Pre-Vatican II Catholic rites in English. Written with Rev. Francis Augustine Walsh and Rev. William R. Kelly. 1852 pages. 41/4 by 6-5/8 inches. Early printing, without a date on the title page, but dated 1937 on the copyright page. A very good copy in the original leatherette binding.

First Edition. "In her first book since Against Our Will, her landmark study of rape, Susan Brownmiller addresses another subject of immense significance: the set of societal structures, esthetic ideals, and assigned 'characteristics' which governs the lives of half of America, and which goes by the name of Femininity."—dust jacket.....

First Edition. 887 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, a bit faded at the spine. Inscribed to Swiss American Nobel Prize winner, Edmund Fischer (medicine, 1992).

First Edition. The title refers to the author's lack of remorse over those men he shot and killed during his law enforcement and military careers. Askins won many shooting contests and hunted big game. And he wrote about it in many books and articles. This is one of 1000 signed.....

First Edition. Volume one limited to 125 copies. Scarce genealogy. 324, 294 pages. First edtions. Near fine in burgundy cloth (hardcover). Not issued in dust jackets? The first volume is inscribed by the author.

History of a pioneer family that came to Oregon in covered wagons; the Powells were instrumental in the growth of Disciples of Christ church, and in the establishment of the Christian college that eventually became Western Oregon University. First published in 1922. Includes 1929 appendage. Updates for the second edition.....

First Edition. An Italian translation of one of the most widely reprinted sections of Kafka's book Contemplations (Betrachtung), here printed in xylographic calligraphy. The artist Luca Barcellona carved the text into wood blocks and printed it over five pages of this eight-leaf book. Limited to 40 copies, signed by the.....

First Edition. A dictionary of 430 terms, compiled with the assistance of C. R. Hellyer of the City Detective Department of the Portland police. An unusual Oregon imprint. "John Hancock, noun, current amongst confidence men and paper grafters generally. A signature. Derived from the common observation that John Hancock, of.....

First Edition. Scottish-South African explorer Archibald Colquhoun "traversed through the unknown lands of western China and scampered along the jungle-covered middle stretches of the Mekong River. When he returned to London he lectured widely and wrote... Burma and the Burmans... He had one message: All that stood in the way.....

First Edition. The original publication of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with Steadman's illustrations bleeding over massive tabloid newspaper pages. Two long excerpts from Thompson's drug-fueled memoir of a trip to Las Vegas in the company of the Chicano lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta (fictionalized as "the.....

First Edition. "A masterful presentation of shamanism and a portrayal of the animistic cultures that have survived into modern times"—the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color, with many additional black-and-white images. 11 by 14 inches. 304 pages. A very big book! First edition (first printing, with no indication of later.....

First Edition. The first Hebrew edition of Leon's monograph on the temple of Solomon (it was first published in Middelburg, the Netherlands, in 1642). Leon (1603–1675) was a Spanish-Portuguese rabbi who built a model of the Temple of Solomon that was exhibited in many cities in Europe. This book is.....

First Edition. An illustrated history and survey of tokens issued by booksellers and those in the book trades. Published in an edition of 300 copies, with a portfolio of eleven tokens the author (and printer) commissioned for modern-day booksellers, papermakers, etc. Spine slightly faded, else a near fine copy in.....