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FROM DEATH COMES A SCRIBBLER: A Tribute to the Master Edward Gorey.
Edition: First printing.
Sibling Press, (2002). Hardcover first edition - One woman's tribute to the art of Edward Gorey, published shortly after his death. Includes a large 6 part fold-out drawing. Bibliography. Small oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-965426513.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 77932More details Price: $15.00 -
MARIHUANA: An Annotated Bibliography.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan Information, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comprehensive bibliography. Includes subject index. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Johnson - "to Bob, with fond memories of the summers spent close to the marihuana patches on the Kentucky River. Jacqueline." 560 pp.
Condition: Some soiling to the light yellow cloth and fraying on the corners of the boards, and wear to the ends of the spine, but overall very good - tight,sturdy, intact hinges.
Book ID: 88668More details Price: $125.00 -
OUR MULTI-ETHNIC ORIGINS AND AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES.
Edition: First printing.
Davis: University of California Library, 1975. First edition - Chapbook No. 2. An uncommon monograph by this scholar and author who is perhaps best known for editing the letters of Hart Crane. 12 pages in stiff stapled wrappers.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 19303More details Price: $12.50 -
THE H. G. WELLS SCRAPBOOK.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34892More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BURNING LIBRARY: Essays.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover first edition - Essays on such topics as the centrality of friendship in gay life, on the AIDS crisis, as well on writers like Nabokov, Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and an appreciation of the singer, Prince, and more. Introduction by David Bergman, index. xxviii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-679434755.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76940More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SECOND COMMON READER.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1965, c 1932.). A collection of short pieces on books, authors - included Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rosetti, Dunne and George Gissing - and on reading. The final sentence is worth quoting - "I have sometimes dreamt,at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns, . . . the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, ' Look these need no reward. . . They have loved reading.' " 245 pp.
Condition: Very good - a tight straight copy, prev owner's name inside front cover, no creasing on spine, a bit of dampstaining at base of spine.
Book ID: 88665More details Price: $11.50 -
WOMEN WRITERS OF THE WEST COAST Speaking of Their Lives and Careers.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1983). First edition - Among the writers who are featured in this book are Maxine Hong Kington, Joyce Carol Thomas, Susan Griffin, Tillie Olsen, Ursula LeGuin, Judy Grahm and more. Illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis. Notes on contributors. Photographer's note. 141 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78679More details Price: $14.50 -
CHARLES M. RUSSELL, THE COWBOY ARTIST: A Bibliography.
Edition: Limited first edition.
Pasadena CA: Trail's End Publishing, (1948). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive look at the works Russell illustrated, appearances in periodicals and exhibition galleries and more. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Limited edition of 500 copies. 218 pp plus colophon and publisher's ad,
Condition: Fine in maroon cloth with gilt lettering and cow's head on spine.
Book ID: 84154More details Price: $35.00
