Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In publisher's original shrinkwrap.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In publisher's original shrinkwrap.
New York: John Day Company, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A semi-autobiographical novel of adventures in the American West, seeking and losing fortunes. Minor wear to the vividly illustrated jacket, now in a protective plastic cover, with creasing to the head and tail of the spine and a short, closed tear.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. First American edition of Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", translated into English by Jay Rubin. Unclipped jacket ($25.95) with advance reviews beginning on the front flap and continuing on the back flap. Slight wear to upper and lower edges of both jacket and.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12" x 9". Richly illustrated and beautifully printed, bound in grey cloth in a matching slipcase. This is #172 of 300 copies. The grey cloth covering the slipcase shows very minor wear.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1903. Woodward, Alice B. Hardcover. Grosset & Dunlap edition, in an illustrated cloth cover, with illustrations by Alice B. Woodward. Slight wear to extremities, previous owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper, slight toning to the pages throughout. 496pp, illustrated plates. 8.25 x 5.5".....
Totowa New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 1981. Hardcover. 8.5"x5.75". A collection of five recollections of Wittgenstein by those who knew him: his sister Hermine, Fania Pascal, F.R. Leavis, John King, M. O'C. Drury. No dustjacket, red cloth binding, in fine condition.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1939. Davenport, W.R. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated punning verse from Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. One of five hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The book is dedicated "To his.....
Griffith & Farran, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Interestingly enough, Charles Dickens heard this ghost story second hand, used it in his magazine, then was contacted by Thomas Heaphy, the original author who claimed to experience it first hand. This rare volume includes the correspondence between Thomas Heaphy and Charles Dickens.....
Insight Editions, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of DreamWorks' interpretation of the comic book superhero genre. Very slight wear to the extremities of the jacket, while the illustrated cover and 156 pages are wonderfully bright and clean, including the fold-out pages. 10.25 x11.25". As a......
Escondido, California: Outdoor Pictures, 1963. No Binding. An unusual Bible study wheel designed by the missionary Henry J Westphal. Double sided, with twelve wheels, in original box. The inner lid provides instructions: "With only 12 tabs on each side to dial, and the Bible at hand for fuller study, this.....
Rochester, N.Y. Yawman and Erbe Mfg. Co., 1916. Hardcover. Scarce early guide to changing filing techniques and equipment. From the introduction: 'An up-to-date knowledge of filing systems is indispensable to the competent office assistant, bookkeeper or stenographer. If this knowledge has not been secured at some time during the student's.....
George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hardcover. The story of the Happy Hollow Farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Lighton, a fiction writer, bought the run-down farm in 1908. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 5.25" x 7.75". Olive green cloth boards with white titles, mounted.....
London: John Haviland, 1624. Hardcover. 11.5" x 8" Queen Mary was born on the 8th of December 1542 and died on the 8th February 1587. "Mary's life, marriages, lineage, alleged involvement in plots against Queen Elizabeth, and subsequent execution established her as a divisive and highly romanticized historical character..." Elaborate.....
Soft cover. The catalog of the exhibition presented by the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, "the first exhibition outside Japan to focus on 19th and 20th century Japanese working class clothing made from recycled cotton materials. The unique textures of these recycled textiles and the simple, elegant design.....