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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Rare Books $800.00 Rare Books Slipcase add to wish list Golf Through the Ages: Six Hundred Years of Golfing Art, Signed Limited Edition Michael Flannery and Richard Leech $500.00 Rare Books Advance Reader add to wish list Twilight Advance Reading Copy Stephenie Meyer $150.00 Rare Books Slipcase add to wish list Gerardi Mercatoris: Atlas Europae Gerardus Mercator $195.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list Speycasting: A New Technique Hugh Falkus $300.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list The Temptations of Flora: Jan Van Huysum 1682-1749 Sam Segal $60.00 Rare Books Pamphlet add to wish list X [Ten] War Elegies William Everson Browse more New Arrivals in Rare Books Middle East Browse more titles in Rare Books-Middle East The Life Of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar With Map and Appendix by Demetrius Charles Boulger Notes London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1878. 8vo, 344 pages +[40 pp. publisher's catalogue]. Re-bound in serviceable red cloth, title in gilt on spine. New pastedowns & endpapers. Complete with map in front pocket. Colored map has been backed; there are some tears... (read more) Your price: $450.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Rare Books $100.00 Rare Books Slipcase add to wish list Anibib & Omandumba and Other Erongo Sites 1st Edition Henri Breuil Browse recently arrived used titles in Rare Books Military Browse more titles in Rare Books-Military The Story of the 390th Bombardment Group (H) by 390th Bombardment Group Notes Paducah: Turner Publishing Company, no date [1997]. Folio, 34 x 27 cm. 472pp. Reprint edition issued 50 years after the first edition. Original black cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Four-page photocopied errata... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Americana Browse more titles in Rare Books-Americana Alaskan Boundary Tribunal British Atlas: Maps and Charts Accompanying the Case of Great Britain Notes Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. Folio. 18.5 x 15" 35 historical maps, printed in facsimile. Included are Vancouver's General Map of the NW Coast; Russian maps from 1822 & 1853; Sir George Simpson's 1847 map. Original reddish brown cloth... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Exploration and Travel Writing Browse more titles in Rare Books-Exploration and Travel Writing Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis by Sten Bergman Notes London: Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1927. Octavo, 14 x 22 cm, 284pp. with 12pp. ads at rear. 1st edition. Original yellow cloth stamped in gilt. Boards are worn, soiled, and faded. Text block a bit shaken. Complete with all plates included, although the... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Children's and Illustrated Classics Browse more titles in Rare Books-Children's and Illustrated Classics The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter Notes New York: Frederick Warne & Co., (1906). Sextodecimo, 10.5 x 14 cm. 85pp. An early reprint, from between 1908 (the date of the 1st US edition) and 1910, since the publisher's address is still listed as "36 East 22nd Street" on the title page. Pictorial... (read more) Your price: $275.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Science Fiction Browse more titles in Rare Books-Science Fiction Cuts Signed Limited Edition by Richard Laymon Notes 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: $175.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Literature Browse more titles in Rare Books-Literature Book of Ruth 1st Edition Signed by Jane Hamilton Notes new york: ticknor & fields, 1988. 1ED 328pp. Quarter bound in black cloth over gray boards; Hamilton's first novel which presents an exquisitely written and modern analogue for the biblicaal story which pertains to the great great grandmother of King... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Signed Editions Browse more titles in Rare Books-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: $35.00 Sale - Slipcase add to wish list World History and Culture Browse more titles in Rare Books-World History and Culture Asconius: Commentaries on Speeches of Cicero (Clarendon Ancient History) by Asconius Publisher Comments Asconius lived about a century after Cicero and wrote commentaries on Cicero's speeches to help his sons understand them. Five of these have survived. They are not only interesting in their own right but also provide a mine of information about the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Art Browse more titles in Rare Books-Art Robert Crumbs Sex Obsessions by Robert Crumb Publisher Comments In dieser signierten und limitierten Edition von 1.000 Exemplaren ist jeder Teil des Buches - Schuber, Einband, Buchrücken und Einleitung - ein Kunstwerk, das von Robert Crumb eigens für dieses Projekt geschaffen wurde. Jeder Ausgabe liegt ein... 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Search Rare Books title:  author:  keyword:  1st edition:  signed:  Recently Arrived Used Books Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and be alerted to great rare books on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address: Rare Books | November 4, 2009 A Collector Like No Other 0 comments By Kirsten Berg On the evening of March 18, 1986, I jumped into bed pulling the covers over my stark naked body, shotgun on my chest. So begins Roger Wendlick's... Continue » $350000.00 Rare Books Slipcase add to wish list History of the Expedition Under the Command Of Captains Lewis And Clark To The Sources Of The Missouri, Thence Across The Rocky Mountains And Down the River Columbia To the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark The original Powell's Books was born in a former used car dealership and to this day the store maintains a no-nonsense, industrial feel. One place, though, has been reserved for comfort and elegance. Dark wood shelving, decorative lighting, antique tables, and our most valuable — and beautiful — books, all make the Rare Book Room one of the most pleasant destinations in the store. visit our Rare Book Room Browse Selected Authors 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 Margaret Atwood W. H. Auden Karl Baedeker Nicholson Baker James Baldwin Clive Barker L. Frank Baum Samuel Beckett Saul Bellow Ambrose Bierce William Blake Jorge Luis Borges Ray Bradbury Charlotte Bronte Charles Bukowski Anthony Burges James Lee Burke Robert Burns William Burroughs Robert Olen Butler Italo Calvino Lewis Carroll Raymond Carver Willa Cather Augustin Cauchy Cervantes Raymond Chandler Jean Cocteau Joseph Conrad Betty Crocker R. Crumb James Crumley Countee Cullen Charles Darwin Don Delillo Charles Dickens Philip K. Dick Walt Disney Arthur Conan Doyle Roddy Doyle Edmund Dulac Dave Eggers Albert Einstein T. S. Eliot Harlan Ellison Ralph Ellison Louise Erdrich William Faulkner Charles Frazier Robert Frost Gabriel Garcia Marquez Allen Ginsberg Nadine Gordimer Edward Gorey Sue Grafton Ulysses S. Grant Robert Graves Graham Greene Zane Grey David Guterson Alex Haley Jane Hamilton Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert A. Heinlein Joseph Heller Ernest Hemingway Alice Hoffman Oliver Wendel Holmes Langston Hughes Victor Hugo Zora Neale Hurston Aldous Huxley John Irving Washington Irving Kazuo Ishiguro James Joyce Franz Kafka Robert Kelly Walt Kelly Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Barbara Kingsolver Stephen King Rudyard Kipling Dean Koontz Jon Krakauer Milan Kundera D. H. Lawrence Ursula K. Le Guin Doris Lessing Jack London Barry Lopez HP Lovecraft Robert Lowell Norman Mailer Thomas Mann Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Elizabeth McCracken Larry McMurtry Herman Melville Thomas Merton James Michener Arthur Miller Steven Millhauser A. A. Milne John Milton Lorrie Moore Toni Morrison Wright Morris Walter Mosely Vladimir Nabokov V. S. Naipaul Gloria Naylor Anais Nin Patrick Obrian Tim Obrien Michael Ondaatje Eugene Oneill George Orwell Edgar Allan Poe Marco Polo Katharine An Porter Beatrix Potter Ezra Pound E. Annie Proulx Marcel Proust Thomas Pynchon Ayn Rand Anne Rice Tom Robbins Will Rogers Theodore Roosevelt Philip Roth J. K. Rowling Arundhati Roy Kristine Rusch Salman Rushdie J. D. Salinger Carl Sandburg Walter Scott Maurice Sendak Dr. Seuss William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Jane Smiley Gary Snyder Susan Sontag Wallace Stegner John Steinbeck Gertrude Stein John Steptoe Robert L. Stevenson Harriett Beecher Stowe Paul Theroux Hunter S. Thompson Mark Twain Anne Tyler John Updike Gore Vidal Voltaire Kurt Vonnegut Alice Walker Evelyn Waugh Tennessee Williams Tobias Wolff Virginia Woolf Frank Lloyd Wright Rare Books | October 21, 2009 Elizabeth Hamilton 1758-1816 0 comments By Kirsten Berg Elizabeth Hamilton's early years read like a Brontë novel: the death of the father leaves his three young children at the mercy of distant... Continue » $5.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Jane Eyre (Modern Library Classics) Charlotte Bronte Rare Books | October 7, 2009 A Flawed Diamond 0 comments By Kirsten Berg There is a proverb that reads: "A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect." This 1595 printing of Giovanni Botero's Delle... Continue » $300.00 Rare Books Vellum add to wish list Delle Relationi Universali di Giovanni Botero Benese Giovanni Botero

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