New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 303 pp. Rust colored cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear; dustjacket flap corners clipped but price is intact; a lovely copy. The source for the 1954 Robert Aldrich movie, "Apache," with a blue-eyed Burt...
San Francisco: Yosemite Publishing, 1926. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. [44] pp. Illustrated with 34 full-page sepia plates after photographs of numerous landmarks within the Yosemite Valley. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered and decorated on front cover in gilt. Internal text block staples just showing on inner hinges...
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. [8], ix-xlii, [2], 3-152, [1] pp. Illustrated wtih 26 maps, of which 10 are in color and 17 are folding. Bound in natural linen, light brown cloth spine, white spine label printed in red. Light fading...
Prague: Vladimir Benes at The Bonaventura Publishing House, 1997. Limited Edition of 120 numbered copies. Original wrappers. 4to. 153 pp + colophon. Nine full-page etchings by Marina Richter, each SIGNED by the artist, and printed by Pavel and Milan Drímal. The text was set by hand and printed in the...
New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Leather bound. First Lamb Edition. 20 volumes, complete set. 8vo. Various paginations. Edited by Lady Trevelyan (sister of Lord Macaulay). Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards; gilt lettering; 5 raised bands with 6 compartments; TEG. A near fine to fine...
Salt Lake City: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272. Original cloth. Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates...
Salt Lake City, UT: The Inter-Mountain Republican, October 6, 1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the Inter-Mountain Republican newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked...
St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Dispatch, [April 7],1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked as...
Monterey, CA: Old Monterey Book Co., 1998. First Edition; Limited to 112 copies. Half leather. Miniature (2 1/2" x 2 1/8"). (4),25,(1)pp. Four tipped in photo illustrations, three of which are by Alan McEwen. Hand-set and letterpress printed in two colors using Bookman text and Rustic display type on Ingres...
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First Collected Edition. Leather bound. Small 8vo. 380; 347; 314; 361 pp. Engraved fontispiece portrait of Shelley by W. Finden in Volume 1. Half-title in each volume. Preface & Notes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Contemporary full calf (stamped "Morrell, Binder. London") with elaborate gilt decoration to...
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 138 pp. Frontispiece showing The Old Cobweb Palace at Meigg's Wharf tipped in. Menu from Jack's Restaurant laid in. book & menu are housed in a clear acryllic slipcase. Near fine (owner) in near very good dustjacket (chipping to extremities and...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1950. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies. Folio. xi, [1], 140, [1] pp. Facsimiles of twenty-one maps on nineteen sheets, some folding. Bibliography. Publisher's prospectus (folded) laid in. Title and text printed in red and black. Bound in tan, red, and black decorated...
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition, #84 of a Limited Edition of only 250 copies, Leather bound. SIGNED by both authors. Quarto, 336 pages. Bound in full leather with a sterling silver concho mounted on the front cover. Chronicles 85 of the Western craftsmen who created intricately engraved...
New York: S.A. Rollo & Co., 1859. Later edition with the same text as the first edition published in 1850. Original cloth. This copy was owned by William H. Brewer, noted author of "Up and Down the California Coast in 1860-1864" with his signature on ffep. Small 8vo. [2 leaves]...
1984. 9 x 12". Original color tile of portrait of John Steinbeck given to the Catherian L. & Robert O. Mc Mahan Foundation in recognition of its generous contribution to the large Monterey Mural which is mounted on the exterior wall of the Monterey Conference Center. Fine condition. These recognition...
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 131, [1 pp advertisement] pp. Index. Frontispiece of a standing horse with tissue guard. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration and lettering; floral endpapers. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy of the uncommon first edition. "The...
New York: Boni & Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by five of the Hollywood Ten on trial: Ring Lardner, Jr., Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Adrian Scott, and Alvah Bessie. 8vo. 229 pp. Uncommon with multiple signatures. Minor chips and wear to dustjacket; else a near fine copy. "...the dramatic...
2007. First Edition Thus. Limited to 3000 copies. 3 volumes. Text in Chinese and English. Beautifully bound in silk brocade covered boards with text printed on silk cloth made up of 155000 fine silk fibers and 265000000 interwoven points; color image at front of each text volume. A fine and...
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color...
New York: Harcourt Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by astronaut Gene Cernan with "Apollo XVII"; Cernan was the 2nd American to walk in space and the 12th - and last - man to walk on the moon. Additionally inscribed from "Jan & Gene" most likely in Jan's handwriting. Square...
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphics, 1948. First Illustrated Edition of Mice & Men in French. Limited to 390 copies, this being "Exemplaire S.P." (Service de Presse). Three-quarter leather. Small folio. 125, [2] pp. 37 color lithographs by Reynold Arnould. Translated by Maurice Coindreau. Three-quarter orange leather over paper covered boards;...
Mexico City: Escuela de Cocina Velazquez de Leon, 1947. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 363, [5] pp. Text in English and Spanish. Drawings by Guadalupe Mutiozabal Velasquez de Leon. Translated by Concepcion Silva Garcia. Stiff printed wrappers in color printed dustjacket. A very good copy in chipped and stained dustjacket...
Denver: Privately Printed, 1933. First Edition, Limited #58 of 100 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED at the colophon by the author. Octavo, 71 pp in rose paper-covered with white spine (lettered in black) boards, gold lettering with head of a cow to front cover. Author Allen Kramer Krause's copy - 'Allen K....
Boston, MA: Department of Classical Art Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 4to. xxxi, 521pp. 241 black & white plates; 1 fold-out map. Bibliography. Black softcover in very good condition.
London: The Pali Text Society, 1965-1973. Reprints. Hardcover. Octavos; As New copies in orange cloth with white spines, lettered in gold. Volume I, Ones, Twos, Threes; Volume II, The Book of The Fours; Volume III, The Books of the Fives and Sixes; Volume IV, The Books of the Sevens, Eights...
