Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson - 1971

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 84x9x127. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in. 1991 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Alexis Klimoff. A collection of essays on various topics by the author of Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Illustrated. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. Boston, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the front flyleaf, "Fanny C. Stone with kind regards of H.W.L." [Frances Coolidge Stone was a friend of Longfellow's daughter Alice. She was the daughter of Eben F. Stone of Newburyport, MA, who served in the Massachusetts Senate in the 1850s and was a U.S. Congressman in the 1880s.]Longfellow has also signed his name on page 63 under his birthday listing for February 27.Many other signatures are inscribed on their birthdates throughout the book. Binding worn at edges and corners; o/w a fine copy.

TREATISE ON AGRICULTUREIllustrated with 19 full-page wood engraved plates of agricultural tools and equipment.Agostino Gallo was a famous agronomist who introduced the cultivation of rice and wheat in Italy. This treatise on agriculture describes in detail various farming practices; the quality of the soils; the cultivation of alfalfa, vine plants, gardens, etc.; and the cows, oxen, sheep, goats, horses, and donkeys who were an integral part of the process.8vo. Limp remounted vellum. Venice, Camillo Borgominerio (Borgominieri), al segno di San Giorgio, 1578. Later Edition.Endpapers renewed (with 18th century paper); 2 old marginal inscriptions; slight water stain on one page; o/w a fine copy of this fascinating treatise on 16th century agricultural practices.

Tokyo: Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892. First Edition. Bound in stiff decorated wraps with stabbed binding using silk ties. Good+. Kazumasa Ogawa. Folio. Pp. [11]. Featuring 27 black and white photos with captions on 11 plates, each plate with a tissue guard. Wear and soiling commensurate with age, with corners rounded and occasional slight, closed tears along fore-edge of two or three plates, each less than an inch. With an errata sheet bound in. This is not a volume in Ogawa's "Illustrations of Japanese Life," a small-format series on various subjects published from 1890s-1910s, but a large folio volume in a series published with uniform covers. The publications provides a fascinating glimpse into Meiji-era Japan in which the traditional Japanese aesthetic is slightly Americanized. In the 1880s Ogawa studied photography in Boston; occasionally his captions here reflect the whimsy popular in the US at that time: "Country Belles in Their Best" or "He is Coming? Let Us Look Pretty!" or "The Policeman and His… Read More

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Unexplored Northwest Texas in 1854
[Texas] Parker, W[illiam] B[rown]. Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R.B. Marcy through Unexplored Texas in the Summer and Fall of 1854. By W.B. Parker, Attached to the Expedition. Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell. 1855. First edition. Original brown ribbed cloth with publishers' logo stamped in blind on covers, title in gilt on spine. [i-v] vi-xii, [9] 10-242 [1] 2-6 ads [4] pp. Cover with wear and bumps. Scattered stains and spots. Very good.
Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 135n. Graff 3195. Howes P91. Plains & Rockies IV:279. Raines, p. 162. Streeter Sale 397. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography 2176. Vandale 129. William Brown Parker, a friend of Marcy's, was a New York City businessman and editor who wanted to see the West. Parker writes in an engaging style and provides information not found in other accounts of the important Marcy-Neighbors exploration of the Big Wichita and the headwaters of the Brazos to find sites in… Read More

Budapest: Beta, 1940. In original cloth with the illustrated wrappers. Small missing on the wrappers but overall a very good set.. In original cloth with the illustrated wrappers. 1149 p. First Hunngarian editon.

No place, no date (but Paris, 1748). Folio. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to the King, 78 engraved plates. Some (water)staining but still a good clean copy bound in nineteenth century 3/4 red morocco & red buckram boards. Edges stained red.Second, last and best edition of this collection of engravings of medals commemorating the real and imagined triumphs of Louis XV's reign.

Bombay: A Life Awakening Movement Publication, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unusual collection of 'interview-discourses by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on the various aspects of meditation' with instructions on mediation techniques, printed in Bombay in English in a print run of 3,000 copies. 286 pages, with two pages of ads listing the 'Available English Books of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh' with prices in rupees, testament to the productivity of this period. From the foreword: 'Twentieth century man is approaching the shoreline of a vast ocean -- the ocean of the unconscious, the inner Cosmos. In the West, most people have not yet come to it, not yet seen it, but have perhaps heard its distant rumblings and echoes, as they are approaching it. Freud and Jung brought the existence of the first few laps of this infinite ocean into popular awareness. As a result, most people nowadays acknowledge that something like it probably exists somehow, somewhere, but only because they have heard about it or read… Read More