First UK edition, first printing with "1" as the lowest number in print number line on copyright page. 8vo. green cloth; 189pp, illus with b/w plates. Author's presentation inscription and signature in silver pen to ffep. Light surface wear to d/w, otherwise an as-new fine copy. View More...
125 pp. Original screenplay for a proposed film based on the National Book Award winning memoir - cowritten by Matthiessen and the Polish producer/director Korzeniowsky. Nearly fine in studio wrappers bound with 3 posts, as issued. The screenplay is an original studio photocopy; the title page typed on production company letterhead. We are aware of no other copies having come on the market. Near fine: light wear to covers, internally fine. Unusual in that PM is a cowriter of the script; most proposed screenplays of his works were adapted by others. View More...
1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focuses on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior owner’s penciled signature on front end paper, some browning in the hinges; contemporary bookshop label inside back cover [and transfer to facing page]; no tears, chips, or rubbing. The jacket is complete, not price-clipped but has numerous edge tears up to 1”, chipped a spine ends; soiled back panels. View More...
1st ed. 8vo. Brown cloth, 299 pp; brown top-edge; Photographic frontispiece of the author. The autobiography of Elsinore Justina "Aunt Elsie" Robinson (1883-1956) who worked as a miner in California before finding her calling writing children’s stories for the Hearst papers. Near fine: small, light stain on bottom edge; signature of prior owner on fep. [Ruth Ann Newport; County Historian for the County of Tuolumne, Ca. View More...
The Journal of Padre Serra, From Loreto, the Capital of Baja California, to San Diego, Capital of the New Establishments of Alta California in three months and three days March 28 to July 1, 1769. Including San Diego's Great Water Rights Document Now Published for the First Time. 1st ed., 8vo, softcover, 108 pp. Illustrations & map. Inscribed on title page by translator Ben F. Dixon. A very good-near fine copy: a darkened band 1” wide along back spine; light fade line along front spine. No tears, chips, or markings other than Dixon’s signature and date. View More...
1st edition, thus. [Illustrated Pocket Edition" Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on the front cover, [vii], 136 pp., frontispiece portrait. 4.25x6".
Very good: a bright copy with end papers toned; corners and spine ends lightly rubbed; text block near fine. View More...
First edition. 8vo, red cloth covered boards; yellow titles and illustration of Texas Longhorn on front board. 291pp, plus one page of advertisements. Black & white photographic illustrations. Siringo's experiences in frontier Texas and New Mexico (Six Guns #2029, Herd #2074). Near fine; lettering on cover and spine very lightly rubbed; staple transfer to rear end paper. Internally pristine. View More...
Small 4to, stiff paper covers with illustrated paper label. No.17 of 400 copies. 22 full-page color illustrations. 34 pp. Published in association with an exhibition of the artwork at: Galerie Martine Gossieaux, Du 9 Octobre au 29 Novembre, 2003. Accompanied by a 5”x7” invitation to the gallery and original unbound advance reading copy for the U.S. edition, 8”x9”, softcovers. 40pp. Steig's last book! Born in 1916, Steig recalls when fire engines were pulled by horses, kids went to the library, there was no TV and everybody wore a hat!!
All three pieces virtually pristine. View More...
1st ed., 8vo, iii-322 pp., 29 plates, 4 in color and 126 b/w illustrations in the text. A very clean copy; inscribed by the author on fep. André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) Gill was the most popular and important French caricaturist of his time, known today mostly for his work for the weekly four-sheet satirical newspapers La Lune and L’Eclipse from 1865 to 1876. Waging war against the monarchy with his cartoons, he also became involved in the Paris Commune, illustrating for Jules Vallès' socialist paper, La Rue. Between 1868 and 1873 more than 60 of his cartoons were censored or sup... View More...
London. John Sharpe, 1818. 16mo, marbled boards, with brown leather spine and corners. 120 pages. Appears to be rebound in 19th century calf, label. Text block clean and tight overall with occasional foxing. Title and dedication pages more heavily foxed. Half-title page missing. Walpole's name does not appear in the book. Bookplate on the inside front cover with coat of arms and the name Maleolu Campbell; also contemporary bookseller seal. An old bookstore catalog description mounted to fep.
Condition: Fair; corners rubbed and rounded, corners stained; spine titles rubbed. Title page and ... View More...
Second edition; first published in 1701. 12mo, brown calf. 437 pp. plus front and back matter. Warwick fought on the Royalist side at Edgehill and served Charles I until the king's execution in 1658. He then went on to become a knight under Charles II, and the diaries continue into this period. Internally good with a tight text block and generally little foxing. Title page is worn and soiled as are a number of the pages in the adits at rear. Title page and fep partially detached but fully intact. Front hinge split but intact. Covers very heavily rubbed and chipped with most of the lettering ... View More...
Publisher:
Santa Barbara, Santa Teresa Press : 1989
Seller ID: 040602
1st ed., softcover. limited to 300 copies signed by James Whale and publisher James Pepper. A tiny bit of wear adjacent to the staples on the spine; otherwise a pristine copy. View More...
Publisher:
San Francisco, Printed for Anna Lee Marston by Johnck and Seeger : 1928
Seller ID: dg17121003
First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 dark blue cloth stamped in gilt over light blue boards.279 pages + 2 page genealogy chart. Color frontispiece and 15 b/w photogravures. No signatures or bookplates. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered but with the very scarce photographic plate opposite page 276, "George W. and Anna L.Marston and their Grandchildren". Includes a day-by-day journal of Gunn’s trip on horseback across Mexico on his way to the gold fields and Elizabeth Gunn's contemporary account of her trip around the Horn to California." Wheat 85. Howes M-324. Also includes an account of a t... View More...
[Miller, Henry] Moore, John. The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller. Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1962. A critical evaluation in poetic form. With author’s illustrations. 8vo, stapled wrappers. 24 pp. Very good. Minor edgewear, corners bumped. View More...
3rd edition of the original work, first edition of the latter. Printed by Charles wittingham at the Chiswick Press in a single volume. 12mo. 220 pp. [1] 216 pp. A later 19th century rebinding, marbled boards, leather label. Full-page woodcut coat-of-arms, decorative initials, headpieces, and publisher's device.
Full title of the second volume: Some further portions of the diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her domestic history and to the events of the latter years of the reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. #####
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