Green Mars by Robinson, Kim Stanley - 1993

Tacoma / Seattle: Museum of Glass / University of Washington Press, 2002. Signed by Jaroslava Brychtova on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: The World Publishing Co., 1971. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards, Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Poems. The author's first book. A beautiful copy.

Atchison, Kansas: E. W. Howe, 1913. Seven consecutive monthly issues (February-August 1913) of E. W. HOWE'S MONTHLY bound together without original covers. Each issue has 64 pages except for April, which has 56 pages. Olive-gray buckram covered boards, with gilt title ("Travel Notes") on the spine. These seven issues contain Howe's narrative, musings, and observations during his travels in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and several ports on the east coast of Africa during the Spring of 1913. Included are 3 brief letters signed by Howe (1 tipped in and 2 laid in), all to Charles A. Goddard, publisher of the Fayetteville (W. Va.) Tribune and Free Press. Although Goddard did not put his name on any of the issues, the presence of the 3 letters strongly suggests that he was responsible for selecting these "travel" issues and having them bound. The bound volume is in about very good condition: clean and tight, with rice-paper repaired tears on several pages.. SIGNED.… Read More

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. Good. With author's autograph letter signed and dated 1854 tipped in. Two volumes. Boards in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering on spines; ornate decorative blind-stamping on spines and front covers. Top of each spine is chipped; fore-corners exposed. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title pages and address label on front pastedowns. Newsprint portrait of author affixed to ffep of Vol. I. Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Reed with tissue guard in Vol. I. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [2], 26-437, plus [2] ads; [9], x-xv, [2],18-507. [Howes, R137] Biography of Joseph Reed (1741-1785), Founding Father of the United States, aide-de-camp to George Washington, member of the Continental Congress, and third President of Pennsylvania, written by his grandson, William Bradford Reed (1806-1876). An interesting if slightly worn copy of this scarce biography of a Founding Father, with the author's 1854 handwritten letter which touches on the death… Read More

New York / Portland, OR: W. W. Norton and Company / Powell's Books, 2014. Signed on the colophon by Richard Powers. First edition / First printing. First Limited Edition. Gray cloth in a gray cloth slipcase. Included is a small staple-bound book with an interview with Richard Powers. Very fine in very fine slipcase. Booklet also very fine. Richard Powers made a decision early in his career that he would not sign books. He has made several book tours, whence he would read from and talk about his books, but he never signed them. At some point he began to sign postcards and later bookplates for some collectors who had requested them. This is the first book that Powers has signed. It is a special edition produced by Powell's Books of Portland Oregon. It is in a full cloth binding stamped in silver foil, unlike the paper-covered boards of the trade edition. It comes in a full cloth slipcase stamped in silver foil. It is signed on a specially printed page as Number 45 in Powell's "Indiespensable" Series.… Read More

Tacoma / Seattle: Museum of Glass / University of Washington Press, 2002. Signed by Jaroslava Brychtova on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: The World Publishing Co., 1971. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards, Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Poems. The author's first book. A beautiful copy.

Atchison, Kansas: E. W. Howe, 1913. Seven consecutive monthly issues (February-August 1913) of E. W. HOWE'S MONTHLY bound together without original covers. Each issue has 64 pages except for April, which has 56 pages. Olive-gray buckram covered boards, with gilt title ("Travel Notes") on the spine. These seven issues contain Howe's narrative, musings, and observations during his travels in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and several ports on the east coast of Africa during the Spring of 1913. Included are 3 brief letters signed by Howe (1 tipped in and 2 laid in), all to Charles A. Goddard, publisher of the Fayetteville (W. Va.) Tribune and Free Press. Although Goddard did not put his name on any of the issues, the presence of the 3 letters strongly suggests that he was responsible for selecting these "travel" issues and having them bound. The bound volume is in about very good condition: clean and tight, with rice-paper repaired tears on several pages.. SIGNED.… Read More

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. Good. With author's autograph letter signed and dated 1854 tipped in. Two volumes. Boards in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering on spines; ornate decorative blind-stamping on spines and front covers. Top of each spine is chipped; fore-corners exposed. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title pages and address label on front pastedowns. Newsprint portrait of author affixed to ffep of Vol. I. Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Reed with tissue guard in Vol. I. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [2], 26-437, plus [2] ads; [9], x-xv, [2],18-507. [Howes, R137] Biography of Joseph Reed (1741-1785), Founding Father of the United States, aide-de-camp to George Washington, member of the Continental Congress, and third President of Pennsylvania, written by his grandson, William Bradford Reed (1806-1876). An interesting if slightly worn copy of this scarce biography of a Founding Father, with the author's 1854 handwritten letter which touches on the death… Read More

New York / Portland, OR: W. W. Norton and Company / Powell's Books, 2014. Signed on the colophon by Richard Powers. First edition / First printing. First Limited Edition. Gray cloth in a gray cloth slipcase. Included is a small staple-bound book with an interview with Richard Powers. Very fine in very fine slipcase. Booklet also very fine. Richard Powers made a decision early in his career that he would not sign books. He has made several book tours, whence he would read from and talk about his books, but he never signed them. At some point he began to sign postcards and later bookplates for some collectors who had requested them. This is the first book that Powers has signed. It is a special edition produced by Powell's Books of Portland Oregon. It is in a full cloth binding stamped in silver foil, unlike the paper-covered boards of the trade edition. It comes in a full cloth slipcase stamped in silver foil. It is signed on a specially printed page as Number 45 in Powell's "Indiespensable" Series.… Read More