Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906. First Edition Limited to 881 copies (502 copies for the set, 379 separates). Large folio (20 1/2" x 15 1/2"). [7] pp; complete with 81 plates and folding map at rear. List of Plates. Maroon cloth, spine stamped in gilt. A good copy..... More
New York: Scratch Books / David Zwirner Books, 2017. First Revised and Expanded Edition. Small 8vo. 334 pp. Graphic illustrations by Crumb. Black leather with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, red silk ribbon, as issued without dustjacket. A fine copy. This revised and expanded English edition, published by David Zwirner..... More
London: George Harrap, [David McKay], 1932. First Trade Edition, US issue. Large 8vo. 287, [1] pp. 12 color illustrations by Rackha (with titled tissue guards) plus many in-text black and white illustrations; in publisher's color pictorial dustjacket with "Printed in Great Britain" on lower front flap; housed in publisher's box..... More
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Culver City: 1982. This lot includes a hand-addressed invitation from the President Ronald Reagan White House to actor Robert De Niro on the occasion of Kennedy Center Honors to George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly, and Eugene Ormandy on December 5, 1982. Parenthetically, the lot also includes several..... More
(California?): Publisher not identified, ca. 1887. The date of Circa 1887 was determined partially by the type fonts and stye of printing plus the last date mentioned was 1885-6 when Mr. H. H. Bancroft purchased 500 acres around the site and began developing them. This pamphlet refers to “Railroads now..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Monterey Edition. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. xxxv, 310; 308 pp. Illustrated plates with titled tissue guards from drawings by Henry Sandham. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Beautifully bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt decoration, ruling and letter, top edges gilt..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on bookplate. Additionally, INSCRIBED "To Gloria, happy cooking! Marcella Hazan". 8vo. 349 pp. Index. Color plates. Laid in are 5 color Poloraid photographs of Ms. Hazan cooking dinner (for a class?) and 4 pages of notes taken and..... More
Sacramento: State Office, 1886 - 1888. First Edition. Part I: Irrigation Development: History, Customs, Laws, and Administrative Systems Relating to Irrigation, Water-Courses, and Waters in France, Italy, and Spain: The Introductory Part of the Report of the State Engineer of California, on Irrigation and the Irrigation Question. Large 8vo. 622..... More
Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1919. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Curtis to Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, nature photographer, naturalist, filmaker and one of Hollywood's first female producers. 8vo. 112, [1] pp. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Quarter brown cloth spine over illustrated paper covered boards. Ex-libris with pocket inside front..... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams. Folio; 97pp. Illustrated with thirty views of U.S. National Parks from Maine to Hawaii (printed recto identified on facing pages and with photographic notes for each image at the end, along with a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. Small 8vo. 78 pp. Foreword by Coretta Scott King. A fine copy (previous owner name stamp) in fine dustjacket. The five talks published in this book were broadcast during November and December, 1967, over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the seventh annual..... More
New York: Seven Seas Press, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Appendix; Bibliography; Index. Illustrations, tables,and charts. Bound in dark blue morocco with design of sailboat on front cover in light blue leather and gilt onlay; housed in clamshell box with marbled paper & blue leather spine with gilt lettering..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 2015. First Edition. Complete in three volumes, each SIGNED by James Karman. Volume One, 1890 - 1930; Volume Two, 1931 - 1939; and Volume Three 1940 - 1962. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrations; Preface; Index. Cloth in dustjackets. A fine set. Karman’s monumental work on..... More
Will A. Kistler Company, 1935. First Edition, Limited Edition No. 395 of 500 SIGNED copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon. Also INSCRIBED "This copy for Mrs. Leopold Stokowski just back from the Spanish Main. Merle Armitage, 1936". Square small 4to. 111 pp. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by..... More
Santa Barbara: Published by Pepper & Stern, 1984. First Edition Limited to 50 Handbound Copies. SIGNED by Jim Pepper, Peter Stern & R. Crumb. 8vo. Unpaginated. Front cover illustration designed by R. Crumb. Black & white illustrations of offerings throughout. Tan cloth over illustrated paper covered boards; yellow endpapers. A...... More
Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2015. First Edition. 4to. 112 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed wrappers in fine, new condition. Catalogue for exhibition held at the Monterey Museum of Art April 30 - September 28, 2015, 'Lasting Impressions—Pedro de Lemos' the first exhibition that celebrates one..... More
Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1948. First Edition. Thin folio. 33pp. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Blue grey stiff wrappers with title label adhered to front cover. A very good copy (sunning; minor wear; short closed tear; lower front corner creased). Keepsake for the June 3, 1948 dedication of the..... More
1966-67. Alan Searle, once the lover of Lytton Strachey, was W. Somerset Maugham's private secretary and companion beginning in the 1940s. He lived with Maugham in his Monte Carlo villa and remained with him until Maugham's death in 1965. In his final years, Maugham made an unsuccessful attempt to disinherit..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Carmel. Oblong folio. 127 pp. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket and publisher's brown slipcase. The book and dustjacket are in fine condition; partial splitting along rear..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Yosemite Valley. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. First Edition Thus. Small quarto; xxii, 297pp; illustrated endpapers by Maynard Dixon showing Native Americans meeting a Western-bound Conestoga wagon train. #942, and signed by Maynard Dixon at the colophon. Bound in full tan sheepskin saddle leather with Dixon design burned into the upper..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on half-title page. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine copy (slight fading along board..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989-2010. Volumes One, Two and Three are First Editions; Volumes Four and Five are later printings. Complete in 5 volumes. 4to. Each volume with a tipped-in photo frontispiece of Jeffers by Ansel Adams, Leigh Wiener and Louis Fleckenstein. Book design by Adrian Wilson. Gift inscription..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. First Edition. "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow..." #6 of 25 copies reserved for England (of a large paper printing limited to 300 numbered copies). 8vo. viii; 433pp.(BAL 122258) "Final Memorials..." one of 15 copies (unnumbered) reserved for England (of the large paper printing..... More
Monterey, CA: The Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11". 32 pp. Includes photographs and biographies for the festival's many performers, such as: Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Weavers, The Rooftop Singers, Barbara Dane, The Modern Folk Quartet, Kajsa Ohman, The New Lost City Ramblers..... More