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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 fĂĽr 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.

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.

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.

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Harrison; bound in half-marbled paper over gray cloth and issued in a gray cloth slipcase 320 pages. Signed on the half-title page and numbered on the colophon. First edition. An attractive, fine copy in a near fine slipcase. This is copy 235 of 250 signed by Harrison.

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.

New York: Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A signed copy of Harrison's third novel, here in the correct first printing with 5-inch wide brown paper on the boards. [viii], 160 pages. First edition (first printing, with the brown paper covering the boards measuring 5 inches in width). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Harrison on the title page. A decent copy with a couple of minor stains along the top edge of the jacket. According to Harrison's bibliography (Orr and Torry, A12b), there are two "states" of the binding for this book. This is incorrect. The publisher recalled the 5-inch copies and replaced them with ones measuring 4-7/8 inches, while also fixing a problem with the binding. The problem is usually explained as something to do with the glue. I suspect it actually has to do with the size of the page block, which is too big for the binding. This means the publisher ordered a second *printing* of the book, identical to the first… Read More

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.

1989. A pencil drawing of a cobra head used to illustrate Jim Harrison's poem, "Cobra" in the Clark City Press edition of The Theory and Practice of Rivers. Three years earlier, Chatham illustrated another edition of the poems, but with atmospheric rather than literal drawings. Clark City Press was Chatham's imprint. The drawing measures roughly 2-3/4 by 5-1/2 inches on a larger sheet. It is framed in light-colored wood to just shy of 17 by 21 inches. The mat opening is about 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Chatham (1939-2019) was a landscape painter who spent most of his career working in Montana. His paintings provided the cover illustrations for a number of his friend Jim Harrison's books. Chatham wrote on flyfishing and illustrated a number of books about the natural world, including several of Harrison's books. A fine drawing in a fine frame (not examined outside of the frame). With a label from Rebecca Fine Art in Livingston, Montana, on the back of the frame.

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: 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: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 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 near fine copy in red cloth with a bit of light-colored spotting to the front cover; no jacket, as issued. Signed by Harrison on the first page.

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Harrison; bound in half-marbled paper over gray cloth and issued in a gray cloth slipcase 320 pages. Signed on the half-title page and numbered on the colophon. First edition. A bit of spotting on the spine, else a near fine copy in a near fine slipcase with small spots of discoloration. This is copy 208 of 250 signed by Harrison.

New York: E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. An advance copy, preceding the first edition. A novel. 324 pages. An uncorrected proof. A fine copy with a one-sheet publicity letter from the publisher.