New York: American Social Hygiene Association, (1924). Third printing. Hardcover. 80 pp., 9 full-page plates, 10 illustrations in the text; octavo, original brown cloth and boards. A thoughful introduction to sex education with the intention of providing parents and teachers with a progressive tool to educate the young in the facts of life. More about THE WAY LIFE BEGINS: An Introduction to Sex Education
Atlantic City: the Author, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. 188 pp, octavo, original orange cloth. A system of numerology. More about THE DAY OF WISDOM ACCORDING TO NUMBER VIBRATION
Los Angeles: The Magazine Theosophy, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. [5], 237 pp. + 7-page catalog of Theosophical publications; 12mo (5.75 x 4.25 inches), full limp leather with gilt title and ornament. Rare original edition of this volume on the Bhagavad-Gita by one of the founders of the original Theosophica Society. More about NOTES ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: The First Seven Chapters by William Q. Judge, The Remaining Chapters...
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. 140 pp. + 114 plates; quarto, original 2-tone green cloth, dustjacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Pierpont Morgan Library. More about WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK: With Essays on William Morris as Book Collector...
Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1985. First edition. Paperback. 128 pp., profusely illustrated, original pictorial wrappers, 10.5 x 9.5 inches. Contributors to the text include Bill Mauldin, Umberto Eco, Joan Roebuck, et al. More about THE GRAPHIC ART OF CHARLES SCHULZ, THE OAKLAND MUSEUM: A Catalogue of the Retrospective...
London: B.T. Batsford, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. 56 pp, 17 full-page plates; quarto, original green boards, dustjacket. A history of early English Bible printing both in Britain and the United States. More about AN OUTLINE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN BIBLE HISTORY
[Arlington, MA: Editions Medicina Rara, 1983]. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. [28] pp; octavo, half leather and boards, slipcase. Publisher's descriptive sheet laid in. Full color facsimile of a unique 13th century illuminated French medical atlas. The original is in the British Library (Codex Sloane 1977). This #85 of 2300 copies printed... More about La Chirurgie: Codex Sloane 1977. (LIVRE DE CHIRURGIE
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [1], 410; octavo, original black and gray cloth, dustjacket. More about VEDANTA FOR MODERN MAN
Greenwich: Dial Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. Paperback. viii, 553-664, ix-xx pp., 7 full-page illustrations; original printed wrappers 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Includes first publication of Marianne Moore's poem "People's Surroundings"; Hart Crane's "Praise for an Urn." John Eglinton's "Dublin Letter" and Ezra Pound's "Paris Letter" both discuss James Joyce's... More about THE DIAL, JUNE 1922. (Volume LXXII Number 6
San Francisco: Nature's Herb Co., no date (1930s). Original edition. Paperback. 32 pp., green pictorial wrappers, 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Scarce catalogue of herbs and herbal preparations. More about HERBS AND MEDICINES FOR HOME USE
Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 355 pp., illustrated with engraved vignette title page (with title as "Cultivation of the Grape"), headpieces, tailpiece, 40 text figures; octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title, top edge gilt. Fairly scarce American viticultural work described by Gabler as... More about CULTURE OF THE GRAPE
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...