Maine Home Cooking: 175 Recipes from Down East Kitchens.
Camden, ME: Down East, 2012. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 283 pp. 8vo. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket as issued.
Inscribed by author on the title page. Fine. More
Signed by Author
The Regulation of Size as Illustrated in Unicellular Organisms.
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1931. Hardcover. First Edition. 233 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips and tears at edges, darkening from age, tape repairs on verso, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards, slight darkening to pages from age, very clean within.
Inscribed by the author to a co-worker in 1952. Very Good / Poor. More
Exploring the Secrets of the Aurora.
Netherlands: Springer, 2007. Wraps. Second Edition. First Printing. xxx, 288 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to covers from shelf wear, clean within.
Inscribed by the author on the isndie front cover in the year of publication. Very Good. More
A Maine Portfolio.
Alpert, Michael. Rockport, ME: Maine Center for Contemporary Art, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A collection of stunning black and white photographs by a man who thinks deeply about his subjects, its meaning, and succeeds in translating it visually to the viewer. A fitting homage to Maine by one of its walking treasures. Fine / Fine. More
Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. 255 pp. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Gift bookplate affixed to first free endpaper.
Signed boldly by photographer Sam Abell on the haf-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Frank Lloyd Wright. An American Original.
Austin, TX: Texas Quarterly, 1962. Wraps. As. 85-90 pp. 8vo. Green stiff paper wraps with two slightly rusty staples at spine, some scuffing.
An offprint of the Texas Quartely Spring 1962 Edition. Inscribed boldly on the cover, "The gillensons(?)/1963 greetings/from/Merle" Very Good. More
The Cougar or Mountain Lion.
Salt Lake City, UT: The Ralton Co., 1960. Wraps. First Edition. 176 pp. 8vo. Blue paper wraps with very light scuffing. Interior clean and tight.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine. More
Monticello in Measured Drawings.
Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. 79 pp. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by WIlliam L. Beiswanger on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine.
MacDonald, Thoreau. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. viii, 246 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses at corners, small loss at head of spine, minor chips, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald. Very Good / Very Good. More
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden From Contemporary Appalachia.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. First Edition. xiii, 299 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Signed by editor Adrian Blevins on the title page. Fine. More
The Flight Attendant.
New York: Doubleday, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 356 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. Basis for the successful television series of the same name starring Kaley Cuoco of "Big Bang Theory" fame. Fine / Fine. More
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination.
New York, NY: Random House, 1992. Hard Cover. First Edition. Sec ond Printing. xiv, 811 pp. 8vo. Price clipped dust jacketn, now in mylar cover.
Inscribed by Daniel Boorstin on the first free endpaper. Fine / Very Good. More
Blue Desert.
Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 175, [4] pp. Dust jacket crisp and in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with a slight hint of sunning along the foot of the the front and rear covers near spine. Terracotta endpapers with small blemish on first free endpaper where sticker may have been removed. [Bartholomew A8.a.1].
Signed by Bowden on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate.
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8 pp. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with a dark red paper label front and rear that resembles a bookplate. Clean and crisp within. No dust jacket as issued.
Produced in an edition of 126 copies, 100 numbered copies and 26 casebound, lettered and signed by the author at the colophon. Copy "U" of the casebound edition and signed by Bowden at the colophon. Printed by Jason Davis at the verdant press. Fine / Fine. More
Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate.
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. Wraps. Limited Edition. 8 pp. Dark red paper covers that resemble a bookplate. Clean and crisp within.
Produced in an edition of 126 copies, 100 numbered copies and 26 casebound, this is copy #36 of the numbered edition and signed by the author at the colophon. Printed by Jason Davis at the verdant press. Fine. More
Killing the Hidden Waters.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. viii, [4], 174 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has slight wear and scuffing from shelf wear, small closed 5/8" tear at head of spine right of center, now scuffing cront and rear, 3/4" tear at base of rear panel near lower left corner, small loss at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Light blue denim colored cloth boards with black titling to spine. Small stains at head and foot of cover boards from what appears to have been tape. "Discard" stamp at along foot of text block, only indication that it may be ex-library. [Bartholomew A3.a].
Signed by Bowden on the title page. Very Good / Very Good... More
Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior.
Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 309 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket clean, crisp and in mylar cover.
Signed by Bowden on the half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior.
Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Harvest Edition. 326 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Signed by Bowden on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Exodus/Éxodo.
Cardona, Julián. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 285 pp. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A stunning project that combines Bowden's words with soul searching photographs by Cardona. The prose can be uncomfortable, the images beautiful and unsettling at the same time. Signed by Charles Bowden on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau.
Dykinga, Jack. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 128 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. [Bartholomew A17].
Inscribed by Bowden and Dykinga on the first free endpaper. Fine / fine. More
The Secret Forest.
Dykinga, Jack W. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Softcover. First Edition. xi, 141 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. [Bartholomew A14].
Signed by Bowden, Dykinga, and Martin on the title page. Another wonderful collaboration by Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga pairing Bowden's amazing prose with Dykinga's unfaltering images of this fascinating place within the Sonoran Desert. Fine. More
The Secret Forest.
Dykinga, Jack W. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Softcover. First Edition. xi, 141 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. [Bartholomew A14].
Signed by Charles Bowden on the first free endpaper. Another wonderful collaboration by Charles Bowden and Jack Dykinga pairing Bowden's amazing prose with Dykinga's unfaltering images of this fascinating place within the Sonoran Desert. Fine. More
Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life.
Younker, Richard. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 198 pp. Dust jacket clean with bumps to top corners, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with bump to top corners of covers, clean and crisp within. [Bartholomew A4].
Signed by Bowden on the first free endpaper. Very Good / Very Good. More
Saints & Saint Makers of New Mexico.
Napolitano, P.G. Santa Fe, NM: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. 139 pp. 8vo. Some sunning to dust jacket at spine and edges, now in mylar cover. Gray/green cloth boards with same titling as dust jacket reproduced on cover and spine. Hevily illustrated and clean within, housed in a custom gray cloth clamshell box. [Purcell 59].
Book is devote to santo making, the depiction of religious objects with painted panels and carved wood figures. This copy is signed at the colophn by E. Boyd and Merle Armitage. Fine / Very Good. More