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G. F. Wilkinson Books
Great Hermit in Grass Valley Where There is More Leaves than Grass
Membership(s): IOBA
Nowlan, Alden [7 Titles, Including]: Playing the Jesus Game; between Tears and Laughter; Smoked Glass; an Exchange of Gifts; Miracle At Indian River; Early Poems; What Happened when He Went to the Store for Bread With a Matching Cassette, the Astonishing Poems of Alden Nowlan Read by Robert Bly & Thomas R. Smith
$100.00
Various Places: New Books; Clarke Irwin; Fiddlehead; Nineties Press, 1970-93. Playing Jesus with some wear & creasing to extremities; Smoked Glass [the only hardcover] has 1″ closed tear top front spine edge and thumb tip size loss at rear top spine edge, now in protective mylar; Early Poems, several light brown spots to foredge, and fading to spine; Exchange of Gifts, one small spot to foredge. ; All but Smoked Glass in wrappers, the cassette in plastic case. ; 8vo 8″ – 9″ tall
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A Foundational Firsthand Account
Bobby Seale Seize the Time The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
$475.00New York: Random House, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo., 428 pp. First Edition. Original unclipped [$6.95] color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Bob Antler with illustration by Howard Brodie. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Item #420299.  Memoir by one of the founders of the Black Panthers, with a focus on his trial as one of the Chicago 8 and written during Bobby Seale’s time in prison as one of its defendants. An important firsthand account of the early days of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense  First published in 1970, ‘Seize the Time’ is one of the foundational firsthand accounts of the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. Written by Seale, the Party’s co-founder and national chairman, the book combines political history, personal memoir, and revolutionary manifesto. It vividly chronicles the rise of the Panthers, their community programs, confrontations with police, and the persecution they faced from the U.S. government. Its historic importance lies in its authenticity—it was written from within the movement itself, offering an unfiltered voice of protest, resistance, and Black self-determination at a time when mainstream media largely vilified the Panthers. The book remains a cornerstone of radical American literature, studied for its insight into race, power, and justice during a turbulent era.  Early printings, particularly the first edition published by Random House in 1970, have become increasingly scarce and collectible, especially copies in good condition or inscribed by Seale, due to both their cultural resonance and their place in the canon of 20th-century political activism.
Offered for Sale by: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera -
First Printing of the 1956 Caldecott Award Winner
John Langstaff Frog Went A-Courtin’
$650.00New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrator: Feodor Rojankovsky. Book Condition: Very Good+ Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Size: 9″ -11″ – Small Quarto (Sm. 4to). [32] pages. Stated First Edition of the 1956 Caldecott Award Winning book. The dust jacket does not have the award sticker or mention the award, which is the case with later printings. The classic folk tale put to music of Frog’s courting of Mouse. In his introductory “Story of This Story,” Langstaff traces its origins to Scotland and journey to the American colonies. “The story of the ‘Frog and Mouse’ became a part of America,” he writes, “and belongs to all of us today.” The last page of the text includes the tune the author says was sung by “the children of the southern Appalachian mountains ….” The two-page facing illustrations alternate between green, black and white drawings and full-color illustrations. In their 1982 annotated bibliography Newberry and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, Peterson and Solt wrote, “The predominantly red, yellow, and blue illustrations, as well as the monochromic ones, humanize the tale’s characters without stripping them of their dignity and natural traits.” They add, “Rojankovsky has recorded this tale so that it works well with the text and extends and synthesizes word and picture in a manner which retains the humor and fun of its original intent.” Supplementing the story and in keeping with the fun are matching full-color end papers showing the animals at play. Bound in blue textured paper over boards with the title in black on the spine and an illustration of Frog in black at the lower right corners of the front cover. Corners are sharp with minimal wear. The top of the spine has been bumped, resulting in a light crease 1/2″ down from the head of the spine and a diagonal crease in the upper left corner of the front cover. There is some light purple-ish spotting around the edges. Text block is tight, bright and unmarked. No foxing in this copy. Side and bottom page edges are clean, neat and free of foxing. There is some light dust speckling to the top page edges. The unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket has some wear at the folds with a 3/8″ chip at the head from the front flap’s fold and a small 1/8″ chip at its foot. There are small (1/8″ or less) chips at the head of foot on the fold between the front panel and the spine. The spine and exposed edges of the folds are slightly darkened from handling or exposure and there is some light spotting visible in the light areas of the front and rear panels. The dust jacket is protected in a clear archival Brodart sleeve.
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Scarce signed John Green Track of Sasquatch set
Green, John ON THE TRACK OF THE SASQUATCH: Encounters with BIGFOOT from California to Canada (Books 1 & 2, both signed) Encounters with BIGFOOT from California to Canada
$495.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
1st printings of the revised edition of (1) Green’s 1968 On the Track of The Sasquatch & (2) Green’s 1970 Year of the Sasquatch. 4to pictorial wraps both Book 1 & Book 2, with matching illustrations. 64pp & 64pp. Illus. Both signed by Green on the title page. These two books “replace the volume of the same name and also Year of the Sasquatch, … making the many revisions and additions that are needed after a decade of activity. The two volumes together give a very full account of what is happening in most of western North America, but either book taken by itself tells many fascinating stories.” Signed sets in combo with this edition & condition are rare. Each volume is in fine condition. Included with your purchase will be my finely printed black and white portrait of Green taken when I visited him in 2012 and which has been included in my book, ROGER PATTERSON’S SNOWMAN BOOK THE SECOND EDITION.
Offered for Sale by: Gene W. Baade Books on the West -
Signed Presentation Copy to Author's Sister In La
Sherwood, Robert E. There Shall Be No Night
$300.00New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”.  Winner of 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a play about Finland’s invasion by the Soviet Union. A signed presentation copy inscribed “from Madeline’s husband” to Gwendola Hurlock, sister of the book’s dedicatee and Sherwood’s wife, Madeline Hurlock, a silent film actress.  Dated December, 1940. Spine leaning, tanning to front and rear gutters, brief marks to the rear board — a solid very good or better copy in a very good rubbed dust wrapper with a few small, shallow chips.
Offered for Sale by: The Accidental Bookseller
