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
New York: I. B. Fischer, 1946. First Edition. 6 magnificent color prints (20 x 16") of humming birds, housed in publisher's tan printed portfolio wrappers. The prints are in fine condition; the colors are sharp and bright. These beautiful prints are suitable for framing. "A portfolio of six magnificent color... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. First American Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. 8vo. Index. Errata slip laid in. Various paginatioins. Color and black & white illustrations; musical scores. Hardcovers in publisher's various color dustjackets. Near fine in very good dustjackets (minor wear to extremities; light fading to spines, more so... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. First Edition, Limited #705 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on colophon. 8vo. xv, 225 pp. Bibliography; Index. Reproductions of 80 water-color sketches by flower painter F. Schuyler Mathews; black & white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; map endpapers;... More
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1885. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. iii, Part I: 118 pp; Part II: 114 pp. Color fold-out map depicting the area bounded by Stockton to Kearney streets and California to Washington streets. N.B - the area of the map north of Washington is roughly... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. 'First Edition, after the printing of 134 De Luxe copies (stated). Hardcover. INSCRIBED by William S. Hart... 'And now he belongs/to the ages/"One of Charlies friends"/William S. Hart' and further 'To my friends/George and Rosalind Shaffer/From Bill Hart/Xmas 1930.' (George Shaffer was a...... More
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; viii, 116pp plus photographs, tables, maps, 14 plates, several in color. Stiff grey printed wrappers bound into tan boards (front hinge cracked) with lettering to spine. A near fine copy. Carnegie Publication 228A. More
Los Angeles: Published by the author, (1937). First Edition. 8vo. [63 pp], unpaginated. Single-page map. A full-page illustration of various California missions face each text page. Tan wrappers with black illustration & lettering to front cover. Minor wear; a near fine copy. A guide to California missions, containing something of... More
Yosemite National Park: U.S. National Park Service in Charge of Information, 1920. First Edition. Tall 12mo. 98 pp. Fold map; 2 single page maps. Stiff tan wrappers with black illustration of Half-Dome in Yosemite Valley and black lettering. Minor wear, small scrape to spine end, else a fine copy. Ansel... More
San Mateo, CA: Flite-Stops Publishing, 1947. First Edition. Small 8vo. [248 pp], unpaginated. Illustrations. Flexible brown boards, two ring clasps, gilt lettering. Light general wear, slight rubbing to covers, previous owner name, upper corner of rear blank endpaper torn off; a very good copy of an uncommon pilot's flight manual... More
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1900. Early printing. 8vo. 274, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout, including frontispiece of Tom Sawyer, by True Williams. Publisher's blue cloth with black & gilt decorationto boards and spine. Some wear to extremities; white mark to upper front cover; previous owner name & date to... More
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1923. First Edition. 4to. 148, [1] pp; 64 plates (8 in color). Index. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering. Some wear to extremities; small remnant of label to lower spine; front hinge cracked; foxing, not affecting the plates; minor pencil notations; a good copy of an... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1914. First American Edition. 8vo. 416 pp. Original blue-grey cloth with gilt lettering. Wear to extremities; some soiling and fading to boards; a good copy. In this title, the author portrays society in China and carefully describes the conditions which led to the outbreak of the... More
[Berkeley, CA]: Published by the author, ca. 1920s. Small 8vo. 23, (1) pp. Original red wrappers with gilt letting. a very good copy (some fading and spotting to covers). "These proverbs were originally published serially in the Chung Mei Chronicle [Chung Mei Home for Chinese Boys, Berkeley] under the caption... More
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1913. First American Edition. 8vo. xvii, 447 pp. Black & white illustrations; map. Original rose colored cloth with gilt lettering. Darkening to covers, more so to spine; minor wear to extremities; a very good copy. The author, Special Correspondent at Peking, spent twelve years observing and... More
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1861. Second Edition. 8vo. xii, 13-448, [8 pp advertisements] pp. 2 single page maps of Nagasaki Harbor & City, and of the Pei Ho River; 8 color lithograph plates of portraits of the Embassadors and their principal officials. Later cloth binding with black lettering to spine. Light... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Small 8vo. 125, [1 pp advertisements] pp. Orange wrappers with black lettering. Fading to front cover & spine; creasing to lower front corner & first two pages; a very good copy. A collection of documents, interviews and articles intended to throw light... More
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1838. First American Edition. Small 8vo. xv, [1], 13-472 pp. Folding frontispiece map; 3 plates with 6 wood-engravings by G. Baxter. Later green cloth binding with gilt-lettered maroon title label; Ex-libris with cancelled library blindstamp & ink number; else a very good copy. Walter Henry Medhurst... More
Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 155 pp. Frontispiece portrait; photo-illustrated plates. Card tipped inside front cover titled "History of the South China Mission" by Harriet N. Noyes. presented by her sisters." Brown cloth with black lettering in near fine condition. Harriet Newell Noyes... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 467 pp. 12 plates, including frontispiece; folding map. Publisher's purple blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration of a ship on front cover; gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Light general wear; some internal foxing; else a near fine copy... More
Oakland: Mills College, 1934-1941. First Edition. Square 8vo. Various paginations. Black & white plates. Advertisements. Orignal color wrappers bound in to dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fine condition. An uncommon & complete collection of the Friends of Far Eastern Art at Mills College exhibiton catalogs; oddly, no... More
New York: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. vii, 408pp + [3pp advertisements]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Wear to extremities; previous owner name & stamp; minor pencil notations at rear; else a near fine copy. As US consul general in Shanghai, China (1893–1897), the author gained considerable... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1945. First Edition. Original cloth. 4to. x, 233 pp. Index. 114 plates; 2 maps. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear; else a fine copy. Number Four in the Museum Studies Series published by the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. Although this study is concerned... More
Pullman, WA: State College of Washington Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 176 pp. Black & white photographic plates. Includes List of the Students of the Chinese Education Mission and their subsequent occupations in China. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine & brown illustration on front cover. Light... More
Hong Kong: K. Weiss, 1953. First Edition. Original boards. Small 8vo. 151 pp. Bibliography; illustrations. Red cloth spine over grey printed boards in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (offsetting from dustjacket flaps) in good dustjacket (wear to extremities; short closed tear; some paper loss on spine). Includes regulations and... More