Beverly Hills, CA: Beverly Hills Woman's Club, 1929. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 189pp. Illustrated with woodcut title headpieces and black & white full-page advertisements. Black & grey illustrated cream cloth. Introduction by Will Rogers. Compiled by the Book Section Beverly Hills Womans Club. Cover design and illustrations Vivian V. Robeson. Recipes..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. 1st. Original cloth. SIGNED by the author. First Edition, Limited to 450 copies. Folio. xiv, 144pp [1]. Notes; Bibliography. Foreword by James McClatchy. Beautifully illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions, many for the first time in print. 4 page..... More
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon for Basil Blackwell, 1928. Limited Edition #318 of 375 copies (350 for sale). Original boards. Eight volumes, complete. 4to. Edited by by Alfred W. Polland. Illustrations from the Ellesmere Chaucer, hand-coloured illustrations and decorations by Hugh Chesterman and Lynton Lamb. Lettering..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1930. 1st. Hard Cover. 8vo. (xiii) 278pp. Illustrations. Tan linen spine with red lettering; marbled boards; top edge stained red in scarce color printed dust jacket. "...an intimate, authentic record of three adventurous years in one man's career, as well as a vivid picture of the..... More
New York: September 22, [1978]. 2-page ALS penned just two weeks before the successful Broadway opening of First Monday in October (Fonda's last live stage appearance). Written on letterhead from The Wyndham hotel in New York along with envelope addressed to James Stewart at his Beverly Hills, CA address. Housed..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1890. Newly translated from the original by Ella Boldey. 4to. 276 pp. Color lithograph frontispiece; in-text black & white drawings by R. Andre. Tan, brown, black & gilt pictorial binding in very good condition (previous owner name; wear to extremities; 2 1/2" cloth split along lower..... More
Baguio City, Philippines: Monastery Printmaking Studio, 1992. David Jansheski. First Edition. Large quarto portfolio of seven striking color block prints, 8 3/4" x 11 1/2", accordion fold (most separated, but the prints are in Fine condition), in marbled paper-covered boards open at each end and closed with wooden clasps. Colophon..... 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
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962. First Edition. SIGNED by Gary Player on title page. 8vo. 146 pp. Photo-illustrations. black cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Fine (small bookseller label inside front cover) in near fine dustjacket (light wear to spine head & front cover corners). Gary Player is widely considered..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. First Edition, Limited #96 of 320 copies. Hardcover. First Limited Edition #96 of 320 copies. SIGNED by Saul and Lillian Marks, Irene and W.W. Robinson, and Lawrence Clark Powell. 4to. 86pp. Eighteen color illustrations by Irene Robinson; additional illustrations in one color or black;..... More
London: The Studio Limited, [1939]. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 128 pp. Index of Designers. Numerous illustrations of posters (including a a 16 page section with 26 posters in color. Introduction by Tom Purvis, one of England's best-known and most successful poster artists; edited by F. A. Mercer & W...... More
Karachi: Orangi Pilot Project, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Vol I: 507pp, +7pp survey guidelines; Vol II: 472pp. Black and grey-tone illustrations throughout; city layouts. Color illustrated boards. Light wear to extremities; small previous school label in each volume else a fine set. Volume One: The First Hundred..... More
Houston, TX: Stagecoach Press, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition to 450 copies. SIGNED by the author. Square 12mo. 49 pp. Green cloth in green illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in about near fine dustjacket (slight fading to covers; short closed tear to lower front edge; small chip to upper rear..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. 'First Edition, after the printing of 134 De Luxe copies (stated). Hardcover. INSCRIBED by William S. Hart... 'And now he belongs/to the ages/"One of Charlies friends"/William S. Hart' and further 'To my friends/George and Rosalind Shaffer/From Bill Hart/Xmas 1930.' (George Shaffer was a...... More
San Francisco: Published for the Author by the Whitaker & Ray Company, 1899. 1st. Hardcover. 12mo. 154pp. Illustrated by the author. Original light brown cloth with black lettering and decoration to front cover. Publisher's stamp to ffep. Some general soiling to boards; slight fading to spine else a near fine..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. First Edition. 8vo. 367 pp. Illustrated from photographs by the author. Index. Gilt illustrated green cover with color image of mountain scenery; gilt lettering; in uncommon publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (wear & chips to extremities; general darkening & soiling). "A..... More
[San Jose]: 1916. First Edition. Original stiff brown wrappers. 8vo. 68 pp. Laid in are several old newspaper articles (with corresponding offsetting), among them an April 4, 1937 San Jose Mercury Herald printing of a 1912 photograph of 20 'distinguished pioneers' including Stephens. The author's March 2, 1921 death notice..... More
Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1936. 1st. Original boards. First Edition in Book Form Limited to 120 copies. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION by the author: "This book is for my friend Isabel Lopez Fages, with my best wishes, now and always. Terry Stephenson. March 18, 1937." Tall 8vo. 40 pp plus 8..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2011. First Edition Thus, Limited to 200 (of 222) copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Barry Moser, Patrick McGrath and Aeron Alfrey. Introduction by Patrick McGrath. 15 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Cover artwork by James Bama and Basil Gogos; endpaper artwork by Aeron Alfrey. 15 pp color..... More
St. Paul, Pioneer Press Company, 1883. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. [4], [1]-[246] pp. Large folding map of Montana and Wyoming tipped in at rear. Three inserted sepia plates after photographs by L. A. Huffman; textual illustrations. Original dark green cloth with beveled boards; gilt lettering to front cover &..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 288 pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. A very good copy (owner name; light wear to extremities, more so to spine ends; slight fading to spine; light soiling), still a nice copy of the uncommon first edition of this classic work..... More
Nashville, TN: The Flat Signed Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Although not lettered, this SIGNED copy comes housed in publisher's custom made solid walnut, laser engraved, wooden box reserved for the 52 SIGNED, lettered copies. 8vo. 126, [4], xviii, [2], ix pp. 6 color plates. Red leather with gilt lettering &decoration;..... More
New York & Washington: Neale Publishing, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo, 401 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on title page. Translated from the Russina by the author, with the assistance of madame de Wollant. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover; TEG; deckled page edges; many pages..... More
New York: Yamanaka and Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 22pp text plus 12 leaves of b&w illustrations printed recto only. Laid in is price list, Near Fine copy in decorated card covers, string-tied, upper wrapper stamped in gold. "The collection covers a wide range of the most important..... More