[San Francisco]: [Wells Fargo Bank], [1935]. 1st. Color pictorial map, 16 x 19 1/2". Nicely framed in simple wood frame with gold accents. A fine copy of an uncommon pictorial map; as of 5/16, only 3 copies located in OCLC. Highlights drawings of points of interest in old San Francisco... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1903. 1st. Original cloth. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated; [96]pp. Black & white illustrations. Brown cloth covered boards; black and green illustration to front board; black titles to front board and spine. Light wear to extremities, small scrape to lower front cover; light spotting to two... More
San Francisco, CA: F. F. Partridge Print, 1907. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 4to. (iv), 153pp. Index. Original cream printed wraps. Numerous pencil corrections, most likely by Davidson. Transactions and Proceedings of the Geographical Society of the Pacific: Vol. IV, Series II. (Cowan pg. 156; Rocq 9080). More
Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1931. Reprint. Original boards. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 96 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light... More
london: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition, First Issue, with all correct points. Small 8vo. 269, [1] + 2 pages of advertisements at both front and rear. Vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contemporary owner... More
[Oregon House, CA]: The Petrarch Press, 1994. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition Thus, Limited to 100 copies, 60 special copies printed on handmade Alcantara paper, SIGNED and numbered by Laura Davis, this being copy #20; and 40 unnumbered copies on all-rag Arches text and Fabriano Ingres. small 8vo (5 x.... More
Santa Fe. NM: Published by the author, 2014. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition, Limited to 1,000 copies, SIGNED by the authors. Oblong 4to. 370 pp. Detailed color photographs of over 300 historic weapons from the Gordon and Taylor collections. Brown leatherette boards with gilt illustration and lettering, without dust jacket... More
Vancouver, B.C. William Hoffer, 1984. 1st. Half leather. First Edition, Limited to 106 copies, of which copies 1-10 have been handbound in leather by Charlotte Bagshawe, this copy being number 8. Small 4to. 58, [2] pp. Translated, with an Introduction by Barry Asker. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. Printed on Carlyle... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. Vol 1: 302pp. Vol 2: 275pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard of Aloysius Horn in each volume; maps on endpapers. Green cloth with red stamping and gilt lettering. From the estate of Jo Mora, Jr. (provenance provided) and each volume bearing the... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by the author to Harold A. Taylor to the half-title page. Second edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Biege cloth covered boards; red, white, and brown illustration to... More
Ramsen: Heribert Tenschert, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Folio. 320pp. Bibliography. Text in German. 200+ color illustrations. Glossy black color illustrated boards, without dustjackett, as issued. Small scratch to upper board edge; small bump to spine head; else a fine copy. This is a heavy volume and may require addiitional shipping. Next... More
Duffield & Green. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 129, [1] pp. Striking illustrated plates by Rhea Wells. Translated by Olga Vitali. Black cloth with yellow spine & black lettering, illustrated endpapers in black, yellow & white illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (darkening to spine; light wear to extremities... More
San Francisco: James H. Barry, [1910]. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition. Large 8vo. iii, 176 pp. 2 color maps dated March, 1910 by J. H. Dockweiler, consulting engineer to the attorney for the city of San Francisco from 1904-1916 - one large folding map is titled "Map showing Location of... More
Bozeman, MT: Nygard Publishing Company, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Limited First Edition #84 of 250 copies. Oblong 4to. 126 pp. Chronology; Awards; Bibliography; List of 103 plates (3 black & white). SIGNED color print of "Flamenco Dancers" in portfolio volume. Text volume SIGNED on limitation page by Donald Teague; additionally inscribed... More
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Publications, 1945. Color pictographic map. Image size 24 3/8" x 18 1/4". Fine condition; colors are strong and bright. This was the second and smaller California map Jo Mora drew as well as his last map. The Del Monte Canning Co. commissioned the map for promotional... More
New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910-1918. Original cloth. First Editions. Complete in 3 volumes. 8vo. xxxvii, 727; xlv, 479; xvii, 530 pp. Chronology; Index. 15 folding maps; folding plans; illustrations. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering; TEG. Light shelfwear; Vol I front hinge cracked; light foxing;... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1891. 1st. Original cloth. First American Edition. Small octavo; 352pp in publisher's navy cloth lettered in grey to upper board and gold to spine. Slight extremity wear, owner stamp to fep (ffep may be excised) and name to half title, else a Near Fine copy... More
N.p. The Lyons Press, 2004. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition, Limited to 100 numbered copies, INSCRIBED & numbered by the author. Includes Limited Edition etching of Visalia Stock Saddle No. 1 as shown in Visalia Circular in 1892. Large 4to. xviii, [2], 172 pp. color and black & white photographs... More
New York: F.A.R. Gallery, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies, this being copy #47, SIGNED by Ms. Robins. Small folio portfolio. Large single sheet quarter fold, [1] pp text; [12] leaves of color plates laid in. A near fine copy. An uncomon collection of charming prints done... More
London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. First Editions. Large quartos. Part One, Volume One - Text and Illustrations: 153pp plus 838 b/w plates and 77 full color plates; Part One, Volume Two - Catalogue: 598pp. A fine set, As New copies in publisher's navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt... More
Waco, TX: Privately Printed, 1924. 1st. Hardcover. SIGNED and dated by the author. First Edition. Small 8vo. 128pp. Green cloth with black lettering to spine. A very good copy (light spotting to covers; minor wear to extremities; some internal foxing). Short history of the islands from from early Polynesia to... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Babs/with memories of happy days/together in Yosemite/Edward & Charis." 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. Near fine (light wear &..... More
New York: Van Nostrand, 1860. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 132pp. 3 large folding charts depicting various battle formations. Publisher's red blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to extremities; minor spotting to front board; darkening to spine and rear board; owner name; rear hinge cracked but holding else a very... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 330pp. An honest and frank story of blind passion in sex-ridden Europe after World War II between "...two lives linked together by danger and delight." - dustjacket flap. A scarce first printing by the Hungarian Jewish novelist and journalist author of one... More