New York: Viking Press, 1941. Second Printing Before Publication. Cloth. SIGNED by Steinbeck on title page. Large 8vo. 143pp. 136 black & white photo-illustrations. Original cream buckram stamped in green; top edges stained green in colored pictorial dustjacket. Very good (foxing to covers) in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 198pp. Bibliography; Index. 23 wood engravings; photo-reproductions; color chapter headings. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman and bound by Bela Blau. Black cloth spine over illustrated paper boards; gilt lettering. A fine copy, without dustjacket as issued. Los Angeles Miscellany No..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Large 8vo. 48 pp. Color illustrations by Jean Charlot. Lime green cloth with brown illustration & lettering in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket; a lovely copy. Jean Charlot is known as one of the world's foremost pictorial authorities on..... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Alamar Media, 2018. 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 only protege..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1986. First Edition. 4to. 72 pp. color and black & white illustrations. Essays by Roger Aiken and Richard Lorenz. Stiff color illustrated wrappers in fine condition (small owner name inside front cover). The uncommon catalog for a retrospective exhibition held at the Monterey..... More
Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1980. First Edition. Original wrappers. Square 8vo. 32pp (unpaginated). Color and black & white photo-reproductions. Listing of 400 exhibition items. Color printed staplebound wraps. Light wear; creasing to lower front edge & corner); a near fine copy. Catalog for Malibu tile exhibition June..... More
Paris: 1867-1870. First Edition. Folio. 72 numbered & titled etchings; Table of Contents. Housed in publisher's illustrated portfolio (brown cloth spine over tan paper covered boards; remnants of string ties). Some wear to portfolio; tanning to page edges; scattered light foxing; a very good and complete set of this scarce..... More
San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1981. First Edition. 4to. 96 pp. Bibliography. Color plates; black & white illustrations. 8pp. Catalog for Exhibition June 18 to October 18, 1981 laid in. Includes essays by Ansel Adams, Don Haggerty, Edith Hamlin, Dan Dixon, Constance Dixon and others. White linen cloth..... More
Osaka, Japan: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 36 pp. Text in English & Japanese. Striking color serigraph illustrations accompanied by Earle's poetry. Glossy paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket; still in original plastic sleeve. An unusual title on Earle's works; as..... More
Denison TX: Denison Heritage, Inc., 2001. First Edition. Oblong Octavo, (iv) 60pp; SIGNED by the author. Extensively illustrated w/photographs, drawings, etc. Illustrated wrappers in fine condition, as new. Based on the prolific career of Mr. Mayes, the book shows dozens of his residences and commercial buildings, along with this Denison..... More
London: Spring Books, No date. 4to. 47 pp text; 60 full page plates (many in color) with desciption facing each plate. Translated by Dr. Greta Horn. Cream linen in publilsher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (small loss to spine head; crease and short closed tear..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2019. First Edition. 4to. 51 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Chronologinal Checklist; Bibliography. Stiff color wrappers in fine condition, still in original shrinkwrap. A biography of Henry Evans, a man of many talents - a rare book dealer, a printer, and an..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey History & Art Association, 2003. First Edition. Quarto, (vi), 61 pages. As New copy - unread. Numerous illustrations, many appearing here for the first time. Produced on the occasion of two new exhibitions of Mora's art and life. Included are 'A Chronology of Mora's Life,' 'A Collection..... More
Washington DC: Bollingen Foundation/Pantheon Books, 1948. First Edition. Quarto; xx, 113pp plus 99 pages of photographic illustrations. A Near Fine copy in publisher's 1/4 blue linen and black cloth with Bollingen's design to front cover, spine lettered in gold in edgeworn dust jacket (spine faded). From the library of Samson..... 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: 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
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