1997-1998 DBA Directory: serving the Greater Palm Springs Area
Palm Springs: Desert Business Association, 1997. Paperback. 128p., ads, listings, maps, very good LGBTQ business directory, trade paperback in wraps. More
Cat.No: 337409
Desert
Architectural glories of Temur's era // [Cyrillic titling also, in both Russian and Uzbek]
Tashkent: Chief Editorial Office of Publishing and Printing Concern "Sharq" 1996. Hardcover. Not fully paginated: a substantial coffeetable book page-numbered through p.117 followed by nearly as many appended captioned color photos, ergo about 200p. total. The first eighty pages are entirely in Cyrillic and largely textual only, with floorplans and..... More
Cat.No: 289801
Burning Man: Caravansary (cover title: What, where, when)
n.p. Black Rock City, LLC, 2014. Paperback. 160p. glossy paperback, very good; fold-out map at rear shows layout of the camp. Title on spine is Caravansary. Comprehensive listing of events at the desert gathering. More
Cat.No: 301814
Desert Community Directory: the phone directory for gay men and women; May-October 1996
Palm Springs: Desert Community Directory, 1996. Magazine. 88p., 8.25x10.75 inches, ads, listings, very good LGBTQ business directory/phone book in stapled rainbow design wraps. More
Cat.No: 236733
El Paisano [6 issues]
Banning, CA; Palm Springs, CA: Desert Protective Council, 1962-70. Six issues of the staplebound newsletter, very good. Issues present are 27, 28, 48, 49, 54, and 59. Generally eight or nine pages long. Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others..... More
Cat.No: 220439
Gwion Gwion, Dulwan Mamaa. Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal, Nyawarra [content authors] Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia. [Jeff Doring, narratives editing and observations]
Koln: Konemann, 2000. Hardcover. 336p., heavy coated paperstock with profuse color site, artifact and portrait photography; text is in English, French and German, and has a lengthy glossary of Aborigine appended. First edition openweave orange cloth boards in glossy colorphoto dust jacket, 11.5x10 inches; entirely clean and sound, a fine..... More
Cat.No: 178337
Las Vegas Pride Guide & Yellow Pages 2002: Rainbow in the desert
Las Vegas, NV: Stonewall Publishing, Inc., 2002. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x10.75 inches, newsprint guts in stapled glossy wraps. More
Cat.No: 345181
Leather Order of the Desert presents Sweatin' Bullets '96: Palm Springs Mister Leather Competition for 1997, Nov. 1-3, 1996
Palm Springs: The Order, 1996. [20p] includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition program booklet in stapled gray pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 340416
Notes on nonviolence: the Nevada Desert Experience Campaign to End Nuclear Testing
n.p. 1986. 28p. staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, distributor's rubberstamp of Peaceworkers in San Francisco on front cover. A reprint of the Las Vegas original, with the NDE contact information removed from the first page. Booklet for participants in direct actions at the nuclear test site north of Las Vegas, including..... More
Cat.No: 332461
Reclamation: Home Creating, Wealth Producing, Self Sustaining. Reclamation represents homes, livelihood for 900,000 persons [&c &c], irrigation, flood control, power, recreation
Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, [c1940]. Pamphlet. Single leaf of glazed alkaline stock folded four times to make an upright 8.5x3.5 inch promotional brochure for federal spending on water projects. Printed with b&w photos mingled with texts and tables. Some intersecting fold-lines are a...... More
Cat.No: 228249
![Cat.No: 347369 The Roadrunner News [aka Road Runner News] [22 issue broken run](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/347369.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779317167)
The Roadrunner News [aka Road Runner News] [22 issue broken run]
Palm Springs: Palm Spring Front Runners & Walkers, 2001-2013. Newsletter. Twenty-two issue broken run of the staple bound newsletter for the desert LGBTQ running club, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches each, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 347369
Scenes on the Famous Ridge Route Between Los Angeles and Bakersfield California
Chicago: Curt Teich & Co., circa late 1920s. Eighteen photographic views, capably tinted in colors, each measuring 3x5.5 inches on slightly larger panels, accordioned on a single long light-cardstock leaf and tipped into a 4x6 inch postcard pocket. Item bears stamps legibly cancelled, a pencilled Oakland address and a brief..... More
Cat.No: 255681
Third Annual Conference convened by The International Sonoran Desert Alliance: Celebration of desert cultures [program] Caborca, Sonora, March 2-5, 1995
Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 1995. 8p., includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, objectives, presenters, event schedule/program, directions, maps, transportation, border crossing requirements, application, very good booklet in stapled cream pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 203857
![Cat.No: 347205 The Brave Cowboy [signed by Kirk Douglas]. Edward Abbey, Kirk Douglas](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/347205.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779318131)
The Brave Cowboy [signed by Kirk Douglas]
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 1993. 280p, plus 9 leaves at rear of black and white production stills, 6x9 inch orange cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket; in very good condition. Numbered 362 out of 500 with signature by actor Kirk Douglas. Special edition of the Abbey novel..... More
Cat.No: 347205
The Mines of South Australia.
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint provided with photocopies of original wraps and advertisements, and with a large b&w folded map bound in at back. Hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch brown leatherette, spine-titled gilt. Case-binding is sturdy and bright but bears small adhesions that dot the back..... More
Cat.No: 297157
General Delivery, Death Valley
Guerneville: Self-published by the author at Guerneville Graphics and Printing, 1975. [24p] 7x8.5 inches, illustrated with block-print drawings, prose poetry, very good chapbook in stapled light-olive pictorial wraps. Poetic memoir of car camping out of Furnace Creek. More
Cat.No: 170951
General Delivery, Death Valley
Guerneville: Self-published by the author at Guerneville Graphics and Printing, 1975. [24p] 7x8.5 inches, illustrated with block-print drawings, prose poetry, very good chapbook in stapled light-olive pictorial wraps signed by the author at the top left corner of the rear cover. previous owner's name to center of same. Laid in..... More
Cat.No: 203197
The Bottom Line: the deserts GLBT publication; vol. 21, #4, Nov. 2, 2001: Embracing Diversity
Palm Springs: Saputo-Beale Ent. 2001. Magazine. 136p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, listings, events, local area maps, very good gay entertainment magazine in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 341713
PULP Magazine: vol. 13, #26, Aug. 19 - Sept. 1, 2011: Big Bear Adventure
Palm Springs: Saputo-Beale Ent. 2011. Magazine. 52p., 8.25x10.25 inches, very good condition gay men's magazine in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. Photos, listings, ads, events etc. More
Cat.No: 338445
The Bottom Line: Desert's GLBT Publication; vol. 23 #13, 3/5/04
Palm Springs: Saputo-Beale Enterprises, 2004. Magazine. 123, [13]p., 8x10.5 inches, photos, ads, listings, events, very good gay entertainment magazine in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 317200
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. A New Translation, Context, Criticism. Translated by David Frye, Edited by Ilan Stavans
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Paperback. xiv, 223p., first edition softbound in 8x5 inch glossy decorated wraps. A fine, really as-new copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Norton Critical editions. In older English-language recensions, Cabeza de Vaca discovered he could heal Native American illnesses; he was (merely by..... More
Cat.No: 332853
High country canvas
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1972. viii+100p., poetry and illustrations, very good first edition, signed by the poet and the artist, gift inscription and signatures of a class on last free endpaper, in dj. More
Cat.No: 104243
Outback in Focus
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 181p., profuse b&w and color photography with captions and nearby text, first edition (it has been reprinted) with presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and, as an appendix, a matte section bearing text and silhouettes only. Hardbound in nice openweave linen, buff-colored, titled in..... More
Cat.No: 298340
Stephen Long's Great American Desert. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 111, No. 2, April, 1967
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967. Pamphlet. Offprint, pp.93-108, the Dillon article solely-- three companion essays are left out of this reproduction of v.111 n.2., none of the three supplementary to Dillon. That said, a very nice copy: softbound in 10.5x8 inch plain printed grey wraps, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock;..... More
Cat.No: 314145
Das Lebensjacket - eine Reise (New York, Columbus, Chikago, St. Louis, Tulsa, Amarillo, Santa Fe, Williams, Bakersfield, San Franzisko)
Olten, Switzerland: Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Marz/April 1977. Paperback. Unpaginated, some 35 to 40p. plus a half-dozen b&w photos appended, a neat little softbound in gloss-black 8x6 inch wraps with minimalist titling, texts printed double-spaced (reproduced from typewritten ms, rectos only with versos left blank), inscribed (super-briefly) to "Bob" and signed..... More
Cat.No: 325549