San Diego, CA: Cochran-Buckland Enterprises, 1987 [1966]. First Edition [Reprint]. Original Wraps. Raymond Buckland, beloved teacher and a prolific author writes on the subject of candle magick and ritual use of light magic. Originally from England, Buckland became the High Priest of the Long Island Coven, the first American Gardnerian.....
Price: $100.00
Boston: J. Belcher, Printer, 1809. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. Governor of Massachusetts from 1800-1808, James Sullivan (1744-1808), was born in Berwick, Maine (then part of the District of Maine). A nice copy of this rather uncommon imprint. Hint of foxing at preliminaries, light toning at text block edge, disbound (as.....
Price: $25.00
Providence, RI: The Akerman-Standard Company, 1935. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Light wear at edges (less than typically found), minor toning on spine, small water stain at top right corner, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown overlapped paper wraps with printed decorative elements. 8vo. 68pp. Index. Illus. (b/w plates). Signed by.....
Price: $125.00
[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. INSCRIBED by Bukowski to Harold Norse: "12 -27 - 69 / For Hal Norse - / We've both been / through the fire, / dear friend, and / there's more to come - / more fire more o / so.....
Price: $5,000.00
Valparaiso, IN: Sandlin's Books and Bindery, Inc., 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue leather boards, onlay leather decorative elements, silver gilt, printed endpapers, frontispiece, string with fishhook attached with the word discharge at the end, loose leaf corrective sheet. 71x48mm. 29pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition.....
Price: $200.00
Denver, CO: H.O. Wagner, 1967. Reprint (supplement). Staplebound Wraps. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, a group closely associated with - or possibly even the same as the better-known Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, of which Burgoyne was the Secretary. The Wagner's published a reprint of Burgoyne's work in 1963 and subsequently.....
Price: $40.00
London: John C. Nimmo, 1887. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome set of Burke's philosophical and political writings. Light shelf/edge wear, some tips through, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, brown leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled endpages, frontispieces, tissueguards. 8vo. Var. pag. Illus. (b/w plates).....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear, touch of toning along bottom edge of boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light to moderate shelf/edge wear, several small, closed tears, light soil/spotting, else clean and bright. Yellow cloth boards, black ink lettering. 4to.....
Price: $35.00
New York: Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 1947. First Edition. Original Wraps. Subject text at: 756-767pp. Burks was a senior engineer on the team that developed the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer. A rather monumental paper. "The ENIAC performs the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.....
Price: $750.00
Augusta, ME: E. E. Knowles & Co., 1891. First Printing. Hardcover. Presentation copy. Inscribed by author, "Hon. Selden Connor, With the sincere regards of The Author." Selden Connor was an officer in the 19th Maine Reg., wounded in The Wilderness and a Brevet Brigadier General. He was also Governor of.....
Price: $225.00
Toronto, Canada: The Magenta Foundation, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Martha Hanna. "Canadian photographer Jack Burman has created a hypnotic collection of still-lifes of long-departed but painstakingly preserved people, specimens and skeletons—dehumanized but very human; flawed but very beautiful. Exquisitely captured, Burman’s post-mortem documentation addresses not only death, but.....
Price: $950.00
London: Pluto Press, 1972. First Printing. Original Wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, light even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wraps. Small 8vo. 26pp plus adverts.
Price: $20.00
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Lovely illustrations by Smith. BAL 2100. Overall, a handsome copy of this minor classic. Light shelf wear, front hinge starting, hint of spoting at rear pastedown, several spots of minor soiling at boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards.....
Price: $75.00
Lee & Shepard: Boston, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Laid in mms letter, on Treasury Dept. letterhead, by John Wilkie dated May 1, 1901 (while he was the head of the United States Secret Service from. Famously, and using the name "Fred S. Ellmore" ("Fred Sell More") Wilkie wrote of the.....
Price: $245.00
Everett, MA: Roland Teiner Co., 1952. Poster. Printed in the saturated blue of engineering blueprints, though on heavier stock. Their focus during WW2 had been largely military and, as the war ended, they were apparently brainstorming ideas about product areas... This was, very likely, an engineer's joke that was 'good.....
Price: $175.00
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, nd [circa 1885]. Rebound/Fine Leather. Hardcover. A very handsome binding on this classic Burns volume, the result is a beautiful and very readable collection. Tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, red leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled endpages, text.....
Price: $175.00
London: Cochrane, 1834. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a very presentable copy of this wonderful collection. Lovely for reading or rebinding. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear (focused at head, heel and tips), two volumes show repaired damage at spines, several joints starting, Vol. III split at both hinges, Vol. V......
Price: $125.00
Portland, ME: 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Seldom found in DJ (as it is unprinted). A very handsome copy. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows small chip at head and tail, else clean. Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece. 8vo. 66pp. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $45.00
Portland, ME: Stephen Burt/Wolfe Editions, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth boards. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 8 of 20.
Price: $275.00
New York; New Haven, CT: Limited Editions Club, Yale University Press, Printing Office, [1937]. Limted Edition. Hardcover. The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist.....
Price: $100.00
Tudor Pub. Co., 1938 [1927]. Reprint. Hardcover. Originally published in 1621, this is a strangly readable and engaging tome. As noted in the preface, translated into modern terminology, Burton's title would read, "An Analysis of Morbid Psychology." A rather handsome copy of this rather uncommon volume. Light shelf wear, one.....
Price: $65.00
New York: Harry N. Abrams, April 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. A pristine copy of this scarce and wonderfully illustrated volume. "A perfect early-eighteenth-century Georgian limestone manor house situated in the wild, overgrown patchwork countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland" captured his eye and imagination, the result is this outstanding work. Foreword by.....
Price: $350.00
Atlantic Monthly, 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. This article embodied the idea of hypertext and, effectively, the function of the internet. “A remarkable early expression of ideas that were eventually realized in a different way on the Internet.” [OOC 519] "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a......
Price: $3,500.00
Philadelphia, PA: Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. “The most powerful computing machine prior to the electronic digital computer. . . . Bush invented an elegant, dynamical, mechanical model of the differential equation. . . . The differential analyzer proved so useful that copies were built at.....
Price: $2,000.00
American Mathematical Society, 1936. First Edition. Original Wraps. The subject paper spans pp. 649-669, presented here as part of the complete volume. [OOC 245] "Bush was a significant figure in computer science. In 1930, he invented the 'Differential Analyzer,' the most powerful general purpose analog computer of its time, and.....
Price: $450.00