Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan
by Porges, Irwin
Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial editing by Hulbert Burrougs. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Quarter black cloth with yellow cloth on the boards, bumped at the corners, dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a soft crease and bump to the top-right corner... Read More
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Flowering Judas and Other Stories
by Porter, Katherine Anne
New York: Modern Library. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Porter on the title page. Foreword by Porter. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($1.45), generally toned. Grey buckram with red ink panels and gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A... Read More
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The Silent Witness
by Post, Melville Davisson
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. About Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($1.00), lightly toned, split at the bottom front spine fold, some tape repairs on the verso. Black cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge and spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, red top stain, clean internally. Post's posthumous publication... Read More
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The Man of Last Resort
by Post, Melville Davisson
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Fair, housed in a custom clamshell box. Wraps soiled, torn, and with some chips, missing the bottom half-inch of the spine. Square, hinges weak, bound with reading wear, former owner's name on the front endpaper. The first printing issued in wraps of this early Randolph Mason novel, later... Read More
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The Corrector of Destinies
by Post, Melville Davisson
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean. A collection of thirteen stories featuring detective Randolph Mason.
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My Name is Asher Lev
by Potok, Chaim
New York: Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, faded at the spine, bumped and with a few short tears and shallow chips at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, black topstain with a few spots of fading,... Read More
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Ezra Pound: Composer
by Pound, Ezra; Hughes, Robert
San Francisco: Cultural Institute of San Francisco, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps rusted around the staples. Firmly bound, clean internally. Includes the laid-in slip with a biography of John Argue and Dorothy Barnhouse. This program accompanied the Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music's performance of Ezra Pound's music, which featured the American premiere of "Le... Read More
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Guide to Kulchur
by Pound, Ezra
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (10s. 6d. net but with a 12/6 sticker on top), generally toned and with a few stains. Green buckram, toned at the spine and edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, signature of statistician F.J.... Read More
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Polite Essays
by Pound, Ezra
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), faded at the spine and edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, signature of statistician F.J. Anscombe on the front endpaper, clean internally. A companion to Make... Read More
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Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
by Pound, Ezra
London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (20s £1.00 net) generally soiled, a few bumps and very shallow chips. Black cloth, boards slightly splayed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Noh" or Accomplishment; A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan
by Pound, Ezra; Fenollosa, Ernest
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Blue buckram, bumped at the edges and corners, toned pastedown on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, pages mostly uncut. Fenollosa and Pound's study of Noh theatre with full play texts included as examples. ... Read More
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Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
by Pound, Ezra; Stock, Noel
New York: New Directions, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps toned and soiled, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Active Anthology
by Pound, Ezra
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Pound. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), toned at the spine, multiple chips and tears at the edges. Red cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, clean internally.... Read More
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King David's Spaceship
by Pournelle, Jerry
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Pournelle on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), a short tear at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. One of Pournelle's works... Read More
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Widow's Might
by Powel, Harford
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, faded orange topstain, clean internally. An early novel from the former editor of Harper's and Collier's. According to... Read More
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
by Powell, John Wesley
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps with a faint crease on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Powell's classic account of his expedition through America's western canyons.
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The Minoan Phaistos Hieroglyphic Clay Disc
by Powell, Ted
Marshall: Would You Believe, 1991. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good. Would You Believe #80. About Very Good. Covers toned and soiled. Firmly bound with four staples, clean internally. One copy located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Morte D'Urban
by Powers, J.F.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Herman Kogan's review copy with a signed note from Powers laid-in. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally rubbed, some creases at the edges. Black buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, Doubleday... Read More
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The Overstory
by Powers, Richard
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Tenth Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95), bumped at the top edge. Brown paper on the boards, bumped at the edges, with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some scuffs at the edges, clean otherwise. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel... Read More
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The Overstory
by Powers, Richard
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, name and short notes on the front endpaper, sparse marginalia. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of "activism and... Read More
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A Problem from Hell; America and the Age of Genocide
by Power, Samantha
New York: Basic Books, 2013. Paperback. Near Fine. Eighth Printing. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed, creased and bumped at the top corner. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning work that interrogates America's response to genocides during the twentieth centry.
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Porius; A Romance of the Dark Ages
by Powys, John Cowper
London: Macdonald, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near FIne. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges, "18/9" on the front flap. Quarter grey buckram with red ink labels on the spine with gilt lettering. Square, bound with some reading wear, front hinge loose, clean internally. Powys's historical novel set after the Roman... Read More
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The Verdict of Bridlegoose
by Powys, Llewelyn
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed, a few tears to the back panel. Black buckram with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain, original newspaper review laid-in.
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The Last Continent
by Pratchett, Terry
London: Doubleday, 1998. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Third Printing. Inscribed by Pratchett on the title page. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (£16.99), toned at the flaps, bumped and with creases at the surface and edges. Red boards, tidemark on the spine and rear board, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, toned pages, clean otherwise.... Read More
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The Cinema of John Huston
by Pratley, Gerald
Cranbury: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.00), faded at the spine, bumped at the top edge with a closed tear at the rear panel. Grey boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Pratley's film criticism drawn from fourteen... Read More
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