The Mental Mysteries and Other Writings of William W. Larsen, Sr. by William W. Larsen, Jr - 1977

New York: Dia Center For The Arts, 1995. Signed by Ann Hamilton on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Red and ochre cloth. Very fine without dust jacket, as issued. Most uncommon signed. Archival clear mylar jacket is supplied.

New York: Random House, 1967 First edition, stated first printing. Signed by William Styron directly on the second front-free endpage. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing/wear to spine ends and corners and shallow/light creasing along upper edge, else fine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Beautifully signed on first page: Margaret Truman (see picture).Book in very good condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with a few chips on bottom of spine and two tears at top right of front and top left near spine both repaired (see pictures).Clean text. Price clipped. Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. From book jacket:This unique portrait of a President by his daughter covers the full sweep of Harry S. Truman's life: from his early days and political career in Missouri through the momentous years in Washington where he served as a United States Senator, Vice President and President.

Pasadena, California, 1896. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine. The HMMBA (Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association) was an organization comprised of the leading hotel men in the US, created in Chicago, IL, in 1879. They held annual meetings around the country, & while in each area, engaged in "excursion parties.with the entertainment on so colossal a scale that all who attended were amazed, delight, & enthusiastic as never before." Authored by then HMMBA president G. Wharton James, the present volume chronicles the group's 1896 California trip, lavishly illustrated throughout with duotone photos & drawings of the cities & attractions & hotels they visited. Self-published by the author from Pasadena, CA, he dedicated the book "to those who came & enjoyed & to those who stayed home & sighed." In 338 pages + unpaginated (16 pages) of vintage ads in rear, edged on all sides in gilt, which is bright. Textured floral patterned… Read More

Fine. London: Travellers' Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisherÕs black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - As New and signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization. - from the introduction.The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of… Read More

New York: Viking, 1992. Signed in gold ink and dated 1992 by Ken Kesey. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Text and instructions in Japanese and English. Dramatic color and black and white photo illustrations and diagrams, followed by pattern pages that can be copied or used as is. 79 pages. Published in Tokyo in 1987. First edition, signed by author.