The Portraits and the Poses
by Brock, Edwin
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. SIGNED. 63pp. Octavo [20.8cm]. Bright blue cloth over boards with the title and author printed in black lettering on the spine. Extremeties slightly rubbed and faded. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket and pages slightly age toned. Inscribed by author on the title page in... Read More
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Invisibility Is The Art of Survival
by Brock, Edwin
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. SIGNED. 88pp. Octavo [20.8cm]. Brown cloth over boards with black printed lettering on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Pages and dust jacket age toned. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title and is dated March, 1980. Inscription reads "I nearly... Read More
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, The Mormon Prophet
by Brodie, Fawn M.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Vintage Books. Paperback. NEW. 499pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. Contains a bibliography, appendices, and an index. First published in 1945 and substantially revised in 1970, No Man Knows My History is a model of the biographer's art by a writer who would later become famous for her study of Thomas Jefferson. It... Read More
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No Man Knows My History; The Life of Joseph Smith
by Brodie, Fawn M.
New York: Vintage, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. NEW. 499pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. Contains a bibliography, appendices, and an index. First published in 1945 and substantially revised in 1970, No Man Knows My History is a model of the biographer's art by a writer who would later become famous for her study of Thomas Jefferson. It is... Read More
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Jane Eyre
by Brontë, Charlotte
London: Penguin Random House UK, 2025. First edition thus. Hardcover. New. 533pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated boards with gilt details. Marbled textblock edges and endsheets. Gold hued ribbon pagemarker. "As an orphan, Jane’s childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a... Read More
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Wuthering Heights
by Brontë, Emily
London: Penguin Random House UK, 2025. First edition thus. Hardcover. New. 340pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated boards with gilt details. Marbled textblock edges and endsheets. Gold hued ribbon pagemarker. "The tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate... Read More
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Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, Emily
New York: Penguin Random House, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. New. 344pp. Octavo [19cm]. Illustrated wraps with french flaps.
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Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, Emily
New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. New. 359pp. Duodecimo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “Wuthering Heights,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff. Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and... Read More
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Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, Emily
New York: Signet Classics, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. New. 334pp. Sextodecimo [17cm]. Illustrated paper over boards.
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Wuthering Heights
by Bronte, Emily; Pauline Nestor (Introduction) and Lucasta Miller (Preface)
London: Penguin Classics, 2008. Later printing. Hardcover. NEW. 353pp. Octavo. Gray cloth covered boards with light blue ink stamped titles and decorative designs on the spine and covers. From Publisher: In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere … As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim... Read More
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Mineral Resources of Alaska:; Report on Progress of Investigations in 1911 by Alfred H. Brooks and Others
by Brooks, Alfred H.
Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 520 (George Otis Smith, Director). Wraps in gray, granite patterned paper spine and covers. Heavy rubbing at the head and tail of the spine, with small pieces of each corner missing. Spine is bumpy and has... Read More
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Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1914 (Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey Bulletin 622)
by Brooks, Alfred H.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. Paperback. 380; [xi]pp. Octavo [23 cm] Gray and black printed wraps. Very good. Ex-library, with a handful of ink stamps and markings on the front cover and title page. There are two pieces of red cloth tape at the head and foot of the spine. The spine and edges of the wraps are... Read More
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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir
by Brooke, Rupert
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1922. Tenth Impression. Leather Bound. Fair. 160pp. Octavo [19 cm] Mottled brown leather with a gilt-tooled spine, and decorative borders in gilt on the boards. Gilt turn-ins. Previous owner's initials in gilt on the front board. Marbled endpapers. Front board nearly completely detached (hanging on by only a thread). Moisture ring on front... Read More
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The Land of Sunshine, Southern California: An Authentic Description of Its Natural Features, Resources and Prospects. Containing Reliable Information for the Homeseeker, Tourist, and Invalid
by Brook, Harry Ellington
Los Angeles: World's Fair Association and Bureau of Information Print, 1893. First edition thus. Paperback. Very good. 112pp. Octavo [23 cm] Pictorial wrappers, with several short tears to the edges. The longest tear is closed, along the bottom edge of the front wrap, measuring 1 1/4". With the map "The Counties of Southern California" at the front. Compiled... Read More
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John Doyle Lee: Zealot - Pioneer Builder - Scapegoat
by Brooks, Juanita
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1972. New edition with corrections. Hardcover. SIGNED. 404pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped rules and title to backstrip. Good only. The extremities are rubbed, and the underlying board is peeking through at the bottom right corner. The spine is slightly slanted. There is a very thin 1 inch deep open... Read More
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Frontier Tales: True Stories of Real People
by Brooks, Juanita
Logan, UT: Western Text Society, Special Publication, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 57pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Aquamarine cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Contemporary gift inscription on the front pastedown. Eight stories by Juanita Brooks, a well-known Utah historian, famous for her recounting of the saga of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.... Read More
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
by Brooks, Juanita ( Foreward by Jan Shipps )
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. NEW. Wraps in white rear cover/tan spine and front cover w/William Keith artwork. The classic treatment of a still-controversial part of Mormon and Western History. "In September, 1857, one of the worst atrocities in the history of the westward movement occurred when the Fancher Company was massacred with... Read More
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Jacob Hamblin: Mormon Apostle to the Indians
by Brooks, Juanita
Salt Lake City, UT: Howe Brothers, 1987. Fourth paperback printing. Paperback. Darrell Thomas. 136pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good plus condition. The spine is just a little bit darkened, and there are two tiny stains on the rear wrap. Juanita Brooks is a well respected authority on Utah and Mormon history. Her grandfather was Dudley Leavitt, a... Read More
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Frontier Tales: True Stories of Real People
by Brooks, Juanita
Logan, UT: Western Text Society, Special Publication, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 57pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Gray, purple and black illustrated wrappers. The extremities are just a trifle soiled. Eight stories by Juanita Brooks, a well-known Utah historian, famous for her recounting of the saga of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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John Doyle Lee: Zealot - Pioneer Builder - Scapegoat
by Brooks, Juanita
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Very Good. 404pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with dark blue printed title on backstrip. Publisher's blue topstain. Covers moderately cocked; extremities marginally rubbed. Released a year prior to the red cloth trade edition. The correct first edition, issued in only a minuscule printing of 209... Read More
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Uncle Will Tells His Story
by Brooks, Juanita
Salt Lake City, UT: Taggart & Company, Inc, 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. 249pp. Quarto [25cm]; thickly woven black and white cloth with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Edition of 2500 copies. The publisher compares this to a "tale of a young Tom Sawyer in an early Mormon settlement." First place winner... Read More
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Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
by Brooks, Juanita
Salt Lake City, UT: Howe Brothers Publishers, 1984. Second printing. Paperback. 342pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. There are numerous light stains on the front cover, and fore edge of the text block. The pages are clean. Illustrated. Historian Dale Morgan started urging Brooks to write this work in the mid-forties. Memoir by the renowned and highly... Read More
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His Place for Story, Robinson Jeffers: A Descriptive Bibliography
by Broomfield, Michael; [Robinson Jeffers]
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 318pp. Quarto [29 cm] Charcoal gray cloth over boards with the title stamped in silver on the backstrip. Lavishly illustrated. With the compact disc at the rear. "A marvelously comprehensive bibliography of Jeffers that reads like a detective novel and makes me want to peek into every... Read More
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Guitar History. Volume 1: Guitars Made by the Fender Company; Gibson SG (2 volumes from the series)
by Brosnac, Donald; Bulli, John
Westport, CT: Bold Strummer Ltd, 1989. Volume 1 is an later printing, Volume 2 is a first edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 35; 39pp. Very slim quarto [28 cm] Saddle-stitched black and white pictorial wraps. Light corner wear to the covers. Subtle toning to the wraps of volume 2. "Guitar History," a series by various authors on topics... Read More
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Colorado Springs, Colorado. No. 2916
by [Stereoview] Kilburn Brothers
Littleton, NH: Kilburn Brothers. Very Good. Stereoview [18 cm x 9 cm] Tan mount. Kilburn Brothers backstamp. Very good.
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