Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 43 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's color illustrated wrappers in good condition (darkening and spotting to covers; covers partially split along spine). A selection of recipes by famous people including Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Gelett Burgess, Zane Grey, Jascha Heifetz... More
College Station TX: Texas A & M University, 1988. 1st. 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 fascinating... More
chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911. First Edition Limited to 300 copies. 1pp TLS tipped inside front board. 4to. xviii, [1] - 204pp. 181 illustrations (including 8 plates). Edited with Historical Introduction, Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes; Bibliography; Index. Printed on English hand-made paper. Vellum... More
Los Angeles: Winding Way Publishing, 2002. Collector's Special Limited First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pastel Impressions 33pp; Oil Impressions 37pp. Color plates. Fine condition. S. Burkett Kaiser, Signature Member of the California Art Club, is a contemporary American impressionist painter. Sharon studied with the renowned Russian master Sergei Bongart and is... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 877 sets, complete with the original steel plate engraved by H. K. Browne ('Phiz') titled "The Eyes of Mrs. Chick are Opened to Lucretia Tox" used in 'Dombey & Son' (includes a pull taken from plate with letter... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1855. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. (Reprinted from the 'Philosophical Transactions' of 1846-1852 with other Electrical Papers from the Proceedings of the Royal Institution and Philosophical Magazine). Thick octavo; viii, 588pp plus four folding plates at rear. Very worn ex-library copy with usual faults, else Good in 3/4... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quartos; Volume 1, The Tao of Painting; xxii, 161pp including 10 plates (3 double-folding): Volume 2, The Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting); xxv, 587pp reproducing over four hundred illustrations of brushwork, ranging from the... More
Sendai, Japan: IAHR Symposium on Cavitation and Hydraulic Machinery, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; 518, 52pp. Ex-library copy with usual faultys, otherwise a Fine copy in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold. Text in both English and French. Conference papers and proceedings; each paper with summaries in both languages. Includes bibliographical references. More
Honolulu? Arthur F. Rogers Publications, 1955. Fred Lum. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; 56pp. A Near Fine copy (gift inscription to title page, uneven fading to front cover, faint crease at rear) in publisher's yellow illustrated wrappers printed in black and red. More
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1905. 1st. Paperback. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated, [60]pp. Printed recto only with black border illustrations on pages. Tan stab-stitched wrappers with brown lettering & gilt decoration. Light wear to fore edge; edges neat and clean. Near fine. 'The inscriptions which are cut in the... More
Madrid: Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islamicos en Madrid, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 176, [6]pp. Near Fine copy. In Spanish. More
Edinburgh: W & A.K. Johnston, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo; xiv, 580pp. Poor copy (many of the brittle pages are detached) in burgundy buckram lettered at spine. Still, complete including all plates. More
New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Small quarto; First American Edition, 22pp (including 'Notes', 'Bibliography' and comments 'On the Plates') plus 24 color facsimiles. A Near Fine copy in string-tied grey paper in grey boards with paper label printed in red and black to upper board; boards... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937-1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavos; xviii, 373pp; xii, 416pp. Very Good copies in publisher's blue cloth spine lettered in gold. Volume I lacks dust jacket (Volume II dust jacket is somewhat soiled with a few closed tears and darkening to spine) and is inscribed 'Presented... More
Peiping: Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 1931. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Octavo; Good - Very Good copy (loss of spine and chips to edges of covers). Reprinted from Bulletin Volume 10, pages 105-157. Davidson Black was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now... More
Alexandria, Egypt: Alexandria University Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Large octavo; [2], 314pp. A Near Fine copy. Alexandria University, Faculty of Arts Publication; No. 9. This work is Nasr's Ph.D. thesis in Poliical Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science plus a 7-page essay, "Walter Bagehot in... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 358pp plus CD in pocket at rear. Fine, unread copy. Collection Epitome Musical. The articles published in this volume are based largely on the papers delivered at the international symposium on ‘Urbanity, Identity Construction, and Humanism: Music, Art, and Culture in the... More
New York: Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., 1922. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; vi, 22 pp plus 10 leaves of plates. Accompanied by notes of Berthold Laufer. A Very Good (some soiling and edgewear) copy in string-tied flexible olive cloth with gilt-lettered brown paper label (small chip, faint soiling) tipped to front cover... More
London: Geological Society, 201. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto; xiv, 818pp. CD in rear pocket. Illustrations. Bibliography; Index. Near Fine condition. This is a heavy oversized book - extra shipping may apply. "Abstract - Nine main petroleum provinces containing recoverable resources totalling 61 Bbbl liquids+269 Bbbloe of gas are known... More
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 290pp. A Fine, unread copy. "Nominated for the 2014 American Musicological Society's "Ruth A. Solie Award" Is editing music a fallacy? It may appear so when consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines editing as "to prepare an edition (of a literary work... More
Monterey, CA: Locale Publishing Co., 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 14pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps. Includes 2-page article titled "Jo Mora: Monterey's Versatile Artist" with photo-reproductions of some of Mora's sculptures and diorama located around the Monterey Peninsula. Artitle provides... More
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1912. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. xxiii, 72 pp. Illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; color plate mounted on front cover; TEG. Ex-libris (blind stamp of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Scineces; small ink number;... More
[Del Monte, CA]: [Del Monte Properties Company], ca. 1920s. First Edition. Original wrappers. Tall 8vo. tri-fold brochure (9" x 4", folded). 8 unnumbered pages (including covers). Color and black & white illustrations; double-page center map of the Monterey Peninsula showing Pebble Beach; Monterey Peninsula Country Club; Pacific Grove; Old Monterey;... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Alamar Media, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. xii, 320 pp. Bibliography; List of Image and Photo Credits. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; new. The definitive monograph on Joe De Yong, Western artist, cowboy, first and... More
[Denver, CO]: Publisher not identified, Colorado Meeting, September, 1896. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 11pp staplebound printed wrappers. 2 full-page maps of the Smuggler-Union Properties. No cover (perhaps as issued?) Foldline down center else a near fine of an uncommon pamphlet on the Smuggler-Union Mines. The Smuggler-Union Mining Company was... More