Wright Field, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1928. Tentative Edition. Original wrappers. Intended to be the basis of a new printing of the textbook on aeronautics for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Being a revision of certain chapters of "Simple Aerodynamics and the Airplane" by Charles N. Monteith, a...... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. First Edition, Limited to 250 unnumbered copies. 8vo. 333 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover, gilt lettering on red leather spine label. Scraping to upper spine label affecting part of Jane Austen's name, faint offsetting from decorative bookplate on ffep, with light..... More
London: G. F. Cruchley Map Publisher & Globe Manufacturer, [1863]. 1st. Original cloth. 75 x 60 cm. Linen-backed hand-colored fold-out railroad map in gilt-lettered blind-stamped dark green cloth folding case. A near fine copy. This work of 19th-century cartography displays the railroad system in intricate detail, displaying also the steamship..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. xxxcii, 204; xiv, 212 pp. Plates (including 15 in color, tissue guards with descriptive text). Index. Preface includes biography of the author. Yellow cloth spine & corner tips over tan paper boards; gilt lettering. Near fine copies with minor wear. Fenollosa was..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1967. First Edition. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. xiv, 271, (1)pp. Photo-reproductions (some in color). Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy with a hint of wear. "A colorful raconteur, Mr. Gardner relates some of his earlier experiences with ships and the..... More
San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, (1907). 1st. Original boards. First Edition. Small 8vo. 48pp, many pages unopened. Color frontispiece (with tissue guard) after a painting by Will Jenkins. Printed at The Tomoye Press. Tan paper boards; red paper covered spine; pale orange lettering and decoration to..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Large 8v0. xxxvi, 484 pp plus 24 pp publisher's catalog. Index. 8 folding lithographed maps, 7 colored. Black & white illustrations. Rebound in brown leatherette with original covers & spine laid down. Front hinge partially cracked; first map has tape..... More
Los Angeles: Compliments of the Fremont Hotel, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Small 8vo. [30] pp. Photo-illustrations. Publisher's stiff grey wrappers with gilt lettering and gilt crest designed by Jesse Fremont. Light wear else a fine copy of an uncommon G. W. James title. A brief historical account of John..... More
San Francisco: Adelyn Brickley Jones, (1924). SIGNED "With Oblong 12mo. [8] pp of photographs by W.E. Worden. Original brown wrappers, title in gilt, with a photoprint of the Ferry Building mounted on front cover. A fine copy. A charming booklet illustrated with photographs of San Francisco accompanied by highly decorative..... More
New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. 1st. Paperback. First Edition; 8vo. xii, 415 pp. Bibliography; Index; Figures; Examples. Stiff wrappers in near fine condition (fading to spine; light wear to extremities; corners lightly bumped). Partial evaluation reconciles generality with efficiency by providing automatic specialization and optimization of programs. Proceeding from a...... 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
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Museum, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition to 500 copies. 4to. (xiii), 287pp. 50 illustrations. INSCRIBED & dated by the author. Green cloth in cream and green illustrated dustjacket; map endpapers. A fine copy (previous owner name) in fine dustjacket. The most exhaustive data published concerning..... More
Sacramento: State Office, 1889. First Edition. Octavo; 252pp: 14 plates illustrating 17 olives varietals plus budding and grafting techniques. Fine copy in publisher's black cloth lettered in gold. More
Arroyo Grande, CA: Garland Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author. Oblong 8vo. 64 pp. Black & white photo-reproductions of scenes in and around Santa Maria, California, along with prose text by the author. Introductory poem by John Matlack. Photo-illustrated wrappers in fine condition, with a...... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1913. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Small 4to. 89, (1) pp. Tipped-in photographic plates depicting scenes of the old Spanish missions by noted photographers A.C. Vroman, H.C. Tibbitts, Harold A. Parker, W.S. Dassonville, Harold A. Taylor and many more. Printed at Elder's Tomoye Press..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1927. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 164pp. Bibliography. 98 plates of Spanish houses and their details (including color frontispiece); plans. Tan and green pictorially stamped cloth. A fine copy (minor wear to extremities). "... it is hoped this little handbook will suffice the needs of the owner seeking information..... 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
Detroit, MI. Packard Motor Car Company, [ca. 1915]. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. [24] pp. Photo-illustrations. Green illustrated staple-bound wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities). Only 1 copy listed in OCLC; scarce thus. Story of the super-trek in which the new type Packard truck proved itself the most advanced..... More
San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. Square 12mo. [64] pp. black & white illustrations. Book design by Jim Young. Pictorial ictorial boards in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear to extremties; light rubbing & creasing to rear cover; else a fine copy. The fifth title..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. Second Printing Before Publication. Cloth. SIGNED by Steinbeck on title page. Large 8vo. 143pp. 136 black & white photo-illustrations. Original cream buckram stamped in green; top edges stained green in colored pictorial dustjacket. Very good (foxing to covers) in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities..... More
[Honolulu]: Tennent Gallery, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED "Warm Aloha, from Arthur/Dec, '02. 4to. 65 pp. Color illustrations. Spiral bound wrappers with color illustrated stiff covers. "Writing from the inside, Arthur has briefly but lovingly reviewed and brought up to date the lives and fortunes of his remarkable and talented. Readers..... More
Chicago & New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, ca. 1886. Small 8vo. 730 pp. Illustrated plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Striking blue, black & gilt pictorial binding, AEG; in scarce publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Wear to extremities; small crease to FFEP edge; else near fine in near very good dustjacket..... More
New York: Brentanos, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 2500 copies. 8vo. 269 pp. Woodcut illustrations by the author. A beautiful copy, fine in fine dustjacket, as new. Leon Underwood (1890-1975) was a noted British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and engraver as well as a writer and illustrator, scholar, teacher..... More
Hollister, CA: Hollister Free Lance, June, 1886. First Edition. Folio. 17 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings; ads for local businesses; map. Color lithograph wrappers in very good condition (wear along spine and extremities; short closed tear to page 11/12; two small chips to front and rear edge). An uncommon and..... More