Worlds Without End: A Book of Short Stories
by Baker, Denys Val
London: The Sylvan Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Biro. 168pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers are bumped and rubbed, and the pages are tanned. In a very good dust jacket,... Read More
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Through the Sipapu: A Canyonlands Phantasy
by Baker, Pearl
Green River, UT: Canyonlands Gifts & Books, 1970. Paperback. SIGNED. 60pp. Quarto [28 cm] Spiral bound wrappers. Very good. Warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Scarce. A fictional story of creation and the afterlife as viewed by the Native Americans of Utah.
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Through the Sipapu: A Canyonlands Phantasy
by Baker, Pearl
Green River, UT: Canyonlands Gifts & Books. Spiral Bound. 60pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black plastic spiral binding with gray and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very slightly soiled and discolored. A fictional story of creation and the afterlife as viewed by the Native Americans of Utah.
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Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America (2 volumes)
by Baker, Sir Samuel W.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1890. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 419; 379pp. Octavo [22 cm] 3/4 dark brown leather with marbled paper over boards. Marbled text block edges. Marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to the extremities. Front boards do not quite lay flat. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Very light foxing to the plates (primarily to... Read More
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Legends & Lattes
by Baldree, Travis
New York: Tor, 2022. Reprint. Paperback. New. 294pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. "After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of... Read More
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Bookshops & Bonedust
by Baldree, Travis
New York: Tor, 2022. Reprint. Paperback. New. 294pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never... Read More
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If Beale Street Could Talk
by Baldwin, James; Brit Bennet (Introduction)
New York: Vintage International, 2024. Deluxe Edition (Second Printing). Paperback. New. 197pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A stunning edition of James Baldwin’s timeless novel, with a new introduction by bestselling novelist Brit Bennett and special cover art designed by Baldwin’s friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney From one of our greatest writers, James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could... Read More
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Giovanni's Room
by Baldwin, James
New York: Vintage, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. New. 169pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. A fictional offering from James Baldwin. In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture
by Baldwn, James; Raoul Peck
United States of America: Vintage International, 2017. Later printing. Paperback. New. 118pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin’s oeuvre to... Read More
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Super-Cannes
by Ballard. J.G.
Hammersmith, London: Flamingo, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. 391 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. Black cloth over boards with silver stamped title on spine. Corners and head/tail of spine are bumped. Page block is just beginning to separate from binding. Original dust jacket is in very good condition. It is heavily creased at top fore edge... Read More
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The Salt Eaters
by Bambara, Toni Cade
New York: Vintage, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. New. 295pp. Octavo [20.5] Illustrated wraps. "Set in a town somewhere in the South, here is the story of a community of black people searching for the healing properties of salt who witness an event that will change their lives forever. Some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened,... Read More
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Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The Native Races. Volume I. Wild Tribes; Volume II. Civilized Nations; Volume III. Myths and Languages; Volume IV. Antiquities; Volume V. Primitive History (5 volumes)
by Bancroft, Hubert Howe
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, Publishers, 1882. First edition. Leather bound. 797; 805; 796; 807; 796pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 3/4 brown calf with marbled paper over boards, gilt tooled spines and red and green leather spine labels, and double gilt ruled borders on the covers. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Mild rubbing to the extremities. Underlying boards... Read More
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15 Poems
by Banks, Russell; Matthews, William; Newton Smith
Chapel Hill, NC: Lillabulero Press, 1967. First edition, 1/500. Paperback. 21pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wrappers. SIGNED by the author Russell Banks on the title page. Banks' first published work. Scarce.
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Quelques Coins Du Coeur: Proses. Avec 24 Bois Dessinés et Gravés par Frans Masereel
by Barbusse, Henri; Frans Masereel
Geneva: Éditions du Sablier, 1921. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good. 92pp. Octavo [23 cm] Printed wraps. With the publisher's glassine wrapper (title written in faint pen on spine of wrapper). In the slipcase decorated with paper imitating wood grain. Slipcase has just a tiny chip near the foot of the spine, and a previous owner has neatly mounted... Read More
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Theatre Pompadour: Les Maitres de l'Affiche pl.203 [Print]
by Barcet, Emmanuel
Paris: Imp. Chaix, 1900. Print. Very good. [Illustration approx. 28.4cm x 23.5cm; Mat approx. 36cm x 51.2cm; Frame approx. 59.3cm x 51.2cm]. A color poster printed on wove paper showing an image of a coy-looking woman on a dark background with a motif of paper lanterns, marionettes and theatrical masks with the words "Theatre Pompadour" along the top... Read More
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The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
by Barchas, Janine; Isabel Greenberg (Illustrator);
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2025. Reprint. Hardcover. New. Isabel Greenberg. 144 pp. Octavo [25.3 cm]. Illustrated wraps over boards. Blue end pages. From the publisher: "The Novel Life of Jane Austen is a one-of-a-kind, impeccably researched, ecstatically drawn graphic biography of one of the world’s most beloved literary icons. Combining deep scholarship and serious whimsy, The... Read More
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Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
by Barger, Ralph "Sonny"; Keith and Kent Zimmerman
New York: William Morrow, 2000. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. SIGNED. 259pp. Octavo [24 cm] in boards. Spine ends gently bruised. Light rubbing and scratching to the panels of the jacket. Inscribed by Barger on the tipped-in half title page: "To Michael, Sonny
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You Shall Know Them
by Vercors [pseudonym of Jean Marcel Bruller]; Translated by Rita Barisse
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Book-of-the-Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 249pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Top edge stained red. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. A sharp copy, in a dust jacket (with rubbing to the surface). #216 in "American Lost-Race Fiction: The Stuart Teitler Collection," a catalog produced in 2008 by... Read More
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L'etoile: Revue mensuelle de la Mission francaise de l'Eglise de Jesus-Christ Des des Saints des Derniers Jours (The Star)
by Barker, James L. (ed.)
Paris, 1947. No. 3. Paperback. Very Good. [25pp.] Octavo [22 cm] Light green illustrated wrappers. Toning to extremities. "The Star: Monthly Journal of the French Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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L'etoile: Revue mensuelle de la Mission francaise de l'Eglise de Jesus-Christ Des des Saints des Derniers Jours (The Star)
by Barker, James L. (ed.)
Paris, 1947. No. 1. [25pp.] Octavo [22 cm] Light blue illustrated wrappers. Near fine. "The Star: Monthly Journal of the French Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Difficult Decisions in Digestive Diseases
by Barkin, Jamie S.; Arvey I. Rogers
Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good +. 575pp. Quarto [26 cm] Boards. May require extra postage due to weight.
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Seventeen Sisters Tell Their Story
by Barlow, Barbara; Virginia Webb
Scrivener Books, 2015. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 232pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Pictorial wrappers. "We've watched interesting plural marriages in TV documentaries, read about them in books, and even seen them featured in an HBO series. We've heard daunting stories about young women forced into marrying older men and the admirable journey to escape their way out of the... Read More
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The Natural History of a Wasatch Winter; The Natural History of a Wasatch Spring; The Natural History of a Wasatch Summer; The Natural History of a Wasatch Autumn - 4 volumes
by Barnes, Claude T.
Salt Lake City, UT: The Ralton Co, 1959. Original paperback printings. Paperback. Very good. 96; 98; 100; 98pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Various shades of printed wraps. With mild darkening to the pages, and an old price in pen in the top fore edge corners of the pages. The spine of the second volume is faded. Natural observations by the... Read More
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Utah Canyon Country: No. 1
by Barnes, F.A., and Wilson, Ted
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Geographical Society, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Unpaginated. Oblong octavo. [22 cm]. Cream paper over boards with original dust jacket.
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Utah Canyon Country: No. 1
by Barnes, F.A., and Wilson, Ted
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Geographical Society, 1986. Paperback. Fine. [SIGNED]. Unpaginated. Oblong octavo. [22 cm]. Pictorial wraps.
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