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New York: Thomas Dunne for St. Martin's Press, 1986 Signed and inscribed by Author on Title page. Hardcover, with dust jacket in Brodart cover, 234 pp. Winner of the 1995 St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. From the blurb: "Retired U.S. Naval Officer John Caine lives aboard his sailboat ...off Oahu and makes a living doing "favors for friends, "-recovering lost property and running high-risk errands..." His former commanding officer's daughter turns up dead, plunging Caine into a double jeopardy: can he solve the case without splashback sullying the reputation of his client? Scandal, romance, fire, sharks and contract killers...all in a day's work for our hero. Condition: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Like New.. Signed and inscribed by Author on the title page.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 2000 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp xv [3] 202 [4]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a ship at anchor, gilt titles to spine on dark green printed labels, and end papers featuring a tropical landscape with exotic animals. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. With illustrations and color plates. Condition: Fine. *** A wonderfully illustrated account of Charles Darwin's famous voyage to discover the process of evolution. The journey aboard the HMS Beagle lasted five years, from 1831 to 1836, and took Darwin to South America, Tahiti, the Galápagos Islands, and Australia. He contracted malaria (and was treated using various local remedies), was nearly stranded ashore in Montevideo, collected fossils, hunted kangaroo, and got thoroughly homesick (the trip had been planned to take just two years). The captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, spent the trip conducting geological surveys for the British Admiralty. Both FitzRoy and… Leer más

New York: International Polygonics, Inc., 1990 Hard cover with dust jacket in a Brodart cover, 204pp. In this tenth, (and last), novel featuring the gritty world of Detective Tony Lonto and his partner Runnion of the Homicide Squad. In what has been described as a well-woven police procedural, the body count begins with the murders of a florist, followed by an off-duty police detective. Lonto struggles to identify the good guys from the bad guys, as members of the city's narcotics squad seem to be implicated. The author (born 1937) is an ex-convict who, among other things, worked in intelligence during the 1950's in Europe, and was president of the prison bonsai club at Stillwater State Prison in Minnesota, where he served three sentences. Condition: Fine, with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Konigstein: Verlag Robert Langewiesche, 1980 Hard cover, quarto, 224pp. Condition: Fine in like dust jacket. ** Illustrated book of German woodcuts until the end of the 17th century. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Doubleday, 1981 230pp. Hardback, with dust jacket, in mylar cover. Chastain, who would become the president of the Mystery Writers of America in the late 'eighties, here gives us a brazen jewel heist pulled off on the streets of Manhattan to solve. Contains publisher's card. Condition: Fine, with a Fine dust jacket (minor scuffing.). Advance Reader's Copy. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2004 Hard cover, quarto, 335pp. Reprint edition, with bibliographies in several languages. Condition: Fine.. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Harper Collins , 1999 First U.S.Edition, 1999 (later printing). Hardcover, black cloth with gold title to spine, 399 pp. Oprah Bookclub edition d/j. Condition Fine, with Near Fine unclipped d/j, in mylar. Young Eliza Sommers, raised among conservative English relatives in Valparaiso, Chile, sets sail in search of her departed lover, gone to seek his fortune in the California gold rush of the 1840's. From the blurb: the " on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough and tumble world of SanFrancisco and northern California, we enter a world who's newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever…Her search for the elusive Joaquin gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms over time, and what begins as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.". Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Rhinehart & Company, 1954 Hardback, with pictorial dust jacket protected by a Brodart cover, 246 pp. Advance Publication Notice laid in. The death on a picket line of Rabbi Sakker raises difficult questions in this Southern Californian whodunit. Condition: Fine, with a Very Good dust jacket. Grey paper-covered boards with white and yellow titles. No bumps or other wear. Uniform age-toning to text. Endpapers clean, binding tight. Dust jacket, with art of Ben Feder, has one inch-long tear on front, some slight foxing to rear, and wear to corners, head and tail of spine.. First edition, Advance Reader's Copy. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

London: Sotherby & Co., 1974 Hard cover, quarto, 79pp + index. Auction catalog of works by Daumier, Monet, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Degas and others. Will full-page color illustrations. Condition: Near Fine in like dust jacket. Dust jacket a little age-toned.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Mainz: Druck der Mainzer Presse, 1951 Hard cover, quarto, pp 58 [6]. Illustrated covers. Includes illustrations of the books of Gutenberg. Christian Heinrich Kleukens (1880 - 1954) was a German printer and typographer. Condition: Near Fine. With signature of University of Michigan Professor of German, Emery E. George to front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Vien: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Otto Pächt, Publisher, 1974 First Editions, 1974 and 1977. [4 VOLUMES IN 2 SLIPCASES ALTOGETHER] In German. Französische Schule I: Taffeln, mit 375 Abbildung und 8 Farbtafeln, (unpaginated); Textband mit 110 Abbildungen, (198 pp. plus illustrations.) Französische Schule II: Taffeln mit 424 Abbildungen und 9 Farbtafeln, (unpaginated); Textband mit 110 Abbildunge. (240 pp. Plus illustrations.) Hard cover, 4to., (measuring 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches) in red publisher's cloth with titles in gold to front board and spine. The two red cloth-covered slipcases each have a color reproduction to the front. Condition: books, Near Fine, very clean, tight and bright, glossy paper, spines slightly sunned. Slipcases Very Good, with slight soiling and sunning, otherwise very sound and attractive. ***Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula of the French School at the Austrian National Library of Vienna, Vols. I and II, published by the Austrian Academy… Leer más

Hammersmith, London: Eragny Press, 1903 Hard cover, 12 mo (4 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches) in quarter blue green Michallet paper-covered boards over decorative "daisy" design paper, the title label in red applied to the left side of front board. Inside, are cream laid endpapers. The watermarked Arches paper also carries the Eragny Press watermark (best seen to the ffep.): a roughly circular monogram made up of an Art Nouveau initials "E "and "P" intersected by images of two vertically-oriented acanthus leaves. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. 30, [2] pp., First (and only) Edition. Letterpress, hand printed in Black, red and green, using woodblock designs created by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, with the frontispiece illustration by Author and artist Diana White, entitled "Oh that Ishtar Might Hear Me." Text is printed in Lucien Pissarro's own Brook font, created after the use of type from the Vale Press, with whom Pissarro was also engaged upon his arrival in London in 1893, was famously destroyed… Leer más

Portland, Oregon: National Society of the Colonial Dames, 1987 Hard cover, 8vo, 194pp., First Edition. A collection of letters by a 49'er who left his home in Baltimore to look for gold in the California Gold Rush of 1849. The collection was given to The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Oregon by his daughter, Jane Smith Taliaferro. Condition: About Fine in like dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989 Hardback with dust jacket, 188 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the author who does, indeed, run a British bookshop. In this, the critically-acclaimed fifth mystery of the series starring fictional book dealer Matthew Coll, our hero travels to Verona to research a manuscript he hopes will shed light on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Condition: Near Fine, with a Very Good+ dust jacket. . first U.S. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

Fortrose: Stansfield, 1974 46pp. Facsimile of the 1752 edition. Limited edition of 500. Owner's signature to front endpaper.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

't Goy, The Netherlands: Antiquariaat Forum, 2000 Soft cover, quarto, 208pp. Illustrated catalogue from the Dutch book dealer, Antiquariaat Forum. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Printed For Private Distribution, 1873 Hard cover, 8vo ( measuring 5 1/2 x 8 3/5 inches), in quarter tan cloth over blue paper-covered boards, re-inforced at the joints, possibly, with a vellum strip, the spine with a printed paper title label, plain cream endpapers. [Alternative title spelling given in page headers.] Collation: [6] 1-61, [3]pp. First edition in English.**CONDITION: Very Good. Exterior of boards show moderate soiling and edge wear. Hinges in order. End papers browned. Very light foxing to prelims at margins, and along all outer edges of text block. Pages are moderately age toned, generally clean. Presentation inscription: " William Morris, Esq. /from H. Buxton Forman" (undated) in old ink to prelim. page.**Morris wrote to Forman thanking him for the book (Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol 1, No. 216). Kelvin records his actual thank you letter for the book in 1873 (as No. 216 in Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. I) which reads in part: "nor am I much… Leer más

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923 Hard cover, 12mo., pp 43 [1]. Signed by author. Limited edition: number 148 of the 250 for sale; (another 30 for presentation.) Printed by Richard Clay & Sons Ltd., Printers, Bunguay, Suffolk. In publisher's quarter cream cloth, over blue covered paper boards. Paper label to front cover, and gold lettering to spine. Plain olive-gray dust jacket with titles to front and spine. Fore-edge of text block untrimmed. Condition: Very Good. Light foxing throughout. Light shelf wear to bottom edge of covers. Author signature on limitation page "goes over" to gutter of p. 15 (signed when sheets were unbound presumably.) Dust jacket dust-soiled on spine, with tiny loss to head of spine, now protected in mylar. ** Wonderful orientalist story of the journey the Magi took across the desert to Bethlehem. Inspired by the image of the sleeping Magi on the walls of Sant Abbondio church in Como, Italy. ** Scottish politician and author, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936),… Leer más

Paris: Croulbois, 1785 Hard cover, 8vo., pp [4] xxxiv [2] 522 [6]. French text. Leather binding with gold lettering to spine, which has five raised bands. Condition: Very Good Minus. Covers very worn at corners. Some loss to head and tail of spine. Outer joint cracked at head and tail. Hinges firm. First few pages have dog-ear creases. Very small chip missing from the corner of one page (not affecting text). Pages browned with age. ** Pierre Bertholon (1741 - 1800) was a French priest and physicist, known for his works on electricity. He was influenced by his friend, Benjamin Franklin, and procured lightning rods for the protection of southern France. De L'Electricite du Corps Humain concerns the effect of electricity on various human maladies. . Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1893 Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover Crown 8vo., in original green publisher's trade cloth with pictorial gilt to front board and spine, 158 pp. No dust jacket. The satirical persona of landed country squire Sir Roger de Coverly was the invention of Addison and Steele, and premiered in The Spectator during 1711. Irish illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) is credited with the cover design of this volume as well as the fifty illustrations within. His delicate pen and ink style of illustration was particularly suited to the depiction of characters from the "Queen Ann Revival," which harkened back sentimentally to pre-industrial Britain. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to corners. Spine somewhat cocked. Light scattered foxing within does not detract. Old ink gift inscription on ffep. dated 1893. Old bookseller's label (small) insufficiently removed from bottom corner of front pastedown. The pictorial bookplate of Dr. Ann Ridler (1935-2018) appears… Leer más