Peking: Cultural Objects Press, 1959. First Edition. Square 4to. Text booklet: 12 pp in English; (8), 39 pp text in Chinese; 234 plates (12 in color). Tan linen cloth with red Chinese lettering in black & white illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in good dustjacket (paper loss to spine ends and..... More
Kyoto: City Office, 1928. First Edition. Small 8vo. 211 pp. 69 black & white photo-illustrations (full-page and in-text). Fold-out color map of Kyoto; 3 full-page color maps. Purple limp cloth with yapped edges; gilt illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine; AEG; illustrated endpapers; housed in publisher's cardboard..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. SIGNED by Adams on half-title page. Oblong folio. 127 pp. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket and brown slipcase. A fine copy in fine slipcase presenting some of Ansel Adams best known photographs. Ansel Adams was a...... More
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 267pp. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition (light wear to spine ends) in very good dust jacket (light wear to extremities, more so to..... More
Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 40 pp. stiff yellow wrappers with brown lettering. Uneven darkening to covers; a near fine copy of the author's scarce first book. Number 2 in 'The New Frontier Series in American Literature.' George Harold "Hal" Bennett (1936 – 2004) also wrote under..... More
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author to the half-title page. First edition. 8vo. [xxxvi], 281pp. Large fold-out color map to rear; black & white illustrations; photographs; drawings. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt illustration to front board; gilt titles to the spine; illustrated end papers. Light wear..... More
Moscow, PA: Maurose Publishing, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Frist Edition. SIGNED by the author in year of publication. Large 4to. 432 pp. Over 400 photo-reproductions, more than 325 in color. Red cloth in black dustjacket with photographic image titled "A Navajo Boy" on front cover. Minor wear to extremities else a...... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1805. First Edition. Large paper copy. 4to. xiv, [2], 188 pp. Text in French. Fold-out map depicting the Silk road trade route; engraved plate. With Chinese characters in text. Contemporary black cloth spine over marbled paper covered boards; partial paper title label to spine. Wear to..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. INSCRIBED "***/with the sincere/good wishes/of/Ansel F. Hall/Yosemite Valley/July 21, 1923." Small 8vo. (xiii), 347 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard; photo-illustrated plates; fold-out map of Yosemite National Park. Appendix; Index. Dark green ribbed pictorial cloth in uncommon publisher's illustrated dustjacket..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a...... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1903. 1st. Original boards. INSCRIBED by the author to the wife of business magnate John D Larkin. First edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Pictorial cloth boards; housed in later slipcase. Light wear..... More
Salt Lake City: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272. Original cloth. Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates..... More
Bristol and London: W. Crofton Hemmons; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1896]. 1st. Original vellum boards. First Edition, Deluxe Limited Edition #18 of 50 copies, SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 269 pp. Numerous plate illustrations with tissue guards; in-text illustrations. Elaborate gilt pictorial vellum covered boards; gilt lettering..... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by John Steinbeck on card affixed to ffep. 8vo. 527 pp. Index. black & white photo-illustrated plates. Black cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy with a hint of wear (dustjacket flap corners clipped). 19th Annual Issue. Includes "Of Mice..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Jo J. Mora. First Edition. 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...... 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
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
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1936. 1st. Paperback. One of perhaps less than 200 copies of the first issue with the ampersand page printed on sandpaper. This was ceased when it was realized how difficult this was. Small 8vo. 99 pp. Index. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Introduction by Harry Miller Lydenberg..... More
Tokyo: Kiyoshi Saito Studio, N.d. Unlimited. Paperback. Image size: 10 x 15 1/2" Color woodblock SIGNED in black and SEALED in red. Fine condition. Maiki in profile, her delicate, white face and neck clearly defined against the grey background and contrasted with the dark black gown with grey & white..... More
Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1847. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, [1], [1-3], 4-360pp. A few pages uncut. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Original brown cloth with blind ruling, gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy (wear to extremities with small amout of loss at spine ends &..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 467 pp. 12 plates, including frontispiece; folding map. Publisher's purple blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration of a ship on front cover; gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Light general wear; some internal foxing; else a near fine copy..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2011. First Edition Thus, Limited to 200 (of 222) copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Barry Moser, Patrick McGrath and Aeron Alfrey. Introduction by Patrick McGrath. 15 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Cover artwork by James Bama and Basil Gogos; endpaper artwork by Aeron Alfrey. 15 pp color..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 288 pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. A very good copy (owner name; light wear to extremities, more so to spine ends; slight fading to spine; light soiling), still a nice copy of the uncommon first edition of this classic work..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1884. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 313pp. Index. Frontispiece portrait engraving with tissue guard. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration; blindstamping to rear cover. Minor wear to extremities; light, general wear & soiling; decorative owner bookplate of James Strohn Copley, journalist and newspaper publisher of the San..... More