Serendipity Books (291 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1979, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, PB (cream paper wraps) 2108 items listed. Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature. G+ (tidy penciled notes from previous owner, covers darkened).

paperback. Condition: Good. 1983; illustrated paper covers; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are lightly bumped; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 156 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1985, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, PB (cream paper wraps) 650 items listed. Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature. VG (interior clean and unmarked, binding tight).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1979, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, PB (cream paper wraps) 158pp, 1656 items listed. Blake, Printing, Modern Literature. VG (back cover sun darkened, interior clean and unmarked, binding tight).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1984, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, PB (cream paper wraps) 1617 items listed. Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature, Fine Printing, Detective Fiction. VG (interior clean and unmarked, binding tight).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1981, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, PB (cream paper wraps) 152pp, 1466 items listed. Printing, Modern Literature. VG (back cover sun darkened, interior clean and unmarked, binding tight).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First printing. Octavo in Rorschach illus white wrappers; 16p (un-numbered; 100 items). A very early Peter Howard catalogue. Scarce. Small white sticker with code "787 C" to front wrapper right corne; light crease to first few pages; else Near Fine- .

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 98 pages. 'Jahn's superb library of 208 titles contains a remarkably comprehensive collection of the monuments of early paleontology (1600-1800); the local inventories of petrifactions, the illustrated museum catalogues that record many a fossil for the first time, the magnificent illustrated folios on corals and shells, the English country histories in which fossils mingle with arrowheads and urns, the travel books, the learned correspondance, the diluvian theology, and the earliest truly scientific monographs.' - from the introduction. Includes author index with values. B/W illustrations. A near fine copy in illustrated white paper wrappers (paperback). …

643 pp. 8vo, original wrappers. Fine. Errata slip laid in.

Condition: Good. Business Card. 6" x 4" Oblong. VG.Provenance Peter Howard, Serendipity Books.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. 6.25" X 13.25". Letterpress on Laid Paper, Deckled Edge, Good with creasing, faint staining. Snyder's signature embossed below poems.

Condition: Good. 4to. [12 pp.], Stapled Wraps, Very Good, Illustrated.

Condition: Good. 4to. [110 pp.], Unbound Pages Inside Mylar Sleeve, Good. Photocopy of corrected proof with copious MS notes from original working copy reproduced here.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 35 pp., Stapled Wraps Very Good+. Illustrated cover. Includes Olson, Patchen, Yeats, Woolf, McClure, many others. First Edition.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. 6.25" X 13.25". Letterpress on Laid Paper, Deckled Edge, Very Good. Snyder's signature embossed below poems.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. 6.25" X 13.25". Letterpress on Laid Paper, Deckled Edge, Very Good. Snyder's signature embossed below poems.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 76 pp. Very good in wraps.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Octavo. [32]pp. Stapled illustrated buff wrappers. A few penciled notes and a few pages neatly dogearred else near fine.

Broadside. Broadside, 8.5 x 15.5 inches. Printed in red, black and brown on white. Another elegant offering for dealers and customers from Serendipity for the California Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco. A near fine copy that has been folded in middle.

Condition: Good. 4to. 158 pp., Soft Cover. Very Good, slightly sunned.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 29 pp. Soft Cover. Very Good. Features works of literary criticism on Baudelaire, Dante, Emerson, et al.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [100 pp.]. Soft Cover. Very Good. Features rare copies of T.S. Eliot, Borges, Flannery O'Connor, et al.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [80 pp.]. Soft Cover. Very Good, slight discoloration, some pencil markings, smudges on cover. Order form for Charles Olson: The Special View of History laid within.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [80 pp.]. Soft Cover. Very Good, slight discoloration to covers.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [80 pp.]. Soft Cover. Very Good, slight discoloration to covers. Three small-press listing sheets laid within.

Condition: Good. Single page on plain letter size paper, printed on one side. Very Good.Henry Peers (1807-1846) was employed during the early 1840s as a general agent for the Maysville Eagle Newspaper, traveling to the larger towns in Kentucky to expand the subscription base and gather news. He began taking notes on the Kentucky history he gathered in the course of his work with the intent to author a Gazetteer for the state but died in March 1846 before publishing it. He left a 250-page manuscript of narrative and statistics that was used by his employer and brother-in-law, Lewis Collins, as the basis for a history of Kentucky. Peers was the son of Major Valentine Peers, born in Ireland and a veteran of the American Revolution. Major Peers moved to Maysville in 1803 and became one of the area's most successful pioneer industrialists.From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.…

Condition: Good. Single page on plain letter size paper, printed on one side. Very Good.Henry Peers (1807-1846) was employed during the early 1840s as a general agent for the Maysville Eagle Newspaper, traveling to the larger towns in Kentucky to expand the subscription base and gather news. He began taking notes on the Kentucky history he gathered in the course of his work with the intent to author a Gazetteer for the state but died in March 1846 before publishing it. He left a 250-page manuscript of narrative and statistics that was used by his employer and brother-in-law, Lewis Collins, as the basis for a history of Kentucky. Peers was the son of Major Valentine Peers, born in Ireland and a veteran of the American Revolution. Major Peers moved to Maysville in 1803 and became one of the area's most successful pioneer industrialists.From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.…

Condition: Good. Single page on plain letter size paper, printed on one side. Very Good.Henry Peers (1807-1846) was employed during the early 1840s as a general agent for the Maysville Eagle Newspaper, traveling to the larger towns in Kentucky to expand the subscription base and gather news. He began taking notes on the Kentucky history he gathered in the course of his work with the intent to author a Gazetteer for the state but died in March 1846 before publishing it. He left a 250-page manuscript of narrative and statistics that was used by his employer and brother-in-law, Lewis Collins, as the basis for a history of Kentucky. Peers was the son of Major Valentine Peers, born in Ireland and a veteran of the American Revolution. Major Peers moved to Maysville in 1803 and became one of the area's most successful pioneer industrialists.From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.…

Condition: Good. Single page on plain letter size paper, printed on one side. Very Good.Henry Peers (1807-1846) was employed during the early 1840s as a general agent for the Maysville Eagle Newspaper, traveling to the larger towns in Kentucky to expand the subscription base and gather news. He began taking notes on the Kentucky history he gathered in the course of his work with the intent to author a Gazetteer for the state but died in March 1846 before publishing it. He left a 250-page manuscript of narrative and statistics that was used by his employer and brother-in-law, Lewis Collins, as the basis for a history of Kentucky. Peers was the son of Major Valentine Peers, born in Ireland and a veteran of the American Revolution. Major Peers moved to Maysville in 1803 and became one of the area's most successful pioneer industrialists.From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.…

Condition: Good. Single page on plain letter size paper, printed on one side. Very Good.Henry Peers (1807-1846) was employed during the early 1840s as a general agent for the Maysville Eagle Newspaper, traveling to the larger towns in Kentucky to expand the subscription base and gather news. He began taking notes on the Kentucky history he gathered in the course of his work with the intent to author a Gazetteer for the state but died in March 1846 before publishing it. He left a 250-page manuscript of narrative and statistics that was used by his employer and brother-in-law, Lewis Collins, as the basis for a history of Kentucky. Peers was the son of Major Valentine Peers, born in Ireland and a veteran of the American Revolution. Major Peers moved to Maysville in 1803 and became one of the area's most successful pioneer industrialists.From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.…