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Middle East

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess An Autobiography Memoirs of an Arabian Princess An Autobiography
by Emily, Nee Princess of Oman and Zanzibar Ruete
Notes
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. Small 8vo size (18x12cm), pictorial blue cloth, 307pp, 4pp catalogue. Frontis with tissue guard. Endpapers pasted to pastedowns. Wear to extremities. Originally published in German as "Memoiren einer arabischen... (read more)
Your Price $450.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Military

Practical Treatise on Strengthening and Defending Outposts, Villages, Houses, Bridges with Practical Treatise on the Attack of Military Posts, Village, Intrenchments with Practical Treatise on the Dut Practical Treatise on Strengthening and Defending Outposts, Villages, Houses, Bridges with Practical Treatise on the Attack of Military Posts, Village, Intrenchments with Practical Treatise on the Dut
by J. Jebb
Notes
London: William Clowes & Sons., 1857, 1859, 1860. Three vols bound in one, (the last one being A Practical Treatise on the Duties Required to be Performed by Officers & Soldiers of the Army at a Siege). All three volumes have etched frontispieces... (read more)
Your Price $150.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Americana

Joe Beeler Portfolio & F F F Frank Polk Joe Beeler Portfolio & F F F Frank Polk
by Joe Beeler
Notes
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1978. Black cloth portfolio stamped in sliver with 20 reproductions of the pen & ink cowboy drawings of Joe Beeler, each numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. Tissue guards for each plate. WithUncommonly Frank... (read more)
Your Price $1400.00
Rare Books - Portfolio

Gardening

Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual
by C Leo Hitchcock
Publisher Comments
This manual is essentially a condensation of the five-volume work, 'Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest.' The sequence of families is the same in the two works except for the transposition of the monocotyledons and dicotyledons.... (read more)
Your Price $60.00
New - Hardcover

Crafts and Collectibles

Ralph Lauren
by Ralph Lauren
Publisher Comments
Ralph Lauren isn't easy to define. Unlike many designers, he is not known for a single signature look, but rather for his sweeping dreams of American living. Over the course of his career, the images of luxury, adventure, and beauty that he created have... (read more)
Your Price $100.00
Rare Books - Slipcase

Exploration and Travel Writing

The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush
by George Scott Robertson
Notes
London: Lawrence & Bullen, LTD, 1896. First edition. Large 8vo. xx 658pp. Illustrated throughout with several plates and cuts. Large fold out map at the back of the book. Publisher's cloth with gilt letters on the spine and pictoral artwork on the face... (read more)
Your Price $500.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Children's and Illustrated Classics

The Making of Tintin: Mission to the Moon The Making of Tintin: Mission to the Moon
by Herge and Benoit Peeters
Notes
London: Methuen Children's Books, (1989). Quarto, 23x30cm. 154pp. First edition. Original glazed pictorial paper over boards. No dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout. Text in English, translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper... (read more)
Your Price $500.00
Rare Books - Hardcover

Science Fiction

Ralph 124C 41+ 1st Edition Ralph 124C 41+ 1st Edition
by Hugo Gernsback
Notes
Boston: Stratford Company, 1925. Publisher's cloth gilt. Ex-library with the expected imperfections. Corners bumped, rubbed. Light rubbing and fraying to head and tail of spine. Binding sound, text clean, with 11 black and white plates. A pioneering work... (read more)
Your Price $125.00
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
Alcoholics Anonymous
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

Italo Calvino
Raymond Carver
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
Edward Gorey
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

John Irving
Washington Irving

James Joyce

Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
Dean Koontz
Milan Kundera

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

Thomas Mann
Larry McMurtry
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
James Michener
A. A. Milne
John Milton

Gloria Naylor

Patrick Obrian
Eugene Oneill

Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Thomas Pynchon

Theodore Roosevelt
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
Tobias Wolff
Virginia Woolf


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