Recent Arrivals from Bluebird Books

Evergreen, Colorado: Cordillera Press, Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0917895304 . Second printing. A presentation of the photography of Denver news photographer Harry Rhoads, with 300 photos taken during his sixty-years-plus career. Rhoads captured many important moments in Denver's history, beginning in 1900. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine &… Read more about this item

Denver: Department of History / University of Colorado at Denver. Near Fine. 1986. Softcover. A softcover guide to Denver's 330-acre City Park. With its lakes, statues, fountains, the Denver Zoo, golf course and other attractions and buildings, it remains a popular destination. With numerous black & white photos, mostly showing historic scenes. Author Bette D. Peters was… Read more about this item

San Jose, California: The Talisman Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A first edition (thus) of a reissuance of a collection of early Colorado gold-seeker Libeus Barney's letters to his home town newspaper in Vermont, sent during the height of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1859 & 1860. Consisting… Read more about this item

Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico: Butterfly & Bear Press. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0962964530 . A signed, stated first edition of a guide to New Mexico's Jemez Mountain Trail by Judith Ann Isaacs. The trail consists of a series of roads connecting towns along the Jemez River, near Los Alamos. With several maps and black & white… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Softcover. 0393954080 . A Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's classic romance, set amidst sheep farmers in his semi-fictional rural English county of Wessex. Edited, with preface, by Robert C. Schweik. In addition to the novel itself, much information about Hardy and his writings… Read more about this item

Seattle: Superior Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1971. Softcover. A pictorial guide to historic towns of Colorado and Utah, which sprung up along with the rush to discover precious metals. Author Lambert Florin has borrowed descriptions and black & white photos of Colorado & Utah towns from his earlier works cataloguing ghost towns of the American West. ---… Read more about this item

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society. Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0876360274 . An abridged modern reprint of the account of Major Stephen H. Long's famous 1819-1820 exploratory expedition in which he crossed the Great Plains to the Colorado Rockies. Long's Peak, a prominent mountain inside Rocky Mountain National Park, is named for Major Long. From the notes… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good. 1941. Leather. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" are often jointly referred to simply as "Alice in Wonderland." They were first published in 1865 and 1871 under Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. This Heritage Press reprint edition includes the famous… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Stated third impression, 1978. The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 14th century poetic stories set against the backdrop of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Originally written in Middle English, they have been rendered into modern English verse in this complete Folio Society edition by Nevill Coghill, who has… Read more about this item

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society. Very Good+. 1970. Hardcover. 0876360037 . Deluxe reprint edition of H. Rider Haggard's African adventure novel, first published in 1885. Number 1888 of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Signed by illustrator David Gentleman on limitation page (illustrations throughout in color and b&w). Volume housed in dark green linen-finish paper-covered slipcase. ---… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine. 1985. Hardcover. A collection of traditional British folk tales as retold by various English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh authors, as selected by Kevin Crossley-Holland, along with his introduction. Subjects for these tales range from fairies, beasts and ghosts through giants, saints & devils and magical creatures. Titles of the stories,… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press. Fine. 1957. Hardcover. A collection of folksy stories by Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), an Atlanta newspaperman who was interested in promoting regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era (per Wikipedia). These popular stories and observations were told in the manner that mimicked African-American dialects on Southern plantations and often referenced… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine. 1982. Hardcover. A handsome, illustrated Folio Society edition describing events in Paris in 1870-71 as Prussian forces besieged the city as part of the Franco-Prussian War. The war marked the end of Napoleonic rule with the dethronement of Napoleon III, and the consolidation of various states into the German Empire.… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Very Good+. 1983. Hardcover. A handsome, illustrated Folio Society edition of the classic Medieval Romance, which is believed to have been written in the fourteenth century. This ancient poem has been translated by Keith Harrison, with his introduction. Includes handsome lithograph illustrations by Virgil Burnett. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 2005. Hard Cover. A handsome, illustrated Folio Society edition of the gripping thriller by John Buchan. In this story, his protagonist Richard Hannay learns of a secret plot by sinister German spies to learn secrets of the Royal Navy just prior to World War I. He is forced… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1966. Hardcover. Kenneth Grahame's cherished tale of Mr. Toad and his fellow adventurers in an attractive Heritage Press edition. Illustrated in black & white and on 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham, and an with introduction by A. A. Milne. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with image of Toad… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press. Very Good+. 1988. Hardcover. The journals of England's Captain James Cook provide detail about the three voyages made by him as he and his crews explored the Pacific Ocean in the late 18th century. This Heritage Press reprint edition features maps of the Pacific before (front) and after (rear) Cook's voyages at… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. A selection of traditional tales and stories borrowed from Indian tribes from the Pacific Northwest to the Desert Southwest, the Great Plains and the Southeast U.S. Many of these tales were retold by Henry R. Schoolcraft, George Bird Grinnell, and other folklorists. These tales are offered in… Read more about this item

Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1970. Hardcover. 22 traditional Russian folk tales are presented in this handsome edition by Heritage Press in slipcase. Illustrated on 12 bright color plates and in black & white by Teje Etchemendy. Selected and edited by Albert Lord. Sandglass leaflet laid in (Avon, no. X: 37). --- In red and… Read more about this item

New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0307593851 . Ex-library. An Everyman's Library reprint edition of Bram Stoker's horror classic, first published in 1897. With an introduction by Joan Acocella and a chronology, showing parallel literary and historical events during the author's life. Entry no. 330 in the… Read more about this item