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
San Francisco: 1957. 1st. Broadside. First Edition, limited to copies of 1000 - 1150. Portfolio with 11 broadsides & accompanying note sheet (lacking note sheet for Louise Bogan and F. T. Prince broadsides), some with illustration. Edited by Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and Henry Rago. Printed by various private presses..... More
London: Smith Elder, 1873. Tenth Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. Small 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece by T. O. Barlow after a photograph by Macaire Havre, Sept. 1858. Bound by MacLehose in Glasgow in full brown morocco with gilt lettering & ruling; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. Engraved..... More
San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury Publishing and Printing Co., 1896. Second Edition. Oblong 8vo. 322, [5] pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions of public buildings, homes, farms, agriculture, portraits of citizens, and much more; full page map. Introduction by Chas. M. Shortridge, editor San Jose Daily and Weekly..... More
London: Hugh Rees, 1912-14. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition in English (originally published in 1910-11 in the Revue d'Infanterie as 'Les japonais en Mandchourie'). Small octavos; original red vertical-rib cloth, gilt lettered spines and front covers, map case with brown cloth ties intact. Text volumes Very Good (somewhat soiled, Volume 2..... More
[Peking?]: Musee Hoangho-Paiho, Tientsin, 1932. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Geological Survey of China, no. 19, 1932. Large 8vo. 49 pp. Large folding color map titled "Geological Sketch Map of the Wei Chang Area" by the author at rear; illustrations. Erratum tipped in. Publisher's printed wrappers in good condition..... More
Moscow, PA: Maurose Publishing, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Frist Edition. SIGNED by the author in year of publication. Large 4to. 432 pp. Over 400 photo-reproductions, more than 325 in color. Red cloth in black dustjacket with photographic image titled "A Navajo Boy" on front cover. Minor wear to extremities else a...... More
[Oregon House, CA]: The Petrarch Press, 1994. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition Thus, Limited to 100 copies, 60 special copies printed on handmade Alcantara paper, SIGNED and numbered by Laura Davis, this being copy #20; and 40 unnumbered copies on all-rag Arches text and Fabriano Ingres. small 8vo (5 x...... More
San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864. First Edition. 8vo. 31pp. Includes a poem by Bret Harte and an oration by Rev. Henry W. Bellows. Original printed wrappers in quarter orange leather slipcase. Very good condition (lower front hinge starting to separate; chipping to spine head; light soiling;..... More
Kyoto: Kansainaiki Co. (manufacturer), N.d. First Edition. Oblong 8vo (8 1/2 x 10 1/2"). 50 pp of color paper samples. Illustrated covers. A very good copy (wear to extremities; 3" closed tear to upper corner with small triangle loss of paper; handwritten page numbers in upper corner). Uncommon sample book..... More
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1929. First Edition. 8vo. 304 pp. With original silver print frontispiece titled "Mount Tamalpais: View from Kentfield Marin County California", with titled tissue guard. While not credited, the frontispiece photograph is attributed to Ansel Adams (according to PBA Galleries). 12 halftone plates from photographs. Foreword by..... More
Escondido, CA: Published by the author, 1948. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. Small 8vo. 144 pp. Many photo-illustrations of horses & owners; advertisements. Stiff tan photo-illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light creasing & soiling to covers). An uncommon title; no copies at auction in the past 30 years and no..... More
Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co., (1920). 12mo. 32 pp text; large color folding map (20 1/2" x 27 1/2"); printed on both sides. The front side shows railroads, electric lines, counties, cities, towns, villages, post offices, lakes, rivers, etc. The verso shows the Montana automobile road map..... More
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the authors. 4to. 336pp. 650 color photographs of pieces from more than 45 distinguised collections. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Black cloth with red lettering in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Focusing on the period between 1840 to 1960..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 559, [4 pp map illustrations]. Blue cloth in color, illustrated endpapers printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (damage to paper at bottom inside front cover and ffep) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; mild fading to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to American master photographer, Wynn Bullock. 8vo. 306 pp. Bibliography; Index. Blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities). "Like Freud, Proust investigated the unconscious mind; but for literary rather than scientific..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. SIGNED by the author. Two Volumes. 8vo. [8], 9-457; 458-825 pp. Index. Two folding sheets displaying four maps in rear pocket of Vol. I; one fold-out map & errata sheet in Vol II; black & white illustrations. Black leather..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Second edition. Hardcover. SIGNED "With best wishes/Bing Crosby/Kathryn Crosby." 8vo. 160 pp. Color plates; black & white photo-illustrations.Prologue by Bing Crosby. Green cloth in color printed dusjtacket. Brochure for Del Monte Lodge laid in. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to..... More
Berkeley, CA: Home Chimes Publishing Co., 1904 - 1906. First Edition. 4to. Most issues have 16 pp; the last two issues have 18 pp and 50pp. Business advertisments. The sub-title on the August, 1905 issues states "The Only Woman's Magazine on the Pacific Coast". Illustrated staplebound wrappers. Covers of three..... More
Arcata, CA: Published by the author, 1985-1988. First Editions, Limited to 500 copies. Each volumes SIGNED & dated by Peter Palmquist. 4to. Various paginations. Black & white photo-illustrations throughout. Laid in is a 3-page "Temporary Index Vols 1 Through 5". Cream & color printed softcovers in fine condition. Fiveof the..... More
Published by the author, 1935. Paperback. Softground etching (5 1/2" x 3 7/8"). Dated '35 Title written in black ink in Sloan's hand and SIGNED by him beneath the etching; signed and dated in the plate. Fine condition. While the title of the plate indicates the mission bells are located..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 467 pp. 12 plates, including frontispiece; folding map. Publisher's purple blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration of a ship on front cover; gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Light general wear; some internal foxing; else a near fine copy..... More
Santa Fe: Pictograph Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 18pp. Hand-made stapled wrappers in dust jacket. 8 color serigraphs illustrating various Indian dances (including a block print on the front cover). Bibliography; Calendar of Dances. Minor wear to extremities and hint of soiling to covers otherwise fine condition. The artistic block..... More
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Deluxe Edition Limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 164 SIGNED by Baumer. SIGNED by Baumer on the colophon. 4to. 483 pp. (many pages uncut). 20 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full vellum binding with gilt illustration & lettering..... More