New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1927. First Edition. Small 4to. [10], 223, [1] pp. 4 color plates (including frontispiece); black & white in-text illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering & illustration; illustrated endpapers; in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small hole to upper..... More
Dallas, TX: The Bridwell Library and The Gehenna Press, 1992. The Gehenna Press. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 50 numbered copies of the "Special Issue", this being #19. SIGNED by Baskin at the colophon. Additionally INSCRIBED by Baskin. 4to [2], 238, [1] pp. followed by 13 leaves of printer's marks..... More
New York: John Filmer, 1876. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition. Two volumes in one. Large 4to. 206; 274pp. Illustrations by George C. Bell and other eminent artists. Full-page plates (some fold-outs); in-text illustrations. one-half brown morocco over black pebbled cloth boards; gilt lettering & ruling; all edges gilt. Minor wear..... More
London, Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 282 + [4] pp publisher's advertisements. Index. 48 photographic plates. Translated from the Dutch By C. Thieme. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; elaborate gilt design of foo dog perched on a platform; TEG. From the library of Payson J. Treat..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. [4] pp. SIGNED by Bukowski on title page. Cream paper boards with color design to & lettering to front board; turquoise endpapers. A fine copy. Published for the friends of the Black Sparrow Press on the occasion of the American..... More
(Riverside, CA): Riverside City Planning Commission, 1929. 1st. Paperback. 4to. 47 pp. Illustrations; maps (one large folding). Original printed cream staple bound wrappers. Stamped 'Library of Congress' duplicate. A very good copy (library stamps; wear to extremities; upper rear corner clipped; darkening to covers). "This report brings together an inventory..... More
![CALIFORNIANA] The History of (Lower) California (INSCRIBED). Don Francisco Javier Clavigero, Sara...](/pictures/thumb/19885.jpg?v=1591152130)
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1937. First English Language Edition. INSCRIBED by Lake & Gray "To Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Glessner, good friends and congenial coworkers, with our compliments and best wishes. A. A. Gray, Sara E. Lake, Jan. 18, 1938." 8vo. xxviii, 413 pp. Index. Frontispiece portrait 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
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
Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. [88] pp. Includes 33 lithographs and 10 drawings. With a foreword by Carl Zigrosser. INSCRIBED "Cordial greetings from the/artist to ***/and ***/Caroline Durieux." Rust cloth in illustrated dustjacket.. A fine copy very good plus dustjacket (wear to extremities; two small tape..... More
London: I. B. Tauris, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 434 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-illustrated plates. A fine copy in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. "... a compellingly written and thoroughly researched work of narrative history. His detailed account of the period from the 1919 Agreement with Britain, instigated by Lord Curzon, to..... More
Tientsin: La Librairie Francaise, 1925. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. xxvii, 401 pp. Three large folding maps at rear. Black & white illustrations. Publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. A very good copy (bumping & light wear to extremities; some rippling & soiling to covers). Karamisheff, was a Russian..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1929. First English Language Edition. 4to. [58] unnumbered pages. Color illustrations by Rudolf Mates. Translated from the Czechoslovak by Raf. D. Szalatnay.Edited by Helen Murphy. Printed by V. Neubert and Sons in Praque. Red cloth spine; color illustrated paper covered boards; housed in publisher's color illustrated slipcase..... More
Goy Houten: Hes & de Graaf, 2008. First Edition. Quarto; 286pp. Bibliography; Index. Illustrated with over 60 beautiful color reproductions, many from the excessively rare original manuscript of Geka Soden. A Fine, unread copy in publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gold in illustrated dust jacket. Foreign/expedited shipping additional for this..... More
San Francisco: Jo Mora, Jr., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original tan cloth with black lettering and green, red and black illustration of a pirate on the front cover. A unique copy in that it was used by it's owner to record her travels on the Santa Paula Graceline..... More
Tulsa, OK: Western Art Productions, c. 1979. Limited #165 of 650. Color print. Image size: 14 7/8" x 10 1/2" with 4" border. Printed on 80# Vicksburg Vellum Cover to reproduce as close as possible the delicate and precise original paintings - brochure. This image is Heu-Mish Katchina depicting the..... More
London: The London Missionary Society, 1825. First Edition. 4to. 52 pp. 12 lithographic plates of Chinese writing. Errata slip tipped in. Newly bound in cloth with gilt lettered title label on spine. Some chipping to edges of first two pages, not affecting the text; internally clean. Bilndstamp of Board of..... More
Watsonville, Ca. Evening Pajaronian, 1929. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited #93 of 300 copies. SIGNED by the author and the compiler on a plate affixed to front pastedown. 8vo. 195 pp. Photo-illustrations. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear, minor bumping to corners; previous owner name; else a fine copy..... More
Nanking: Nanking Woman's Club, 1922-1923. First Edition. 8vo. 55 pp. 3 photo-illustrated plates. Green paper covers with black illustration and lettering. Small loss to lower front corner & spine end; a near fine copy of the uncommon first edition. Includes four papers written and read by members of the Literary..... More
Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 155 pp. Frontispiece portrait; photo-illustrated plates. Card tipped inside front cover titled "History of the South China Mission" by Harriet N. Noyes. presented by her sisters." Brown cloth with black lettering in near fine condition. Harriet Newell Noyes..... More
New York: Whittlesey McGraw Hill, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 238 pp. 9 photo-plates (including frontispiece). Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine & front board, illustrated endpapers in yellow printed dustjacket. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket (darkening to spine; corners clipped with price intact; chips to extremities;..... More
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. [32] pp. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece, title page and borders. Publisher's wrappers with red, green, black & gilt decoration and lettering. Minor wear; a near fine and lovely copy of an uncommon volume of poetry by..... More
![AMERICANA] Presentation Scrapbook Celebrating the Launch of the U.S.S. Conway. U S. S. Conway](/pictures/thumb/19956.jpg?v=1591152146)
Bath, ME: Bath Iron Works Corporation, 1942. First Edition. Folio (17 1/2" x 12"); ~ 40 leaves of newspaper articles, photographs, etc. (most loose) in three-ring binder. Black leatherette with gilt lettering on front cover (U.S.S. Conway. Christened by Mrs. Frank E. Beatty). Light wear to extremities; light stain to..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. SIGNED by Edward & Charis on FFEP. Square 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photographic prints by Edward Weston with commentary by Charis Weston. Black cloth with silver lettering in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Very good in good dustjacket (wear to extremities; tape..... More