Opus Arte, 2006. DVD. 6.75"x5.5"x7.75". Recordings of 11 complete operas on twelve discs, from archive recordings of performances from the Teatro alla Scala. All discs and pamphlets are present. A great opportunity to view both old favorites and rarely performed operas. Includes: Verdi, 'I Vespri Siciani'; Verdi 'I due Foscari';.....
New York: Psychedelic Review, 1966. Soft cover. 9" x 6" Number 8. A compilation of essays, research and book reviews by writers incuding Margaret A. Paul, Timothy Leary, Daniel X. Freedman, Raymond Prince, Charles Savage, Walter H. Clark, Robert E. Mogar, Harold R. Stern, Robert Wolff, Arthur Kleps, and George.....
Galerie Morpheus International, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe's response to Dante's Inferno. With an introduction by Tanith Lee and a foreword from Barlowe discussing his inspiration. Slight wear to the corners of the jacket, protected in a mylar cover. Bumping to the front and back upper corners.....
Manila: Operation Brotherhood International, 1974. Hardcover. The definitive history of 'Operation Brotherhood', the Filipino humanitarian project to provide medical care for refugees in Vietnam. From Carlos P. Romulo's foreword: 'It is a meticulously detailed history, and it is not likely to be superseded. As Father Bernad tells the story, it.....
MFA Publications, 2008. Soft cover. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked.
New York: The Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. The Modern Library's 1932 "Adult Selection" of Burton's Arabian Nights, in scarce jacket. As the jacket promises, "The perpetual enchantment and multi-colored pageantry of the Arabian Nights are offered here in Sir Richard Burton's rendering for the delectation of adult minds. Shahrazad spins.....
Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12.5" x 10" The late French-Russian artist Marc Chagall is known for his distinct abstract style that merged Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism. Throughout his long career, he created dream-like figurative and narrative art that explored his Jewish identity and life in Russia.....
Chapman and Hall, 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, mixed state. Frontis and 39 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens third novel and was issued in monthly installments March 1838 October 1839 before it was published as this single volume. An instant success, it both solidified.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A stated first edition, SIGNED by Julia Child and her husband Paul. As the jacket promises: "All the glorious dishes she cooks for company on her new television series. Detailed recipes for everything she demonstrates or even mentions, plus priceless information.....
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing, SIGNED by Cosindas to a previous owner, dated June 12, 1982. With an essay by Tom Wolfe. Price clipped jacket, with minor sunning of spine. 143pp. 12 x10.5"
TASCHEN, 2016. Hardcover. Using key pieces of art, this book introduces the Dada movement and its impact on modern art. In addition to some minor shelf-wear, 1 corner on the back cover is slightly bumped. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
MFA Publications, 1992. Soft cover. Book has a little wear to the corners of the cover but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of "The story of the first trip afoot through the depths of the Grand Canyon by the author of the Thousand-Mile Summer". Unclipped jacket with wear to corners and small tears to head and tail of spine. Slight.....
Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. Hardcover. 13"x11.5". A beautifully printed collection of photographs, selected by Callahan and reproduced using 300-line screen offset process on Warren's Offset Enamel paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. The collection is included by Andrew Roth in 'The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books.....
San Francisco: Eastside Editions, 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A large accordion book of prints by Art Hazelwood, inspired by Francois Rabelais, in a signed limited edition of twenty-five, of which this is no. 1. The ten prints form a continuous image measuring 18" x 288". They are accompanied by the.....
The Olympia Press, 1958. Soft cover. After his return from Paris, Henry Miller wrote this novella about his in Paris in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared an apartment in Clichy as struggling writers. Description: Second printing. 6.75" x 4.25". Original grey, black, and yellow wrappers over.....
The Book Club of California, 1956. Hardcover. From the Prospectus: "Early Printing in California encompasses the whole field of typography in the State from 1833-1850. Not only has Mr. Rahey explored thoroughly the output of the Zamorano Press--the first in California--but also the products of other presses, including those of.....
Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Hardcover. Herrick's early utopian novel, in a repaired dust jacket. From author's description from the dust jacket: 'My effort is to picture a new human society of a future age busy with its most important task, with the supreme adventure and to present some of the.....
New York: Walker & Company, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED ABC's of the ocean, illustrated with drawings, diagrams and photographs, from Aquanaut to Zooplankton. Edgwear. Spine is cracked , chipped near head and tail, and slanted. Light toning. 9"x11.5"
Oso Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. Fine hardcover of Jack Bowden & Tom Dill's history of the Modoc Line, "from the roots of the narrow-gauge Nevada-California-Oregon Railway in 1880 to the final operation of a through train by Union Pacific on June 30, 1997" (from the back cover). No jacket as issued.....
DC Comics, 2009. Amanda Connor. Soft cover. There is a small crease on the back cover, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
Oakland, California: Printed by Fontes Printing Co., 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Jack LaLanne, "Healthfully yours, Jack La Lanne". Presumed first edition, no further printings noted. Slightest wear to illustrated boards, with early price sticker on front cover. An early enthusiastic reader has made a neat pencil note to.....
Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Hardcover. This classic children's book is signed by the author on the title page. Book includes a poster on the rear pastedown. The dust jacket has some minor shelf-wear, but otherwise the book is near fine and pages are clean and unmarked.
HP Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An intimate chinese cookbook, celebrating the passing down of recipes through the generations. The dust jacket on this copy has a tear on the top left edge of the spine as well a tear on the back, upper left edge. The dust jacket is.....
The Book Club of California, 1957. Hardcover. This is a limited edition (1 in 400 copies) of a selection of Mark Twain's letters to the Territorial Enterprise from 1855-1856. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Outer cover is has pale orange and blue floral print with title in.....