Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Malo, WA: The Anonymous Press, ca. 2008. Facsimile edition. Octavo. 400pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Facsimile reproduction of the 1939 first edition.
Isaac Asimov. John De Pol, illustrator. “The Dream” “Benjamin’s Dream” and “Benjamin’s Bicentennial Blast” (Benjamin Franklin Printing Week Library Keepsake No. 23). New York: Privately Printed, 1976. First edition. Twelvemo. 51pp. Illustrated, with woodcuts by John De Pol. Publisher’s green paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in.....
Bill Wittliff. Joe B. Frantz, introduction. Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy. San Antonio, TX: University of Texas INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES at San Antonio, 1972. First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Scarce. Signed by Bill Wittliff and Joe B. Frantz. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photos by Bill Wittliff. Publisher's patterned.....
Danny Lyon. The Bikeriders. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. First printing. Octavo. 94pp. Illustrated with b/w photos by Danny Lyon. Publisher's card wraps, perfect bound. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder of the Encino Press.
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Carl Hertzog, design. Reverend Jerry Wallace. The Literature of Christmas: A Paper Read to the Tucson Literary Club December 15, 1969. Tucson: St. Hilda’s Guild Grace Episcopal Church, 1970. First edition, one of 450 copies printed. Inscribed to Bill Wittliff by book designer Carl Hertzog. Twelvemo. 26pp. Publisher’s patterned.....
Cecilia Lucy Brightwell. Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie: Selected and Arranged from Her Letters, Diaries, and other Manuscripts. Norwich: Fletcher and Alexander, 1854. First edition. Octavo. 409pp. Brown polished calf, spine decorated in gilt with gilt stamped title, five raised bands, speckled edges, gilt library of congress stamps to spine ends. .....
Rachel Carson. Lois and Louis Darling, illustrated. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo. 368pp (indexed). Illustrated with drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, yellow top-stain, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $5.00.
![Item #2829 The Elements of Dramatic Criticism [First Edition]. William Cooke](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2829.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771445035)
William Cooke. The Elements of Dramatic Criticism. Containing an Analysis of the Stage Under the Following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-Comedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce. With a Sketch of the Education of the Greek and Roman Actors; Concluding with Some General Instructions for Succeeding in the Art of Acting. London: Printed for.....
![Item #2792 Black Folk: Then and Now [First Edition]. W. E. B. Du Bois](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770834952)
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Black Folk: Then and Now. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1939. First edition. Octavo. 401pp (indexed). Maps. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.
John Erskine, editor. Books and Habits: from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. First edition. Octavo. 328pp. Publisher’s red cloth, printed title page to spine.
M. F. K. Fisher. Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets. New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Furst edition. Octavo. 491pp (indexed). Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $3.75.
William Gilpin. An Essay on Prints. London: Printed by R. Blamire, 1792. Fourth edition.Octavo. 174 + xi (index). Printed errata to last page. Rebacked in later brown leather, utilizing original half-leather over marbled paper boards , gilt-stamped title strip to spine, five raised bands, edges stained yellow, marbled endleaves.
1984. [Limited Edition] Zane Grey. The Western Motion-Picture. Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1984. Limited edition, No. 13 of 25 numbered copies, with a tipped in canceled check from Grey dated October 8, 1930, signed in full. Octavo. 19 pages, printed on Fabriano Roma, with a tipped in artist proof of.....
[H. G. Wells]. The Humours of Cycling. London: James Bowden, 1897. First edition. Quarto. 96pp. Illustrated by various artists. Publisher’s gray pictorial cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered and decorated in red and black, edges stained yellow, in later cloth dust wrapper and titled leather and cloth slipcase.First edition.....
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mechanism in Thought and Morals. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1871. First Edition. Twelvemo. 101pp. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, rear cover lettered in blind.
Richard Jefferies. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. New edition. 12mo. (approx. 5in. x 7 1/4in.). 331pp. Red leather prize binding, spine decorated in gilt with gilt stamped title, Holborn Estate Grammar School crest in gilt to front cover, marbled edges, marbled endleaves. .....
![Item #1980 Notes on the State of Virginia [First American Edition]. Thomas Jefferson](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1980.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759345527)
Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: Prichard and Hall, 1788. First American edition. Octavo. 244pp. Includes Prichard’s advertisement dated 1787, “Eye-Draught of Madison’s Cave” woodcut, and folding-table listing Virginia Indian tribes. Rebacked in later leather, utilizing original front board, gilt-stamped titles to spine, endleaves refreshed.Scarce unauthorized first edition.....
![Item #2929 The Beauties of Johnson [First Edition]. Dr. Samuel Johnson](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2929.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775250178)
Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous. London: G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. Octavo. vii, [5], 206pp. Later marbled boards, gilt-stamped leather title to spine, brown top-stain, endleaves refreshed.
![Item #1500 The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy [Miniature Book]. John F. Kennedy](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1500.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742932299)
[Miniature Books] John F. Kennedy. The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States. Delivered at the Capitol / Washington January 20, 1961. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, [1963]. First edition. Miniature (approx. 2.75 x 1.75 inches). 30pp. With b/w photo portrait frontispiece by Fabian Bachrach.....
D. H. Lawrence. Mornings in Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. Octavo. 189pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated on green and black, original unclipped dust jacket.From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate.
D. H. Lawrence. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine. Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. Limited edition, No. 396 of 925 numbered copies. Octavo. 240pp. Publisher's beige quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in black. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal.....
E. B. White. Here is New York. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Octavo. 54pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate.
Jean Luc-Godard. Tom Milne, translator, commentary. Jean Narboni, editor. Richard Roud, introduction. Godard on Godard. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First American edition. Octavo. 292pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer.....
John Updike. Hawthorne's Creed (Targ Edition No. 12). New York: Targ Editions, 1981. Limited first edition, one of 250 copies. Signed by John Updike. Octavo. 13pp. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated pastedown to front cover, original buff colored paper dust wrapper. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home.....
Larry McMurtry. Commencement 1995: Green Fields Country Day School. Tucson, AZ: Larry McMurtry, 1995. First edition. Octavo. [4]pp. “This printed copy of his timely and eloquent address is his gift to the graduates and families of the Class of 1995…” Paper wraps, staplebound. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home.....