[Salinas, CA]: E.S. Harrison, [ca 1889]. 1st. Leather bound. Souvenir Edition. First Edition Thus. Originally published in wrappers, the front cover likely served as the title page, as this edition has no title page, apparently as issued. 4to. 88 pp. Double-page map of Monterey County showing school houses, original rancho... More about Monterey County: Its General Features, Resources, Attractions, and Inducements to Investors and...

Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1901. Hardcover. First Edition, second printing; binding 'A' with Bowen-Merrill imprint on lower spine and comma in last line on copyright page to the right of "n' in Brooklyn. 8vo. 245 pp. 12 color plates and black & white illustrations by F(anny) Y. Cory. Publisher's green cloth with... More about The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the...

[Venice]: N.p., 1860. 1st. Original wraps. First edition thus. 4to. Etched title page and 48 full page etchings of Italian street vendors, signed in the plate, by Eugenio Bosa (1807-1875), Italian sculptor & painter. Blue-grey wrappers housed in folding cloth & paper covered portfolio. Light foxing to some pages; wear... More about A Sketch-Book by an American in Venice

New York: Doncian & Company, 1924. 1st. Original boards. First Edition. Folio; 31pp. Beautiful production, printed on Rives paper, in 1/4 blue linen and marbled paper boards; gold printed label to upper board, all in publisher's Tiffany-blue clamshell case. 8 tipped-in illustrations from photographs of both carpets. Remnants of adhesive... More about The Garden of Paradise Rug and the Holy Carpet of the Mosque at Ardebil reproduced with...

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. (10) - 153 pp. 222 illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (small bookseller stickers inside covers; small stain to foredges; minor dampstain to upper corner insider rear board, minor wear to extremities) in near good dustjacket... More about Survey of Chinese Art

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 about Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais (INSCRIBED

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. vellum. 1 7/8" x 1 5/16". 103pp. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem Press, from letterpress type set by Mackenzie and Harris for Bruce Rogers twelve years earlier. Full vellum binding with blue decoration and lettering; blue decorative boarder on each... More about Miniature Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 2nd. Hardcover. "Published October 10, 1938; first and second printings before publication." 8vo. 631, [1] pp. Teal cloth with gilt lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (price-clipped; wear, chips and short closed tears to extremities, moreso to spine ends;... More about First the Blade

Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1988. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Quarto. (xv), 111 pages. Chronology and Bibliography.With essays by Harvey Jones and Mary Jean Haley, and a biographical chronology by Mildred Albronda. Beautiful color reproductions of Granville Redmond's drop-dead gorgeous landscape paintings. Black cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine... More about Granville Redmond

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color... More about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Tall 8v0. 101 pp. Black & white photo-illustrated plates and in-text photo-illustrations; decorative borders. Two-color textured pictorial paper covered boards. Off-setting to front endpaper else a fine copy. Steele's account of the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake & fire... More about The City That Is; The Story of the Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years

chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911. First Edition Limited to 300 copies. 1pp TLS tipped inside front board. 4to. xviii, [1] - 204pp. 181 illustrations (including 8 plates). Edited with Historical Introduction, Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes; Bibliography; Index. Printed on English hand-made paper. Vellum... More about The Frankfort Book Fair. The Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne (with TLS from the author