San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co., 1940. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams. First Edition. 127 pp. Black & white photographic reproductions by Adams; maps in color (1 folding). Original spiral bound blue covers with white lettering. Faint circular stamp on front cover else a fine copy. A tourist guide with..... More
London: William Pickering, 1825 - 1834. A new edition by Basil Montagu. Complete in 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece and engraved leaf of script. Indices. Finely bound by F. Bedford in full calf with gilt ruling & dentelles; red and green leather gilt lettered titles labels to spines;..... More
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., 1885. First Edition. 8vo. xix; 551 pp. Half-title; frontispiece; Index. With coloured plates and numerous illustrations. Three-quarter red leather over cloth covered boards; five raised bands & gilt lettering to spine. A near fine copy of the uncommon first edition of..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. Lovely two-page original watercolor, signed by David Hendrickson, which spreads across the half title and the opposite blank. Additionally SIGNED by Bosworth and Hendrickson. Small 8vo. 188 pp. The book is in near fine condition with decorative bookplate, in very good dusjtacket (price-clipped; minor..... More
Corona Del Mar, CA: Published by the author, 1960. The Artist’s A-Frame architectural plans and drawings (each 24" x 32") include 2 pages of plans and 2 pages of artist renderings by Rex Brandt. Included are two book by & about Rex Brandt: "Rex Brandt: In Praise of Sunshine" by..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. First Edition. 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 color..... More
Santa Fe: The Peripatatic Press, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition 400 copies. Square octavo. 178pp. Striking serigraphs depicting 10 Zuni ceremonial masks reproduced in color; 20 line drawings of life in the pueblo and initial letters by Fanita Lanier. Grey cloth with green & silver lettering in grey printed dustjacket..... More
1996: Red Wagon Press, [Boca Raton, FL]. First Edition, Red Wagon item no. 6, Limited No. 19 of 65 copies. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 17 unnumbered pages. Illustrations, dating from Renaissance Italy, are used courtesy of Il Collezionista, Milan. Printed letterpress using Centaur and Arrighi types on Genesis paper..... 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
Ridgefield, CT; Tokyo: CPC Publishing; Taro Kaneda: Treville, 1989, 1992. 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 to 2nd..... More
Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft Limitada, 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Limited Edition No. DLXIX of DCL copies was pubished as a tribute on the 25th anniversary of the author's death. Large 8vo. 294, [4] pp. Illustrations by Alberto Guiraldes. Preliminary Note by Adelina Del Carril, wife of the author. SIGNED..... More
Koln; London: Taschen, 2009. First Limited Collector's Edition, Number 268 of 1500 sets. SIGNED by Hugh Hefner and includes a 7 x 7 cm piece of Hef's famous red silk pajamas, worn by the gret man himself. Complete in six volumes plus a facsimile edition of Playboy #1 from 1953..... More
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. 131, [1 pp advertisement] pp. Index. Frontispiece of a standing horse with tissue guard. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration and lettering; floral endpapers. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy of the uncommon first edition. "The object of..... More
Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1896. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. 338 pp + 16 pp advertisements. Includes photo-illustrations of various state hotels, owners and members; advertisements at the rear. Maroon gilt decorated cloth with beveled edges; AEG; gilt lettering to spine; floral endpapers. A fine and bright copy..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First Edition Thus. 4to. 108pp. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 20 striking pochoir colored Art Deco style illustrations by English illustrator Anne Harriet Fish, known as "Fish", with tissue guards (including frontispiece); initial capitals in orange & black. Letterpress by the Curwen Press, plates..... 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: Published by the author, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Kraus on ffep. Octavo; xii, 244pp. Laid in is the program for the January 7, 1927 Golden Wedding celebration of Mathilde Hirsh and Adolf Kraus held at The Standard Club in Chicago (with individual photos of the young couple and..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1949. First Edition. One of an unknown number of copies with a tipped in sheet SIGNED by Lea. 8vo. (xvii) 270 pages. Color title page; with numerous black and white illustrations by the author. Fuschia, black and silver cloth with pictorial endpapers in pictorial dust..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1980. First Edition. INSCRIBED by President Nixon (on a tipped-in publisher's"the Real War" bookplate, as usual for this book) to Justin Dart, longtime major Republican supporter. Dart was a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers during hsi presidency. 8vo. 341 pp. Index. Red..... More
New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: Published by John C. Yorston & Company, 1884 - 1886. First Edition. Complete in 8 volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Frontispiece in each volume (7 folded). Volumes 1-5 and 8 have extra title page printed in black & red. Profusely illustrated with upwards of two..... More
[Salt Lake City]: Pubished at the Art Bazar by Charles Savage, [1893, as dated on pg. 3]. 6 1/2 x 5". 48 pp. [18] accordian folded leaves of photographic plates.Some images include a 3-panel birds-eye view of the Salt Lake Valley; the Mormon Tabernacle; Salt Lake Temple; various public and..... More
London, Edingurgh and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1900). 25 volumes. 12mo. Various paginations. Frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume. Printed on Royal India paper. Black morocco with gilt decoration and lettering; all edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Light fading to some spines; minor wear; a near fine and..... More
San Francisco: Walker's Manual, Inc., 1954. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 255pp. Index to Advertisers. Register Volume No. 1352, date and subscriber name noted inside rear board. Original green cloth with gilt lettering. A near fine copy (minor dampstaining to first third of books' upper page edges & corners; small dampstain to..... More
Kansas City, Mo: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1900. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Small 8vo. 404 pp. 24 plates (including frontispiece), mostly portraits of key characters. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, decorative endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; circular mark on front cover; else a near fine copy..... More