Recent Arrivals from Alkahest Books

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1968. first edition, as stated. hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, black cloth covers with red and silver spine titles. 426 pages. Includes index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Documents a far-right, anti-communist organization formed into an underground army by founder Robert Bolivar DePugh. 101206A

Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. first edition. hardcover . Fine/very good +. Judy Chicago. Quarto (approx. 8 1/2" wide by 11 1/8" tall) black cloth covers with gilt spine titles. 255 [1] pages. Illustrations both in color and black and white. Unclipped dust jacket has printed price of $24.95; some light rubbing, toning… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). first edition, as stated. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wyeth, Jamie. Small quarto (approx. 7 5/8" wide by 9 1/2" tall), reddish-orange cloth covers, [xii] + 158 pages. Black and white illustrations by Jamie Wyeth. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Studio. Animals star in this fiction set in Chadds Ford. Studio… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, (1961). 4th impression. hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo, light ochre-colored covers, xxiii [1] +354 pages. Maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket has a few closed tears, minor chipping, still very good. 101206A

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. first ed.. hardcover. near fine/good. Weil, Lisl. Quarto, approx. 8 7/8" wide by 10" tall, light yellow cloth covers stamped in olive green. 47 pages. Written and illustrated by Lisl Weil. Former owner name on front paste-down endpaper and on front flap of dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket has… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. first edition. hardcover. near fine/very good. Octavo, light red boards with gilt spine titles, 285 pages, near fine. Dust jacket has light wear at edges, still very good. Contains five long stories. One of them, "Don't Look Now" was made into a 1973 film by Nicholas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, (1960). hardcover. Very good/very good. Illustrated with black and white photo reproductions. Octavo, pink cloth covers, with black spine titles; some rubbing on covers and small bump to fore-edge of top cover. 254 pages. Dust jacket price clipped, light wear, very good. 020922F Madame Blavatsky was the founder of the Theosophical… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press, (1961). first British edition, as stated. hardcover. Very good/very good. Williams, Garth. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Octavo, blue cloth covers. 291 pages. Former owner name on front free endpaper, else very good. Unclipped jacket has a little darkening on spine and edges, with some wear at head of spine, still very good. Studio

New York: Grossett & Dunlap, (c. 1920). first or early ed.. hardcover. Very good. Rogers, W.S.. Black and white illustrations by W.S. Rogers. Octavo, blue cloth covers with titles in black. vi + 312 pages + 4 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Lists to this title in front of book (first title in series). Former owner… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1939). later edition. hardcover. Good +/good . Octavo, bright green cloth with blue titles; two cover corners lightly bumped. 256 pages. Browning on pages edges. Dust jacket has some chipping at head of spine, spine sunned; tear at rear fold. Lists to Beverly's Quest on front dust jacket flap; lists to Beverly… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. first edition, as stated. hardcover. Very good/near very good. Black and white illustrations. Octavo, black cloth covers stamped in orange, x + 345 pages, [1] i-ix (index) plus colophon. One cover corner light bumped, else very good. Dust jacket has a little chipping at head and foot of spine, and a couple… Read more about this item

London: Dean & Son Ltd, no date. hardcover. Very good. Quarto (approx. 7 3/8" wide by 9 5/8" tall), 188 pages. Color frontispiece, and black and white illustrations in the text. Fifteen stories. Red cloth spine over full color paper pictorial boards on top cover, plain boards on rear cover. Gift inscription on card glued onto front paste-down… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Co., (c. 1917). First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Good. Huard, Charles. With drawings by Charles Huard. Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt titles and paper pictorial inlay on top cover. 269 pages. Former owner name on front blank with date of "Xmas, 1917". Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket chipped on bottom edge of… Read more about this item

San Francisco: No Starch Press, (2015). first edition, as stated.. hardcover. Very good. First edition, first printing, with number line to "1'. Color pictorial boards, square quarto (approx. 9 1/4" by 9 1/4"). vi + 196 pages. Profusely illustrated. Cover corners lightly bumped, else very good. 101206A

Spring Books, (1958). 2nd impression. hardcover. fine/very good. Octavo, red cloth covers with gilt spine titles. 400 pages. Book is in fine condition. dust jacket price clipped, with a little wear along the edges, still very good. 23 tales. 082504B

Norwegian-American Historical Society, Distributed by The University of Illinois Press, 1988. first edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. Small quarto (approx. 7 1/4" wide by 10 1/8" tall) ivory cloth covers with dark blue titles, xiv + 367 pages. Includes black and white illustrations, notes, index. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket spine a bit sunned, still very good.… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1939). hardcover. near very good. Octavo, tan cloth covers with black titles, 319 pages. Some soil on spine, browning on endpapers, light spotting on covers, near very good. No dust jacket. Sender (29 Nov 1888 - 26 June 1964) was a German Socialist, feminist, politician, and journalist. She was active in left-wing German… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, (1986). first edition, first printing. hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo, black cloth spine over black boards, 196 pages. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket has a little yellowing, near fine. Warmly inscribed by the author to a fellow newspaperman and "Neronian", on the front free endpaper. Copies of some contemporary reviews laid in. 040407A… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1953. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo, yellow cloth covers, 320 pages. Light browning on front endpapers,small stamp on rear endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket price clipped, else fine. "A Biography of One of the Strangest Figures of the Century--His Character--His Cult--His Kingdom". 100704A

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1930. first edition, as stated. hardcover. near very good. Small quarto (approx. 6 1/8" wide by 9 1/2" tall), tan cloth covers stamped in dark blue and red, with design of a snarling beast on top cover. Illustrated with black and white photo reproductions. Includes index. Vassilyev is identified as the Last… Read more about this item