[San Francisco]: [Wells Fargo Bank], [1935]. 1st. Color pictorial map, 16 x 19 1/2". Nicely framed in simple wood frame with gold accents. A fine copy of an uncommon pictorial map; as of 5/16, only 3 copies located in OCLC. Highlights drawings of points of interest in old San Francisco... More
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition Thus; Tenth Anniversary Edition. 8vo. 356 pp. Illustrations by Robert Crumb. SIGNED by Edward Abbey and R. Crumb in year of publication. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; as new. One of Abbey's best-known works which has been cited... More
Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co. 1902. 1st. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. [40] leaves. Photo-illustrations of early scenes of Southern California and the Sierra Nevadas with captions, including frontispiece scene of President and Mrs. McKinley at the Fiesta de los Flores in Los Angeles; one page poem titled "When... 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
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1931. 1st. Original wraps. First edition, second printing, published in the same month of May 1931 as the first printing. Small 8vo. 140, [4] pp. Green card wrappers with black lettering. A near fine copy (light wear to extremities; slight creasing down spine). A collection of... More
Oakland: WIM, 1989. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Folio, 382 pp. Bibliography; Index. 168 numbered color plates. Essays by Arthur Millier, Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr., and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. Mauve cloth with color plate adhered to front cover; white lettering. Binding slightly shaken; minor wear;two small white spots to... More
Tulsa, OK: Published by Paul E. Corrubia, 1940. 1st. Paperback. SIGNED by Corrubia. Folio. 16 lithographic plates, each facing the text page with descriptive tissue guards. Decorative motifs on text pages are hand-colored. Staple bound tan stiff wrappers with illustration to covers. A very good copy with wear to extremities... More
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo; xvii, 301pp. Good copy in original decorated yellow cloth (with dust jacket remnants laid in). INSCRIBED on ffep "Dear Lynn and Johnnie Faulk-/We are sending you this to say-/Que vaya con dios. We/look forward to seeing you /back... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Limited Edition #102 of 500 copies. 8vo. 6 volumes. Original green leather-grained cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in like dustjackets. Housed in scarce publisher's green leather-grained bookshelf. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page in Volume 1... More
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1912. Winter, Milo K. 1st. Original cloth. First edition. 8vo. 182pp, [iv] pp publisher's advertisements. Black & white illustrations; photographs; drawings by Milo K. Winter. Green cloth covered boards; paste-down full color illustration to front board; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket;... More
San Francisco, CA: Published by the author, ca. 1889. 1st. Original boards. 12mo. Fanfolded view book with 25 vignettes on 12 leaves (5 1/2 x 4 1/2"). Includes a small birds-eye view of Santa Cruz, nature & railroad scenes, The California Powder Woks, vineyards and raisin drying. Black cloth spine... More
New York: William Morrow, 1976. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 193, (8)pp. Filmography. Photo-illustrations. Dark blue spine over tan boards in color photo-illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (light foxing to page edges, more so to upper edges, and lower board edges) in very good plus dustjacket (spine faded; minor... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by the author to Harold A. Taylor to the half-title page. Second edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Biege cloth covered boards; red, white, and brown illustration to... More
Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, 1 of 10 copies from a Limited Edition of 35 numbered copies; this copy unnumbered and with a dash at copy number location. 8vo. (xi) [4] 58pp. Half dark blue morocco & cloth, gilt lettering to spine in printed dustjacket... More
Glendale: Arthur C. Clark, 1974. 1st. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by Magnussen in the year of publication. First Edition. 8vo. 339pp, including appendices, bibliography and index with lists of officers under Terry & Custer's command. Black & white illustrations; maps; photographs; large fold-out map frontispiece. Single page prospectus laid in. Blue... More
Kamakura and Yokohama: The Valley Press and Kelly & Walsh, 1909. 1st. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author (in Vol. I) in year of publication. First Edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo.xi, (3), 4-68; (2), 69-142 pp. Color woodblock frontispiece with tissue guard in Vol. I. Slight wear and some darkening... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 380pp. Index. INSCRIBED "To ***/Best wishes and/regards/Sincerely/Leon." Laid in is a TLS with envelope thanking the owner for their support in his 1976 campaign for U.S. Congress. Also laid in is a Vote Democratic slate door hanger for the campaign. Photo-illustrated wrappers in very... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955-1957. 1st. Original cloth. First Editions. vii, 480; viii, 470; 769 pp. Bibliography; Index. Black & white photo-illustrated plates. Text in French. Yellow cloth in color illustrated dustjackets. Uniformly very good plus, with slight wear to extremities; short closed tears). The first three volumes in... More
New York: William Morrow, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 282pp. Light red cloth; map endpapers in color printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (faint stain to top page edge) in very good dustjacket (some wear to extremities and spine ends; some creasing to lower front panel.); still a nice copy of... More
Los Angeles: Commercial Printing House, 1901. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Large 8vo. xxiv; 1152 pp. Bibliography; Index. Balck & white photo-reproductions. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A near fine copy (previous owner bookplate; minor wear to extremities). Being Biographies of Many Remarkable Men, a Store of Humerous and Pathetic... More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 432pp. Frontispiece portrait of Twain with tissue guard; in-text illustrations on every page. This is the first state of the first edition with the bulk of the text block measuring 1 1/8" and title page not tipped-in. Also the first state frontispiece... More
Aberdeen, SD: North Plains Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition #203 of 300 copies. Quarto. 207pp. Beautiful color and black & white reproductions. Full chocolate leather with gilt lettering. SIGNED by the artist and the author. A fine copy. Schwiering (1916 - 1986) painted the wide-open spaces, the mountains and... More
New York: Van Nostrand, 1860. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 132pp. 3 large folding charts depicting various battle formations. Publisher's red blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to extremities; minor spotting to front board; darkening to spine and rear board; owner name; rear hinge cracked but holding else a very... More
London: Privately Printed, 1904. Original wrappers. Limited Edition, #107 of 250 copies, printed on handmade paper. 12mo. 87pp. From the library of Cortland F. Bishop, with his bookplate. Bishop (1870 - 1935) was an American pioneer aviator, balloonist, autoist, and book collector. Publisher's tan wrappers printed in red and black... More