Recent Arrivals from Town Books of San Anselmo

This rare title is in excellent condition with just some soiling and rubbing to boards and bumps to corners. Pen name on FFEP. Pages are clean and lovely book ornaments of bridle, halter and horsehoes surround the text on each. The poems celebrate the relationship between horses and their owners, famous racing steeds and the serene enjoyment the author feels toward… Read more about this item

Two books by novelist and poet May Sarton. Both are first editions. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing "explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry" while being interviewed by two young reporters searching for the muse that inspires the author. ---Goodreads The novel is in Fine condition with no… Read more about this item

These rare volumes contatin portraits and short biographies of persons of notoriety in 17th and 18th century Britiain, including highwaymen, convicts, preachers, misers, beggars, aristocrats, murderers, rebels, etc. Each entry has an engaved plate of the individual. Marbled boards are intact but scuffed, rubbed and soiled so as to obscure most of the marbling. End pages are still beautifully marbled. However… Read more about this item

An aging astronomer, Augustine, posted in the arctic and space mission specialist, Sullivan returning from Jupiter, both face a cataclysmic event that has silenced the world they once knew and the loved ones left behind. Small scratch on fornt cover, otherwise fine. Dust Jacket pristine. Signed by author on title page. Not price clipped. Includes a letter from Book Passage of… Read more about this item

A "provocative novel about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough...which affects not only Reed (her husband) but also their children and friends." ... Goodreads Both books are fine. Dust jacket for Crucial Conversations has very mild soiling. Jacket for Private Mythology is price clipped. All proceeds benefit The Friends… Read more about this item

As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties...she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory." --- Goodreads Both books are in fine codition. No flaws. Dust Jackets have very slight… Read more about this item

This is a rare, one-of-a-kind, signed and Inscribed limited edition of paintings, artwork and photography by the renowned Hungarian painters Sass Brunner-Farkas and Elizabeth Brunner. Inspired by a mystic dream of Rabinadrath Tagore, the mother and daughter traveled to India, staying for 5 years. They met and painted Tagore, Mahatma Ghandi, along with portraits of Indian deities, landscapes, and common… Read more about this item

Miss Pickthorn & Hare is a short novel about small village life, solitude, independence, and acceptance. Neighbors must learn to get along with each other and find common interests and friendhsip with one another. Bindings are in pristine condition with only minor soiling. Dust Jacket for Miss Pickthorn & Mr. Hare has bumps and minor chipping to edges and spine ends.… Read more about this item

Both bindings are in pristine condition. Dust Jacket for Faithful are the Wounds has chipping and small tears to edges and spine ends. Small piece missing on bottom edge of front cover. Dust Jacket for A Grain of Mustard Seed is in Very Good condition with some wear and bumps to edges and some soiling to boards. Faithful are the… Read more about this item

This two book set is comprised of May Sarton's short novel, Joanna & Ulysses and a volume of her poetry, Halfway to Silence. The novel follows the adventures and travel of a young Greek woman from Athens who goes to the island paradise of Mykonos to paint and find her true self . Upon arrival, she adopts a donkey who… Read more about this item

This slim volume was a special edition printed for members of The Bohemian Club by San Francisco's well-respected Grabhorn Press. All three plays were presented as entertainment at the Club's annual Christmas gatherings and riff on Shakespeare and Hamlet's famous soliloquy. Three full-page drawings by Tony Sotomayor. Included is what looks like a Bohemian Club program for Shakespearean recitations that… Read more about this item

Christie's debut novel is about young Will who has never left the house of his severely agoraphobic mother until he ventures out and meets a friend Jonah who teaches him how to be a somewhat normal kid. Another boy in the neighborhood goes missing and Will and Jonah set out to solve the mystery. Very mild soiling and rubbing to Dust… Read more about this item

Morrow's, The Forger, is "A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books'...This is the true story of unlikely friends coming together to expose the literary crime of the century, and of a maverick bibliophile who forged not only books but an entire life, erasing his past along the way." ---Goodreads Book and dust jacket are in pristine… Read more about this item

This is a Heroes of History selection from the publishers. Chronicles in typical Western European style and content the Portuguese navigator and explorer who completed the first successful voyage from Europe to India, opening up the spice trade for Portugal. Boards are soiled, corners bumped. Spine gilting and titles are somewhat faded. Bookplate on FEP was issued from the Bridgeton Parish… Read more about this item

This is a rare, early edition of Maxim Gorky's novel ablut the revolutionary spirit of his native Russia. Written in 1906 while he was visitng the Unite States, Mother, chronicles the story of a hard-working mother and son who become emboiled in revolutionary activities while working at a factory. Boards are mildly soiled, corners bumped, with some wrinkling of the cloth… Read more about this item

Irish priest, Father Odran Yate, moves from beloved teacher and confessor at a boy's school to social pariah as the Catholic diocese he comes to serve is embroiled in sexual abuse scandals. Slight bump to spine bottom of dust jacket is the only flaw. No internal markings. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes a letter to the First… Read more about this item

This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day. Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item

This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day. Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item

This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day. Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item

This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day. Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item