Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Second Edition. 8vo. xix, 471 pp. Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 4 maps; photo-reproductions. Tan cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy; as new. A engrossing biography on Tiburcio Vasquez who along with Joaquin Murrieta is America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. More
New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Index. In Collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel; Recipes Edited by Carolyn Dille; Designed and Illustrated by David Lance Goines. Dustjacket is price-clipped else a fine copy. Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the inspirations for..... More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons & The Knickerbocker Press, (1902). Limited Edition, No. 42 of 150 copies. Complete in ten volumes. Tall 8vo. Various paginations.Edited and chronologically arranged on the basis of the standard text, with certain additional material; and with a critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1913. First Edition. INSCRIBED on ffep 'Flavor in food is what/expression is in music/and sympathy in women./For my sympathetic friend/Leonida Fudakowska/New York March 20, 1919/Henry T. Finck.' Octavo; xviii, 594pp. A few pencil notes at rear, otherwise a Near Fine copy in publisher's green cloth..... More
New York: Redfield, 1855. First Edition. Octavo; 489pp plus 11pp catalog at rear. A Near Fine copy (foxing to ffep) in original brown cloth, boards ruled in blind; spine lettered in gold. Laid in is a 1972 receipt from Elisabeth Woodburn, Booknoll Farm. More
Thompson & West, 1876. First Edition. Folio; 110pp. Illustrated with 21 hand-colored maps (some maps in sections, 9 are double-page) and 54 views. Later half red calf and black cloth with original gilt front cover lettering affixed to cover, which also bears the name 'Irving L. Ryder' in gold. A...... More
London: Dulau & Company, Ltd., 1929. First Edition Limited to one thousand copies, each signed by the author (this is no. 618). Octavo; vii, (1) 134pp; frontis woodcut of fruit. A near fine copy in publisher's green beveled cloth, top edge gilt, spine lettered in gold, lacking the dust jacket..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Large octavo; xvi, 518pp. A very good copy (extremity wear, more to corners and spine ends, inner hinges strengthened with tape) in publisher's brown cloth, ruled in blind, printed in black and lettered in gold. “Denman was a wine-merchant..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1898. First Edition. Small octavo; viii, 120, [6 ads]pp. Tissue-protected frontis photo of Barland Pear trees in Herefordshire; Index. A Very Good copy (light edgewear, faint stain to front cover, blind stamp to ffep, small 'Elisabeth Woodburn Books' label to front pastedown near foot of spine) in..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1953. Second Edition. Octavo; 264pp, 16 photographic plates. A Very Good copy in brown cloth with spine lettered in gold in somewhat cipped and worn pictorial dust jacket. Nut recipes, References (bibliography), Index. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. First Edition, One of an edition limited to 210 copies. Folio; xiv, [6], 193, [2]pp; bound in tan cloth with kid leather spine, titled in blind. Printed in a variety of colors but mostly red and black, 4 original leaves (from 'The Voiage and Travaile..... More
Portland OR: Hill Military Academy, 1922-24. First Edition. Small octavo; Volumes 1 (1922), #s 1-8; Vol. 2 (1922-23), #s 1-10; Vol. 3 (1923-24), #s 1-10 (together in 1 volume). In blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gold. Some wear to extremities and front internal hinge, else a Very Good..... More
Rochester NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1927-29. First Editions. Small octavo; 21 separate monthly stapled wraps issues bound together in later green buckram, printed paper spine label ('KODAKERY 1927-29'). Included are 9-10/27; 1/28-8/28 (Vol. XV, #s 1, 2, 5-12); 9/28-12/28; 1/29; 3--8/29 (Vol. XVI, 1-5, 7-12). Each issue is 28pp; March-June/29..... More
Paris/Brusselle: Chez la veuve Mabre Cramoysi/Chez François Foppens, 1693/94. First Editions thus. 12mo; frontis [14], 236pptogether with frontis by J. Harrewijn, 309pp. Near fine copy (small discolorations to boards, '#555' and 'geo' to spine) in early full vellum. Two 17th century schoolbooks, each with very nice engraved frontispieces, bound together..... More
Lincoln NE: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; 583pp. A Very Good copy in 1/4 burgundy cloth and textured turquoise paper-covered boards in worn and chipped dust jacket. Spine titled in gold. Endpapers are map of Great Platte River Road. Illustrations, maps, photographs; extensive bibliography; Index. Provenance: this..... More
Managua: Tipografia Nacional, 1893. First Edition thus. Folio. Bound volume containing all 98 issues for the year 1893. Each issue, generally 4 to 8 pages, features sections such as 'Seccion Oficial; (containing 'Poder Legislativo;' 'Poder Ejecutivo;' "Sesiones del Congreso" and "Contrato"); 'Seccion Editorial;' and 'Seccion de Avisos,' etc. 1/2 brown..... More
New York: Social Register Association, 1936. First Edition. 12mo. 192 pp. 1 pp Dilatory Domiciles printed on salmon paper at front. Black cloth with red ruling and lettering. Minor wear else a fine copy. Contains full names and addresses of members of prominent families grouped together, the clubs to which..... More
New York: Social Register Association, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. 197 pp. 1 pp Dilatory Domiciles printed on salmon paper at front. Black cloth with red ruling and lettering. Small spot to lower front board else a fine copy. Contains full names and addresses of members of prominent families grouped together..... More
New York: Social Register Association, 1929. First Edition. 12mo. 193 pp. 1 pp Dilatory Domiciles printed on salmon paper at front. Black cloth with red ruling and lettering. Front & rear corners creased; light circular mark & spotting on front cover; a very good copy. Contains full names and addresses..... More
New York: Social Register Association, 1928. First Edition. 12mo. 188 pp. 2 pp Dilatory Domiciles printed on salmon paper at front. Black cloth with red ruling and lettering. Light spotting to front cover; else a fine copy. Contains full names and addresses of members of prominent families grouped together, the..... More
Chicago: W. D. Boyce Company, (1928). First Edition. Tall 8vo. 124, [1] pp. Photographic illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering to front cover; color map endpapers at rear; photo-illustration of the original Boyce expedition inside front cover, in cream dustjacket with black lettering. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket..... More
Single sheet (10 x 14") folded (10 x 7"). Black & white photograph of "Fern Spring Dust, Yosemite Valley, California" on front cover. Printed inside lower front is the photograph title, Polaroid Type information, and photolithography by George Waters, San Francisco; otherwise no writing internally. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. 8vo. 222 pp. Red cloth spine over purple cloth boards in publisher's dustjacket. The book is in very good condition; the dustjacket is fair only (front flap separated and corners are clipped; rear cover separated at spine with rear flap missing;..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. 362 pp. Glossary of Sea Terms. Light blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear to dustjacket; a near fine copy. Eleven dramatic true stories of the sea, including an account of the first attempted mutiny in the US Navy, a description..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First Edition. Small 8vo. xxvi, 79 pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; photographic plates. Pictorial grey cloth with black lettering. Light wear; a near fine copy. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 – 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. In April..... More