Indianapolis: Charles O. Perrine, (1864). "Third Revised Edition" Hardcover. Orange printed card covers, respined with black cloth, 5.75 x 4 inches, x, 11-202, vi pp. 30 x 38 inch map folded to fit. Imprint above is from title page. Copyright-page notice is dated 1864. Edition statement above is from cover... More
London: Heinemann, 1904. First UK edition. Hardcover. [6], 246 pp., publisher advert precedes half-title, half-title verso with full-page printed ad for "Call of the Wild"; small 8vo, original brick-red cloth with cover design in black and gilt. Handsome copy of the first UK edition of London's 4th short story collection... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp., profusely illustrated by the author; small quarto, reddish brown cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Nice copy of the first edition/first printing of this beautifully illustrated tribute to the early California cowboy. More
NY: Macmillan, 1903. Early reprint. Original greyish-blue cloth with gilt spine title and title in white lettering on front cover, octavo, 256pp + publisher catalogue at rear. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. The first printing of this collaborative novel in letters left the authors' names entirely absent from the book... More
NY: Macmillan, 1909. First edition, first printing. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and forest green; small octavo; 411 pp, ads. Monochrome frontispiece by the Kinneys. Handsome first edition of London's autobiographical of his young manhood and beginnings as a writer. BAL 11912, Sisson/Martens page 42. More
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343 pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested first issue with 2 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
New York: Century Co. 1912. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Dark green pictorial cloth with cover design in gilt, blue, and gray; x, 284 pp., illustrated with 31 monochrome plates and 3 folding maps. John Muir's guide to the Yosemite was begun at the suggestion of Muir's friend Robert Underwood... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1965-72. First editions. 9 (of 10) volumes, original brown cloth; octavos; various paginations, illustrated, including color frontispiece and folding map in first volume. Lacking index volume. Biographies of hundreds of the intrepid mountain men of the far west. A monumental work of scholarship. More
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First edition. 5 volume set, original brown cloth with titles and decoration in gilt, quartos (8.5 x 10.5 inches), approx. 400 pages per volume. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color plates, including large tri-fold frontispiece - a panoramic photo in color of the exposition. The... More
Rochester: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated text and illustrations printed on doubled leaves, octavo, vellum spine and Japanese paper over boards. Many full-page color illustrations, 2 double-page illustrations, initial letters and Chinese characters printed in red. Slipcase. An interesting presentation of this facetious essay on... More
Natick, MA: Alphabet Press, (1985). First edition. Original white cloth; small quarto; unpaginated. Color reproductions throughout. Illustrated catalogue of the posters of the Berkeley artist. More
NY: Harper & Brothers, (1945). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Original gray cloth with cover design blocked in orange and dark green, octavo, 131 pp. White on green pictorial endpapers. First printing of this classic children's story. First edition stated on copyright page with publisher's printing codes "10-5" and "I-U"... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1897. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volume set, xviii, 259; vi, (261) - 522 pp., illustrated title pages, frontispieces, 25 photogravure plates; small octavos, grass green cloth with gilt titles and ornaments. A handsome presentation with superb photogravures. BAL 20193. More
NY: Edwin Markham Press, (1923). Reprint. Original brown pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, black, white, and dark blue, octavo, xiv, 400 pp, 64 b/w photo plates (most with 2 images per plate) color map frontis. A native of Oregon, Markham wrote one of the most popular poems of all time;... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. First edition. Original beige cloth and orange boards; quarto; ix, 48 pp. A beautifully printed edition of this important overland narrative. Howes B433. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1987. First edition. Folio (10 x 14 inches), original linen spine and pictorial boards, pp. xiii, 199. Illustrated by Charles Shaw. Printed sheet from the printer - Wind River Press - apologizing for the publication delay laid in. Limited to 450 copies. This copy... More
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested second issue with 3 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested first issue with 2 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
[Sacramento: Governor's Office. Office of Planning and Research, 1979]. First edition. Hardcover. vi, 118 pp., profusely illustrated with maps, charts, tables, graphs, photos, etc.; large folio (18.25 x 15.75 inches), dark blue leatherette bookcloth spine and blue cloth boards. In important study of an all-important resource in the richest and... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1900. First edition thus. 2 volumes, original blue pictorial cloth with floral design blocked in green and yellow, gilt titles; [iv], xxxv, 310; 308 pp. photogravure portrait of Helen Hunt Jackson, 24 full page plates with captioned tissue guards and 26 vignette chapter heads by... More
Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V (1796/97). First edition thus. Hardcover. xvi, 385 pp. 2 folding maps; small quarto, contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine, morocco lettering piece. First French edition of Thomas Howel's "A Journal of the Passage from India, by a Route Partly Unfrequented through Armenia and... More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. vi, 329 pp.; octavo, red cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. This reprint not listed in Woodbridge. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1930. Riverside Library edition. Hardcover. [4], 251 pp.; octavo, red cloth with gilt titles, pictorial jacket. Woodbridge bibliography suggests 1930 as the date for the first printing in the Riverside Library. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd (1940s). "Thrushwood Edition" Hardcover. vi, 329 pp., color frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull, pictorial endpapers, octavo, pale green cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Latest copyright notice is for 1933. Identified as "Thrushwood Edition" on jacket spine and rear panel. Woodbridge bibliography suggests the 1940s date ("194[?]"). More
London: Heinemann, (1964-1975). First 5 volumes are later printings, the last 7 are first editions, first printings. Hardcover. Small octavos, publisher's uniform red cloth, various paginations, dustjackets. A nice set of this acclaimed series of novels. Original publications date from 1951-1975. Our set with 5 reprints: "A Question of Upbringing"... More