John Steinbeck (SIGNED Portrait Etching)
Carmel, CA: Pacific Rim Gallerie, 1986. Artist's Proof' copy. Large 4to. Grey folder with SIGNED portrait etching by Coughlin (5 1/2 x 6 1/2") of John Steinbeck marked 'Artist's Proof'. Fine condition. More
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Kitchen Diary: Your Daily Friend
Chicago: P. F. Volland and Company, (1913). First Edition. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". Includes original pencil. Pages are clean and unused. Gray cloth with blue decoration and lettering. "This book is for the housekeeper and homemaker who must answer the daily question, "What shall we have to eat today?"..... More
The Wall and Other Stories
New York: New Directions Books, 1948. First Edition - Limited Edition (as stated on slipcase). 8vo. 270 pp. Translated by Lloyd Alexander. Red cloth spine over black & white decorative paper covered boards; gilt lettering to spine; in publishers black slipcase with paper title label. Light fading to red spine..... More
(Salesman's Dummy) The Manuscript Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens
London: Merrill & Baker, 1900. 8vo. Sample title page for Volume II of "David Copperfield", numerous plates (some in color) with titled tissue guards (lacking one plate) ; 8 pp text, a two-page facsimile letter from Dickens to George Cruikshank and 2 pp facsimile of the orginal manuscript for "Bleak..... More
Saga of Rancho El Tejon
Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1976. First Edition. Small 4to. 293 pp. Black & white photo-reproductions; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with red illustration to front board and red lettering; map endpapers. A fine copy. This is the definitive history of the area most commonly knowns as "The..... More
The Rights of Man
[New York]: Privately published by Kurt H. Volk, [1950]. First Edition. Folio. 43 unnumbered pages. Illustrations; full-page facsimiles. Blind stamped cream cloth in publisher's glassine dustjacket; housed in publisher's grey cardboard box. Minor wear to glassine else book and dustjacket are in fine condition; short split at one corner of..... More
Ulysses
Norwalk Ct. The Easton Press, 1999. Large 8vo. 732 pp. Illustrated by Henri Matisse. Bound in blue-green leather with gilt decoration and lettering; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers. A fine copy. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the..... More
Believe in Thyself as well as in Others (SIGNED illuminated poem)
Los Angeles: 1904. SIGNED and dated by Alliot. Color illuminated manuscript poem on cream stiff paper (8 1/2 x 11"), mounted on brown mat paper, simple gold frame. the backing paper on the backside is lacking; laid in an envelope is a hand colored title piece from the backing indicating..... More
The Novels (12 volumes)
Edinburgh: John Grant. Thornton Edition. Complete in 12 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Edited by Temple Scott. Half-titles and titles printed in red and black. Photogravure and half-tone frontispieces, photogravure and manuscript facsimile plates showing various buildings, external and internal, associated with the sisters Bronte. Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth..... More
The Cook and Housewife's Manual; Containing the Most Approved Modern Receipts for Making Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Ragouts, and Made-Dishes; and for Pies, Puddings, Pastry, Pickles, and Preserves: also for Baking, Brewing, Making Home-Made Wines, Cordials, &c...
Edinburgh: The author, 1826. First Edition. Octavo; 366pp. Contemporary 3/4 leather and brown paper-covered boards, which are detached (lacking rear board). Gordon of Ardmealie armorial bookplate (with 'John' and 'Avochie' added by hand) to ffep. Otherwise a Fair to Good copy with several manuscript recipes to the endpapers and marginal..... More
Four California Plein Air Scenes
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, c. 1950? Four 4 3/8" x 6 7/8" full-color souvenir prints of artworks, each framed in gold and mounted on 7 1/4" x 9 1/8" heavy grey cardstock: Printed letter press are 1) 'Afternoon Light in the High Sierra/Tahoe Region, California/From the Watercolor Painting by L.P...... More
Prints of Four Color Etchings of UC Berkeley Scenes (3 by de Lemos and 1 by Katada)
San Francisco: Robertson's Book Store/A.M. Robertson, c. 1920. Four 11 1/4"" x 7 7/8" souvenir folders (folded to 5 5/8" x 7 7/8"); 'Greetings from California' on upper cover. Each heavy card stock folder reproduces within a beautiful mounted 4 3/8" x 6 1/4" full-color print of a different color..... More
California Missions from Paintings by Francisco Cornejo
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1921. First Edition. Three 13" x 9 3/8" sheets of heavy card stock (each folded to 6 1/2" x 9 3/8") bearing A.M. Robertson's logo on the upper cover. Within each is a 5 7/8" x 3 7/8" full-color reproduction of a different Cornejo painting mounted..... More
Kara Mustapha et Basch-Lavi
Amsterdam: NP, 1750. First Edition. Small octavo; (2), 275pp. A Good copy (worn and scuffed, spine head frayed, corners bumped, rear hinge starting) in full tan leathe, 4 raised bands to spine with red title label and decorated endpapers. 3 parts in 1 volume paged continuously (part 2 has sub-title..... More
William, oder Geschichte jugendlicher Unvorsichtigkeiten
Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1791. First Edition. Octavo; (4), 422pp. Frontis copperplate engraving by Daniel Chodowiecki. A Good copy in well-worn contemporary gilt-ruled full leather, bumped edges; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands with gilt decorations and author/title; marbled endpapers, red page edges; text has light dampstaining. Uncommon. Volume..... More
Kleine Bucherschau. Gesammelte Vorreden und Rezensionen nebst einer kleinen Nachschule zur asthetischen Vorschule (2 volumes)
Breslau: Verlag von Josef Max und Komp, 1825. First Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Small Octavo; x, 1, 244pp; vi, 218pp plus 30 page publisher's catalog at rear. In original marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-lettered leather spine lables. Some rubbing to covers, scattered light foxing, lacking 1/2" of upper corner..... More
Padua Hills Theatre Ephemera; Claremont, CA
Padual Hills theatre. The collection includes: 2 issues of PADUA HILLS NEWS NOTES, dated October 17 & November 14, 1946. Chatty 4 pg. illustrated newsletters on doings around the theater and upcoming performances. Occasionally, the news touches upon larger, political issues and travel stories. Tri-fold brochure PADUA HILLS THEATRE: MEXICAN..... More
Catalogue De Luxe of the Ancient Rugs, Sculptures, Tapestries, Costly Furniture and Other Objects Belonging to the Estate of the Late Charles T. Yerkes
New York: The American Art Association, 1910. First Edition, Limited Subscriber's Copy #114 of 150. From the library of H. F. Bowker, noted numismatist and philatelist, collecting and specialising in Chinese coins, stamps and banknotes (with purchase slip from Parke-Bernet Galleries for this volume laid in). Large 4to. [274] pp..... More
Unjustified Lines: A Volume of Rhymes about Printers and Their Ancestors
Middlesex: Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; 40pp. A Fine copy in rust colored wrappers with printed paper label to upper cover. From the library of bibliophile Porter Garnett with his bookplate to verso of front cover. More
Das Leben und die Gantz Ungemeine Begebenheiten des Weltberühmten Engelländers Robinson Crusoe (Two volumes)
Leipzig: Drugulin, 1909. No. 454 of an Edition Limited to 600 Examples. Complete in two volumes. Octavo; 442, 443pp; frontispieces, titles in red and black, folded plate of the island, including epilogue edited by Hermann Ullrich. A Near Fine copy in 1/2 vellum and patterned paper-covered boards with title to..... More
Neue Gedichte Zweite Auflage
Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1844. Second Edition. 12mo; xii, 343pp. A Good copy in 3/4 calf and paper-covered 'tree calf' boards, spine with elaborate design and title lettered in gold. Extremities well-worn, cardboard showing at corners, pencil notes to rear pastedown; 'Edmund Seckt/1848' to ffep. With twelve page foreword by..... More
The Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./E.P. Dutton & Co., 1916. Second Edition. Octavo; xvi, 232pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. A Very Good copy (light wear, especially to extremities of spine) in publishers rust cloth, printed paper label to spine (second label tipped to ffep along with p.o. name and '1920')..... More
Graphic Facts about Gold and Silver (INSCRIBED)
Shanghai: Finance & Commerce, (ca. 1931). First thus. INSCRIBED by the author to noted numismatist Howard Franklin Bowker. Single sheet, folded to 15 1/4" x 10 3/4;" 4pp. Closed tear to left margin, near fine. Offprint from Finance & Commerce Vol. 19, No. 115, August 12th, 1931. More
The Engravings of Albrecht Dürer
London; New York: Seeley and Co.; Macmillan & Co., 1894. First Edition. Small 4to. 88 pp; 4 engraved plates, with tissue guards; in-text black & white illustrations. Bound in at rear are the original 8 pp of The Portfolio, No. 11, November 1894 titled Albrecht Durer Engravings. Maroon buckram with..... More
Africa Dances: a Book about West African Negroes
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First American Edition. 8vo. 337 pp; viii pp Index. Black & white photographic illustrations. Cream cloth with red & black illustration and lettering; in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy in good dustjacket (loss to spine ends; wear to extremities; red label on..... More