Rare, Hard-to-Find Books

Jaques, Florence Page. Francis Lee Jaques, Artist of the Wilderness World. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. With 64 Paintings and Dioramas in Full color. 100 drawings in Scratchboard, Pen and Ink, and Pencil. A Treasury of Prose Writings from the Six Jaques Books, Three New Appraisals of the Artist’s Work. Memorials to Francis Lee Jaques by Sigurd F. Olson, and to Florence Page Jaques by Harriet Buchheister. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1973. First Edition. In very good condition; spine title fading, in original slipcase in fair to good condition, worn and split seam.

Book number 2121.

$150.00

Horne,John: Many Days in Morocco. Printed in London, Philip Allan & Co.
MDCCCCXXV (1925), The Camelot Press, Ltd, Southampton. States, 500 copies of this book have been printed. This unnumbered. Signed by the Author. First limited edition. 4to 11-13”, Full page illustrations. In very good condition, with light foxing, foot of boards rough. . In good jacket, chipped along foot and upper front corner, tears on rear cover of jacket.

Book number 4666.

$275.00

Newton, A. Edward. A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-collector. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston. With illustrations. Fourth Impression, November 1922.

In very good condition, T.E.G., former owner name. In very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Book No. 15415.

$15.00

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1955. Department of State Publication 6199. “This volume of documents on the conferences at Malta and Yalta is the first to appear in a special series of Foreign Relations volumes on World War II conferences attended by President Roosevelt or President Truman, along with Prime Minister Churchill or Marshall Stalin, or both of the latter.” Chapter titles: Preconference Documents: 1. Arrangements for the Conference 2. Negotiations and Recommendations on Principle Subjects 3. The Stettinius “Record”, December 1, 1944-January 23, 1945. 4. Survey Reports on Soviet Attitudes and Policies. II. The Malta Conference: 5. The President’s Log at Malta 6. Minutes and Related Documents 7. The President’s Log at Yalta 8. Minutes and Related Documents 9. Other Conference Documents 10. Signed Agreements 11. Post-Conference Documents Index. 1032 pages. In very good condition, no jacket as issued.

$75.00

Algren, Nelson: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1965, First edition. Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket. Former owner name label on front end page.

Book No. 16416

Account of the author’s voyage to the Orient aboard the freighter Malaysia Mail, and his appraisal of Ernest Hemingway

US$45.00

HANS BAUR1986. Eichler Publishing edn, 228pp, English Translation, plates, near fine, plastic covered d/w. The memoirs of Lt Gen Hans Baur, WWI Flying Ace, Hitler’s Chief Test Pilot an d loyal to the end. Traces his exploits in the Great War and his pride in ser ving his Fuhrer particularly against the Communist threat in the East. Describes the last few days within Hitler’s Berlin bunker and his subsequent capture by the advancing Russians.
Details the harshness of his imprisonment until the release in 1955. Long handwritten inscription by the general. ISBN:1930571003 .

Book Number 16204.

$300.00

 

 

Burke Davis

MARINE!, The Life of Chesty Puller

Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1962, 1st (scarce), Hardbound, 8vo/8-9″, VG/VG Chip on heal of spine jacket.

$150.00

CARROLL (Lewis):
ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND.
Being a Facsimile of the Original MS Book Afterwards Developed into Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, with 37 illustrations by the author, slim 8vo, original cloth, gilt, covers very slightly marked but a good copy, London, Macmillan. Carroll’s own
production in facsimile of the first draft of the world’s most famous children’s book. This draft, written out and illustrated by hand by Carroll himself, was presented to the original Alice. It was later developed into the much longer Alice in Wonderland.

$65.00

The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony, in Eight fits. By Lewis Carroll. With Nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. The MacMillan Company. 1898. Early American edition. Small 8vo., red cloth, spine gilt faded, minor wear at the spine ends, pp. 106, printed on rectos only. A good to very good copy. Carroll’s Classic Tale. Scarce edition. Book Number 16315.

$65.00

Philip MacDonald

Garden City, N. Y.: The Crime Club, Inc. 1930. Cloth Bds. VG/no DJ, Decorative Cover. First Edition. 8vo, 307, Only Colonel Anthony Gethryn was strong enough to smash the link that bound the innocent to the strange murder of Lord Grenville.

Bookseller Inventory #014246

Price: US$ 90.00