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Featured items that Ken Sanders Rare Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2008.
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Macomb, John Navarre and John Strong Newberry. *Report of the Exploring
Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and
Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859*...with
Geological Report by Prof. J.S. Newberry, Geologist of the Expedition.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. First edition. 152pp.
Quarto [30 cm] Original dark red cloth with gilt title to backstrip.
The volume has been rebacked to match the original. Near fine. Corners
have been repaired with matching cloth. Name and date in ink on front
free endsheet. A bookplate has been discreetly removed from the front
pastedown. All plates present and in clean and crisp condition.
With eleven color lithographic plates of scenery, three black and white
landscape plates, eight black and white fossil plates (all with tissue
guards). Large folding map present at rear, and in very clean condition.
Rare and unusual in this condition. This publication is considered by
many to be a geographical continuation of the Ives report, although the
gap of the Grand Canyon is not filled in. Newberry was the geologist for
both expeditions. According to Farquhar, "The Lithograph of Shiprock is
one of the most pleasing of the scenic views made in that epoch".
Originally scheduled to be printed in 1861, the Civil War delayed the
publication for fifteen years. Howes M178. Farquhar 23. Wheat 983.
Moffat 61.
$3000.00
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McCarthy, Cormac. *No Country for Old Men.* New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
2005. First Edition. 309pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped
title on backstrip. Fine/Fine.
Signed by the reclusive author on a tipped in endsheet. Set in our own
time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac
McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his
acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. A harrowing story of a war that
society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of
love and blood and duties that inform lives and shape destinies, No
Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
$1250.00
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Shaara, Michael. *The Killer Angels.* New York: David McKay Company,
Incorporated, 1974. First Edition. 374pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 blue
cloth over matching blue boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near
fine/Near fine. Three small pieces of scotch tape on reverse of jacket
at lower corners and center. Subtle rubbing to corners of boards. A
nice, clean copy of this work that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
$2000.00
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Sinclair, Upton. *The Jungle.* New York: Jungle Publishing Company,
February, 1906. First Edition. 413pp. Octavo [20 cm] Green cloth with
titles stamped in white on front board and backstrip. Small two tone
illustration of factories on front board. Near fine. Minor bumping to
corners. Subtle rubbed spot on front board at center of factory.
Otherwise fine. No "Sustainer's Edition" pasted in.
Sinclair's ode to the working poor. Sinclair work was an instant
bestseller, and is responsible for the Pure Food & Drug Act. A modern
high point.
$500.00
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White, Elwyn Brooks. *Stuart Little*. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.
First Edition. 131pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Tan cloth with printed title,
author and illustration on front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near
fine. Subtle nicking to corners with a few tiny losses. Spine and
extremities of jacket show light age toning. Two short closed tears to
foot of the jacket's rear panel with tape "repairs" to reverse. Small
light stain to fore edge of jacket's rear panel near foot. Gentle
rubbing to corners of boards.
White's first published children's story is now widely regarded as a
classic. Illustrated with almost a hundred black and white illustrations
from the renowned illustrator Garth Williams.
$1250.00
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