New York: The MacMillan Company, 1940. First Edition. Presentation Inscription, SIGNED by both authors, with their brands burned into the bottom page edges. 8vo. 242 pp. Illustrations. List of Brand Names at rear. Tan cloth with brown lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Front flap corners clipped with price $2.50 price..... More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, [1947]. First Edition. Elephant folio (20 x 13 in.) 14 color serigraph images, including title leaf, mounted on 4-ply pebbled tag board [with] 4to, 16 pp. printed beige wrappers, stapled as issued, hole punch to head of spine. Laid in a heavy black paper..... More
Monterey: Tri-County Horseman, 1947. 1st. Paperback. First editions. 8vo. B&W illustrations. 7 issues from 1947 to 1949. With photographs from contemporary horse events in Monterey, Santa Cruz andSan Benito Counties, plus advertisements. From the library of Luis B. Ortega, noted California vaquero and rawhide braider, with is address label on..... More
Fort Riley, Kansas: The Cavalry School, Army of the United States, 1924. 1st. Leatherette. First Edition. 4to. 168pp plus 12 plates (shadow images of horse/rider at polo, jumping, etc. by York von Riedel) on heavy stock at rear; photo-reproductions, illustrations, advertisments throughout. A Near Fine copy (faint foxing to plates..... More
South Norwalk, CT: Published by the author, 1959. First Edition, Limited No. 229 of 250 copies. SIGNED by the author. Small 8vo. [33] pp (on double leaves, untrimmed). 12 woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. With a note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire. Printed by Igal Roodenko, James Lanier and Antonio Frasconi..... More
San Francisco: The Stone Educational Co., 1898. First Edition. 8vo. xv, 67, 67a pp. Pronouncing Vocabulary. Maps; portrait frontispeice; illustrations by Charles J. Hittell. With an Introduction and Suggestive Correlations by Richard D. Faulkner. Tan cloth with black & red lettering. Minor wear to extremities; 2 previous owner names; mild..... More
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. First Edition. 792 pp. Glossary. Glossy color illustrated boards. Small institutional barcode inside rear cover else fine. This is a heavy volume and may require additional shipping. This is the third thematic volume of Brills Encyclopedia of Hinduism, which deals broadly with Hindu society. Readers will..... More
Laramie: Powder River Publishers, 1954. First, unexpurgated edition, with change sheets laid in. 8vo. x, 277 pp. Illustrated with the pageant of personalities.With the corrected pages laid in, providing an opportunity to compare the original text and illustrations with the changed ones, side by side. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Tokyo, New York & San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1983. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. 223 pp. Includes Chronology & Bibliography. Color and black & white illustrations. Brick red cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Front flap corners clipped else a fine copy. Sam Maloof (1916 - 2009) began designing..... More
New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1867. First American Edition. Small 8vo. 340 pp. Publisher's green blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bookseller stamp for H. Wagner & Sons, Marysville & San Francisco to ffep; contemporary gift inscription; minor foxing; offset from laid in flower; else a near fine..... More
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
Stanford, CA: Published by the authors, 1930. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 64pp. Photo-plates. Tan stiff wrappers with red lettering and axe on front cover. Ticket to the December 22, 1947 big game laid in. Light soiling else a near fine copy. Essays by Stanford alumni addressing the history of..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Vol I: 172 pp; illustrations; figures; large fold-out map & errata sheet at rear. Vol II: 14 pp text; 151 plates. Bibliography; Index. Black cloth with white design to front covers & white lettering to spines. Housed in uncommon publishers..... More
New York: Harcourt Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by astronaut Gene Cernan with "Apollo XVII"; Cernan was the 2nd American to walk in space and the 12th - and last - man to walk on the moon. Additionally inscribed from "Jan & Gene" most likely in Jan's handwriting. Square..... More
London: Printed by J. M'Creery and Sold by J. Edwards, 1795. First Edition. Leather bound. Two volumes. Vol.I: Frontispiece engraved portrait with tissue guard, [2], [1], (ii- xxvi), 320 pp; 136 pp Appendix. Vol. II: [3], 4-312; BOUND With 'Poesie Del Magnifico Lorenzo de Medici, Tratte da Testi a Penna..... More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986. First Edition. Square 4to. 279 pp. Includes Biographical Notes; Exhibitions; Bibliography; Checklist of Paintings. Illustrations throughought, most in color. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Frank Stella is an Italian American painter and printmaker, significant in the art movement called ”post-painterly abstraction”. His..... 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
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1943. First Edition, Limited No. 89 of 152 copies. 4to. 18 pages, plus a facsimile letter from Edith Wagner from Steinbeck. Printed for members of the Rowfant Club at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Red decorative boards on a light gray background; black buckram spine; red..... More
Berkeley: Shambala Publications, Inc., 1973. First English Edition. INSCRIBED on half title "Henry Miller, my friend,/giving you this book/is one of the happy/days of my life/C.S./Pac. Pal. 16 May 73". Octavo; 116pp; Translation of Le vrai mystère de la passion de Judas./ Includes bibliographical references. Very Good copy in publisher's..... More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1957. 1st. Original wrappers. First Editions. Octavos; [6], 666pp; 667-1306pp. Title in English and Chinese. Text in Chinese only. Printed grey wrappers (age toning; foxing to upper page edges, very light extremity wear); else near fine copies. Lists 1,777 ancient classic works, which are organized..... 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
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. [8], ix-xlii, [2], 3-152, [1] pp. Illustrated wtih 26 maps, of which 10 are in color and 17 are folding. Bound in natural linen, light brown cloth spine, white spine label printed in red. Light fading to spine..... More
Hollister, CA: Hollister Free Lance, June, 1886. First Edition. Folio. 17 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings; ads for local businesses; map. Color lithograph wrappers in very good condition (wear along spine and extremities; short closed tear to page 11/12; two small chips to front and rear edge). An uncommon and..... More
New York & Washington: Neale Publishing, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo, 401 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on title page. Translated from the Russina by the author, with the assistance of madame de Wollant. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover; TEG; deckled page edges; many pages..... More