ALS with remnants of envelope, dated Mch 11th, 1920, addressed to J.D. Baker, Pasadena. Two pp. 8.5x11”.
“Dear ‘D’. I address you as ‘D’ since you were so kind as to ask me to do so, and also because I want to do so. I have that beautiful cigarette can ….. you know you wrote] Jack [Frost’s son] that you had spent that fifty cents and you were going to save up to replace it. Knowing that ‘saving up’ in these times is close to the impossible I made up my mind that all that money was gone…..Now my dear boy, lay your hand on your heart, wear a beatific look and try hard to tell me the trut... View More...
8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition.
Alfred Hayes was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Island in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisan in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He received another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In television he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any shorter than ’Loss of R... View More...
The scarce four-page prospectus for Charlot's first "Picture Book: 32 Original Lithographs" published in 1933. Containing an original lithograph of plate 25 - "La Malinche", although with a few design and color differences than the image in the book. The prospectus is unusually signed in pencil by Charlot, making it a doubly scarce find. Fine condition. View More...
1st ed., 8vo, Cloth-backed batiqued boards. No. 19 of 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. 42 pp. Fine except for bookplate inside front cover; in poor slipcase lacking top/bottom edges and ½ of spine. View More...
First thus, limited to 155 signed copies. 2”x2” green paper-covered boards. 37 pp. Printed green paper boards with title and decorative border on cover, labels tipped in on frontispiece and throughout the text. An excerpt from an essay titled "Shaker Industries," which appeared in The Clarion in Fall 1979.
The only miniature book printed by Barbara Blumenthal of Catawba Press. The essay starts with a short history of the Shaker religion and their industries and then details the medicinal properties of the herbs
Condition: Fine, as-new with bookseller’s penciled notation on fep, a 3/16” ... View More...
20 b/w printed plates, 8-1/2x11, each pencil signed by the artist. Limited to 25 sets in decorated portfolio.
Dr. Friedrich “Fritz” Kocher (1904 - 1973), was a German born painter who relocated to Los Angeles in 1929. He received a number of awards both in his native Germany and from California arts groups. Group exhibitions included the California Arts Club [1935-1937); Society for Sanity in Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor [San Francisco, 1945]; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles [1947, 1954]. Early European exhibitions were held in Dresden - 1925, Karlsruhe - 1928, and Freib... View More...
4to, quarter cloth, blue on green boards with ocean wave pattern; printed title label on spine. [66] pp. One of 200 unnumbered copies set in Bulmer types and printed on handmade Umbria paper. After a pioneering voyage from Boston to California to seek fame and fortune, Duchow settled in the gold rush town of Columbia where he became a respected journalist and newspaper publisher. View More...
First U.S. edition; first state. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Conforms to the first issue points identified by McBride's "Points Of Issue" (1996): Front flap states "Lawrence Durrell's Black Book is the first piece of work by a new English writer …" not "T.S. Eliot said…" - Also with the year 1936 x’d out on the copyright page and replaced by 1959. A fine copy in very good d/w; just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corners. Jacket is not price-clipped but has wear to edges and corners with se... View More...
Signed photograph of Gov. Earl Warren [1891-1974; California] correcting a document or speech at his desk. April 10, 1953, six months before his appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10x8", b/w. /////A more personal signature than we are accustomed to seeing, inscribed "from Pop" to his secretary Stella Pauw. The unusual signature suggests a warm familial relationship between the two. We are aware of no other documents signed with this moniker and have seen no other copies of this particular photo. Provenance: A family photo obtained from Pauw's granddaughter.... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, black boards. A fine, virtually pristine copy with some very light wear to bottom edge of spine only. In fine d/w with mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped. View More...
1st ed., 8vo, black boards, white titles. Published posthumously, an unusually scarce Gardner title -- especially in this condition. The title story is the only short story Gardner wrote featuring his most famous character Perry Mason. Other: The Jeweled Butterfly, Something Like a Pelican, and A Man is Missing)
A fine, as-new copy in fine, mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped. View More...
1st Edition. 8vo, green boards, black titles. A fine, virtually pristine copy with just a hint of wear at bottom edge of spine. In near-fine d/w with 1/4” closed ear at upper right front; ½” closed tear at lower front flap, slight surface wear. View More...
William Morrow and Company, New York, 1973. 1st ed., 8vo, black boards, gilt titles. A fine, pristine copy in fine, mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped. View More...
1st ed. thus, small 4to, 57 pp. One of 390 copies with a tipped in original leaf from the 1914 First Edition of Cowan's work. The Book Club of California, publication 201. Gray cloth boards and paper cover, printed title label on front cover. Pristine copy; gray cloth backed boards with black titles in a fine mylar jacket. This copy inscribed by Kurutz on the front end paper. Prospectus laid in. View More...
1st printing [no additional printings stated]. 38pp. Tabloid-sized comic magazine printed in duotone and b/w on newsprint. Attached at rear to corrugated cardboard coves, as published, with paper label on front and black tape spine. No. 1 in Raw Magazine’s “One Shot” series, this is an anthology of strips featuring Panter’s post-apocalyptic punk “Jimbo” An innocent, spikey-haired, freckled-faced wanderer, surviving in a post-nuclear no-future.
Many of the individual stories first appeared in punk-zine Slash between 1978 and 1980, but there are also a number of full-page illustrations publis... View More...
1st ed; Limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. 12mo, Marble boards in acetate d/w and slipcase. Ribbon bookmarker. The book is virtually pristine with just some light toning to front and back flyleaves; slipcase also fine; acetate d/w is near fine but with several small open tears. View More...
1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers, [52] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. “Exhibition of works by one of the most outstanding representatives of Uruguayan painting, carried out under the auspices of Praxis International Art, from February 18 to April 3, 1993.” Texts : Belgium Rodríguez. Bilingual English-Spanish edition. Presentation : João Clemente Baena Soares. View More...
1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers with metal bolts, [48] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. Appreciation by José Luis Cuevas; introduction, "Anverso y Reverso en la Obra de Ignacio Iturria / The Obverse and the Reverse in the Work of Ignacio Iturria" by Damián Bayón; title essay, "Soñar con los Ojos Abiertos / Dreaming with Your Eyes Open" by Hugo Achugar; exhibitions; bibliography. Text in Spanish & English. Published in conjunction with exhibition of paintings by Uruguayan artist Ignacio Iturria at the Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City.
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Large 8vo, ochre linen covered boards with gilt writing on spine with gilt illustration on cover. 86 pages. .Limited edition, # 408 of 500 copies; reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1861-62. Fine copy in very good d/w. The book itself is as-new; the dustjacket has light surface wear and several small nicks at edges; no tears or chips, not price-clipped. 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...
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