Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
by Bossiere, Zoë
New York: Abrams, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 257pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green paper over boards with title stamped in black ink on backstrip. "A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author’s experience coming of age in a Tucson, Arizona, trailer park. Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (2 volumes)
by Boswell, James; Edited by Roger Ingpen
Bath, UK: George Bayntun, 1925. Newly edited edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1172pp. Quarto [24 cm] 3/4 red leather with pale green cloth, raised bands, and gilt stamping on the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and subtly sunned. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Presentation bookplates awarding diligent study with the seal of... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides (4 volumes)
by Boswell, James; Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, M. P. (Notes)
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858. New Edition, with Numerous Additions and Notes. Leather Bound. 468; 479; 452; 452pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt tooled spines, and red leather spine labels. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Light rubbing to the board edges, and a bit more to the boards themselves. Underlying boards... Read More
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Wild Flowers of America: Botanical Fine Art Weekly
by [Botany]
New York: G. H. Buek & Co, 1894. Bound book edition (individual issues were published weekly). Periodical covers are not bound in, and this is unpaginated. Hardcover. Good +. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 31 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with decorative lettering and floral designs on the front cover. All edges gilt. Presentation slip neatly mounted to... Read More
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Mexican Home, Santa Fe, New Mexico
by [Cabinet Card] Brown Bothers
New York City: Brown Brothers, 1875. Very good. Cabinet card [11.5 cm x 16.5 cm] Brown Brothers backstamp.
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Rocket to the Morgue
by Boucher, Anthony
New York: Penzler Publishers, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. New. 224pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. With characters based heavily on Anthony Boucher's friends at the Manana Literary Society, including Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Jack Parsons, Rocket to the Morgue is both a classic locked room mystery and an enduring portrait of a real-life writing community. Reprinted for the... Read More
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[Salt Lake City, Utah] [Portrait of One Man Standing and Two Women Sitting]
by [Boudoir Cabinet Card] Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe)
Salt Lake City, UT: Art Bazar. Photograph. Very Good. Portrait photograph [14.5 cm x 20 cm] on a C. R. Savage mount [17.5 cm x 25 cm]. Subjects unknown. Written in pen, below the image: "Ho, for the Salt Lake! Aug. 8th 1894." A striking portrait image from the renowned Mormon pioneer photographer, Charles Roscoe Savage, who is... Read More
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Tender Killers
by Bougrain-Dubourg, Allain; Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
New York: The Vendome Press, 1985. English-language edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong quarto [27 cm x 35 cm] Brown paper over boards. 70 illustrations in color. The boards are just a trifle concave and the text block is very slightly wavy. There is a former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. In the dust jacket, with general... Read More
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Bove and Davis' Diving Medicine
by Bove, Alfred A. [Respiratory Medicine] [Emergency Medicine]
Philadelphia: Saunders, 2008. 4th edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 623pp. Quarto [26 cm] Glossy paper over boards. The pages are clean and bright. May require extra postage due to weight. With brand-new chapters on Kinetics of Inert Gas, Marine Poisoning and Intoxication, and Diabetes and Diving, as well as completely revised chapters on Medical Evaluation for Sport Diving,... Read More
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Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau
by Bowden, Charles; Jack Dykinga (Photographs); Robert Redford (Foreword)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jack Dykinga. 128pp. Square quarto [29 cm]. Blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Spine a touch rolled. Dust jacket mildly rubbed. With 81 photographs reproduced in color.
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Sonata
by Bowden, Charles; Alfredo Corchado (Foreword)
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 180pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Gray paper over boards, with title stamped in silver on spine. In this sixth and final installment of his "Unnatural History of America" series, journalist Charles Bowden contrasts the intractable violence of man with the enduring beauty of the natural world and its potential... Read More
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Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big City Life
by Bowden, Charles and Lew Keinberg
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Richard Younker. [SIGNED]. 198 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Black cloth over boards with original dust jacket, which is in near fine condition. Corners and head of tail of spine slightly rubbed and scuffed. Edges toned. Foreword by William Appleman Williams. "Studs Terkel, 'This book has the eloquence... Read More
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Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
by Bowden, Charles & Lew Kreinberg
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Richard Younker. SIGNED. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Black publishers buckram with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near Fine book, Near Fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title. Photographs by Richard Younker. Foreward by William Appleman Williams. Photographs by Richard Younker. Foreward by William Appleman Williams.
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The Secret Forest
by Bowden, Charles. Photography by Jack Dykinga
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Signed by author and photographer on the title page. Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. 141pp. Oversize trade paperback. Only edition issued. Where the Sonoran desert ends and the tropical forests begin; up against the backside of the fabled Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexican is where... Read More
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Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground
by Bowden, Charles
New York: North Point Press (a division of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 293pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Paper covered boards with title stamped in metallic blue on the spine. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Some minor shelf wear. Blues for Cannibals is the second part of Bowden's trilogy which began with Blood Orchid... Read More
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Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
by Bowden, Charles
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. University of Texas Press Edition. Paperback. New. 227pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; black and white wraps. Foreword by Scott Carrier.
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Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
by Bowden, Charles & Lew Kreinberg
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Richard Younker. SIGNED by Kreinberg. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black hardcover with a gilt stamped title on backstrip. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers are gently bumped and rubbed. There is also a little bit of barely perceptible rubbing along the front joint. In... Read More
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Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
by Bowden, Charles
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Alice Leora Briggs. SIGNED. 165pp. Quarto [25.5 cm]. Black cloth with gold stamped titles on the spine. In the illustrated dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels. Signed by Charles Bowden on the title page. The terrifying words of Charles Bowden matched with the torturous drawings... Read More
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Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
by Bowden, Charles
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. As new/As new. Alice Leora Briggs. SIGNED. 165pp. Quarto [25.5 cm]. Black cloth with gold stamped titles on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket.. Signed by Charles Bowden in black pen on the title page. The terrifying words of Charles Bowden matched with the torturous drawings of Alice Leora... Read More
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Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
by Bowden, Charles & Lew Kreinberg
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Richard Younker. SIGNED. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Photographs by Richard Younker. Foreword by William Appleman Williams. This provocative and beautifully written book will challenge every one of your assumptions about the past, present and future life... Read More
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Down by the River; Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
by Bowden, Charles
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED. 433 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Remainder mark at bottom edge. Charles Bowden was one of the premier writers on social issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. In Down by the River, he turns his critical, lyrical pen to the "War on Drugs
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Dakotah: The Return of the Future
by Bowden, Charles; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword)
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. Hardcover. New/new. 184 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark grey paper over boards. Silver stamped title on spine. "When award-winning author [Charles] Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. 'Dakotah' marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed... Read More
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Killing the Hidden Waters
by Bowden, Charles
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 174pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with a black ink stamped title on the backstrip. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently bumped. A numerical notation has been written in black marker on the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is in very... Read More
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Blood Orchid; An Unnatural History of America
by Bowden, Charles
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First paperback edition. Paperback. NEW. 298pp. Octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. "In this ground-shaking, breathtaking cri de coeur, Bowden digs with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brace New World. The figures he casts before us - from Pancho Villa to a modern-day drug lord, from General... Read More
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Verbatim: A Conversation with Charles Bowden
by Bowden, Charles; Mona Mort
Tucson, AZ: Sylph Publications, 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Steven M. Johnson. SIGNED. 58pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. 1/4 green satin over pictorial boards with a silver ink stamped leather title label on the backstrip. No dust jacket, as issued. Signed by both Bowden and Mort on the limitation page. This is copy 13/50. Sylph Chapbook Number 7. ... Read More
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