New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Original boards. 8vo. 318 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt illustration and lettering; original illustrated dustjacket. Previious owner name; minor wear to extremities, a near fine copy in very good dustjacket. Lindbergh's autobiography published only two months after his solo flight across... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on label affixed to title page. Slim folio. 25 black & white photographic reproductions; with an essay on mountain photography. Photo-illustrated cardstock covers with plastic spiral binding; housed in original shipping... More
Osaka, Japan: Published by the author, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 36 pp. Text in English & Japanese. Striking color serigraph illustrations accompanied by Earle's poetry. Glossy paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket; still in original plastic sleeve. An unusual title on Earle's works;... More
Santa Ynez & Los Angeles: Dos Lindas Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 26, [1] pp. SIGNED by the authors. Photo-illustrations (most in color). Stiff color printed wrappers in fine condition. Luis B. Ortega (1897-1995) is known as the world’s best and foremost rawhide braider. A fifth generation Californian, Ortega... More
San Francisco: A.J. Leary, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo; xxii, 639 pp. Publisher's purple pebbled cloth gilt-stamped at spine; marbled page edges and endpapers. Fading to spine; minor wear to extremities; hinges professionally reinforced; a very good copy. "William H. Davis, the noted California pioneer and merchant, wrote the... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Large paper copy. Small 4to. 22, (3), 6-437 pp (many pages uncut). 4 single page maps; one fold-out Profile of the N.P.R.R. from St. Paul and Lake Superior to Puget Sound; large folding color map of N.P.R.R's branches and allied lines at..... More
Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Pub Co, 1990. First Edition thus. Paperback. 4to. 125 pp. black & white photo-illustrations and house plans. Preface by Charles H. Cheney. Stiff orange wrappers in fine condition, as new. Depicts homes and public buildings throughout Santa Barbara designed after Mediterranean and Latin American architecture. More
Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 43 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's color illustrated wrappers in good condition (darkening and spotting to covers; covers partially split along spine). A selection of recipes by famous people including Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Gelett Burgess, Zane Grey, Jascha Heifetz, Walt... More
College Station TX: Texas A & M University, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto. (x), 578 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover, black & gilt lettering spine label; New copy - as issued without dust jacket in original shrinkwrap. Numerous black & white illustrations; Bibliography and Index. A fascinating... More
chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911. First Edition Limited to 300 copies. 1pp TLS tipped inside front board. 4to. xviii, [1] - 204pp. 181 illustrations (including 8 plates). Edited with Historical Introduction, Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes; Bibliography; Index. Printed on English hand-made paper. Vellum... More
Los Angeles: Winding Way Publishing, 2002. Collector's Special Limited First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pastel Impressions 33pp; Oil Impressions 37pp. Color plates. Fine condition. S. Burkett Kaiser, Signature Member of the California Art Club, is a contemporary American impressionist painter. Sharon studied with the renowned Russian master Sergei Bongart and is... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 877 sets, complete with the original steel plate engraved by H. K. Browne ('Phiz') titled "The Eyes of Mrs. Chick are Opened to Lucretia Tox" used in 'Dombey & Son' (includes a pull taken from plate with letter... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1855. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. (Reprinted from the 'Philosophical Transactions' of 1846-1852 with other Electrical Papers from the Proceedings of the Royal Institution and Philosophical Magazine). Thick octavo; viii, 588pp plus four folding plates at rear. Very worn ex-library copy with usual faults, else Good in 3/4... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quartos; Volume 1, The Tao of Painting; xxii, 161pp including 10 plates (3 double-folding): Volume 2, The Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting); xxv, 587pp reproducing over four hundred illustrations of brushwork, ranging from the... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Second Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; 469pp. A Very Good copy (corners bumped, owner name) in publishers' blue cloth lettered in gold. Dust jacket tape repaired with several large chips. Reproduces more than 2,500 designs of lattice windowa in old Chinese buildings. Introduction covers the historical development... More
Sendai, Japan: IAHR Symposium on Cavitation and Hydraulic Machinery, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; 518, 52pp. Ex-library copy with usual faultys, otherwise a Fine copy in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold. Text in both English and French. Conference papers and proceedings; each paper with summaries in both languages. Includes bibliographical references. More
Honolulu? Arthur F. Rogers Publications, 1955. Fred Lum. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; 56pp. A Near Fine copy (gift inscription to title page, uneven fading to front cover, faint crease at rear) in publisher's yellow illustrated wrappers printed in black and red. More
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1905. 1st. Paperback. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated, [60]pp. Printed recto only with black border illustrations on pages. Tan stab-stitched wrappers with brown lettering & gilt decoration. Light wear to fore edge; edges neat and clean. Near fine. 'The inscriptions which are cut in the... More
Madrid: Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islamicos en Madrid, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 176, [6]pp. Near Fine copy. In Spanish. More
Edinburgh: W & A.K. Johnston, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo; xiv, 580pp. Poor copy (many of the brittle pages are detached) in burgundy buckram lettered at spine. Still, complete including all plates. More
New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Small quarto; First American Edition, 22pp (including 'Notes', 'Bibliography' and comments 'On the Plates') plus 24 color facsimiles. A Near Fine copy in string-tied grey paper in grey boards with paper label printed in red and black to upper board; boards... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937-1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavos; xviii, 373pp; xii, 416pp. Very Good copies in publisher's blue cloth spine lettered in gold. Volume I lacks dust jacket (Volume II dust jacket is somewhat soiled with a few closed tears and darkening to spine) and is inscribed 'Presented... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1848. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 455pp in original blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt title and author printed on spine. Covers are faded and worn with a few nicks, otherwise the book is in Very Good condition (handsome bookplate to front pastedown. Zamorano 80 #12. More
Peiping: Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 1931. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Octavo; Good - Very Good copy (loss of spine and chips to edges of covers). Reprinted from Bulletin Volume 10, pages 105-157. Davidson Black was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 169pp; one of 350 copies printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. New copy in publisher's black cloth with tipped-in color facsimiles of many of the works selected; index. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz, Principal Librarian, Special Collections, California State Library; Forward by... More