Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert
by McCrary, Amber
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025. Paperback. New. 102pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In a voice that is jubilant, irreverent, sometimes scouring, sometimes heartfelt, and always unmistakably her own, Amber McCrary remaps the deserts of Arizona through the blue corn story of a young Diné woman figuring out love and life with an O’odham man. Reflecting experiences of... Read More
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Satyrs and Sunlight: Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae
by McCrae, Hugh; Thomas Earp (Introduction)
London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited edition. Leather bound. Norman Lindsay. 176pp. Quarto [30 cm] Green suede, with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a small gilt stamped vignette on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Other edges deckled. Very good. The extremities are rubbed. The spine is very heavily discolored. The spine and covers are also... Read More
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Cowboy Artists of America, Seventh Annual Exhibition / 1972 presented at The National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City
by McCrea, Joel; William Moyers
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 79pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown vinyl cloth with thickly woven orange cloth over boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the initials of the Cowboy Artists of America stamped in brown on the front cover. Brown endpapers. Near fine condition. The sketches by the individual artists were... Read More
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
by McCrumb, Sharyn
A Dutton Book, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 386pp. Large octavo [23.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Minor spine lean. Very occasionally, the top corners of the pages have been folded over. In a very good dust jacket. Lightly creased and rubbed.... Read More
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The Square Root of Wonderful
by McCullers, Carson
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Light gray boards quarterbound in charcoal colored cloth spine. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with very light accompanying rubbing. Pale yellow endpapers. 159 pages. Dust Jacket - 1/4" of the head of the spine and 1/8" of the tail... Read More
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West Wind Drift
by McCutcheon, George Barr
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 368pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Light and dark blue cloth covered boards. The extremities are moderately rubbed and bumped, and there is a bookseller's small bookplate on the rear pastedown. No dust wrapper. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. Reginald 09886.... Read More
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The Desert: God's Crucible
by McDaniel, Bruce W.
Boston: Richard G. Badger: The Goreham Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 116pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. In an illustrated dust jacket with a small crease at the bottom of the spine. An illustrated book of poetry lauding the deserts of the American West.
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The Last Interview
by McDonald, Craig
Reynoldsburg, OH: Hector Lassiter LTD, 2007. Limited Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Twenty-fourmo [14 cm] Stapled gray and black printed wraps, featuring a sketch on the front wrap by Madeleine McDonald. Very good, with just a small stain on the front cover. Copy number 139 of 200. Signed by Craig McDonald on the limitation page.
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Photographs: Elliott McDowell
by McDowell, Elliott
Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. Square quarto [29 cm] Bright purple cloth over boards, with the title and author stamped in gilt and silver on the backstrip. With a light dampstain along the top edge of the front board, measuring approximately 1 and 1/2" wide x 1 and 1/2" deep. In... Read More
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Photographs
by McDowell, Elliot
Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Quarto [29.5cm] Purple cloth over boards, title in gold and photographer name in silver on backstrip. Dust jacket a touch creased at foot. "Elliot McDowell is gifted with an acute sense of the absurd and an enormous capacity to startle, affect, and delight. He charges... Read More
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The Cow: About All I Know I Learned From A Cow
by McEvens, Joe M.
El Paso, Texas: Guynes Printing Co, 1944. First edition. Paperback. Good +. [INSCRIBED]. 71 pp. Octavo. [19.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Back cover features a photograph of a cow with "1944" printed underneath. Spine is separated from page block in two 2 cm tears. Covers and pages are toned. Front cover 1/4 separated from the page block from head... Read More
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Hard Country (Inscribed association copy)
by McGarrity, Michael [Inscribed to N. Scott Momaday]
New York: Dutton, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 607pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 blue paper with mustard yellow paper over boards, with slight cocking to the covers. In the dust jacket, with a number of very faint impressions of notations in blind on the rear panel, the result of the book having been used... Read More
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Hard Country (Inscribed association copy)
by McGarrity, Michael [Inscribed to N. Scott Momaday]
New York: Dutton, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 607pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 blue paper with mustard yellow paper over boards, with very minor warping to the rear board. In the dust jacket, with light shelf wear. A novel of the old west. Inscribed by the author to renowned Kiowa writer and poet N.... Read More
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History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
by McGlashan, C.F.
Sacramento, CA: H.S. Crocker Co., Printers, 1907. Eighth edition. Hardcover. Very good. 261 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Rebound in red cloth. One of the key narratives of the Donner Party (Howes). An affordable reading copy of California pioneer history.
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Annual Report of the City Engineer For the Year 1910 - Engineering Department Salt Lake City, Utah
by McGonagle, G. F. (City Engineer)
Salt Lake City, UT: Tribune-Reporter Printing Co, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Beige cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good only. Ex-library, with just one ink stamp on the rear pastedown. The covers are soiled, and the fore edges of the covers are stained (more so on the rear cover). The... Read More
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Annual Report of the City Engineer For the Year 1909 - Engineering Department, Salt Lake City, Utah
by McGonagle, G. F. (City Engineer)
Salt Lake City, UT: Skelton Pub. Co, 1909. Original edition. Hardcover. 202pp. Large octavo [232.5 cm] Light brown cloth covered boards. Decorative endsheets. Very good. Ex-library, with just one library stamp on the rear free ensheet. The top edge of the front cover is ever so slightly soiled. The edges of the covers are rubbed and gently bumped. Tiny... Read More
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Papers in the Case of McGrorty vs. Hooper, Delegate from Territory of Utah. Printed under resolution of March 7, 1867 (House of Representatives 40th Congress, 2nd Session. Mis. Doc. No. 35)
by McGrorty, William; William H. Hooper
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], 1867. Paperback. 21pp. Thin octavo [23 cm] Unbound pamphlet. Good only. The pamphlet is split in half at p. 17. The last index page is almost completely detached. Flake 9117a. Contested election between William McGrorty and William H. Hooper. Per Flake- "Disputed election due to the polygamy issue.
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Panama
by McGuane, Thomas
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 175pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 olive cloth with matching paper over boards. The very edges of the boards are a bit sunned. In a dust jacket, with gentle surface rubbing. McGuane's fourth novel. Inscribed and dated ("1992") by the author on the half... Read More
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The Bushwhacked Piano
by McGuane, Thomas
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 220pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light brown cloth over boards. Remainder mark at foot of spine. In a dust jacket with darkening to the front panel and spine. McGuane's second novel. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
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Keep the Change
by McGuane, Thomas
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First UK edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 230pp. Octavo [22 cm] Olive green paper covered boards. Near fine / Near fine. Inscribed by McGuane on the title page. McGuane's book, Ninety-Two in the Shade, was made into the film, Panama.
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Be Sure: Wayward Children, Books 1-3
by McGuire, Seanan
New York: Tordotcom, 2023. First Edition. Paperback. New. 528 pp. Octavo [20.9 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little... Read More
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Every Heart a Doorway: Wayward Children (Volume 1)
by McGuire, Seanan
New York: Tordotcom, 2016. Later Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 176 pp. Octavo [ cm]. Green paper over boards. Silver lettering stamped on the back strip. Tan end papers. From the publisher: "New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a fresh take on the portal fantasy genre that blends Alice in Wonderland, The Magicians, and The Nightmare... Read More
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The Last of the Savages
by McInerney, Jay
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. SIGNED. 271pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with light brown paper over boards. The spine ends are just a hair bumped and rubbed. In the dust jacket, with light rubbing to the rear panel. Signed by the author on the title page. Jay McInerney... Read More
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The Greenhouse, Hot House and Stove: Including Selected Lists of the Most Beautiful Species of Exotic Flowering Plants, and Directions for Their Cultivation
by McIntosh, Charles
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, 1840. A New Edition. Leather bound. 415pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Light green cloth over boards, ornamentally stamped in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Good. The extremities are bumped, and the cloth at the spine ends is a bit chipped. The spine is darkened. There is a 2 and 1/2" crack... Read More
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Guillermo del Toro's 'The Shape of Water': Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times
by McIntyre, Gina; Guillermo del Toro (Foreword)
San Rafael, California: Insight Editions, 2017. Later printing. Hardcover. New. 156pp. Quarto [28.5cm]. Illustrated boards. "Chronicles the entire filmmaking journey, from development to design to filming. Featuring interviews and commentary from key actors and members of the creative team, the book also showcases the amazing concept art and design work created for the film. For del Toro fans... Read More
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