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New York: Penzler Books, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 418 pp. Fine / Near Fine. Association copy. Signed by author (16 Nov 90 Los Angeles), with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley and wife: "To Joe & Char – old friends, dear friends, for time past & times to come – As always, your pal – Harlan." Quarter-bound black cloth over black paper over boards. Red lettering on spine. Black eps. Minor creasing to leading edges of pages 405-418, else text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Unclipped dust jacket shows creases to rear flap and rubbing to back panel, else Near Fine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

Yellow Springs, OH: Oyo Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 340 pp. Fine. Softcover in burgundy illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with woodblock prints and sketches by Harlan Hubbard and photos from the collection of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Includes Hubbard bibliography. Slight curl to tips of bottom wrap, else Fine.

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. First Hardcover Edition, First Hardcover Printing, published as Book Club Edition, of title previously issued as Paperback Original. Correct first hardcover edition, with requisite code 42P at in lower gutter of page 277. Issued upon first publication by the Science Fiction Book Club. Fine / Near Fine. Octavo. 8 1/2 x 5 ½ inches. Ochre paper over board. Lettering and ruling in dark green on spine. Deckle fore-edge. 278 pp. Two blank leaves at end. Clean, unworn boards; tight, square binding; bright, clean pages. Ever so slightly canted, else Fine. Near Fine dustjacket has light rubbing/edgewear, two short closed tears at head of spine, shallow wrinkle at upper left corner of front panel; dark scuff at lower left corner of rear panel. Now in removeable archival cover.

Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 8.75 x 11.25 inches. 267 pp. Fine / Very Good. Original unclipped dust jacket, with watercolor art by Gil Reid, shows price of $17. Light brown cloth over boards. Black leather strip on front board stamped with silver Hiawatha logo. Spine lettering in silver on black field. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, including frontispiece. Top edge very lightly foxed, else Fine. Dust jacket shows some edge wear, minor rubbing near crown and foot of spine, half-inch chip on upper edge of front panel, two three-quarter-inch closed tears on lower edge of back panel, and two-inch closed tear in lower right corner of front panel. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition, First Impression (stated). Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good+. Small quarto. 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. Blue leatherette over board. Stamped metallic gold lettering to spine. xv, 280 pp. Illustrated with halftones, line drawings, and diagrams. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. Several small indentations to back board and text block edges lightly toned, else Fine. Dustjacket shows slight creasing along top edges of both faces and at head and foot of spine, as well as small closed tears and minor chips at tips. Now in removeable archival protective cover. Commander W. E. May was a leading authority on the history and use of the compass. He was a founder member of the Royal Institute of Navigation and one of its first Fellows.

Sheffield, England: J.W. Northend Ltd., 1968. First reprint of the 1912 original. Quarto. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original dark blue cloth on board, gilt debossed lettering and decoration to spine, gilt debossed paneling and coat of arms to front board. Original sand-colored, unclipped 10-guinea printed dustjacket. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Frontis, xiii, 539 pp. Index. Bright, tight and clean. No internal markings. Very slight bumps to leading corners of both boards, else Fine. Dust jacket shows light chipping at foot of spine and tips, creasing along edges, and scattered staining to front face. Price sticker affixed over 10-guinea price. Sticker ghost near tail of spine. Now in removable protective archival cover.

Mountain City, Tennessee: Johnson County Historical Society, 1986. Sesquicentennial Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. 511 pp. Very Good+ / No Dustjacket as issued. Red leatherette on board. Gilt-stamped debossed title, county seal, and triple panel border to front board. Gilt-stamped title to spine. Pictorial endpapers (four seasonal photos and poem to front pastedown, map to front free, blank family record to read free, blank family tree to rear pastedown). Case in Fine condition. Binding solid. Textblock square and tight. Slight foxing to leading edge of texblock. Foxing to front free endpaper and verso, title page, copyright page, and rear endpaper verso. Interior clean and unmarked with slight age toning at edges.

Chicago: Goodspeed, Bros. & Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. 837 pp. Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Three-quarter bound leather, all edges marbled. Gilt-tooled title and decorative gilt tooling on spine. Heavy rubbing to spine, spots of rubbing at corners, tips of all corner-pieces rubbed through to board. Previous owner's name written in pen on ffep. Contemporary newspaper clipping taped to ffep. Front and back hinges cracked, lower half of paste-down endpaper torn at back hinge. Pages browned. Fading and foxing evident throughout. Half-title page has been cut out. Foldout triptych at page 534 detached at fold between first and second panel. Creasing and small tears between second and third panels. "From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc."

New York: (Williams and) Whiting and Watson, 1810-1812. Volumes I-VI. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6 inches. Unpaginated. Good. Full leather on board. Early (1847) bespoke rebinding. Six decorative spine panels with gilt ruling still showing. Gilt lettering "Scott's Bible" in a red panel, content and volume number in a black panel. Early owner's name (D.S. Ebersol) in gilt visible at spine tail on some volumes. Publication: Vol. I, 1810, Williams and Whiting; Vol. II & III, 1811, Whiting and Watson; Vols. IV-VI, 1812, Whiting and Watson. Leather shows considerable edgewear, rubbing, scuffing, and scraping with traces of early worm damage. All volumes (except vols. 5 & 6, missing upper portion of ffep): "Nov 15 1829" in ink head of ffep, 2-inch strip excised from leading top corner ffep, "Silas Samson Jr" in ink below excised strip on ffep. All volumes: "D.S. Ebersol Oct 1847" in pencil at head of title page.Vol. I (Genesis through Joshua): Leather cracked through along entire front hinge, but hinge… Read More