(Los Angeles): Ebell Club of Los Angeles; 75th Diamond Anniversary Committee, 1969. First Edition. Quarto; 47pp. Photo-illustrations. Near Fine copy in stapled illustrated wraps in original glassine. 'The Ebell of Los Angeles is an educational and philanthropic organization founded by women, for women in 1894. Our mission is to participate..... More
Baltimore, MD: Press of George W. King Ptg. Co., 1912. First Edition. INSCRIBED 'Rudolph Glaser./With the compliments of/Caswell Grave' (the editor) inked to ffep. Glaser has then added 'My work P. 328/R.W. Glaser' in pencil. Octavo; 376pp. Maps, tables, plates. Spine scuffed and stained, 2" scrape to front board, hinge..... More
Namur, Belgium: Secrétariat des Publications, Facultés Universitaires, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. INSCRIBED by the author to noted Stanford historian Lewis Spitz. Octavo; xi, 410pp. Index. Preface by H. de Lubac. A Very Good copy. Etude de la lettre a P. Volz et de la “Ratio Verae Theologiae” (1518). (Bibliothèque de..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. First Edition. INSCRIBED to noted Stanford historian Lewis Spitz. Octavo; x, 3017pp. Fine copy in blue cloth lettered in gold in printed dust jacket. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought XXIV). More
Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; xvii, 382pp. Bibliography; Index. A Fine unread copy in publisher's illustrated boards. (Phaenomenologica 209). The first study in 50 years of the theory of the social world of Husserl; a new approach to Husserlian phenomenology and a new perspective on the relationship between phenomenology..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. First Edition. Octavo; 512pp. Near Fine copy in original blind-embossed black cloth lettered in gold at spine. More
Ottawa: Collectors Research Monograph, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; iv, 31pp. Fine copy in publisher's yellow wrappers lettered in black. B/w iIllustrations throughout. From the library of noted numismatist Howard Franklin Bowker with his address label at rear. More
Leiden: Brill, 2005. First Edition. Octavo; x, 285-682pp. Index. As New copy in illustrated blue binding. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavos; x, 597pp, 13 maps; viii, 536pp, 21 maps; frontis photo of Jackson in each volume. Laid in is the publisher's information flyer. Complete in two Fine volumes in red cloth (lettered in gold at spine) in grey paper-covered slipcase with..... More
np: The Scouting Fleet, (1924?). First Edition. Octavo; 16pp plus map of the island ('Culebra, Guide Map of Bays, Roads and Trails') inside rear cover. Near Fine copy in brown printed wraps, now protected in a later stiff wraps cover (with label to front) produced to provide an overview of..... More
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d., [ca. 1890s]. First Edition. Miniature. 3 3/4 x 3 1/4". [10] pp. 5 full-page chromolithographs. Illustrations by T. R. Kennedy, etc. Designed at the Studios in England and printed by the "Rafolith" Process at the Fine Art Works in Saxony. Color..... More
Stanford CA: Stanford University Libraries, [2008]. First Edition. Quarto; [20] p. + 1 sheet (folded to [8] leaves in pocket) on inside fold-out lower cover as panoramic view of The Cordillera Blanca; numerous photo-reproductions. A fine copy; as new. Published in conjuction with an exhibition in the Bing Wing of..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 8vo. ix, 381 pp. 8 photographic plates. Beige cloth with green lettering & ruling in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Light wear to extremities else a fine copy. "Earth Horizon" is both an account of Mary Austin's personal life and of her development as a writer. As..... More
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. INSCRIBED "To ----/with every good wishWallace 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..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Sixth printing. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "Bon Appetit/to Penny/Julia Child" on half-title page. Square 4to. 511pp. More than 800 recipes and 600 color photographs. Near fine (light, general wear) in near fine dustjacket (slight fading to spine; light wear to extremities; minor on rear). This is..... More
Chigwell, England: Storyville Publications, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. xvii, 437, [1] pp. Index; Bibliography; Addenda and Errata. Illustrations. Revised by Laurie Wright. Special contributions by Frank Driggs, Ernest Grossmann, Harold S. Kaye, Steven Lasker, Keith Nichols, Howard Rye, and Max E. Vreede. Black cloth with gilt illustrations & lettering; issued..... More
Palm Desert, CA: Artfrance, Danis-Stinson Gallery, 1983. First Edition. Square 8vo. 14 pp text; [10] pp color plates; [2] pp Chronology.Text in English. Full-page black & white portrait. Stiff white glossy wrappers with black lettering in near fine condition (slight tanning & creasing to covers). Catalogue for exhibition held under..... More
New York and Frankfurt: US and Europe Fund Raising Project for Peter Johnson, 1965. First and only edition. 8vo. 78 pp. Black & white photographic images. Stiff photo-illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; pages slightly toned). Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, 1904 – 1967) was..... More
New York: Cowles Magazines, Inc., 1950-1951. First Edition. Original wrappers. Folio; generally ~ 120-130pp. Illustrations. Edgewear, a few issues split at spine and pages detached (not collated but appear complete); spines chipped with some loss. A complete run of this short-lived vanity (as opposed to commercial!) magazine created by Fleur..... More
Shelburne, Ontario & Sauk City, WI: George A. Vanderburgh, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2002. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To ***, from a couple of ardent fans! Buzz Rainer/Eldon Dedini." Below the signatures is an 8-line prose written most likely by Buzz Ranier. 4to. (52) pp, unpaginated, printed single sided. Introduction..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. xviii, 351-876 pp. Index. Publisher's gold colored cloth with black lettering in fine condition (2 small spots on ffep). Volume 2, subtitled "The MGM Era," is devoted to sessions done for the Verve label from its purchase by MGM in 1961 until..... More
Paris: Henri Plon, 1869. First Edition. 8vo. 451, (1) pp. 13 illustrated plates (including 3 fold-outs); large folding color map titled "Malaisie et Indochine Carte Speciale pour Java, Siam et Canton Voyage Autour du Monde par Le Comte de Beauvoir". Although the titles page states 14 photo-gravures are included, the..... More
Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, 1896. First Edition. SIGNED label "Compliments of J. J. Crawford, State Mineralogist" affixed to ffep; additionally stamped similarly on second page. Large 8vo. xiii, [1], 726 pp. Illustrations from photographs, maps (including long fold-out titled "Geological Map of the Mother Lode Belt in El Dorado Co."..... More
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco: South Moulton Company, 1923. Booklovers' Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. 4to. Illustrated by 16 photogravures, 32 full-page duotone plates and more than 1100 half-tone cuts of birds in life, nests, eggs, and favorite haunts, from photographs chiefly by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce..... More
[Newton, Ia.]: Privately Printed, 1940. Third Edition. 8vo. [53] pp, unpaginated. Stiff cream wrappers printed with green decoration to front cover; black lettering; in publisher's accetate dustjacket. Printed complement's label from the niece of Ms. Coffin to Chapter AW of the California P.E.O. Minor wear else a fine copy. Alice..... More