Welcome to Spirit Dancer Rare Books, books to make your spirit dance. We are an online and by-appointment rare bookstore in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA. Spirit Dancer Rare Book's website carries a wide selection of important, rare and antiquarian books. We also have for sale a careful selection of modern used tomes that are good reads and fine copies for your collection (rare and used books). The majority of the modern, pre-owned books we sell are in fine condition with dust jackets in very good or better states of preservation. All of our antiquarian and rare books are priced competitively against the various mega-book-listing engines found elsewhere on the internet; but here, however, you'll additionally get superior and prompt customer service, 24-hour turnout on shipping and handling, superior rare book packaging standards and a rare book expertise and presentation exceeding that of the other mega-book-listing websites. For 31 years, we have been professionals in the rare book trade and welcome questions and comments about your rare books or our rare books. See our About Us page for more background and information on our other rare book expertise services.

How to use the Spirit Dancer Rare Books website: we designed our rare book website to be a visual, browsing pleasure where the scholarly written, rare book bibliographies and the high quality, full color photographs are the real "meat" of this rare book website. The right-hand column lists our various book catalogs (both rare and used), and the top left hand column offers you our own, internal used book search engine to quickly narrow your path of inquiry. We also provide a selected rare book glossary including instructions on how to open a rare book, an online rare book appraisal service, and a rare book web links and resources page. However, while you're visiting us for the first time, satiate your curiosity by browsing through our myriad selection of rare books. Do this by using a threefold "choose your own adventure" method of inquiry: (1) type a word in the search box, (2) choose from one of the rare book catalogs or categories on the right (3) or click on an image of any rare book that freshly appears along the margins. Spirit Dancer Rare Books--you'll scribe a new path through our virtual shelves every time you visit. Try it

As you explore the Spirit Dancer Rare Books website, you will browse through a careful selection of rare, obscure and many other important books. In fact, some of our advertised rare books you will not find anywhere else in the world. They are indeed, one-of-a-kind. Other rare books listed here are so scarce that you might find only one or two available for sale elsewhere in the same condition. Nonetheless, we do carry more commonly available used books, and we've carefully selected them due in part to our own experience with reading them and also with our intuitive feeling for their their sheer importance in the historical scope--both past and future--of the human condition.

A selected annotated note from one of our books: "Sheed deals here with authors and issues of the present and the recent past in England and American, commenting astutely on James Thurber and E. B. White, on George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, and on a variety of contemporary colleagues, all from his special vantage point as a 'transatlantic man.' He also looks as the vagaries of the current literary scene and delves into such phenomena as 'The New Journalism,' 'Watergate as Literature,' and the art of book reviewing. Sheed's forays into the public arena include remembrances of the '68 and '72 presidential conventions, a wonderful piece on Henry Luce, and reflections on America and the movies. Whether looking inward or outward, Sheed is a marvel to read." -Dj. More about this book...

Our latest two acquisitions: Suzuki, Koji. RING. New York: Verticle, Inc., 2003. Fine/Fine. Hard cover. Demy octavo (8vo) 8¾ x 5½ inches bound in glossy full-color boards. Translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley. [ii], 286 pp. ISBN: 1932234004. $19 or make us an offer...

Suzuki, Koji. DARK WATER. New York: Verticle, Inc., 2004. Fine/Fine. Hard cover. Crown octavo (8vo) 7½ x 5 inches bound in black boards, with simulated leather texturing and white titling on spine and cover. [8] 279 [3] pp. plus 6 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with page headpieces in the prologue and epilogue. ISBN: 1932234101. $16 or make us an offer...