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 about POINT COUNTER POINT
London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. "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 about POINT COUNTER POINT
Chicago: P. F. Volland, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. [61] pp., full page color illustrations face each poem; octavo, original brown cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt and white, in custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine label. Ring Lardner's first book. This copy with autograph of writer... More about BIB BALLADS
San Francisco: Henry Payot, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 137 pp., mounted frontispiece photograph of the author; 12mo, rebound in green leather with gilt title. John Rollington Ridge (1827-1867) was a Cherokee Indian born in New Echota, Cherokee Nation (now Georgia). He came to California in '49 for the gold but... More about POEMS
San Francisco: W. H. Bancroft and Co., 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 100 pp., 12mo, original purple pebbled cloth over thin card, gilt title, all edges gilt. The poem commemorates James Sewell Reed (1832-1864) and the "California Hundred" militia helped form in San Francisco in support of the Union Army during... More about THE CALIFORNIA HUNDRED: A Poem
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. First US edition. Hardcover. 104 pp., illustrated, text in double columns; octavo, contemporary red morocco and marbled boards. Publishd the same year as the UK first edition. Anne Isabelle Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. The Oxford Companion to... More about THE VILLAGE ON THE CLIFF, A Novel
Sonoma: Sonoma Index Tribune, 1941. First edition. Paperback. [24] pp., including 8 pages of illustrations; original decorative wrappers 7 x 8.75 inches. Inscribed by the author on the first page: Greetings from the Valley of the Moon, Sincerely, Nell Griffith Wilson. Also autographed by Becky London, daughter of Jack London... More about OUR VALLEY OF THE MOON in Poems and Pictures
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volume set, octavo, original blue cloth; xviii, 1, 372; x, 403 pp., profusely illustrated with plates and text figures.Publisher catalog at back of first volume. Accounts Thackeray's 2 trips to the United States, including many letters by the author and excerpts from his writing. More about THACKERAY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1852-3, 1855-6. Including a Record of a Variety of Thackerayana...
New York: R. R. Fenno, no date (circa 1900). "Seventh Edition" Hardcover. 272 pp, frontispiece and 6 full-page illustrations; small octavo, original decorative cloth. A metaphysical romance originally published in 1895. More about ON THE HEIGHTS OF HIMALAY
New York: Desmond Fitzgerald, 1918. Early reprint. Hardcover. 162 pp., small octavo, original decorative grey boards with title and decoration in red. A fictional account of a recent immigrant's humorous acclimation to Southern California. Originally published in 1908, this printing adds several pages, no doubt bringing the story "Down to Date." More about A TENDERFOOT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Down to Date
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995. First edition thus. Hardcover. 333 pp., octavo, original brown cloth. Selected from Hafen's The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. More about FRENCH FUR TRADERS AND VOYAGEURS IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Twenty-five Biographical Sketches
New York: E.P. Dutton, no date (preface dated 1932). First US edition? Hardcover. xii, 276 pp., 16 plates from photographs (most with 2 images on the plate), folding map; original brown cloth, pictorial jacket. US edition with E. P. Dutton imprint, printed in London by Morrison & Gibb, Ltd. Scarce... More about SMARA THE FORBIDDEN CITY: Being the Journal of Michel Vieuchange while travelling among the...
Los Angeles: Book Club of California, 1939. Limited edition. Hardbound. Original green cloth. octavo (6.75 x 9.25 inches), 11, 24 pp.; original leaf tipped to blank leaf between Foreword and facsimile. With original leaf (pages 73/74) from the original 1735 Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin edition of the Church of Scotland Prayer... More about CATO'S MORAL DISTICHS: Reproduced from the Edition Printed in Philadelphia in 1735 by Benjamin...
Basel: Barenreiter Kassel, 1961. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1 leaf, 36 facsimile plates, xii pp. notes (in German, English, French); tall quarto, white pictorial boards, slipcase. Brings together a collection of individual illustrated sheets by an unknown artist published in early 18th century. Subjects are mainly orchestral musical instruments and... More about MUSICALISCHES THEATRUM. (Association Internationale des Bibliotheques Musicales / Internationale...
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (1963). Second printing. Hardcover. 108 pp., profusely illustrated with photogravure reproductions, line drawings, etc; folio natural linen spine and black boards, slipcase. Beautifully presented retrospective of the work of the modernist Finnish-American architect and designer. More about EERO SAARINEN ON HIS WORK: A selection of buildings dating from 1947 to 1964 with statements by...
London: Printed for the Trustees, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. (93), 316 pp. (introduction followed by the facsimile); quarto, half red morocco and boards, gilt spine title. Believed to date from the second decade of the 14th century and acquired by Queen Mary I in 1553, this lavishly illustrated psalter is... More about QUEEN MARY'S PSALTER: Miniatures and Drawings by an English Artist of the 14th Century Reproduced...
London: New Holland Publishers, (1993). Revised edition. Hardcover. Folio, original maroon buckram, xlvi, [2], 669 pp., profusely illustrated. Essential cartobibliography of antique world maps with 639 entries organized chronologically. Shipping weight is approximately 10 pounds and extra charges will apply. More about THE MAPPING OF THE WORLD: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1971). First US edition. Hardcover. 186 pp, 93 illustrations, including 3 tipped in color plates of paintings, 27 pages from the silverpoint sketchbook,15 reproductions from the book of pen sketches, 48 drawings and watercolors ; quarto, original brown cloth, dustjacket, More about ALBRECHT DURER: Diary of His Journey to the Netherlands, 1520-1521. Accompanied by the...
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 398 pp., color frontispiece, 32 full-page monochrome illustrations, 34 headpieces, pictorial endpapers, all after line drawings by E. H Suydham; octavo, original green cloth with cover title and ornament blocked in silver. One of a series of... More about DETROIT: Dynamic City
New York: George H. Doran, (1914). Early reprint. Hardcover. 68 pp., small octavo, brown cloth and decorative boards, A humorously-written, but serious account of the process of achieving 3 and a half years of sobriety. Samuel G. Blythe (1868-1947) was an American journalist and writer. More about THE OLD GAME: A Retrospect After Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876. Early reprint. Hardcover. 2 fl, 406 pp.; octavo, Zaehnsdorf binding of half dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines richly gilt, maroon morocco lettering pieces. The other sketches unnamed in the title are: Out of the World; Making Merry; Sola; and Moretti's Campanula. First... More about TO ESTHER and Other Sketches
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876. Early reprint. Hardcover. 4 fl, 419 pp.; octavo, Zaehnsdorf binding of half dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines richly gilt, maroon morocco lettering pieces. The "Five Old Friends" comprise a retelling of 5 familiar fairy tales: Sleeping Beauty; Cinderella; Beauty and the Beast;... More about FIVE OLD FRIENDS AND A YOUNG PRINCE
Venetiis (Venice): L. Lazari, 1837. Early printing. [5], 432, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece; 12 mo, 19th century full tan calf, all edges gilt. The twenty-four prayers of St. Nersis Shnorhali (1102-1173) translated into twenty-four languages and printed in their native writing systems (some of the less obvious are clarified, we... More about PRECES SANCTI NERSETIS CLAJENSIS ARMENIORUM PATRIARCHIS. Viginti Quatuor Linguis Editae
New York: Macmillan, 1917. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt; xiv, 345 pp., [4] pages ads at rear; frontispiece and 15 full-page plates from photographs, colored map. First printing of Charmian's second book (after "Log of the Snark"). More about OUR HAWAII
Boston: American Unitarian Association, (1910). First edition. Hardcover. [3], 42 pp., small octavo, white cloth and gilt blue boards. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "'The force of arms must be kept far from the gospel,' David Starr Jordon, Palo Alto, California, February 24, 1911." David... More about ULRICH VON HUTTON: "Knight of the Order of Poets."