Abbey, Edward

Beyond the Wall. Signed

New York, Rinehart And Winston, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in 1/4 gold cloth over orange paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a virtually fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 203 pp. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Abbey, Edward

Black Sun. Signed

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. 'To .All the best! Edward Abbey, Santa Fe 11/26/88'. A fine copy in black cloth, yellow titles in an essentially fine bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 159 pp. A particularly handsome copy of Abbey's fourth novel. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 28238

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Abbey, Edward

Fire on the Mountain. Signed

New York, The Dial Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. 'To John, Since you're almost in this book, I hope you like it. Ed, April 10, 1982'. A fine copy in 1/4 red cloth over yellow paper covered boards, black titles in an essentially fine bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 211 pp. Adapted into the 1981 television film with Buddy Ebsen and Ron Howard. A beautiful copy of Abbey's third novel. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 28237

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Abbey, Edward

In Praise of Mountain Lions. Signed

Albuquerque, Albuquerque Sierra Club, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Edward Abbey and Inscribed by John Nichols on the front cover. A fine copy in illustrated beige stiff card wrappers, as issued. Slim 8vo. 48 pp. .

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Book number: 28232

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A. Bothwell Gosse [Achad, Frater (Charles Stansfeld Jones)] SIGNED

The Rose Immortal

London, William Rider & Son, 1918. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Inscription by Frater Achad. Very Rare First Edition THE ROSE IMMORTAL1918 Inscribed and Signed by Frater Achad's [Jones, Charles Stansfeld] "To My (rose drawing) from (diagram) Parzival". Parzival was one of Jones/Frater Achad's many alternate names. Aleister Crowley ("666") considered himself to be the "Spiritual Father" to Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones, "777"), Small 8vo. Size: 5"x6" 63 pp. Printed Red on Beige wrappers. All pages are printed in black and have foxing throughout. The wrapper's spine is cracked as well. The fragile edition has not been well cared for over the years and seemed to magically show up on a shelf one day. The fact remains that this is an incredibly rare item, hard to find in any condition and SIGNED by Crowley's Disciple. A must for any Crowley and Occult collector. A genuinely rare edition. .

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Book number: 33621

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Albee, Edward

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Play. Signed

London, Jonathan Cape, (1964), 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ?". First British Edition of Edward Albee's masterpiece. 8vo. 241 pp. A fine copy in canary yellow cloth, silver titles to the spine, top edge stained black in a fine, price intact dustwrapper. Laid-in is Edward Albee's holographic notation of the last four lines of the play on white card stock, Signed by him. A beautiful copy of this Tony Award-winning play adapted into film with brilliantly riveting performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 33278

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Anderson, Kent

Night Dogs. Signed

Tucson, Dennis McMillan, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition of Kent Anderson's second book, a riveting crime novel continuing the life-saga of 'Hanson' from, Sympathy For The Devil, Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. "Diane - Remember, The Moon is the Night Dog's Sun - & they wait - Kent". Additionally Signed on the title-page by Kent Anderson and Inscribed on the Copyright Page by publisher, Dennis McMillan. "For Diane, Dennis McMillan, Publisher Manqué, greetings from the desert! Aug. 15, 1997". 8vo. 522 pp. A fine copy in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. "Anderson makes his mark in Wambaugh country with his eloquent voice and haunting sensibility. Many novels have been written about the lives of cops and soldiers, but few have probed the American propensity for violence as well as this one." Publishers Weekly. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Louis Aragon

Elsa Triolet Choisie Par Aragon. Signé /Signed

Paris, Gallimard, 1960. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Aragon, Louis. ELSA TRIOLET choisie par Aragon. Signé /Signed. Paris: Gallimard, 1960. 8vo./ in8, 362pp. Broché / Wrappers. A near fine copy in the original glassine. Inscribed on the half title: "Au M. et Mme. LeBovia, Leurs ami / Aragon / et Elsa". En bon états. Rare. GEOGHEGAN AL1446. Louis Aragon [1897 - 1982]. Un poète, romancier, journaliste et essayiste français. Il est également connu pour son engagement et son soutien au Parti communiste français de 1930 jusqu'à sa mort. Avec André Breton, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, il fut l'un des animateurs du dadaïsme parisien et du surréalisme. Sa poésie est largement inspirée, depuis les années 1940, par l'amour qu'il voue à son épouse, Elsa Triolet, écrivain elle aussi, et belle-sur de Vladimir Maïakovski. Louis Aragon [1897 - 1982] French poet, novelist & editor. Having been involved in Dadaism from 1919 to 1924, he became a founding member of Surrealism in 1924, with André Breton & Philippe Soupault under the pen-name "Aragon". In 1939 he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet, the sister of Lilya Brik, a mistress & common-law wife of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. He had met her in 1928, and she became his muse starting in the 1940s. Aragon and Triolet collaborated in the left-wing French media before and during World War II, going underground for most of the Nazi occupation. Louis Aragon wrote poems under the name of Le Musée Grévin (using the pseudonym of François la Colère), published during the Vichy regime by the Éditions de Minuit underground editor. .

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Arnold, Armin

Freidrich Durrenmatt

New York, Frederick Unger, (1972), 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed First Edition. Small 8vo. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 11805

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Ashbery, John

Tls June 21st 1978

New York, Ashbery, 1978. Original Autographed Letters. Soft cover. Original Autographed Letters. Soft cover. Signed by Author. One octavo page TLS, New York, June 21, 1978 addressed to publishers James Campbell & Zsolt Alepi [Atropos] regarding his future participation in the magazine - " I would like to send you something but this would have to wait until the fall. Your magazine is impressive, handsome and intelligently eclectic. I enjoyed the two poems by James Hannan very much. I would like to give a reading at McGill - my usual fee is $1000 plus expenses. " Ashberry goes on to detail his teaching schedule & supply his unlisted phone number. A fine letter. .

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Book number: 31757

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Barr, John

The War Zone. Signed

Easthampton, Warwick Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition, Limited to 445 Numbered Copies of this keenly observed collection of Viet Nam War poetry, taken from notes written down during poet John Barr's three tours of duty in Vietnam, Signed by him and illustrator and printer Carol Blinn on the limitation page. This copy additionally Inscribed by Carol Blinn. Tall 8vo. 26 pp. Fine in hand-sewn Japanese Chiri paper wrappers, as issued. Printer's prospectus laid-in. .

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Bass, Rick

The Book of Yaak Inscribed and Dated by Rick Bass

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Signed and inscribed heartfelt note. "For Jenna, Sorry to miss you on this fine green cool day but hope to catch up sometime - Thank you for all the endless work you're doing for the woods & the creatures - humans too-..With great wishes & respect - Rick Bass 7.15.97 YAAK (what's left of it)" Also included in the edition is a typed letter dated October 7th, 1993 writing about his concerns about the future ecological protection for the valley in Montana. 8vo. 190 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 deep wine cloth over wine paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33571

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Keywords: LITERATURE/ NONFICTION/ HENRY BESTON/ RACHEL CARSON/ BARRY LOPEZ/ ANNIE DILLARD/ EDWARD HOAGLAND/ PETER MATTHIESSEN/ JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH ALDO LEOPOLD/ DAVID THOREAU / ERNEST THOMPSON SETON/ JOHN MUIR/ ABBEY, ECOLOGY Electronic List TBCL

Batten, Mortimer H.

The Singing Forest. Signed

London, London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1955, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. A fair copy in the publisher's green cloth showing overall use. With black and white drawings throughout. 8vo. 197 pp. A compassionate yet unsentimental tale of Corrie the red deer. .

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Book number: 19814

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[Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude

Wars I Have Seen. Signed

London, Batsford, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. "A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war". First Edition. 8vo. 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dustwrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller's sticker at the top of the inside flap]. Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: "To John James who says Ma''am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46". Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy. An extremely good example. In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did - the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived - and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin's kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne ("quite quietly to some one who came to see me") and no longer needed money. "And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33417

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Bedford, Jimmy

Around the World on a Nickel. Inscribed

New Delhi, Vir Publishing House, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Bedford, Jimmy. AROUND THE WORLD ON A NICKEL. Inscribed. India:: Vir Publishing House, 1967. 8vo. 314pp. Illustrated through with photos. A very good example of a rarely encountered superb travel book. Cinnabar red cloth covered boards with stamped yellow titles on upper cover & spine. In a very good example of the most uncommon dustwrapper, the spine sunned showing moderate use. The story of the author's trip around the world from 1958 to 1960. A neat Presentation Copy, signed & inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For The / Garnet McRosties / with deep appreciation / for your warm hospitality / during my trip - / And your selfless contributions / to the people of Africa - / Best wishes from the author - / Jimmy Bedford / Christmas 1968" On page 105 of the book: "An African gardener came from a nearby house with some cool, filtered water for me and offered to take me to the American mission . Mrs. McCrostie of Golden, Colo. invited me right in, started fixing a pitcher of cold apple cider, and told me to make myself at home. She apologized that her husband, Garnett, was out in the bush but would return for supper and she was putting on an extra place for me". [A few ink marks throughout & on pp. 104, 105 & 106 where the recipients noted their mention by the author]. A very uncommon book. Printed in India in a small run, few copies have surfaced. Jimmy B. Bedford (June 10, 19271990) was the former head of the University of Alaska Fairbanks journalism department where there is a Jimmy B. Bedford Memorial Scholarship set up in his honor. As a professor of journalism & photography, he was supportive of native Alaska writers: he wrote the foreword for the autobiography of Emily Ivanoff Brown ("Ticasuk"). His papers including the typescript for his "Around The World On A Nickel", are housed at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, consisting of materials documenting Bedford's personal & professional interests & his career in photojournalism & the teaching of journalism & photography. Also found in the collection are files relating to the journalism department of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where Bedford spent most of his teaching career, & to Afghanistan, where he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in the early 1960s. There are also small amounts of material relating to the University of Kansas & the University of Maryland, where he held his first teaching positions. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33375

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