New York: Knopf, (1991). First edition. Final installment in the three-volume series on the life and work of Georgia O’Keefe (1987-1986) covering the years from 1916-1932. Folio gray linen boards stamped in silver on spine; illustrated with 91 full-color plates including the frontis; 130 pages plus list of plates. Includes..... Item #71964 More
ILLUSTRATED
ABBEYS.
Paddington Station, London: The Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated. Great Western Railway map in pocket on back paste down. About very good with offset shadow on front board, corners rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, name on front endpaper..... Item #52473 More
ALBERT EINSTEIN, THOMAS MANN, SERGEI PROKOFIEV, ALBERT SCHWEITZER, PAUL VALERY; [Portraits of 5 Nobel winners by the celebrated Czech artist].
Prague: Artia, 1958 [1959]. First edition of this attractive production issued as a New Year's greeting for friends of the publisher. In addition to the 5 portraits of the Nobel Prize winners, there is a brief biography of the artist and his work that is written in the 5 languages..... Item #56102 More
ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.
(Mantova: Maurizio Corraini, 2002). First edition. Korean artist Suzy Lee's book of photos and drawings for children and adults; with text on only the last two pages ("Is all our life, then . . . but a dream?") in English with Italian translation beneath. Inspired by the whimsey of Lewis..... Item #48903 More
ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Classics and Comics.
New Jersey: Margrace Corporation, (1985). First American edition. A textbook for the study of ALICE. Text on one page, illustrations on the next. Questions on the rear pastedown. Fine in pictorial boards. No dust jacket, if it was issued in one. Item #48905 More
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.
London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1920. Later printing; originally published in 1913. Illustrations by Alice B. Woodward, who is best known for her illustrations in THE PETER PAN PICTURE BOOK, which was also published by Bell. Seven full-page black-and-white drawings, plus frontis and front cover; several in-text illustrations as..... Item #48751 More
ALL ABOUT HAWAII.
Boston: Chapple Publishing, 1921. First edition. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photos including a 20" fold-old of the city of Honolulu spanning from the harbor to the mountains. Pictorial paperboards with cloth spine; 56 pages. Cloth spine is fine but pictorial covers show rubbing and the boards are visible at corners..... Item #53335 More
AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1898 [1897]. First U.S. edition. Published in 1897 with title page dated 1898 per Richards A106. Two-page calendar for 1898 followed by twelve color woodblocks by Nicholson--one for each month of the year--with verses by Kipling on opposing pages. Each month illustrates a different sport..... Item #54572 More
AMERICAN BARD WALT WHITMAN: The Original Preface to LEAVES OF GRASS Arranged in Verse, with Woodcuts by William Everson.
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First edition, trade issue. SIGNED BY EVERSON. Preceded by the 1981 limited edition published by Everson and his Lime Kiln Press. Fine in fine dust jacket with faint sticker shadow on front flap. Item #55685 More
AMONG THE GREAT MASTERS OF LITERATURE: Scenes in the Lives of Great Authors [Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, et al.]
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., (1900). First edition. 12mo white cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front and spine and with top edge gilt; illustrated with thirty-two full-page reproductions of famous paintings showing scenes from the lives of the authors. Very good with rear lower corner rubbed to board and..... Item #50085 More
AMOS JUDD.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition thus: illustrated with 7 color plates and title-page vignette by A. I. Keller. 8vo brick red cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt-stamped design by Amy Richards (signed "AR" in the design); top edges gilt; "D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston" printer's slug..... Item #71890 More
ANABASIS; [Signed, limited edition with original signed etching].
München [Munich]: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1982. First edition. German-language graphic novel of sorts with the narrative conveyed only by the pictures and their titles, which appear on opposing pages, by the award-winning German poet and artist Christoph Meckel (1935-2020). Number 24 of 80 SIGNED, numbered copies with ORIGINAL SIGNED PRINT..... Item #71931 More
APROPOS ROBINSON JEFFERS.
Long Beach: California State Univ, 1981. First edition. Exhibition catalog. One of 1,500 copies in the trade issue. Oblong 14 x 12" plain sewn paperwraps laid in gray heavy paper dust jacket printed in black on front. Includes Jeffers' essay "Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years" and lines selected from..... Item #55673 More
ARM IN ARM: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and Other Echolalia.
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, (1969). First edition. Gifter's inscription on front endpaper, but otherwise in fine condition. In a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and a few tiny closed tears at the top of the spine. Item #51694 More
AROUND THE WORLD WITH GENERAL GRANT: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries....
New York: Subscription Book Department, The American News Company, 1879. First edition. Two volumes. 4to gilt-stamped three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Well illustrated with "eight hundred illustrations" depicting scenes from around the world; steel engraved frontis portrait of Grant in volume I; and 1879..... Item #71952 More
ATHLETIC SPORTS IN AMERICA, ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA: Comprising History, Characteristics, ... Great Contests of Baseball, Cricket, Football, La Crosse, Tennis, Rowing and Cycling.
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, (1889). First edition, Introduction by Henry Chadwick; preface and edited by J. Austin Fynes. Small quarto brown cloth boards lettered and illustrated in gilt and black on front and spine; top edge gray; patterned endpapers. Illustrated with numerous full-page plates, four of which are in color: "Baseball..... Item #55415 More
BALLYHOO MAGAZINE: The first 12 issues, August 1931 - July 1932.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1931-1932. First edition. The first 12 issues of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled liberally with topical and risque..... Item #71783 More
THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
[Frankenhardt, Germany]: Edition Schwarze Seite, (2010). First edition. Only edition, and a very limited one at that. Number 15 of only 25 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Constitutes the first separate printing of Jeffers' poem which has alternately been titled "the unformed volcanic earth" [Broomfield A135, addendum]. Bilingual text with..... Item #56019 More
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRABHORN PRESS 1915-1956.
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. Two volumes in one. Faithful rendering of the original Grabhorn Press editions, the first of which was published in 1940 in an edition of 210 copies, the second in 1957 in an edition of 225 copies. Printed throughout in black and red and..... Item #55728 More
THE BIG CITY: Or The New Mayhew.
(London): Perpetua, (1958). First UK edition. Gift inscription to front endpaper, spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, bookseller stamp to rear blank, otherwise very good to near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a few scuffs and spine ends and corners lightly chipped and rubbed. Item #27702 More
BILLY RAY'S FARM: With Engravings by Barry Moser.
Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press, 1997. First edition. Letter "Z" of 26 COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER and housed in handmade clamshell box, each copy SIGNED BY BROWN AND MOSER and with TWO LOOSE LITHOGRAPHS SIGNED BY MOSER in glassine envelope laid in (one is the frontispiece illustration, the other appears..... Item #53542 More
BILLY THE GREAT.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1992). First U.S. edition. Originally published in the UK in 1991. This wonderful story of a boy growing up with a mind of his own is beautifully illustrated by Caroline Binch. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #56050 More
BISKRA: and the Oases and Desert of the Zibans, with Information for Travellers.
London: Edward Stanford, 1893. First edition. Illustrated with 8 full page photographs and 3 colored maps, including one folding map of "Algeria and Tunis." Gilt stamped green cloth boards. Hinges cracked but holding, otherwise very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends, floral front endpaper over-glued at hinge..... Item #52575 More
BOOK OF FRIENDS: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago; [Signed, lettered and with an original drawing signed by Miller tipped in].
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. (There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing.) 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim..... Item #54177 More
A BOOK OF GAELIC AIRS FOR UNA'S MELODEON Collected by Una Jeffers
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989. First edition. One of 500 copies. In plain white dust jacket. SIGNED BY DESIGNER WARD RITCHIE, though not called for. Illustrations by Robinson Jeffers. Introduction by Dave Oliphant. Printed by Premier Printing and bound by Bela Blau in linen. The book is 186..... Item #55665 More