New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1927. First Edition. Small 4to. [10], 223, [1] pp. 4 color plates (including frontispiece); black & white in-text illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering & illustration; illustrated endpapers; in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small hole to upper..... 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
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. 1st. Original cloth. 8vo. 345, [4] pp. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy of the author's first novel. "...a novel about a community of Negroes who imitate among themselves the white code of discrimination by color." More
[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
[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Various paginations. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket (Volume 1 lacking dustjacket). Small ink star inside front cover of Volume 1; creasing to inside dustjacket flap of Volume 2; else a uniformly fine set of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition..... More
Chicago: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 1915. 1st. Original wraps. First Edition thus. 8vo. [24] pp. Photographic reproductions of various sites and buildings around California; color illustrations. [6] pp. fold-out with facts about the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego and 8..... More
New York: Cowles Magazines, Inc., 1950-1951. First Edition. Original wrappers. Folio; generally ~ 120-130pp. Illustrations. Edgewear, a few issues split at spine and pages detached (not collated but appear complete); spines chipped with some loss. A complete run of this short-lived vanity (as opposed to commercial!) magazine created by Fleur..... More
San Francisco: Alta California Publishing House, 1880. 1st. Original cloth. 8vo. 258pp. 5 full-page lithograph plates (including frontispiece) with tissue guards by G. F. Keller. Original rust cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front cover of a Chinese man surrounded by the words 'The Ruler..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo; xviii, 446 pp. Photo-illustrated plates; double page map. tan cloth with black lettering in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper front edge; minor wear to upper corners). This is the nicest copy we have..... More
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1912. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. xxiii, 72 pp. Illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; color plate mounted on front cover; TEG. Ex-libris (blind stamp of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Scineces; small ink number;..... More
London: A. & C. Black, [1905]. First Edition. Large 8vo. xii, 262, [4 ads] pp. Index. 75 full-page watercolor plates by Colonel R. C. Goff, with titled tissue guards. Crimson cloth with a design printed in light brown, white and black on front cover and in light brown and black..... More
1984. 9 x 12". Original color tile of portrait of John Steinbeck given to the Catherian L. & Robert O. Mc Mahan Foundation in recognition of its generous contribution to the large Monterey Mural which is mounted on the exterior wall of the Monterey Conference Center. Fine condition. These recognition..... 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
San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 31pp. Original printed wrappers in quarter orange leather slipcase. Very good condition (lower front hinge starting to separate; chipping to spine head; light soiling; minor dampstaining to lower covers; decorative owner bookplate of George Clinton Ward, early California..... More
Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1916. 2nd. Original boards. Second Edition, Limited to 365 copies; reprint of the very rare 1846 original edition printed in Waterloo, Illinois. 8vo. 316pp, [i]p of publisher's advertisements. Black & white tissue-guarded illustrative plates; map. Frontispiece and facsimile of 1846 title page included. Quarter black..... More
Havanna, Cuba: A. M. Gonzalez & Bro. [ca. 1930]. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 24 pp (unnumbered). 22 numbered reproductions of old Cuban prints from the collection owned by Conrado W. Massaguer; nine of the prints are from Andueza's Isla de Cuba, 1841. Engraved and printed by "Sindicato..... 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
Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 155 pp. Frontispiece portrait; photo-illustrated plates. Card tipped inside front cover titled "History of the South China Mission" by Harriet N. Noyes. presented by her sisters." Brown cloth with black lettering in near fine condition. Harriet Newell Noyes..... More
New York: F.A.R. Gallery, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. 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..... More
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., 1903; September 9, 1915. Second Edition of The Tale of the Poodle; First Edition of the menu. The Tale of the Poodle: Oblong 8vo. [56] pp. Photographic illustrations and prints (many in color) of the Poodle Dog Restaurant in San Francisco, with accompanying text. Includes..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 281 pp. Blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Small bumping to upper front corner; slight fading to edges else a near fine copy in very good dustjacket (corner tips clipped but price intact; chipping to spine..... More
New York & London: G.P. Putnams' Sons, 1911. First Edition. Original boards. SIGNED "Compliments of the author 1913." Royal 8vo. xxv; 673 pp. Frontispiece portrait and 350 illustrations from photographs and drawings (85 by Charles M. Russell, including four color plates with titled tissue guards. Publisher's green cloth with gilt..... 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
New York: Apperture, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by Weston inside front board; additionally INSCRIBED on half-title. First Edition. 4to. [103] pp. 71 full-page and 6 smaller format black & white photographic reproductions. Afterword by Beaumont Newhall. Black cloth with silver lettering in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in..... More