Los Angeles: Published by Automobile Club of Southern California, (1935). 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 134 pp. Maps; illustrations. Advertisements throughout. Laid in is a multi-fold brochure titled Grants Pass "It's the Climate" with 2 maps, a mileage diagram and illustrations of Grants Pass area. Color illustrated wrappers... More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, (1962). 1st. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. This book reprints the Death Valley portion of Corle's earlier Desert Country (1941) and is enhanced with Ansel Adams photographs. Small 4to. 60 pp text; 32 black & white photographic plates by Ansel Adams. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell... More
New York: Published by Sunwise Turn, Inc. 1920. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Limited to 2000 copies, printed in October, 1920. 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated by Ivan Opffer and William Saphier. Emanuel Morgan is the pen name of Harold Witter Bynner. Brown wrappers wtih black illustration and lettering. Wrappers split... More
Philadelphia: Printed by J. Bioren, No. 88 Chestnut Street, 1808. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition. 16mo. Preliminary leaves, [2], ii-iv, 150, [2] pp, including 1 page Errata; Table of Contents. Page 23 is misnumbered 19. Tables. Full brown leather with gilt lettered red title label to spine. 1/2" x 1... More
New York: Published by E. Duyckinck, 1807. Early printing. Leather bound. 12mo. 295, [5] pp (including Contents and 2 pp Catalogue of Books at rear. Preface by Richard Price. Printed by J. C. Totten. Includes Stuber's Continuation of the Life of Franklin and "Busy-body" in 6 parts. Brown leather with... More
San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1930. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition, Limited to 43 copies privately printed for Douglas S. Watson and SIGNED by him. 4to. (ii), (10) pp. With an original leaf in Spanish from "Relación Histórica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra y.... More
San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co. 1874. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Octavo; 248pp. Updated to 1876 with tipped in changes at appropriate sections, a few marginal notation and deletions. Original black buckram stamped in blind and gold. Ex-library with bookplate and a few stamps; edgewear with minor loss of... More
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Large octavo; xxvii, 794pp. Ex-library with usual markings, else a Fine, unused copy in publisher's color illustrated boards. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 343, [i]pp. A Near Fine copy (lower corners worn) in edgeworn dust jacket with minor loss to extremitiwes and closed tears. Alfred Slote, born in 1926 in Brooklyn, is best known for ~ 30 books for young readers... More
London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. 3rd. Leather bound. Third Edition. Octavos; [ii], cccli, [i], folding map, 146; [ii], 444pp. Full tree calf, ornate gilt spines with red title label and black volume number label in six panels with lyre devices. External hinges cracked but binding firm, small... More
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Elephant folios in publisher's navy buckram lettered in gilt and blind on upper cover and gilt on spine; top edge blue. Volume 1; xvi; 60pp with 100 plates and 93 in-text illustrations; Volume 2; xvi, 54pp with 100 plates and 95 in-text illustrations;... More
1985. Hardcover. Two books in dustjackets, each accompanied by an emotional TLS to Stanford President Wallace Sterling on Erik Jonsson’s personal letterhead. A glimpse into the relationship between two American icons. J. Erik Jonsson, co-founder and President/Chairman of Texas Instruments (1951-1966), visionary Mayor of Dallas (1964-71) and noted philanthropist. In... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Advance Copy INSCRIBED to Stanford University President Wallace Sterling "To Wallace Sterling/with cordial regards/Vannevar Bush." Octavo; (xiv), 273, (1)pp. Laid in is a 2 1/4" x 4" card ('Advance Copy/Publication Date, Nov. 21') along with a publisher's reply post card... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xvi, 464 pages. Original rust cloth gilt stamped at spine and front cover. A Very Good copy (remainder stamp to top page edges, slight mustiness) in Near Fine dust jacket (price clipped). This is a facsimile of the 1848 Senate... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; xvi, 464 pages. Original rust cloth gilt stamped at spine and front cover. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket (price clipped). This is a facsimile of the 1848 Senate publication of the full court-martial proceedings against Fremont... More
New York: Viking Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED in year of publication "30 march 1968/Hoo-Ha! /Peter S. Beagle" with a drawing of a face inside the "P" of Peter. 8vo. 218 pp. Black cloth spine over blue paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket designed by Mel Williamson... More
London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1911. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Large 8vo. [xxii], 348 pp. Index. Color frontispiece by Charles Dixon; 80 full-page black & white plates; illustrations. Blue blindstamped cloth with color plate of a warship affixed to front board; gilt lettering and ruling;... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition.Small 4to. 831 pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine; yellow endpapers. A good copy (owner stamp; wear to extremities; corner boards showing; spine ends reinforced; wear along joints). "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally... More
New York: Palisades Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 314 pp. Bibliography; Index. Illustrations. Maroon leatherette with gilt lettering. A fine copy (owner inscription). "This book culminates the author's longtime fascination with the cathode-ray tube and its ability to convert a stream of invisible electrons into patterns capable of... More
New Orleans: Published by the St. Charles Hotel & Alfred S. Amer & Co. 1928. Original wrappers. Edition not stated. 4to. 42 pp. Color illustrations of various buildings & locations in New Orleans; black & white advertisements. Index titled "De Luxe Shopping List and Business Guide". Elaborate gilt illustrated stiff... More
Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by Imogen Cunningham and her son, Padraic Partridge. 4to. [25] pp; 94 black & white photographic plates. Introduction by Margery Mann. Fine in fine dustjacket (slight age toning; small booksellet label inside lower rear board). "This book... More
San Francisco: Published by the author, 1897. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 8vo. 4 preliminary leaves, 8-104 pp. Frontispiece; photo-illustrated plates. Publisher's black cloth spine over stiff blue paper wrappers. Rear cover & rfep separated along joint; light wear & soiling; handwritten on front cover in pencil "only volume ever... More
Redwood City, CA: Published by 5 Associates, N.d. Real photo postcard. 6 x 4.25". Photographic postcard sent to Ansel Adams doctor requesting a full eye examinatio, noting that his "...optimum focal distance is receeding..." and SIGNED by Adams, dated 6-21-73; postmarked Yosemite Naitonal Park, CA. Light wear; near fine condition. More
Redwood City, CA: Published by 5 Associates, N.d. Real photo postcard. 6 x 4.25". Photographic postcard sent to a friend in appreciation for her get well wishes and SIGNED by Ansel Adams, dated August 8, 1980; postmarked Salinas, CA. Fine condition. More
(New Britain, CT): Art Press, 1984. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies. Miniature (1 3/16 x 2 5/8"). [12] french-fold pages. Includes two samples of "genuine handmade Dard Hunter paper." Stiff yellow paper wrappers housed in yellow sleeve with illustrated, printed title labels to front covers. Fine... More