Upland, CA: Blackbird Press, 2018. First Edition, Limited to 150 SIGNED & numbered copies. Broadside (8" x 14"). Printed letterpress with Optima type on Mohawk Superfine paper for the 43rd International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Congress held February 3-1, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Orange poppies on a cream background... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; xviii, 280pp. First Edition in illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt. A Near Fine copy (many unopened pages,several roughly separated at rear) protected in publisher's mylar (a few large chips laid in). One of 1250 copies designed and printed by... More
Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. vi, 601 pp. Photo-reproductions. Bibliography; Index. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. "This monumental work covers 15,000 plus photographers working in twenty-seven western U.S. states and Canadian provinces, plus itinerants who traveled throughout these areas...The book contains an... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. First Edition, Limited to 550 copies. Oblong large 8vo. 49, [2] pp. With some 120 llustrations (45 incolor). With a Preface by Lawrence Clark Powell. Prospectus laid in. Black cloth with gilt design & lettering to front cover in publisher's plain white... More
[Tucson]: [Saltbush Studio], 1991. First printing of this format. Quarto broadside (32 x 21 cm). SIGNED by Ward Ritchie; INSCRIBED by Powell for his occasional publisher of later years, Noel Young of the Capra Press. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at Saltbursh Studio for the occasion of Powell's 85th... More
Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2018. Expanded and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. ix, 10-769 pp. Photo-reproductions. 31 pp Supplement #1 in envelope with note from the author explaining the Supplement replaces existing pages in the book which had not been proofed prior to publication. A fine copy, still... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1945. LImited to 300 copies printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy at the Westgate Press. Hardcover. 8vo. 8vo. xi, [1], 23, [3] pp. 4 folding maps in rear pocket. With an Introduction and Notes by George R. Stewart. Red cloth with pictorial title label mounted... More
london: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1958. First Edition, LImited to 850 copies. 4to. 80 pp; 104 black & white photographic plates. Tan cloth with red lettering in publisher's cream dustjacket with red lettering. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light wear and short closed tears to extremities). The exhibition various... More
New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author on title page. 4to. 208 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. "Independent, revolutionary, avant-garde" Frances Elkins (1888-1953) belongs to the pantheon of legendary interior decorators. This first book devoted entirely to... More
Highland Park, IL: Cortesi Gallery, Suburban Fine Arts Center, 1989. 24" x 18" poster of Edward Westons photograph "1936 Nude." SIGNED by Cole Weston and one other (not legible). Light crease along upper edge else fine condition. Poster for exhibition of three generations of Weston photograhy held at the Cortesi... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951 - 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 Volumes complete. 4to. Illustrated including frontispieces from early photographs and other sources. Includes Index (Volume XI) by Ana Marie and Everett G. Hager; it was not published until 4 years after completion of the main... More
Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 24 pp introductory text & illustrated book plus tan cloth covered accordion folding (orihon) book housed in publisher's box (lower corner split); else fine condition. Consists of reproductions of 4 scrolls depicting frolicking animals and people, attributed to Toba Sojo, which... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. First U.S. Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. Vol. I: 243 pp; Vol. II: iv, 9-242 pp, [2] pp publisher's advertisements. Original tan cloth with paper title labels to spines. Wear to extremities; darkening to spine labels; Vol. I ffep lacking; foxing; splitting to most of... More
Monterey, CA: Locale Publishing Co., 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 14pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps. Includes 2-page article titled "Jo Mora: Monterey's Versatile Artist" with photo-reproductions of some of Mora's sculptures and diorama located around the Monterey Peninsula. Artitle provides... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 48pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes an 8 page article titled "Men, Myths and Rituals" by Maggie Wilson about Jo Mora's time spent with the Hopis; 6 photo-reproductions... More
Washington DC: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 238 pp. 21 full-page illustrations; folding plate; in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth; later paper title label to spine. Wear to covers and extremities; bumping to corners and spine ends; dampstain to lower edge of first two pages; light... More
boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Limited Edition #369 of 750 large paper copies, with a leaf bearing Mrs. Hearn's autograph (in Chinese) in Volume I. Hardcover. 8vo. Color frontispiece in each volume with titled tissue guards; photogravure plates, most from photographs by Charles S. Olcott, with titled tissue guards. partially unopened;... More
New York: John Day Company, 1972. Limited Edition #564 of 1000 copies, from a series commemorating Pearl S. Buck's 80th birthday, SIGNED by her on limitation leaf. Hardcover. 11 titles, each numbered 564, 9 of which are SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf. The two unsigned titles -... More
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1899. Leather bound. First Edition. The original prospectus with a reproduction of the title page for Volume II of "The Innocents Abroad" and the sample leather spine affixed inside rear cover. 16 photogravures (including frontispiece portrait of Twain) with titled tissue guards, complete. [20] pp... More
Honolulu: James Steiner, The Island Curio Company for the Honolulu Aquarium. [ca. 1907]. Original boards. Oblong 12 mo. 12 accordian-folded chromolithographic plates of tropical fish found on the Hawaiian reefs; 1 text leaft pasted downs as rear endpaper. Printed in Germany. Publisher's red cloth spone over red paper coverd boards;... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Alamar Media, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. xii, 320 pp. Bibliography; List of Image and Photo Credits. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; new. The definitive monograph on Joe De Yong, Western artist, cowboy, first and... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Hearfelt, full-page inscription by the author. 8vo. 272 pp. Illustrated by Loren Barton. Near fine in publisher's illustrated dustjacket (wear to spine ends; light fading to spine). A fictionalized biography of Jack Jouett's remarkable ride to save Thomas Jefferson, Patrick... More
New York: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author, with 4 pp. ALS taped to ffep. 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrated by Berta and Elmer Hader. Near fine in very good dustjacket (small paper loss along lower front edge and spine end; lower front flap corder clipped; price of... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; xxii, 112pp.; folding map of the Route of John Work's Expedition to California in 1832-1833, several full-page photographic plates, including frontis of Work in middle age. One of 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy at The Wesgate Press... More
Santa Ana, CA: The Fine Arts Press, 1937. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xxxxiv, 273; x, 352pp. 2 maps (one large folding); 8 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, gilt-lettered spines. Foreword by Dr. Frederick Webb Hodge. With reproduction of the original Paris, 1844 title page. Light wear to... More