New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large 8vo, 401 pp + ads, in original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt by the Decorative Designers Studio. Near fine, with corners lightly rubbed, mild wear to head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Charles Walton Ogden on..... Item #14303
Very good. Four-page autograph draft, unsigned, of a letter from William T. Hornaday, pioneering conservationist and Director of the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo), to Alexander Graham Bell, who was then a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents. Approximately 850 words, on three sheets of letterhead..... Item #21315
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi, 520 pp with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French..... Item #12969
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
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. First American edition, signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, and Charles Evans, and the London Times correspondent James Morris (now Jan Morris), who accompanied the party. xx, 300 pp..... Item #21020
London: Methuen, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. fine in a very good dust jacket. 210 pp, indexed. A fine copy in original green cloth. Dust jacket is toned and lightly worn at the edges. Hyamson (1875-1954) was a British Zionist who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of..... Item #15798
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
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 7.25 x 10.25 inches, 213 pp text + numerous illustrations, including 32 color plates and many b/w photographs. Original beige buckram boards, top edge gilt. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, two small archival repairs to the half title page, else fine..... Item #16946
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
Los Angeles: Arroyo Guild Press, 1909. Softcover. Near fine. First and only issue published. pp. 67, XV, [i] (ads) + illustrations. Slight toning, small split at foot of spine, else fine. The Arroyo Craftsman was intended as to serve as the mouthpiece of the Arroyo Guild, a loose association of..... Item #21275
Boston: Little, Brown, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, two volumes, pp. xliv, 270; xiv, 271-547; extensively illustrated with color frontispiece, photographic plates, and line drawings in the text; 4 maps and plans (one folding). Publisher's cloth backed boards, decorated in gilt; no dust jackets. Light rubbing to extremities..... Item #20476
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 216 pp. indexed and illustrated, in original decorative cloth boards. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bertha Bliss Tyler, author of the chapter recounting "George Wharton James Day." A record of the..... Item #20841
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Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 345 pp + numerous b/w illustrations from photographs, index, illustrated endpapers. Original giraffe-patterned cloth boards, sunned at the spine and with moderate shelfwear. Text clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title page "to M.S. Slocum with..... Item #20072
![Four Years in Paradise [SIGNED]. Osa Johnson](/pictures/thumb/20072_1.jpg?v=1540337339)
[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
Boston: James Osgood, 1879. Hardcover. Very good-. Sixth edition, with maps and revisions. 308 pp, with two colored folding maps, bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Bookplate of the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Some wear to extremities, spine lean, paper over rear hinge..... Item #20655
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
![Glaucus: Or, The Wonders of the Shore [The Works of Charles Kingsley Volume V]. Charles Kingsley](/pictures/thumb/14264.JPG?v=1474055546)
Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii, [13]-560 pp, with 66 illustrations (many full page). Publisher's dark red cloth decorated in black and gilt. Corners rubbed, some fraying at foot of spine, small hole in cloth at rear joint. Internals fine. Kingston authored many tales..... Item #13040
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
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: With Ninety-Three Illustrations from Photographs and from Pencil Sketches by E.A. Rickards and a Frontispiece in Colour from a Drawing by Robert Little, R.W.S. 370 pp + publisher's ads, in original pictorial cloth. No dust..... Item #21241
![Through the Alps to the Apennines [SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY]. P. G. Konody](/pictures/thumb/21241_1.jpg?v=1598245751)
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
![A Collection of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Pamphlets and Ephemera [SIGNED]....](/pictures/thumb/20494.jpg?v=1554932438)
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
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 90 pp text + index, bibliography and 96 b/w plates; several plans in the text. Publisher's brown cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. As new, in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of shelf wear..... Item #16324
London: Strawberry Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. [21] pp, bound in brown cloth, with "TEL" stamped in gilt on front board. Fine. According to the colophon, "around two hundred copies of this edition have been hand set and printed by P.W.N. and A.P.F. Around one hundred copies were issued privately in..... Item #16225
