New York: Grolier Club, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 50 pp. One of 1,500 copies designed and produced under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell. Fine copy. Item #22381
Hawaii Volcano Observatory, Hawaii National Park: Hawaii Volcano Research Association, 1931. 8.5 x 11 inches, 4 pp, with 5 photographic illustrations. Good. Light soiling, old folding creases, general handling wear. The Volcano Bulletin was published weekly by the Hawaii Volcano Research Association on behalf of the Volcanology section of the..... Item #20174
Kansas City, MO: Curtis Folding Grand Stand Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, 1920s. 3.75 x 9 inches, oblong, stapled self-wrappers, with half-tone photographic illustrations and line drawings. Near fine. Although little known to the general public, William Hanford Curtis (1873-1955) was a legendary figure in the circus world, credited with..... Item #21805
San Francisco: H.D. Walker, 1921. Hardcover. Good. Thirteenth Annual Number. 696 pp + advertisements, with seven maps (most folding). Paper over both hinges cracked; otherwise sound and clean. A valuable reference, divided into the following sections: United States Government Bonds and Bonded Debt of State of California, San Francisco, Oakland..... Item #22158
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply..... Item #1652
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
Oregon City, OR: Grant B. Dimick, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 9" x 12", pp. 171-194, stapled binding. Light soiling, old dampstain to back cover, but still very good. Single issue of this scarce magazine, which billed itself as the "only journal on the Pacific Coast published in the interests of..... Item #21854
Boston: Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, 1916. Softcover. Very good. Publication No. 9 of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1916. 8 pp, stapled. Short tears at left margin, but still very good. Argues that "the attitude of suspicion, fear, and avoidance..... Item #21873
San Francisco and New York: Revolutionary Women of the Bay Area, Spartacist Publishing Company. Softcover. Very good. Issue numbers 4-20, all original but number 5, which is a photocopy. 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on newsprint; one issue 32 pp, the rest 24 pp, illustrated. Minor toning to..... Item #20670
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875. Hardcover. Good. 314 pp, with many illustrations from engravings. Publisher's cloth with mounted color illustration and decoration in gilt. Old insect damage to visible on boards and paper over front hinge, gift inscription on front free endpaper; binding sound and text clean. A nicely..... Item #2434
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state (without Burton’s name or FRGS on the spines), but with a “second edition” slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales..... Item #13920
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald. Hardcover. Very good. Undated printing of this interesting work, first published in 1857 by Mabie & Co. and in 1858 by Dick & Fitzgerald. pp xvii, 146, [4] publisher's ads. In original green cloth binding with blind-stamped decoration, title in gilt on upper board. Corners..... Item #22109
Vienna, VA: Andreas Galleries, Inc. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 8 inches, 90 pp, with many color illustrations. Undated, likely 1980s. Some handling wear, sticker with gallery contact information affixed to rear inside cover; else clean and sound. Includes work by A.V. Alfieri, Paul Caranicas, Carlo Coene, Primo..... Item #746
Mexico: Editiones Postalmex, 1964. Softcover. Very good. 43 pp, with bibliography, index. Pictorial stapled wrappers are lightly soiled, pages tanned. Text in Spanish. Item #20847
Boston, New York, Cambridge, Mass: American Tract Society; Hurd and Houghton; Riverside Press. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 202 pp. Undated, 1870s. Revised from the London edition (published under the title "Parables for Children" in 1873). Original green cloth with blind stamped decoration, gilt on spine. Corners bumped..... Item #13196
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. pp. 47-69, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers; else clean and sound. College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 325, September, 1920. A report on the ongoing research and experiments..... Item #1406
Seattle, WA: AMR Publishing, 1984. Softcover. Very good. Second printing. 8.25 x 11 inches, 221 pp, extensively illustrated. Comb binding. Covers rubbed, contents clean and sound. Title page notes that the volume includes song hits of the era, remote equipment, new model announcements, special related news articles, ads of the..... Item #21220
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. Softcover. Very Good. 21 pp, in original wrappers with stapled binding. Some general handling wear including one short tear to front cover at spine; previous owner's book plate affixed to verso of cover and small name stamp on back cover.Contents clean. Item #651
London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1918. Softcover. good. Third edition. 5" x7.25", pp 26, [7] ads, in original cardstock wrappers, wth later cloth tape on spine. Ownership stamps on cover and title page, a few penciled brackets in the margins. Instruction on a popular style of portrait photography that "removes..... Item #15182
Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 65 pp, with many color and b/w illustrations, glossary, and bibliography. Some rubbing to back cover, else fine. Includes essays on the development of weaving and dress, the weaving process, costume, and several regional weaving centers: Charazani..... Item #21721
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1850. Hardcover. Very good. First American edition. 357 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration. gilt spine lettering. Very mild spine slant, corners rubbed, one signature loosening (but not detached), occasional light foxing; about very good. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847)..... Item #21018
Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp, with frontispiece and many sketches by the author (which are rather amateurish, but charming). Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages, boards a bit scuffed, rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the..... Item #12740
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1955. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 448 pp + illustrations from photographs, with list of sources, bibliography, index. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and one short tear. Aln attempt to demystify the legend of Lawrence..... Item #390
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Blades, East & Blades, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. xxiii, 346 pp, in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few chips and tears, toning to spine and edges, tender hinges with a tape repair at tail of spine; text clean, some pages unopened. Item #3142
Paris: Henri Gautier. Softcover. Good. Undatred, ca. 1897. 32 pp, in original illustrated wrappers.Chipping, tape repair to corners inside cover and first leaf, split at lower spine; contents clean. Text in French. Item #2426
