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": (1) type a word in the search box, (2) choose from one of the rare book catalogs or categories on the right (3) click on any image of a book 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.

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 book website (or used book website, however you wish to categorize it). 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 generally 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: Haskins was a cousin to Emerson and thus provided much new material for this book. From papers appearing in 1886 in The Literary World, the publisher (Cupples, Upham & Company) printed three hundred fifty copies in pamphlet form, and from which the firm produced this greatly enlarged first book edition. Few scholars of Emerson are fortunate enough to not only have this book in their library, but in such a splendid binding. More about this book...

Our latest two acquisitions: Braundet, Pierre. PHOTOGRAMS. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1974. Fine/Fine in Mylar. First American edition. Hard cover. Octavo (8vo) 7.75 x 8 inches. [6] 95 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white photograms. Translated by Rodney J. Cox, and adapted by John M. Pickering. Publisher's original Business Reply Mail card laid in at the rear. A pristine copy ISBN: 0823040100. $20 or make us an offer...

Jacobson, Frederick L. THE MEEK MOUNTAINEER, A CLIMBER'S ARMCHAIR COMPANION. New York: Liveright, 1974. Fine/Fine in Mylar. First edition. Hard cover. Signed. Post octavo (8vo) 8.25 x 5.5 inches bound in green boards, spine titled in white. xv, 192 pp. Illustrated with 41 b/w illustrations including a Map of the Alps surrounding the Zermatt region. Signed by Jacobson on the first free endpaper, "Best Wishes! Fred Jacobson / New York / March, 1967." Laid in is a letter on Jacobson's personal stationary. In blue pen inscription, he reveals contact information on how to obtain a map of the Valais in Switzerland and also signs his name. $55 or make us an offer...