STREAMLINE YOUR MIND.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Original tan cloth, small octavo, 254 pp., pictorial jacket. A self help book by a Professor at Columbia University. Stunning Art Deco jacket design. More
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WINGS: Based on the Paramount Picture. A Lucian Hubbard Production Directed by William Wells,
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, small octavo, 249 pp., photo frontispiece and 14 full-page photographs from the movie, pictorial endpapers, jacket. An aviation story of the Great World War starring Clara Bow. More
A CORPORAL ONCE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo, original brown cloth, 312 pp., pictorial jacket. A story of the cavalry in the Great World War. More
THE LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, original blue cloth, 256 pp + 10 pages publisher ads, photo frontispiece and 6 full-page plates from photographs, pictorial jacket. The Paramount picture this story is based on starred Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. More
DON GYPSY: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
London: John Murray, (1936). First edition. Orange cloth, octavo, pp xvi, 525. Frontispiece and title-page design by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), 6 b/w photos, folding map. A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with..... More
SPANISH RAGGLE-TAGGLE: Adventures with a Fiddle in North Spain
NY: E.P. Dutton, (1935). First US edition. Original red boards, octavo, xv, 488 pp. Frontispiece and title page illustrations by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), jacket. A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with gypsies..... More
SHERMAN AND HIS CAMPAIGNS: A Military Biography.
New York: Charles B Richardson, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 512 pp., + 2 page advert., illustrated with frontispiece, maps, steel-engraved portrait plates; octavo, dark green textured cloth with gilt spine title. More
PRISON LIFE IN THE SOUTH: At Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, During the Years 1864 and 1865.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp. + publisher catalog at rear, 26 engraved illustrations; small octavo, rose cloth with gilt spine title. First person account of captivity in Confederate prisons. Author was apparently a Lieut. in the First New York Dragons. An appendix lists officers..... More
IN AND OUT OF REBEL PRISONS by Lieut. A. Cooper, 12th N. Y. Cavalry.
Oswego: R. J. Oliphant, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 335 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author and 10 engraved illustrations, octavo, original brown cloth with cover design and lettering in black and gilt. Considered a reliable account of captivity and escape from Confederate prisons. More
MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF SECESSION From the Original Manuscripts of Johnson Hagood,, Brigadier General, C. S. A. : I - Hagoods 1st 12 Months S. C. V.; II - Hagood's Brigade.
Coumbia, S. C. State Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 496 pp., frontispiece portratit of the author, several maps in the text, 1 folding map; octavo, original green cloth with gilt title. Johnson Hagood (1829-1898) rose from private to Brigadier General during the course of the war. He served as governor..... More
THIS FIERCE INFINITY.
Malibu: Malibu Press, (1958). Limited edition. Hardcover. Original tan bookcloth, octavo, 72 pp., 10 "carveline block" illustrations by the author. Poems and art in celebration of the southern California desert. This copy #52 of a limited edition. More
THE RAVEN (LE CORBEAU).
New York: Walker and Co. in association with the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, (1968). Limited edition. Octavo, cream boards with b/w cover illustration, (viii), [22] pp. 6 b/w illustrations by Manet. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, this #216. Introductory text by Philip Hofer followed..... More
ANDO EN CUEROS (I WALK STARK-NAKED).
Bosque New Mexico: Chinaberry Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, orange cloth, 138 pp., color reproductions of the artist's work throughout, acetate jacket. Signed by the artist on front free endpaper. Limited edition of 2000 copies, including a special limited edition of 350 copies. More
BASKIN - SCULPTURE - DRAWINGS - PRINTS.
New York: George Braziller, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, quarto, 170 pp., 130 black and white illustrations, jacket. The artist's own selection of his finest works. More
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND ELEGANT PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES: Being a Grand Copper-Plate Repository of Elegance, Taste, and Entertainment . . . containing a new and complete collection of superb views of . . . ruins and ancient buildings . . . bridges, cathedrals, churches; etc.
London: Printed for Alex Hogg, n.d (but 1786). hardcover. Folio (40cm), original sheep rebacked retaining spine and lettering piece; iv, 42 pp. (introductory), the remaining text an unpaginated [520] pp + 247 plates, including 51 mostly full-page county and regional maps (some with 2 images on the plate), plans, and..... More
IDYLLS OF THE KING.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, (1889). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original brown decorative cloth with cover design in gilt, quarto (12 x 9.5 inches); 363 pp., 37 engraved illustrations. More
DORE BIBLE GALLERY: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Facing Each. (Cover title "Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations").
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1889. Early reprint. Hardcover. Original maroon decorative cloth with cover design in gilt and black, quarto (12.75 x 9.25 inches) all edges gilt; 100 engraved illustrations each with facing page of descriptive text. Text and illustrations are printed on facing pages only, back sides are..... More
DANTE'S INFERNO.
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1901. Early reprint. Hardcover. Original maroon decorative cloth with cover design in gilt and black, quarto (11.75 x 9.5 inches); 162 pp., 76 engraved illustrations. More
MASTERPIECES FROM THE WORKS OF GUSTAVE DORE: Selected from The Doré Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Dox Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c., &c.
New York: Cassell and Co., (1887). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original yellow decorative cloth with cover design in gilt and black, quarto (12 x 9.75 inches); unpaginated, 80 engraved illustrations. The selection of illustrations breaks down thusly: 24 Dante, 17 Milton, !2 Quixote, 10 Bibli, 9 La Fontaine, 4 Croquemitaine, 3..... More
SKIZZENBUCH: Hundert Federzeichnungen.
Munchen: Albert Langen, n.d. (circa 1920). Viertes bis Sechstes Tausend. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with illustration panel in black and white and title in gilt, folio (12.25 x 9.5 inches), (64) pp. 100 line drawings by the master daughtsman. Though seen primarily as a social and political satirist, eroticism abounds..... More
Facsimile Reproduction of The California State Library Copy of J. Horace Culver's Sacramento City Directory for the Year 1853-54 With a History of Sacramento Written by Dr. John F. Morse. Supplemented by an 1850 Map of the City of Sacramento, three contemproary woodcuts, one drawing, one lithograph and two photographs not included in the original driectory.
Sacramento: California State Library Foundation, 1997. Hardcover. Original blue fabracoid bookcloth, 200 pp., illustrated, 21.5 x 31 inch 1850 map of Sacramento mounted to inside of rear board. Errata slip laid in. Inscribed by editor Mead Kibbey to Sacrameno-area printer Robert Dickover. More
VETERAN FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. 13TH ANNUAL PICNIC AND OUTING. FAIRFAX PARK, SUNDAY MAY 5TH, 1912.
(San Francisco: California Press, 1912). First edition. Paperback. Original staplebound pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 10.75 inches, 32 pp. Illustrations from black and white photographs, many illustrated advertisements. Scarce program for the annual outing of the Veteran FIremen's Association of San Francisco. Contents include advertisments for automobiles, clothing, farm equipment, food..... More
THE COMSTOCK CLUB
Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co., 1891. First edition. Contemporary 3/4 brown polished calf and boards, gilt spine; octavo; (5), 314 pp. A fictional account of life in Virginia City in 1878 by the editor of the Salt Lake Daily Tribune. Pahet 711. More