San Francisco; Los Angeles: Wallace Hebberd; University of Southern California, 1963; 1985. First Edition Thus. The History of California is complete in 7 volumes. 8vo. Maps, text illustrations. Advance Reservation publisher's slip laid in. Tan cloth with black spine labels & gilt lettering in cream illustrated dustjackets. Fine copies in..... More
San Francisco: MacAdam Cage, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 390 pages. More
New York: Century Company, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xv, 410 pp. Foreword by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, Chief of Scouts Under Lord Roberts. Illustrations.Black cloth with red lettering, cartographic endpapers in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (chips at upper corners & spine head; light wear..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 351pp. Design by Paul Bacon. Grey cloth spine over purple boards, illustrated endpapers in color printed dust. Review Copy. TLS from Simon and Schuster Publicity Director expressing concern for reviewers in the Bible Belt and certain Mid-western and New England areas..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1956. Sixth Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 275pp. Index. Color printed wraps in very good condition (light soiling; minor wear to extremities). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 1974. 1st. Boards. Quarto. (ix) 166pp. 8 color reproductions. Original illustrated maroon boards in like dust jacket. A scarce biography on 'the Oregon Artist' written by her daughter. Ms. Barchus enjoyed a long life, producing thousands of oil paintings, her favorite subject being Oregon scenery..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. Original cloth. A new edition. 8vo. viii, 421pp. Black & white frontispiece illustrative portrait of Richard Harris Barham. Red cloth covered boards; blind stamped border illustrations; gilt titles to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate; bookseller sticker; minor shelf wear at top and bottom of..... More
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; (xvi), 335 pages. More
England: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 287 pp. Ex-libris else a fine copy. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Schools Division of Curriculum, 1936. First Edition. 4to. 64 pp, single-sided typescript. Maps. Illustrated by Barry Moore. Green cloth spine over green paper covered boards. Ex-libris. A near fine copy. Monograph of source materials for teachers compiled by Research Group of WPA project SA-2685 and..... More
Sydney: Self published, Circa 1938. Softcover. Small octavo. 26 pages plus order form at rear. Original blue wraps. 2 tipped in color illustrations from the author's publication "Japanese Colour-Prints" and numerous black & white illustrations. INSCRIBED "Ms. Clare Ryan Talbot/With compliments/& best of regards/P. Neville Barnett/9.2.'39." Mr. Barnett's bookplate tipped..... More
New York: Reprinted from Journal of the American Water Works Association Vol. 24, No. 3, March, 1932, 1932. Original wrappers. 8vo. Pages 325-344. Illustrations. Printed slip 'With the compliments of the author' tipped in. Pale grey printed wrappers in fine condition. In order to augment the existing water supply of..... More
Budapest: Eotvos Lorand University, 2006. First Edition. 12mo; 206pp. Fine copy in publisher's color illustrated hardcover. Chapters include Self-Definition: Creation of the Self; Moments of Being & Non-being: Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past' and Pasternak's "A Safe Conduct"; Elective Affinities & Antipathies: The Romantic Tradition & the (Re) Interpretration..... More
New York: St. Martins's Press, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Octavo. 588pp. Color printed wraps in fine condition (minor wear to extremities). More
Milan: Cisalpino, 2005. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 232 pages. Universita degli Studi di Milano, Facolta di Letter e Filosofia, Quaderni di Acme, 70. More
Leigh on Sea England: F. Lewis Publishers, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited #77 of 500 copies. Quarto; 108 pages plus 162 illustrations. More
Edinburgh: Sands, 1918. 1st. Hard Cover. Octavo; 244 pages. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. 267 pp. 14 illustrated plates by F. D. Bedford (including title page and color frontispiece). Blue cloth with gilt decoration in color illustrated dustjacket. Light foxing; rear hinge starting; else near fine in very good dustjacket (price-clipped; light markings to rear cover; some wear to..... More
Carmel, CA: Published by the author, 1989. 1st. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. 87pp. Color and black & white illustrations. SIGNED by the artist. Chang was a toy designer, sculptor, artist, special effects technician, filmaker, and costumer; he was known primarily for his sculpture and the props he designed for the original..... More
London: Vigour Magazine, 1948-1949. First Edition. Octavos; each issue 28pp; photographs, illustrations. Good condition (general wear, some creasing). Issues include Vol 4 No. 4 (November 1948); Vol. 4, No. 5 (December 1948); Vol. 5 No. 5 (May 1949) and Vol. 5 No. 6 (June 1949). More
Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell (Carnegie Council), 2008. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 350 pages. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926. First Edition. SIGNED on a decorative presentation bookplate affixed to the front pastedown (no recipient name). Brown cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's brown and black illustrated dustjacket. Some darkening from binder's adhesive inside covers, else a fine copy in unusually fine dustjacket (2 tiny splits at..... More
Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1923. Bartlett, Dana. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 167pp. Full color tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration; 10 full plate black & white illustrated plates; numerous in-text illustrations by Dana Bartlett. Green cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Ninth Edition. INSCRIBED "Miss Stebbins/with the kindest regards of/John Bartlett/Sept 29, 1900." Thick 8vo. xv, 1158 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Stamp of Lucy Ward Stebbins on ffep; Miss Stebbins was the..... More
Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2002. Softcover. Octavo, (ii), 30 pp. More