Tucson, AZ: Medicine Man Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 60 pp. Index of paintings. Foreward by Don Hagerty; Introduction by Mark Sublette. 52 color plates with painting details. Stiff color illustrated softcover in fine condition, as new. More
Paris: Librairie Economique, 1809. First Edition. 12mo; iv, 175pp. A Very Good copy in brown boards, spine with floral device stamped in gold and leather spine label (with loss). Bookplate of famous Paris restaurateur Robert Viel to front pastedown. '... , ons mots, Plaisanteries, Maximes et Reflexions Gastronomiques, precede d'une..... More
New York: Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919. First Edition, Limited to five hundred copies printed in month of June, MDCCCCXIX. Hardcover. Octavo; xxxvi, 65 pp. A Near Fine copy, (most pages unopened, light browning to edges) in grey paper-covered boards; printed paper label to front cover and spine in Very Good..... More
New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1918. First Edition, Limited to five hundred copies printed on Enfield deckle edge paper in the month of December, MDCCCCXVIII. INSCRIBED 'To Rollo Peters/with the best wishes of/Hans Trausil/August 1919-' on ffep. Rollo Peters was co-founder of the New York Theatre Guild and son of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Small 8vo. 143 pp. "With the Compliments of Harper & Brothers" slip laid in. Included are 5 original black & white photographs (3 1/2 x 2 1/2", with negatives) depicting men and 1 boy in the oil fields, most likley around Fresno..... More
Los Angeles & San Francisco: Suttonhouse, 1932. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Small 8vo. 30, [1] pp. Illustrated by Eulalie. Yellow cloth with embossed green lettering & blue, green, red & yellow wavy lines across front cover; illustrated endpapers in dustjacket. Slight darkening to book and dustjacket spines else..... More
Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1892-97. First Edition. Octavos; xxi, 360pp; viii, 361-827pp; vi, 829-1468pp; frontispieces, illustrations, plates (one folding). Bound in 3/4 black leather and black buckram lettered in gilt at spine; Good only (leather scuffed, hinges cracked but holding, V. I pp 55-58 detached). Volume I includes Part I: Funeral..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Large octavos; xxix, 555pp; xvi, 566pp; xv, 436pp, Index. Near Fine copies in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gold in tan printed dust jackets (somewhat worn with some darkening and extremity wear; jacket on Volume Three is printed..... More
Viola M. Roseberry, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. Oblong quarto; 34 unnumbered leaves featuring plates (verso) with descriptive text (verso). A Good to Very Good copy (faint soiling and spotting, a few small closed tears, beginning to pull away from the staples) with clean text and plates in tan stapled wrappers..... More
Honolulu: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1927. First Edition thus. Octavos; 14 booklets from 6pp to 36pp, generally in Very Good to Near Fine condition in staplebound wrappers. The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of..... More
Pomfret Center CT: Author, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; vii, 148pp. A Near Fine copy in pink cloth lettered in red ('No. 89' to ffep) in somewhat soiled white dust jacket, also lettered in red. More
San Francisco: Vedanta Society of Northern California, 1946. First Edition. Quarto; [6], 125-238pp. A Very Good to Near Fine copy (some fraying at spine ends) in original grey printed wrappers. '... offers articles on Vedanta and other religious and philosophical systems of India...' (Scope and Purpose). More
[Manchester]: Printed by order of the Council of the Manchester Chinese and Japanese Art Society, 1929. First Edition thus. Small quarto; 44, (1)pp.; 13 full-page plates. A Near Fine copy in publisher's yellow stapled wrappers (bearing a photo of Hilditch) now protected in a pressboard folder. Collects a series of..... More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. First Edition thus. Quarto; 52pp. A Very Good to Near Fine copy (extremity wear) in black cloth, front cover stamped in gold, in dust jacket (complete but separated at spine with loss at both ends, wear along folds with some loss). Number 572 of 650 copies on..... More
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1908. First Edition. Octavo; 15, (i)pp. Good copy; text block loose in publisher's pink staplebound wrappers lettered in gold, scattered foxing. Includes 'Introduction;' 'Chronological Classification of Chinese Porcelain' (including 'Primitive or Sung Period,' 'Ming Period,' 'Kang Hsi Period,' 'Yung Cheng and Ch'ien Lung Period' and 'Modern..... More
Yokohama: Printed at the "Japan Gazette" Office, 1897. First Edition. Octavo; (ii); 20pp. Some soiling and wear, two pages at rear with 1" tape-repaired closed tears, else a Very Good copy in publisher's yellow printed string-tied wrappers. Henry Pike Bowie was an American lawyer, artist, author, Japanologist, and diplomat who..... More
London: The Babylonian and Oriental Record, 1889?-1894. First Edition. Octavo; 258pp. A Very Good copy (assembled from Lacouperie's serial publication in The Babylonian and Oriental Record over a period of 5 years or so and hand-numbered; occasional marginal penciling) in later rose cloth; spine lettered in gold. It was Lacouperie's..... More
[Los Angeles]: Aimee Semple McPherson. Quarto; 31pp. Near Fine copy in illustrated red printed staplebound wrappers; photos of Ms. McPherson and drawings of biblical scenes. Foreword; lists Staff and Personnel-Characters along with Synopsis, libretto of the 4 acts. Ads at rear. More
[Los Angeles]: Aimee Semple McPherson, 1932? Quarto; 40pp. Near Fine copy in illustrated red printed staplebound wrappers; photos of Mrs. Hutton and David L. Hutton, list of Staff, Characters and Personnel along with Synopsis, libretto of the 4 acts and Epilogue. Ads at rear. More
[Los Angeles]: Aimee Semple McPherson, 1937? Quarto; 15pp. Very Good in purple staplebound wrappers; photos of Ms. McPherson, The Enmassed Choir and Band and a bell tower; silver lettering and image of the Angelus Temple on front cover. Lists 'The Staff' and 'Personnel' along with the libretto of the 8..... More
San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1952. First Edition Limited to 375 copies. 4to. (8), 59, (1) pp. 19 reproductions of pencil sketches the author drew during a the summer of 1856 while visiting the California missions. Vellum backed patterned paper covered boards;..... More
Nacogdoches, Texas: Baker Print Co., 1931. First Edition. 8vo.80 pp. Includes illustrations of the most prominent characters. Short biography of A. J. Spradley. Orange photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers in near fine condition (small white mark on front cover; light wear to lower spine). A vivid and accurate account of some of..... More
Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1947. First Edition, Limitied #84 of 250 copies. Quarto. [6]; 30 plates reproducing popular engravings of the 17th and 18th centuries in various colors. Prologue by Carlos Alvarado Lang. Plates and text are in Very Good condition (some minor stains not affecting images)..... More
Carmel, CA: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Sharon Lawrence and Kathryn Prine. 4to. 55 pp. Photo-illustrations of early Carmel.Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. Small previous owner initials & number on first page else a fine copy. Louis S. Slevin was the first photographer to shoot a full range..... More
Edinburgh: Adam And Charles Black, 1854 - 1857. Library Edition. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, plates. Each volume has added title page. Beautifully bound by Ramage in three-quarter rust-brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering & ruling; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. A fine and..... More