Non-Fiction
THE BRIDGE AT ANDAU.
New York: Random House, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The story of Hungary and the 1956 Revolt.
A COLLECTION OF REVIEWS.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Millar from the deluxe edition. Collect fourteen reviews written by Millar/MacDonald.
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THE PANDEMNIUM PORTFOLIO OF DENIS TIANI [Centipede Artist Series].
[Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2019]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by Jason Van Hollannder and afterword by Harry O. Morris. This copy was sent out for review and has no limitation leaf.
A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF ... Edited by William Frederic Badé ...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1916. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-viii] [ix-xxvi [xxvii], 1-219 [220] [221-224: blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, pictorial paper onlay affixed to front cover. First edition. Autobiographically, this volume bridges the period between Muir's THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH and MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA. A manuscript journal, a portion of a letter, and a published article provide an account of Muir's botanical excursion from Kentucky to Florida in 1867, trip to Cuba, voyage to San Francisco via Panama, and first year in California. Muir's journal ends with his arrival in California in April 1868. The autobiographical narratives are connected by excerpting his brief account of his first visit to Yosemite Valley from a letter to Mrs. Carr, and providing a description of Twenty Hill Hollow (first printed in the OVERLAND MONTHLY for July 1872) where Muir spent much of his first year in California. BAL 14773.
I SAY SUNRISE.
Philadelphia: Milton F. Wells, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Non-fiction posthumous book published from the author's notes concerning his personal philosophy.
CREATION'S DOOM ... Translated by H. J. Stenning.
London: Jarrolds Publisher London Limited, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-286 [287-288: blank] + 8-page publisher's catalogue "for Spring, 1934" inserted at rear, eight inserted plates, 17 illustrations in the text, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition in English. Fascinating nonfiction speculation by a German writer on the probable doom of the solar system: the cooling of the Sun, the extinction of man, the rise of the insects, the end of all life, the Sun's nova. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 172. Bleiler (1948), p. 218.
WEIRD CRIMES AND SERVANTS OF SATAN.
[Shelburne, Ontario, Canada]: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of a series of thirteen true crime articles written for Weird Tales in the 1920s. The first group of stories are weird crimes gathered from European cases. Introduction by Peter Ruber.
SELECTED LETTERS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 276 letters spanning the author's life.
SELECTED LETTERS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects 276 letters spanning the author's life.
WAKING WORLD.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-280 + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "634" at bottom of page 8 inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 1523 copies printed. Collection of essays on politics, humanism, and science. Satty and Smith A5.1.
RAKETENFAHRT ... 2. Auflage Zugleich 6. Auflage von VORSTOSS IN DEN WELTENRAUM EINE TECHNISCHE MÖGLICHKEIT.
München und Berlin: Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-viii 1-240, 61 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. The fifth edition of DER VORSTOSS IN DEN WELTRAUM (1924), published in 1928, was extensively revised and enlarged. This sixth edition (the second edition under this title) was published in 1930. Both the fifth and the sixth editions were issued in cloth and in wrappers. The foremost first-generation western European publicist who was a moving force in the organization and promotion of rocket societies, in this case the Austrian groups and the German Rocket Society, was Max Valier (1893-1930). Valier's biographer traces his first thoughts of rockets and space travel back to his school days at Innsbruck University in 1913 -- 1914. His reputation as an authority on space travel was firmly established by the time of his first major astronomical work, DER VORSTOSS IN DEN WELTRAUM, published in 1924. Valier's career ended in 1930 when he was killed while experimenting with a liquid-propellant engine for a rocket car. Valier's role as chief rocket publicist in western Europe was assumed by Willy Ley, who from the appearance of his first book, DIE FAHRT INS WELTALL in 1926, was the preeminent astronautical author-lecturer for forty years (adapted from Winter, Prelude to the Space Age, the Rocket Societies: 1924-1940, p. 24). Ciancone 223. Hübner 700. Interlibrum 339. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 508.
THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THROUGHOUT THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THEIR INDEPENDENCE; AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ...
New York: Printed by Hopkins & Seymour ... 1807. Small quarto, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-376, inserted frontispiece with tissue guard (stipple engraved portrait by William S. Leney of New York after the portrait by Gilbert Stuart), nineteenth-century three-quarter pebbled morocco and marbled boards, spine panel lettered and tooled in gold, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed, marbled endpapers. First edition. An early life of George Washington by American physician, politician and historian David Ramsey (1749-1815) who "remained to the end the pious, benevolent, and unwearied public servant" (DAB). According to DAB, Ramsay's laudatory biography of Washington "was a mere political and military narrative, but was very popular." Ramsey was shot and killed by a maniac in 1815. Howes R-38. Sabin 67695.
CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940]. pp. [1-12] 13-127 [128], 96 black and white photographs by Edward Weston, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in silver. First edition. Collection of photographs by Edward Weston made during the period of 1937-39 while he was on Guggenheim fellowships (the first photographer to receive those grants). Text from a diary kept by his second wife, Charis. Edward Weston is considered to be one of the master photographers of the 20th Century.
THE KANDY KOLORED TANGERINE FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. A collection of his best early writing from Esquire and The New York Herald Tribune and other sources.