songbooks, the cover strikingly illustrated with a bearded man awaiting an approaching train... More
Hong Kong: Lane, Crawford & Co., 1873. First Edition. A foundational work for western readers, written by a German Protestant missionary, on the Chinese philosophy of Feng-Shui. Though by no means fully embracing its principles (Eitel has in fact been criticized for his somewhat dismissive attitute towards Chinese science and... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1908. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's buff wrappers printed in brown, illustration signed by Posada in image; 16pp. Faint soil to upper cover, else Fine. Rear cover features the song "La Paloma Mexicana," printed within a decorative border. See Mercurio Lopez Casillas, "Posada: Illustrator... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Second American Edition. 12mo. Original cloth-backed, patterned paper boards; 63pp. Small losses to cloth at spine ends; boards worn and grubby; scattered thumb-soil to contents – intact and sound, but just a Good copy of the uncommon second U.S. edition. This was Eliot's first... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1913. Reprint. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; 16pp. Very minor evidence of biopredation to fore-edge, faint soil, else Very Good or better. First published in 1911 or 1912 according to Mercurio Lopez Casillas in "Posada: Illustrator of Chapbooks" (2005), p. 46 (variant bound... More
Warrenton: Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 335pp; illus. Jacket spine rather faded, with small splits and losses to jacket at extremities and a private shelf-label at base of spine panel, else a tight, Near Fine and unmarked copy. Jacket blurb states that this... More
Mexico: Imprenta [Antonio Vanegas Arroyo], 1905. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 16pp. Quite toned and rather brittle due to poor paper stock, some shallow loss along fore- and bottom edge of upper wrapper just touching text without loss of meaning, rear wrapper quite... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1973. First Edition. Scarce proof copy of this substantial collection of poetry by Native American ethnic groups. Octavo (21cm); blue-gray wrappers, with title label taped to front cover; 418,[4]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and part of rear wrapper, tiny wrinkle to three page corners, else Near... More
Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1965. "The Wheel" Publication no. 83-84. First edition. 12mo; printed card wrappers; 76pp; 2 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Ownership signature, mild corner-creasing, else a Near Fine, unmarked copy. Includes 4 photographic illustrations. More
Colombo [Ceylon]: Dr. D. Roland D. Weerasuria, 1965. First Edition. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers; 58pp. Mild cover wear and corner creasing; bookseller's stamp to first and final text leaves ("Neo-Dhamma", San Carlos, CA); Near Fine. More
[Mexico]: A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1922. First Thus. 12mo (14cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in black; 9-16pp. Uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Complete despite curtailed pagination, apparently a reprint of the longer song chapbook "Elena" (1892), whose variant cover illustration was printed in red and black and dated 1892... More
Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1968. "The Wheel" Publication no. 116. First edition. 12mo; printed card wrappers; 35pp. Ownership signature, mild corner-creasing, else a Near Fine, unmarked copy. More
London: Jewish Vegetarian, 1976. Digest size (22cm). Staple-bound pictorial thick paper wrappers; 50pp; illus. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a displayable print of the cover image - "Disgusting! - A child's first taste of meat." More
