Salt Lake City, UT: Howe Brothers, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. xii, 340 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983/1984. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. 637, 750 pp. 8vo. Volume I dust jacket has minor scuffing with very light scuffing from shelf wear, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Volume II also has very light scuffing from shelf wear, is price clipped, , now in mylar cover. Light wear to boards and spine of each volume, Volume I has a Simond & Schuster remainder mark stamped in black at the foot of the text block. Both are clean and tight within.
Scarce as a set, Ambrose's definitive biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: G. Schirmer Inc., 1936. Hardcover. Limited Edition. v, 245 pp. 8vo. Terracotta dust jacket with vibrant blue printing, which is replicated on the cover boards. Dust jacket has split at spine with a 1" loss at foot, remaining rear panel and flap present and now encased in mylar cover. Scarce with any semblance of a dust jacket. Interior quite clean and includes 8 photographic portraits by Edward Weston. [Purcell 40]. Fine / Fair. More

Fresno, CA: The Academy Guild Press, 1964. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 99 pp. 8vo. Yellow dust jacket with sytlized Southwest design and Merle Armitage's monogram gracing the front panel; overall scuffing present, now in mylar cover. beige cloth boards that replicate the dust jacket cover and spine, very clean within and sporting black endpapers with a reverse printed and stylized bird on the front first free endpaper, Christ on the cross on the rear first free endpaper. [Purcell 26].
A crisp, cohesive Armitage design. According to the colophon, this edition of 1500 copies was printed in 1964; copyright page indicates printing in 1960 but a stamp on that same page designates this a "DE LUXE EDITION, 1964". You figure it out. Fine / Fair... More

London: John Murray, 1835. Three Quarter Leather. As. 8vo. Brown three quarter leather bindings with marbled paper inset to cover board with matching endpapers. Light scuffing overall, wear and slight loss at corners and bottom edge, minor chipping to head and foot of spine. Five raised bands to spine with gilded decoration filling panels without title patches, titled on burgendy in gold, volume number on black in gold. Top edges gilt. Clean within, each title page sporting both and engraving and an engraved frontispiece. Red silk ribbons present in each volume, some are detached but laid in. Very Good. More

Tucson, AZ: The Southwest Center, University of Arizona, 2019. Wraps. First Edition. 222 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new!
Special issue with 18 essays dedicated to the life and work of Charles Bowden (1945-2014) by family, friends, and colleagues. Bowden was a unique chronicler of the Southwest, both the beutiful and the terrifying. Fine. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition. 331 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with profile of cowboy and horse printed in black on the cover, black titling to spine. Slight bumping to corners, minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within.
Struthers Burt (1882-1954) was a short story writer, poet, and novelist who was also instrumental in the establishment of Grand Teton National Park. This memoir chronicles some of his time in the American West. Very Good. More

Niles, MI: Ralph A. Casperson Books, 1997. Trade paperback. First Edition. 271 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with minor sunning to the spine.
Autobiography of Southwestern Michigan's legendary bookseller, Ralph Casperson (1919-2009). Very Good. More

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. xx, 471 pp. Clean, crisp copy. Dust jacket price clipped and in mylar cover. Fine / fine. More

Child, Charles. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 346 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, 1-1/2" closed tear at top of front panel and to left of the first "O" in "ROOTS", small chips at edges, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards. Very clean within. Beautifully illustrated by the author.
Charles Child was the twin brother of Paul Child (1902-1994), husband of Julia Child (1912-2004). This book documents Charles Child's family's love affair with Maine and the spot that Paul and Julia would come back to repeatedly during their marriage. Very Good / Very Good. More

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 591 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, sunning to spine, now in dust jacket. Bright red cloth boards and sparkling gold embossed titling, clean and sharp within.
Inscribed by Samuel Chugerman (1881-1956) in 1941 to his childhood friend, Aaron Rabinowitz. Laid in is Chugerman's letter to Rabinowitz alerting him to the publication and enclosing a copy of the review from the "Survey Graphic" of December 1939. Fine / Very Good. More

Dallas, TX: Book Club of Texas, 2014. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 59 pp. 8vo. Gray cloth boards with gold embossed logotype of the subject of the volume on the cover, gold titling to spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
An illuminating look at the life of Franklin Gilliam, longtime proprietor of the Brick Row Bookshop and Franklin Gilliam Books. Inscribed to a previous owner by the editor, John Crichton. Published in an edition of 350 copies. Fine. More