(San Francisco): Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, 1938. First edition. Original brick-red cloth with cover titles and decoration stamped in white; quarto; 246 pp. Profusely illustrated with folding color frontispiece from an original painting of the Bridge, b/w photos, drawings, 12 large folding plates (engineering plans) at rear. This..... More
London: Strahan, (1879). Third edition. Hardcover. 2 volume set, small octavos, original brown cloth, gilt; xxxix, 372; x, 383 pp. More
Salt Lake City: James A. Little, Publisher. Printed at the Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. viii, (9)-260 pp.; octavo, original navy blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Author's personal account of the 1849 overland expedition from Kirtland, Ohio to Salt Lake City in 1849. He converted to Mormonism..... More
Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 608 pp., profusely illustrated with text engravings; octavo, original chocolate brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt, white, and black. An exanded version of the author's book published the previous year. The titles are almost the same: the earlier..... More
Cincinnati: W. M.B. C. Press, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pp., 12mo, original dark brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt and black. Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a...... More
Topeka, Kansas: "The Authors" 1901. First edition. Hardcover. xvii, 630 pp. = 1 advert leaf, lprofusely illustrated with full page plates (included in pagination) and text illustrations, arge folding map at rear; octavo, light brown pictorial cloth with gilt spine title, front cover design and lettering in gilt and black..... More
(Girard, Kansas: Press of the Appeal to Reason), [1915]. First edition. 326 pp, frontispiece photo of the author and 7 full-page plates, 6 from photographs and 1 after a drawing; octavo, original green cloth with black lettering. A first-person account of brutal days on the prairie. Graf 807; Howes C590;..... More
NY: Macmillan, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Original maroon ribbed cloth; small octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches); xix, 278 pp. + publisher's cataloge at rear. Top edge a bit dusty, corners lightly bumped, else near fine. Seven essays on the class war in the United States, published shortly after London's failed..... More
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. Limited edition. Hardcover. (58) pp., 4 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, octavo, black cloth and decorative boards. Edition of 315 copies, this #50. Cave & Manson 104. More
New York: Century Co., 1912. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Dark green pictorial cloth with cover design in gilt, blue, and gray; x, 284 pp., illustrated with 31 monochrome plates and 3 folding maps. John Muir's guide to the Yosemite was begun at the suggestion of Muir's friend Robert Underwood..... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1944. First edition thus. Oirginal beige cloth and red boards, paper spine label, octavo, [9], 188 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a facsimile title page from the 1860 first edition, and a large colored folding map of Sonoma County at rear. Limited edition of 500 copies printed at..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1964). First edition, limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Original gray cloth and printed paper over boards, quarto, xviii, (99) pp + (11) pages of facsimiles from the original journal. Frontispiece and several colored illustrations in the text. Introduction to..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarto, glossy pictorial boards and blue cloth spine, unpaginated, color and/or b/w illustrations on every page, pictorial jacket. Nice copy of the first edition of this Disney classic. More
New York: Dingwall Rock Limited, [1925]. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. 254 pp., 21 plates, including 8 in color, many b/w text illustrations; quarto, vellum spine and gray boards, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Edition of 2000 signed copies: 1000 for the US and 1000 for the UK..... More
San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by Hohn Henry Nash, 1926. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Typeset text volume: quarto, vellum spine with morocco lettering piece, green boards, xli, (25) pp., frontispiece; facsimile volume: octavo, vellum spine and green boards, 24 pp., title page illustration. In matching compartment..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum and brown boards, octavo, 290 pp., illustrated with 5 full-page colored maps, 1 folding map, 21 in-text maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo. Also 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials also by Valenti Angelo. In slipcase..... More
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San Francisco: Book Club of California (printed at the Grabhorn Press), 1964. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Original natural linen and decorative boards; folio; (9.5 x 14.25 inches); unpaginated (122) pp. 37 plates (24 are folding, 26 in color), 37 line drawings of maps. Text printed in red and..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Four volume set, boxed. 64; 47; 63; 48 pp.; uniform maroon cloth spines and buff boards, paper spine labels, in matching buff slipcase box with printed paper series title on back. Edward B.. Warman (1847-1931) was an American psychologist and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Tribune, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 308 pp. profusely illustrated including many full-page photogravure portrait plates; quarto, original 3/4 maroon calf and boards, top edge gilt. A well-illustrated general history of Cambridge with about half the volume given over to biographies of eminent citizens. More
Sausalito: Windgate Press, 1995. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folding cloth portfolio, 11.5 x 14.5 inches, 35 loose plates, mostly color. With staplebound illustrated Commentary volume of 24 pages. Historical images from the PPIE, including reproductions of hand-colored photos as well as stunning black and white reproductions from glass negatives. Special Limited..... More
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., (1948). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title, 189, [2] pp. First edition stated on copyright page. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. "New Impression" Hardcover. [6], 601 pp., octavo, original brown cloth with cover titles in white, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals among a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures in..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. [6], 432 pp., octavo, original purple cloth with paper spine label, dustjacket. Huxley's longest novel, an examination of conflicting worldviews, social mores and intellectual ideals amongs a group of characters, some of whom are loosely based on the prominent figures..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1975. Limited edition. Paperback. Printed broadside, 22 x 11 inches folded in thirds and mounted in red paper folder. Title page is printed on the back of the first section. Edition of 500 copies. This accompanied by an autograph letter dated 6 December, 1975 from the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Second printing. Hardcover. Original light blue cloth with color pictorial paper inset on front cover, 5.5 x 4 inches; 48 pp., profusely illustrated in color and black and white, jacket. More