Special Editions and Rare Finds
Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1997, first edition with full number line, adorable drawing and signature on ffep, remnants of sticker on title page and library pocket in rear, but NOT ex-library. VG/VG
Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) was the Tibetan mountaineer who led Sir Edmund Hilary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953. The two men became the first people to set foot on the summit of the world's highest peak. After Everest is Norgay's autobiography, as told to Malcom Barnes.
Vikas Publishing, New Delhi, India, 1977 first printing. Dust jacket in protective cover; head of spine torn and missing; bottom of spine chipped; top edges and corners creased and chipped; dark green cloth with yellow lettering on spine; area of fading at head of spine and top front cover; endpapers tanned; autographed signed letter laid in; inscribed on half-title; binding good; text clean. G+/G-
“A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous.”―Times Literary Supplement
The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected account discloses the slow onset of disaster. His father, a successful Austrian intellectual, refuses the implications of what’s happening and embraces the humiliating routines of Jewish self-hatred. To the vicious attacks on his writing and character, he adds his own voice until, with nothing left―not faith, not family, not dignity―he disappears. Thirty years later, the war long over, Bruno, at a low point in a childless marriage, responds to ambiguously positive inquiries about his father’s work, and travels from his home in Jerusalem to the Austrian town of his childhood. What he encounters in that town, “now clean of Jews,” means something more than confronting his own profound losses.
1st English edition; translated by Dalya Bilu. Signed by author in Hebrew. Embossed on endpaper "From the Library of David S. Ariel." Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. VG/VG
1st edition, published by the Bird Research Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1943. Illustrated w/paintings by Major Allan Brooks & Edward R. Kalmbach, photos by Frank Dufresne, Olaus J. Murie, & author, pen sketches by C.G. Mitchell, J.R. Moodey, & L.B. Towle. Scientific and anecdotal results of the Hooper Bay Expedition to study "the richest breeding ground of noncolonial Arctic birds that has ever been discovered...This expedition appears to be the largest party of bird students to penetrate the Arctic. There were five ornithologists, who were assisted by 50 families of bird-minded Eskimos. Data were secured on more than 1500 noncolony nests, and the home habits of 60 different boreal birds..." (flap). 40 plates.
Dust jacket in protective mylar cover; price clipped; very little shelf wear to top edges & corners; brown boards stamped w/gilt decoration & lettering on cover & spine; front endpapers illustrated w/photo; rear endpapers w/map of expedition; binding tight; text clean & bright. VG+/VG+
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1970. 1st edition, inscribed by the author on ffep; dust jacket in protective cover; head of spine has 1/2" tear; rear cover has 2" tear at bottom; evidence of repairs made with scotch tape; brown cloth with black lettering on spine; binding good; text clean and bright. VG/G-
1st edition; dust jacket protected; binding tight; gift inscription on free endpaper; price clipped; illustrated endpapers; binding good; text clean. VG/VG
Roycrofters, 1899. Title page: "So this then is the appreciation of Ali Baba of East Aurora as discreetly and delectably done by his Friend & Coadjutor, Fra Elbertus (also of East Aurora) Wherein is told of the Life, Labors & Public Services of a Good Man and True: with copious extracts from his Orphic Sayings & instructive Moral Anecdotes relating to his Career, told for the Edification of the Young."
Number 229 of 620 copies, signed and numbered by Ali Baba; illumined by Anna McMillan; paper boards with suede spine; spine faded and worn, but mostly intact; boards soiled and darkened; frontis with tissue guard; deckled edges; binding tight; text clean and bright. G
Robert M. McBride, 1941. 1st edition; inscribed on frontis photo. Dust jacket in protective cover; top of dj torn and missing, chips, tears, creases; red cloth with dark blue lettering on cover and spine; corners bumped; illustrated endpapers; binding good; text clean. G/G-
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Horizon Press, 1981. 1st edition of author's first book; dust jacket protected; bottom edge of front cover creased and worn; binding tight; text clean. VG/G