Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1922. First Edition. Original cloth. Large 8vo. 346; 306 pp. Maps (two folding), photo-illustrated plates. Introduction by General Charles King. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering; top edge gilt. Light fading to spines; lower rear corners slightly bumpred, else a fine set. "Recounts the..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1982. First Edition. 4to. [16] pp. 10 black & white photographic images by Ansel Adams. Introduction and acknowledgements by Thomas J. Logan; Essay by Mary Alinder. Photographic cream wrappers. A fine copy. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 19 through April..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1964. 1st. Single 7 1/2" x 18 1/2" glossy heavy stock (folded to 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Rocks and Limpets, Point Lobos, 1963." Printed by Lawton Kennedy. A fine copy in original printed envelope with Virginia and Ansel Adams..... More
San Francisco: Published by the author, 1958. 1st. Single 7 1/8" x 19" glossy heavy stock (folded to 7 1/8" x 9 1/2"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Morning Glories, MAssachusetts." Printed by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco. A fine copy in original printed envelope. Inside on page facing the photograph is..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1971. 1st. Single 10 1/4" x 15" glossy heavy stock (folded to 10 1/4" x 7 1/2"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Tree Against Sun: Yosemite National Park," photographed in 1966. A fine copy in original printed envelope with Virginia and Ansel Adams return address..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1978. First Edition. Single 12" x 18" glossy heavy stock (folded to 12" x 9"). Photo-reproduction of one of Adams' iconic images "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley." Printed by Pacific Lithograph Company. A fine copy. Inside on page facing the photograph..... More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. First Edition Limited #288 of 500 copies. 4to. vi, 155 pp; 24 plates from photographs by Edward Weston, Soichi Sunami, Ben Pinchot, Ch. Rudolph, Marcus Blechman and H. Hewitt. Original color lithograph (numbered and signed) drawing directly on stone by the artist, Elise. Edited by..... 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
Amsterdam: 1947. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 32, [2] pp. simple map of Holland with locations of the three cemetaries (Molenhoek, Son, and Margraten); plot map of the U.S. Military Cemetery in Margraten. Photo-reproductions on every page with descriptions. Half-brown cloth spine over light brown paper covered boards, with photo-illustrated plate..... More
Guthrie OK: Co-Operative Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; [i-xii], 591 pages. Black cloth with gilt pictorial stamped front board and spine; white dust jacket with black illustrations to front panel and spine. Numerous black & white reproductions of engravings, paintings and photographs, including the frontis portrait of the..... More
Guthrie OK: Co-Operative Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; [i-xii], 591 pages. Black cloth with gilt pictorial stamped front board and spine; white dust jacket with black illustrations to front panel and spine. Numerous black & white reproductions of engravings, paintings and photographs, including the frontis portrait of the..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. 267 pp. 14 illustrated plates by F. D. Bedford (including title page and color frontispiece). Blue cloth with gilt decoration in color illustrated dustjacket. Light foxing; rear hinge starting; else near fine in very good dustjacket (price-clipped; light markings to rear cover; some wear to..... More
Limited Editions Club. Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator, Elise. Large 8vo. 412 pp. Color illustrations throughout by Elise. Designed by Merle Armitage and printed at The Ward Ritchie Press in Los Angeles. Yellow linen printed in red; in publisher's clear acetate slipcase. The book has..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1947. Second Edition. 4to. Green cloth portfolio-box, string tied, housing 40 loose prints (8 in color) and yellow wrappers with xv pages and [6] pp List of Plates & Catalog of Prints. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company and The Golden Eagle Press..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Friends of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, 1971. First Edition. SIGNED by Geiger, Weber, Nunis and Robinson. 8vo. 53 pp. Photographic illustrations. Original color photograph of Maynard Geiger laid in, along with printed announcement for the celebration and the evening program; and the letterpress notice of Fr..... More
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1919. First Edition. Large folding map (22" x 28"). Three tears at fold lines, two small spots on front; a very good copy. The left portion of the map lays out the main cities of Dinuba, Oros, Visalia, Exeter, Tulare, Lindsay, Tipton and..... More
[Los Angeles]: [Union Pacific System], ca. 1924. 8 3/4" x 7 3/4" booklet, folded. 16 pages (including cover). Illustrations. Staplebound wrappers in very good condition. An uncommon railroad tourist brochure highlighting the beauties of Zion National Park and promoting the Salt Lake Route train trip to visit the North Rim..... More
San Juan Bautista, CA: San Juan Valley Improvement Club, ca. 1906. 12mo. [31] pp, unnumbered. Illustrations. Grey illustrated staplebound wrappers in near fine condition. The town of San Juan Bautista is one of the oldest incorporated towns in California, receiving its original charter in 1854. This little booklet gives an..... More
Tombstone, AZ. The Tombstone Epitaph, 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Rick Reese, a good friend and fellow struggler in the world of journalism. Ben T. Traywick". Richard Langton Reese (1942 - 2022) was an environmental activist who founded the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and an alpinist who participated in the North..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo;183-244pp. A Near Fine vopy Inscribed by the author to Stanford University President Richard Lyman. More
Portland, OR: Published by William Lynch and printed at Press of Stevens-ness Law Publishing Co., 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This book was published as a Memorial to Charles Lynch. Vera Lynch. William W. Lynch." Below is INSCRIBED "To Frank and Jess Mullen from Wallace and Vera Lynch". 8vo. 143 pp..... More
San Francisco: Cottage Classics, (1997). First Eiditon Limited #136 of 300 copies. Square 8vo. 85 pp. Insightful introduction by Robert Crumb, Maxon's brother. Black paper-covered boards, stamped in silver; red endpapers; no dust-jacket, as issued. A fine copy, as new. The seven stories & poems in this work include The..... More
San Francisco: Published by Ricardo J. Orozco, 1926. First Edition Limited #83 of 650 copies. Quarto; xiii, 199 pages, (2). Frontis of Mt. Lyell; chapter-heads and initials; illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, folding map. Printed on Mirecourt laid antique handmade paper in aqua paper and gray 1/2 linen spine with paper label..... More
Philadelphia: Women's Committee for the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; (xi), 253pp; illustrated with 9 b/w photographs.. A Very Good copy (offsetting to front pastedown and ffep) in original green cloth lettered in gold and ruled in blind. 'This story of the Philadelphia Orchestra has been written during..... More
Chico, CA: William Hutchinson, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 'The Little World Waddies (privately printed for W.H. Hutchinson, by master printer Carl Hertzog of El Paso, 1946) is a collector's item all the way. Hutch selected and edited the stories, published, promoted, and distributed the 1,000 copies. There is a fine..... More