Madison, WI: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1987. First edition - Edited and with an introduction by John Scarborough (who also contributes an essay on the recognition of drugs in classical antiquity) Includes seven essays by David L. Cowen, John M. Riddle, Eric H. Christianson, and others on medieval herbalism, folk medicine in Indiana, and of the Pennsylvania Dutch and more. Notes at the end of each essay. Publication Number 10. 122 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945. Hardcover - Fifteen short tales of strange and supernatural experiences, illustrated with 23 full page black and white drawings by the Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, who was also a friend of Sandoz. Large format. 128 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon second novel by this author best known for his later young adult fantasy trilogy - The Dark Materials. "Everything is what it seems: says the title page of Galatea. This paradox sets the key for a haunting fantasy that will remain in the reader's mind long after he has turned the final page. The novel's narrator is Martin Browning, a young musician. His wife, who is somehow involved in the arcane world of multi-national corporations, has mysteriously disappeared." Dust jacket praise from Michael Moorcock. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-525111255.

Marvin, South Dakota: The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1983. First edition - The scarce second book (consisting of poetry and one short story), by this member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe. One of a series of chapbooks issued by the Blue Cloud Abbey. Cover illustration by Sam Leader Charge. Unpaginated [24 pp.]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel of a group of Norwegian pioneers and their struggles to build a home in the desolate prairie-land of the American Midwest. Originally published in Norwegian as two books in 1924 and 1925 and translated by Lincoln Colcord and the author. Includes a foreword by Rolvaag, introduction by Lincoln Colcord. States first edition, with the correct C-B code. Illustrated endpapers. xxii, 465 pp. plus 3 pp of publisher's advertisements, including one for this title which correctly predicts that it "will endure."

New York: Warner, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moving memoir which explores the life of a scientist whose "revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of 'humanity.' .. [She] endured the horrors of the London blitz and World War II, postwar hardships, vicious rumors and "establishment" assaults on the integrity of her work, a terrorist attack and hostage taking in Africa, and her husband's slow, agonizing death. But throughout, her religious convictions, although tested, have helped her survive." INSCRIBED by Goodall on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 282 pp. ISBN: 0-446522252.

Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group, Publishers, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short fiction by this African American author best known for his thrillers set in Denver, featuring C. J. Boyd. Greer is also a surgical pathologist, professor and Colorado cattle rancher. A limited first edition, numbered 155/1500 and SIGNED by both Robert Greer and the illustrator Jeff Hall III. Dust jacket praise from Margaret Coel, Clarence Major among others. Promotional book mark laid in. xii, 195 pp. ISBN: 1-888570474.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Four essays discussing the role of the natural environment in the making the US West, including one on John Wesley Powell and another on the warming of the West, and especially the Great Plains area. A Volume in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens, and uncommon thus. Worster received the Bancroft Prize in American history in 1980. Notes, index. xii, 151 pp. ISBN: 0-826314813.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (ca 1967) dj. Hardcover - A reissue of "this long out of print" title (as noted on the dust jacket flap) of this classic work, the first in Asimov's robot series, and the book which introduced the three laws of robotics. Originally published in 1950. Code of 42 I on last page indicating a 1967 printing. 224 pp. Dust jacket art by Johannes Regn. ISBN: 0-553-803700.

London: Headline, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh Mitchell and Markby Village Whodunit - a chance encounter with Markby's former wife at the Chelsea Flower Show is followed by an apparent heart attack, which was really poison- and stay the his ex-wife's home. SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-747211027.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, originally published in translation in France in1966 - set in Greenwich Village, this love story is referred to by the publisher as 'ghetto noir'. 214 pp. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 16 short stories by this post-modernist writer. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-374253331.

Boston: Little Brown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robichaux and one of the best in the series. Winner of the Edgar award for best novel. 290 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-316-116998.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. First edition - Novel set in a small town in Maine. Winner of the Pulitzer prize, a New York Times Notable book, and the basis of the mini-series of the same name starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Ed Harris. Cover art is bound in, 483 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this North Carolina author on the adventures of Red Alder, the chief of a beaver tribe, set back in a time when animals ruled the world. Illustrated by the author with a full color frontispiece and black and white drawings throughout, some full page, others en texte. Slightly wider format, xxvii, 217 pp. Illustrated orange and white endpapers.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book centering upon great, but little known, African Americans and on their contributions to the United States - among them are Daniel Payne, Sojourner Truth, Paul Robeson, Daniel Hale Williams (first surgeon to perfom successful heart surgery) and others ranging from Thurgood Marshall to DuBois to Joe Louis. A title in the Mainstream of America series, edited by Lewis Gannett. Bibliography, index. 355 pp plus a one page listing of other titles in the series.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first significant monograph on this fiftheenth century Sienese painter and sculptor's work, which had been neglected by most art historians "because this art is not strikingly original and is quite restricted iconographically, the majority of the works being representations of the Madonna and Child" but later discoveries and the cleaning and restoration of some of his works led to an increased interest in them. Quarto, bound in full navy buckram blocked in black on the spine with gilt titling. Frontispiece. xviii, 235 pp plus a 56 page section with 146 black and white plates of his works.

New York: Ballantine, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this epic series. Double page map by Shelly Shapiro. 454 pp. Dust jacket art by Edwin Herder. ISBN: 0-345-330005.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (c 1842). Hardcover - Two volume set, complete. The subtitle continues: "prepared for the press by Paul Allen; revised, and abridged by the omission of unimportant details; with an introduction and notes, by Archibald M'Vickar." Two volumes bound in dark green with gilt lettering on spine, embossed monogram and borders on front cover. Folding map preceding the title page in volume 1, neither volume includes any of the plates called for in the table of contents. Long appendix at end of volume 2 with a summary statement of the rivers, creeks, and most remarkable places. Small format, each measures 4 inches by 6 1/8 inches. Volume I: xliv, 371 pp; Volume II: x, 395 pp.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - This battle "was a fight against desperate odds, marking the end of the gallant struggle of a desperately depleted Allied fleet - American, British and Dutch - to keep the Japanese out of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. . . a combined command was set up by the Allies, but they failed to contain the Japanese advance and towards the end of February 1942 Java lay open to the Japanese." An account "compiled mainly from official Dutch reports and papers and reference has been made to Japanese, American and British papers." Illustrated with maps and photographs. Includes 17 appendices, bibliography, index. Small format (4 1/2 inches by 7 inches). 128 pp. Rear flap of dust jacket lists 12 other titles in this series. ISBN: 0-870219111.

Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, this includes articles on blood sports, including bullfighting and motorcycle gangs, previously unpublished chapters from his first two novels, Sympathy for the Devil and Night Dogs, a screenplay ("Shank") and notes toward a new novel in progress. Cover and interior artwork by Michael Kellner. An attractively produced volume as is common with Dennis McMillan Publications. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-939767295.

New York: Sheed and Ward, (1957). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon early science fiction novel for young adults by this prolific Catholic author. The story, published in 1957, follows a teenage boy named Gil whose brother, Hilary, a botanist, is a member of a crew of scientists who are making an expedition to the moon. Gil is not supposed to go along, but he falls asleep in the crew's ship and inadvertently becomes a stowaway. When they reach the far side of the moon they discover a livable atmosphere and two races of men in conflict. Illustrated with drawings by Martin Thomas. 179 pp. Dust jacket art by Arno.

Eerde Ommen Holland: Star Publishing Trust, 1928. First edition - Talks given by this Indian philosopher, speaker and writer in the Netherlands in 1926 and 1927 plus three poems. Laid in are two uncommon small undated Theosophy brochures - Books on Theosopy by L. W. Rogers (single sheet folded to create 4 pp) and The Advantages of Theosophy by C. W. Leadbeater (2 sheets stapled and folded to create 8 pp) In his early life Krishnamurti, who was discovered by Leadbeater as a boy in India, was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it. Frontispiece portrait. 100pp.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A signficant book which offers insights into the contributions of Africans and African Americans in both ancient and modern times. Among the contributors are John Hope Franklin, Ronald W. Davis, Abraham Chapman, James A Porter and more. Topics include contributions to science, exploration, religious thought, music and dance, sports, literature and art and more. Notes and selected bibliographies at the end of each article. xii, 506 pp. ISBN: 0-80222329X.

New York: Bantam Books, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A cyberspace classic, the author's third novel and the final book in the Neuromancer trilogy. Finalist for both the Nebula and the Hugo. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-553052500.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Printing Company, 1910. Hardcover first edition - A whimsical story about a little boy who portrays a Fairy in a play and wants to be one, a book about fantasies, illustrated on alternate pages in the margins and corners with light green delicate drawings of butterflies, birds, fairies, and flowers, as well as some full page drawings. A limited numbered edition of 500 copies. 139 pp plus colophon.Illustrated endpapers.

Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company, (1993.). SIGNED hardcover - The first book in the American Girls series about Addy, a young Black girl determined to be free in the midst of the Civil War. Illustrated by Melodye Rosales and with vignettes by Renee Graef and Luanne Roberts. SIGNED on the title page by this African American author, and uncommon thus. Also includes several pages of information about life in 1864. 69 pp. Postcard to request catalogue still intact. ISBN: 1562470760.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Jud Connors is murdered in an isolated lakeside cabin in the Oregon Cascades, his daughter Abby, who is also his literary executor, searches the clues in his unfinished work, the final book in a trilogy, to uncover events that occurred in during the Vietnam War and to separate fact from fiction in an attempt to identify who had reason to want him dead. INSCRIBED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312261438.

New York: Horizon Press, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel, one which vividly evokes the vastness of Alaska and the long winter nights. SIGNED on title page. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-8180-06366.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1924.) dj. Hardcover - After serving as a doughboy in the Great War, Tom Slade, Boy Scout is back at the old campground at Black Lake. Illustrated by Howard L. Hastings with a glossy frontispiece and 3 glossy internal plates. Notation on title page that this was 'published with the approval of the Boy Scouts of America.' 235 pp plus 4 pp advertisements. Lists through #14 in back of book. Bound in olive green cloth with black lettering on spine and brown lettering outlined in black on front. Photographic endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper with wraparound green band at top and bottom with title and author in yellow lettering.

New York: Dial Press, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex novel following the story of three extraordinary individuals (including Sister Julia, a "fire-baptized" child evangelist called to the ministry when she was nine), through three decades, from Harlem to Paris to Birmingham. ISBN: 0-803794772.

New York: Viking, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel set in 1797 in the African kingdom of Segu during the time of the slave trade and the coming of Islam. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Based on actual events, this is an authentic and gripping story by this noted Guadaloupean author, a descendant of the Bambara herself. Dustjacket praise from Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou and others. Map endpapers. Notes. 499 pages. ISBN: 0-670-807281.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin, who has been asked to advise the board of a local arts charity. INSCRIBED on the title page "To ... Hope you enjoy this one! best wishes" (I find all of the Harry Devlin mysteries enjoyable reading and recommend this series). Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-340718218.

London: Piatkus Crime, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. INSCRIBED on the title page. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-749901934.

London: Hutchinson, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A short novel of psychological suspense, with a disturbed 16 year old girl narrating the events following the death of her mother. SIGNED on the title page. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by George Underwood. A Hutchinson Novella. 67 pp. ISBN: 0-091678706.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 26 of the best stories by American authors published in 1931, with an introduction by O'Brien., Includes Fitzgerald's 'Babylon Revisted' and Faulkner's 'That Evening Sun Go Down.' Among the other authors included in this volume are Dorothy Parker, Paul Horgan (his first appearance in this series), Alvah C. Bessie, Kay Boyle Morley Callaghan and others. In addition to the stories, the yearbook includes a lot of information on magazines publishing short stories, an index of all short stories and distinctive stories and more. xvii, 397 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes stories by James Baldwin (Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone), William Gass (In the Heart of the Heart of the Country), James T, Farrell, Leo Litwack, Helen Hudson and more. Biographical notes, lists of distinguished short stories of the year. xvii, 367 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming retelling of the Cinderella story this National Book Award winning writer. Queen Mother Rhythm is searching for the next 'nightingale' to take her place among gospel singers. SIGNED on the title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0202947.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of pioneer courage and survival in the face of trouble. Follows the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old adventurers, through its ordeals, with special focus on leader James Frazier Reeds's eight-year old daughter, Patty. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To -- with greetings from the house where Patty Reed once lived" and dated in the year of publication in Santa Cruz, California (Houston was referring to the fact that he now lives in Patty Reed's former house, which gives this book an interesting perspective) . Map endpapers. 317 pp. Dust jacket praise from William Kittredge and Kevin Starr, who praise both the storytelling and the historical accuracy. ISBN: 0-375-411038.

New York: Berkley, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth volume in his incomparable Dune Cycle. 480 pp. ISBN: 0-399-128980.

New York: Scribner, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Billy Nichols, a 1940s sportswriter known as Mr. Boxing Set in 1948, this the depicts the gritty post World War II boxing scene in San Francisco - a world the author knows well, as the son of a noted boxing writer and founder of the San Francisco Historical Boxing Museum SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for Barry, Macavity and Shamus Awards. Frontispiece. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-743214439.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1934) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon Snell title - a story involving the magic that electricity can create, featuring the young detective Johnny Thompson. Lists to itself on the rear flap of the dust jacket and the Girls Mystery Books list through The Phantom Violin (also 1934). 247 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by the author of 'True Grit' - a humorous account of an obstacle-filled road trip from Arkansas through Texas, Mexico and on to the Honduras. 246 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394-506146.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (c 1955.) dj. Hardcover - Using evidence from the natural sciences this book reveals global catastrophes in prehistorical times that altered the climate and geography of the earth, and even caused entire species to be wiped out. As noted by the publisher "in disciplines as diverse as geology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, classical studies, Egyptology, theology, psychology and also in theory of science. . . the first publication of his books provoked controversies unprecedented in the history of science since Galileo. At the same time recent findings mainly in earth and planetary sciences have confirmed his results and conclusions in a really impressive manner." Index. xi, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-671-823442.

Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1973. dj. Hardcover - Updated edition of a work originally published in 1923 by the California Historical Survey Commission, Berkeley; the author, Cox, was the director of the Commission. Illustrated with maps of each county and a large folding map showing changes. Index. Addendum summarizing the changes since 1923. 345 pp.

New York: Orchard Books / Scholastic, (2006). Hardcover first edition - A striking book by one of the best of the modern pop-up artists with over fifteen intricate pop-ups. On the first double-page spread a three-dimensional castle, appears, including its walls, courtyard, and drawbridge, with two smaller gatefold pages revealing other pop-up scenes. The book has five large double page pop-ups plus pull tabs and smaller pop-ups on the sides of many pages. ISBN: 0-439951151.

Annapolis, MD: Beechcliff Books, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book "dedicated to the designers, collectors, and lovers of kaleidoscopes" this begins with a brief history of the kaleidoscope and its inventor, Sir David Brewster, and then introduces the foremost modern designers of these multifaceted scopes. Includes comments and observations by many professionals, who reveal the eclectic relationship of kaleidoscopes to art, business, physics, psychology, and science. Illustrated throughout with photographs, many in full color and some of quite stunning examples of kaleidoscopes. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper with the words "Wishing you magical moments." Includes information on patents, resources, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0-960893024.

New York: St Martin's, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Come and sail the seas and join the adventures of an Angora Goat and a Muscovy Duck." Charming children's book by this Pulitzer prize winning playright, written in catchy rhymes which tell the story of the journey of "an angora goat and a muscovy duck who rode to work in a fire truck, but the press of traffic and the laws of luck, rendered them late for work." Four-color illustrations, including several double page spreads, by Maya Kennedy. SIGNED on the title page by the author, David Mamet. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-312148178.

New York: St Martin's, (1988). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh suspense novel featuring Homer Kelly, Thoreau scholar, professor of American literature and ex-lieutenant detective for Middlesex County, who is asked to
investigate a series of bizarre pranks at the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston. Pranks which escalate into a bomb threat, the theft of two famous paintings, and murder. Illustrated by the author with 55 line drawings. SIGNED by Langton on the second half title page with a drawing of "Red Rose Saloon - Another Boston Cultural Center!" Includes a list of the works of art shown. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-312014791.

New York: Putnam, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh book in this author's highly praised series of mysteries set in Georgian England and feauturing the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners, England's first police force. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146482.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1921. dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon collection of poems, including a group of sonnets, by this prolific American poet. Introduction by Edwin Markham and dust jacket praise by Arthur Symons and George Moore. 122 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2015). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Mustangs have thrived for thousands of generations - now they are under attack from people who see them as pests. . . But courageous young people are trying to stop the round-ups and the senseless killings. They are standing up to the government and big business to save these American icons." A book which profiles some of these young people, based on eye witness accounts and cutting-edge science, and illustrated with full-color photographs, SIGNED by Farley on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Large square format, Includes notes and sources, index, and glossary.196 pp. ISBN: 978-0544392946.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Works by and about Stein, including interviews and criticism. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. Other contributors include Gertrude Stein Raffel, her niece, and Donald Sutherland. One of only 500 copies copies bound in cloth. 158 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-876851375.

San Francisco: The Femina Company, 1893. Hardcover first edition - The author was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of California who also held credentials from the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. The prefatory note indicates that this work, deals mainly with inflammatory diseases in women and while imparting strictly scientific information, uses familiar language, avoiding technical terms where possible, to make it accessible to the general reader. For example, in a chapter entitled "Delusions on the Curative Powers of Drugs" Miller emphasizes the body's ability to heal itself. There is also an occasional reference to patent medicines like the "gentle Femina laxative syrup." Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with several full page drawings. Index. 422 pp.

Barcelona: Planeta, (1979) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Finalista del Premio Planeta. A novel by this award-winning poet and writer, as well as a lover of flamenco. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1982 on the title page. 299 pp, indice. ISBN: 84-32053953.

1981. SIGNED - Two single page typed letters, both addressed to Dr Pumley, the publisher of Parchment Gallery Graphics at Charleston, WV, regarding the possible publication of drawings by Charteris. The first is dated November 1981, typed on blue airletter paper and the second is dated February 1982. Both are signed in full with Charteris's characteristic "halo" over the final "i." Autographed material by Charteris is quite uncommon in the trade.

New York: Macmillan, 1933. dj. Hardcover - A classic novel of adventure at sea - While on its homeword journey from China to London, Blackgauntlet is struck at night by a passing steamer and only 16 of the crew manages to escape to the lifeboat while the others perish. Cruiser, the 22-year-old second mate, takes command of the survivors as they plan to sail 700 miles to the island of Fayal. In the course of the journey they battle sharks, potential mutiny, a leaky boat, too few provisions, and the sea herself. Glossary/ 310 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic novel set in 4372 BC and recreating the era when maurading nomads brought horses, male gods and war to a peaceful Europe. SIGNED on the title page. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-06-2507354.

London: Phoenix House / Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning Irish writer's fifh book, a novel set in 1980s obsessed by a murder. "Truth" is the name of the moribund local newspaper. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 1-861591780.

Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Thames and Hudson, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retrospective exhibition organized by James T. Demetrion. "In this exhibition catalog, noted British art historian Gowing and his American collaborator have done a thoughtful job of explaining Bacon's intensely morose artistic vision. In their essays they develop a few main themes, then devote the rest of the book to full-page color plates that allow for a chronological survey of the artist's painting." Illustrated with 59 color plates, including 9 foldout diptychs and triptychs. Frontispiece portrait. Includes a Catalogue of the 59 works exhibited. Foreword by James T. Demetrion; "Francis Bacon: The Human Presence" by Lawrence Gowing; "Metaphor and Meaning in Francis Bacon" by Sam Hunter. Chronology, public collections, exhibitions, select bibliography. Large format. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-500092001.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - The Fulani Empire was the last of the 5 great empires that rose and fell in the Sudan between the 8th and 20th century. A title in The West African History series. Illustrated with photographs. Includes 6 maps, 5 folding. Several appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. xvi, 312 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lovejoy mystery, set in the world of antiques hunting and selling and featuring incorrigible reprobate English antiques dealer Lovejoy. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312-292058.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th mystery featuring antique dealer Lovejoy. SIGNED on the title page. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-0308.

London: Macmillan, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in the Fethering series, featuring Home Office retiree Carole Seddon and her neighbour Jude, set in the historic village of Fedborough. When rain drives Carole to seek shelter in an old barn, she discovers human bones carefully packed inside bright blue fertilizer bags, and finds herself determined to solve the mystery. SIGNED on the title page. An interesting series, and a picture of changing village life in England, as gentrification takes over. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-333765591.

New York: Walker, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third mystery novel, and the second in the series featuring racetrack announcer and amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan, set in the world of horse racing in Southern California. Brogan has just gotten his big chance - covering the Triple Crown races for radio. SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-802756271.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel and one of his most powerful - a book probes the frustration and anger of four very different black men living the low life in a big city who decide to lynch a white policeman as a symbolic gesture. To put this in context, it begins with 23 pages of "matter prefatory" with historical quotes, statistics and details on lynching. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-01182.

New York: Putnam, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hong Kong and spanning 70 years - from the colonial era, through the Japanese occupation in World War II and the post war boom - by an author who was himself brought up in the Far East. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-399148663.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After being gone for more than a decade, Perry returns to his hometown--New Auburn, Wisconsin, population: 485--and joins the volunteer fire and rescue department. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Welcome to 'Nobbern'". 234 pp. ISBN: 0-060198524.

San Francisco: Bellerophon Books, (1974). Some serious (and mostly healthy) recipes with unserious comments, illustrated with black and white drawings by R. Crumb. Large format. 64 pp.

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - This volume includes his work from 1969 to 1970, with an introduction by Crumb and 2 pages of photographs. Includes a 16 page color section featuring some of his cover paintings. #143 out of 600 individually numbered and SIGNED copies of the limited hardcover edition (signed on bookplate on front endpaper). vii, 132 pp. ISBN: 1-56097057X.

San Francisco: By the author, 1904. Hardcover first edition - A collection of Native American myths and legends from both North and South America, illustrated with many small drawings and some full page black and white reproductions of paintings and photographs. 270 pp plus a 1 p appendix listing works consulted.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1959) dj. Hardcover - Lists to #19 at front of book and to #18 on back cover of dust jacket. Frontispiece and small illustrations at the head of each chapter. Bound in rust-colored tweed cloth boards, illustrated endpapers with bats, basketball baskets, etc, in diagonal rows. 182 pp. One of the hard-to-find later titles in this series.

Nairobi: East African Publishing House, (1968). First edition - Recounts fifty years of Kenyatta's involvement in the struggle for the freedom of the people of Kenya, beginning in the years right after World War I and continuing thru his arrest and long imprisonment and his eventual leadership of the country. Illustrated with photographs. An appendix with all of his important political speeches since 1963. xvii, 348 pp.

Martinez, CA: Offspring Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel set in Oakland, California, and featuring the unlikely interracial detective team of Hobart Lindsey, a mild-mannered insurance adjuster, and Marva Plum, a Berkely police officer, originally published as a paperback original. One of 300 copies, specially bound and SIGNED by Lupoff on the limitation page (but not numbered) with an author's note on the verso, accompanied by an invitation to the Annual Gala of the New California Smart Set, still in the original envelopes. Introduction by Donald E. Westlake. Author's note. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Michael McLaughlin.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 40th novel in the 87th Precinct series. A young couple return to their apartment to find the babysitter and their baby savagely murdered. John Jakes described this as "classic McBain - terse, tough, laced with his patented dark humor." SIGNED on the title page. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-877959943.

New York: Warner/ Grand Central. (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A portrait of this important African American novelist by a friend and fellow writer, one which discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works. The first biography of Wright by one of his contemporaries and the only critical biography by another Black scholar and author. INSCRIBED and dated by Walker on the title page. Photographs, bibliographical essay, index. xix, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-446710016.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of one of outstanding Africans of the nineteenth century - a medical doctor and officer in the British Army, geologist, botanist, and a pioneer thinker on race and development as well as a prolific author (notably "West African Countries and Peoples" written in 1868.) His life is portrayed against the political and economic background of West Africa in the period before "the fog of the colonial era" descended over black ambitions and achievements. Frontispiece portrait,map, footnotes, selected bibliography, index. xi, 169 pp.

London: Michael Joseph, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the world of horse racing, but also, in this case a coming of age story of a young man whose main ambition is to be an amateur steeplechase jockey, while his father's ambition is to become prime minister.SIGNED on title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-718142454.

London: Michael Joseph, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Roland Britten, an accountant by profession, and amateur steeple-chase jockey. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-7181-16364.

New York: Scribner's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Published in Britain as "Necrochip", referring to the dead body found at a fish-and-chip shop. Third mystery featuring Dectective Inspector Bill Slider, in the second career of a historical novelist. SIGNED on the title page. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196506.

New York: Ballantine, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - This edition followed the 1976 Ballantine Books paperback original but preceded the trade edition released in Oct. 1977. First state with the code of S27 in the gutter on page 183. Novelization of the feature film directed by George Lucas illustrated with film stills in full color. 183 pp. Dust jacket art by John Berkey. ISBN: 0-345-27476-8.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1976). SIGNED first edition - Comment on back cover from Ferlinghetti who said that he played the part of the bee in selecting these poems from Hirschman's new work - "lyripollen - the most lucid, the most lyric, most lightbearin." SIGNED on the title page. Pocket Poets #34. Small format. 98 pp plus 2 final illustrations, a 2 pp list of Hirschman's works and 2 pp publisher's ad. ISBN: 0-872860868.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the story of a Black queen of Dahomy who was sold into slavery after the death of her husband, and brought to Brazil her vudu, Zomadonu, king of the water spirits. A book which is "at once an historical novel, an African folk-legend, and a tale of the supernatural and the occult." Ends with a chapter on "In Search of the Legend." Illustrated with drawings by Carybe. Glossary, 300 pp plus 2 pp of maps. Dust jacket art by Jacqueline Schuman.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). SIGNED first edition - The story of a group of young African American men and women who defy stereotypes and reconnect with the long history of Black cowboys in the West. The Compton Jr Posse was founded by Mayisha Akbar in 1998 to provide a safe alternative to the streets. This account is based on a year which the author, a NY Times reporter from Compton himself, spent with the group, SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp

New York: Henry Holt, (1936 c 1934). Hardcover - The adventures of a young boy on a ranch in Arizona and in England - Billy had grown up unclaimed and almost unnoticed on an Arizona ranch, but when he was thirteen he was told that he was heir to a lands and a title in England . Illustrated with frontispiece drawing and several small textual drawings scattered throughout. Dedicated by Scott to her son "beloved Jig, for him to remember." 359 pp.