Seattle: Dancing Camel Editions, 2010. First Edition, Limited to 750 copies. Square 4to. 171 pp (including 104 color plates). Brown cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. A beautiful monograph on the work of Paul Reynard, (1927 - 2005), artist, art teacher, Gurdjieff movements instructor, and co-president... More about Works in America
Peking: Cultural Objects Press, 1959. First Edition. Square 4to. Text booklet: 12 pp in English; (8), 39 pp text in Chinese; 234 plates (12 in color). Tan linen cloth with red Chinese lettering in black & white illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in good dustjacket (paper loss to spine ends and... More about The Ancient Buildings of Peking
[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 335 pp. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition, an as new copy of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition in the Classic Science Fiction series by Leonaur. "Perhaps the most imaginative of the 'Planet' series - the entire 'Moon'... More about The Complete Moon Trilogy
Tokyo and Yokohama: Ahrens and Co; C. Levy, 1876 - 1878. First Edition. Paperback. 5 volumes, oblong 4to, each with between 5 and 11 leaves of Japanese lithographic text. 89 hand-colored lithographed plates of pottery (18 in each part); 15a in the first is a half plate in monochrome. Original... More about Kwan Ko Dzu Setsu. Notice Historique et Descriptive ur les Arts et Industries Japonais: Art...
Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1976. 1st. Original wraps. Small 8vo. 48 pp. Bibliography. Stiff tan & green illustrated staplebound wrappers in fine condition, as new. "...Ed Ricketts was a man of many talents and one of the truly fine minds of our time...a highly accomplished marine biologist...a naturalist...an ecologist...a...... More about Edward F. Ricketts (Western Writers Series No 21
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Ninth Edition. INSCRIBED "Miss Stebbins/with the kindest regards of/John Bartlett/Sept 29, 1900." Thick 8vo. xv, 1158 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Stamp of Lucy Ward Stebbins on ffep; Miss Stebbins was the... More about Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in...
ca. 1890. Albumen silver photograph with color dyes. Meiji era image of Kendo, a Japanese form of fencing with two-handed bamboo swords, originally developed as a safe form of sword training for samurai. "B1129 Fencing" incised on negative. Photographer not identified. More about Fencing
London: John Cassell, 1852. First British Edition with George Cruikshank illustrations in book form. 8vo. [i-v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-391 [392] pp. 29 black & white wood engravings (including frontispiece and title page with black & white wood engraving captioned "Eva and Topsy") by George Cruikshank. Also includes an extra... More about Uncle Tom's Cabin (Extra Illustrated
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Dear Charlie - with affectionate warm wishes/this new book of mine/Alec Waugh." 8vo. 342 pp. Green cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (small chip to lower front edge; minor wear to extremities; light fading to spine)... More about That American Woman (INSCRIBED
Aberdeen: Printed by D. Chalmers and Co. for A. Brown and F. Frost ... [et al.], 1813. First Edition. 8vo. viii, 9-286 pp. Coper engraved frontispiece. Bound by Hatchards of London in red crushed leather with gilt ruling & lettering; TEG; marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplate of James Duff (1814-1879), 5th... More about Pedestrianism; or an Account of the Celebrated Performances of Celebrated Pedestrians During the...
London: Jones and Co., 1822. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. 8vo. 522 pp. Hand-colored engraved additional pictorial title and 6 hand-colored plates after W. Heath. Bound by Worsfold of London in full tan calf with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to spine; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; AEG. A near fine... More about Evelina, or Female Life in London; The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to Fashionable...
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 169pp; one of 350 copies printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. New copy in publisher's black cloth with tipped-in color facsimiles of many of the works selected; index. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz, Principal Librarian, Special Collections, California State Library; Forward by... More about Zamorano Select
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by William Donohoo and Gordon J. Van de Water. Octavo; 169pp; one of 350 copies printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. New copy in publisher's black cloth with tipped-in color facsimiles of many of the works selected; index. Introduction by Gary F.... More about Zamorano Select (SIGNED
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... More about Pedro de Lemos: Lasting Impressions: Works on Paper, 1910-1945
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Yosemite National Park & Boston: Virginia Adams, Best's Studio & Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. Original wrappers. 4to.Cream stiff glossy bi-fold (11" x 8 1/2", folded), photo-reproduction inside rear cover titled "China Cove;" 2 pp glossy single sheet describing the book, single sheet order form and return envelope laid in... More about Prospectus only for] My Camera on Point Lobos: 30 Photographs and Excerpts from E.W.'s Daybook
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... More about Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1942-1948
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... More about Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
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... More about Chaparral Can-Am & Prototype Race Cars (INSCRIBED by Jim Hall
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... More about The Caine Mutiny
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... More about Brother, This is War
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 -... More about 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... More about 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
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... More about Finding the Winning Edge (INSCRIBED by Bill Walsh
[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... More about Poems (with SIGNED original photograph of Abeel
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... More about A Handbook for Visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural...