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Chicago: The Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1926. Lakeside Press reprint. Hardcover. Very good. 343pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Dark green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. With frontispiece and map. The spine and boards are lightly edge-worn. The classic of the Santa Fe trade, a trade which developed as a result of Pike's report and was carried on by wagon-train over the southwestern prairies.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 284pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with brown ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a large green ink stamped vignette on the front cover. There are several short splits in the cloth at the spine ends, and there is a previous owner's bookplate, along with a name in pen, on the front pastedown. The terminal leaves have minor small stains in the bottom margins. The eleventh work published by the Yale University Press on the Amasa Stone Mather Memorial Publication Fund.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition, #128/225. Hardcover. 236pp. Octavo. 1/4 orange cloth over light orange boards. Near fine/Near fine. DOUBLE SIGNED. Signed by the author on a limitation colphon that is attached to the front free endsheet, and signed again on the title page. First novel by the award winning author published while he was still in college.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 221pp. Quarto [21.5cm] 1/4 tan cloth and black paper over boards with title stamped in black ink on spine. Light foxing to text block. Dust jacket is lightly faded. The first nonfiction book from nature and science writer David Quammen. Essays featured in this collection originally appeared in Outside Magazine and explore peculiar and amazing details of the natural world.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. SIGNED. 221pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with black paper covered boards. In a dust jacket, with subtle fading to the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. First collection of essays from this Rhodes Scholar. Almost all of these essays originally appeared in Outside Magazine. The author's third book, and first work of non-fiction. Brilliant essays on the natural world written with the author's unique perspective.

New York: Scribner, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. 287 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. 1/4 blue paper over green speckled boards. With original dust jacket, which is in fine conditon. Front board cocked; otherwise no visible flaws. Beloved nature writer who for fifteen years detailed his travels and passions in "Outside" magazine takes us around the world, describing his adventures in the Amazon, Indonesia, Jordan, Baja, and even his home state Montana.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1985. First edition thus. Fine/Very good +. SIGNED. 221 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth over black paper covered boards. Dust jacket is toned at spine and has some discoloration to front cover as well as some signs of shelf wear to tail of spine. Publisher's sticker on back flap of jacket and remnants of a previous seller's price sticker on front flap. Signed by the author on the title page in black ink. David Quammen has earned critical acclaim in his work as a nature journalist through his work in National Geographic, the Rolling Stone, and Outside Magazine. He was awarded a Gugenheim fellowship for his accomplishments as a science writer and explorer.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New. 406pp. Octavo. [23cm]. "National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic—a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time." (The New York Times). Breathless is a "gripping" (The Atlantic) but "clear-eyed analysis" (Time) of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a "forever virus," destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another. As… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 287pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 blue paper with pale green paper over boards. Very good. The front cover is a little bit concave. The dust jacket is in fine condition. David Quammen has won the National Magazine Award for his science essays and other work in Outside magazine twice. Signed by Quammen on the title page.

New York: Scribner, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. 287 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. 1/4 blue paper over green speckled boards. With original dust jacket, which is in fine conditon. Front board cocked; otherwise no visible flaws. Beloved nature writer who for fifteen years detailed his travels and passions in "Outside" magazine takes us around the world, describing his adventures in the Amazon, Indonesia, Jordan, Baja, and his home state Montana.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition, limited. Hardcover. SIGNED. 236pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 orange cloth over light orange paper covered boards. Very good. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the top edge of the text block is lightly soiled. There is a faint indentation in the top edge of the rear board. The half title page is just a little yellowed. In a very good dust jacket. Very subtly age-toned and soiled, and also just a little scratched and creased. There are several thin, faint marks on the panels. Signed by the author on a limitation colophon that is attached to the front free endsheet. Number 87 of 225 copies. First novel by the award winning author published while he was still in college.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Good only. There is a large moisture stain that covers the bottom half of the spine and surrounding areas on the covers. In a very good dust jacket, with a barely perceptible damp stain on the spine of the jacket. Lightly rubbed. With essays by Ben Lifson and Richard Eldridge, and Eugenia Parry Janis. From the Introduction- "In her own time Content's work not only won the respect of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe but was published in the French journal Photographie. It was therefore recognized in Europe as being in the same arena- figured in terms of quality, integrity, and artistic understanding- and deserving of the same chance to survive as the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Florence Henri, Andre Kertesz, Dora Maar, Martin Munkacsi, Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, and other major and minor photographers of the period.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. SIGNED. 151pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth over boards. In a dust jacket with several minor closed edge tears. With photographs by Elaine Querry. Foreword by Larry L. King. This copy is warmly inscribed by the author to Bisbee bookseller, Walter Swan, on the title page.

Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Corporation, Inc, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. 103pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Pictorial boards. With sunning to spine, and minor fading to boards. Signed by the author on the title page.

Santa Fe: Red Crane Books, 1993. Advance Readers Copy. Paperback. 218pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue and black printed wraps. Very good. Very minor sun fading to the extremities. The front cover has a large abraded patch, where the publisher's information was rubbed out. There is also a small light stain on the front wrap. There is a short closed tear in the top edge of the front wrap, and again at the foot of the spine. Internally, very clean. From the rear cover- "The Death of Bernadette Lefthand is alleged to be a work of fiction, but it all rings true to me; that may be because Ron Querry is a Native American writing about a place and a people he feels for and understands well... we not only have a moving story, but also a history that is highly readable." - William Eastlake.

Santa Fe, NM: Red Crane Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED. 218pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Blue boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Light bumping to extremities. In a mildly toned and rubbed dust jacket. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. A novel of murder and witchcraft set on contemporary Navajo and Jicarilla Apache lands.

Marseille, France: Edition P. Tacussel, 1985. Bilingual edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 192pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth over boards with white ink stamped lettering on the spine and front cover. The front board is a bit dulled and soiled along the edges. The price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed. There is a 6" closed tear in the top edge, and there are several small closed and open tears in the edges as well. The top edge of the front panel is creased. The text is in French and English. Translated by Roger Kemp. A monograph devoted to this important member of the Provençal school.

Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books. Hardcover. As NEW. 685pp. [23.5 cm]. New. Hardcover. Historian D. Michael Quinn examines the contradictions and confusion of the first two tumultuous decades of LDS history. He demonstrates how events and doctrines were silently, retroactively inserted into the published form of scriptures and records to smooth out the stormy, haphazard development. The bureaucratization of Mormonism was inevitable, but the manner in which it occurred was unpredictable and will be, for readers, fascinating.

Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 631pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. In this impressive study of the "elder statesman," as reporters labeled Clark, D. Michael Quinn considers what it meant for a Latter-day Saint to attain such national and international stature, although Quinn never loses sight of Reuben's very human qualities either. This fresh, intimate approach presents Clark on his own terms and draws readers into Clark's world in the context of the larger society of his time and place.

Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 597pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; gray cloth covered boards with gilt title on front board and spine. From publisher website: The final volume of the Mormon Hierarchy series, completing D. Michael Quinn's study into the financial hierarchies of the LDS Church.