New York: Fleet Street Corporation, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. [1984]. 8vo. 304pp. Photo-illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (two minor pencil notations) in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper rear). The biography of a multidimensional man whose life was one of... More
New York: Warner Books, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For my good long-time/friends - Bob & Charlotte Ferguson/Who I hope will have half/as much fun reading this as/I did doint it./Climb Every Mountain/Warmly, Frank." Additionally SIGNED by Dick Bass and Rick Ridgeway. General Robert "Bob" G. Fergusson served in... More
NP: Privately Printed, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo, 55 pages. Limited to 300 copies. INSCRIBED to Warren Howell, noted San Francisco bookseller. 'Two Trains to Remember' is the privately printed story of one man's fascination for the grandeur and romace of a bygone era. Carrying passengers between Boston and New York... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1899. First Edition. Leather bound. 8vo. xxii, [2], 462; x[4], 499pp. Index. Vol 1: 16 maps & plans; 25 illustrations; Vol. II: 18 maps & plans, 33 illustrations by Angus McNeil, Seaforth Highlanders. Bayntun-Riviere binding in full red morocco with gilt lettering and ruling to... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Octavo; xv, 506, [2 ads]pp. Index. Rebound in tan buckram, text damp-stained throughout with grey spotting to lower margins, ink note to ffep and rfep, which has a 2-inch closed tear, else Very Good. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 115pp. SIGNED by Coward on ffep. Tan cloth in cream color printed dustjacket designed by Emil Antonucci. A near fine copy (dampstaining lower front edge; light wear; small bookseller stamp to lower corner inside rear board) in very good plus dustjacket... More
New-London, (Con.): Printed and sold by Samuel Green, 1820. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition. 8vo. iv, [4], 106, [2], [104 pp tables]. Frontispiece engraving of The Quadrant and Mariner's Compass. Illustration. Printed page titled Recommendations affixed inside front board. Original tree calf boards with gilt ruling to spine; maroon spine... More
New York: Bantam, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Twice SIGNED by Doolittle (one a gift inscription to friends). 8vo. 574 pp. Bibliography; Index. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (short tear to spine head rear joint; minor wear to corners; small triangle crease to upper rear edge); an exceptionally... More
Boston: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, ca. 1930. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Square 4to. 18 leaves, printed in Moon type. The first leaf is printed in Moon & English as a guide to the language. Printed and bound at the Braille Institute of America in Los... 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
Elko, Nevada: G. S. Garcia, 1920. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 148 pp. Illustrations. SIGNED by Luis Ortega, with personalized bookplate and address lable. Grey, green & brown illustrated wrappers. Rear cover partially detached; wear to extremities; 1" loss at spine tail; darkening to spine; dampstaining to first 18 pages else an... More
London: Arrowsmith, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 532 pp. 9 black & white plates (including 4 from wood-engravings of drawings by Lady S. Murray). Green cloth in green dustjacket with black ruling & lettering; map endpapers. Near fine in good plus dustjacket (separated along rear joint; some loss to spine... More
San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, (1907). 1st. Original boards. First Edition. Small 8vo. 48pp, many pages unopened. Color frontispiece (with tissue guard) after a painting by Will Jenkins. Printed at The Tomoye Press. Tan paper boards; red paper covered spine; pale orange lettering and decoration to... More
Berkeley: Friends of Bancroft Library, 1966. 1st. Cloth. Folio, 118pp. Color frontispiece; 11 sepia photo-plates; 3 maps (1 fold-out). Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. From the library of noted collector Irving Robbins, with the original offering prospectus and his book label laid in. INSCRIBED "For Irving Robbins/A... More
Eureka, CA: Mad River Press, (1978). 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 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;"... More
New York: Stroefer & Kirchner, 1875. 1st. Original cloth. First American Edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen photographs (including frontispiece) after paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden, each with an accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Index leaf. With comments by Julius Hübner; translated by J. Pond. Brown... More
Los Gatos CA: The Talisman Press, 1962. 1st. Half leather. First Edition. Limitied to 50 copies, numbered and SIGNED by the editor. Octavo, 398pp. Printed on Ticonderoga text, extra-illustrated with facsimile reproductions of eight early California newspapers. specially bound with black morocco leather spine and marbled paper covered boards; gilt... More
Paris: Correa, 1953. 1st. Original wraps. First French Edition. INSCRIBED "For ***/with all good/wishes/Henry Miller/3-11-54/Note:Le texte auglais est plein/de fautes, comme/d'habitude." Small 8vo. 133 pp. Text in French and English. Frontispiece photo-plate of Miller. Color illustrated wrappers. Light wear and creasing to covers; leaning to spine; front hinge starting to... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Jo J. Mora. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Grey cloth with red lettering and Longhorn skull stamped to front cover in Jo Mora designed dustjacket and endpapers. An original sketch by Mora of a young buckaroo pulling a toy... More
Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1928. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Twelve stunning black & white woodcut illustrations. Staple bound stiff wrappers in original green illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy. Born in Australia, Patterson studied at the Melborne & National Gallery Art Schools prior to continuing his... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Miller's hand "For Bob Young" and SIGNED by both Miller and Perles on a paper slip affixed to ffep. Bookplate to front pastedown signed 'Robert Young Jr.' Young was the author of 'From a Different Angle: A Personal Memoir of... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1855. 1st. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. [5]-824pp. 2 engraved views (including frontispiece); 4 engraved portraits; 154 engraved text illustrations; 2 engraved maps (1 folding). Original full black morocco stamped in gilt; spine gilt-lettered & ruled and 5 raised bands. AEG. A vergy good to near... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1929. Original boards. First Edition Thus. 4to. xlvi, 154 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Whitman reproduced from a portrait made in 1876 by Frank Pearsall. Introduction by Carolyn Wells. Designed by Frederic Warde and SIGNED by him on the colophon; printed by William Edwin Rudge... More
New York: O. Judd Co. 1886. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. vi, 250, [6 pp advertisements] pp. Large folding map in rear pocket, titled "Map of the Yellowstone National Park, Compiled from different official explorations and our personal survey, 1882" by Carl J. Halls & A. Rydstrom, Civil Engineers... More