Notable New Books: July

Immortal Hero Yang-sze, by Wang Hao
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965. Third edition. Scarce.

Snow Crystals, by W. A. Bentley
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931. First edition. Rare.

Anatomical Preparations, by Milton Hildebrand
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition (presumed). Scarce.

African Shadows, by Ugo Mochi
New York: Junior Literary League/Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Edition.

A longitudinal investigation of Montessori and traditional prekindergarten training with inner city children: a comparative assessment of learning outcomes (a three part study), by Barbara Berger
New York: Center for Urban Education, 1969. Scarce original study.

Drawings by Japanese Children
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1940.

Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia, by Abbe Mermet
Longmead, Great Britain: Element Books, 1987. First Edition. Scarce.

Notable New Books

The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged Edition)
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. With original box. Scarce.

Bridge Street to Freedom: Landmarking a Station on the Underground Railroad, by Flavia Alaya and Dolores Van Rensalier
Mahwah, NJ: Ramapo College of New Jersey, 1998. Inscribed and signed by both authors. First Edition SOLD!

The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944, by George Pullen Jackson
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1944. First Edition. Signed by author.

The Art of Cooking Omelettes, by Madame Romaine de Lyon
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Signed by author. First Edition. Scarce.

Counter-Insurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, by David Galula
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. First Edition. Scarce.

Elsie De Wolfe: A Decorative Life, by Nina Campbell
New York: Panache Press, 1992. First Edition. Signed by author.

Notable New Books

Poppy, by Avi
New York: Orchard Books, 1995. First Edition. Scarce.

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1), by Stephen King
Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1998. Third printing (stated) of hardcover first edition.

Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, by Gore Vidal
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. First edition, signed by the author.

Shakespearean Plant Names: Identifications and Interpretation, by Mats Ryden
Stockholm, Sweden: Almquist and Wiksell International, 1978. First Edition.

The Nursery "Alice," by Lewis Carroll
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition Thus (facsimile).

The Top Shelf Flea

I just wanted to give a big "Thank You!" to all of you who came by our booth at the Top Shelf Flea. It was a pleasure meeting everyone.

I hope to do more events in the future; watch this blog or our Facebook page (link on the right) to keep in the know.

Notable New Books

Marianno: A Good Life and Loving Guardians: A Family Memoir, by Lydia Prescott Thayer
Self-Published (Rowley Printing), 1980. First (Limited) Edition, signed by the author.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin
Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 2005. Later printing, signed and inscribed by the author.

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, by James Howard Kunstler
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition, signed and inscribed by the author.

The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir, by Dave Van Ronk
Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2005. First Thus.

Notable new books the last two weeks: 03/07-03/20

The Soul of the New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1981. First Edition, signed by the author. Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize.

Meat Market, by Erik Marcus
Ithaca, NY: Brio Press, 2005. Limited Advance Printing, signed and inscribed by the author.

Textile League Baseball: South Carolina's Mill Teams, 1880-1955, by Thomas K.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1993.

The Luck of the Bodkins, by P.G. Wodehouse
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1936. First American Edition.

Postcards from the Edge, by Carrie Fisher
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Edition.

Featured Book: Dopefiend: The Story of A Black Junkie, by Donald Goines

Donald Goines made a name for himself by writing gritty and hard-hitting stories of addiction, violence, and poverty; he was one of the first African-American writers of urban fiction. Dopefiend was his first book. A prolific author, he wrote another fifteen books before his death less than four years after Dopefiend's publication. (He died, it should be noted, by the gun; he and his wife were gunned down in either a drug deal gone wrong or in retaliation for his portrayal of neighborhood criminals; his murderers remain unidentified.) Goines' influence is strong, and not just among the latest generation of urban writers. Musical artists from Tupac Shakur to Ludicris have referenced him in their work, and his novels have been made into movies and even a graphic novel. The seventies were a golden age of pulp fiction, and most authors produced one or two works before fading into obscurity. Dopefiend, as Goines' first novel, reflects that expectation: the binding and paper quality was not made to last, making it all the more difficult to find in acceptable condition, and this edition was not preceded by a hardcover as much popular fiction is today. Though a common-looking mass market paperback, this is the true first edition of a groundbreaking work. Our copy is in phenomenal shape, with only some edgewear and rubbing, a crease to the spine, and the usual tanning of the pages. The binding is tight and square and the text unmarked, with no tears or major creases beyond the noted one on the spine. An excellent addition to the collector's library, or the perfect beginning of one. As always, offered at a discount for blog readers who buy through PayPal. More photos on Flickr

Dopefiend, by Donald Goines Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1971. First Edition.

SOLD