San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co., 1940. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams. First Edition. 127 pp. Black & white photographic reproductions by Adams; maps in color (1 folding). Original spiral bound blue covers with white lettering. Faint circular stamp on front cover else a fine copy. A tourist guide with..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1964. 1st. Single 7 1/2" x 18 1/2" glossy heavy stock (folded to 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Rocks and Limpets, Point Lobos, 1963." Printed by Lawton Kennedy. A fine copy in original printed envelope with Virginia and Ansel Adams..... More
Los Gatos, California: Published by the author/Times Printing Company, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. 78 pp. Illustrations. Tan illustrated stiff wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear; light marks on rear cover). Personal stories of early pioneers of the Santa Clara Valley in the mid-to-late 1800's. "The Cats" along the Santa..... More
Big Sur, CA: Big Sur Historical Society, 1981. 1st. Paperback. SIGNED by Addleman and Harrington. Oblong 8vo. 155 pp. Index. Illustrations (many after photographs). Corrections sheet laid in. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers in fine condition (priced inked over on rear cover). A collection of recipes, stories and local history from the..... More
Buffalo, NY: Hungarian Cultural Foundation, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 491pp. A Fine copy in publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket is Near Fine with minor edgewear; lovely copy. Prepared for publication by Joseph M. Ertavy-Barath and illustrated with photographs. Published on the 50th anniversary of the..... More
Paris: Publications of the Sorbonne, 2013. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; x, 251pp. Fine unread copy. Critical edition, translation and commentary by Marie-Hélène Blanchet. More
London: George G. Harrap and Co. First Edition. Octavo; 271pp. Very Good copy. An unremarkble book, made remarkable by being owned by prisoner of war Captain Arthur Laurence Fleet during his time in camp Oflag VII-B, Eichstatt,/Bayern. Fleet has inked ffep 'Arthur Fllet/Captain, Royal Marines/Eichstatt,/Bayern/10 - VI- 44' to ffep..... More
Tehran: Iranian Art Publishing, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. [243]pp. Text in English and Persian. Color and black & white reproductions. White cloth in color printed dustjacket housed in publisher's color printed slipcase. A fine copy of this scarce monograph on Espahbod (1951-2007). A selection of the Iranian artist's paintings and..... More
Akron: University of Akron, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Large quarto; 280 pages embossed front cover with campus scene. Typical collecge yearbook of the era. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Beijing/Berlin: China Ocean Press/Springer-Verlag, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Quarto; 22, 682 pages illustrated. Very Good copy (light edgewear & rubbing to covers, 1/4" split to crown of spine). With 368 figures. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number..... More
Espoo: Geological Survey of Finland, 2005. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 197 pages. Geological Survey of Finland Special paper 39. More
New Delhi: Today and Tomorrow, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; [x], 128 pages. New copy in dust jacket. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xvi, 199 pages. More
New York: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2009. Early Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. 362 pp. Charts. Tables. Ex-lilbris, with the usual flaws else a fine copy. More
Washington DC: Biodiversity Support Program, 1993. 1st. Quarto; (xxvii), 216 pages and 433 pages. More
Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 273 pages. Fine copy u, unread. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
New York: Fleet Street Corporation, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. [1984]. 8vo. 304pp. Photo-illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (two minor pencil notations) in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper rear). The biography of a multidimensional man whose life was one of..... More
Wright Field, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1928. Tentative Edition. Original wrappers. Intended to be the basis of a new printing of the textbook on aeronautics for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Being a revision of certain chapters of "Simple Aerodynamics and the Airplane" by Charles N. Monteith, a...... More
La Habana Vieja, Cuba: Ediciones Bolona, 2012. First Edition. INSCRIBED to a photographer friend by Alex Castro. 4to. 127 pp. Text in Spanish. Essays by ArmandoHart Dávalos; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Eusebio Leal Spengler; and Rafael Acosta de Arriba. Striking photographs (both color and black & white) of Fidel Castro dating..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo; (xxi), 710 pages. More
[Agana]: Naval Government of Guam, 1938. First Edition thus. Octavo; [iii], 44pp, map. Near fine copy in blue wrappers. 'This pamphlet has been prepared and published with the hope that it will serve a useful purpose, in the way of advance information and suggestions, to Navy and Marine Corps personnel..... More
Greenwich, CT: American Golfer, Inc., 1995. Second printing. Folio. 132pp. Numerous black & white photo-illustrations. a fine copy in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket. Essays by Dave Anderson, Ben Crenshaw, Dan Jenkins; commentary by Ken Venturi. "Noted photographer Jules Alexander got a press credential for the 1959 U.S. Open at Winged Foot..... More
[Cambridge MA]: Harvard University Press, 1951. First Edition. Quarto; 31pp. A Very Good copy in publisher's pale green stapled wrappers. 'A list of 248 characters which are generally regarded in Japan as kokuji.' (foreword) An offprint from Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies Volume V: A Grammar of Formal Written Japanese by W.P...... More
Bucharest: Editura Academiei Romane, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 551 pp. Text in French. 129 plates; black & white illustrations. Brown glossy printed boards. Mild bumping else fine. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. This..... More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvi, 764; 765-1423pp. Grey cloth in color printed dustjackets. More