New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 352 pp. Red cloth spine over black paper covered boards in color illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear to spine end else a fine copy. One of Abbey's best-known works which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups. "Easily Abbey's..... More
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 267pp. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition (light wear to spine ends) in very good dust jacket (light wear to extremities, more so to..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Ninth Edition. INSCRIBED "Miss Stebbins/with the kindest regards of/John Bartlett/Sept 29, 1900." Thick 8vo. xv, 1158 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Stamp of Lucy Ward Stebbins on ffep; Miss Stebbins was the..... More
San Francisco: 1957. 1st. Broadside. First Edition, limited to copies of 1000 - 1150. Portfolio with 11 broadsides & accompanying note sheet (lacking note sheet for Louise Bogan and F. T. Prince broadsides), some with illustration. Edited by Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and Henry Rago. Printed by various private presses..... More
Valencia: Joseph y Tomas de Orga, 1787. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo; 90pp (of which 60pages are prologue) plus Index at rear. Near Fine copy in orginal pigskin lettered at spine. A scarce, early work of Despreau's poetry. The poetic art of Nicolas Boileau Despreau, translated from French verse into..... More
London: Prepared for the China Inland Mission by Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1899. 890 x 1070 mm (35 x 42 1/4"). Large folding map, dissected and laid down on linen (as issued), the map folds into a quarto-size green cloth binding, with a printed table ("Area and Population of China Proper")..... More
Blakeney, Gloustershire: Scorpion Press, 1988. 1st. Half leather. First Edition, Limited to 110 copies. SIGNED by the author. With an appreciation of Burke by Michael Connelly. Half-leather spine over marbled boards. A fine copy, as new. Book #10 in the Dave Robicheaux series. More
New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, Brick Row Book Shop, 1923. First Edition. Original boards. Small 8vo. 47 pp. 15 full page and 17 small color watercolor and gouache drawings, SIGNED, by Frances Paelian. The cover has a painted cut-out of an elaborately turbaned woman with applied metal earrings and necklace..... 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
San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Company, 1904. First edition. Original cloth. 4to. 228pp; 538pp. Frontispiece portraits; Illustrations; Map; Index. Original red cloth with glit lettering to spines; blindstamped portrait to front covers. Slight fading to spines; minor wear to extremities; else a fine set. An extensive history on the early..... 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
[San Francisco]: (1915). 1st. Limp suede. First Edition thus. SIGNED by E.F. Green on last page. 3 1/4" x 2 1/8". [22] pp. Five full-page photo-illustrated plates (including frontispiece). Brown suede covers wtih dark brown lettering and illustration of a ship to front and two crests to rear cover. The..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1892. First Edition with Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 8vo. 78, [1] pp. Printed on rectos only. Full page and in-text iIlustrations by Howard Pyle. Tan suede with brown lettering & decoration, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers; in..... More
Honolulu, HI: American Factors, Ltd., 1949. 1st. Print. Complete set of 10 color images (single sheets, suitable for framing). 18" x 14" Housed in publisher's titled envelope with printed bi-fold brochure & single page essay titled "Peter Hurd Paints Hawaii for Hawaii" by Frank Fredericks (reprinted from The Art Digest..... More
1985. Hardcover. Two books in dustjackets, each accompanied by an emotional TLS to Stanford President Wallace Sterling on Erik Jonsson’s personal letterhead. A glimpse into the relationship between two American icons. J. Erik Jonsson, co-founder and President/Chairman of Texas Instruments (1951-1966), visionary Mayor of Dallas (1964-71) and noted philanthropist. In..... More
N.p. Privately Printed, 1996. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED & dated with birthday wishes to San Francisco's bon vivant and hotel magnate, Newton A. Cope by the creator of Dennis the Menace. Ketcham's original color drawing of Cope smoking a cigar, a bottle of wine labeled 'Chateau Cope 1922' and a rocking..... More
New York: Mabie Todd & Co., 2007. 3rd. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4to. ii; 245 pp. Bibliography; Index. 750 illustrations (some in color); maps. A fine copy in dustjacket; still in original shrinkwrap. The most complete history of a single pen company in print. This 3rd and final edition of this..... More
San Diego, CA: The Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1960-1977. First Edition. No. 302 of an unspecified number of copies of the "Special Edition" Volumes 1-6 commissioned by James Copley and SIGNED by the author and Copley; volume 7 commissioned by Helen Copley and SIGNED by her and the author. 4to. Various..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1964. First Edition, Limited to 185 numbered copies. Each volume SIGNED by the author, with a small drawing by her in the text volume. With two SIGNED pages of the author's early manuscript tipped in. 8vo. xv, [1], 335 pp. Some pages uncut. Map volume contains..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1911. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 140, [2] pp. ALS tipped to ffep from Sterling regarding the forty-third chapter of Job. Purple cloth with elaborate silver decoration to front cove designed by Porter Garnett, signed P and G in the lower corners. A...... More
London: John Cassell, 1852. First British Edition with George Cruikshank illustrations in book form. 8vo. [i-v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-391 [392] pp. 29 black & white wood engravings (including frontispiece and title page with black & white wood engraving captioned "Eva and Topsy") by George Cruikshank. Also includes an extra..... More
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co., 1883. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Large 8vo. 240 pp, including 3 pages of ads at front and 8 pages of ads at rear. Map inside front cover; woodcuts throughout. Original color-lithographed wrappers. 3/4" missing from spine ends; text block professionally re-attached to..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1985. 1st. Original boards. First Edition Thus, Deluxe Edition #28 of 50 copies, printed on the Saunders paper and bound by Gray Parrot bindery. 8vo. [38]pp + 4pp prospectus. An Afterword by Samuel Clemens. Complete suite of wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, each SIGNED and..... More
New York; Chicago: 1937-1959. Six typed letters to Kenneth Brown SIGNED on Rudy Vallee's personalized stationary and one autograph letter SIGNED on Vallee's personalized stationary from his lodge in Lake Kezar. 9" x 7" black & white original photograph of a young Rudy Vallee INSCRIBED "To Ken, In friendship, Rudy..... More