[Venice]: N.p., 1860. 1st. Original wraps. First edition thus. 4to. Etched title page and 48 full page etchings of Italian street vendors, signed in the plate, by Eugenio Bosa (1807-1875), Italian sculptor & painter. Blue-grey wrappers housed in folding cloth & paper covered portfolio. Light foxing to some pages; wear..... More
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Duncannon, PA & Bedford, PA: Valley View Offset & Old Bedford Village Press, 1972 & 1992. First Edition. 4to. 400 pp; Volume 2 unpaginated. Illustrations on every page. Red boards with gilt lettering, as issued without dustjacket. A near fine copy (minor wear; light bumping to lower corners; light spotting..... 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
Tientsin, China: Chihli Press, 1931. First Edition. ISCRIBED "To my friend and fellow numismatic/Howard F. Bowker/from Arthur B. Coole/Nov. 11, 1949". Under the inscription, the author has written his name in Chinese. 4to. 110 pp. 2 large folding maps (1 loose at rear as issued); numerous photo-illustrations; some text in..... More
Oakland: WIM, 1989. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the authors on title page. Folio, 382 pp. Bibliography; Index. 168 numbered color plates. Essays by Arthur Millier, Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr., and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. Mauve cloth with color plate adhered to front cover; white lettering..... More
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 2004. First Edition. Leather bound. Limited Edition to 215 copies, this being #41 of 200 unbound sheets privately bound by Pacific Northwest bookbinder, Derek Lowe. 4to. 96 pp. Color plates, including 1 fold-out at rear. Striking black full morocco with elaborate red morocco griffen design 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
Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft Limitada, 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Limited Edition No. DLXIX of DCL copies was pubished as a tribute on the 25th anniversary of the author's death. Large 8vo. 294, [4] pp. Illustrations by Alberto Guiraldes. Preliminary Note by Adelina Del Carril, wife of the author. SIGNED..... More
York, PA: George Shumway Publishing, 1984. First Edition, Limited to 1600 copies. Large 4to. 260, [2pp Index] pp. Maps; Illustrations. Tan cloth in publisher's pale yellow & black illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy with a hint of wear to the dustjacket. A detailed study of the gunsmiths who worked in..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Leather bound. Small 8vo. xv, 95 pp; [68] leaves of plates. Frontispiece illustration of Hercules; title page illustration "Samson Bursting his Bonds"; in-text illustrations. Full brown leather with gilt lettered morocco title to spine; gilt design & lettering to front board..... More
Berkeley: [The Gillick Press], 1944. 1st. Original boards. INSCRIBED by awardee Hink on ffep to printer Robertson. "A limited edition of 99 copies of this address/has been printed at The Gillick Press in the month of January, 1944, handset in 18 point Caslon Oldstyle by Will D. Robertson and Ben..... More
New York: Random House, 1946. Third Printing. INSCRIBED by the author at his home, Tor House in Carmel in 1949. Tall 8vo. 107 pp. Black cloth spine over orange paper covered boards with gilt lettering in publisher's dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (some age toning). 'Medea' is..... 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
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by Tom Killion. Oblong 8vo. Beautifully illustrated with Killion's color and black & white woodcuts. Tan linen cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in like dustjacket. The result of a unique collaboration between Killion and Snyder, both lifelong lovers of..... More
London: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson for James Magnus and Richard Bentley, 1675. First Edition. Small 8vo. [6], 54, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers bound in marbled paper. A near fine copy. The author's first play is dedicated to his early patron and supporter John Willmot, Earl of..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1936. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author at the colophon. Large 8vo. 495pp. Illustrated with photographs, facsimiles and maps. Original tan buckram with gilt-stamped maroon leather spine label; top edge gilt; printed on Covenant rag paper. A fine copy..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; xxii, 112pp.; folding map of the Route of John Work's Expedition to California in 1832-1833, several full-page photographic plates, including frontis of Work in middle age. One of 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy at The Wesgate Press..... More
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Publications, 1959-60. Color pictographic map. Image size 14" x 18"; matted and framed (19 3/4 x 23 1/2"). The first map that Jo Mora drew and published on his own, in conjunction with Scenic Airways, Inc. The original variation was published in black & white but..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1938. First edition. 4to. 182pp. Illustrations by Hernando Villa. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine in scarce pictorial dustjacket. Minor wear to lower corners else fine in very good dustjacket (chips along upper edge; cover separated along front joint & flap; darkening to spine). One..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889. First Edition. 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 lettering to..... More
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1923. First Edition. 4to. 148, [1] pp; 64 plates (8 in color). Index. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering. Some wear to extremities; small remnant of label to lower spine; front hinge cracked; foxing, not affecting the plates; minor pencil notations; a good copy of an..... More
Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman Company, 1930. Jo Mora. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 12mo. 126pp, [1]. Delightful duotone and monotone illustrations (8 full page, including frontispiece) by Jo Mora. Pictures in color by Sue Seeley; all other drawings by Jo Mora. Original dark blue cloth with color illustrated plate to front cover;..... More
Chicago: The Riley and Britton Company, 1912. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Leroy Truman Goble/with the usual/good wishes/Bert Leston Taylor/May, 1912." Small 8vo. 93 unnumbered pages. Illustrations by C.B. Falls. Stiff green wrappers with yapp edges; gilt lettering & dark green illustration of a tree branch extending over..... More
Oakland, CA: Published by the Board of Port Commissioners, 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. 12 issues. Various paginations. black & whote photographic illustrations. Stiff blue wrappers with gilt lettering to front cover; original color illustrated wrappers bound in. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. The Port of..... More