Rare books from Lonesome Water Books

London: Printed For Samuel Bagster, In The Strand, By R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, 1815. Bagster's Second Edition, Being the Eighth of this Work: Wit. Hardcover (Full Leather - Themed Binding). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Printed For Samuel Bagster, In The Strand, By R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, London, 1815. Bagster's Second Edition, Being the Eighth of this Work: With Improvements and Additions. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Fine Binding Light rubbing to the extremities. Internally Fine. -- Overall: Very Good to Near Fine Condition. -- Engraved frontice portrait, all edges gilt, fifty plates. Uniquely bound in full tan morocco with inlay in light blue of a fish on both covers. Same Color reproduced in shell designs on backstrap. Writing on one inner blank sheet "Large Paper Edition". -- Presentation inscription in ink on one of the blank fly-leafs to a Col. F. Ahlstrom. On the occasion of the nomination of Sen. Warren… Read More

Bonn, Germany. First English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Bonn, Germany First English Edition Hardcover Near Fine Condition/Very Good Light edge-wear to the dust jacket Binding, clean, solid and sound Size: Folio 410 pages, illustrations, index of personal names Quantity Available: 1 Category: Medicine & Health; History of Medicine; Germany; 19th century; Medicine - Modern; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 8604.

McMinnville, Oregon: Almon A. Kerry, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Size: octavo (5-3/4" x 9"). 64 pages. First blank fly-leaf bumped with resulting crease bottom front. -- The "Kerry Line" pamphlet is also in Near Fine Condition. The Kerry Line is bound in stiff cardboard wrappers and is 12 pages long.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. First Edition, "A" Printing (Special Clothbound Edition). Special Clothbound Edition. Very good. 8vo., unpaginated, color & b& white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. -- Light edge wear to the extremities, Top edge near the middle of the front cover has rubbed spot to the cloth (see photo). The last blank page and endsheet has three minor closed tears at the bottom edge. "This book belongs to" filled out in pencil. -- Internally the book is clean and tight. The back cover lists seven titles available in clothbound editions. --.

Zurich, Switzerland: Schwitter Publishing, 1987. [First Edition]. Very good +. 4to. (9-1/2"x11-1/4), color pastedown on front cover. [93] Pages, a.e.g., b&w and color Illustrations. -- A few small soil spots to front and rear covers, corners lightly rubbed -- Binding appears to be leather but May be faux leather over boards. -- World Catalog states: Notre Enfant - 2 editions published in 1987 in French and held by 2 libraries worldwide; one copy held by the World Catalog in English, in the Swiss National Library. -- Rare.

Huron, Dakota: Huronite publishing house, 1886. Second Edition. Very good. 12mo, 88, [1] pages. original pictorial wrappers, portrait and plates. -- Light wear to tips of the spine, corners bumped (bottom lightly, top corner has a diagonal crease), corners of pages themselves (top lightly bumped, bottom hardly at all). Internally clean and tight. A few pages with small foxed spots to the extremities. --- Overall condition for this fragile & rare book. "Not in Allen's Dakota Imprints. Wilkins had an adventurous time after leaving Fort Snelling. He gives some interesting anecdotes of the Sioux Uprising and the mass hanging of the thirty-eight Sioux at Mankato".-rarebookhub: Rare Book Transaction History, one listing found in a dealers catalog @$125.00; source year 1953.

Place of publication unknown: Self Published, 1960. Deluxe Limited Edition. Very good +. Oblong Folio (20" by 16"). Heavy plastic overlay with title "Hilton Paints the Desert", stiff rear board. -- Introduction page with limitation inscription at the bottom in the author's hand: and his signature; "Number 52 of a deluxe edition of 350 for Leo and Irene Moore with best wishes". -- Condition. Twenty Seven Prints (some duplicates) twenty-five signed, two not signed. Some prints signed in silver and some in regular ink. --: Hills of Home (3) - Joshuas in the Moonlight (2) - Oasis Mara (3) - Papago Dawn (3) - Power and Glory (3) - Red Mountain (2) - Smoke Trees and Thunderheads (2), Superstition Spring (1) - Sands of Tim (3) - San Jancinto Sunrise (3) - Wickenburg Yuccas (2).

Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Limited Edition of 275 Copies of Which This is #144. Brown Quarter leather with 5 raised bands, grey linen boards. Near fine. Folio (9"x13"), pp. 43 [5]. Top edge gilt. Set in Caslon Old Face type and printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Translated from the Greek into English by Francis Hicks and presented in parallel Greek and English texts with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. -- Some uneven coloration of the leather on the front cover. Spine a darker in color than the sides. The slipcase has some wear around the extremities. No other notable defects. --. Colophon: Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire , and Completed on the 10th Day of November, 1927. The Text of the Greek, Set With the Assistance of the Oxford University Press, is that of the Jacobitz Edition (1852). Te English is Taken From the First Edition (1634), in the British Museum. Compositors: F. Young and a. H.… Read More

London: Arthur Humphreys, 1910. 30 copies of this edition have been printed on Japanese Vellum and bound in Levant morocco [signed] by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, of which this is No. 1. Fine. 12mo., pp. 69 [1}, red plush end papers, a.e.g., Signed by George Sutcliffe on the limitation page. Elaborate gilt tooled decorated binding. Essay headings have paste on illustrations.-- Slipcase probably some faded and has some light rubbing to the extremities. Otherwise an absolutely gorgeous example (without any imperfections) of an early Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. "Sangorski & Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real gold and precious stones in their book covers".-wiki.

New York: American Tract Society, 1852. Third Edition. Good +. 12mo, pp. 231, full black leather binding, t.e.g. Blank leaves interleaved throughout the text. -- This copy has the blank leaves 9-110 with hand written translation of the printed text in brown ink; Interleaved pages 111-231 are blank. According to the preface; "A few copies..... will be interleaved with writing paper, on which each can note for himself the matter of every hymn, after having studied it with a competent interpreter...." [See complete quote below in comments]. -- First free endpaper name in ink "Mrs. Florence Hassler... Fort Belvoir, VA". -- First 50 or so pages have signatures pulled (no loose pages). -- Overall Condition. Preface (Page 7): English on opposite pages would have added greatly to the expense of the work; but a few copies for those who conduct the Sabbath services will be interleaved with writing paper, on which each can note for himself the matter of every hymn, after having studied it with a competent… Read More

New York: Covici-Friede, 1930. Edition De Luxe of seventy five copies on Crane's Olde Book paper, this copy numbered 61. very good +. Two Volumes. Folio. Bound in pigskin. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent and. Signed by Rockwell Kent. Original and modern versions in parallel columns. Paged continuously. Full-page wood-engraved illustrations printed in black and brown. Accompanied by a special portfolio of Kent plates -- Wear to the spines on both volumes. internally fine. -- Overall Condition. "Chaucer's work begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly, the innkeeper, suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale will win a supper when they reach Canterbury"-worldcat.

Kirksville, MO: Published by the author, 1897. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Good. 8vo., brown cloth lettered in gilt, pp.460, frontispiece with tissue protector, Illustrated with wood engravings throughout text, plates from photographs, drawings -- Front & rear hinge cracked (still holding); overall binding is moderately stressed, missing front free endpapers. One loose illustrations between page 86 & 87. Moderate rubbing around the extremities. -- Signed in 188[?] by the author on the front paste down (see photo). Laid in loose is a postcard with photograph of the author, age 80 years. -- A revised edition of the book was re-published in 1908 after a fire damaged the original printing plates. Rare signed copy of the author's first book. "Andrew Taylor Still, DO was the founder of osteopathy and osteopathic medicine. He was also a physician and surgeon, author, inventor and Kansas territorial and state legislator. In 1899, Still published his second book, Philosophy of Osteopathy. Still published his… Read More

Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1901. Limited Edition of two hundred and forty copies. This is copy #9. Fine. 4to., 3/4 vellum. Text is the first English translation by William Tyndale (ca. 1525-26). Illustrated with woodcut initials, tailpieces, black-on-white borders throughout, and sixteen full-page woodcuts after Albrecht Dürer's "Apocalypse Series," first printed in Nuremberg in 1498 when the artist was twenty-seven. These scenes cemented Durer's fame and provided him with a source of income for life. The imaginative, animated woodcuts pushed book illustration from simple line drawings to sophisticated works of art. -- Externally the spine label obscured, vellum lightly dust soiled. Internal condition. --. Colophon: The End of the Book of Revelations of Saint John the Divine, from the earliest English version by William Tyndale, first printed in the year mdxxv. The engravings herein printed are reproduced from the wood-cutt illustrations made by Albert Durer in the year mccccxcvii. -- This books is… Read More

Las Vegas, N.M.: Imprenta Del Rio Grande, 1881. [First Edition]. Good condition. 8vo., handcrafted leather binding ( self bound), frontis portrait, pp. 292 + errata page. -- Author's name written in pencil on the title page; appears to be a crude attempt to copy the authors signature. I doubt it is authentic. Last blank leaf has writing in pencil in Spanish. Printed pastedown inside rear cover (mostly complete; top part in Spanish and last paragraph in English. the English part commends the work of the author, Estanislao N. Ronquilla.

Oklahoma City: Lusk Publishing Company, 1939. First Edition [Stated at bottom of the title page]. Near fine to fine condition. 8vo., grey cloth lettered in black, spine blank, decorated title page, pp 62. Author's first book. -- The first photo does not show correct color of the cloth binding which is actually grey (see photos). See the second & third photos at the outer edges of the pastedown, that is very close to the correct color of the cloth. -- Dedicated to Singapore Charlie........ who couldn't read". -- Signed authorial inscription in ink on the first free endpaper to Sadie Ashford Tarnett. -- No notable defects. "Smoke from This Altar (1939) was L'Amour's first book, a collection of poems, in which he crystallized his wanderlust in 'Out of the ocean depths': "Out of the distance / that holds me enchanted, / Up from the green, / shifting violence below - / A voice from the twilight, / the bauty, the stillness, / A voice that comes calling / and calling to go. ..." The collection was only for… Read More