San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1864. Hardcover. Good. 4.25" x 6.5", pp 440 + [9] (advertisements, some printed in blue and red), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Losses to backstrip, cloth frayed over front jont, front cover loosening and delicate, but still attached. Possibly lacking a front blank..... (Item #22149)

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #137 of 300 copies, signed by both authors in pencil on the colophon. 193 pp, with color frontispiece, illustrations in black and white. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block, slight fading to top inch of rear..... (Item #20494)

Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... (Item #21533)

California: Historic Record Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1927. Title continues "Containing also short, well-written personal sketches of many men and women, deceased and living, who by their own unaided efforts have made this one of the foremost sections of the State." 10.5 inches, 983 pp, with illustrations from photographs..... (Item #21243)

London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75", pp xii, [13]-308; vii, [1], [9]-328 pp, in original brown blindstamped cloth, spines decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, old repairs visible at joints, but still an attractive..... (Item #22524)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xvi, 357 pp + publisher's ads, with 9 folding maps (5 colored). Frontis map detached and laid in, otherwise contents sound and clean. Volume has been re-backed, with original front and rear board retained, spine cloth replaced..... (Item #22448)

London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 244 pp, with frontispiece, 11 plates, an attractive folding "Sketch Plan of the N.E. Face of the Simen Escarpment," and five full-page maps in the text. Bound in original green cloth. Old dampstain visible at rear joint and on rear..... (Item #22453)

New York: Macmillan, 1895. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 306 pp, with folding Map of the Kingdom of Kashmir and many illustrations by the author. Lettering and illustration on cloth boards is quite faded, one crack in binding, scattered foxing, old dampstain and private library embossed stamp visible on title..... (Item #22446)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 268 pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs.Slight softening to spine ends, else a fine copy. Briefly inscribed and signed by Messner beneath the epigraph. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has just a...... (Item #12395)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, 368 pp, with two maps (one folding) and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant, slight sunning to upper board, previous owner's name on front..... (Item #13051)

Denver: The Artcraft Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 266 of a limited edition of 700 copies, all signed by the author on the limitation page. xxxiii, 462 pp, with many illustrations, folding profile. A very good copy with minor wear to the boards, inscribed on the front..... (Item #22490)

London: Sands & Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 7.5", pp xvi, 163, extensively illustrated, bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, vignette on front board. Rubbing to edges and corners, light foxing to endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, small bookseller label (W. Erskine Mayne, Belfast) on..... (Item #22397)

First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Two-volume set, complete. 7.75 x 5 inches. Vol I - Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1832, pp. vi, 683,; Vol. II - Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834, pp. vii, 627. Each volume with ca. 50 wood-engraved illustrations. Recently rebound in quarter leather and marbled boards, spines..... (Item #22488)