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The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Made by the Scientific Commission under the Direction of Major J.G. Barnard, U.S. Engineers. With a Resume of the Geology, Climate, Local Geography, Productive Industry, Fauna and Flora, of the Region; Maps Illustrating the Isthmus of Tehuantepec [Louisiana] - 2 volumes
by Williams, J. J (John J.)
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Text and map volumes. 295pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in original blind-embossed green cloth. Rebacked, with most of original backstrip overlaid. Several small ink stains to boards and spine, darkening to spine, narrow dampstain to rear board at foot, corners lightly bumped; contemporary ink ownership inscription on... Read More
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Portrait Photographers
by Williams, Jonathan
Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Square octavo [21.5 x 19cm]. Ivory colored wraps. In an illustrated dust jacket protected with a separate layer of glassine. Mild waviness to book and jackets. Glassine is toned at the extremities. All in a thin, green slipcase with a bit of creasing along the folds. Jonathan Williams... Read More
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Blake and Tradition (Volumes 1 and 2 in a slipcase)
by [William Blake] Raine, Kathleen
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 428; 370pp. Thick quarto [27.5 cm] Gray cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Silk ribbon page marker. Bibliography and index. 194 illustrations, 11 in color. The books are near fine, with just a touch of discoloration to the publisher's spray on the top edge of... Read More
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Hoboes Rich and Poor
by Williams, Louis
[Seattle], 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 36pp. Slim duodecimo [17.5 cm] Brown textured paper over boards, with the front board stamped in gilt. The text block is cracked at the rear. Scarce. Referred to as a "collection of poems?' in the hobo bibliography, "You Can't Win.
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This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
by Williams, Mai'a
Oakland: PM Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. New. 197pp. Duodecimo. [21 cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Let me tell you a story about migration, about movement, the back and forth of love. Across boundaries and borders, across heartbreak and forgiveness. Let me tell you how we got free, got imprisoned, broke out, broke down, and got up to fight again.... Read More
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Working Hands
by Williams, Rick (Photographs and Text)
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 128pp. Oblong quarto [24 cm x 29 cm] Black cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Number Eight in the Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series. Inscribed by Rick Williams on the half title page. ... Read More
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Every Time a Rainbow Dies
by Williams-Garcia, Rita
New York: Harper Collins / Amistad, 2001. Later Printing. Hardcover. NF/NF. Light blue paper spine and boards. Light bumping at tail of spine. Dust Jacket.
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The Lewis Caroll Handbook
by Williams, Sidney Herbert, Falconer Madan, and Roger Lancelyn Green (editor)
Folkestone, Kent, England: Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd, 1979. Revised Dawson Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 340 pp. Octavo. [22.5 cm]. Light brown cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. Original dust jacket is in VG+ condition with some creasing and wear to right fore edges. This is the foremost reference handbook for those interested in the... Read More
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The Lewis Carroll Handbook
by Williams, Sidney Herbert, Falconer Madan, Roger Lancelyn Green, and Denis Crutch (Revision)
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good +. 340 pp. Small quarto. [23 cm].Tan cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. With a frontispiece featuring a black and white reproduction photograph of Carroll. Dust jacket is mildly scuffed at corners and toned at edges of flaps. Corners bumped. A revised and contemporary... Read More
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Battle of Angels
by Williams, Tennessee
Murray, Utah: Pharos, 1945. First edition. Paperback. 123 [4] pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light gray and red printed wraps. Good only. Fragile wraps. The covers are darkened and slightly soiled. There are two inch losses from the each end of the spine. The yapp edges are chipped and have numerous losses and small closed tears. The longest closed tear... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a green metallic ink stamped title on the spine. The spine ends are gently bumped. In a dust jacket, with light edge wear and fading to the... Read More
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The Secret Language of Snow
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Sierra Club/Pantheon Books, 1984. 4th printing. Hardcover. Jennifer Dewey. SIGNED. 129pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Library binding (not ex-library) with pictorial paper over boards. Very good, with mild bumping at the spine ends, numerous very tiny, light stab marks (possibly from the tip of a pencil) on the rear cover, and a previous owner's name on the front... Read More
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Between Cattails
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Peter Parnall. SIGNED. Slim square octavo [26 cm] Library edition, with sturdy pictorial cloth over boards - not an ex-library book. Near fine condition. The price-clipped dust jacket is in very good condition, with modest soiling, and 6 small, closed tears in the edges. The longest closed tear measures 1"... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a green metallic ink stamped title on the spine. The front cover slants forward just a tiny bit. In a dust jacket, with rubbing and light chipping to... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a green metallic ink stamped title on the spine. In a dust jacket, with minor edge wear and sunning to the spine. Illustrations by Clifford Brycelea. A first edition of... Read More
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Pantheon, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. SIGNED. 419pp. Octavo [24.5cm]. 1/4 rust red paper over blue boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Spine ends mildly bumped. Rear cover just a little warped. In the dust jacket, with light edgewear. Inscribed by Terry Tempest Williams on the half title page. Inscription reads,... Read More
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Picador / Sarah Crichton Books, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. NEW. 228 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; brown and white illustrated wraps. "This poetic memoir continues the work Williams began in Refuge... Williams explores her mother's identity- woman, wife, mother, and Mormon- as she continues to honor her memory... A lyrical and elliptical meditation on women, nature, family, and... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition, signed association copy. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a blue metallic ink stamped title on the spine. Spine ends gently bumped; small smudge mark on front board. In a dust jacket with... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a blue metallic ink stamped title on the spine. The spine is slightly rolled. In a dust jacket, with mild rubbing to the edges, and a small area... Read More
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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Vintage Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. New. 271pp. Duodecimo. [20 cm]. Tan illustrated wrappers. The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s... Read More
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Picador, 2020. Later printing. Paperback. New. 334pp. Octavo [21 cm ] White iIllustrated wraps. Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find... Read More
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The Illuminated Desert
by Williams, Terry Tempest
Moab, UT: Canyonlands Natural History Association / Back of Beyond Books, 2008. Very limited edition. Leather bound. Fine. Chloe Hedden. Unpaginated. Duodecimo [18 cm] Text by Terry Tempest Williams. Art by Chloe Hedden. Calligraphy by Chris Montague. One of five copies of this very limited edition, custom-bound in brown leather by Restoration Books in Logan, Utah. The five... Read More
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Pieces of White Shell
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a blue metallic ink stamped title on the spine. The spine ends are gently bumped. In a dust jacket, with rubbing and sporadic chips along the edges. There... Read More
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Coyote's Canyon
by Williams, Terry Tempest; John Telford
Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. John Telford. SIGNED by both author and illustrator. A collaboration between photographer John Telford and writer Terry Tempest Williams, which "is an intimate meditation on one of the earth's most extraordinary landscapes . . . canyons, mesas, hidden waterways, arches, Anasazi cliff dwellings, and desert... Read More
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The Illuminated Desert
by Williams, Terry Tempest
Salt Lake City, UT: Canyonlands Natural History Association, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Chloe Hedden. SIGNED. Thin folio [33.5 cm] Illustrated paper covered boards. The book has a small ding to the bottom front board near the spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear to the top edge along the... Read More
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