THE CHILL.
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
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THE FAR SIDE OF THE DOLLAR.
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
A MOVEABLE FEAST.
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
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.
New York: Knopf, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 309 pp, octavo, black boards, jacket. More about NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.
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
CANE.
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
THE PRICE: A Play
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
THE GREAT GATSBY.
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
WILLIWAW.
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
MEDITERRANEAN - Sredozemlje - Mediterraneo - Mediterran.
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
MY EXPERIENCES PRECEDING 5,000 BURIALS. (with original ephemera).
[Buffalo, NY: Ellicott Press, 1933]. First edition. Paperback. Black suede decorative wrappers, 7 x 5.5 inches, vi, 138 pp., illustrated with 3 portrait plates of Hamid Bey from photographs, 1 line drawing. 2 reorder coupons for this book bound in at rear. Laid in are 2 admission tickets for lectures... More about MY EXPERIENCES PRECEDING 5,000 BURIALS. (with original ephemera
THE SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY: A Complete Practical Work on the Sciences of Cheirognomy and Cheiromancy. By Which means the Character, and the Past, Present and Future Events of the Life, may be read in the Formation of the Hands.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., nd (circa 1925). Hardcover. xi, (139) pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. More about THE SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY: A Complete Practical Work on the Sciences of Cheirognomy and...
MATRIMONIAL CEREMONIES DISPLAYED: Wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people in the world, now used in the celebration and consummation of matrimony, collected from the papers of A Rambling Batchelor. With a variety of remarks by him, serious and humorous, to which is added the comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives, with the character of each, - a genuine story; also an epigram on matrimony, in English and Latin.
London: Printed for H. Serjeant and G. Woodfall, no date (1880s?). Early reprint. Hardcover. (104) pp., small octavo, blue cloth spine and marbled boards. An irreverant look at matrimonial practices around the world and down through the ages, with the farcical "Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald" for dessert. More about MATRIMONIAL CEREMONIES DISPLAYED: Wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks,...
A CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY: A Liberal Basis for the Organization of Work.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 270 pp., octavo, original red cloth, jacket. Hyacinthe Dubreuil (1993-1971) was a French trade unionist and union leader who also spent some time working as a mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit during the 1920s. He was a prolific... More about A CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY: A Liberal Basis for the Organization of Work
TWENTY-FOUR LOVE SONGS.
(San Francisco): Frontier Press, 1969. First edition (signed). Paperback. [3], 24 pp., original printed wrappers, 9 x 6 inches. American poet and teacher Edward Merton Dorn's (1929-1999) 11th published book. This copy signed by author on front blank leaf, dated 1981. With the earlier ownership signature of Scottish poet Ruthven... More about TWENTY-FOUR LOVE SONGS
CATALOGUE OF EASTMAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND MATERIALS, 1930. Century, F. & S., Cirkut, Sterling and Crown products formerly manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company (Folmer & Schwing Department) are now made by The Folmer Graflex Corporation. For Sale by Eastman Kodak Company.
Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1930. First edition thus. Paperback. 78 pp., illustrated, original decorative wrappers, 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Priced catalogue of professional cameras and equipment. More about CATALOGUE OF EASTMAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND MATERIALS, 1930. Century, F. &...
THE HISTORIES Books I-III and THE HISTORIES Books IV-V and THE ANNALS Books I-III. (Volumes II and III of the 5-volume "Tacitus in Five Volumes" Loeb Classical Library No. 111 and No. 249).
Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1980 & 1979. Reprint of the original 1925 edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, original red cloth; xvii, 479; v, 641 pp., folding maps and publisher catalogs at rear of each volume. Latin text with English translation on facing pages. "The Histories" are complete in these 2 volumes. More about THE HISTORIES Books I-III and THE HISTORIES Books IV-V and THE ANNALS Books I-III. (Volumes II...
CELTS AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD.
London & Sydney: Croom Helm / Areopagitica Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. [5], 319 pp.; octavo, original brown boards, pictorial jacket. "This is the first book that attempts a comprehensive treatment of the contacts and relationship between the Celtic peoples and those of Greece and Rome." More about CELTS AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A Life of Sir Richard Burton.
New York: W. W. Norton, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. 390 pp., illustrated; octavo, original black cloth, pictorial dustjacket. A well-written and well-regarded history of the famed explorer and author. More about THE DEVIL DRIVES: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
THE TULE BREAKERS: The Story of the California Dredge.
Stockton, CA: The Stockton Corral of Westerners/University of the Pacific, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 368, [2] pp., 160 photos, maps, and illustrations; oblong quarto, red leatherette with gilt title and cover ornament, dustjacket. A history of the dredges working in the bays and inland waterways of California and their... More about THE TULE BREAKERS: The Story of the California Dredge
FIELD TESTING OF GRAPE MATURITY. (Hilgardia, Vol. 28, No. 4. Nov., 1958)
Berkeley: University of California, 1957. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 521-563 pp. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler (second ed.)13340. More about FIELD TESTING OF GRAPE MATURITY. (Hilgardia, Vol. 28, No. 4. Nov., 1958
AGING OF WINES AND OTHER SPIRITOUS PRODUCTS, ACCELERATION BY PHYSICAL TREATMENTS. (Hilgardia, Vol. 32, No. 7. May, 1962)
Berkeley: University of California, 1962. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 319-392 pp. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler (second ed.)13415. More about AGING OF WINES AND OTHER SPIRITOUS PRODUCTS, ACCELERATION BY PHYSICAL TREATMENTS. (Hilgardia,...
SMALL PANEL SENSORY EVALUATIONS OF WINES BY SCORING. (Hilgardia, Vol. 30, No. 19. May, 1961)
Berkeley: University of California, 1961. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 587-619 pp. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler (second ed.)13410. More about SMALL PANEL SENSORY EVALUATIONS OF WINES BY SCORING. (Hilgardia, Vol. 30, No. 19. May, 1961
COMPOSITION AND QUALITY OF MUSTS AND WINES OF CALIFORNIA GRAPES. (Hilgardia, Vol. 15, No. 6. Feb., 1944)
Berkeley: University of California, 1959. First edition. Original printed wrapper, 9.25 x 6 inches; 493-673, [2] pp. Important monograph by 2 of the most important figures in the development of modern wine technology. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler 13320. More about COMPOSITION AND QUALITY OF MUSTS AND WINES OF CALIFORNIA GRAPES. (Hilgardia, Vol. 15, No. 6....
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The First and Fourth Renderings into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [1930]. First US Revised trade edition. Hardcover. (173) pp., 12 tipped-in color plates, 46 mounted vignette illustrations in black and gold, ornamental head and tailpieces throughout; quarto, original salmon silk over boards, gilt cover title with inset black and gold mounted vignette, gilt spine... More about RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The First and Fourth Renderings into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald...