Search Results: Literature from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing of H-M edition with illustrations by Herman I. Bacharach. Medium-sized 4to cloth. 287pp. Illustrated endpapers. Fine in very slightly shipped, edgeworn dj. Scarce this printing.

LA: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1957. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 4pp. A wonderful short essay -- a speech given by the great librarian and lover of books, Powell, to a conference of librarians in California. Fine copy.

Waco: Baylor, 1927. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Printed wraps. 51pp. Photos. Volume XXX, #4 of the bulletin. Chipped ex-lib, but very scarce. Dec., 1927.

n.p.: The Clinker Press, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. Fine, letter press printed wraps with titles in red. (8pp). "Printed for the delectation or detestation of the members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs..." Fine, like new.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 161pp. A good book reflecting intellectually on books, book collecting, and book hunting. The author credentials as an English prof at Ohio University comes through. Fine in vg+ dj.

UK: Hay Festival Press, The Drill Hall, 2004. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Fine. Ltd to 100 copies, of which this is number79 signed by Atwood. Small green cloth with printed label on front cover & gilt titles on spine. 54pp. Frontispiece drawing. Laid in Hay Festival Press card. Fine.

Denver: Bella Luna, 1996. First Thus. Soft cover. Fine. Broadside about 14" x 17". This one is copy "H" of 26 lettered copies (regular edition was 350 copies). Signed by novelist David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars) and one initial by illustrator Debbie Faas. Printed by Tom Parson on gray paper handmade by Ray Tomosso. Excerpt from Guterson story. Fine. This more limited edition scarce.

LA: Clark Memorial Library & Ward Ritchie, 1966. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing of the wrappers binding of the book. Decorated wraps. 46pp. Laid in is a narrow slip finely printed crediting the underwriters of this work and given to those attending a convocation honoring Powell in 1966. LCP was one of the great modern American librarians whose passion was books. Fine copy.

NY: Crosscurrents, 1963. First Thus. Soft cover. Collectible Near Fine. Apparently the first printing in English of Premier Khrushchev's speech about correct Soviet arts and lit at a "Meeting of Party and Government Leaders with Men of Letters and Art, March 8, 1963," Volume I, Number 2 of Crosscurrents. Printed white wrappers. 44pp. The question of what the people should be allowed to consume as literature and art never leaves us as some people in power try to control it for the rest of us. Quite a bit of meat to chew on in this speech. A sample from p. 13: "A question is often asked now as to why the violations of the law and the abuses of power were not exposed and ended when Stalin was alive, ..." Tiny edge tear top cover. Near fine. Very, very carce. Only one copy listed in world libraries, which can't be correct.

Univ of Arizona, Tucson, 2007, 2007. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing. Trade pictorial wraps. 204pp. Signed & dated by Alcala soon after publication. "lyrical and entirely absorbing personal essays by the esteemed Chicana writer adn gifted storyteller..." Fine, like new.

n.p.: Swallow Press / Ohio State Univ, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Cloth. 125pp. Exquisite short stories by a master writer. Fine, like new in dj.

n.p.: Coffee House Press, 1996. First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Fine hand-set letter press broadside, 11" x 15 1/2", on fine paper. Paragraph excerpt from Kamau's novel. Cream stock; lead letter enlarged & in rust color. Very slight curve toward one corner, easily pressed out & a nice piece to frame.

n.p.: Coffee House Press, 1996. First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Fine hand-set letter press broadside, 11" x 15 1/2", on fine paper. Paragraph excerpt from Ping's novel. Cream stock; light blue illustration of a loaded wagon. Very slight curve toward one corner, easily pressed out & a nice piece to frame.

McGraw Hill, NY, 1960, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Cloth. 266pp. The book Jesse Stuart said he most wanted to write. Binding pressure crease to half - title page & mild impression to following pages & ffep. Couple of other pages with same. Good thus in slightly chipped dj.

n.p., (Appleton, Century, Crofts), ca 1951, 1951. First Thus. Soft cover. Good. Stapled wraps. (23pp.). Offprint from The World through Literature (Appleton, Century, Crofts). Three line presentation in ink from Behnan above title, signed by Benham, & eight line commentary on the essay & its publisher in ink under the title, with Behnam's initials. Curling to corners. Good. ca 1951.

NY: Macmillan, 1911. Hardcover. Good+. Feb., 1911 printing. Small 8vo decorated cloth. 210pp. From a private library with residue of same on lower spine & tiny personal sticker inside front cover; fos on ffep. Hinges reinforced. Good+; sound copy.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 187pp. Fine essays on nature and life by the acclaimed writer. Fine in moderately worn dj with short tear closed.

Seattle: Third Place Books, 2004. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Tall broadside, 10" x 20". Light blue motif heads the text, printed on cream paper by Stern & Faye "in celebration of John Dunning's author appearance at Third Place Books on March 10, 2004." Signed by Dunning. The21 line text is from Dunning's Janeway biblio mystery, The Bookman's Promise. Fine.

Mills College: Privately Printed, 1938. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printings,. Volume I, Numbers 1 & 2. Pictorial wraps. 51pp + 48pp. January & April, 1938. No. 2 is signed by Chapin. Near fine.

Phillips, Sampson & Company, Boston, 1858, 1858. Hardcover. Fair. Red blindstamped cloth. 631pp. + 14pp. of the publisher's book ads. Nearly 2" top of backstrip missing. Tissue guard to frontispiece missing a piece. ffep with 1" tear near binding. Front hinge is starting but binding is tight. Reading copy.