NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1916 copyright). Later reprint, circa 1927. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), (337) pp, frontispiece and many illustrations in the text by J. Allen St. John, jacket. Heins BTa-4. More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1917 copyright). Later reprint, circa 1939. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 394 pp, many illustrations in the text, jacket. Heins ST-8. More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). Later reprint, circa 1938. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 301 pp + 7 pp adverts, jacket. Heins TEC-4. More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1923). Later reprint, circa 1924. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 333pp + 10 pp adverts. Frontispiece and 7 b/w plates by J. Allen St. John, jacket. First Grosset & Dunlap edition, circa 1924. Illustration list on p. (v) from McClure edition, placement..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 158 pp., illustrated with black and white photos throughout, jacket. (Jacket rear panel with Voltaire quote). The compelling visual chronicle of America's great migrations of 1939: the exodus of Black day laborers and..... More
Los Angeles: De Vorss & Co., (1937). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, octavo, (xxx), 140 pp., jacket. See the accompanying scan of the front jacket flap blurb for some elucidation of the author's intention. More
London: Macmillan, 1921. First edition thus. Original dark blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, 12mo, xxvii, (463) pp. [2] pp. publisher advert for the "Novels and Stories of Henry James" complete set at rear. BAL 10795, noting two formats: "Crown 8vo and foolscap 8vo Pocket Edition." This is the..... More
New York: American Library Service, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 316 pp., color frontispiece and several full-page illustrations from photographs. A comprehensive and highly sympathetic history of the racist organization and its frequently violent efforts to maintain white supremacy in the post-civil war South. Please note: while we offer this..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. First paperback edition of the revised and expanded edition. Paperback. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, 239 pp., 232 illustrations including 98 in color. Originally published in 1976 followed by a revised and expanded edition in 1996. More
London: Chatto & Windus in Association with Collins, London, 1973, 1974. First editions. Hardcover. 2 volumes, original blue cloth, octavos, xv, 400; xiii, 378 pp. frontispiece and several illustrations from photographs in each volume, jackets. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2006. First edition. Paperback. xvii, [1], 38 pp., illustrated, oblong printed wrappers. With envelope containing 9 original bookplates laid in. Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. More
Florence, MA: Kat Ran Press (printed at the Stinehour Press), 2007. First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, octavo, 60 pp., color illustrations throughout. The story of the artist's creation of the mentoring-themed stamp for USPS. Beautifully illustrated. More
San Francisco: Andrew Hoyem, 1966. First edition. Paperback. [13] pp., illustrated, original printed wrappers. Edition of 75 copies printed for the friends of David Magee. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, [15 pp]. Edition of 102 copies printed for the Roxburgh Club of San Francisco. More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 218 pp., 6 plates from photographs; octavo, original dark blue cloth. The "underworld" described mostly regards Indian mysticism, superstiiion, and religous rituals. More
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. (xi), 306 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. Publisher's bookmark laid in. Danel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) was an American composer and music critic. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. [10], 101 pp.; small octavo, original blue cloth, jacket, errata slip laid in. Huxley's preface must have given Campbell Dixon some cause to cringe, though it does begrudingly come around in the end to a sort of appreciation of the adaptation. More
Minneapolis: Carl W. Jones, 1949. Second printing. Hardcover. xii, 116 pp., original brown cloth. "All of Al Baker's Effects, Routines and Patter were witnessed and recorded by Jean Hugard." More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., (1902). Early reprint. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, 289 pp., text illustrations. The ways of card sharpers presented as a series of narratives. More
Chicago: Charles T. Powner C., no date (circa 1920). Early reprint. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, 289 pp., text illustrations. The ways of card sharpers presented as a series of narratives. More
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931). Third revised edition. Hardcover. 229 pp., octavo, original red cloth with gilt spine title. The principles of astrology presented by the master occultist Manly Palmer Hall. More
London: Thomas Boys, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, full maroon crushed morocco by the Hampstead Bindery with pictorial figures in 4 colors inlaid on front and rear boards; xvi, 1-38, 43-86, 111-162, 179-240 pp. (gaps in pagination are explained on page xvi as resulting from an editorial decision to remove..... More
NY: Century Co, (1926). Original red pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, octavo (6 x 8 inches), pp ix, 332. 32 b/w photo plates. Translated from the French by Gertrude Emerson. An account of travels in Indo-China. More
NY: Abingdon Press, (1926). First edition. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, gray, and white, octavo, 178 pp. 32 full-page illustrations from photographs. A travel narrative by an English woman adventuring in the highlands of India, Nepal, and Tibet. More
(San Francisco: State Viticultural Commission), 1881. Second Edition - Revised. Original burgundy cloth; octavo; 192 pp. Illustrated with 26.25 x 13.75 inch 3-color folding "Viticultural Map of the State of California" (showing areas planted in vineyards in green and spots infected with phyloxera in orange), and 2 large folding lithograph..... More