Shorewood, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. With a foreword by Jakucho Setouchi and essays by Teizo Taki and Robert T. Singer, an afterword by the artist, a biography and a list of plates. Slightest wear to corners of heavy jacket. Cream cloth covers, tan endpapers, bright glossy pages.....
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.....
New York: Harmony Books, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.5" Stated first edition. Signed on front cover of dust jacket. Protected in mylar cover. Ticket stub tucked inside front cover dated Friday November 20th, 1987 at the Circle Star Center, San Carlos. See photo.
San Francisco: Boothby's World Drinks Co., 1930. Soft cover. Enlarged edition of "The Standard Authority" by Boothby, bartender at San Francisco's Palace Hotel for many years, briefly a member of the California State Assembly and self-identified "Premier Mixologist". The back panel advertises Swallows, the de luxe edition of the same.....
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Four volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
Hurst and Blackett, 1855. Hardcover. Lt. Campbell Hardy was an officer of the Royal Artillery in New Brunswick. In this interesting peek into the 19th century New World, he documents his travels exploring moose territory in Canada. Description: 8vo. Vol I 304 pages. Vol II 299 pages + 1 page.....
Lunwerg Editores, 2009. Hardcover. Dust Jacket has some minor shelf-wear, but otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.
San Francisco: Carnahan Publishing Company, 1902. Hardcover. The second edition of this book; the first is considered rare. The story of a young girls first trip to Yosemite and her harrowing encounter with a mountain lion; she is saved from danger by a stranger. This is believed to be the.....
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.....
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994. Hardcover. SIGNED on the half title page by Julia Child. Later printing of Child's seventh book. In the introduction Child reflects on the changes since her first books were published in the 1960's, and outlines her plan for a practical resource for cooking today. Glossy.....
New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. Soft cover. First edition of the poet's first book, inscribed on the title page, "With best wishes, to Shirley and Christie, Amy Clampitt". Printed by the Washington Street Press on laid paper with green wrappers. Sunning to the stapled spine. [vi],69, [1]pp. 8.5 x......
Virginia, Nev. F. Boegle, 1889. Soft cover. An early tourist's guide to Nevada, with a focus on the Comstock Mines but expanding to cover the rest of the state. From the introduction: "The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Soft cover. The first appearance of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist were published in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837. By April of the same year the American publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard, eager for new Dickens material, published.....
Frederick A. Stokes, 1902. Hardcover. Text by Therese O. Deming, illustrations by Edwin Willard Deming. Yellow cloth covers with inlaid illustration on front are rubbed but fully intact. First few pages are beginning to crack at the hinge but are also intact.
Marysville, Kansas. Published by the Author, 1938. Soft cover. 8.75"x6". An account of one of the first groups of '49ers who made the difficult journey to California, and were said to have given Death Valley its name. 130 pages, illustrated with photos including frontispiece of the author and one pullout.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. Hardcover. First edition of Farquharson's monograph on the theory of voting, whose publication was delayed by his insistence that the logical choice diagrams be printed in color. Unclipped jacket; laid in errata slip; stamped numbers on free front endpaper; foxing to edges of text.....
State Univ of New York Pr, 1985. Soft cover. Michael E. Fox's study of the dhole, distant cousin of the domestic dog. As the back cover promises, "It presents all the facts currently known about the species, as it makes a passionate plea for conservation and the reevalution of our.....
The Book Club of California, 1931. Special Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Folio, natural morocco backstrip with four raised bands, stamped in blind, tan cloth boards. Seven small drawings, sixteen full-page drawings, and two folding maps. Also includes the one-page letter announcing the publication of volume in.....
Sun Publishers,The Netherlands, 2005. Soft cover. A thorough study of water management in the Dutch urban landscape. Introduced with a folding time line on stiff paper. Old sticker on rear panel, slight shelf wear to stiff paper covers. Pages clean and unmarked. 220pp. 11 x 10". As a larger book.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. William Barss. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The sci-fi legend Asimov covers the underlying principles of using the slide rule in this book, starting with simple mathematics, all the way up to logarithms. This book serves both for the unfamiliar to those comfortable using a slide rule.....
Princeton University Press, 1982. Soft cover. 'Challenging the established history of sixteenth-century English literature, John N. King demonstrates the presence and significance of a native Protestant literary tradition that emerged out of the radical Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553). Standard authorities have assumed a hiatus between the.....
New York: 1901. Hardcover. This slim work begins with a preface by Henry B. Alexandar, arguing for roulette as a game to play at home ('In my opinion, Roulette is the King of all games'), before offering an 'explanation' of the technical and French vocabulary, an 'illustration of the table'.....
El Paso: Paso al Sol, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Marcus "For Lisa" on the title page. The glossy illustrated dust jacket is bright, the pages are clean and unmarked. 79pp. 10.25 x 8.5"
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition copy of this translation of the great French author's novel. Dust jacket has two small tears and some minor wear to the edges. It has not been price clipped. The grey cloth-bound book has some slight bending to.....
1935. Soft cover. Stated second printing of August, 1935. A souvenir of the "Palace of Water" exhibit at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935, celebrating the Colorado River Aqueduct, then under construction. 12 unnumbered stapled leaves with photographs and statistics, folded within stiff illustrated color wrappers, designed to.....