Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson - 1971

New York : Scribners, 1920. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pages just slightly toned, else near fine, finely bound in recent full dark green morocco, raised bands with gilt title and decorations on spine. The spine and front board from the original binding bound in at the rear. A very nice copy of this first edition, in a very handsome binding.

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Unexplored Northwest Texas in 1854
[Texas] Parker, W[illiam] B[rown]. Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R.B. Marcy through Unexplored Texas in the Summer and Fall of 1854. By W.B. Parker, Attached to the Expedition. Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell. 1855. First edition. Original brown ribbed cloth with publishers' logo stamped in blind on covers, title in gilt on spine. [i-v] vi-xii, [9] 10-242 [1] 2-6 ads [4] pp. Cover with wear and bumps. Scattered stains and spots. Very good.
Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 135n. Graff 3195. Howes P91. Plains & Rockies IV:279. Raines, p. 162. Streeter Sale 397. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography 2176. Vandale 129. William Brown Parker, a friend of Marcy's, was a New York City businessman and editor who wanted to see the West. Parker writes in an engaging style and provides information not found in other accounts of the important Marcy-Neighbors exploration of the Big Wichita and the headwaters of the Brazos to find sites in… Read More

Munich: M. Müller & Sohn, 1919. 9x12 inch broadside, paper evenly toned, couple of short, unobtrusive closed tears at right edge, very good. A lovely example of this proclamation issued under Toller's name on behalf of the Provisional Revolutionary Central Council of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. Undated, but the example illustrated in "Sammlung von Flugblättern betreffend die Münchener" has a penned date of April 13, 1919. Toller had replaced Ernst Niekisch as head of the Central Council on April 8. "To the working people of Bavaria! Bavaria is a Soviet Republic! Great rumors are circulated by those who seek to harm your interests. Everything is calm in Munich. No shots were fired...." Outlines problems with the pre-existing electoral system, promises a new regime of workers' councils. "The farmer has to stand by his plow, the blacksmith by his anvil... All mistrust is misunderstanding! Therefore be united in the Soviet Republic of Bavaria!

No place, no date (but Paris, 1748). Folio. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to the King, 78 engraved plates. Some (water)staining but still a good clean copy bound in nineteenth century 3/4 red morocco & red buckram boards. Edges stained red.Second, last and best edition of this collection of engravings of medals commemorating the real and imagined triumphs of Louis XV's reign.

New York: A.J. Johnson & Son, 1876. Thick Quartos. In four volumes Illustrated with maps, plans and textual engravings. With numerous contributions from writers of distinguished eminence in every department of letters and science in the United States and in Europe. The editors included such scholars as Asa Gray of Harvard and Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian who also wrote definitive articles (many of which are cited today). Originally designed to have 4700 pages in three volumes, it became evident that a fourth volume would be required. The plan led to 6,983 pages of text with intext illustrations. The maps are unnumbered as is the various pages of those who reviewed the set's importance. Former President Grant considered it essential as did Hamilton Fish, Winfield Hancock and Alexander Stephens. A lavishly bound set in full brown morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (volume two lacking a front endpaper) Each volume has fabric sewn on the free marbled… Read More

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Oakland, CA: Calderwood, G. W. and Loofbourow, G. T., 1897 (Copyrighted 1896). First Edition. Very good. First edition; 11 3/4 x 9 1/4; pp. iii-v, [3], 9-99, [1]; pink wraps, printed in blue, with a sepia-tone photograph; illustrated with numerous maps and b & w photographs; two stamps of the Calfironia State Board of Trade to lower margin of front wrap; small, antiques shop label to front wrap verso; a thin strip of clear tape to spine cover; a few spots to margins; overall bright and well-preserved; in about very good- condition.Intented to be "mailed free to prospective home seekers on application to Secretary of Merchants' Exchange or Board of Trade, Oakland, Cal.," the book was pronounced by, then, former Mayor William R. Davis, to be: "...the best and most accurate presentation of our resources and local attractive features, and as an advertising medium yet published in the interest of Alameda County." It began with an aptly-titled chapter - "Deadly… Read More

Illustrated. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. Boston, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the front flyleaf, "Fanny C. Stone with kind regards of H.W.L." [Frances Coolidge Stone was a friend of Longfellow's daughter Alice. She was the daughter of Eben F. Stone of Newburyport, MA, who served in the Massachusetts Senate in the 1850s and was a U.S. Congressman in the 1880s.]Longfellow has also signed his name on page 63 under his birthday listing for February 27.Many other signatures are inscribed on their birthdates throughout the book. Binding worn at edges and corners; o/w a fine copy.

TREATISE ON AGRICULTUREIllustrated with 19 full-page wood engraved plates of agricultural tools and equipment.Agostino Gallo was a famous agronomist who introduced the cultivation of rice and wheat in Italy. This treatise on agriculture describes in detail various farming practices; the quality of the soils; the cultivation of alfalfa, vine plants, gardens, etc.; and the cows, oxen, sheep, goats, horses, and donkeys who were an integral part of the process.8vo. Limp remounted vellum. Venice, Camillo Borgominerio (Borgominieri), al segno di San Giorgio, 1578. Later Edition.Endpapers renewed (with 18th century paper); 2 old marginal inscriptions; slight water stain on one page; o/w a fine copy of this fascinating treatise on 16th century agricultural practices.