Search Results: Titles starting with A from Elk River Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (23cm), pp. 257. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bumping on head/tail of spine, small closed tear on jacket at tail of spine.

Bergen, Norway: The Bergen Museum, 1896-1899. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (26 cm), pp. 270 plus supplemental plates. All fourteen parts on Isopoda, bound into a single volume with original paper wrappers. Pages are clean and bright, though some have closed tears and show prior attempts at repair. No jacket. Sars was a Norweigan marine biologist credited with systematic classification of Norweigan crustaceans. Not known as a towering intellect, he nonetheless had an excellent memory and good drawing skills (Norsk biografisk leksikon). This comes from his nine volume study of the subphylum.

Billings, MT: Western Livestock Reporter, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo (21 cm), pp. 208. Black imitation leather with gilt titling. Illustrations by Jerry Abbie. Crease to front free endpaper, minor rubbing and bumping to boards, no jacket. Else fine.

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 135. Brown cloth with gilt and silver titling. Includes three maps, notes, selected bibliography and index. Boards have slight wear at corners, head and tail of spine. No jacket.

New York: Abercrombie & Fitch, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of 1900 classic. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 324. Light brown cloth over orange quarter cloth, with silhouette of a bighorn ram stamped in black. No jacket as issued. Includes foldout color map of the Altai Mountains and Russian-Chinese border with the expedition route marked, index of plant names from the mountains, index, black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Demidoff, who was an Italian prince married to a Russian countess and speculated to be the richest man in the world, undertook the expedition in order to acquire spectacular trophies (photos of which are included in this volume). According to the publisher of this edition, "If the group would have to rough it in uncivilized and inaccessible wilds, Demidoff saw to it that they would rough it in the best possible style ... with cook and valet, their personal physician, even a pet lap dog."

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1973. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (20cm), pp. 149. Very small closed tear at top cover, light staining on textblock.

Avon, CT: Heritage Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 172. Yellow cloth with red and green decorations and spine titling, yellow endpapers, red publisher's top stain and slipcase. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Sandglass, publisher's newsletter, laid-in. No jacket, as issued. Slight sunning to edge of slipcase, else fine.

Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (25 cm), pp. 116. Pictorial paper wrappers. With black and white photos throughout, includes afterword, endnotes and appendix.

Charlottesville: Hampton Roads, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 314 plus eight plates of photographs. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Blue boards with red spine text. Light bumping to top of spine and dampstaining to bottom of back board and bottom back of jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on free front endpaper. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 248. Navy blue boards with copper spine titling. Illustrated jacket with $6.95 price. The second of two novels the highly decorated Johnson wrote in her lifetime, this volume is the sequel to Buffalo Woman (1978 Spur Award Winner). Light bumping to corners of boards and jacket, else fine.

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio (39 cm), pp. 208. Red cloth with gilt titling, photographic endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with 165 duotone photographs selected by Vreeland, with explanatory text based on Hemphill's interviews with Vreeland. Photographers include Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Adolph de Meyer, Cecil Beaton and others, and subjects include Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Queen Mary, etc. Promotional sheet laid in. Reprint of the 1980 original. "As fashion editor of Harper's, editor-in-chief of Vogue, and creator of dozens of famous exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, Diana Vreeland energized and inspired the world of fashion for fifty years." Very slight rubbing to boards, creasing to promo sheet, else fine.

Zwolle, Netherlands: WEJ Tjeenk Willink. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 54 plus 18 black and white photographic plates and 2 color. Unknown edition, no date. Pictorial wraps. Photos by Donia and Otto Peters. Minor rubbing to wraps.

Cape Coral, FL: Direct Impressions, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5 x 28cm), pp. 96. Full-color photographs throughout. Signed by author on title page. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Cover shows some minor rubbing, edges and corners are lightly worn.

New York: American Alpine Club, 1978. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 337-697. Pictorial paper wrappers have moderate wear and creasing. Includes contributions from writers like Jon Krakauer and the late photographer Galen Rowell. Includes black and white photographs, index.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Oblong octavo (23.5 x 26 cm), pp. 504. Gray cloth with gilt titling and train illustration. Tan illustrated endpapers, red publisher's stain to top edge. Brown and tan illustrated jacket with $20 original price. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos, drawings and charts. The first comprehensive technical development of the steam locomotive. Minor wrinkling to first few pages, and slight edge wear. Jacket sun-faded at spine, with moderate edge wear and small closed tears.

New York: American Alpine Club, 1957. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 226. Plain paper wrappers with black titling, black and white plates throughout. A few dog-eared pages, and spine shows moderate wear. Includes accounts of significant ascents by the world's leading mountaineers, as well as club proceedings, book reviews and a memorialization of deceased climbers.

Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (23.8 cm), pp. 118. Cream cloth boards with black spine text. Beige jacket with painting of fish by the author. Slight edge wear to jacket, else fine. A collection of Keeler's fishing poems as well as memories of his childhood and his father. "One of the best things about Keeler's work may be that it brings truth home through a different door" --Russell Chatham.

New York: Scribner , 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 278. Yellow boards with black quarter cloth binding and gilt text on spine. Corners show very minimal bumping.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (21 cm.), pp. 251. Black boards with gilt spine text. Very slight bumping and wear.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24cm), pp. 312. Tan speckled boards with gilt text on spine and "LB" stamped on front board. Spine slightly cocked, back of dust jacket shows some rubbing.