Recent Arrivals from Elk River Books
Recent Arrivals from Elk River Books
For a Handful of Feathers
by de la Valdene, Guy
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1995
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780871136183
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$260.00
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed and inscribed to John Fryer on half-title page: "For Johnny, good to see you and good to be back in Montana. Best, Guy, 1995." 12mo (19 cm), pp. 224. Gray boards with white spine titling, pictorial jacket by Russell Chatham, deckle edge. Includes introduction by… Read more about this item Item Price
$260.00
Archy & Mehitabel
by Marquis, Don
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1927
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$250.00
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo (19 cm), pp. xii, 196. Black cloth with orange and black labels. Orange and white endpapers, orange publisher's top stain. The first collected poems of Archy, a frustrated poet who has been reincarnated as a cockroach, often about his friend Mehitabel, an alley cat who… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Red Wine and Yellow Hair
by Patchen, Kenneth
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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New York: New Directions, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 64. Yellow cloth with red and black spine titling. Yellow jacket with $2 price. Minor wear to boards. Jacket with minor soiling and chipping, tape repairs to verso. A collection of poems from a major poet, pacifist, and influencer on the San Francisco Renaissance… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Eight Signed First Editions
by Levendosky, Charles [William "Gatz" Hjortsberg]
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- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$120.00
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A lot of eight first edition poetry collections, all signed, and most inscribed to Levendosky friend, author, screenwriter and Brautigan biographer, William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- from his personal library. The warm inscriptions on these books tell the story of a decades-long friendship between two writers, both from New York, who both came West for the bulk of their lives. Perimeters.… Read more about this item Item Price
$120.00
Selected Poems
by Patchen, Kenneth
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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London: Johnathan Cape, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 192. Blue cloth with gilt spine titling. Blue and black illustrated jacket with £2.75 price. "This new selection covers the whole of his verse, except for the pictorial, offering British readers the first opportunity for an evaluation of his remarkable poetry range." Patchen was… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
The Wild Party [in slipcase]
by March, Joseph Moncure
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1928
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$250.00
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Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1928. First Edition. Very good. Limited, numbered edition, 276/750. Gray marbled boards with black quarter cloth and gilt and black titling. Pubisher's top stain. other edged deckle. Frontispieces and other illustrations by Reginald Marsh. Bookplate of Winston Broadfoot on inside front. Spine titling faded and minor rubbing and wear to boards. Slipcase (scarce with this… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Fishing at Home & Abroad
by Maxwell, Sir Herbert
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1913
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$400.00
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London: The London & Counties Press Association, 1913. Hardcover. Very good. Limited edition #659/750. Folio (31 cm), pp. xii, 413. Handsome volume in brown morocco with gilt titling, deckle edge, ribbon bookmark. Boards have minor wear to extremities, light foxing and tanning throughout text block, heavier foxing on endpapers. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and opinionated penciled… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
The Pleasures of Princes, Together with The Experienced Angler
by Markham, Gervase, and Colonel Robert Venables, Horace Hutchinson (intro)
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1927
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$40.00
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London: The Cresset Press, 1927. Very good. Limited edition (#21/650), a reprint of two 15th century works. Unusual copy ribbon-bound in limp vellum, handmade paper, deckle edges. Octavo (22 cm), pp. xxiii, 111. In well-worn cardboard slipcase. Contains an ALS tipped in on Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature letterhead (dated 1935?), from Frederick Stands (?),… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing
by Sage, Dean
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Leather bound
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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Goshen, CT: The Angler's and Shooter's Press, 1973. Leather bound. Fine. Limited edition (#166/250). Folio (32 cm), pp. xxxv, 304, [8]. Full blue calf, gilt-stamped osprey and salmon motiff on upper board, ruled spine. In beige cloth slipcase, marbeled endpapers, gilt top edge, yellows bookmark ribbon. Loaded with extras: Contains color frontispiece illustration of the author's favorite salmon… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Angling in British Art
by Sparrow, Walter Shaw
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$30.00
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London: William Clowes and Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Item Price
$30.00
Salmon of the World
by Schwiebert, Ernest
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$500.00
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New York: Winchester Press, 1970. Hardcover. Near fine. Signed, limited edition (#449/750). Folio (40 cm), pp. 63, plus portfolio with 30 color plates painted by the author. Foreword by Arnold Gingrich. In cardboard slipcase, with marbled boards, cloth spine. Slipcase has a nick, some bumping and light wear, plate #1 has faint tanning along bottom edge. Otherwise, monograph… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
Tips, by the Author of The Salmon Fly
by Kelson, George M.
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1901
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$300.00
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London: George M. Kelson, and the Dangerfield Printing Co. LTD., 1901. Hardcover. Good. Octavo (24.5 cm), pp. 168, plus 12 pages of advertisements. Maroon cloth with attractive gilt fishing motif on upper board, moderate edge wear and rubbing, small amount of material missing from both ends of spine. Half title page and rear free endpaper with significant foxing,… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History [2 Vols]
by Schmookler, Paul and Ingrid V. Sils
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$1,500.00
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Millis, MA: The Complete Sportsman. Hardcover. Near fine. Limited editions in slipcases, signed by both authors on limitation pages (both #161/250). Volume 1 - Birds (1994), pp. xviii, 286; volume 2 - Birds and Mammals (1997), pp. xxiv, 345. Both folio volumes (35.5 cm) in blue cloth slipcases, with marbled paper boards over quarter-morocco binding. Titling and all… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Good Guns Again: A Collection of Fine Sporting Arms
by Bodio, Stephen
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781885106056
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$20.00
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Bozeman, MT: Wilderness Adventures Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on half-title page. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 184. Gray cloth with red front board illustration and spine titling. Gray endpapers. Red and gray jacket. Illustrations by Christopher Smith, foreword by Steve Smith. An expanded, updated and larger version of Bodio's earlier book, Good… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Great Wendingen Edition
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$80.00
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Horizon Press, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Square folio (33.5 cm), pp. 164. Gray cloth with red, black and gilt spine label. In black slipcase with red, white and gray label. "The life-work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright with contributions by Frank Lloyd Wright, an introduction by architect H. Th. Wijdeveld and many articles by famous European architects… Read more about this item Item Price
$80.00
Banjo
by Curtis, Jack
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$20.00
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New York: Macmillan, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and warmly inscribed to John Fryer on front free endpaper. Blue cloth with gilt spine titling. Red illustrated jacket. Bumping to spine ends, light rubbing and wear to jacket. Fryer was the owner of the iconic, 140-year-old, Sax & Fryer bookstore in Livingston, Montana. Item Price
$20.00
Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
by Dimsdale, Thomas J.
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1929
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$20.00
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Butte, MT: McKee Printing, 1929. Paperback. Very good. Seventh printing. 12mo (19.7 cm), pp. 270. Illustrated wraps. Several black and white photographic plates. Full subtitle: "Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Capture, Trial and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band, Together with Accounts of the Lives and Crimes of Many of the Robbers and… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community
by Foster, Martha Harroun
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780806137056
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. xii, 306, including index. Light brown boards with dark brown quarter cloth and endpapers, gilt spine titling. Brown illustrated jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Slight shelf wear, else fine. The first book-length work to focus on the… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Carbon
by Lindsay, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2016
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
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$100.00
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Seattle: Minor Matters Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed and inscribed on half-title page to John Fryer, iconic Montana bookseller and photographer. Quarto (26.7 cm), pp. unpaginated [78]. Black and white illustrated boards, gray and white illustrated endpapers. Essays by Dr. Jill Tarter and Lyle Rexer. Black and white plates of microscopic photography, that, according to… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Forty Years on the Frontier [2 volumes in one]
by Stuart, Granville [Paul C. Phillips, ed]
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, USA
- Item Price
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$60.00
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Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 272, 265. Blue cloth with gilt spine titling. Blue publisher's topstain. Frontispieces and several black and white illustrations. Index. Complete subtitle: "as seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart Gold-miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher and Politician." Slight soiling to text block edges, else… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00