London: James Gilbert, ca. 1840. Original boards. Large 4to. xvi text with illustrations; 45 pp Index; [1] pp advertisement; 29 maps (1 double page), hand-colored in outline, drawn and engraved by J. Archer, Pentonville, London. Brown leather spine and corners over brown cloth covered boards; gilt lettering & ruling to..... More
[Salinas, CA]: E.S. Harrison, [ca 1889]. 1st. Leather bound. Souvenir Edition. First Edition Thus. Originally published in wrappers, the front cover likely served as the title page, as this edition has no title page, apparently as issued. 4to. 88 pp. Double-page map of Monterey County showing school houses, original rancho..... More
Japan: ca. 1880s. Album measures 4 1/2 x 7"; the hand-colored original photographs measure 3 3/4 x 5 1/2" (some with tissue guards and manuscript titles). Half of the images depict Japanese women of various ages in native dress and the other half are landscapes, buildings, native peoples going about..... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1975 - 1988. 8vo. Various paginations. Red cloth with silver lettering. Uniformly fine condition. The titles, authors and publication dates include: Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence, Andre Hodeir (1975) Music on My Mind, Willie the Lion Smith (1975) Jack Teagarden, Jay D. Smith & Len Guttridge (1976) The..... More
Baltimore: H. Niles, 1811-1815. First Edition. 8vo. Various paginations. Vol I: No. 1-26; Vol II: No. 27-41, 44-52; Vol III: No. 1-16, 18 plus Appendix; Vol IV: No. 1-12, 14-26 (missing pg. 329-330) with map of the Rapids of Miami and Appendix; Vol V: No. 1-16 with Index and Appendix;..... More
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1911. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 218 pp. 16 photographic plates including portraits of Hall of Famers Jim O'Rourke, John McGraw, Connie Mack and Hugh Jennings as well as other notable minor league officials and a composite team portrait of the Charlotte Base..... More
Valencia: Joseph y Tomas de Orga, 1787. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo; 90pp (of which 60pages are prologue) plus Index at rear. Near Fine copy in orginal pigskin lettered at spine. A scarce, early work of Despreau's poetry. The poetic art of Nicolas Boileau Despreau, translated from French verse into..... More
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London & New York: George Routledge, 1884. Two hundred and fifty copies of this Edition of Henry Fielding's Novels have been printed for sale in Europe, and one hundred and fifty for sale in the United States of America; this copy being No. 102. Complete in 5 volumes. Large 8vo..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1922. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 346 & 306 pp. Maps (two folding), photo-illustrated plates. Introduction by General Charles King. Red cloth with gilt lettering; top edge gilt. A fine set; as new. "Recounts the federal government's attempt to open a road north from..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. 275, [2] pp. Color plates, including 1 fold-out; black & white illustrations. Art work descriptions in Japanese and English. 8 page booklet with English text by John Bester laid in providing descrptions for the 142 color plates. Dark brown cloth with black..... More
New York: Stroefer & Kirchner, 1875. First American Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen photographs (including frontispiece) after paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden, each with an accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Index leaf. With comments by Julius Hübner; translated by J. Pond. Brown cloth..... More
Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1916. 2nd. Original boards. Second Edition, Limited to 365 copies; reprint of the very rare 1846 original edition printed in Waterloo, Illinois. 8vo. 316pp, [i]p of publisher's advertisements. Black & white tissue-guarded illustrative plates; map. Frontispiece and facsimile of 1846 title page included. Quarter black..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1925. SIGNED and dated by the author. 8vo. (xvii) 217pp. Numerous full page and in-text line drawings. Grey cloth with black lettering and red line drawing of a cowboy on his horse in tan illustrated dustjacket with red & black lettering. Near fine in very good..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1927). First Edition, Limited to 265 numbered and signed copies of which 250 are for sale, our copy is noted as "Presentation" copy on the colophon. SIGNED by Jeffers. From the estate of Eric Temple Bell (1883 – 1960), a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction..... More
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1917. First Edition. Octavo; 100pp; illustrated with 19 plates. Edgewear, leaf 30/31 roughly separated (text & image unaffected), else a Very Good copy in original printed tan wrappers. Lists 365 items 'gathered in Peking by the well-known connoisseur Frederick Moore' auctioned in NY on March..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Miller's hand "For Rollo Peters" and SIGNED by both Miller and Perles on a paper slip affixed to ffep. Charles Rollo Peters III was the son of noted California artist, Charles Rollo Peters, Jr. Two handwritten postcards (one an image..... More
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., 1903; September 9, 1915. Second Edition of The Tale of the Poodle; First Edition of the menu. The Tale of the Poodle: Oblong 8vo. [56] pp. Photographic illustrations and prints (many in color) of the Poodle Dog Restaurant in San Francisco, with accompanying text. Includes..... More
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London: Bickers and Son, 1872. A New Edition. Complete in 8 volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Edited by James P. Brown. Uniformly bound by Andy Grieve (Edinburgh bookbinder) in full tree calf with gilt lettered red and black leather title labels to spines; gilt decoration..... More
[San Francisco]: Np, [1926]. 1st. Original wrappers. Limited edition of 150 copies. 12mo. [iv], 10pp. This copy with several corrections to the text in the author's hand. Heavy tan paper wrappers, text printed in brown ink on toned paper; 3-hole stab-stitched brown silk tie. A near fine copy (light foxing;..... More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 631pp + [1]pp pubisher's advertisement. State B of portrait frontispiece; 2nd state of regular frontispiece; and state B of sheets. Double frontispiece portrait of Twain & Titian's Moses with tissue guard. Plates; in-text illustrations. Publisher's sheep with black leather title label to..... More
Madrid-Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1952-1957. First Edition. Octavos; Volume I - 209pp; 210-411pp; Volume II (Estudios Historico-Juridicos in 2 volumes) - xxiv, 342pp; Volume III (Historia de Cataluna, in 2 volumes, translated from the Catalan by Nuria Sales ) - 286, 293pp. Stiff illustrated softcovers in publisher's dustjackets..... More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1957. 1st. Original wrappers. First Editions. Octavos; [6], 666pp; 667-1306pp. Title in English and Chinese. Text in Chinese only. Printed grey wrappers (age toning; foxing to upper page edges, very light extremity wear); else near fine copies. Lists 1,777 ancient classic works, which are organized..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1932. Complete 14 volumes (in 7) plus the Index. 8vo. Various paginations. bound by Bayntun in three-quarter crimson morocco with gilt lettering to spines; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Decorative bookplate in each volume; light fading to spines else a fine and lovely set. An encyclopedia of..... More
Sanbornville NH: Wake-Brook House, 1957. First Edition. SIGNED "Sincerely Yours, A. G. Warshawsky". Quarto; 116pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Forward by Paul Scott Mowrer. Fine copy in publisher's 1/4 grey linen and paper-covered marbled boards in very good grey-green slipcase (edgewear, light staining to rear of slipcase) with..... More