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New York: Harper, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A novel, first published in London. First US edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with wear at the corners and a small surface scar on the back panel and a short tear at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. With an information card from the Parnassus Books Signed First Editions Club laid in.

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1888. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. An offprint of this descriptive monograph on the Siphonophorae order of Hydrozoans. Issued without illustrations. Reprinted from Jenaischen Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft XXII. Band. 46 pages. First edition (first printing). Spine worn, else good to very good in original pink wrappers. This copy was presented to Karl Brandt, the marine biologist, "K. Brandt v. Verf." The phrase "v. Verf" is short for "vom verfasser" or "from the author." It is your humble cataloguer's opinion that the notation is not by Haeckel but was written by someone at the publisher.

San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 1999. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. One of 300 copies numbered, signed, and dated (in January 2000) by Hall and bound in handmade paper wrappers incorporating maple leaves from Eagle Pond. "Beginning in 1983, Donald Hall and his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon, send Christmas cards with one of Donald's poems (one year with a poem by Jane)... These poems have been gathered in Winter Poems from Eagle Pond, together with a short introduction by Hall and two woodblock prints by artist Barry Moser"-preface. [32] pages. A fine copy in a fine printed envelope. Signed by Hall on the colophon.

Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. xii, 320 pages. Facsimile reprints of Hall's publications on Newton, including the long essay, Correcting the Principia. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy. No dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Photographs of the Paris underworld at night. With accompanying text by the photographer. First American edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Some spotting to the edge of the page block and the inside of the jacket. Inscribed by the photographer, "For Ronald Bostrom bien amicalement Brassai. New York, le 20 Oct. 1976.

Eureka, CA: Daily Humboldt Standard, 1890. First Edition. Good. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages are mostly devoted to the history of the county (with many advertisements from local businesses), then follows a directory of business owners by last name and then a classified listing of business by type. There is an index to the advertisers at the front and a biographical section devoted to leading business owners and important businesses at the end. Hamm also includes railroad schedules, navigation information, mail delivery routes, and telegraph offices. The advertisements are particularly detailed and many are full-page, taking advantage of the large format of the directory to include illustrations and detailed descriptions of products. In 1885, Humboldt County's white residents… Read More

Eureka, CA: Daily Humboldt Standard, 1890. First Edition. Good. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages are mostly devoted to the history of the county (with many advertisements from local businesses), then follows a directory of business owners by last name and then a classified listing of business by type. There is an index to the advertisers at the front and a biographical section devoted to leading business owners and important businesses at the end. Hamm also includes railroad schedules, navigation information, mail delivery routes, and telegraph offices. The advertisements are particularly detailed and many are full-page, taking advantage of the large format of the directory to include illustrations and detailed descriptions of products. In 1885, Humboldt County's white residents… Read More

London: Privately Printed [Boriswood], 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A novel, set in Ireland, about a teenager, Sheila Moynihan, who leaves home because her brothers are molesting her, only to have to fight off an attempted rape, and to suffer further molestation by a series of priests she turns to for help. A rather grim picture of sexual violence in the 1930s. Due to the subject matter, the book was published in an edition of 110 copies for private circulation. This book was written while Hanley's earlier novel, Boy, about a young sailor who meets a similar fate to Sheila on a merchant ship, was prosecuted in England for obscenity. Resurrexit Dominus has never been reprinted. 320 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good acetate dust jacket. Lacking the slipcase. Signed by Hanley on the limitation page. This is Hanley's own copy of the book, with extensive revisions marked in pencil, sanitizing the book to make it more palatable to the official… Read More

Jordan Valley, OR: Mike Hanley IV, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Anecdotes connected to the Hanley family in the Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada high desert country. Illustrated with halftone photographs. 128 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition. A fine hardcover copy. No dust jacket, probably as issued. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

London: Orbit in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book two of the Black Iron Legacy. This is one of 500 numbered copies, signed on the title page; with rose-dyed page edges. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 178, signed by Hanrahhan.

V Praze: Nákladem spisovatelovým, 1853. First Edition. xvi, 152 pages. A collection of German and Slavic proverbs. First edition (first printing). A fine set of folded and gathered pages. Never bound or sewn, as issued from the printer.

Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of essays. 185 pages. First edition (first printing with a line of letters beginning with A). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For Lynn and Gene, it was a pleasure meeting you at Plum Creek, Steve Harrigan. Nov. 10, '94.

Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 185 pages. A collection of essays. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For Tom & Meredith, best wishes from your pal, Steve Harrigan. July 25, '89.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A novel of male middle age set in Greenwich Village, with brief mentions of characters based on Beat writers. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good tanned dust jacket, missing a small chip at the top of the spine. This copy has an intriguing inscription, "to Jack with gratitude for your according extremunction to The Secret Swinger as his sales began to expire. Alan H. Jan. '67.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The signed, limited edition of this novel, published in an edition of 250 copies in lilac cloth and a matching slipcase. First editionA fine copy in a near fine slipcase; still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of the three novellas published later in the year as The Summer He Didn't Die. This is one of 1000 signed hardcover copies issued to promote the book. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in red cloth; no jacket, as issued. Signed by Harrison on the first page. With the publisher's PR letter laid in.

New York: Atlantic Monthly / Grove Press, 2001. Uncorrected Proof. Hardcover. Near fine. An advance copy, preceding the first edition, of this collection of essays on food, one of Harrison's great passions. 283 pages. An uncorrected proof, with at least minor differences from the first edition, including an Atlantic Monthly imprint on the title page, a different title of the introduction, and a different page count (though the content seems the same). An uncommon issue.

New York: Grove Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel. Orr and Torrey bibliography, A52C. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Harrison on the title page.

New York: Grove Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A terrific association copy of this collection of essays on food, one of Harrison's great passions. The first edition was a relatively small 17,881 copies. 271 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by Harrison to his friend and neighbor, Margot Kidder, the actor best-known for playing Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies. Harrison and Kidder both lived in Livingston, Montana, and this is probably a presentation copy, inscribed, "To my dear Margot, this [?], with love from Jimmy (going to France tomorrow)." Harrison has further signed in full on the half-title page. The inscrutable word looks a lot like "wisdom", but I don't think Harrison would be so pretentious. In any case, an exceptional copy of this collection of food writing.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A wonderful association copy, inscribed to the artist and book illustrator Barry Moser. Three novellas: Brown Dog, Sunset Limited, and The Woman Lit by Fireflies. According to the Orr and Torrey bibliography (A22B), one of 20,000 copies printed. 247 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Harrison on the title page, "To Barry Moser! Jim Harrison. [Small cartoon face] Art!" With Moser's bookplate on the front free endpaper.