The Match. The Day the Game of Golf changed forever.
New York: Hyperion, 2007. 8vo, (8), 260pp. Original quarter black cloth, grey boards, dust-jacket. As new. § First edition. A classic, surely one of the best books ever written about golf. More
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[Golf] Carminum Rariorum Macaronicorum Delectus: In Usum Ludorum Apollonarium, Quae Solenniter Edinburgi Celebrantur, Apud Conventum Gymnasticum Filiorum Aesculapii.
1813. Edinburgh: Ex Typographia G. Ramsay et. Sociorum, 1813 8vo, 144 pp. Original blue paper wrappers, text in English and Latin. Backstrip fairly cracked and worn, but with elements of original paper label affixed, internally bright, with several pages unopened. Manuscript page transcription of an epitaph dated 1794..... More
Carbon Typescript of Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, Vols. 1-3.
1935. n.d. c.1935? Bound carbon copy typescript, 4to (20 x 25 cm). 316 leaves typed on versos only and numbered in three parts: 103; 96; 117 pp. 8 leaves with pencil annotations. Paper watermarked "Charles Martin Extra Strong." Bound in three quarter calf and red cloth over boards, backstrip lettered..... More
Sometimes a Great Notion.
1964. New York: Viking Press, 1964. 8vo, 628 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. In dust jacket, with couple of chips at top of archival protected cover. A very good copy. § First edition, first issue text and jacket. (Publisher’s logo on half title; not variant with logo on second half-title, no..... More
Planet News.
1968. San Francisco, City Lights, 1968. 12mo, 144 pp. Original black cloth boards lettered in gilt and silver, in black card slipcase. Slight sunning to backstrip, slipcase fore edge very lightly worn, no marks of former ownership; very good. § Signed by author, number 171 of an edition of 500..... More
Tender is the Night.
1934. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo, 408 pp. Original dark green cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Very good condition, light shelf wear, prior owner's name and gift inscription on front fly-leaf and no other markings. With rare, first state dust jacket, albeit unrestored and faded. Housed..... More
Silent Spring.
1962. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 8vo, 368 pp. Original green cloth with gold stamping on spine and cover; original dust jacket. Near fine copy, in a very good dust-jacket, unclipped (priced $5.00) with light rubbing and edgewear. Bookplate of Alfred Knopf and occasional marginal marks and one annotation (presumably his)..... More
Angle of Repose.
1971. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Col, Inc., 1971. 8vo, 569 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket with just a hint of rubbing and edgewear and lightly soiling to the spine panel. Pulitzer sticker on upper panel. § First edition, signed by Stegner..... More
This is Dinosaur. Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers.
1955. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Large 8vo, 97 pp. Publisher's black cloth, pictorial dust jacket, with fold-out pamphlet incorporating some color photography. A near fine copy in a moderately worn dust-jacket with several closed tears and a chip. § First edition. A book of essays edited by Wallace..... More
One Nation.
1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1945. 8vo, 340 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very good copy in a good only dust jacket with tape repairs. § First edition. "A text-and-picture study" commissioned by Look magazine, "of eight of the most colorful minorities which together make the majority of our..... More
The Big Rock Candy Mountain.
1943. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. 8vo, 515 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very good, a small patch of the backstrip faintly marked, endpapers toned, otherwise clean and square. Dust-jacket good+, short closed tear on upper panel repaired with tape, chips to spine panel ends, tear with..... More
Mormon Country.
1942. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942. 8vo, 3672 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket with trival rubbing and a crease to the spine panel. Bookplate of R.F. McGraw by Maynard Dixon. § First edition, inscribed by Stegner to the American photographer..... More
On A Darkling Plain.
1940. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940. 8vo 231 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy, contents a little age-toned but free of any marks. Dust-jacket unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and with chips to the spine panel, now protected in mylar. § First edition of Stegner's..... More
The Potter's House.
raen. Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1938. 8vo, 75 pp. Printed in black and red. Publisher's cloth, original glassine wrapper. A fine copy in almost pristine glassine toned (of course) with only one significant closed tear. § First edition, limited to 490 copies. Stegner's second book, the scarcest of his..... More
Remembering Laughter.
1937. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. 8vo, 154 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very good, with some fading to board edges and backstrip. Dust jacket, unclipped, very good with some rubbing and edgewear. § First edition, signed by Stegner on the half title. Winner of the publisher's "Novelette..... More
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
1941. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. 8vo, 471 pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on backstrip, in dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Very good. § First edition. Publisher’s complimentary copy, with enclosure slip. One of the most important 20th-century literary and photography books, an extended essay..... More
Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains de la Castrametation & discipline militaire d'Iceux. Des bains & antiques exercitations grecques & romaines. Illustré de médailles & figures retirées des marbres antiques, qui se trouvent à Rome & parfois par notre Gaule. Discours sur la Castramatation et discipline militaire des anciens romains, des bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques et Romaines.
1952. Lyon: Guillaume Roville, 1581. 2 vols. in one, thick 8vo, 339, 54 index; title-page, 154, [10 index]pp. Title-page with the printer’s device, verso arms of Du Choul, 602 figures of which 4 are full-page, in the first part and 37 full-page illustrations in the second. Woodcuts by Pierre Eckirsch..... More
Martij Tullij Ciceronis philosophie totius: ac facundie principis: de Officijs. Amicitia: Senectute paradoxis: Illustria monimenta. Cum diligentissima Iodoci Badij Ascensij textus explanatione. Necnon elegantissimis consummatissimiso Petri Marci commentarijs. Preterea. addidimus Francisci Maturantij Perusini. In libros officiorum. n modo perfecti oratoris: sed eti philosophi per excellentes in eiusdem Ciceronis Paradoxis commentarij ... Deinde. tabula fideliter impressa ... aucta: ad amussimo castigata. Et de nouo emendatus per Nicolaum Cappusotum ..
1952. Lyon: Simon Vincent, 1511. Squat 4to, 8, 281, [1] ff. Below the heading is a woodcut. Below the title is a printer's mark, and below this a fleur-de-lis in red. Title in black and red. Bound by Aarom von Hemmersbach in a colored tattoo binding with the bust of..... More
New Grub Street.
1891. London: Smith, Elder, 1891. 3 vols, 8vo, [vi], 305, [1], [2, ads]; [vi], 316; [vi], 335, [1] pp., with half-titles in all volumes. Blue cloth with lettering and designs in black and gold lettering to backstrips, backstrips slightly faded. Green morocco and cloth folding box with gilt lettering to..... More
Goblin Market.
1893. London: Macmillan, 1893. Tall 8vo, (5), 63, (1) pp. With 12 plates and numerous decorations throughout by Laurence Housman. Original green buckram, covers richly gilt a floral design by Housman, gilt edges. Miniscule wear to tips and backstrip edges. Early owner's name and date (1897) in ink on front..... More
Photographs at the Edge. Vittorio Sella and Roger Hartl, with Contributions by David Breashears, Alexander Maitland, and Levison Wood.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2022. 4to, 216 pages, 144 color plates. Bound by Dragonfly Bindery in full goatskin, with front and rear recessed panels depicting Thesiger and Sella, cut from black goatskin, with onlays of white lambskin, and a background of calf vellum. In a custom clamshell box with..... More
The Song of Los.
1975. London: Trianon Press, 1975. 4to, 8 plates, 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate, and 22 additional progressive proof plates, and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco, a fine copy in slipcase. § Copy B, special publisher’s copy of 26 de luxe..... More
Shakespeare’s Songs.
1907. Stratford-on-Avon: 1907. Small 4to, (6), 32, (3) pp. Title in red and black. Parchment over boards, calligraphic lettering on top cover in red and black, marbled endpapers, light soiling and minor staining to cover. § No. 436 of 510 numbered copies. A very pretty little edition of these songs..... More
The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now Collected and Arranged, with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself.
1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806. Three vols., 8vo., xiv, [1]-440, [36 index]; vi, [1]-468; [x], [1]-552 pp., one engraved frontis portrait and three vignette titles, 12 engraved plates as issued, some fold-out, and one fold-out table. Contemporary half..... More
Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
1974. London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase, fine. § Limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 289. This is the facsimile of Lord Cunliffe’s copy and Kerrison Preston’s proofs; the coloring differs markedly from..... More