San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury Publishing and Printing Co., 1896. 2nd. Original wrappers. 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..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1978. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Adams "For Rick Warner" and dated Carmel 6-16-82. Single 12" x 18" glossy heavy stock (folded to 12" x 9"). Photo-reproduction of one of Adams' iconic images "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley." Printed..... More
New York: Fleet Street Corporation, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. [1984]. 8vo. 304pp. Photo-illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (two minor pencil notations) in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper rear). The biography of a multidimensional man whose life was one of..... More
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Small 8vo. 8 leaves, including the wrappers. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled, uncut, as issued. One short marginal slit in front wrapper, light general wear; a near fine copy inf somewhat worn folding purple case..... More
[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Various paginations. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket (Volume 1 lacking dustjacket). Small ink star inside front cover of Volume 1; creasing to inside dustjacket flap of Volume 2; else a uniformly fine set of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition..... More
New York: Abrams, ca. 1862. Early reprint. Paperback. 16mo. 72 pp. Publisher's advertisements. Light buff illustrated wrappers. Minor wear to extremities, more so to spine head, lower front corner tip missing; light tanning & soiling else a near fine copy. Containing a choice collection of new and popular songs, interludes..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Schindelman, Joseph. 1st. Leather bound. First edition; 2nd issue with the five line colophon. 8vo. [vi], 162pp. Black & white illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. Previous bookseller slip laid in. Finely bound in recent full brown leather covered boards; raised bands and gilt titles to..... More
San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923. First Edition. Leather bound. Format De Luxe Patron's Edition Limited #111 of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by the author, complete in 4 volumes. Illustrated by 30 photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates and more than 1100 half-tone cuts of birds in life, nests, eggs, and..... More
West Plains, MO: Russ Cochran, 1979. 5 volumes complete in slipcase. 4to. Various paginations. Color pictorial boards in publisher's color illlustrated slipcase. A fine set in fine slipcase. Tales from the Crypt was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955. This collection..... More
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1912. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. xxiii, 72 pp. Illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; color plate mounted on front cover; TEG. Ex-libris (blind stamp of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Scineces; small ink number;..... More
Ridgefield, CT; Tokyo: CPC Publishing; Taro Kaneda: Treville, 1989, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. both volumes warmly inscribed on the half title by the photographer in 1993 in Los Angeles. Tall quartos; unpaginated. Stunning black & white photographhic plates (some fold-out). Fine copies with a hint of wear; small mark..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1922. First Edition Thus, Limited to 450 copies. Original boards. Small 8vo. xix, (3) 3-86, (2) pp. Pages unopened. Index. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Design by George Auriol. Blue paper covered boards with black & red letterting to front cover & spine. Housed in..... More
Salt Lake City: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272. Original cloth. Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates..... More
London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. 3rd. Leather bound. Third Edition. Octavos; [ii], cccli, [i], folding map, 146; [ii], 444pp. Full tree calf, ornate gilt spines with red title label and black volume number label in six panels with lyre devices. External hinges cracked but binding firm, small..... 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
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition, #84 of a Limited Edition of only 250 copies, Leather bound. SIGNED by both authors. Quarto, 336 pages. Bound in full leather with a sterling silver concho mounted on the front cover. Chronicles 85 of the Western craftsmen who created intricately engraved..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 359pp. Turquoise cloth with gilt lettering in illustrated dustjacket. INSCRIBED by the author. Ranch life in the San Joaquin Valley as experienced by a woman raised in wealth and comfort in San Francisco. (Baird & Greenwood 1783). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Jo J. Mora. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Grey cloth with red lettering and Longhorn skull stamped to front cover in Jo Mora designed dustjacket and endpapers. An original sketch by Mora of a young buckaroo pulling a...... More
New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910-1918. Original cloth. First Editions. Complete in 3 volumes. 8vo. xxxvii, 727; xlv, 479; xvii, 530 pp. Chronology; Index. 15 folding maps; folding plans; illustrations. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering; TEG. Light shelfwear; Vol I front hinge cracked; light foxing;..... More
Detroit, MI. Packard Motor Car Company, [ca. 1915]. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. [24] pp. Photo-illustrations. Green illustrated staple-bound wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities). Only 1 copy listed in OCLC; scarce thus. Story of the super-trek in which the new type Packard truck proved itself the most advanced..... More
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. 8vo. 30, (1)pp. Printed as Christmas gifts for 5 subscribers - 50 copies for Elmer Adler, 100 for Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 150 for Ben Abramson, 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke, and 20 for Howard Mott. This is one of..... More
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. [32] pp. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece, title page and borders. Publisher's wrappers with red, green, black & gilt decoration and lettering. Minor wear; a near fine and lovely copy of an uncommon volume of poetry by..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. Reprinted in the month of publication. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 305 pp. 2 pp publisher's advertisements at rear. Green cloth with gilt lettering; publisher's dustjacket front cover & flap laid in. Light, general wear; boards slightly splayed; a very good copy. Margaret Haig Mackworth..... More
Placerville: Privately Printed for E Clampus Vitus, 1949. First Edition. Original boards. INSCRIBED "To a real Clamper/with Best Wishes/E. W. Zueger." 8vo. 77, [3] pp. Illustrations. Printed at the Onager Press by Zueger, Clamprinter. No less than 250 copies printed, this being Copy No. 251 (as are all copies).Light green..... More