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Philadelphia: Terminus Publishing Co., 1991. First Edition. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 170 pp. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. #28 of 105 signed and numbered copies. Appears unread. Bound by the publisher in blue cloth-covered boards with gold gilt lettering. Limited edition that includes glossy, heavy-stock magazine covers, showing price of $4.95. Special Ramsey Campbell Issue with cover art and interior illustrations by Bob Walters. Signed by Campbell, Walters, editor Schweitzer, and publisher George Scithers. Includes stories by Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Charles D. Eckert, and others. Inscription on verso of limitation page reads "For Joe Hensley: - In memory of Bob Bloch – With thanks & appreciation, Charles D. Eckert October 1994." Eckert and Hensley were science fiction writers.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 584 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Blue textured plastic-covered case, stamped white lettering on spine. Deckled fore edge and green top stain. Dust jacket intact. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Very slight rubbing to all tips. Half-inch tear at bottom of front hinge. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and chipped at spine ends; lightly rubbed at front and rear folds, as well as edges of spine; slightly sunned along folds of flaps. Now in archival protective cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Printed at The Riverside Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth on board. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie.

New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. First Edition. Wrappers. Thin folio. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good. Finely printed on rice paper. Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner. Paper title label laid on front wrapper. Original limitation slip laid in. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which 222 were for sale. 28 reproductions of chalk or brush line-drawing studies of the female nude. Green rice paper wrappers sunned at periphery, creased, stained in spots. Closed tears to bottom edge and leading corner of rear wrapper with no material loss. Damp stain to leading edge of flyleaf, title page, and contents page. Pages of drawings in fine, un-marked condition. Quite scarce. Only 14 copies located through WorldCat (OCLC # 3644188), 2 of which are publicly held. Ananda Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian and scholar of traditional iconography, served as curator in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until his death in 1947.

Miami, FL: Crouse Publications, 1989. First Edition. Signed by author. Hardcover. Quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 646 pages. Index. Near Fine. No dust jacket. Olive green cloth over board. Gold, silver, and red stamping to front board. Gold stamping to spine. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs and original full-color paintings by George Bartell and Richard Merchant. Binding flaw with crease to spine. Spine stamping slightly rubbed. Lower tips soft. Binding square and sound. Interior clean throughout. Signed, dated, and inscribed by author, "To my friend Fred Farley… my counterpart in unlimited hydro racing…"