San Francisco: N.J. Stone Company, 1899. First Edition. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's dark maroon pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, marbled endpapers; vi,7-662pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a shade sunned, textblock slightly toned, else a Very Good or better, quite brilliant copy overall. A businessman's manual for the..... More

[Milano: Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, 1977-9]. First Edition. Three volumes; folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth pictorial dust jackets; illus. throughout, many in color, text printed in triple column. Some minor chipping and wear to jacket extremities, spines all rather sunned, light foxing to top textblock edges, corners gently bumped, last volume's hinges..... More

Albany: Joel Munsell, 1846. Offprint. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's yellow wrappers printed within double rule; 63pp.; engraved frontispiece with key and errata slip bound after title page. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, tidemark affecting entire textblock; still, overall Very Good. Inscribed at head of upper cover: "Dr. E. Holmes..... More

London: Anglo-Israel Association, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. Mild soil to covers, else Near Fine. More

Anand, India: Charotar Book Stall, 1968. First Edition. The back-to-the-land agrarian theorist's definition of the three categories of possession "which cannot be morally treated as property" under "trusterty"--human beings, natural resources, and legal grants. The author defines "trusterty" as a substitute for land ownership based on the early Christian rejection..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); burgundy cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 312pp. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, with faint tanning to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced..... More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; ix,[1],220pp.; photographic frontispiece, 19 leaves of photograhic plates. Upper cover quite unevenly faded, as is spine cloth, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good, internally fine. Tipped in 3pp. autograph letter, signed..... More

New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Non-fiction account of farm tenancy and sharecropping in the Depression-era South; first in a series of political pamphlets by prominent authors commissioned by this radical publisher. Not, strictly speaking, uncommon, but a key Caldwell "A" item, and this a rather nicely-preserved copy. Octavo..... More

[Washington, D.C.?]: Consortium for the Study of Nigerian Rural Development et al. 1969. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original white pictorial die-cut card wrappers; [12],ii,158pp.; photographic illus. throughout, text in double column. Light wear from handling, rear cover a bit soiled, else Very Good and sound. More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. First printing. Octyavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,366pp; illus. An apparently unread, as-new copy. More

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1960. First English Language Edition. The prolific Norwegian author's last work, addressing, as in his previous novels, life in a rural community, in this case the impoverished fishing community on the island of Oyvaere. Duun wrote in the Landsmål dialect, a conglomeration of peasant dialects disparate..... More

London: J. Dodsley, 1770. Second edition of this collection, which first appeared in 1761. Octavo in sixes. Contemporary full speckled calf; viii;9-190pp; three leaves of plates. Printed without a general half-title. A nice copy, joints sound, boards just lightly worn, with a faint, ca. 2'' dia. stain to rear cover;..... More

[Blue Earth, MN: smeBooks, 1998]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staplebound card wrappers; iv,59pp. Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Poetry inspired by the author's childhood in Depression-era Minnesota farm country. More