Peking: Pei-T'ang Press, 1888. Original wrappers. First Edition. Tall 8vo.vi, [2], 7-52 pp. Folding sketch map of Peking and its environs. In English with occasional text in Chinese. Purple wrappers with black lettering. Lacking Plan of the City of Peking (facsimile copy of the plan laid in); rear wrapper cover..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Beverly Hills Woman's Club, 1929. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 189pp. Illustrated with woodcut title headpieces and black & white full-page advertisements. Black & grey illustrated cream cloth. Introduction by Will Rogers. Compiled by the Book Section Beverly Hills Womans Club. Cover design and illustrations Vivian V. Robeson. Recipes..... More
San Francisco: 1957. 1st. Broadside. First Edition, limited to copies of 1000 - 1150. Portfolio with 11 broadsides & accompanying note sheet (lacking note sheet for Louise Bogan and F. T. Prince broadsides), some with illustration. Edited by Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and Henry Rago. Printed by various private presses..... More
Middletown, CT. Wesleyan University Press, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 409pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (price-clipped; minor wear to extremities). Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation, was one of the most influential and least known statesmen of revolutionary..... More
Saint Louis: Laryngoscope Press, 1918. 1st. Octavo. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering; without dust jacket as issued. #95 of an edition limited to 300 copies. This volume was produced to make available again Louis Fagan's 'Collectors' Marks,' updated by the authors. Includes as Part I, Fagan's Collectors' Marks; Part..... More
New York: Random House, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 335 pp. Red quarter cloth spine over red paper covered boards in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Red stain on top page edges water spotted;small erasure marks to ffep; minor wear to spine ends; else near fine in very good dustjacket..... More
Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by George Wharton James in ink on the half-title, together with a tipped in presentation fragment signed by Ethelinda M. James. "To the 'Burroughses', To recall the joyful days of Burroughs' Camp. Ethelinda M. James." "The 'Big Brother' was..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1924. 1st. Hardcover. First Ediion. 8vo. (xvii) 217pp. Numerous full page and in-text line drawings. Grey cloth with black lettering and red line drawing of a cowboy on his horse in tan illustrated dustjacket with red & black lettering. Near fine in very good dustjacket (chips..... 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
New York: Macmillan, 1920. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Orange, black & yellow decorative binding with black lettering; publisher's tan & brown illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine head; light scrape on spine). A nice copy..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. 1st. Original cloth. 8vo. xiii, 258 pp. 4 color lithographs (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Publisher's green cloth, black ruling and gilt illustration & lettering. A very good copy (light rubbing to extremities & boards; owner name; shelfwear); a nice copy. An informative and lively..... 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
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
Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 293, [1] pp. Index. With illustrations from sketches by the author. Green & black pictorial cover with gilt lettering. Slight rippling to cloth on spine; minor wear to extremities else a fine copy. A series of essays on the three worlds of..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardbound. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 249pp. Index; Sources and Bibliography. Fold-out map; photo-illustrations. Brown cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small chipping to spine head; minor creasing to lower front edge). Western Land and..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889. First Edition. Original cloth. 8o. vii, 338 pp; 16 pp publisher's catalog. Wood-engraved frontispiece of "The Bund, Shanghai" with tissue guard, vignette of "The Little Orphan" on title page; fold-out map in blue and black. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt dragon and red & gilt..... More
Houston, TX; Santa Fe, NM: Stagecoach Press, 1960-1966. 1st. Hardcover. First Editions, 13 volumes, each limited to 350-750 copies; all but three are SIGNED by publisher/designer. Each bound in original cloth in their original dustjackets (2 are price-clipped) else a fine set. Also includes "Texas and the West - Catalogue..... More
Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Co., 1923. First Edition. Original cloth. INSCRIBED "With kindest regards/of the author/John C. Shay/Los Angeles, 1924." 8vo. 142 pp. Original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy. Being the actual experiences and observations of..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. 2nd. Second Edition, Expanded and Updated. 4to. 216 pp. Bibliography; Index. Striking color and black & white illustrations throughout. Cream cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, as new. A beautifully photographed monograph on Chiparus (1886-1947), master of chryselephantine sculpture, small..... More
London & Glasgow: Hamilton, Adams & Co & Thomas D. Morison, 1887. 1st. Original cloth. Octavo. (xi) 300pp + 8pp publisher advertisements. List of Golfing Societies; Golfing Glossary. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. From the library of golf author Bob Jones with his decorative bookplate..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. First Edition. Three volumes, complete. 8vo. viii, 320; viii, 327; viii, 312 pp. Half titles in each volume. Beautifully bound by by Bayntun in full green morocco with gilt lettering & ruling; TEG; marbled endpapers. Original covers bound in at rear of each volume. Lacking..... More
San Francisco, CA: Visalia Stock Saddle Co., 1938. First Revised Edition. Octavo. 128pp. Index; Advertisements. Profusely illustrated throughout; 1-page illustration by Jo Mora of the first printing of the 'Evolution of the Cowboy' along with the best description we've seen of the carte. Black & white staplebound printed wraps. Light..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1949. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Hardcover. Quarto; unpaginated (complete as issued); 1 photo, 5 facsimiles, some on colored paper; chronological index, appendix. Original 1/4 red linen and red and gold illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine copy. The classic bibliography containing 241 annotated entries..... More
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies, this being #273. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 66pp. Black & white illustrations; fold-out frontispiece illustration. Orange cloth covered boards; gilt illustration to front board; gilt titles to the spine; original dust jacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket..... More