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The Miners' Own Book: California Mining
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949. Hardcover. Brown cloth with paper boards. Boards soiled and warped, corners bumped. Endpapers age-toned. Containing Correct Illustrations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Mining. Reprinted from the original edition of 1858. With Introduction by Rodman W. Paul. Item #2217
Price: $185.00
A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
Middletown: Seth Richards, 1815. Hardcover. Neatly rebound in brown leather. Extremities and corners bumped and rubbed. Pages heavily soiled. Item #1366
Price: $750.00
Boas, George
A Critical Analysis
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Lean to spine. Head of spine frayed. Boards and extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Inscription on paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket faded and soiled with large chips and tears. Item #4614
Price: $45.00
Bronner, Milton (Editor)
Letters from The Raven: Being The Correspondence Of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin
London: Archibald Constable & Company, Ltd. 1908. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and design. Lean to spine, head and tail creased and frayed. Cloth faded and discolored. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Endpapers discolored. Item #2997
Price: $35.00
Flaherty, Frances Hubbard
The Odyssey of a Film-Maker. Robert Flaherty's Story.
Urbana, Illinois: Beta Phi Mu, 1960. Hardcover. Black cloth and paper boards. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Head and tail of spine creased. Previous owner's name and address in ink on paste-down endpaper. Glassine wrapper chipped and creased. Spine of wrapper missing. Beta Phi Mu Chapbook, Number Four. Scarce. Item #2064
Price: $50.00
George Haven Putnam
George Palmer Putnam: A Memoir
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Extremities and corners bumped and rubbed. Head and tail of spine creased. Endpapers stained with imprint of a paper clip. Letters laid in. Item #1620
Price: $30.00
Gosse, Edmund
Hypolympia Or The Gods in the Island
London: William Heinemann, 1901. Hardcover. Vellum with gilt lettering. Vellum soiled, splitting along spine. Small piece of tape near tail of spine. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Previous owner's paper label on paste-down endpaper, clipping tipped in on rear paste-down endpaper. Endpapers discolored. Rear hinge cracked. Inscribed by the Author. Item #2668
Price: $90.00
Hardy, Thomas
Winter Words
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarter bound cream and green paper boards. Slight lean to spine, head and tail creased with small tears. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Endpapers discolored. #30/500 Copies. Item #3472
Price: $200.00
Harris, Wilson
Black Marsden
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Slight lean to spine, head and tail creased. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled with small chips and tears. Item #1748
Price: $55.00
Howells, William D.
The Sleeping Car and Other Farces
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Head and tail of spine creased and frayed. Endpapers discolored. Item #1057
Price: $25.00
Hunt, Sr., Robert L.
Recollections of Farm Life
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1965. Hardcover. Brown cloth with brown lettering and design. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket soiled with chips and tears. Item #2193
Price: $45.00
Jarrell, Randall
Little Friend, Little Friend
New York: Dial Press, 1945. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Slight lean to spine, head and tail creased. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Dust jacket stained and rubbed with large chips and tears, price clipped. Item #2318
Price: $150.00
Johnson, Siddie Joe
Texas: The Land Of The Tejas
Dallas: C.B.S. 1950. Fanita Lanier. Hardcover. Blue cloth with orange lettering and design. Lean to spine. Boards rubbed and discolored, corners bumped. Dust jacket slightly creased and stained with chips and tears. Two numbers written in black ink on front flap. Item #4247
Price: $45.00
Lewis, Sinclair and Lloyd Lewis
Jayhawker
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1935. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Boards faded and soiled. Head and tail of spine creased and frayed. Corners bumped and rubbed through to boards. Previous owner's bookplate on paste-down endpaper. Endpapers discolored. Dust jacket creased, rubbed and soiled with chips and tears. Item #1433
Price: $60.00
Lord Berners
The Camel
London: Constable & Co LTD, 1936. Hardcover. Pink cloth with gilt lettering. Lean to spine, head and tail splitting. Boards stained. Extremities and corners bumped, rubbed and fraying. Item #1889
Price: $75.00
Lyell, Sir Charles
A Second Visit To The United States Of North America
New York & London: Harper & Brothers & John Murray, 1849. Hardcover. Two Volumes. Brown cloth. Lean to spine. Boards and extremities heavily bumped and rubbed. Spine chipped at head and tail, splitting along edges. Previous owner's name and date written in ink on paste-down endpaper. Endpapers stained and discolored... Item #1376
Price: $400.00
Merrill, James
Metamorphosis Of 741
Vermont: The Banyan Press, 1977. Cream paper wrappers. #407/440. Item #4459
Price: $75.00
Nichols, Robert
The Smile Of The Sphinx
The Beaumont Press. Limited Edition. Brown cloth and patterned paper boards. Cloth and extremities rubbed. Boards slightly warped. Rear board stained. #49/295 Copies. Item #4781
Price: $90.00
Owens, William A.
Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait
Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press, 1986. Hardcover. Red blind-stamped cloth with silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket creased. Item #4261
Price: $75.00
Powys, John Cowper
Lucifer: A Poem
London: MacDonald & Co. 1956. Agnes Miller Parker. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Blue leather and cloth with gilt lettering and design. Extremities rubbed and stained, corners bumped. Endpapers and fore-edge soiled. #151/560 Copies Signed by Author. Item #1560
Price: $150.00
Russell, Bertrand
How To Be Free and Happy
New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1924. Hardcover. Green cloth with paper label on front board. Lean to spine. Head and tail of spine creased and rubbed. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on paste-down endpaper, gift inscription on preliminary blank page. Item #1495
Price: $55.00
Toynbee, Jocelyn and John Ward Perkins
The Shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican Excavations
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co. Hardcover. Orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lean to spine. Cloth faded, rear board stained. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine creased. Notes penciled in by previous owner on ffep. Item #765
Price: $90.00
Tracy, Milton Cook and Capt. Richard Havelock-Bailie
The Colonizer: A Saga of Stephen F. Austin
El Paso: Guynes Printing Company, 1941. Hardcover. Beige pictorial cloth. Slight lean to spine. Head and tail of spine creased. Extremities soiled, bumped and rubbed. Rear board stained. Hinges beginning to crack. Endpapers discolored, torn at bottom edge near spine. Top and bottom edges stained. Dust jacket faded and soiled... Item #2198
Price: $35.00
Wallant, Edward Lewis
The Tenants of Moonbloom
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1963. Hardcover. Red cloth. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled. Item #4786
Price: $185.00
Wilson, Edmund
A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty
London: W.H. Allen, 1957. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very slight lean to spine. Extremities rubbed. Endpapers and pages darkened. Dust jacket creased, rubbed and soiled with chips and tears. Item #4350
Price: $75.00
