[ca. 1930s]. 9 1/2 x 16" original photograph (mounted on thin cream cardstock 12 1/4” x 19") depicting a campground scene with 8 campers of various ages standing by a covered picnic area next to the campfire; two white canvas teepees stand in the background. This photograph was likely taken..... More
San Jose CA: Croixcroft Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; (iv), 35, (3)pp. Wear to extremities, faint dampstain to upper corner of ffep, else a Near Fine copy in full blue leather, leather tie at spine; edition limited to ten copies. Printed with Libra type with Old Lambardic initials on 'very..... More
(New York): Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, 1807. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition 8vo. xv, [1], 331, [11] pp. Illustrated with 8 engraved plates, including frontispiece and title page. Contemporary brown leather with gilt decoration & lettering on red label to spine. Wear to extremities; rubbing to..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1949. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in year of publication "For grace and courage in this human life...Grant us the beauty men have found through strife. For *** with love, from Anne. 1949". 4to. 90 pp. Includes a frontispiece tribute by Alfred Stieglitz recognizing..... More
San Francisco: Published exclusively by, 1894. First Edition. Oblong 8vo (8 1/2" x 11 1/2"). Full-page chromolithographs, with titles (7 in Part One and 8 in Part Two). Original linen-backed chromolithograph stiff covers, string-tied. Part One Cover has pulled out from the ties and the first two plates are partially..... More
New York: The American Art Association, 1917. First Edition. Tall octavo; 172pp. Original stiff card stock with illustrated dust jacket titled 'Oriental Art Treasures from the Chinese Imperial Palace' in red with gold. Empress's Crown Ornament embellished with pearls to front cover. Faint soiling, rubbing to spine with minor loss..... More
Sherman Oaks, CA: The Compulsive Printer, 1981. First Edition, Limited $15 of 75 copies. First Edition, Limited to 75 copies. 2 3/8 in. x 2 7/8 in. [38]pp. 3 wood block prints, numbered and signed by d'Ambrosio. Colophon: This edition has been set in Bulmer and printed on Ingres Oyster..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. First Edition. 8vo. 352 pp. Errata slip at page 339. Large folding map of California "The Coasts of Guatimala and Mexico, from Panama to Cape Mendocino; with the Principal Harbor's in California. 1839" outlined in original hand-color. Frontispiece portrait of Father Peyri and 9..... More
[Japan]: [Publisher not identified], [circa late 1940s]. 10 booklets measuring 3 1/2" x 5 1/4", each with 10 original numbered photographic leaves and printed introduction inside front covers and list of photograph titles on tissue paper. Stiff tan paper covers, silk string tied. Minor wear else a fine and scarce..... More
new York: Edward J. Clode, 1903. First Edition. 8vo. 317 pp; some pages uncut. With illustrations by the prolific Arthur William Brown. Striking decorative brown cloth stamped in white, red and green with gilt lettering, floral endpapers; in the scarce publisher's brown dustjacket printed in red. The book is in..... More
Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft Limitada, 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Limited Edition No. DLXIX of DCL copies was pubished as a tribute on the 25th anniversary of the author's death. Large 8vo. 294, [4] pp. Illustrations by Alberto Guiraldes. Preliminary Note by Adelina Del Carril, wife of the author. SIGNED..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on bookplate. Additionally, INSCRIBED "To Gloria, happy cooking! Marcella Hazan". 8vo. 349 pp. Index. Color plates. Laid in are 5 color Poloraid photographs of Ms. Hazan cooking dinner (for a class?) and 4 pages of notes taken and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, February, 1914. First Edition. 12mo. 69, (1) pp. 4 photo-illustrated plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Slight fading to spine; two black lines along bottom front edge, near fine in fine in fine dust jacket (flap corners clipped). Hopper's riches to rags to riches story..... More
Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author "To ***/Life is a wave, enjoy the ride! Drew". Below is a drawing of a huge wave towering over a tiny surfer with the inscription 'Your attitude is your surfboard! Enjoy". First Edition. Oblong Quarto. 216 pages. Profusely..... More
Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R, 1937. Revised translation. 8vo. 110 pp. Brown cloth with dark brown lettering. Light soiling to covers else a near fine copy. This edition is a revised translation of an earlier edition published by Martin Lawrence, London, in 1933, and corresponds..... More
Spokane, WA: Lindgren Bros. 1936. Color pictorial map (16 1/4" x 16"). Illustrated with geysers, mountains, lakes, roads and other features, and filled with cartoonish figures, jokes and puns; includes original mailer envelope with "Haynes Inc., Yellowstone Park, Wyoming" printed in lower left corner. Hatched and scratched by Jolly Lindgren..... More
London: John Macrone, 1835. First Brydges Edition. Leather bound. First Brydges Edition. 12mo. Various paginations. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. With Imaginative Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner. Bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco with gilt ruling & lettering; 5 raised bands to spine; All Edges Gilt. A lovely..... More
London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. Royal 8vo. xx, 511; 542 pp. Half-title in Vol. II. Index. Footnotes and bibliographical references. Vol. I has frontispiece portrait of Napoleon, engraved by T.A. Dean, from a medal in the possession of Mr. O'Meara;..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED on half title "For Professor Ralph P. Bieber/A major contributor to the/lore of the Trail. I have/only gathered fruit from the/trees you planted./Jack D. Rittenhouse". Professor Bieber's contribution to the Trail are listed as items 47 through 53 within. Octavo;..... More
Los Angeles: Published by C.T. Henderson, 1935. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 52 pp. Index to Advertisers. Illustrations; business advertisements. Compiled and edited by Ruth Gifford; together with a few suggestions to give added interest to your vacation. "Compliments of Hotel Huntington, Pasadena, California" printed in darker brown on lower front..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Large Paper Limited Edition No. 95 of 500 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Complete in 11 Volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrated plates (with titled tissue guards) after etchings by George Cruikshank. Bound in three-quarter green morocco with gilt lettering and ruling. A fine..... More
West Hollywood CA: St. Ann's Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Darren Waterston. Quarto; 71 unnumbered pages: illustrations (chiefly color). A Fine copy in red cloth, spine titled in blind. Darren Waterson's early paintings were interpretations of conventional landscape imagery, depicted as meditations on fertility and decomposition. Examples of..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Babs, with memories of happy days together in Yosemite. Edward & Charis." 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photographic prints by Edward Weston with commentary by Charis Weston. Decorative book plate for inscribee. Black cloth with silver lettering. Minor..... More
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1909. Limited Edition of 250 unnumbered copies on paper. Flexible vellum. 4to. 84, (2) pp. Text printed in red and black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Three capitals designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill. Original gilt lettered limp vellum, housed in..... More