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Middle East

Perfumes of Araby: Silhouettes of Al Yemen Perfumes of Araby: Silhouettes of Al Yemen
by Harold Jacob
Notes
London: Martin Secker, 1915. 8vo, 170x225mm. 264pp. First edition. Bound in original cloth with title stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Top edge stained. Boards soiled. Corners bumped. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front paste-down... (read more)
Your Price $300.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Military

Historical Records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Now Known as the Royal Fusiliers (the City of London Regiment) 1685-1903 Historical Records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Now Known as the Royal Fusiliers (the City of London Regiment) 1685-1903
by Percy Groves
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Guernsey: Frederick B. Guerin, 1903. 9-13/16" x 7", 454pp + 2pp errata, purple cloth with gilt decoration. Spine sunned. Rear hinge starting. Three 1/2" tears to head of spine; tail of spine bumped. Corners bumped. 1/2" divot to front cover fore-edge... (read more)
Your Price $200.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Americana

Official Army Register for January 1870, 1871, 1872 Official Army Register for January 1870, 1871, 1872
by Secretary of War
Notes
Washington: Secretary of War, 1870, 1871, 1872. Modern black cloth. 3 years of Army records bound together. Contains the records for the 7th Regiment of Calvalry and lists many who would later be killed at Little Bighorn in 1876. Custer and his brother... (read more)
Your Price $275.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Gardening

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison
Publisher Comments
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people... (read more)
Your Price $104.45
New - Hardcover

Signed Editions

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher Comments
The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet... (read more)
List Price $150.00
Your Price $90.00
Rare Books - Slipcase

Exploration and Travel Writing

Land of the Lamas Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet Land of the Lamas Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet
by William Rockhill
Notes
New York: The Century Co., 1891. First edition. In original brown cloth with morocco spine label. Label is worn and chipped, binding showing some wear at extremities. Front hinge starting. All maps and plates as called for. Unopened, 399pp. MPA/kb... (read more)
Your Price $300.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Children's and Illustrated Classics

The Patchwork Girl of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Notes
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1913) Octavo, 18 x 23 cm. 340pp,[8pp]. Later printing, after 1935, as per Hanff & Greene: endpapers and all illustrations in black & white only. Original red cloth, spine stamped in black, with a color pictorial paper... (read more)
Your Price $100.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Science Fiction

Cuts Signed Limited Edition Cuts Signed Limited Edition
by Richard Laymon
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Brown cloth-covered boards w/title,etc. in black on spine. Fine/Good(Book is in As New condition;Signed on limitation page. DJ-Few shallow scratches in front panel;Very tiny creases across very tips of top outer corners;Else bright & fully intact.)ISBN... (read more)
Your Price $250.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

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A small sampling of the authors whose books you'll find in our Rare Book Room. Use the search engine or browse aisles to see our complete listings.

Edward Abbey
W. H. Auden

Karl Baedeker
James Baldwin
L. Frank Baum
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Ambrose Bierce
William Blake
Ray Bradbury
Charles Bukowski
James Lee Burke
Robert Burns
William Burroughs

Raymond Carver
Raymond Chandler
Betty Crocker
R. Crumb
James Crumley

Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Philip K. Dick
Walt Disney
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edmund Dulac

Dave Eggers
Albert Einstein
Ralph Ellison

William Faulkner

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Allen Ginsberg
Nadine Gordimer
Sue Grafton
Robert Graves
Graham Greene
Zane Grey
David Guterson

Jane Hamilton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert A. Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Langston Hughes
Victor Hugo
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley

John Irving
Washington Irving

James Joyce

Franz Kafka
Walt Kelly
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
Dean Koontz
Jon Krakauer

D. H. Lawrence
Ursula K. Le Guin
Jack London
Barry Lopez

Thomas Mann
Cormac McCarthy
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
James Michener
John Milton

Gloria Naylor

Patrick Obrian
Eugene Oneill

Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Thomas Pynchon

Philip Roth
J. K. Rowling
Arundhati Roy

J. D. Salinger
Walter Scott
Dr. Seuss
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Gary Snyder
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Gertrude Stein
Robert L. Stevenson

Mark Twain

John Updike

Gore Vidal
Voltaire
Kurt Vonnegut

Tennessee Williams
Virginia Woolf


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