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London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Episcopal Book Club selection, with printed envelope laid in. From the library of Madeleine L'engle, though containing no ownership markings. Near fine in like jacket with fading to lettering on spine.

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near fine first printing with a few small spots of foxing to bottom page block edge in fine jacket. Signed by author and dated in year of publication on title page. Author's first book.

Random House, 2015. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proofs of this posthumous collection. Near fine in publisher's blue and white patterned wraps with some light curling to corners and a few pink marks to front cover.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First edition. 8vo, 272, [1]pp. Photographs. Signed by Jackson on the title page with photograph from the signing event laid in. Purple and black paper boards lettered in silver. Fine in fine jacket. Signed first printing.  .

Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition, inscribed by Jackson on ffep. Very good in like jacket with some wear and small tears to spine ends and corners. Important book of "Black Experience" poetry highlighting figures such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan & Bremer, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated first edition, limited to 1100. Near fine hardcover with foxing to top edge of page block in like jacket with light sunning to spine.

Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. 4to, 128pp. Pictorial, glossy boards. Photographs by Layne Murdoch. A photo-packed scrapbook of one of the hottest teams in the NBA!" Promotional book for the Mavericks who finished at 38-44 that season. This copy signed and warmly inscribed by center and All-Star that year, James Donaldson #40 to Jack and Helen Leffler on the copyright page. Laid in are 6 large black and white, copyrighted photographs by Jack E. Leffler, who was the Seattle Supersonics photographer at the time, and would have known Donaldson from his previous stint with the team. 3 of the photographs are signed by Leffler. 4 of the photos are NBA stars in action, including one each of Stockton and Malone. One photo is of Leffler courtside, and the last is a Sky Eye photograph of two mountain peaks in the Northwest. Wonderful association copy in near fine condition with light soiling to the front board.

Colorado Springs: Burnt Fork Publishers, 1979. First edition. 4to, 10x7" [2], 66, [2]pp including illustrated paper wraps. Illustrations, advertisements. Staple bound periodical, very good with some toning, smudging, lightly creased front cover, and address label to rear. Internally clean with toning to pages. Scarce issue of this quarterly journal, one of the first devoted to the subject of outdoor survival. Includes articles on nuclear age survival, making pemmican and arrowheads, tipi living, and others. OCLC shows holdings of the later "best-of" publications, but not of the original journal.

Portland, OR: Dark Regions Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 200 copies signed by all contributers, this being #195. Includes stories from Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tamsyn Muir, and many others. Fine condition in like jacket and slipcase.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Eros Keith. First edition. Very good in pictorial boards with dusty top edge of page block in like jacket with light chipping at head of spine. Original price of $3.95 in tact.

Ysleta: Edwin B. Hill, 1938. First edition thus, 50 copies. Brochure, [3]pp. Staple bound in printed card wraps. Chipping and toning to edges, very good. Short fable of Japan from Arthur Russell (1861-1945), columnist for the Minneapolis Journal and Minnetonka Record.   Myers Myers 91.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. Second Large Printing, stated on jacket. 8vo, 373pp. Frontis, black and white photos throughout. Signed and inscribed by Ishimoto to the former and dated 1937, in Tokyo, on the ffep. Beige cloth with blue, illustrated labels on upper board and spine, top edge stained red. Very good with minimal wear to boards, spine label lightly faded. Jacket spine sunned and with chipping at spine ends and corners, and a couple tape repairs to the underside. Signed copy of this autobiography from Shidzue Katō (1897-2001), influential Japanese feminist who was particularly important in establishing birth control education in japan.  Following the publication of this work, Katō would go on to serve as the first woman elected to the national legislature of Japan.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1984. Limited to 1500 signed copies, this being #858. Quarto, 28x21cm, 61pp. Illustrations by José Luis Cuevas, and signed by him at the colophon. Design binding by Jarmila Jelena Sobotova. French structure, full black goatskin with mirror image, green cutout designs on upper and lower boards. Green morocco spine label in the shape of a pedestal with an apple balancing on top, lettered in gilt. Top edge painted green, hand sewn head and tailbands in black and green silk. Green and black marbled endpapers by Sobotova. Fine condition in matching Solander box. Kafka's famous novella from the Limited Editions Club with interpretive illustrations from Mexican artist, José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017). This copy in a unique design binding from Czech artist, Jarmila Jelena Sobotova, former student of Jan Sobota (1939-2012). A copy of Sobotova's own description of this project is included and sheds some light on her process of creating this tremendous volume: "The top and… Leer más

[Barre]: Barre Publishers, 1970. Number 53 of 900 signed copies. 8vo, 23x15cm, unpaginated. Text printed in red throughout with black and white woodcuts by Helen Siegl, and signed by her at the colophon. Three piece Bradel binding, gold morocco spine, red and gold marbled paper over boards, beveled edges and matching endpapers. All edges painted green, red and green head and tailbands. Gilt edged, die-cut bell design on upper board with green morocco inlay bearing pine needles tooled and painted in gilt with a bright red morocco cardinal onlay. Small scuff along upper joint, minor wear at corners in matching marbled slipcase which shows some rubbing to extremities. Nearly fine. Beautiful design binding for this book of carols with woodcuts by the Philadelphia artist, Helen Siegl (1924-2009). Originally issued as loose signatures, this set vividly enhanced by the work of talented Czech binder, Jarmila Sobotova, student of Jan Sobota. Sobotova's stamp adorns the rear pastedown. This unique binding is… Leer más

N.p.: Jeanclaude, 1981. First edition of 200 copies. 8vo, 24pp. Text in French and English. 9 mounted images of circles and squares on a background that gradually shifts from all black to all white. Staple bound in white printed wrappers. Some toning and light wear. Very good. An interesting piece of esoterica from an unknown author which consists of an introduction followed by 9 short pieces accompanied by images, which describe how the soul goes from an unconscious to a conscious state.  The author explains; "As the hermit-crab which, during its growth, must leave its shell which has become too small, in order to seek a larger one, so must our consciousness leave a frame which, having once acted as a protection, has now become a prison.  Our human adventure and our becoming is to evolve gradually from an unconscious state to a state of pure consciousness." We find no mention of this author/publication in OCLC nor elsewhere.  .

New York: Little Simon / Simon & Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful first printing copy of this Disney alphabet from Jefferds. Near fine in publisher's pictorial boards in like jacket with some wear at spine ends and corners. There is some sticker residue to the front cover.

Austin: The Jenkins Company. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Light blue stapled wraps with some adhesive residue to rear cover and light wrinkling to corners, else clean. A few pencil marks internally. Good bibliographic reference.

Austin and New York: The Pemberton Press, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Limited to 300 copies. 4to, [30p]. Perfect bound in green wrappers with black and white lettering. Laid in is a printed bookmark, folded over the title page: "season's greetings from John H. Jenkins." Very good with some sunning and wear to edges of wrappers and a small pen mark on front cover. This is an interesting copy, complete in original mailing envelope addressed to Dick Bosse, proprietor of the historic Aldredge Book Shop in Dallas, and postmarked Dec. 23, 1972. The envelope is tattered along the top, opened edge and split partway down each side.

Austin: The Jenkins Company. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Peach colored stapled wraps with some adhesive residue to rear cover, else clean. A few pencil marks internally. Good bibliographic reference.

Austin: The Jenkins Company. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Green stapled wraps with a small split at heel and some adhesive residue to rear cover, else clean. A few pencil marks internally. Good bibliographic reference.