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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Rare Books $250.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Signed Limited 1st Edition Kenneth Rexroth $125.00 Rare Books Set Hardcover add to wish list Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, 2nd and Enlarged English Edition, 2 Volumes Charles Carrington $4500.00 Rare Books Leather add to wish list Costumes des Femmes de Hambourg, du Tyrol, de la Hollande, de la Suisse, de la Franconie, de L'Espagne, du Royaume de Naples, Etc. Pierre de la Mesangere and Louis-Marie Lante and Georges-Jacques Gatine $150.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list The Union Pacific Streamliners Harold E. Ranks $1200.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list Anna Karenina, 1st US Edition Leo Tolstoy $150.00 Rare Books Trade Paper add to wish list Iconographers Patternbook: The Stroganov Tradition 2nd Printing Christopher P Kelley Browse more New Arrivals in Rare Books Middle East Browse more titles in Rare Books-Middle East Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay by Mme A R de Lens Notes Paris; Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste; 1925. Brown wraps stamped in red, wear to corners, spine darkened. 95 pp including index. Mme de Lens was the daughter and granddaughter of French physicians: "Mme A R de Lens ne pouvait manquer de s... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Trade Paper add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Rare Books $125.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list Traveller's Guide to Paris: Exhibiting the Roads From London, Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Ostende, Ghent, and Antwerp, to Paris $100.00 Rare Books Uncorrected Proof add to wish list The Kite Runner, Uncorrected Proof Khaled Hosseini $250.00 Rare Books Hardcover add to wish list The Time Traveler's Wife, Signed 1st Edition Audrey Niffenegger Browse recently arrived used titles in Rare Books Military Browse more titles in Rare Books-Military Stars & Stripes a Complete File Notes Washington, D.C.: National Tribune Corporation, 1927. Elephant folio, 54 x 41cm. Unpaginated. Bound in black cloth stamped in gilt. Boards show wear at the edges and the corners are bumped. Spine ends worn. Both hinges repaired with hinge tape. Pages are... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Americana Browse more titles in Rare Books-Americana 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: $900.00 Rare Books - Portfolio add to wish list Exploration and Travel Writing Browse more titles in Rare Books-Exploration and Travel Writing Murihiku & The Southern Islands A History of the West Coast Sounds, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, The Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Cambell And Macquarie Islands, From 1770 to 1829 by Robert Mcnab Notes Invercargill, New Zealand: William Smith, 1907. Octavo, 22 x 14cm. pp. xiii, 377. Bound in gray cloth over boards stamped in black. Boards are slightly rubbed with corners bumped through. Spine thumbed and soiled. Light and occasional foxing throughout... (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 Little Prince, Signed Limited Edition by Antoine de Saint Exupery Notes New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943). Quarto, 18 x 23 cm. 91pp. Limited edition, number 458 of 500 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. Original pictorial tan cloth, front board and spine stamped in red. Color illustrations throughout by... (read more) Your price: $9000.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Science Fiction Browse more titles in Rare Books-Science Fiction The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game, Signed By Robert Jordan by Charles Ryan Notes Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, Inc., 2001. Illustrated paper wrapped boards. No dustjacket as issued. Signed by Robert Jordan on the front free endpaper Bumping to the spine head, with slight tearing to spine head hinge. Light rubbing to extremities... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Literature Browse more titles in Rare Books-Literature Mr Pope & Other Poems 1ST Edition by Allen Tate Notes New York: Minton, Balch & Company. 1928. Octavo, 19 x 13.5cm. 52pp. First edition in black cloth with paper labels on front board and spine. Boards and spine show some edgewear and toning. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped and scuffed with tape residue on... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Hardcover add to wish list Medical Browse more titles in Rare Books-Medical The Red Book by C G Jung Publisher Comments When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his confrontation with the unconscious, the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories-of the... (read more) Your price: $195.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list Entertainment Browse more titles in Rare Books-Entertainment The Ingmar Bergman Archives with DVD by Paul Duncan Synopsis The complete works of Ingmar Bergman: an homage to one of the most esteemed film and theater artists of all time, began in cooperation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives Since 1957, when he released The Seventh Seal and Wild... (read more) List Price $200.00 Your price: $94.97 Sale - Miscellaneous 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: $90.00 Rare Books - Slipcase add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Rare Books-Used Books Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Translated from the 6th French Edition. 1st [English Language] Edition, 1st Thousand by Pierre Simon Laplace Notes New York, John Wiley & Sons., 1902, 1st Eng. Lang. ed. 12mo, iv 196p. + 19p. ads., blindruled brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Rather a philosophical and literary approach to probability and consequently, perhaps, somewhat more readable and... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list

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 | December 2, 2009 Come to Scratch 1 comment By Kirsten Berg There is a particular marriage between writers and the sport of boxing. A. J. Liebling, in the introduction to The Sweet Science, states that "a... Continue » $15.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Sweet Science A J Liebling 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 | November 18, 2009 The Magic of Ahmet Ertuğ 0 comments By Kirsten Berg If stunning photography and stylish book design rock your world, you probably already own a selection of Taschen publications. Taschen is bold,... Continue » $450.00 Rare Books Slipcase add to wish list In Pursuit of Excellence: Works of Art from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts Ahmet Ertug and Oleg Grabar 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

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