Welcome to Spirit Dancer Rare Books, books to make your spirit dance! If visiting us for the first time, satiate your curiosity by browsing through our myriad selection of used books, rare books, fine books, and great books. Do this by using a threefold "choose your own adventure" 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 any image of a book that freshly appears along the margins or directly below. Spirit Dancer Rare Books--you'll scribe a new path through our virtual shelves every time you visit. Try it! Or click here to see what the prophetic Spirit Dancer has chosen for you.

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, descriptive bibliographies and the high quality, full color photographs are the meat and gravy of this rare books website. The right-hand column lists our various book catalogs (intermingleing both rare and used books), and the top left-hand column offers you our own, internal book search engine to quickly narrow your path of inquiry and find that extra special book for which you've always wanted to love and care. We also provide a selected rare book glossary including instructions on how to open a rare book, plus an online rare book appraisal service, and a rare book website links and resources page.

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 reading experiences and the result of our intuitive feeling for their their sheer importance in the historical scope of the human condition.

A selected annotated note from one of our books: "It is idle to pretend that we yet understand the system [brain], much as we should like to do so. But it is interesting to find strong evidence that spreading and amplification of signals indicating the results of action and optimizing their effects are produced by paired centres and tiers of circuits in such different animals. The assessment of probabilities is a similar problem for octopuses and men." -From page 235 More about this book...

Our latest two acquisitions: Jesse, Captain [William]. THE LIFE OF BEAU BRUMMELL. London: The Navarre Society Limited, 1927. Near fine. 1st edition thus, limited. Half-leather. A "new edition, with an introduction and twenty colored plates." Two thousand copies of this edition have been printed at the Riverside Press, Edinburgh, for the Navarre Society. Two volume set, octavo (8vo) 9 x 5.75 inches, uniformly bound in half dark brown morocco, gilt rules, matching calf corners, gilt titled spine, five raised bands with gilt pointelles, four compartments with decorative gilt borders and star centerpieces, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed, and with a kind of "German non-marbled" decorative brown and blue wash on the endleaves. Vol I: xxiii, 309 pp.; Vol II: xi, 300 pp. Illustrated with 20 color plates (black, red and blue, each in duotone) including frontispieces for each volume. Joints somewhat rubbed with the upper front joint barely starting on Vol. I, else very fine copies; handsomely bound and quite as fashionable as Beau himself on the book shelf! The preferred edition of Jesse's standard life of Brummell, first published in 1844. $275 or make us an offer...

"Beau Brummell, né George Bryan Brummell (7 June 1778, London, England -- 30 March 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, beautifully cut clothes including dark suits and full length trousers, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat. He is largely credited with introducing and establishing as fashion the modern man's suit, worn with a tie. He claimed to take five hours to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champagne. His style of dress was known as dandyism." --from Wikipedia.

Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991) HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!. New York: Random House, 1957. Near fine/Very good in Mylar. First printing, 2nd state dj. Hard cover. Demy quarto (4to) 11 x 8 inches bound in red, white and green illustrated glossy boards, red endleaves printed with a Who holding wreath repeated front and rear. Unpaginated [30] pp. Illustrated with full page black, red and pink drawings by Dr. Seuss. The dust jacket has "295/295" instead of "250/250" printed on its inner front flap and the rear panel lists 16 titles instead of 14--making this copy a first edition in a second-state dust jacket of this children's holiday classic [Younger & Hirsch, 33]. Previous owner's dedication with date [1961] in blue pen on the upper half-title page margin. Light shelf-wear, lower front and rear corners bumped, rear endleaf lightly creased, else fine. Dust jacket with head and foot noticeably torn and chipped; the other extremities similarly less so. $300 or make us an offer...