Chelsea, MI: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Oblong 8vo. 189 pp. Black & white photo-illustratrations by Julian Graham, official photographer for Pebble Beach from 1922 to 1962. Black leather with gilt lettering; photographic plate affixed to front cover. A fine copy, as new. Cypress Point Club is a private golf club...
New York: The New Press, 2003. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. xxxiv, 254 pp. Over 100 full page black & white photographic illustrations. Black linen with bronze lettering in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. Between 1935 and 1943, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers to crisscross...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004. First Edition. Square 4to. 212 pp. 239 photograhic illustrations (140 in color). A fine copy in dustjacket, as new. "This volume celebrates japanese architect yoshio Taniguchi by presenting nine of his beautiful museum designs, from the renovation and expansion of The Museum...
St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2005. Limited Edition. INSCRIBED "To Helen & Chuck/Best personal regards!/Jim Hall." Small square 4to. 208 pp. Index. 350 black & white photographs and a special 50-photo color gallery showcase Hall's early driving career in sport cars and Formula 1 in the 1950s through Chaparral's ultimate...
london: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First British Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 494 pp. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine ends). The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicting the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy minesweeper and a subsequent court-martial for mutiny. The book...
New York: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 494 pp. Very good (previous owner inscription; light general wear) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; short closed tears & light creasing to bottom edge). The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicting the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S....
Princeton: University Press, 1944. First Edition, Limited to 125 copies printed on Whatmans handmade paper. 8vo. 32 pp. Light wear to board edges; foxing inside covers; else a near fine copy. American critic, novelist, and poet Donald Stauffer was born in Colorado in 1902. Stauffer earned his BA and MA...
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1930. First Edition Thus, Limited to 1000 copies. Small 8vo. 495 pp. Designed and illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins. Black cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards, housed in publisher's slipcase. Near fine in somewhat faded and worn publisher's slipcase. Includes some of Poe's most beloved tales -...
New York: Dial Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. 4to. 192 pp. Color plates; black & white illustrations. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Black cloth with gilt lettering & design in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; chips & closed tears to spine ends with...
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Full page inscription by Bill Walsh to a long-time season ticket holder. 8vo. 550 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. A near fine copy (short closed tear & crease to lower rear edge of dustjacket. "When those who chronicle the history of the game list...
[Princeton]: [University Press], [1951]. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is Number 68. Small 8vo. [28] pp. Frontispiece portrait chosen by Abeel's widow as his most characteristic likeness is after a painting by Edward Steese in 1925, who also selected and edited these poems with the help...
1932. First Edition, Limited #15 of 25 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Limbach on limitation page. 4to. [25] pp of CPM Fabriano paper, Italy. 10 original black & white lithographs on thin Japanese paper tipped in. Introduction by Milton S. Fox. Formal appraisal by M. Lee Stone Fine Prints (dated 1991)...
New York: Random House, 1930. First Trade Edition. Original cloth. 12 mo. 823 pp. Pen, brush and ink drawings by Rockwell Kent. Black cloth with silver lettering and decoration in publishers illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (chips & short closed tears to spine ends; some age toning;...
Santa Ynez & Los Angeles: Dos Lindas Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 26, [1] pp. Photo-illustrations (most in color). Stiff color printed wrappers in fine condition. Luis B. Ortega (1897-1995) is known as the world’s best and foremost rawhide braider. A fifth generation Californian, Ortega traced his ancestry to...
Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Oblong 8vo. 105, (1) pp. Stiff red covers with black illustration & lettering. Illustrated with black & white protographic reproductions and drawings. Text block mostly pulled away from the wrappers; lower front corner tip missing; else a very good copy. The uncommon...
Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2015. 1st. Paperback. First Edtion. 4to. 112 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed wrappers in fine, new condition. Still in shrinkwrap, as issued. Catalogue for exhibition held at the Monterey Museum of Art April 30 - September 28, 2015, 'Lasting Impressions—Pedro de...
College Station TX: Texas A & M University, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto. (x), 578 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover, black & gilt lettering spine label; New copy - as issued without dust jacket in original shrinkwrap. Numerous black & white illustrations; Bibliography and Index. A fascinating...
Eyvind Earle Publishing, 2011. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. 12" x 13"; opens to 12" by 26". Printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink. Striking color serigraphs, 1 full page for each month. A fine copy still in shrinkwrap. This calendar's images represent a unique selection of works by Eyvind...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pp. White cloth with black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (age toning; light wear to extremities; darkening to spine). The author's first novel "... is a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book;...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. 8vo. 154, [1] pp. Cream cloth with red lettering to spine in color illustrated dustjacket designed by Warren Chappell. A fine copy in good only dustjacket (front flap separated but present; wear, chips and short closed tears; some loss to spine...
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Colony, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. 253 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in fine condition. Contains the lines of Mayflower descent, plus a short biography of each current member of the Los Angeles Colony, as well as some members who have transferred to other...
Carmel, CA: Cypress Press, 1936. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 7 leaves, single sided. Introduction. 7 intact flower seed packets (unopened) affixed to pages, each accompanied by a title and single stanza of poetry. The packets include seeds for shooting stars, Chinese houses, lupin, mariposa and seasonal mixes and a....
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1914. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 281 pp. Illustrations from photographs by W. A. Sharp. Blue pictorial cloth. A very good copy (wear to extremities; previous owner name; light spotting to covers; fading to spine). "A thrilling adventure of a party of eighteen gold seekers who...
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. 204 pp. Annotated Bibliography for Teachers of General History of California. Illustrations by Julia Le Count of various scenes throughout California. Pictorial boards in near fine condition (previous owner name & gift inscription; else a near fine...
Fullerton, CA: Sultana Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "Lyman/Join me in a/nostalgic trip back through/the "good old days"/Gene." 8vo. (10), 297 pp. Photo-illustrations. Blue cloth with silver lettering & decoration in publisher's dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (some agetoning; short closed tear to upper edge; minor wear to.....
