Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., printed at the Riverside Press, 1911. Limited edition. Hardcover. [40] pp., quarto, gilt blue boards, slipcase. Elegant edition of the US Constitution designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Numbered, limited edition, this #94 of 440 copies. Scarce. More

New York: Walden, Sons & Mott, 1941. First edition. 352 pp., illustrated, including several unpaginated advertisements (some on card stock); octavo, original maroon cloth with title blocked in silver. Advertisements include a 16-page illustrated 2-color catalog of Harris Offset Presses. Pages 228-351 contain an alphabetical Buyer's Guide to printing trade..... More

Marcham: The Alembic Press, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. 19 pp., illustrated with 1 wood engraving each by Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett, octavo, original brown cloth and beige boards. #18 of 120 copies printed by Claire Bolton and cast by David Bolton. Text includes chapter 19 from Robert Gibbings' memoir..... More

NY / Boston: Hurd & Houghton / E. P. Dutton, 1866 (1865). Second printing? Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; octavo (6 x 8 inches); [1], 16 pp., frontispiece and 5 chromolithograph plates. Julius Bien's chromolithographs after H.L. Stephens' originals have a rather unfinished look and are not..... More

NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, October, 1907. First printing. Original pictorial wrappers. This piece was part of the Cosmopolitan series variously titled "My Life in the Underworld" or "Stray Memories of Life in the Underworld." Also in this issue is Ambrose Bierce’s column of commentary, "Small Contributions." "The Road" was published in..... More

n.p. n.p., 1923. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 5.25 inches, 104 pp. Illustrated. A history of early California and especially Sonoma (town and county) by 2 native Sonomans. Honoria Tuomey (1866-1938) a longtime educator in the rural schools of Sonoma County and author of the 1926..... More

Berkeley: The Associated Students of the University of California, 1935. First edition thus. Hardcover. 495 pp., illustrated; quarto, original decorative boards. This 65th annual yearbook from UC Berkeley was designed by Richard Stephens. Images on cover, endpapers, and some section title pages reflect a startling admiration for Nazism and Fascism..... More

(Buffalo, NY: Ellicott Press), no date, circa 1920s. Original edition. Paperback. 3 volumes (of ?), orginal stapled wrappers, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, 20, 23, 47 pp. carbon typescripts on rectos only. Emblem of "McCollum System of Practical Psychology" on front covers. 3 columes of a fairly pedestrian self-published early 20th-century..... More

Washington and New Haven: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. 234 pp, including 84 color plates, many illustrations from photographs, quarto, original black cloth with silver titles. slipcase. Illustrated catalogue of the 1994/95 exhibit organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington in association..... More

Wuppertal: Dieter Ruggeberg, 1986. Third edition. Hardcover. 270 pp. + 1 leaf with publisher advertisements, frontispiece portrait of the author, color plate; octavo, original purple cloth with gilt title and ornament, jacket. " . . . this book reveals the secret of the cosmic lanarge as well as the true..... More

London: Routledge, (1937). First edition thus. xi, 306 pp; octavo, original black cloth, jacket. Bartholomeus de Ligt (1883-1938) was a Dutch pastor who became a major anti-war activist, pacifist, and socialist. He advocated for social justice and an end to militaristic policies. His famous 1934 treatise "Plan of a Campaign..... More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First US edition. Hardcover. xvi, 328 pp., frontispiece and 57 illustrations from photographs; quarto, original green cloth with gilt spine title, blind-embossed dragon on front cover. A close look at China at the beginning of the 20th century by American Presbyterian missionary, long-time..... More