San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1938 - 1940. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. 55; 52; 63 pp. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean; Drawings by Lena Peters. Stiff paper covered illustrated boards with cloth backing in fine condition; housed in publisher's box with title label on front in near fine condition (split to..... More
E. B. Lewis, distributor, ca. 1880s. Leporello album (3 1/4 x 5"). 12 captioned photolithographic images of various buildings in early San Jose. Gold embossed dark green covers, red cloth spine. Minor wear else a fine copy of this scarce tourist souvenir; we find only two copies of this size..... More
Washington DC: The Norris Peters Co., 1905. Color topographic map (24"x26" plus margins), of Yosemite National Park showing township grid, towns, mineral lands, park and county boundaries, existing and proposed roads, existing and proposed trails, suggested patrol stations and military posts, and notable physical features, waterways colored in blue. Identifies..... More
Paris: Editions Saint Germain des Prés, 1976. First Edition, Limited No. III of XX (of 70) copies. SIGNED by Berne and Dubufet on the colophon. Large 4to. With 25 two-tone serigraphs (including the cover, 15 full-page illustrations, and 1 double-page illustration) by Jean Dubuffet to accompany the 16 poems by..... More
Np: Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, 1986. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 4to. xvi, 398pp, including bibliography. Full color photographic frontispiece illustration; numerous black & white illustrations; drawings; maps; charts. White & blue illustrated stiff wrappers. All edges neat and clean; previous owner's stamp on front cover, first page, and fore edge..... More
New York: F. J. Huntington and Co., 1869. First Edition. First Edition. Small 4to. 206pp. Frontispiece & 2 full-page maps (with tissue guard) of the Plan of the Park depicting The South and North Ends by A.B. Fitch, and numerous charming wood engraved illustrations throughout by A. F. Bellows. Publisher's..... More
San Francisco, CA: F. F. Partridge Print, 1907. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 4to. (iv), 153pp. Index. Original cream printed wraps. Numerous pencil corrections, most likely by Davidson. Transactions and Proceedings of the Geographical Society of the Pacific: Vol. IV, Series II. (Cowan pg. 156; Rocq 9080). More
A Ridiculomanie, : Chez Georges l'Admirateur, rue de la Raison Perdue, à l'Enseigne de l'Antithèse, [1742]. Date on spine states "1742" and "1742" handwritten in pencil at bottom of title page. 12mo. 60 pp. Text in French. Title page printed in red and black; woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials. Early..... More
London: Printed for the author, by T. Gardner, and sold by him at his Printing-Office at Cowley's Head, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand ; And J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street, 1746. First Edition Thus. Carefully Extracted from Fox, and other writers: Being designed as a Cheap and Useful Book..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a...... More
Los Angeles: Compliments of the Fremont Hotel, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Small 8vo. [30] pp. Photo-illustrations. Publisher's stiff grey wrappers with gilt lettering and gilt crest designed by Jesse Fremont. Light wear else a fine copy of an uncommon G. W. James title. A brief historical account of John..... More
Kyoto: Shinshindo Publishing Co., 1973. First Edition. Large square 4to. 89 color plates; [72] pp text; black & white illustrations. Although not indicated, this book is from the library of Ms. Huguette Clark's advisor in building historically accurate miniature Japanese houses and temples; with a SIGNED gift note from Ms..... More
San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1859. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. ii-xxiv; 466 pp. Table of Contents; Index to Advertisments. Original black sheep gilt-lettered spine over printed boards. The front pastedown is page ii and the rear pastedown is an advertisment (unnumbered). The uncommon second Langley directory..... More
London: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson for James Magnus and Richard Bentley, 1675. First Edition. Small 8vo. [6], 54, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers bound in marbled paper. A near fine copy. The author's first play is dedicated to his early patron and supporter John Willmot, Earl of..... 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
[Monterey, CA]: [Hotel Del Monte], [1894]. Large 8vo. 31, [7] pp. Frontispiece; illustrations; 2 full-page maps; 5 full-page floor plans. Light wear; else a fine copy. The Hotel Del Monte, created by railroad pioneer Charles Crocker, opened in June 1880. The hotel was one of the world's leading resorts in..... More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1987. First Edition Limited #86 of 225 copies. 8vo. Edited by Robert Kafka; Foreword by Garth Jeffers. Several tipped-in sepia illustrations from photographs.Tan-peach cloth, paper spine label in publisher's brown slipcase. A fine copy. Love letters between the California poet and his wife, with a...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. Hardcover. Second Edition. SIGNED by the author on ffep. 8vo. xix, 552pp. Photo-illustrations; maps (one large fold-out). Blue cloth with gilt lettering in scarce double dustjackets (cream illustrated with crest and lettering; plain brown paper). Near fine (small rubbing to upper corner of ffep;..... More
Will A. Kistler Company, 1935. First Edition, Limited Edition No. 395 of 500 SIGNED copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon. Also INSCRIBED "This copy for Mrs. Leopold Stokowski just back from the Spanish Main. Merle Armitage, 1936". Square small 4to. 111 pp. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by..... More
St. Paul: W. C. Riley, (1889). First Edition. Oblong 12mo (5 1/2 x 7 1/2"). 71 photo-lithograph views on 23 accordion-fold panels. Engraved by Chas Frey, Frankfurt, Germany from photographs by Ingersoll and Haynes. Gilt-embossed brown cloth covers. Minor wear to extremities, boards slightly bowed; else a near fine copy..... More
Oakland: Mills College, 1934-1941. First Edition. Square 8vo. Various paginations. Black & white plates. Advertisements. Orignal color wrappers bound in to dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fine condition. An uncommon & complete collection of the Friends of Far Eastern Art at Mills College exhibiton catalogs; oddly, no..... 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
Manchester, NH: Standard Book Compan, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. 240 pp. 16 plates, including frontispiece portrait of the author. With an Introduction and Biographical Sketch by George Waldo Browne. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in black & gilt; illustrated paper label affixed to front cover; in uncommon publisher's cream pictorial dustjacket..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1884. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 313pp. Index. Frontispiece portrait engraving with tissue guard. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration; blindstamping to rear cover. Minor wear to extremities; light, general wear & soiling; decorative owner bookplate of James Strohn Copley, journalist and newspaper publisher of the San..... More