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
[Japan?]: [publisher not identified], 1913. Oblong 8vo (7 1/4 x 10 1/4"). 230 pp. (including 6 pages text in Japanes). 20 examples of Japanese crests, or mon, per page for a total of over 4,000 examples. Bound in blue-grey cloth, Japanese four-hole stab binding; paper title label to front cover..... More
Philadelphia: Royal Electrotype Company, 1929. First Edition. Small 4to. 53 pp. Frontispiece. black & white photo-illustrated plates depicting printing techniques. Business card for Royal Electrotype Co. employee (salesman?) laid in. Striking gilt, green brown & orange decorative wrappers in near fine condition (with minor wear to sine ends; minor foxing..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1846. First Edition. 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 438, Serial 477. 8vo. 75pp. 11 lithograph plates; 2 lithographed maps (1 large and folding). Stitched wraps (disbound). Light dampstaining throughout, otherwise fine condition (and scarce thus) in modern cloth case with gilt-lettered morocco label at spine. Scarce first..... More
Hollywood CA: Alkire Aviaries, 1915? First Edition. 12mo; 23pp; 14 illustrations. A Near Fine (rusted staples) promotional piece in grey wrappers lettered in brown, oval diecut to front wrapper revealing an illustration of a pheasant. Sections incluse 'Pheasants' (11 varieties), 'Waterfowl' (3 varieties), 'Aviary Birds' ('Owing to the constant changing..... More
Portland, OR: Lewis & Clark College, 2003. First Edition, Limited to 100 numbered copies. SIGNED by Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner and Paul Merchant. Plates including 4 in color; 1 fold-out; maps. Bound in gilt stamped 1/4 black leather and navy blue cloth in a gilt stamped navy blue cloth slipcase..... More
Leningrad: The Academy of Sciences Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo; 107, viipp. Near Fine copy in later green leatherette; original printed wrappers bound in at rear. Text in Russian, Chinese and partial English; 3-page English summary at rear. Transactions of the Marr Institute of Language and Mentality Vol..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. viii, 243 pp. Bibliography; Index. Map. Pale yellow cloth in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in about near f ine dustjacket (rubbing along flap folds & spine joints; light wear to extremities). Juantia Brooks describes one of the darkest and..... 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
Blakeney, Gloustershire: Scorpion Press, 1988. 1st. Half leather. First Edition, Limited to 110 copies. SIGNED by the author. With an appreciation of Burke by Michael Connelly. Half-leather spine over marbled boards. A fine copy, as new. Book #10 in the Dave Robicheaux series. More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, [1947]. First Edition. Elephant folio (20 x 13 in.) 14 color serigraph images, including title leaf, mounted on 4-ply pebbled tag board [with] 4to, 16 pp. printed beige wrappers, stapled as issued, hole punch to head of spine. Laid in a heavy black paper..... More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, [1947]. First Edition. Elephant folio (20 x 13 in.) 11 color serigraph images, including title leaf, mounted on 4-ply pebbled tag board [with] 8vo, [28] pp. single-sided printed beige wrappers, stapled as issued, hole punch to head of spine (front cover detached). Laid in..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1925. First Yale Edition. Small 8vo. (xvi) 259pp. Index. 8 photo-illustrated plates. Introduction by M. M. Quaife. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (some darkening, more so to spine; rubbing along..... More
Denver, CO: 1905. Color map (22 1/2" x 28 1/4"), folding into stiff paper covers (7 3/4" x 3 3/4"). Includes portions of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Shows standard gauge, narrow gauge, three rails, and connecting lines. The verso of the map is covered with printed..... More
Cuba: Edicion Jordi, (ca. 1923). 46 color illustrations on (32) pp., unpaginated. Text in English inside front cover and in Spanish inside rear cover. Color illustrated staple-bound wrappers housed in publisher's printed brown envelope. A very good copy (individual pages separated from staples; light wear to extremities; lower spine split..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First Edition Thus. 4to. 108pp. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 20 striking pochoir colored Art Deco style illustrations by English illustrator Anne Harriet Fish, known as "Fish", with tissue guards (including frontispiece); initial capitals in orange & black. Letterpress by the Curwen Press, plates..... 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
London: William Ball & Co, 1841. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 342 pp. Woodcut frontispiece & in-text illustrations. Publisher's blindstampedbrown cloth with gilt illustration of a Chinese person on front cover; gilt illustration on spine. A good copy (2 1/2" loss of cloth at spine head; splitting of cloth along front..... More
Koror, Palau Islands: Privately Printed, 1954. First Edition. Personally INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 55, [1] pp. Woodcut illustrations by Adachi, Marino and Tatsuo. Covers designed by the author and Adachi. Printed wrappers in very good condition (wear to extremities; short closed tears around fastener); internally clean. An uncommon regional..... More
[Tucson]: [Saltbush Studio], 1991. First printing of this format. Quarto broadside (32 x 21 cm). SIGNED by Ward Ritchie; INSCRIBED by Powell for his occasional publisher of later years, Noel Young of the Capra Press. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at Saltbursh Studio for the occasion of Powell's 85th..... More
New York: F.A.R. Gallery, 1947. 1st. 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 in..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1872. A New Edition. Complete in 8 volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Edited by James P. Brown. Uniformly bound by Andy Grieve (Edinburgh bookbinder) in full tree calf with gilt lettered red and black leather title labels to spines; gilt decoration..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. 438 pp. Introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Spectacular fold-out panoramic view of the Canyon; illustrated plates. Near fine (some splitting along fold lines of fold-out panorama) in very good dustjacket (some wear to extremities, moreso to spine ends with chipping). In this fascinating..... More
Berlin: Various, 1866 - 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Five volumes. Bound in 1/2 leather w/ patterned boards, leather spine labels (spine label partly missing of Vol. V), raised bands. The foundation work for modern Beethoven scholarship. More