College Station TX: Texas A & M University, 1988. First Edition. 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..... More
Boston: R. H. Hinkley Co, ca. 1908. Limited Edition No. 507 of 555 copies. Hardcover. Complete in 4 volumes. Large 8vo. 284; 251; 274; 247 pp. Title-page design and decorations by W.A. Dwiggins. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on hand-made paper. Full brown decorative blindstamped pigskin..... More
Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Association, 2020. 500 pieces; image size 18 x 24." Full-color reproduction of Mora's Yosemite carte, New in cardboard box, sealed. This 500-piece jigsaw puzzle was made from the 'Yosemite' carte drawn by Mora in 1931 (Grandeau & Shorts Cartes 5b). As well as many humorous elements..... More
N.P. Published by the author, 1924. First Edition. 12mo. 16, [1] pp. Two tipped in photographic illustrations of Monterey Pine trees. Stiff green illustrated wrappers. A near fine copy (small scrape on front cover). More
Boston: The Page Company, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. xxiv, 478pp. Bibliography, Index. Color folding map; 12 color plates with tissue guards; 48 black & white photo-reproductions. Original decorative color binding with gilt lettering; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers. INSCRIBED "To/My good friend/Grace A. Randall/with cordial greetings & good/wishes/George Wharton James."..... More
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition. 8vo. 370 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photographic plates; map endpapers. Red cloth in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; creaseline along lower front edge). "Perhaps the best and most complete history of the Graham-Tewksbury feud..... More
London: Women's Parliament, 1941. First Edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Cream staple-bound wrappers with black & blue lettering. A near fine copy (minor wear). "With the successful carrying through of its Second Session, the London Women's Parliament definitely established itself as a widely representative and authoritative institution, speaking with the voice..... More
Covelo, CA: Carolyn and James Robertson, Yolla Bolly Press, 1984. Limited Edition #164 of 250 copies. SIGNED by Wallace Stegner; Karin Wikstrom. Square 4to. [8], 52, [4]. Six color woodblocks by Karin Wikstrom, woodblock text illustrations. Afterword by Wallace Stegner. Includes 4 pp Prospectus. Bound in boards covered with a...... More
Baltimore: Norman T.A. Munder & Co. Printers, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED on ffep "'To Mr. H.M. Kurtzworth/from/O.F. Ege June 29, '26". Ege was a teacher, lecturer, bookseller... He worked for many years at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he was Chair of the Department of Teacher Training, instructor..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited No. 328 of 1500 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Matisse on the colophon. Large quarto (9" x 11 3/4"); xvi, [ii], 363pp. Twenty-six plates by Matisse; six original etchings and twenty reproductions of preliminary drawings by the artist, printed on thin colored papers..... More
Yosemite Falls Studio: Yosemite Falls Studio, June 10, 1925. First Edition. Large 4to. [8] pp. Illustrations; business advertisements. Printed brown wrappers in near fine condition (vertical fold line; minor wear to extremities). A newspaper for tourists visiting Yosemite National Park providing the names of visitors staying at different camps within..... More
London: Benj. Motte, 1726. First Edition, third issue (Teerink 'B' edition). Complete in two volumes. 8vo. Title pages for each part; engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver (second state); four maps; two plans; woodcut initials; head-and tail-pieces. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full calf with gilt decoration to spines; gilt ruling; gilt-lettered..... More
Santa Barbara: 1931. 1 pp (8 1/2 x 5 1/2") single spaced TLS from Fr. Zephyrin to Miss Charlotte Canty suggesting Arthur H. Clark as publisher for her sister's manuscript titled 'Mission Bells'. The TLS is on Santa Barbara Mission letterhead. More
Berkeley: California Historical Survey Commission, 1921. First Edition. 8vo. 81 pp. Illustrations; fold-out plan of Mission San Carlos. Editor's Preface by Owen C. Coy. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers; two stamps (one faint) for the Old Mission in Santa Barbara; else a near fine copy..... More
Calcutta: Inspector General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, 1903. First Edition. Quarto; 3 preliminary leaves, ii, 2 leaves, 118, 129pp. A Very Good copy (extremities and inner hinges tape-strengthened; broadside tipped to ffep, which also has a previous owner's name and 'Darjeeling May 21, 1904') in publisher's green cloth lettered..... More
Yosemite Valley: Ansel F. Hall, 1923. First Edition. 8vo. Portfolio of 14 poems by Symmes, with 8 tipped-in color plates depicting iconic images of Yosemite Valley after watercolors by Widforss. 23 grey paper leaves (some folding) housed in grey paper folding covers. Minor wear and age toning; a near fine..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to California Governor Culbert Olson. 8vo. 334 pp. Bibliography. Tan cloth with brown lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy with light staining to spine; light fading to dustjacket spine; minor wear to extremities. "...the single..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1922. 13th Printing, New and Enlarged Edition. 8vo. xiv, 389 pp. Index. Illustrations. Tan cloth with black & gilt decoration, black lettering in publisher's cream illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in scarce near fine dustjacket (small chip to upper front corner; two short closed tears..... More
London: Moses Thomas, 1818-1819. First American from the eleventh London edition. Volumes I & II are dated 1818; Volumes III & IV are dated 1819. 8vo. Half-titles in each volume; engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in Vol. I. Printed by J. Maxwell. Original full brown calf with black and red..... More
New York: F. J. Huntington and Co., 1869. First Edition. First Edition. Small 4to. 206pp. Frontispiece & 2 full-page maps (with tissue guard) of the Plan of the Park depicting The South and North Ends by A.B. Fitch, and numerous charming wood engraved illustrations throughout by A. F. Bellows. Publisher's..... 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
Cambridge: University Press, 1932. Complete 14 volumes (in 7) plus the Index. 8vo. Various paginations. bound by Bayntun in three-quarter crimson morocco with gilt lettering to spines; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Decorative bookplate in each volume; light fading to spines else a fine and lovely set. An encyclopedia of..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1871 - 1883. 10 volumes are First Editions; 11 volumes early printings. SIGNED & dated cream heavy card stock "Robert Browning. June 8, '89" laid in Volume I. Volumes are small 8vo. Various paginations. Uniformly bound in red calf with gilt lettering to spines, marbled..... More
Albany, NY: Printed by C. Van Benthuyse, 1857. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 2 large folding maps; 44 plates (including 16 folding) of bridges, locomotives, tunnels, rail sections and more. Publisher's brown blindstamped boards with gilt lettering to front cover. Wear to extremities; front joint split but holding; loss to spine..... More
London: Smith Elder, 1873. Tenth Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. Small 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece by T. O. Barlow after a photograph by Macaire Havre, Sept. 1858. Bound by MacLehose in Glasgow in furll brown morocco with gilt lettering & ruling; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. Engraved..... More