Chicago: Ottaway & Co, Printers, [1880]. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 12 pp. 6 full-page illustrations. Tan printed wrappers in fine condition. A promotional pamphlet to solicit funds for building "A Stove Without a Stove Pipe" invented by Carlton Seaver. "The object of this invention is to construct a stove so..... More
London: Lund Humphries, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. 50 pp. Color frontispiece titled "Holy Family with Saints"; black & white plates. Purple paper covered boards with gilt lettering in fine condition. A survey of the paintings collected by Jack and Eileen Feather for their home Bridley Manor in Surrey. "... an..... More
[Honolulu]: Tennent Gallery, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED "Warm Aloha, from Arthur/Dec, '02. 4to. 65 pp. Color illustrations. Spiral bound wrappers with color illustrated stiff covers. "Writing from the inside, Arthur has briefly but lovingly reviewed and brought up to date the lives and fortunes of his remarkable and talented. Readers..... More
Tientsin, China: Chihli Press, 1931. First Edition. ISCRIBED "To my friend and fellow numismatic/Howard F. Bowker/from Arthur B. Coole/Nov. 11, 1949". Under the inscription, the author has written his name in Chinese. 4to. 110 pp. 2 large folding maps (1 loose at rear as issued); numerous photo-illustrations; some text in..... More
Nanking: Nanking Woman's Club, 1922-1923. First Edition. 8vo. 55 pp. 3 photo-illustrated plates. Green paper covers with black illustration and lettering. Small loss to lower front corner & spine end; a near fine copy of the uncommon first edition. Includes four papers written and read by members of the Literary..... More
New York: Poindexter Gallery, 1969. First Edition. Square 8vo. [20] pp.9 plates (4 in color). Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (slight wear). Catalog for exhibition held at the Poindexter Gallery November 1969. More
Sonoma, CA: Sonoma County Community Foundation, 1991. First Edition. 4to. 24 pp. 13 color plates; black & white illustrations. Grey and white printed wrappers in near fine condition (slight rubbing to covers). Catalog for exhibition held at J. Noblett Gallery, April 1991 and Dominican College of San Rafael, October 1991..... More
New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1976. First Edition. 4to. 40 pp. Black & white photographic plates. Introduction by Rudolf G. Wunderlich. Silver 7 black Illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (narrow creasing to upper corner. Catalog for exhibition held at the Kennedy Galleries October 27 - November 20, 1976. Includes 22..... More
Downey, CA: Downey Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. [16] pp. Illustrations (2 in color). Color illustrated staplebound wrappers with outer cover which served as the mailing form with cancelled stamp and addressee. A fine copy. Catalog for exhibition held the Downey Museum of Art May 4 - June..... More
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San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971. First Edition. Tall 8vo. [12] pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Tan illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (faint creasing to upper corners). Catalog for exhibition held at the California Historical Society, June 1, 1971-Sept. 4, 1971. Includes 119 artworks from various collections. More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Limited Fortieth Anniversary Edition #1083 of 1500 copies. SIGNED by Asimov on the limitation page. 8vo. 223 pp. Tan cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; lacking the slipcase. Originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title "Grow Old with..... More
1963. Aluminum printing plate of a dashing vaquero and senorita dancing while 5 mounted vaqueros at a hitching rail look on. 3 3/4" x 4 1/8" in excellent condition, 'Fiesta 1963' on back; signed in the plate 'Jo Mora.' Given the date stamp on the newspaper image, this printing plate..... More
Warren, OH: Fantome Press, 1989. First Edition, Limited #325 of 500 copies. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Tall 12mo. 8 pp. Color blockprints by Young Sook Shin. The handsewn binding was done by Marjorie James. Tan string tied wrappers with red woodblock print & black lettering on front..... More
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. [32] pp. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece, title page and borders. Publisher's wrappers with red, green, black & gilt decoration and lettering. Minor wear; a near fine and lovely copy of an uncommon volume of poetry by..... More
Taiwan: Dragon Art Institute, 1987. First Edition. 4to. 105 color plates with descriptions (including 1 fold-out); Artist Biography. Text in English and Chinese. Black perfect bound wrappers with white lettering in fine condition (minor wear; small scrape to spine head of Volume 1). Jo Wang Hess was born in Peking..... More
Shanghai: Publisher not identified, 1915. First Edition. 8vo. Accordion fold book with titlepage; 18 pages with text and photographic illustrations; fold-out color map indicating location of the pagodas. Text in English and Chinese. Accompanied by 13pp pamphlet (in English with some Chinese characters) titled "Chinese Pagodas", laid in as issued..... More
[Peking]: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 2 preliminary leaves, 53 black & white photographic plates with various views of temples, gardens & landscapes, public & private buildings throughout China. List of plates in English & Chinese. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in English & Chinese and elaborate..... More
San Diego, CA: The Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1960-1977. First Edition. No. 302 of an unspecified number of copies of the "Special Edition" Volumes 1-6 commissioned by James Copley and SIGNED by the author and Copley; volume 7 commissioned by Helen Copley and SIGNED by her and the author. 4to. Various..... More
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1893. 1st. First Edition. Large 8vo. 359 pp. Index. 28 facsimilies of early lottery, broadsides and ephemera printed on various colored paper; textual illustrations. Contemporary three-quarter brown leather & light brown cloth with gilt decoration & lettering; TEG; marbled endpapers. A very good..... More
Sherman Oaks, CA: The Compulsive Printer, 1981. First Edition, Limited $15 of 75 copies. First Edition, Limited to 75 copies. 2 3/8 in. x 2 7/8 in. [38]pp. 3 wood block prints, numbered and signed by d'Ambrosio. Colophon: This edition has been set in Bulmer and printed on Ingres Oyster..... More
Fullerton, CA: Joe D'Ambrosio for Lorson's Books & Prints, 2002. First Edition Thus, Limited to 50 copies. SIGNED by Joe D'Ambrosio. Miniature book (2 3/4 x2"). The book opens with a purple & brown tissue butterfly pop up surrounded with the printed verse. Green floral cloth spine over green paper..... More
Japan: ca. 1880s. Album measures 4 1/2 x 7"; the hand-colored original photographs measure 3 3/4 x 5 1/2" (some with tissue guards and manuscript titles). Half of the images depict Japanese women of various ages in native dress and the other half are landscapes, buildings, native peoples going about..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. SIGNED by Adams on half-title page. Oblong folio. 127 pp. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket and brown slipcase. A fine copy in fine slipcase presenting some of Ansel Adams best known photographs. Ansel Adams was a...... More
New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, Brick Row Book Shop, 1923. First Edition. Original boards. Small 8vo. 47 pp. 15 full page and 17 small color watercolor and gouache drawings, SIGNED, by Frances Paelian. The cover has a painted cut-out of an elaborately turbaned woman with applied metal earrings and necklace..... More
Monterey, CA: Hilleary and Petko, 1988. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. Miniature book 2 1/2 x 2 1/4". 4 tipped-in etchings by George G. Sutherland (including frontispiece) of Eugene O'Neill; his wife, Carlotta Monterey; and of Tao House. Cream linen covered boards; purple endpapers; purple lettering to spine. A...... More