Telecommunications Dictionary in Seven Languages
Moscow: Soviet Publishing House, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 708pp. Blue cloth. English-Russian-French-Spanish--Italian-German-Dutch. More
Moscow: Soviet Publishing House, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 708pp. Blue cloth. English-Russian-French-Spanish--Italian-German-Dutch. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. 1st. Hard Cover. 1st edition thus. Quarto; [vii], 423 pages. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1973. 1st. Paperback. Quarto. 175pp; Bibliography. Numerous full page color and black & white illustrations. Selections from the Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation. More
London: Houlston, N.d. (1881). 5th Edition, Revised. Boards. Small octavo. (v0 (3) 188pp. Large folding map and numerous copperplate and wood engravings (including headpieces). Dark red diced fabricoid backed in black to simulate leather; paper title lable. An uncommon book, so successful in its time that it went into this..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. 1st. Hard Cover. 1st edition thus. Quarto; [xlv], 423 pages. With 'Lists and Distinguishing Signals of Vessels' in color. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1893. 1st. Hard Cover. 1st edition thus. Quarto; [lv], 457 pages. With 'Lists and Distinguishing Signals of Vessels' in color. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. 1st. Hard Cover. 1st edition thus. Quarto; [vi], 407 pages. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Orland, CA: Orland Unit Water Users' Association, c. 1915. Softcover. Single sheet, folded (6/18 x 31/8"). Black & white photo-illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red, & sepia. A promotional pamphlet from the Orland Unit Water Users' Association to encourage newcomers to their charming and newly developing part of California..... More
Berkeley, CA: Students Co-operative Society, [1911]. First Edition. Oblong 4to (10 1/2" x 12 1/2"). 1 leaf of text; 22 mounted albertype images (5 3/4" x 8") of UC Berkeley (including 1 fold-out image (5 3/4" x 24") of the Greek Theatre. Printed by the Albertype Co. in Brooklyn, NY..... More
Bell Telephone Laboratories School for War Training, ca. 1944. Fourth Edition. 4to. 194, [3] pp. Illustrations. This is Copy No. D 190. The first page in the book indicates the work as Restricted and provides the name to whom the copy was charged. Printed staplebound wrappers in very good condition..... More
Los Angeles: Warner Bros. 1927. First Edition. (12 1/4" x 9"). [16] pp. Photographic illustrations; red and black lettering & decorations. Stiff brown wrappers with dark green lettering; cream oval bas-relief of Barrymore and Costello leaning in for a kiss on front cover. A fine copy. 'When a Man Loves'..... More
Washington: American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, 1947. 1st. Softcover. 8vo. 38pp. Illustrated with 10 mounted bookplates and 7 full-page black & white plates. Original mauve wraps with silk tie. From the personal library of Clare Ryan Talbot , noted collector, appraiser, dealer, writer, and historian of bookplates. Ms..... More
San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1979. First Edition. 4to. [12] pp. Photo-illustrations. Introduction by Alfred Frankenstein, Curator of American Art at M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; brief section on John Muir and single page history of Yosemite Valley and the Origin of a National Park by..... More
Fresno, CA: Dumont Color Lithography, ca. 1940s. Color proof sheet (23" x 14 1/2") depicting 12 iconic images of Yosemite National Park on the front side and a description of each image with Post Card & stamp notation on the back side. Fine condition. The images include: Arched Rock on..... More
New York: Dell Publishing, October, 1951. Paperback. Vol. 5 No. 8: Cowboy of the Plains; 2pp with 2 illustrations. More
London: Bell and Daldy, 1864. First Edition. 12mo; vi, 122pp plus 32pp publisher's catalog at rear. Previous owner name to ffep, slightly cocked, minor wear, else a Near Fine copy in original green cloth binding, Front cover and spine lettered in gold. 65 'Double Acrostics' followed by 45 'Double Acrostics..... More
Milan: Cisalpino, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Quarto;382 pages. Near Fine copy. Quaderni di Acme 95. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
London: Punch Office and Bradbury & Evans, 1847-[1852]. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. (xii)320pp; (xii)304pp; (xii)308pp. 30 color steel engravings and 338 woodcuts by John Leech. Half-titles (The Comic History of England in red; The Comic History of Rome in black) and title pages in red and black, with vignette. Contemporary full..... More
Washington DC: Committees on Far Eastern Studies, American Council of Learned Societies, 1943. Preliminary Lithoprint Edition. 4to. xxiv, 361 pp, single-sided. Includes extra numbered leaf 74b. Preface in Chinese, Introduction and text in Chinese and English. Although not indicated, this book is from the library of Howard F. Bowker (1889–1970)..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition octavo; xxiii, 512pp. Fine copy in dust jacket (hint of wear). INSCRIBED on ffep "To Dr. Richard W. Lyman-/With Warm Regards/and High Esteem,/A. Leon Higginbtham/June 23, 1978" More
[Berkeley, CA]: A. S. U. C. Publicity Bureau, 1924. 1st. Paperback. 4to. [48] pp, unpaginated. Black & white photo-illustrations (color advertisements inside covers). Color printed staple-bound wrappers in very good condition (owner name; light, general wear; creasing to lower corners). The scarce official souvenir program for the Cal-Stanford annual "Big..... More
Annapolis: United States Naval Academy, 1932. 1st. Hardcover. Large quarto, 454, (2), [53] pages, silver binding with carrier and insignia stamped on front board and spine. This copy 'presented to Laura Luker Compliments of her son George Robert Luker.'. More
Paris: Institute for Security Studies, 2008. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 121 pages. As New copy. Chaillot Paper, No. 113. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971. First Edition. Folio. 143, [1] pp. Bibliography. Color photographs by Philip Hyde. Two-page color map showing Proposed Highways, Existing Roads, Escalante Wilderness Area, Capitol Reef National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Canyonlands National Park. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor..... More
Algerie: APIC, 2005. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 175 pages. More