The Way of an Eagle
by Dell, E. M.
New York: A. L. Burt Company. Hardcover. 406pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Pale blue cloth covered boards with decorative red and black ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped and rubbed. Very minor spine lean. The covers are clean and bright. The text block... Read More
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Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
by Del Toro, Guillermo; Marc Scott Zicree
San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2025. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. New. 264pp. Quarto [30cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "Cabinet of Curiosities begins with a book-length interview with del Toro by New York Times best-selling author and filmmaker Marc Scott Zicree, in which they identify and discuss del Toro’s reigning themes, citing examples of his signature motifs that... Read More
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Guillermo del Toro's 'The Devil's Backbone'
by del Toro, Guillermo; Matt Zoller Seitz; Simon Abrams
San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. New. 156pp. Quarto [28.5cm]. Illustrated boards. Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro’s early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro’s "The Devil’s Backbone" announced the director as a singular talent with a unique ability to mix... Read More
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Geographie Universelle Tome VI - La France - Deuxieme Partie - France Economique et Humaine
by Demangeon, Albert; P. Vidal de la Blache et L. Gallois
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1948. Paperback. 463pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Yellow and blue printed wraps. Fair. The text block is broken into two halves and is being held together by a single thread. There is a large chip in the paper at the foot of the spine that measures 5 inches long. As is. French text. May require extra... Read More
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The Year of the Zinc Penny
by DeMarinis, Rick
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 173pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 blue cloth with light gray paper over boards. Very good plus. The spine ends are gently bumped, and there is a subtle ding in the top edge of the front cover. There are a couple of small stains on the terminal leaves.... Read More
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The Voice of America: Stories
by DeMarinis, Rick
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 215pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 dark gray cloth with light gray paper over boards, and silver lettering on the spine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's book, Under the Wheat, won the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature... Read More
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The Coming Triumph of the Free World
by DeMarinis, Rick
New York: Viking, 1988. Hardcover. SIGNED. 177pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 dark blue cloth with beige paper over boards, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. Very good condition. The covers are just a little bit warped. In a very good dust jacket, with only very minor edge wear. Inscribed by the author on the half title... Read More
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Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories
by DeMarinis, Rick
New York, London and Toronto: Seven Stories Press, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. 322pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray paper over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are bumped. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The paper at the head of the jacket's spine is creased. Signed... Read More
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Portraits of the Hurricane Pioneers
by De Mille, Janice Force; Lynn Chamberlain (Director of Photography)
Hurricane, UT: Homestead Publishers, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Art Christensen. 312pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine and covers show minor edge wear. The spine is just a little bit rolled. In a near fine dust jacket, with marginal traces of soiling. Illustrated by... Read More
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The St. George Temple First 100 Years
by DeMille, Janice Force
Hurricane, UT: Homestead Publishers, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 427pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White hardcover with gilt stamped titles and a gilt stamped vignette of the St. George Temple on the front cover. Very good. The covers are slightly soiled and very subtly stained. The rear cover is more soiled than the front cover. The edges of the spine and... Read More
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Edwin Willard Deming
by Deming, Therese O.; Henry Fairfield Osborn (Foreword)
New York: The Riverside Press, 1925. Privately printed. Paperback. SIGNED. 47pp. Thin octavo [24.5 cm] Stapled tan and red printed wraps. Very good. The covers are mildly soiled and bumped. The frontispiece photograph is detached, but present. The pages are yellowed. Inscribed by Deming on the title page. Edwin Deming was an early illustrator and painter of the American... Read More
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A Likely Story
by De Morgan, William
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 370pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The spine is rolled. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. A novel with a talking painting.
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Winter Horses
by Dempsey, Chris
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very fine. Letterpress edition. Handmade string bound wraps with decorative end sheets. Printed simultaneously with the hardbound edition.
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Handbook of Liquid Crystals, Volume 3: High Molecular Weight Crystals
by Demus, D.; J. Goodby and G. W. Gray
Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany: Wiley-VCH, 1998. Original edition. Hardcover. Very good. 532pp. Quarto [24.5 cm] Glossy paper over boards. The spine and covers are rubbed, bumped, and scratched. The pages are free of markings. From the publisher- "Volume 3 concentrates on high-molecular weight, or polymeric, liquid crystals, some of which are found in structural applications and others... Read More
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The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
by Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon
Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2023. First edition. Paperback. New. 148pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he’s sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses... Read More
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Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
by Denig, Edwin Thompson; J. N. B. Hewitt
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1930. Softcover. Paperback. Pp. 377-628pp. Folio [31 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Very good condition. The title has been written in hand on the spine. There is a former owner's ink stamp on the top edge of the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly darkened, bumped and chipped.... Read More
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
by Denton, Sally
New York: W. W. Norton, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 274pp. Octavo. [24cm]. Dark blue paper over boards. Title stamped in white on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. "An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico—an event that drew international attention—The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon... Read More
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black seeds on a white dish
by Dentz, Shira
Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010. First edition. Paperback. NEW. 94pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: The poems in black seeds on a white dish spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus—by destabilizing everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity. These... Read More
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Snow-Shoe Thompson (Early California Travels Series XXI)
by De Quille, Dan
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 63pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]. Printed paper over cream paper, with title printed in black on the spine. Boards are noticeably darkened at fore-edge. Spine is also slightly toned. Foot of spine is lightly bumped. This book 1/210, hand-set in Bulmer types, printed on French Arches paper, and... Read More
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Thomas De Quincey's Writings (Writings of Thomas De Quincey) - 19 volumes of 23
by De Quincey, Thomas
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861. Some stereotyped editions. Hardcover. Very Good. Lacks Memorials (2 vols); The Avenger; Logic of Political Economy. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the spine and embossed ornamental designs on the boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Frontispice portrait of the author in "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"... Read More
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Willy O'Dwyer Jumped in the Fire: Variations on a folk rhyme by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
by De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very good/very good. Beni Montresor. Slim quarto [26 cm] Stapled white and blue printed wraps, with a bright pictorial dust wrapper. Unbound. Lacking the Spartan binding. The wraps and dust wrapper are lightly stained (the majority of the staining is found on the verso of the wrapper), and there are a... Read More
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A Boy's Way: Poems by August Derleth
by Derleth, August; Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins [Cartoons]
Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee Publishers, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Dwig. SIGNED by illustrator. 109pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Pale blue pictorial cloth over boards. Ex-library with a label on the front pastedown. Else, no other markings. Legitimately deaccessioned. Spine subtly faded; two small spots of light discoloration along the top edge of the rear... Read More
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It's a Boy's World: Poems by August Derleth: Pictures by Dwig
by Derleth, August; Dwig [Clare Victor Dwiggins] (Illustrator)
Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee Publishers, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dwig [Clare Victor Dwiggins]. SIGNED. 107 pp. Duodecimo. Beige cloth over boards. Title and illustrations printed in blue on spine and front board. Mild scuffing to extremities. Ex-library, with ex-libris sticker affixed to front pastedown. In a toned dust jacket, with a small loss... Read More
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The Wind Leans West
by Derleth, August
New York: The Candlelight Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth spine and boards with green lettering and gilt ornamentation. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Three spots (one on the upper edge of the rear cover and two on the upper edge of the front) where a bit of the paper of... Read More
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The Villa D'Este
by Dernie, David
London: Academy Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Alastair Carew-Cox. 128pp. Quarto [31 cm] Green cloth-effect paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good condition. The covers are mildly concave, and the spine is slightly rolled. In a very good dust jacket, with moderate rubbing to the surface. A vivid journey through the garden and... Read More
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