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New Haven, Connecticut: n.p., 1862. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. 463. Bound in three-quarter black roan over marbled paper, edges sprinkled red. Gilt lettering and decoration stamped on the spine. Owner bookplate on FFEP, and light pencilled annotations throughout. Spine edges rubbed, light foxing, else near fine. Rev. James Phillips Hoyt, 1844 - 1925 (B. A. 1864, B. D. 1870) of Coventry, New York, was a sophomore in the Yale Academical Class. He had bound his collection of 1862 printed matter including programs for commencement exercises, musical and oratory presentations, debates, biennial examinations, [Pp. 66]; Yale Banner newspaper page (folded); Catalogue of the Officers and Students with a Statement of the Course of Instruction in the Various Departments, Pp. 60; Yale Literary Magazine Vol. 27, Pp. 336. Hoyt went on to become a Congregational pastor in Connecticut and Florida, an author and inventor of an early fountain pen. A fine collection of Yale ephemera from a period that included… Read More

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1959. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Laurie Cook. 8vo. Pp. 180. Edited by Henry Behn. With a list of references. Bound in pink-brown cloth with black lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Former owner name in pencil on front free endpaper, as well as the shadow of a return address label. In the illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, and with slight mottling of rear panel. First published as the University of Arizona "Anthropological Paper Number 2.

Potlatch City [Seattle]: S. F. Shorey, 1913. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wraps. Very Good+. 16mo. Pp. 46. Illustrated throughout with black & white caricatures. Bound in gray paper printed in red and black, french flaps, Yapp edges, side stapled. Doubled vellum pages printed in red and black. Cover edges lightly bent, chipped and darkened. Four humorous stories by Silas Skaggs and one by Sir Peter McReavy. Shorey's use of "Potlatch City" as place of publication coincides with the first annual Golden Potlatch (or Potlatch Days), an annual Seattle celebration that was marred by riots relating to Wobbly labor activism the following year. Rare: no auction sales divined, no institutional copies recorded. Preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. [i-vi], vii-xii, [1-2], 3-340. Frontis. photograph of the author, with tissue guard. Introduction by Isaac Don Levine. Bound in maroon-colored cloth with author photograph mounted on the front board; gilt lettering stamped on cover and spine. Spine with just a suggestion of dulling, top edge a bit dust-soiled, otherwise a bright copy with sharp corners, clean cloth, sturdy binding. Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920) was notable for having founded a women's fighting unit dubbed "The Battalion of Death." Shortly after the publication of this memoir, assisted by American-born journalist Isaac Don Levine, she returned to Russia, was rebuffed when she volunteered to join anti-Bolshevik forces and, following the Revolution, was arrested.According to a recent NY Times obituary, published in their "Overlooked No More" series in which the paper atones for not covering deaths of notable women and minorities, "with the… Read More

New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 373. Bound in red cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. The dust jacket spine is a tad dulled, else an exemplary copy. Boyle, along with modernists Sally Benson, Morley Callaghan, and John O' Hara, changed the direction of 20th century American fiction through novels of this era, and through the short stories they published in The New Yorker. By avoiding the lingering Victorian remnants of sentimentality and melodrama, and emphasizing instead detachment, journalistic specificity and, above all, honesty, they ushered in a literary aesthetic unto its own. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. viii, 213. With a two-page biography of the author. Postscript by Ralph Ingersoll. Bound in black cloth with red metallic lettering stamped on spine. Some wear to cover, with spine a trifle cocked and a slight snag the size of a chickpea. Dust jacket, which is rubbed, is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Inscribed by Zarubica on the half-title page. Inscription reads, "To -- with appreciation from Darryle + myself, '75, [signed] Mladin". Zarubica, born of Yugoslavian parents, was an all-American kid who played football at UCLA before serving as a WWII PT boat captain in the South Seas. Following the war, Coca Cola dispatched Zarubica to Austria build a bottling plant. In two years he built 38 Coke plants in southern Europe, and his expense account was enough to secure a hunting lodge near the Berchtesgarden, where he entertained business associates. At the lodge, Zarubica is told… Read More

New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. E. McKnight Kauffer (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. 342. Bound in brown cloth with decorative illustration stamped in red, black and silver on front board, silver lettering on spine. Slight snag at tail of spine. Illustrated dust jacket with slight wear to head and tail of spine, $3.50 price intact. A bright copy. A novel "of identical twin brothers and their haunting search for a single destiny," informed by Hobert's experience with his twin brother, Hubert.Book designed by Jerome Kuhl. Despite the later date, dust jacket illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer is representative of his earlier style. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. .

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [The Bodley Head], 1897. First Editions. Uniformly Bound Hardcovers. Very Good/Fine. John Singer Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, et al.. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with over 200 plates. Original black-stamped yellow cloth. Bound without advertisements. Spine of Vol. I a tad dulled, front cover a touch rubbed. Withal, original cloth, exceptionally bright, in VG-to-Fine condition. First editions of all thirteen volumes of Beardsley's celebrated art-nouveau quarterly with plates after works by Beardsley, Sargent, Sickert, Rothenstein and may others. With literary contributions from luminaries such as W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Anatole France, Kenneth Grahame, et al.The renowned journal was conceived in 1894 by Beardsley and the American novelist Henry Harland, who explained: "In one of the densest and soupiest and yellowest of all London's infernalest fox, Beardsley and I… Read More

Los Angeles: Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation, 1969. Reprint. Stiff printed wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 33, followed by one page of publishers' advertisements. Frontis. photograph of the author. Illustrated with line drawings of yoga positions. Bound in orange stiff printed wraps, saddle-stapled. A handsome copy. A program designed by the Yogi to the Stars: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was befriended by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and others in pop culture, vaunting Transcendental Meditation, which he founded, to worldwide acceptance. Curiously, the youth of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was marked by physicality: In 1942 he earned a degree in physics from Allahabad University and worked for a while at the Gun Carriage Factory JabalpurIncreasingly scarce. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 161. Introduction by Thomas Huzella. Sparsely illustrated with a few line drawings. Bound in orange cloth with lettering stamped on spine. Slight offsetting to ffep, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A birght copy. A chance excerpt: "Yoga is not a religion; it is crystallized truth." An uncommon book.

New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 354. With a page of "localisms" used in text. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In the dust jacket, $2.00 price intact, that shows slight chips and edge-wear. First edition of a novel of immigrant life in Western Canada. The illustrated dust jacket, in an art-deco design, presents an exquisite two-color illustration by "L.S.W." PEEL, 3182. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1864. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. Pp. 371 followed by pp. 14 of publisher's advertising. Frontis. engraving with tissue guard. Illustrated with a further eleven engravings in the text. Blue cloth, blind stamped decorations and Youth's Home Library series logo stamped in gilt on the cover, logo with decorations and titles in gilt on the spine. Spine sunned and ends chipped, board edges rubbed, leaf edges age toned, very light stains and foxing to the leaves. Inscribed in ink "To Samuel Roome Easter 1872," and in pencil "From his teacher Mr. Styles." Bookseller tag of Styles, Cash & Co. N.Y. Collected letters from four travelers - teenagers James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French with their instructor and chaperone the Rev. Choules - to a companion back home in Newport, Rhode Island. First published in 1851.

London: The Cresset Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. [Hans Tisdall] (dust jacket). 12mo. Pp. 253. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Leaves crisp, edges a trifle age toned, binding tight, bookseller tag on rear endpaper "Holiday Bookshop New York." In the calligraphic dust jacket printed red and black on kraft paper with price 12/6 intact on the front flap. Jacket edges minimally rubbed. A bright, fresh copy. A psychological drama of youthful emotions set in an obliquely referenced Paris. Though uncredited, the jacket lettering is distinctively the work of Hans Tisdall. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Edmund Dulac. 8vo. Pp. 317. Black cloth, titles and rules stamped in gilt on the spine, titles and motif in gilt on the cover. Fore edge untrimmed. Spine ends rubbed, edges mildly age toned. Illustrated initial capital letters. In the Dulac illustrated dust jacket printed in black and gold, $2.50 unclipped. Jacket edges rubbed and slightly chipped. "The magic and the mystery of women shall not be assailed. We shall adore, not dissect" states the author in the blub. "A romance of Mayfair in these days." Though uncredited, we presume the decorative initial caps are the work of Edmund Dulac. The dust jacket is credited as such, a fine example of art-deco aesthetic in gold and black, with the gold retaining its reflective metallic quality. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 309. With handsome woodblock-styled illustrations, done in a vaguely Rockwell Kent mode, by Harold L. Price. Brown cloth with green lettering stamped on cover and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A desirable copy in bright condition with no detracting qualities whatsoever. The author, a native of Portland, had the pleasure of being a fourth-generation Oregonian: his great grandfather arrived in the Oregon country in 1837 to assist Jason Lee mission.

[Vancouver, BC]: Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Limited Edition. Patterned wraps covered with japonisme paper. Fine. Andrea Taylor. 8vo. Unpaginated. Frontis. linocut portrait of Robert Reid signed and numbered by artist Andrea Taylor. Title page printed in red and black. Sewn and pasted in a limp paper-vellum case. Of 50 copies printed, the first 15 feature the frontis printed chine colle and a photo-etching at the rear. This is copy hand-numbered 11 at the colophon, and similarly numbered by Taylor at the frontis. Additionally, the book is signed by Robert Reid at the colophon. The text concerns Reid's youthful drive from British Columbia to San Francisco to attend the Rounce and Coffin Club's annual award ceremony, which included an Award of Merit for Reid's first book, a reprint of The Fraser Mines Vindicated by Alfred Waddington. During his San Francisco sojourn, Reid met the luminaries of San Francisco's fine press milieu. A superb, fresh copy.

Anacortes, Washington, 2005. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Very Good. 32mo. Pp. 13. Paper wraps with sketch on cover, saddle-stapled. Slight crease on rear cover, now mellowed. A writing pen is present in the second photo to indicate scale. Fanzine-style guide to the 2005 What the Heck Fest in Anacortes, Washington featuring performances across all media, with an emphasis on underground combos. Among them, Jesus Chords, Spoonshine, Eddy Blau, Solvents, Dragom, Burl, Squid vs. Shark, Tiger Saw, Per Se, Calvin Johnson, Mecca Normal, Karl Blau, and a many others.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Good+. Sol Ehrlich. 8vo. Pp. [10], 11-219. Bound in navy blue cloth with silver lettering stamped on spine. Light offsetting to endpapers; ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, as well as a light decal remnant. In the illustrated dust jacket with old tape reinforcement on verso, light chips at head of spine, price of $3.75 intact on the front flap. A narrative of the officer's experiences serving under William Donovan in the Office of Strategic Services, from sign-up to the dissolution of the agency. Unlike most memoirs of the O.S.S., will take themselves quite seriously, some appropriately so, Hall takes a light-hearted approach to his experiences. Sprinkled in are anecdotes of heroism, grave decision-making, and anticlimactic let-downs.The dust jacket illustration by Sol Ehrlich conveys a mock Spy Vs. Spy motif, which fits Hall's irreverence. Dust jacket now housed in a removable, clear… Read More

New York: Macaulay Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. William Gropper. 8vo. Pp. 299. Dark red cloth, titles and rules stamped in black on the cover and spine. Top edge dyed dark red. Corners lightly bumped, lower fore edge cloth a touch discolored. Binding tight. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with price $2 partially clipped; shallow chips; short closed tear to front panel upper edge. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. Published anonymously, David Liebovitz's first novel is a picaresque narrative of a prototypically optimistic American. Lewis Mumford was prompted to write "it has all the humor and juiciness of Mark Twain." Liebovitz later published two novels under his name: Chronicle of an Infamous Woman in 1933 and Canvas Sky in 1946. The dust jacket illustration, a restrained, avant garde depiction of a wheat harvester by William Gropper, is indicative of the friends kept by Liebovitz: Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Herbert… Read More

Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Robert Shore. 4to. Pp. xv, 251. Introduction by Leo Gurko. Frontis. Title page printed in three colors. Illustrated with nine full-color plates, no margins, and some covering two pages. Bound in half-morocco over a blue cloth with linen effect, with a morocco spine label stamped in gilt. All edges speckled. Book with original glassine protector. Housed in the original slipcase, design matching the cover of the book and featuring a printed paper title label on the spine. Number 934 of an edition limited to 1,500 copies. Signed by the Robert Shore and Ward Ritchie on the colophon. With a bookplate on the front pastedown, otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at his The Ward Ritchie Press. A superb, fresh copy with the bookplate being the only detracting quality. Bookseller inventory.