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Welcome to Spirit Dancer Rare Books, Albuquerque, New Mexico, books to make your spirit dance! 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": (1) type a word, any word or words, in the search box, (2) choose from one of the rare book catalogs on the right (3) Or click on any image that freshly appears along the margins or directly below. You'll scribe a new path through our virtual shelves every time you visit. Try it!
Click here to see what Spirit Dancer has chosen for you.
Spirit Dancer Rare Books is an online and by-appointment rare bookshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We carry a wide selection of important, antiquarian and rare books. We also sell selected modern used books that are excellent reads and fine books for your book collection. 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 our antiquarian books, rare books, and used books are priced competitively against mega-volume data engines across the Internet; here at Spirit Dancer Books, you'll get prompt and professional customer service, 24-hour turnout on shipping, superior packaging and handling techniques, used book care and maintenance, and captivating descriptive, historical, and textual bibliographies. For 34 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 services. |
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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 professional digital color photographs are the meat (and gravy) of this rare book shop website (or used book website, however it should be categorized in 21-Century parlance). The right-hand column lists our various book catalogs (intermingleing rare books, fine press books, the great books of the West, science books, Americana, peppered with general used books), and the top left-hand column offers you our own book search tool to quickly narrow your path of inquiry and find that extra special volume 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, several of our advertised rare books you will not find anywhere else in the world. They are in the truest essence, a one-of-a-kind. Other rare books listed here are so scarce that you might find only one or two available for sale worldwide (condition matching). 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. Heart and Mind, bon appetit!
A selected annotated note from one of our books:
Hold an opaque sheet of paper against the photograph in such a way as to bisect the image, and you will see what appear to be two different individuals. The one at the left of centerline appears somewhat sad. In the other image, the one right of the center vertical line, Poe appears to be staring beyond the viewer, his eye fiercely glittering, mouth turned down, eyebrow raised slightly. It is apparent that the Poe on the right still has fire in his belly. He can still handle the critic’s rapier and ruffle the feathers of the pompous and vainglorious. In short, he can still turn a phrase—the raison d’etre of a writer.
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Our latest two acquisitions:
Goodrich, S.G.
A WINTER WREATH OF SUMMER FLOWERS.
New York:
D. Appleton & Co.,
1855.
Very good.
First edition.
Hard cover.
Illustrated by engravings from original designs drawn by J. Champagne. 8vo original deep blue cloth embossed and stamped in an intricate design of gold, green, red and yellow to give the appearance of a French binding, all edges gilt. 320 pp. Bennett p. 48; McGrath pp. 91 and 136. Scattered foxing; wear to extremities and some minor loss of color to cover design. This volume is distinguished by 12 color plates accomplished in chromolithograph. Though published by Appleton, Lemercier in Paris printed Winter Wreath. Very scarce.
$225 or make us an offer...
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