Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1975. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 71 pp. Illustrations; maps. Bibliography. Photographic credits go to Mildred Waltrip and Steve Crouch. Black & white illustrated wrappers in fine condition. An Archaeological History of the Monterey Peninsula. More about Primitives In Paradise: The Monterey Peninsula Indians
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 254, [16] pp. Bibliography; List of Ranchos of Monterey County; Index. Many photo illustrations; map endpapers. Fine in near fine dustjacket (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities). A comprehensive and readable account of the history of Monterey, from the Native... More about Monterey: The Presence of the Past
New York: Doubleday, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. xxxvi, [3], 183; [1], 185-383 pp. With photographs with tissue guards throughout (45 by Edward Curtis), 39 color plates with tissue guards; in-text illustrations, and 5 maps (1 fold-out showing routes of Alaska and the United States). Includes list of members... More about Harriman Alaska Expedition(Volumes I & II
Santa Clara/Spokane: CA. Mission Studies Assn./Arthur H. Clark Co., 2004. First Edition, Limited to 150 Hardcover copies. Hardcover. Octavo, 153 pp. Illustrations. Notes; Glossary; Refereces Cited; Index. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Original tan cloth stamped in burgundy on front cover and spine. Fine condition, as new. The diary and copybook... More about The Diary and Copybook of William E.P. Hartnell: Visitador General of the Missions of Alta...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio; xii; 105pp. 6 page index. 41 illustrations and black & white photo reproductions. Limited to 450 copies, this copy is in Fine condition. More about A Typographical Masterpeice: An account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert...
Kestrel Press: Carmel Valley, CA, 1991. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 737pp. Bibliography; Index. With more than 2700 place name entries, 4000 cross references, 610 bibliographic references and 525 map references and citations. Red cloth with gilt lettering; map endpapers in publisher's red printed dustjacket. Near fine (minor splaying to boards)... More about Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary
Vancouver, BC: Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts, [no date]. Music / audio compact disc. Housed in gold & black illustrated folding case. A fine copy, as new. Includes favorite, old time classics such as Grandfather's clock, Quality Time, Healing Hands of Time, the Imperial Clock, Star Dust and As Time... More about Quality Time
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 160 pp color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed paperback in fine condition; as new. still in shrinkwrap. An acclaimed rawhide braider of horse gear, Luis Ortega elevated his craft to collectible art and influenced a generation of... More about Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Publications, 1945. Color pictographic map. Image size 24 3/8" x 18 1/4". short closed tear to upper edge else fine condition; colors are strong and bright. This was the second and smaller California map Jo Mora drew as well as his last map. The Del Monte... More about California (Carte/Map
Carmel, CA: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. SIGNED by Sharon Lawrence. 4to. 55 pp. Photo-illustrations of early Carmel.Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. small stain to front cover else fine. Louis S. Slevin was the first photographer to shoot a full range of black & white images of the fledgling... More about Old Carmel in Rare Photographs by L.S. Slevin (SIGNED
New York: Stage Publishing Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. 4to. 4to. 132, [2] pp. Illustrations (some in color). The personal copy of Beatrice Mathieu with her custom bookplate; TLS to Miss Beatrice Mathieu from the editor tipped in. Special publsher's binding of padded pale green moire cloth with gilt illustration... More about Stage: 1911 Number, August 1936
Oakland, CA: Published by the author, 1905. First Edition. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For Miss Lyke / May Gibbons Cooper). Small 8vo. 50 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including 4 original photographs with location written in pencil, most likely by the author). 11 poems. Handmade paper. Stiff green ribbon tied wrappers; color... More about The Wind of the West Sea and Other Songs (INSCRIBED
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of steadfastness and fidelity... More about Crossing to Safety
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To ----/gratefully/Wallace Stegner.8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of... More about Crossing to Safety (INSCRIBED
Tortilla Flat, AZ, Southwest Publishing, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 166 pp. Appendix. Photo-plates; maps. Rust cloth in fine condition (previous owner name). This book was the basis for the 1949 film "Lust for Gold" starring Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino and Gig Young. "In Thunder Gods Gold are epitomized incredible... More about Thunder Gods Gold. The Fabulous True Story of America's Most Famous Lost Gold Mines
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. 234 pp. Glossary of Indian Words. Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; light scrap to front cover). "In no other book known to me are we brought so close and so... More about Gandhi's Letters to a Disciple
New York: New Directions, 1945. First American Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 292 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Tan cloth with blue & brown lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities with chipping to spine ends). A memoir written by the author about his year-long road trip... More about The Air-Conditioned Nightmare: Volume One
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a.... More about The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes (14 volumes
New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xii, 97pp. A review copy with publisher's slip tipped in. Near Fine copy in rose cloth with black and gold label at spine in very good dust jacket (tanning, edgewear, a couple of small snags at rear). "Today when... More about British Far Eastern Policy
Tokio: The Government Press, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xv, 389pp. Corrigenda and errata slip tipped to ffep. A Very Good copy (bumped corners, light edgewear) in publisher's green cloth, lettered in gold. A retrospective report summarizing the currencies of Japan from 1871 to 1897. Published in 1899 under the... More about Report on the Adoption of the Gold Standard in Japan
London: Trubner and Co., 1882. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; i, 5pp. in yellow printed wrappers. Covers separated, name to front, erasure holes to upper edge. A good copy. Offprint from the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. XIV, Part 1.' 'The Yi or Nuosuo... More about On a Lolo Manuscript Written on Satin
New York: Tiffany Studios, ca. 1900. First Edition. Original wrappers. Octavo in string-tied ivory wrappers with Tiffany Studios logo in gold to front wrapper. Five carpets (Sanctuary, XV Century Ispahan, XIV Century Kuba, XVII Century Oushak, XIX Century Kurdestan) are photographically reproduced in b/w, each image protected with tissue with... More about The Eastern Rug as an Object of Art
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; viii, 280 + 44pp catalog at rear. Spine and front cover detached but present, rear hinge seperating, previous owner name in pencil, else a Good copy in publisher's black cloth lettered in gold with illustration to front cover. William... More about Bits of Old China
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; x, 125pp. A Fine copy in a Near Fine (tanning and some faint discoloration to spine) dust jacket. With ten illustrations and a map of Asia. 'This... book is devoted to a Parisian master who lived asnd worked in the... More about Guillaume Boucher: A French Artist at the Court of the Khans
Denver: Allan Swallow, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 288 pages. Illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; small scrape to "Vardis" on spine). The debate whether Meriwether Lewis committed suicide or was murdered continues to this day. Arguments are made convincingly for both methods. "At... More about Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis