![MEMOIRE SUR LA COLLECTION DES GRANDS ET PETITS VOYAGES [of de Bry] et Sur La Collection des Voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot. A. G. Camus.](/pictures/thumb/22236.jpg?v=1528493359)
Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. [2] fl., iii, (403) pp.; small quarto, pastepaper boards, old cloth rebacking, morocco spine label. “Not merely is this admirable essay the best bibliography of the collection of De Bry and Thevenot, but it also contains a great variety of... More
Ithica: Cornell University Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. (x), 178 pp., 21 illustrations in the text, 40 facsimile pages; quarto, original brown cloth, jacket. Facsimile of a circa 1460 woodcut Biblia Pauperum together with a detailed analysis of this complicated medieval book. As explained on the front jacket flap, "The... More
NY: Longmans, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Original dark blue ribbed cloth, octavo (6.5 x 9 inches), pp xi, 283. Frontispiece and 15 b/w plates. A well-written popular history of the Santa Fe Trail. More
New York: Century Co. (1930). Hardcover. Original black cloth with red lettering, octavo, xx, 410 pp, many full-page illustrations, map endpapers. A history of the overland stage lines west of St. Louis in the years 1857-1867, More
Glasgow: The Fraser Press, 1991. Limited edition facsimile of the first edition. Hardcover. Unbound portfolio (21 x 15.75 inches), black cloth spine, green boards with decorative paper title label, string ties; title page, introduction, preface (3 leaves), 14 color plates. Fine facsimile edition of the Scottish architect and designer's magnificent... More
[New York: Rider Press], 1932. Printed wrappers (softcover), 5.5 x 8 inches, 96 pp. Monotone portraits of the celebrated authors of the year. . r. An annual catalog for the Christmas season likely distributed at bookstores. Contains recommendations for the year's best books, with author, title, publisher, price, and short... More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1968, 1966, 1967. Volume I is 4th printing, Volume II is 2nd printing, Volume III is 1st printing. Hardcover. 3 volume set, original cloth, octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches), pp vii, 453; x, 310; xii, 764. 49 b/w plates, endpaper maps in each volume. First volume was originally published in 1938, the second volume in 1953. More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.75 x 10 inches, ix, 165 pp., 6 full-page illustrations. Articles originally published in the Hawaiian language in 1866-1871. In 1931, the Bishop Museum sponsored a translation of the work. The present text represents a revision of the... More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.75 x 10 inches, 300 pp., maps. An exhaustive study of the Polynesian demigod "Maui" - a trickster figure whose story is told throughout Polynesia - from New Zealand to Hawaii. More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1928. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.75 x 10 inches, 169 pp. Native legends and verses of Tonga in English translation, including some texts printed in parallel columns. Volume concludes with extensive notes on and analyses of the legends. More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1930. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.75 x 10 inches, 138 pp. Text includes an introduction to the language and phonetics of the native Marquesans followed by native legends with English translation printed in parallel columns and concluding with an explication and analysis of the legends. More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1933. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.75 x 10 inches, 107 pp. Important ethnomusicological study of the Polynesian inhabitants of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Text includes 83 transcriptions into European musical notation of songs from 4 different islands. More
San Francisco: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 451 pp., frontispiece; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles. Apparently no subsequent volumes were published as they are not found on OCLC/Worldcat. More
Fitchburg, Mass. Suom. Sos. Kustannusyhtion Kustantama, 1910. First Finnish edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and cover decoration in red and dark purple, octavo, 328 pp. First Finnish language translation of one of London's darkest tales, a fictional account of the bloody end of American democracy. Woodbridge 65. More
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. 269 pp., octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, slipcase. Profusely illustrated. A lavishly illustrated study of this Italian15th-century illuminated book of hours - called the greatest of the museum's Italian renaissance manuscripts. This is the volume... More
Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 412 pp., small octavo, original mustard-brown cloth, slipcase. Profusely illustrated. The "Model Book of Calligraphy" written in 1561-61 by Georg Bocskay for Emperor Ferdinand Hapsburg I and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel 30 years later was acquired by the Getty Museum... More
EL Paso: Texas Western Press, 1972. First edition. Original printed cloth, octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches), pp xv, 40. 2 b/w plates. This essential bibliography begins with the year 1895, with London's first published piece, printed in his high school newspaper. Includes short stories and essays published in magazines, serializations, and books. More
Cleveland: The Ralston Society, 1946. Early reprint. Hardcover. Original red cloth , octavo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), 380 pp. Publisher's business reply card offering a free copy of Hill's "The Master Mind" laid in. Nice copy of this fairly early printing of one of the most popular and successful self-help books of all time. More
np: Privately Published, 1925. First edition thus. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 9.5 x 6.25 inches, 31 pp. 4 short ribald writings by the named authors (2 are by Eugene Field). More
London: Hutchinson & Co. 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 319 pp. frontispiece and 21 plates mostly from phototgraphs; octavo, original blue cloth. Born in San Francisco, the son of Russian and Polish immigrants, Leib Morgenstein changed his name to Carl Hertz and embarked at a young age on stage career. His... More
Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co. 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with gilt title, [15], 236 pp. Signed by the author. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. The author predicts a second coming of Jesus in response to the World War. More
New York: George Sully & Co. no date (circa 1930). Third edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, blue cloth, 169 pp. Reflects on dreams as a theme in literature, anecdotes about dreams, as well as various theories of dream interpretation, including psychoanalytical. More
Chicago: Franklin Publishing Co. (1938). Seventh printing. Hardcover. Small octavo, original black cloth, 256 pp., 59 illustrations. Originally published in 1930. More
NY: Scribner, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, small octavo, 311 pp + ads. The 6th novel in the Philo Vance series. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial boards, octavo, unpaginated (about 200 pages). Every page a J. R. Williams comic. Cartoons of daily life in the machine shop, from the drawing pen of J. R. Williams and his syndicated comic strip of the 1930s and 40s. Beautiful... More