[Washington DC]: [GPO], 1929. Revised Edition. 16mo; 16pp. Near fine copy (owner name to front cover) in blue printed stapled wrappers. Advice on living conditions on the island for U.S. Navy personnel being assigned there]. More
Seattle, WA: Windowpane Press, 2004. First Edition. 42 notched cards (3 x 3") letterpress printed in a class taught by Norman, participants included Dawn Endean, Patricia Halsell, Kaylea Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Walters. The cards are enclosed in a printed box. All are in fine condition. 26 cards present the letters..... More
London: Constable and Co., 1931. First Edition. Small 4to. 1131 pp. Bound by Bayntun in handsome three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards; gilt ruling and lettering; marbled endpapers. A fine and lovely copy. George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His..... More
New York: Syndicate Publishing Company, (1910). Early printing. Small 4to. 583 pp. With More Than Two Hundred Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition, and from Drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. Index. Publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt illustration and lettering. Light wear to extremities; a...... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1938 - 1940. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. 55; 52; 63 pp. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean; Drawings by Lena Peters. Stiff paper covered illustrated boards with cloth backing in fine condition; housed in publisher's box with title label on front in near fine condition (split to..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Large 8vo. 178 pp. Fold-out map of California at rear. 32 tipped-in color plates (including frontispiece) with titled tissue guards, reproducing paintings by Sutton Palmer. Index. Green cloth with a signed pictorial design by Henry Hunt Clark, printed in blue, orange and..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1896. 8vo. 99, [1] pp. Folding frontispiece plate, numerous full page plates, and in-text illustrations, all in blue tint; 3 color plates. [3 pp] offering circular laid in. Red cloth with gilt decoration and letter; grey endpapers. Inner hinges strengthened; slight fading to..... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. 341 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Book designed by Alice Cordelia Morse with her initals stamped in gilt on front cover. Striking green cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration front cover and spine; gilt lettering; top edge gilt. Minor wear, light bump to upper..... More
Venice, FL: Opuscula Press, 1983. First Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies. SIGNED by Maurice Dunbar and Robert Hanson, printer. Miniature book (2 7/8 x 2 1/8"). 61 pp. Frontispiece tipped-in photograph of Steinbeck and illustration of Steinbeck's signature drawing of a flying pig. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1952. First Illustrated Deluxe Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 494 pp. With four double-page color illustrations by Lawrence Beall Smith. Dark blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear along lower front edge; small snag to upper front edge;..... More
New York: Unz & Company, 1904. 1st. First Edition, INSCRIBED by the author, with compliments, to Frank Earle Hayward. 8vo. 95 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover; original front cover of wrappers with Dodge's inscription bound in at rear. One ink correction in text in same..... More
Carmel, CA: Pacific Rim Gallerie, 1986. Artist's Proof' copy. Large 4to. SIGNED portrait etching by Coughlin (5 1/2 x 6 1/2") of John Steinbeck marked 'Artist's Proof'. Fine condition. More
Chicago: P. F. Volland and Company, (1913). First Edition. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". Includes original pencil. Pages are clean and unused. Small Christmas gift label affixed to ffep. Gray cloth with blue decoration and lettering. "This book is for the housekeeper and homemaker who must answer the daily question..... More
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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