2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women..... Item #3220
Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead, each on is on a single sheet, ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases, minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to help fund..... Item #20048
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii, 940, + ads, with many plates (including one folding panorama), portraits, and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth, Clifford Carleton, Harry C. Edwards, E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue..... Item #20473
Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company, 1881. Softcover. Good. Single issue of this periodical (which was in the midst of undergoing a name change to better reflect its broad content) dated December 1881. pp 401-428, including index for the entire year. Includes much content on the state of missions and living..... Item #20779
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San..... Item #18962
Boston: The Page Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 371 pp, with index and 56 plates, of which 8 are in color. Spine lettering faded, otherwise the lovely pictorial cloth binding is well preserved. Binding tight, text clean. One of five titles James contributed to The Page Company's See..... Item #22359
[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott and Co., 1875. Hardcover. Near fine. New edition with sixty-eight illustrations on wood. A near fine copy of this beautifully illustrated work. 10.5", 210 pp, bound in brown cloth with decoration stamped in black and gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, otherwise a fine copy of this..... Item #22244
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 311 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs, two maps (one folding). In original binding of dark gray cloth with green illustration on front board. Corners bumped, some paint speks on spine, bookplate of James Hobey Bullard on front pastedown..... Item #22618
London: Macmillan, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7", xi, 245 pp, with 12 color plates and additional illustrations in the text. Attractive full-red leather prize binding, with spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Inscribed "J. Royden, Classics, Class I, Yarlet, Christmas 1884" on the..... Item #14264
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Boston: George A. Chapman, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 132 pp, in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine, front board just holding on, moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the..... Item #18533
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
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New York: Lyons & Buford, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First printing.186 pp. As new, in a clean, price-clipped dust jacket with minimal wear/ Krakauer's first book, a collection of compelling portraits of challenging climbs and the people who attempt them. Item #22621
Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto, pp. [8], 280, [8], with 7 engraved maps and plates (4 folding). Contemporary calf boards with new, complementary calf spine in six compartments. Some edgewear to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; text and plates exceptionally clean and..... Item #15085
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
Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description..... Item #18158
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
New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at..... Item #14049
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 108 of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Lyman on the limitation page. 394 pp, illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings and engravings, and with four folding facsimile letters not found in the trade edition. Two-toned..... Item #19662
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
Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp v, [1],648 + index, with one folding table, in original full calf with red spine label. Leather scuffed, corner torn from table, with small loss of text, otherwise sound and clean. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear (1792-1832, attorney and..... Item #22543
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
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, pp. xviii, 243 pages, 56 leaves of plates (3 folding, one of which is linen-backed), in original brown cloth. A very good, clean copy with just a bit of scattered foxing, one old insect nibbling and scuffing to boards..... Item #22549
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
