University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 160 pp color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed paperback in fine condition; as new. still in shrinkwrap. An acclaimed rawhide braider of horse gear, Luis Ortega elevated his craft to collectible art and influenced a generation of... More about Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition
New York: E. French, 1860. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. viii, 472pp. Frontispiece illustration showing the library of Wm. Curtis Noyes, with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy (minor wear to extremities; upper rear corner bumped; light, general wear; small owner... More about Private Libraries of New York
New York: I. B. Fischer, 1946. First Edition. 6 magnificent color prints (20 x 16") of humming birds, housed in publisher's tan printed portfolio wrappers. The prints are in fine condition; the colors are sharp and bright. These beautiful prints are suitable for framing. "A portfolio of six magnificent color... More about Humming Birds: Six Full Color Prints
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. First American Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. 8vo. Index. Errata slip laid in. Various paginatioins. Color and black & white illustrations; musical scores. Hardcovers in publisher's various color dustjackets. Near fine in very good dustjackets (minor wear to extremities; light fading to spines, more so... More about Haydn: Chronicle and Works (5 volumes
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. First Edition, Limited #705 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on colophon. 8vo. xv, 225 pp. Bibliography; Index. Reproductions of 80 water-color sketches by flower painter F. Schuyler Mathews; black & white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; map endpapers;... More about Wild Violets of North America (SIGNED
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1885. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. iii, Part I: 118 pp; Part II: 114 pp. Color fold-out map depicting the area bounded by Stockton to Kearney streets and California to Washington streets. N.B - the area of the map north of Washington is roughly... More about The Chinese At Home and Abroad: Together with Report of the Special Committee of the Board of...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. 'First Edition, after the printing of 134 De Luxe copies (stated). Hardcover. INSCRIBED by William S. Hart... 'And now he belongs/to the ages/"One of Charlies friends"/William S. Hart' and further 'To my friends/George and Rosalind Shaffer/From Bill Hart/Xmas 1930.' (George Shaffer was a...... More about Good Medicine: The Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell (INSCRIBED by William S. Hart
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; viii, 116pp plus photographs, tables, maps, 14 plates, several in color. Stiff grey printed wrappers bound into tan boards (front hinge cracked) with lettering to spine. A near fine copy. Carnegie Publication 228A. More about Studies on the Variation, Distribution, andEevolution of the Genus Partula: The Species of the...
Los Angeles: A.H. Dutton, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book is no. 527, and was made for Charles Edgar Phillipi. It is one of a limited Southern California Club edition. A. Dutton Cartoonist - Publisher Los Angeles 1924. Presented to my friend "Phil" in appreciation if his work reproduced within... More about Builders and Developers of the Pacific Southwest in Cartoon (SIGNED
Pomona, CA: Progress Publishing Company, (1925). First Edition. 16mo. 23 pp. Map; 2 black & white photo-illustrations. Tan printed staplebound wrappers. Small chip to upper rear cover; minor wear, else a near fine copy of an uncommon title. In 1846, President Polk declared war on Mexico. The Mexican provinces of... More about Battles of San Pasqual: A Study, With Map, Itinerary and Guide to the Battle Fields
Los Angeles: Published by the author, (1937). First Edition. 8vo. [63 pp], unpaginated. Single-page map. A full-page illustration of various California missions face each text page. Tan wrappers with black illustration & lettering to front cover. Minor wear; a near fine copy. A guide to California missions, containing something of... More about Pen Pictures of California's Missions
Yosemite National Park: U.S. National Park Service in Charge of Information, 1920. First Edition. Tall 12mo. 98 pp. Fold map; 2 single page maps. Stiff tan wrappers with black illustration of Half-Dome in Yosemite Valley and black lettering. Minor wear, small scrape to spine end, else a fine copy. Ansel... More about Guide to Yosemite: A Handbook of the Trails and Roads of Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region
San Mateo, CA: Flite-Stops Publishing, 1947. First Edition. Small 8vo. [248 pp], unpaginated. Illustrations. Flexible brown boards, two ring clasps, gilt lettering. Light general wear, slight rubbing to covers, previous owner name, upper corner of rear blank endpaper torn off; a very good copy of an uncommon pilot's flight manual... More about Flite-Stops Pilot's Cross Country Manual: California Arizona Nevada Utah
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1900. Early printing. 8vo. 274, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout, including frontispiece of Tom Sawyer, by True Williams. Publisher's blue cloth with black & gilt decorationto boards and spine. Some wear to extremities; white mark to upper front cover; previous owner name & date to... More about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889. Early printing. 8vo. 366 pp. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Publisher's illustrated green cloth with gilt lettering. A very good copy (front hinge cracked but holding; wear to extremities; some loss of gilt on front cover). First published in the United Kingdom in December 1884... More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 486 pp. Index. 2 maps; black & white illustrations. Dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor P'u-Yi. From the library of author and educator Verne Dyson with his name to ffep and occasional marginal pencil notes. Black cloth with gilt decoration... More about Twilight in the Forbidden City
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1923. First Edition. 4to. 148, [1] pp; 64 plates (8 in color). Index. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering. Some wear to extremities; small remnant of label to lower spine; front hinge cracked; foxing, not affecting the plates; minor pencil notations; a good copy of an... More about Early Chinese Jades
New York: Henry Holt, 1909. First Edition. 8vo. x, 531 + 2pp advertisements at rear. Index. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light spotting on upper page edges else a fine copy of the uncommon first edition. "An authorative history and a broad, clear statement of this problem." "...The historical... More about Chinese Immigration (American Public Problems
New York: Dodd Mead, 1914. First American Edition. 8vo. 416 pp. Original blue-grey cloth with gilt lettering. Wear to extremities; some soiling and fading to boards; a good copy. In this title, the author portrays society in China and carefully describes the conditions which led to the outbreak of the... More about The Eternal Priestess: A Novel of China Manners
[Berkeley, CA]: Published by the author, ca. 1920s. Small 8vo. 23, (1) pp. Original red wrappers with gilt letting. a very good copy (some fading and spotting to covers). "These proverbs were originally published serially in the Chung Mei Chronicle [Chung Mei Home for Chinese Boys, Berkeley] under the caption... More about One Hundred and One Chinese Proverbs
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1913. First American Edition. 8vo. xvii, 447 pp. Black & white illustrations; map. Original rose colored cloth with gilt lettering. Darkening to covers, more so to spine; minor wear to extremities; a very good copy. The author, Special Correspondent at Peking, spent twelve years observing and... More about The Flowery Republic
Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1922. First Edition. 12mo. xvi, 66 pp. Black & white illustrations. Green cloth with gilt illustration of dragons & lettering to front cover. Some fading to covers; minor pencil notations inside front cover; else a ner fine copy. In this work, the author explores the origins and... More about The Chinese Dragon
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1861. Second Edition. 8vo. xii, 13-448, [8 pp advertisements] pp. 2 single page maps of Nagasaki Harbor & City, and of the Pei Ho River; 8 color lithograph plates of portraits of the Embassadors and their principal officials. Later cloth binding with black lettering to spine. Light... More about China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U.S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan, in the Years...
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Small 8vo. 125, [1 pp advertisements] pp. Orange wrappers with black lettering. Fading to front cover & spine; creasing to lower front corner & first two pages; a very good copy. A collection of documents, interviews and articles intended to throw light... More about China: The March Toward Unity
London: Constable and Company, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Index. Large folding map at rear. Publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to extremities; light fading; spotting to page edges; front hinge cracked; a very good copy. A general account of the economic, commercial and political... More about In the Heart of Asia