New York: Penguin, 2002. 6 illustrated softcover books in publishers color illustrated box. A fine set, as new. The Centennial boxed set includes: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, The Pearl, and Travels with Charley in Search of America. More
Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1983. First edition. INSCRIBED "To *** and *** with kindest regards. Carl Briggs). 8vo. 304 pp. Bibliography; Index.Portraits. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine; in publishers toned and stained dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition (light spotting to page edges)..... More
Northern Ireland: Great Northern Railway (I) and LMS Northern Countries Committee, 1933. First Edition. 8vo. 56 pp. Folding map of Ireland showing tour routes at rear; illustrations throughout. Includes Table of Contents and Index of Places Described. Color illustrated staplebound wrappers in near fine condition (light wear; previous owner name..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1899. First American Edition. 8vo. 312, [2 pp sdvertisements] pp. Green cloth with light green shamrock illustration and gilt lettering. Light spotting on spine else a fine and lovely copy. The Irish poet and novelist Kathryn Tynan (1859 -1931) was an ardent nationalist and a prominent..... More
(Santa Ynez, CA): Almanar Media, Inc., 2011. First Edition. SIGNED by Jack Swanson. Oblong 4to (10 1/5" x 13 1/2"). xviii, 222 pp. Illustrated with Swanson's artwork & more than 100 color paintings, drawings and bronzes along with stories and personal photographs. Brown cloth with gilt lettering in brown lettered..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. 455, [1] pp. Fold-out map of Indian Territory 1842; illustrated plates. Bibliography; Index. Red cloth in black, yellow and red illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (slight fading to spine; minor wear to extremties). The eighth volume..... More
Brest FR: Imp. Gadreau, 1870-71. First Edition. Quarto; 1/4 leather and brown paper-covered boards, spine ruled and titled (La Guerre 1870) in gold. Solid binding with some edgewear, else Very Good to Near Fine volume (~775-800 pp) of the newspaper beginning with #1 dated 20 July 1870 (the day after..... More
The Archive includes: A 4 1/4” x 6” framed photograph of the poet showcased between an October 7, 1957 TLS and a December 1, 1956 ALS on Marianne Moore’s personal note cards. A 6” x 8” framed February 9, 1957 ALS to the admirer including a hand-addressed envelope on MM’s..... More
San Francisco: Sunset Press, (1925). Second Edition. 12mo. 22, [1] pp. 4 tipped-in black & white photographic plates; 1 illustration. SIGNED by Louise Adams Easton, daughter of a prominent Menlo Park businessman and wife to Ansel M. Easton of the early founding families in the San Francisco Bay Area .Publisher's..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. First Illustrated Edition. SIGNED by the author on half-title page. Tall 8vo. 131, [1] pp. Full-page and in-text color illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Tan cloth with color illustrated endpapers, all edges dark green, in publisher's slipcase with color plate on the front. Faint curving of..... More
Paris? Editions du Chemin de la Paix et de la Liberte, 1994. 1st. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Quarto; [16], 251 pp plus 48 pp appendix of personnel, awards and decorations. Illustrated photographic endpapers, numerous photographs, facsimiles, maps. French and English text. Near Fine copy ('CABABA' to bottom page edges). Published on..... More
Bostn: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. 403 pp. Orange cloth with black ruling & lettering in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Light scrape on lower board edges; slight wear to spine ends else a fine copy in near fine dustjacket (wear and light scraping to extremities). Joe Hill, the militant..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. Lovely two-page original watercolor, signed by David Hendrickson, which spreads across the half title and the opposite blank. Additionally SIGNED by Bosworth and Hendrickson. Small 8vo. 188 pp. The book is in near fine condition with decorative bookplate, in very good dusjtacket (price-clipped; minor..... More
A Ridiculomanie, : Chez Georges l'Admirateur, rue de la Raison Perdue, à l'Enseigne de l'Antithèse, [1742]. Date on spine states "1742" and "1742" handwritten in pencil at bottom of title page. 12mo. 60 pp. Text in French. Title page printed in red and black; woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials. Early..... More
Bismarck, N.D: Bismarck Tribune Company, 1916. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author; black & whtie illustrations. Grey cloth with color design of a Sioux chief in war bonnet on upper front and bleck lettering in publisher's grey dustjacket with the same design. A fine copy..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. Small 4to. xxiv, 508, [2] pp. 24 color plates; 24 black & white illustrations; facsimile autograph. Beautifully bound in three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper covered boards; gilt decorative ruling & gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy in a lovely binding. At the beginning..... More
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Deluxe Edition Limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 164 SIGNED by Baumer. SIGNED by Baumer on the colophon. 4to. 483 pp. (many pages uncut). 20 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full vellum binding with gilt illustration & lettering..... More
New York: 1982. First Modern Library Edition. 12 mo. 823 pp. Pen, brush and ink drawings by Rockwell Kent. Black cloth with silver lettering and decoration in publishers illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in priceclipped dustjacket with short closed tear at bottom front edge, else fine. Rockwell Kent’s drawings for..... More
Paso Robles, CA: Printed by Sunset Publishing of San Francisco, (1911). Large 8vo. [48] pp. Most pages are full-page photo-reproductions with descriptions below each plate; map. Color illustrated wrap-around softcover by J. A. Cahill. A hint of wear else a fine copy of an uncommon booklet. Fine promotional and descriptive..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. South Seas Edition. Complete in 32 volumes. 12 mo (7# x 4 1/2"). Edited by Sidney Colvin and W.E. Henley. Red cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to spines; map endpapers. Minor darkening to spines else a uniformly fine set, gilt on spines is..... More
London: Bayard Press, 1923. First Edition Limited to 315 numbered copies, this being No. 91. Large folio. 240 pp. 68 full-page mounted plates (most in color), with titled tissue guards; numerous color and duotone illustrations throughout (some mounted plates). The first color plate is a portrait of Bakst by Amedeo..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First American Edition. 8vo. 314 pp. Tan cloth with black & red lettering in publisher's red printed dustjacket. Minor spotting to upper page edges else fine in fine dustjacket (tiny closed tear to upper front edge). Orwell's dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale..... More
Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1906. First Edition Limited #186 of 300 copies. 12mo; (8), 26, (3)pp; color heraldic plate. Typography by Lucian Bernhard; printed at Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. A Very Good copy (light soil and staining, extremity wear, contemporary previous owner name) in 1/2 vellum and grey laid paper-covered..... More
[Sherman Oaks, CA]: Published by Joseph D'Ambrosio, 1993. One of 25 numbered copies, this being No. 25 SIGNED and dated by D'Ambrosio. 10 x 13 x 13". Written and produced by D'Ambrosio with handmade paper by Madeleine Pestiaux; Illustrations and decorations by D'Ambrosio in addition to 4 mounted photographs by..... More
[London]: Printed and sold for Olive Payne, 1741. 3 parts in one volume. Part I: The Dangerous Voyages of Capt. Thomas James, in Attempting to Discover a North-West Passage to the South-Sea (Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, 1740); Part II: The Sieur Pointis’s Voyage to America, with an Account of..... More