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
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....
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...
Baltimore: Geneaogical Publication Co., 1971. Facsimile of the 1672 London edition. Hardcover. Folio, red buckram; (xiv), 720, [103] pp., illustrated. Review copy with publisher mounted label thus to front free endpaper. The Order of the Garter was founded in 1348 by King Edward III. More about THE INSTITUTION, LAWS & CEREMONIES OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. Collected and...
Berkeley: University of California, 1959. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 477-567 pp., 2 color photo plates. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Vol. 28, No. 18. June, 1959. Gabler 13370. More about MODERN SENSORY METHODS OF EVALUATING WINE (Hilgardia, Vol. 28, No. 18. June, 1959
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First editions. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo, natural linen spines and blue boards, printed paper spine labels; 207; 198 pp. Publisher catalog at rear of both volumes. Both volumes have a section of "Notes" at the rear including music for the songs in the plays... More about IRISH FOLK-HISTORY PLAYS, FIRST SERIES: The Tragedies (Grania - Kincora - Dervorgilla) and IRISH...
Dublin: Maunsel & Co. (also London & NY: Macmillan), 1906. First edition. Hardcover. x, 426 pp., 4 color plates and 31 illustrations from line drawings by Hugh Thomson; octavo, green cloth with gilt title and ornaments. 4 page catalog of Macmillan's "Highways & Byways Series" at rear. More about THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963. First edition. Paperback. 299 pp, printed wrappers. Printed letterpress in handset Caslon type in an edition of 750 copies. More about THE WAKE
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and Co., 1877. First edition. 253 pp., small octavo, original brown cloth with gilt title and ornament. Minot Judson Savage (1841-1918) graduated in 1864 from Bangor Theological Seminary. He served the Congregationalist ministry for several years - including missionary work in Grass Valley and San Mateo, California... More about THE RELIGION OF EVOLUTION
New York: New York University Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. vii, 168 pp., frontispiece; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. A comparative scholarly analysis of the medieval poem in light of the recent discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of the work. Includes a parallel text comparison of the Old English... More about THE PROVERBS OF ALFRED: Studied in the Light of the Recently Discovered Maidstone Manuscript
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1970). First MIT Press paperback edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 123 pp., including 100 numbered type specimen sheets in 16 languages printed in 2 colors (black and red). Originally published by MIT Press in 1954. This first paperback edition (so stated on copyright page) adds additional technical explanation by Carl Zahn. More about MANUALE TYPOGRAPHICUM
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition, first printing. x, 457 pp., publisher's 6-page catalog at rear; small octavo, original brown cloth with gilt title. INSCRIBED "With the compliments of the author" on front blank leaf in author's hand (not signed). Helen Hunt Jackson's exhaustively researched and impassioned catalog... More about A CENTURY OF DISHONOR: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the...
San Francisco: Suttonhouse, (1937). First edition. Hardcover. Autographed by both authors on half title page. Stories about and recipes from the best San Francisco restaurants of the day. Originally published as weekly pieces in the San Francisco News. More about EATING AROUND SAN FRANCISCO
New York: Jacobsen & Co., 1915. Original edition. Hardcover. [4] pp, 183 monochrome plates; quarto, pale green cloth. Molded architectural ornaments of all kinds. More about THE GENERAL CATALOGUE OF JACOBSEN & CO. (Cover title: Architecure and Decorative Ornaments
Fort Collins: State Agricultural College, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 659 pp, profusely illustrated mostly from photoghraphs, octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles. Published in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Colorado's admission to the Union. More about HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN COLORADO: A Chronological Record of Progress in the Developement of...
NY: Simon & Schuster, (1971). First edition, first printing. Original green cloth, octavo, 174pp. First issue with top edge stained green. More about REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Stories 1962-1970
Huesca: Inst. de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes (facsimile and commentary), folios, green leatherette with gilt title and ornaments; 277 leaves (i.e. 554 pp. facsimile), 166 pp. (commentary), slipcase. Beautiful facsimile reproduction of the late 13th century illuminated manuscript. Text outlines the new legal code established... More about VIDAL MAYOR
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. xviii pp. + 84 plates from photographs and drawings, map endpapers; folio, original green cloth with gilt title. Farmhouses, village homes, manors, etc. of Normandy and Brittany, primarily depicted in photographs with a few plates from line drawings. This Richard... More about COTTAGES AND MANORS AND OTHER MINOR BUILDINGS OF NORMANDY AND BRITTANY
Chicago: Decorators Supply Co., 1906. Original edition. Hardcover. 208 pp., illustrations from photographs on nearly every page; quarto, original blue cloth with titles in red. Images of thousands of cast architectural ornaments. More about ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PLASTIC ORNAMENTS Cast In Plaster for Interiors and in Composition for...
NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1938. First edition. Original natural open-weave linen cloth over boards; quarto; unpaginated. 12 aquatint plates, 56 photo plates, map endpapers. A stunning presentation with beautiful color aquatints and rich photogravure plates. Edition limited to 1000 copies. More about FRENCH RIVIERA VILLAGES
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, quarto, vii, 200 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos throughout. The first book on these 5 pioneer California architects: Bernard Maybeck; Irving Gill; Charles & Henry Greene; R. M. Schindler. More about FIVE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, quarto, xiii, 466 pp. 100s of b/w photos, plans, drawings.Superficial scuffing to covers, else fine in lightly worn jacket with slight fading to jacket soine. "H. H Richardson is generally considered to be the greatest American architect of the second... More about H. H. RICHARDSON: Complete Architectural Works
London: Williams & Norgate, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. 112 pp., small octavo, original orange cloth, dustjacket. In his "Vision of Education" J. H. Burns presented ideas regarding education through the unique conceit of an "Internplanetary Conference" featuring speakers from Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and "Others" each sharing their planet's methods... More about A VISION OF EDUCATION: Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1922. Third printing. Hardcover. x, 85 pp., small octavo, original maroon cloth. The founder of the Religious Science Movement's 2nd book. More about CREATIVE MIND AND SUCCESS
Washington, DC: C. P. Farrell, 1882. Second printing. Hardcover. 126 pp. 12mo (6.75 x 5 inches), green cloth over thin card, gilt title. This copy ex libris J. Leroy Nickel (1895-1959) with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. Nickel was known as one of the largest land barons in California... More about A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: Being a Popular Account of the Formation and Development of the Canon