Rare books from Arroyo Seco Books

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. 8 1/8" Tall. Michael Mitchell Dustjacket, with Photo By Lotte Jacobi. Stated First Edition, 8 1/8" Tall (Taller Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"), 1 5/16" Thick (Thicker Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"). The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks, Without Marks Or Damage, Just A Tiny Point Of Fraying Of Cloth At Each Of The Two Lower Tips, A Little Wear/Dulling To The Spine Gilt And A Little Rubbing/Bumping To The Ends Of The Spine. Dust Jacket With The Portrait Of Salinger On The Rear Panel, And With The $3.00 Price On The Front Flap, Second State With Slight Space Between Top Of Head And Top Of Dust Jacket (Apparently The First Issues Of The "First Edition" Were Slightly Shorter And With Cropping Of Salinger's Head In The Photograph On The Dj). The Dust Jacket Is Spectacular, No Chipping Or Tears,… Read More

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1919. First Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good Book/Good Dustjacket. 9 3/16" x 7" x 1 1/2. 12 Color Plates, Also Black and White Illustrations Throughout. 266 Pp. First Edition, First Issue, First State Of Book, In First Issue Dust Jacket. Titles At Front Of Book List Through The Tin Woodman Of Oz (1918). 12 Full Color Inserts Tipped In. Publisher's Name "Reilly" On Spine Is 7/8" Long, Covers Medium Green, As Shown For First American Edition In Bienvenue, And Book Bulks 1 1/2" Thick. [Presumably The First Issue; Not Noted In Bienvenue Is That Copies Which Are Noticeably Thinner Than This Example, About 1 3/8" Thick, In A Cloth Of Similar But Lighter Gray- Green Color, And Thus Similar To The Binding Of The First Canadian Edition, Meet All The Other Points For The Bienvenue "First State", Even Though There Are Other Very Slight Differences Between The Covers Of This Book And Books With The Lighter Green Covers, Such… Read More

New York ( 1983 ): Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973. First Edition Thus . White Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13 5/8" Tall. Bill Justice, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and the Disney Studios. 458 Pp. White Cloth, Gilt. A Reissue Of The 1973 Original Edition, Which Had Plastic Images Of Mickey On The Front Cover, And A Clear Plastic Printed Wrapper; This Issue Has A More Traditional Opaque White Dust Jacket With The Same Images And Text And A White Cloth Binding, Which Is Much More Stable Than The Earlier Binding. This Copy With An Original Full Page Ink Drawing On The Front Endpaper, Signed By Bill Justice, Of A Chipmunk Holding A Sign "This Book Is The Property Of Mark", And Signed On The Third Page By Ollie Johnston And Frank Thomas Above The Colored Illustration Of Mickey Mouse. Two Great Pages, Each Framable By Themselves, But Better Still In The Book. A Wonderful Disney Item, Inscribed To Professional Clown Mark Towner, Who Won A 1998 Local Emmy For His Tv Program… Read More

London: Longman's Green & Co, 1885. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book. 6 1/2" Tall. 101 Pp., With Two Preliminary Blanks, Adverts. Page, Half-Title, Three Final Blanks. Attractively Bound In Well Preserved 3/4 Dark Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And Author, Over Beautifully Marbled Paper Boards, Matching Hand Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. First Printing, First Issue, One Of 1000 Copies, With No Mention Of "Two Series" In List Of Books By Stevenson. No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage, Pages Clean And Just A Little Aged [With One Very Small Foxing Spot]. Gift Quality. Ex Collection Of Dorothy Gish But Not Marked As Such.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Maroon Cloth. Very Good + Book/Very Good Dustjacket. Joseph Schindelman. 162 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Stamped Inm Gilt, Cover Stamped In Blind. First Issue (Six Line Colophon, Maroon Cloth Binding, 25/32" Thick Which Is A Little Thinner Than Later Issues, Mustard Endpapers, Top Edge Of Page Block Maroon) In Correct Dust Jacket (Price $3.95, No Isbn Number On Rear Panel). Book Lightly Used, Pages Clean And Tight, No Marks, No Fraying. Dust Jacket Shows Usage, But Complete, Not Price-Clipped, Wear At Top And Bottom Of Spine With Two 1 Mm V-Chips At Bottom Of Spine, 1/2" Closed Tear At Lower Rear Spine Edge, A Tiny Loss Of Paper Along Top Edge Of Spine, A Little Dust/Rubbing/Faint Soiling, Light Wear Along Upper And Lower Edges, And Some Faint Wrinkling, From General Use; Large Personal Engraved Bookplate, Now Laid In Loosely, With Some Light Glue Marks On Front Pastedown Where It Was Previously Attached, No Damage To Endpapers Except… Read More

Pittsburgh / Louvain: Luke Loomis, 1828. Early Edition . Marbled Paper Wrappers. Good. 7 Woodcuts + Page of 7 Woodcuts at End. One Of A Very Large Number Of Printings From Various Early Nineteenth Century Printers; Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holding Of This Printing, But Does Show 10 Holdings Of A Similar But Longer Title, Undated, From This Printer/Publisher. Rebound In Marbled Paper Over Flexible Card, Nineteenth Century; Book Begins With Title Page And Tiny Stub Of Preceding Page. Text With 7 Woodcuts: One On Page Facing Title Page, With Text Beginning "See The Good And Dutiful Dog"; Five Alphabet Woodcut Pages, William Rogers Burning; Seven Small Woodcuts On Last Page. A Well-Used Example, Worn, Foxed, Traces Of Water Staining. Nineteenth Century Ownership Signature Of "John D. Tyson, Baltimore, Md., '47".

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck, 1905. First Edition . Single Embossed Tin Sheet. Very Good +. 14 1/2" x 11. J. S. Pushe [?]. Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading, Numbered Vol. Lvii No. 149, Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy, Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up, With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians, Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D. Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich [Father-In-Law Of John D. Ii) With Dark Skins, Each Dressed Only In A Short Skirt Or Tutu Bearing The Legend "Gold Dust", Aldrich Holding A Model Of The Capitol And Standing On A Model Of The Stock Exchange, John D. Holding A Satchel Of Money And… Read More

New York: New York: Gnome Press, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1951. First Edition, First Issue, First State . Hardcovers. Very Good + / Near Fine Books/Very Good + / Near Fine Dustja. An Attractive Set Of The True First Editions, All In First State Bindings And First Issue Dust Jackets (Priced $2.75, Not Price-Clipped), Without Any Writing Or Marks, Second Foundation Inscribed By Asimov. Foundation: Gnome Press (1951) Near Fine Book, No Marks Or Damage, Stated "First Edition" In First State Binding Of Blue Cloth With Red Lettering, Sheets Bulk 1.9 Cm Across The Top; Black Dust Jacket With Red, Blue White And Yellow, By Kyle, Is Vg+, First State With Three Books And Calendar Discussed On Back Panel, Wear With Minute Paper Loss At Corners And Tips, Very Light Wear At Edges, 1" Mostly Closed Tear Along Top Front Spine Fold (Not Very Noticeable), 1 1/2" Closed Tear And Associated Wrinkle At Upper Left Corner Of Front Panel. Very Slight Fading To Red Lettering On Spine, Otherwise All Panels… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 184 Pp. Blue Cloth, Stamped In White. Stated First Edition. A Scarce Book, This One Near Fine With Small Owner's Name On Rear Pastedown, In A Vg Dj With Slight Wear At Corners, 1" Tear At Top Of Rear Spine Edge, 1/2' V-Chip At Bottom Of Spine, Not Price Clipped. William Thornton Rickert Fox (1912 - 1988) Was An American Foreign Policy Professor And International Relations Theoretician At Columbia University (1950-1980, Emeritus 1980-1988), And The Coiner Of The Term "Superpower" In 1944. He Was A Pioneer In Establishing International Relations, And The Systematic Study Of Statecraft And War, As A Major Academic Discipline. National Security Policy And An Examination Of Civil-Military Relations Were Also Focuses Of His Interests And Career. He Was Associate Director Of The Yale Institute Of International Studies From 1943 To 1950. He Was The First Managing Editor Of The… Read More

Lee And Shepard (Boston) / Lee, Shepard, And Dillingham (New York), 1872. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 50 Illustrations By John Tenniel. Ix, 224 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Issue With "Wade " For "Wake" On P. 21. Original Brown Endpapers. Wear, Gilt Bright Except Some Wear Through Publisher's Gilt Monogram On Bottom Of Spine, Fraying At Corners And Top 1" Of Rear Spine Edge, Hinges Tight. Former Owner's Name James Duane Moore, 117 E. 17Th Street, New York, On Second Front Free Endpaper, With Pencil Inscription Above. A Decent Example. First Printings, Uk Or American, Of The Alice Books Are Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser In Entirely Original Bindings. .

London: George Allen And Unwin, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 92 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, Minute Loss At Top Of Two Flap Folds, No Foxing, Bright And Clean, Hint Of Fading To Spine Panel.

Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1907. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Tan Boards. Good. 270 Pp. First Printing. Light Tan Cloth Stamped In Black, Red, Yellow And Blue, Publisher's Name Stamped In Large And Small Capital Letters On Spine (Binding A); Front And Rear Endpapers Printed In Full Color; Illustration On P. 221 Printed In Color; Advertisement On P. 272 Lists Only The Land Of Oz And John Dough And The Cherub. "O" In "Ozma", P 11, Line 5, Is Lacking, But Bienvenue States That The "O" Shows Only On The Earliest Copies Of The First Printing; Pages 135/136, 153/154, And 221/222 Are Integral, Not Tipped In. Good Only But Still Collectible, No Repairs Or Changes, Wear And Dust To Covers, Fraying At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine And At Tips; Hinges Intact With No Cracking And Still Tight, Endpapers Clean And Bright. Aging To Edges Of Pages And Page Block.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 9 1/4" Tall. 16 Color Plates And Black And White Illustrations Throughout, By John R. Neill. 296 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, Binding A. Dark Blue Cloth, Horizontally Ribbed, Front Cover Paper Illustration With Metallic Silver Background And Metallic Green Ink Embellishments, Spine Stamped In Black With Vignette Embellished In Metallic Silver With Variant Black Shoes And Paw, Reilly & Britton Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case, Variant 4 1/2 Cm Tall; 16 Full Color Inserts Embellished With Bright Metallic-Green Ink, No Captions Beneath Illustrations. This Binding Appears To Be A Variant, With Much Heavier Inking To Rabbit On Spine, Including Entirely Black Shoes And Paw, All Other Black Inking On Rabbit Much Heavier And Wider, Publisher's Name Is 4 1/2 Cm Tall Rather Than 4 Cm Tall, "Emerald City" And "Oz" Slightly Larger (Over 10/32" Tall Rather Than Exactly… Read More

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1908. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated By John R. Neill. 256 Pp. First Printing, Binding B, With Olive Green Endpapers.Light Blue Cloth. Front Cover Paper Label Illustrated In Full Color On Metallic-Gold Background; Spine Stamped In Black With Vignette In Silver; Publisher's Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case Letters; Advertisement At Front With Three Titles Only; 16 Full Color Plates; Rare Variant Endpapers With Light Olive Green Background, Of Which Bienvenue Reports Only One Copy Known (One Copy, Probably A Different One, Appeared At Auction In 2019). Light Rubbing, Mostly At Corners; No Names Or Marks; Very Slight Aging To Pages. In Much Later Dj With Titles On Flaps To #34, Scalawagons Of Oz.

Donning, 2008. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvi,532 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Expanded Third (And Last) Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Quite Scarce; Worldcat Records Institutional Holdings Only In Denmark. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Munger And Buffet Have Been The Solidest American Investors For Half A Century. They Didn't Buy Crypto- Currency Or Nft's Or "Managed Risk" Bubbles. They Pay Their Taxes After Making Landmark Charitable Gifts. They Make Other Investors And Business Leaders Look Like Inmates Of A Long Term Custodial Care Facility For Dangerous Sociopaths.