New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 422 pp., octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) became one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century with the publication of this work. Originally published in Spanish in... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. 141, [1] pp., illustrated with 10 mounted woodblock illustrations by Martin Puryear; oblong quarto (11.5 x 13.75 inches), bound in tan linen with interwoven brown linen ties. A very handsome presentation of this classic of African-American literature, originally published in 1923. Edition... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, rust brown cloth with pictorial paper inset on front cover, printed paper spine label, matching slipcase; 110 pp., 8 full-page illustrations by Stan Washburn. Edition of 326 copies; 300 numbered for sale, this #176. Signed in the colophon by... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth, pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp., illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. Publication prospectus laid in. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book, written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The... More
Trieste: TK Galerija, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. Black cloth solander case, 32 x 25 cm (12.75 x 9.75 inches) printed card wrapper over plain red wrapper and blue gray paper chemise holding 12 unbound fascicles each with a poem by Marko Kravos and a serigraph print by Franko Vecchiet... More
[Buffalo, NY: Ellicott Press, 1933]. First edition. Paperback. Black suede decorative wrappers, 7 x 5.5 inches, vi, 138 pp., illustrated with 3 portrait plates of Hamid Bey from photographs, 1 line drawing. 2 reorder coupons for this book bound in at rear. Laid in are 2 admission tickets for lectures... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., nd (circa 1925). Hardcover. xi, (139) pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. More
London: Printed for H. Serjeant and G. Woodfall, no date (1880s?). Early reprint. Hardcover. (104) pp., small octavo, blue cloth spine and marbled boards. An irreverant look at matrimonial practices around the world and down through the ages, with the farcical "Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald" for dessert. More
(San Francisco): Frontier Press, 1969. First edition (signed). Paperback. [3], 24 pp., original printed wrappers, 9 x 6 inches. American poet and teacher Edward Merton Dorn's (1929-1999) 11th published book. This copy signed by author on front blank leaf, dated 1981. With the earlier ownership signature of Scottish poet Ruthven... More
Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1980 & 1979. Reprint of the original 1925 edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, original red cloth; xvii, 479; v, 641 pp., folding maps and publisher catalogs at rear of each volume. Latin text with English translation on facing pages. "The Histories" are complete in these 2 volumes. More
London & Sydney: Croom Helm / Areopagitica Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. [5], 319 pp.; octavo, original brown boards, pictorial jacket. "This is the first book that attempts a comprehensive treatment of the contacts and relationship between the Celtic peoples and those of Greece and Rome." More
New York: W. W. Norton, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. 390 pp., illustrated; octavo, original black cloth, pictorial dustjacket. A well-written and well-regarded history of the famed explorer and author. More
Stockton, CA: The Stockton Corral of Westerners/University of the Pacific, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 368, [2] pp., 160 photos, maps, and illustrations; oblong quarto, red leatherette with gilt title and cover ornament, dustjacket. A history of the dredges working in the bays and inland waterways of California and their... More
Berkeley: University of California, 1957. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 521-563 pp. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler (second ed.)13340. More
Berkeley: University of California, 1962. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 319-392 pp. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Gabler (second ed.)13415. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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