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Minor wear, jacket slightly creased and chipped. Very good.. John Taine. Hannes Bok, illustrated. The Crystal Horde. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952. First edition.  Octavo. 254pp. Illustrated with cover art and decorations by Hannes Bok. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket. .

Minor toning, light wear to card wraps. Very good. JBS-432. Bayard Taylor. The Vision of Hasheesh.  Extract from Putnam's Monthly, April, 1854.  First American account of the use of hasheesh, preceding publication in book form in chapter X of The Lands of the Saracens, 1855. Famous article that encouraged Fitz Hugh Ludlow in his historic experiments.  Octavo. 7pp (402 - 408). In later protective card wraps, stapled.   From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Minor shelfwear, else fine. YLN-5. John Russell Taylor. The Art Nouveau in Britain. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1966. First edition. Quarto. [176]pp. (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt and black to spine and front cover, yellow top-stain, endleaves in yellow, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $12.95. .

Light wear to boards, with slight loss to corners and spine ends; light foxing to endleaves; ink gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1911. Very good. SJK-418. Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator. The Princess. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First edition.  Quarto. Unpaginated. Beautifully illustrated in color by Howard Chandler Christy. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth, stamped in blind to spine, front cover in gilt, green, and pink. .

Extremities rubbed, bumped, and stained; offsetting to endleaves; offsetting to endleaves; light uniform toning throughout, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Very good. LMM-246. Bertram Thomas. T. E. Lawrence, foreword. Arthur Keith, appendix. Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Early reprint edition. Octavo. [397]pp (indexed). Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, blind device to rear cover, top edge stained brown. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Boards bumped, rubbed, sunned, and soiled, very good. LMM-274. E. M. W. Tillyard. The Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt a Selection and a Study.  London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. Limited edition, No. 4 of 52 copies (45 for sale) on hand-made antique laid paper.  Signed by E. M. W. Tillyard. Octavo. [180]pp. Red cloth hardcover boards, gilt to spine. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Extremities gently rubbed, barely bumped, slight fading to head and foot of spine, but strikingly bright covers and tight binding; dust jacket sunned to spine, worn at folds, chipped with areas of loss to head of spine, torn and creased to lower corner of front flap. A near fine copy in a good jacket. LMM-177. Ruthven Todd. Paul Galdone, illustrator. Space Cat Meets Mars. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Scribner's library edition.  Inscribed by Ruthven Todd to FFEP.  Octavo. 72pp. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth-covered boards, original dust jacket. Scribner's Library Binding, as explained on the jacket flap: It is Smyth sewn with concealed muslin reinforcement. The sturdy pyroxylin-impregnated cloth over hard-rolled binder's board is washable, damp proof, and soil resistant. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Spine and boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn; slipcase sunned, rubbed, and soiled, with slight loss to titles. A very good copy in a good case. TCM-17. Mark Twain. Thomas Hart Benton, illustrator. Edward Wagenknecht, introduction. Willis Wager, editor. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited edition, No. 951 of 1,200 numbered copies. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton. Octavo. 418pp. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Publisher's green quarter cloth over pictorial hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, housed in original titled slipcase in green cloth. .

Slight vertical crease to spine; light wear to dust jacket, else fine. KWH-392. [SIGNED] Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Signed by Anne Tyler and additionally inscribed on enclosed post-it: Please! No more! / (Or I'll never have / time to write any / new ones.) at. Octavo. [276]pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in black to spine, front cover in blind, green top-stain, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $6.95. .

Vertical crease to spine; light wear to board edges; slight wear to price-clipped jacket. very good. KWH-378. Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition.  Octavo. 303pp. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, over orange hardcover boards, stamped in copper to spine, original dust jacket. .