Winchester & Detroit: St Paul's Bibliographies & Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991. Second edition, revised. Hardcover. xv, 368 pp., illustrated; octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. A comprehensive guide to Gill's voluminous output, as well as published criticism and references to Gill's work. More about ERIC GILL: A Bibliography
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 243 pp., illustrated; octavo, original black cloth, pictorial jacket. A history and bibliography of the private press "Zephyrus Image" which flourished in a variety of Northern California locales from 1970 to 1982. More about ZEPHYRUS IMAGE: A Bibliography
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1983). First edition thus. Hardcover. xiv, 548 pp., frontispiece portrait from photograph; octavo, original red cloth, pictorial jacket. A revision and expansion of the 1963 edition. This volume is no. 7 in the St. Paul's Bibliographies series. More about EZRA POUND: A Bibliography
Clifton, NJ: Bookman Publication, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. ix, 171 pp., illustrated; octavo, black cloth and decorative boards. Memoirs of a lifetime in books by the noted Los Angeles printer, publisher and author. More about YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES
(New Castle, DE & London): Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1996. Fourth revised edition. Hardcover. xiv, 372 pp., 14 monochrome plates at rear, text illustrations; octavo, brown cloth, pictorial jacket. Originally published in 1963, this new edition is considerably expanded. More about A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1975). First edition. Original gray cloth, quarto (7 x 10.5 inches), pp x, 467. 7 maps, many b/w illustrations. Gudde was also author of California Place Names, first published in 1949 and never out of print. California Gold Camps is an outgrowth of the earlier... More about CALIFORNIA GOLD CAMPS: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns and Localities...
(Mansfield Center CT: Martino Publishing), no date. Facsimile of the 1909 Methuen Edition. Hardcover. (ix), 176 pp.; quarto, brown cloth with gilt spine title. More about SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS AND QUARTOS: A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594-1685
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries (and) Christie's, 1966-1970; 2007. First edition. Hardcover. (Thomas W. Streeter collection) 8 volumes including index, octavos, original gray boards, gilt spine titles, various paginations, monochrome illustrations, index volume includes prices realized; (Frank Streeter Library) 2 volumes, various paginations, original green cloth with pictorial color labels on... More about THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS W. STREETER complete in 7...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966-1980. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Folios, all volumes in original cloth with dustjackets. Lovely collection of the primary bird books of Canadian artist J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008). More about BIRDS OF THE NORTHERN FOREST; BIRDS OF THE EASTERN FOREST (in 2 volumes); BIRDS OF THE WEST...
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926-7. National Edition. Complete in 20 volumes, small octavos, original decorative dark brown cloth with gilt cameo of Theodore Roosevelt at center of front covers, gilt spine titles, covers blind-embossed with overall pattern of sticks and leaves with "T.R." monogram at center of rear covers. Photogravure... More about THE WORKS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. National Edition
Van Nuys: J. E. Reynolds, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. xi, [1], 29 pp, illustrated, octavo, maroon spine and tan boards, pictorial jacket. Publication announcement and order form laid in. Also laid in are a letter, postcard, receipt, and 4 photographs together documenting the 1971 loan of materials pertaining to this... More about A SOUTHWESTERN CENTURY: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest,...
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Westerners, (1957). First edition, limited to 475 copies. Original gray cloth stamped in gilt, maroon leatherette spine, large octavo, 293 pp. Profusely illustrated. Publication announcement laid in. This issue includes "The Westerners: A Monograph History of all the Corrals and Posses" by Jack E. Reynolds. More about THE WESTERNERS BRAND BOOK, LOS ANGELES CORRAL, BOOK Number 7
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, octavo, vi, 274 pp. Inscribed on title page by progressive Texas Senator Ralph Webster Yarborough (1903-1996) to Famed California bookseller, editor, publisher, Jack Reynolds (1915-1993): "For Jack Reynolds who likes literature, and can find it in the Addresses... More about INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES: From George Washington 1789 to Lyndon...
Prestonsburg, KY: Appalachian Volunteers, 1968-69. First edition. 6 numbers bound together in maroon library buckram, various paginations (25 - 30 pages per issue), illustrated. First 6 numbers of this scarce activist/social justice journal. Topics include rural poverty, abuses by the coal mining industry, education, health (especially black lung disease), etc.... More about APPALACHIAN LOOKOUT. Volume One, Number One - Volume One, Number Six. December, 1968 - October,...
Berkeley: Saint Heironymous Press, 1970. Fifth printing. Original printed paper portfolio, 12 x 15 inches, 30 individual broadsides of varying sizes and printed in colors laid in. 30 recipes by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse calligraphed and illustrated by David Lance Goines. More about THIRTY RECIPES SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
New York: Knopf, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth and blue-gray boards, octavo, 279 pp. 13th novel in the Lew Archer series of hard-boiled mysteries. More about THE CHILL
New York: Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth and gray boards, octavo, 247 pp. 14th novel in the Lew Archer series of hard-boiled mysteries. More about THE FAR SIDE OF THE DOLLAR
NY: Scribners, (1964). First edition. Original brown cloth and gray boards, octavo, (xi), 211 pp. 9 b/w photo plates. Sketches of the author's life in Paris on the Twenties. More about A MOVEABLE FEAST
New York: Knopf, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 309 pp, octavo, black boards, jacket. More about NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 422 pp., octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) became one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century with the publication of this work. Originally published in Spanish in... More about ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. 141, [1] pp., illustrated with 10 mounted woodblock illustrations by Martin Puryear; oblong quarto (11.5 x 13.75 inches), bound in tan linen with interwoven brown linen ties. A very handsome presentation of this classic of African-American literature, originally published in 1923. Edition... More about CANE
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, rust brown cloth with pictorial paper inset on front cover, printed paper spine label, matching slipcase; 110 pp., 8 full-page illustrations by Stan Washburn. Edition of 326 copies; 300 numbered for sale, this #176. Signed in the colophon by... More about THE PRICE: A Play
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. Limited edition. Hardcover. 179 pp., illustrated with 97 drawings by Michael Graves; octavo, green cloth and grey paper over boards with cover illustration and title printed in green and red, matching illustrated slipcase. Photoengraved illustrations are printed in sepia ink. Autographed in the colophon by... More about THE GREAT GATSBY
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth, pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp., illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. Publication prospectus laid in. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book, written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The... More about WILLIWAW
Trieste: TK Galerija, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. Black cloth solander case, 32 x 25 cm (12.75 x 9.75 inches) printed card wrapper over plain red wrapper and blue gray paper chemise holding 12 unbound fascicles each with a poem by Marko Kravos and a serigraph print by Franko Vecchiet... More about MEDITERRANEAN - Sredozemlje - Mediterraneo - Mediterran