1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We believe Jones m... View More...
8vo, cloth, 301 pp. The first substantial biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his varied work: stained glass, book illustration, commercial art. 24 color plates and 180 b/w illustrations. A marvelous treatment. Fine; as new in d/w with some very minor shelf-wear. A near pristine copy. View More...
Author's Autograph Edition, limited to 1000 signed copies. 8vo, xvi, 436 pp; 3/4 bound in publisher's faux vellum with light blue paper boards, gilt lettering to spine; SIGNED on Limitation page by both Byrd and the Publisher. #####Near fine overall with only very slight surface wear, but regrettably an ex-lib copy with Dewey Decimal number inked on spine and a small ink stamp and notation on the acknowledgement page. #####Ex-libris Herbert Brenon, with his bookplate on fep. Brenon was an Irish film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent film through the 1930s. Some of Bren... View More...
First edition; 8vo, 142 pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The book is pristine in essentially as-new condition. The dust jacket has no chips or tears; just some mild age-toning on the spine that has lightly faded the title. This volume collects writings that first appeared in campus newspapers and other student publications. View More...
Publisher:
San Francisco, The Clemens Publishing Company : 1992
Seller ID: dg121701
1st ed. 12mo, publisher’s printed wrappers with a portrait of Twain on front. 211 pp. First edition. BAL, p. 251. Fair: Internally clean and tight. Covers rubbed at extremites; bottom right corner of front cover and first leaf clipped 1/8”, similar sized crease on next several leaves; covers tanned with some light rubbing. Bindery glue residue on front hinge. Ex-libris Ruth Ann Newport; County Historian for the County of Tuolumne, Ca with her blind stamp at bottom of title page and last leaf. View More...
12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies of his twenty six wives and names and number of children born to them". Silver titles. B/W photographs. Interior of text Is clean and tight. Covers faded at extremities, more so on the back; 1.5” closed tear at front binding edge. View More...
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Bois en couleurs de Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Avant propos de Colette, Portraits par A. D. de Segonzac [Colored woodcuts by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, Foreword by Colette, Portraits by A. D. de Segonzac.
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Paris, Daragnès, 1954. 4to, 33cmx26cm. [2ff.], 118pp., [3ff.] Copy no. 68 of 140. Orange boards, white vellum spine with gilt lettering. Card slipcase. Fargue’s homage to his long friendship with Daragnes -- published after both their death’s by the latter’s wife. Fargue died in 1947; Daragnes in 1950. The text is previously unpublished and is illustrated with a suit... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, dark green boards, 154 pp. Grigsby lived in the Tuolumne/Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada from 1907. This memoirs cover his early years, through the Depression and his work with the California Conservation Corp, through the publication date 1943. Good+: Presents as very good-near fine overall but chip at top of spine results in loss in 1/8” of cloth, lightly rubbed corners. Inscribed by Grigsby on fep to Ruth Ann Newport, County Historian, Tuolumne County CA. Good+ dustwrapper has ½”open tear at top of spine; similar at top back panel, and some light spotting View More...
Limited to 800 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Sm. 4to; 134 pp., illus. Essays written at the end of Grunsky's life about his early years in Stockton, California, and studying engineering in Germany. Grunsky was an important Civil Engineer, working on the Panama Canal and the improvement of port facilities in California. View More...
Classic biography of Arthur Rackham, with 32 tipped in color plates and numerous b&w illustrations, portraits, facsimiles in-line with text. 1973 reprint edition. Also "the printed work of Arthur Rackham", a checklist. Book condition: near fine. DJ condition: very good. View More...
1st edition of the classic biography of Rackham, including 32 tipped-in color plates and numerous b&w drawings in-line with text. Bibliography and checklists. APPENDIX A Bibliography, APPENDIX B Drawings and paintings in Collections, APPENDIX C The Printed Work of Arthur Rackham. D/w soiled with several large closed tears, one open tear View More...
A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.#####4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of live concert music and a Record Plant jam CONDITION: A new copy, with CD pocket still sealed. However, a former store display copy with some light surface wear to the cover and slipcase... View More...
Publisher:
Santa Clara, University of Santa Clara : 1967
Seller ID: dg17121603
1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth; xx, 241 pp. photo illustrated w/ appendices on aircraft design, etc., bibliograph. Montgomery performed the first controlled, heavier-than-air flights in the United States in 1883 - nearly 20 years before the Wright Brothers. A fine copy in good+ dustjacket. Inscribed on FEP by the author to Ruth Ann Newport, County Historian, Tuolumne County CA. The d/w is somewhat yellowed with several nicks along edges and corners, some minor spotting View More...
1st ed., small 4to, illustrated boards. 128 pp. Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, and educator art has been widey exhibited in the United States as well as in Canada, and Europe. Kitty City is a book of blended art and writing about her and her husband's house full of cats. Each cat that Chicago ever had is depicted and a story unfolds about that cat's life in the Chicago household.
A pristine copy; inscribed by Chicago to Los Angeles Bookseller Joan Perkal. With Judy Chicago's printed business card and publisher’s card laid inside. View More...
NY: Vantage Press, 1967. 1st ed., 8vo. 111 pages. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine in original dj. A near fine review copy in fair dust-jacket. The book has a ½” hairline crack at the bottom of the frontgutter and some very minor shelf-wear on bottom edge. The dustjacket is not price-clipped but has two open tears on front [1” & ½”], wear to edges, and a large damp-stain on the back not affecting the book. A hilarious autobiography by this "unique" actor. Illustrated with 32 b/w photographs. Laid in is a publisher’s review slip and press release “This is not a great book, but it i... View More...
1st ed., 8vo. Presentation edition, ¼ calf with decorated paper board. Gilt titles on spine with four raised bands. T.E.G. in cloth slipcase./////This profusely illustrated memoir by the two-time Pulitzer Prize cartoonist depicts life as a World War II veteran and includes commentary about the "red scare", Franco and Fascism, Zionism and more. Our understanding is that this is a publisher's presentation copy; the 1948 date on the spine suggests it may have been specially bound after the official publication date of Oct. 31, 1947, which was time to coincide with the book's release for the Book-... View More...
First edition. 12mo stapled slate blue wrappers. Simultaneously published in hardcover. 32 pp. biographical and bibliographic study by the noted critic. Published for free distribution to promote the Kalki Edition of Cabell's works. View More...
1st ed., 4to 160 pp. Trade edition.Harry Clarke (1889 –1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His color illustrations for Poe's tales and other works are highly prized, but his other graphic work is less known. This comprehensive monograph presents some of his early sketches, private drawings, and commercial work -- with as well as the man behind the drawings and designs. Although not noted, there were only 2,500 copies printed -- half for distribution in the UK and half for the U.S. audienc... View More...
First Rand McNally edition; originally published in 1951. 8vo, grey cloth. 618 pp. Signed by Omar Bradley on title page with inscription, "Best wishes to a fellow veteran, Colonel Wallace.” A near fine copy in d/w. Some spotty discoloration on the edges from accumulation of shelf-dust; otherwise a virtually pristine copy. View More...
The club's second publication. John Sutter Jr was the eldest son of Capt. John Sutter; he managed the Sutter properties during most of the critical period between 1848 and 1851, and was himself the founder of the city of Sacramento. By 18952, the Sutter holdings had all been lost, and Sutter Jr was a penniless exile in Mexico. He returned to California early in 1855 hoping to retrieve some of his lost fortune. Here, published for the first time, is the story of his life in California, telling how the property was lost and how he had been drugged and swindled. A few months after writing th... View More...
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