First Edition. Supernatural adventure tales involving two quasi-detective heroes. These are collected from the books Prince Zaleski and The Pale Ape and Other Pulses. This was the last book issued under the Mycroft & Moran imprint. 4036 copies printed. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, MM 16. Jaffrey, The Arkham.....
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First Edition. One of the most important American music books of the nineteenth century, a landmark cross-genre survey that gave equal attention to sacred and secular as well as popular and classical music. "This volume stands as the very first survey of American music published in this country" ("Black Scholars.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A notable association copy of this Civil War study, inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson to paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould with a fascinating reference to their shared intellectual interests. McPherson reframes the Civil War as a revolutionary movement, examining how the conflict fundamentally transformed American society and.....
Price: $85
First Edition. A scarce look at nuevomexicano life in the mid-19th century. Very few accounts by Mexican Americans are known from the nineteenth century and much of what survives was written later. However one seldom tapped resource are the records of the contested elections for the House of Representatives, which.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A pamphlet discussing the consciousness-expanding benefits of taking drugs like LSD, mushrooms, and nitrous oxide. Several pages are also devoted to the Aquarian Alphaphone, a newly invented device for measuring brain waves. The author taught esoteric astrology and alternative healing beginning in the 1960s; the Claregate Metaphysical Group.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A 19th century account, possibly unrecorded, of the effects of taking hashish written by a reporter for the New York World newspaper. He describes highs ("a thrill unspeakable"), followed by a crash ("the marrow was all gone from my bones"), that turned into hallucinations ("each drop of water.....
Price: $500
First Edition. Billed on the front of the jacket as "the true story of the Ervil LeBaron family and its rampage of terror and murder." LeBaron was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fringe group that liked to assassinate its rivals and critics. Chynoweth was LeBaron's 13th wife; she murdered.....
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A two-volume collection of work by Peter Beard. Volume I (576 pages) reproduces collages of found objects, photographs, Beard's writings, ink, and paint. Volume II (168 pages) is devoted to an illustrated interview with Beard conducted by Steven M.L. Aronson (text in English and French and German translation); a facsimile.....
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First edition. An important history of New Mexico from the perspective of the Spanish American founders of the state. Read, a historian and politician, was born to an Anglo father and a Mexican mother. He spoke and frequently wrote in Spanish and was an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish culture in.....
Price: $250
First edition. An important history of New Mexico from the perspective of the Spanish American founders of the state. Read, a historian and politician, was born to an Anglo father and a Mexican mother. He spoke and frequently wrote in Spanish and was an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish culture in.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. pp. 453–527. 8-1/4 by 11-5/8 inches. First separate edition. Covers with light wear, thus very good in wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the front cover, "To Stephen Gould, with thanks for your analysis of Dollo's thoughts. Maurice.....
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Fourteenth edition "enlarged." A guide to painless childbirth, which seems to rely mostly on baths, a fruit diet, and a good attitude. The book was very popular, being reprinted every year for more than a decade. 159, [9] pages. A near-fine copy in terra cotta cloth. While this is not a......
Price: $95
First Edition. A curious book, essentially an English translation of the index for the 42-volume set of documents related to the European discovery of the Americas published between 1864 and 1884. However, this work offers insight into Read's work as a historian and promoter of Spanish history. The purpose of.....
Price: $150
First edition. A scarce look at nuevomexicano life in the mid-19th century. Very few accounts by Mexican Americans are known from the nineteenth century and much of what survives was written later. However one seldom tapped resource are the records of the contested elections for the House of Representatives, which.....
Price: $400
