London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 300 pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Blue-grey cloth with white lettering & ruling; deckled page edges; top edge gilt. A very good copy (light wear to extremities, moreso to spine ends; some rubbing..... More
Melrose: Theodore R. Crom, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. xiv, 678pp, including bibliography and index. Preface by Tom Crom. Black & white illustrations. Brown cloth covered boards; gilt titles and decoration to front board; gilt titles to the spine. All edges neat and clean. Fine. An invaluable reference for..... More
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1906. 1st. Original boards. First Edition. 4to. 153 pp. Seven color plates (including frontispiece) and numerous black & white illustrations throughout by V. Floyd Campbell. Dark green spine with black lettering over green paper covered boards; dark green lettering & color illustrated plate affixed to..... More
San Francisco: Privately Printed [by the Grabhorn Press], 1944. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies. Likely signed by the author with "from A. J. Esberg/703 Market Rd" on ffep. 8vo. 83 pp. Yellow cloth spine over green paper covered boards; printed paper title label to spine. From library of Paul..... 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
[Monterey, CA]: [Hotel Del Monte], November, 1923. First Edition. 4to. 77 pp + [16] pp of two short stories "inserted for temporary safe keeping, to be used later where they may logically belong (and probably to be rewritten)"; (typescript, single sided). Black leatherette with the title, author's name and date..... More
London: Macmillan, 1900. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. lviii, 386, [2 pp advertisements], 16 pp catalog Autumn Season 1900. Folding plan of Peking. Index. Black cloth with gilt illustration to front & rear boards; gilt lettering & illustration to spine; TEG. Light wear to extremities; foxing to endpapers; small bookseller..... More
Glasgow: Dunn & Wright, 1885. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 207; [3, advertisements]; [2, blank]; [3], 4-16 advertisements. Illustrations. Red cloth with black decorative stamping & ruling to front cover; gilt lettering to spine; floral endpapers. Light wear to extremities; small dark spot to lower page edges; pencil notations..... More
Eureka, CA: Mad River Press, (1978). First Edition. 8vo. xii, 128; x, 182 pp. Compiled, edited, and introduced by Hedgpeth. Black & white photo-reproductions; maps; illustrations. Sitff illustrated wrappers. Light wear else a fine set. Part I is titled "Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck Explore the Pacific Coast;" Part 2..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Leather bound. INSCRIBED "To Inez Ray Smith/with the compliments & good/wishes of a fellow lover of the/Indian/George Wharton James." Second Edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Three-quarter green morocco and cloth..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Includes a personal inscription from Robinson Jeffers to Lester Donahue; a handwritten postcard to Mr. Donahue from Una & Robin; two original black & white photographs of Jeffers dated 1934, one showing Robinson & his two sons riding horses; an undated &..... More
New York: Hafner Publishing, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to. xvii, 695 pp; 696-1239 pp; 1240-1845 pp. Bibliography; Index. More than 700 Illustrations. Maroon boards with gilt lettering housed in publishers slipcase. Books are in fine condition; light wera to slipcase & 2" split at upper edge of open..... More
Shafter, CA: Published by the author, 1936. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 209 pp. 34 photo-plates. SIGNED and dated by the author. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy. As Told to F. F. Latta by 15 Native Americans. A Collection of California Indian Folklore Tales..... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by John Steinbeck on card affixed to ffep. 8vo. 527 pp. Index. black & white photo-illustrated plates. Black cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy with a hint of wear (dustjacket flap corners clipped). 19th Annual Issue. Includes "Of Mice..... More
St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Dispatch, [April 7],1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked as..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1901. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. xi, 186pp. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora with 24 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) in monotone and black & white in-text vignettes and head & tale-pieces. Original yellow-tan cloth with orange fox decoration to spine and front board; orange baby..... More
Joliet, IL: P.F. Volland Company, 1930. Early printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 39, [1] pp. Color illustrations by Johnny Gruelle. Black cloth spine, color pictorial paper-covered boards; color pictorial endpapers. Housed in publisher's color illustrated lidded box. The book is in fine condition (short, closed tear to lower edge of title..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardbound. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 249pp. Index; Sources and Bibliography. Fold-out map; photo-illustrations. Brown cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small chipping to spine head; minor creasing to lower front edge). Western Land and..... More
Joliet: P.F. Volland, 1918. Early printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [40] pp.7 full page color illustrations and several smaller ones throughout the book by Johnny Gruelle. Black cloth spine, color pictorial paper-covered boards; color pictorial endpapers. Housed in publisher's color illustrated lidded box. The book is in near fine condition (hint..... 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
Published by the author, 1935. Paperback. Softground etching (5 1/2" x 3 7/8"). Dated '35 Title written in black ink in Sloan's hand and SIGNED by him beneath the etching; signed and dated in the plate. Fine condition. While the title of the plate indicates the mission bells are located..... More
New York: The Billiard Encyclopedia, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. First Deluxe Edition, Limited to 350 numbered copies. Large 4o. 499 pp. Directory; Illustration Credits; Bibliography. Over 800 illustrations (including 525 color plates). Half black leather spine over cream linen boards, illustrated endpapers; housed in publishers clamshell case covered in Simonis 300..... More
![CALIFORNIANA] Tom Mix Rides Again! (COLLECTION INCLUDING ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS). Tom Mix, Montie...](/pictures/thumb/19955.jpg?v=1591152145)
Tom Mix was the original 'good guy with the white hat' and the undisputed original 'King of the Cowboys.' He appeared in ~ 300 films between 1909 and 1935 and inspired a generation of youths (including Gene Autrey, Ronald Reagan, Roy Rogers and John Wayne) with his clean-cut manly image..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1801. 'A New Edition, with corrections, illustrated with nineteen views and charts.'. Complete in 6 volumes (lacking chart in Volume I titled "Chart shewing Part of the Coast of N.W. America"). 8vo. 410; 418; 435; 417; 454; 412 pp. Large folding chart; 17 fold out engraved plates..... More