Chicago & New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887. Early reprint. Hardcover. Quarto, blue pictorial cloth with cover design in gilt and black; x, 48 pp., plus 30 engraved plates, each with facing caption leaf (hors text), many engraved illustrations in the text, all edges gilt. This story was originally..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Early reprint. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo,contemporary half calf and marbled boards; xxxvi, 640; xvi, 552 pp., engraved illustrations in the text, chromolithograph title page in first volume. The text of Monstrelet's Chronicle is essentially a continuation of Froissart's 14th-century Chroniques, which recorded events during the..... More
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1926. First edition. 2 volume set, original black leatherette cloth, quarto (7.5 x 10.5 inches), pp 784; 958. Profusely illustrated with many photogravure plates, half-tones, and photographs. A scarce set. First volume is a history of Sonoma County, second volume contains biographies of noted Sonomans..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1939. First edition thus. Paperback. 19 pp., original printed wrappers. Printed in an edition of 650 copies for members of the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash. This copy with typed letter from Book Club secretary Oscar Lewis presenting this keepsake. Originally..... More
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1936. First edition. Paperback. [16] pp., original printed wrappers, 9 x 6 inches. Illustrated. Brief biography of the French artist and 49er Ernest Narjot (1826-1898). Edition of 150 numbered copies, this #115. More
Canton, OH: Timken Roller Bearing Co., (1929). First edition thus. Hardcover. 149 pp., profusley illustrated; octavo, original textured flexible boards. Comprehensive and well illustrated trade catalogue of roller-bearing products and applications of same throughout a variety of industries and in the home. More
London: The British Library, (2002). First edition thus. Hardcover. 26 pp. text followed by 238 pp. facsimile; quarto, original maroon cloth, pictorial jacket. Superb facsimile of the 10th-century illuminated manuscript service book made by the scribe Godeman for Aethelwold, bishop of Westminster. Reproduced in full color at full size and..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. vi, 781 pp., small octavo, original brown cloth. More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 272 pp., illustrated; quarto, original brown cloth, jacket. Not only a census documenting the known extant copies of the book that W. B. Yeats called "the most beautiful of all printed books" but an exhaustive account of the provenance of..... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. xxviii, 325 pp., illustrated; quarto, original green cloth, jacket. Papers given at the Greek Font Society Symposium in 1995. More
Tel Aviv: Dvir Publishing House, (1979). Limited edition. Hardcover. 56 pp., quarto, beige cloth, pictorial jacket. Text in Hebrew. Limited edition of 1000 copies. More
Jerusalem: Ehked Publishing, 1973. Limited edition. Hardcover. 63 pp., quarto, vellum spine and gray boards with gilt title and cover ornaments. Text in Hebrew. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, this number 60. More
New York: Random House, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 351 pp., profusely illustrated, large quarto, original light brown cloth with blindstamped title, pictorial jacket. A retrospective of the photographer's long career. 200 duotone photographs are reproduced. Published in conjunction with the exhibition which opened in October. 2003 at the San Francisco..... More
Stanford: Stanford University University Libraries (printed by Peter Rutledge Koch), 2002. First edition. Paperback. [24] pp., illustrated; original pictorial wrappers, 11 x 7.5 inches. Designed, printed letterpress and hand-bound in an edition of 300 copies by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Richard Seibert and Max Koch. More
New York: Acme Wood Type and Manufacturing Co., 1937. First edition thus. Paperback. Original stapled decorative wrappers, 12.25 x 9.25 inches, 32 pp. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth, pp 251-301, 6 plates, text illustration. Cloth issue of the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 42, No. 2, pp. 251-302. More
Georgetown, Calif. Talisman Press, 1964. First edition. Edition limited to 750 copies. Original olive-green cloth; quarto; 258 pp. Fronitispiece, 2 illustrations, map endpapers. Considered the best account of French participation in the California gold rush. 4 of the 13 letters translated here were written from San Francsico, where Derbec later..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Public Library. Printed by Ward Ritchie, 1937. First edition. Paperback. Original printed blue wrappers, octavo, xi, [1], 79 pp., 2 plates. Descriptive catalog of 118 works in manuscript. Text also includes an Introductory Note by Jake Zeitlin. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press in an edition..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. First US edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo, original purple cloth with gilt title and cover ornaments; xxiii, 407; (xiv), 392 pp., frontispiece and 20 full-page illustrations in each volume, folding map at rear of first volumes. Isabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904) was a British traveller..... More
Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. xii, [1], 526 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Review copy with letter dated April 27, 1939 from J. Chakravorti, Registrar, University of Calcutta, to the Editor of the Philosophical Review, Longmans, Green and Co., London offering the book..... More
New York: George Braziller, (1977). First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto, natural linen cloth over boards, 222 pp, 42 color plates (including 16 double page) from lithographs, pictorial jacket. Card slipcase. Originally published in Verve in 1961. More
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1931. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Original yellow cloth, thick octavo, xvi, 571 pp. Frontis and 28 photo plates, 7 folding maps. More
Stanford University: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for James Ladd Delkin, 1939. First edition. Beige cloth and pictorial boards, paper spine label, octavo, [8], 67 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, 3 full-page color drawings, and 12 colored headpieces by Pauline Vinson. A calendar of festivals throughout the year representing..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. First edition. Paperback. 142, (8) pp., illustrated; octavo, sewn gatherings in original decorative wrappers. Pages 22-30 contain an anonymous article relating a detailed description of the operations of the Buena Vista Viticultural Association at Agoston Haraszthy's Buena Vista Ranch and Vineyard in Sonoma, California..... More
n.p. The Yolla Bolly Press/Carolyn and James Robertson, (1988). Michael McCurdy. First edition thus. #25 of 155 copies. Original natural linen, folio (10.5 x 14.5 inches), pp xiv, 162. Illustrated with 12 full-page wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. A superb production by the Yollla Bolly Press, and the ninth book..... More