Aardvark Rare Books

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. William Kermode (illustrator). Twenty-Sixth Impression. Slender duodecimo, 7" x 4 1/2." White cloth boards. Original illustrated paper dust jacket, good, chip to front top left corner affecting top of "TH" and 2 closed tears to top of rear board. 2 tiny closed tears to bottom edges. Small chips to top and bottom of spine. Interior pages very clean, blockprints throughout by William Kermode. Charming, beautifully illustrated volume which memorializes a simple, but insightful carpenter, the pseudonymously named Lem Putt, the "specialist" of the title. The Listener describes the work as "A narrative ballad in which sensitiveness of mind is combined with a tough delight in adventure" (rear flap).

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. Reprint. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards, ruled in blind. Blue-on-silver title panel to front board. Considerable wear to extremities. "Do you remember that funny vaudeville stunt we used to laugh over when we were children -- 'The Lady Bookseller?'" (P. 57).

Sheet_music. Condition: Good. 14 in. x 10 1/4 in, printed in two colors (Red, Yellow with White background. Folio (1 sheet, 4 pages). Cheap manila paper. A small corner chip, and few edge tears, but basically in good condition. Musical notation in black within, and in red on rear page. ".Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870 - March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of Representatives from the West Side of Manhattan, from 1923 until his death in 1949. Bloom was the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1939 to 1947 and again in 1949, during a critical period of American foreign policy. . Bloom was especially concerned with the fate of European Jews but was unable to overcome very strong resistance to admitting Jews or any refugees before the war. He argued vigorously after the war that the United States needed to take in larger numbers of refugees. He adopted the Zionist position that mandated Palestine should become the refuge for Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He urgently lobbied President Harry Truman in 1948 to immediately recognize the Jewish state of Israel, which Truman did." (Wikipedia). Bloom also penned the ditty singsonged by young boys even up through the 1950s ("Oh they don't wear Pants in the Sunny Side of France"). Musical Supplement to the San Francisco Examiner.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto, 10.5 in. x 7.75 in., pp. 421. Illustrated with 28 blacvk and white plates. Black title on blue green paper. Some sunning and rubbing to extremities with a touch of tanning to cover edges. Thumbing to corners Bump and small closed tear at top of spine. Unmarked interior. Volume 49: Part 2 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Theodore Schwartz studied and worked closely with Famous Anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.2 in., pp. 369. Personally inscribed and signed by the late author on the title page. Dark blue paper boards over dark blue cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to top/boottom of spine. Protected in mylar. Cliff Janeway, an antiquarian bookseller, returns for a second adventure as he seeks to solve a murder mystery. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. First Edition. 8vo. Black cloth with Maugham's beehive motif embossed to front board. Gilt lettering, with decorative floral design to spine, somewhat faded. Corners bumped, especially lower right front board. Round stamp of Oxford Bookshop to rear pastedown. Both endpapers show discoloration. Nice, clean solid reading copy. Maugham entitled this collection of short stories The Mixture as Before, deriving the name from a review of his previous collection, the headline for which was, "The Mixture as Before". Maugham writes: "After pursuing the art of fiction for over forty years, I have a notion that I know a good deal more about it than most people. In that long period Ihave seen a number of bright stars creep shyly over the. horizon, travel across the. sky to burn for a while in midheaven with dazzling effulgence, and then dwindle into an obscurity from which there is little likelihood that they will ever again emerge. The writer has his special communication to make, which when you come to analyze it is the personality with which he is endowed by nature, and during the early years of his activity he is groping in the dark to express it; then, if he is fortunate, he succeeds in doing this, and if there is in his personality a certain abundance he may continue for along time to produce work which is varied and characteristic; but the time comes at last (if he is so imprudent as to live to a ripe age) when, having given what he has to give, his powers seem to fail. He has fashioned all the stories. he himself is capable of digging out of the inexhaustible mine which is human nature, and he has created all the characters which can possibly be constituted out of the various sides of his personality. I have now written between eighty and ninety stories, I shall not write any more; I am quite satisfied if the readers of htis collection, should they remember any of those I have written in the past, agree that I have not been overbold in giving it the title I have." (Foreword).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Limited Numbered Edition. 8vo. 9.25" 6.25". This is number 246 out of 350 from this edition. Signed and inscribed by John Henry Nash to front endpaper. Staining to spine, previous owners name and date to front free endpaper. Lacks slipcase. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Soft covers, dark blue text on blue-green paper. 10 1/2" x 7 3/4". Corners bumped, irregularly shaped 1" chip to lower spine, some sunning. Stamps on cover from Wyoming Hist-Geol Society Wilkes Barre PA. 420 pp. Reading copies only. Volume 40: Part 3 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Staplebound cardstock, oblong [10.4x7.3 inches] with titles in black with red design. Some wear to spine and light edgewear. Binding sound. Previous owner's name (Jessie Ray Nottingham?) in pencil on front endpaper,otherwise clean and bright. 45 pages. Nice frontis color tinted photograph of "Slovak Couple in Holiday Costume." Over 38 dances with musical notations and instructions for each dance.

Staplebound Pamphlet. Condition: Good Plus. Edition II. Stapled pamphlet, 8.5 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 20. Pictorial cover of author/artist to cover. Light rubbing to edges and light staining to rear cover; rust to staples. Pages are bright and clean. A comprehensive self-study of yodeling, by the Bavarian-born master. The book offers inspiration, exercises, and songs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus / Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.5 in., pp. 304. Black cloth-covered spine over red paper boards. Silver "Gonzo" daggar on front and silver title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Upper front corner lightly nudged. Small dark stains to fore-edge. Previous owner's stamp embossed in blind to half title. Light edgewear and age-toning to dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Octavo, 9.2 x 6 in., pp. xxii + 214. Illustrated with fold-out map black and white drawings and photographs. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to exrtremities. Rubbing to dustjacket; two inch zigzag scratch to center of rear panel. Price clipped. Fold-out map tipped in at endpapers and measures 22.5 x 16 in.; map in very good plus condition. Protected in mylar. "At about 2:30 on an afternoon in July, at 20,475 feet, in a temperature of 15 degrees F. and amid a shower of volcanic ash, three mountaineers posed for a photograph in Ecuador. They were at the summit of Chimborazo, in the Andes. The year was 1880, the photographer - Edward Whymper. the best known of the 19th century mountaineers." (from the dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good / Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 360. Blue paper boards with white title to spine. Shelf bump and nudged lower corners. Light rubbing to corners and top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Unmarked. "In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of telephone taps in the US government's wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. While high-profile eavesdropping scandals fueled public debates about national security, crime control, and the rights and liberties of individuals, wiretapping became a routine surveillance tactic for private businesses and police agencies alike." (from the publisher).

Hardcover. Condition: AS NEW, STILL IN SHRINK WRAP. Quarto. 208 pp. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. "A definitive book that explores -- through essays interviews, illustrations and photographs -- the many facets of the incomparable Renaissance Man, Alejandro Jodorowsky." "With his famed Tarot readings, groundgreaking cult films (ElTopo, The Holy Mountain) and seminal graphic novels (The Incal, The Metabarons)(, Jodorowsky has managed to carve a space for homself at the intersection of popular and sub-culture -- presenting the world with revolutionary ideas that challenge convention,while simultneously resonating with a deeper,universal humanity. But as rich and diverse as his body of work is, his magnum opus is, undoubtedly, his own life.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo, 6.25 x 9.4 in., pp. xxii + 400. Illustrated with black and white photographs and map of route. Dark blue spine over light blue paper boards. Gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Very light rubbing to top edge of dustjacket. Three page publisher's release and advanced praise letters laid in. "In the summer of 1967, Joe Wilcox, 24, led an expedition of twelve exemplary young men toward the summit of Alaska's Mt. McKinley (now more commonly called Denali), the tallest peak in North America. A storm hit. Ony five men returned. Reckoning by lives lost, the tragedy was the third worst in mountaineering history when it occurred, and remains North America's greatest expeditionary mountaineering disaster." (from the Publisher's Release letter).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First U.S. Edition. Quarto. 9 1/2 in. x 6 in. Two books in one binding, fine writing on the Antarctic and the Arctic, anthologized by different editors. One tiny blemish (suspected printer's defect) to one of the boards (the Antarctic side) and a very small (1/8 in. x 1 in.) coffee stain to dustjacket (the Arctic side). 218 pp. + 208 pp. THE ARCTIC: "Comprising the work of novelists, explorers, and natural scientists, this book is both a look back at the history of this exotic place and a rumination of what it means. With contributions from Robert peary, Barry Lopez, Gretel Ehrlich, and many others, it is an encomium to the vastness and beauty of a lonely continent, a commenoration of a place at risk of disappearing" THE ANTARCTIC: ".Here is a compendiumof leaders of their fields, the likes of Scott and Shackleton as well as such distinguished names as Diane Ackerman and even H.P. Lovecraft, claiming the frozen continent for the fantastic. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: THE ANTARCTIC is a memorable collection of terrific writing -- and a lasting contribution to the literature it celebrates." Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Otasvo, 9 in. x 6 in. pp. 101. Illustrated with black and white photographs and other illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Black and white pictoral front and rear paper cover with black title to cover; white title to spine. Light thumbing to lower front corner. "In the 1950s, small town semi-pro baseball ingnited in popularity and blazed across our country like no other sport in history. Two teams epitomized this exciting era: The Drain Black Sox of Oregon and Alpine Cowboys of Texas. When these two teams collided for the national championship in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, it produced one of the most rip-roaring games ever played in semi-pro history." (from the back cover). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Second Printing. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 406. Inscribed and signed by the author in felt pen on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Black paper boards with gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 184. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Rust-red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to edges. Quarter-sized water stain to front board. Rubbing to edges and corners of dustjacket. Two two-inch closed tears and creases to bottom of dustjacket front cover. Spine and hinges are tight. Protected in mylar. "I was raised in a south-western Nebraska soddy. 10 miles south of Stockville, 13 1/2 miles north of Indianola, and 3 1/2 miles northwest of the now-vanished Post Office and store of Freedom." Vernam (1896-1980) wrote comprehensive histories of man on horseback and western saddles. Also known for his Westerns. (Nebraska authors site). Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Good Plus. Octavo. Translated by Patsy Southgate, a translation of "Les Valseuses" first published in France by Robert Laffont, in 1972. "Jean-Claude, Pierrot, and Marie-Ange -- a perverse, tender-savage menage-a-trois, seizing each day as thought it's their last.Directed by Blier, the critically acclaimed film of "Going Places" with Jeanne Moreau, was released in the United States in 1974. (from rear panel) William Styron writes: "By turn brutal and ruthless, hilarious, shocking, and terrifying, [Going Places] is also.surprisingly moving".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Review Copy with Publisher's slip laid in. Protected in mylar. "Acclaimed as one of our most pungently original and piquantly unpredictable satirists, James Morrow returns with a work at once thought-provoking and utterlymad,a wild carnival of a novel that wittily examines the human soul and those who would presume to improve it." A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose has torpedoed a promising academic career and now faces a dead-end future. Before joining the ranks of the unemployed,however,he's approached by a representative of billionaire geneticist Dr. Edwina Sabacthani, who makes him an offer no starving ethicist could refuse." (from front flap).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good / Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 6 x 9.25 in., pp. 354. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Blue paper boards with black cloth spine. Red title to spine. Light fade to bottom of front and rear boards. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket, with some small closed tears. Light age-toning to dustjacket. .

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Third Printing. 8vo. Blue paper over boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. A wee bit of creasing to spine. Signed (only) on title page. Light shelfwear to price-clipped dustjacket. Very Good in Very Good (Priceclipped) Dustjacket. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 8.5 in x 5.5 in., pp. x, 358. Illustrated with black and white plates and photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Beige paper boards with red-orange spine. Gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Protected in mylar. "An extraordinary book about an extraordinary animals intermingling with humans. It is full of fascinating stories, astute observations, & amazing facts. The sections dealing with modern zoos & circuses are especially relevant, even urgent, today. Author Eric Scigliano has firsthand experience with elephants, & he views all possible information about elephants with reason & clarity. An unsurpassed history of the relationship between elephants & people. Fascinating photos & illustrations." (from Google Books). Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. Minor wear to corners. "Friedman, having lived and worked in a world of top secret government rocket programs, is able to establish the truth about UFO secrecy and how it works. He has done what other authors have been trying to do for years and has established a new norm for scientific inquiry in the UFO field." (Review by John F. Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Network from back of book).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Trade paperback, 6 x 9 in., pp. xiii + 343. This book explores the human stories arising from the loss of confidentiality in psychotherapy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Folio (9 3/4 in. x 9 3/8 in.). 250 illustrations. ".Offers the first full-color, comprehensive, global guide to the world's finest pathways, ancient as well as modern." Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Reprint. Octavo, 8 in. x 5 in., pp. viii, 199. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Lower front corner bumped. Bubbling in cloth at edges of front board. Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Repaired front and rear hinges. The 1917 reprint of the 1910 first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Quarto, 8.75 x 11.25 in., pp. xiv + [2] + 316. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Brick red boards with spear design and brown title on front and spine. Maps of "Nez Perce Country" in green on endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket has light edgewear and small quarter-inch closed tears and small chips at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket spine is slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.75 in., pp. (2) (Introduction) + 55. Limited edition printing of 500 copies. Illustrated with tipped-in frontispiece black and white photograph (2.5 in x 3.5 in.) of author and several black and white photographs and engravings. Tipped in foldout red and black map of "Portion of Washington Territory, 1852" (12 in. x 8.5 in.) tipped-in at rear pastedown. Red cloth boards with black print of "Oregon and Washington Almanac, 1863" cover to front. Gilt title to spine. Untrimmed fore-edge.