M. C. Lilley Co, c. 1920. silver gelatin print backed with linen, 8 1/2" x 6" This photograph represents a breastplate for sale from the fraternal supply houses from the 1870's until the 1920's, specificaly M. C. Lilley Co in Columbus, Ohio famous for manufacturing regalia. In masonic ritual a breastplate.....
M. C. Lilley Co, c. 1920. silver gelatin print backed with linen, 8 1/2" x 6" This is a York Rite apron. YR is an appendant body (associated) to Freemasonry in the same way that the Shrine and Scottish Rites are. This photograph represents a piece of regalia for sale from.....
Truckee California: pub. Sacramento, California, c. 1928. Staple bound pamphlet with illustrated card covers. Division of Beaches and Parks, Department of Natural Resources. 20 pp. no date. Unattributed informational pamplet with the history of the famous and tragic attempt by Westward bound pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains in wintertime.....
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, Inc, 1950. Cover art by Edd Cartier. Stated First Edition. Hardcover with jacket, ($3.00). Orange cloth boards with gilt titles. Originally published in the Fall 1929 edition of the Amazing Stories Quarterly, it was republished in book form in an edition of 2,556 copies of which this.....
New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1981. Jacket art by Richard Powers. First Edition in this translation. Hardcover with dust jacket. Antonina W. Bouis translator, Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon, full number line. Reprinted as part of Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction series with jacket art by Richard Powers and an introductory essay.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Prime Press, 1947. Illustrations by Herschel Levit. First. Hardback in an unclipped jacket. ($1.75). Black cloth boards, gilt stamped spine, illustrated first state dust jacket. The Prime Press was founded by members of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and was intended to feature writers from the Philadelphia area.....
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Dust jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe. Hardback in a unclipped jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine. Red endpapers. Edited with an introduction by Richard Dalby. Victorian ghost stories by Amelia B. Edwards collected in one volume for the first time. Edited, and introduced by.....
New York: The Free Press, 1968. Stated First Printing. black cloth boards, silver titles to spine, red top stain. Folk healing as an early type of social control and social psychiatry. Focuses on the Mexican-American culture in San Antonio, TX and describes the conflict with the general American value system.....
New York: Citadel Press, 1958. Jacket design by Robert Jonas. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in a clipped jacket. Hardcover in a clipped jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt titles on the spine. Green topstain."The authoritative post-Sputnik picture of Space Science in the U.S.S.R. presented by the leading soviet specialists in.....
North Yorkshire, England: Tartarus Press, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. Green cloth cover with gold titles on the front cover and spine. Dark green endpapers. This edition is limited to 400 copies, of which this is number 115Welsh author Arthur Machen's final full-length work of fiction and.....
New York: Scribner, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket ($28.00). Each story is introduced by Audrey Niffenegger with short original commentary and background on why she chose to include it. Also included is Niffenegger’s own story, “A Secret Life with Cats.”A collection of classic and new ghost stories, assembled.....
New York: Max Holden, c.1950. First Edition. Yellow illustrated paper wraps. "This routined and fully explained program of magic runs approximately 25 minutes and can be carried in a brief case." 1 A Club Act of Magic: introduction, materials, opening2 A Cigarette Rolled by Proxy (Orville Meyer): cigarette tying in.....
New York: Bell Publishing, 1982. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. Red covers with gilt titles on the spine. Striking illustrated jacket. 221 pp , numerous diagrams and illustrations throughout, appendices, bibliography. A detailed scientific examination of one of the great wonders and mysteries of the world: Stonehenge.
San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1979. Softcover, staple bound, 62 pp. The Milford Series Popular Writers of Today. Brian Stableford discusses all of James Blish's significant work, his major and minor themes, and places his career in the perspective of science fiction history during the post-war period. .
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket ($10.95). One quarter black cloth with black paper covered boards, gilt titles on the spine. Aldiss brings the story forward to 1996 and keeps much the same plot. A bright, fresh copy from the library of noted Colorado collector.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Jim Cherry. First edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket ($10.95). Octavo, cloth boards. Has review copy slip laid in from Harper & Row. Review copy. Signed on the title page by Sterling "For Barney". A lovely copy from the library of noted Colorado collector Paul Harms.....
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989. Dust jacket and full page black and white illustrations by Rick Lieder. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket (18.95). Octavo. Black boards with gold titles stamped on the spine. 264 pp. Signed by the Author and dated Atlanta Nov '92. Possibly at the 18th.....
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. Cover art by William Latham. First trade edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket with slipcase. Black boards with gilt titles on the spine. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. "For Mark Complete Artistic Control! Bruce Sterling" Presumably Mark Harms. This book.....
Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2011. Dust jacket illustration by Aleksa Gajic. Stated first edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. Black textured boards with red gilt titles on the spine. Textured green end papers.This special edition is limited to 200 numbered copies of which this is 167. Signed by the author on the.....
Phantasia Press, 1982. Stated first Phantasia Press edition, first thus, published by arrangement with Daw. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. Green cloth boards with apple green endpapers. Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. Stated First Printing. Hardcover with jacket. Pasted in address labels from a former owner indicating that this was property of a Roswell resident. One inside the front cover and one in the back. Both are partially removed. A classic of ufology and the alien.....
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Signed by Simpson and Jackman on the front free endpaper. Fire fighting tales of the U.S. Forest Service. Black and white illustrations.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1892. Hard cover, three quarter leather over attractive marbled boards and bright orange endpapers. A young British couple are swept overboard and marooned on a South Seas Island with a tribe that performs royal soul transfer, voluntary human sacrifice and cannibalism. The castaways are immediately pronounced.....
Washington DC: Polaris Company, 1923. First. Slim 16mo, illustrated blue cloth boards; 63 pp. Charming astronomy primer for young readers couched as a voyage to the North Star via airplane. "To little Bluford, my 10-year old boy, who first interested me in the stars."Children's juvenile space flight and astronomy. .....
Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket. ($5.95). Black boards with titles stamped on the spine. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed to someone (illegible) at Worldcon. This book is from the library of noted Colorado collector Mark Harms.