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
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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
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey/Carey & Lea, 1829-1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Complete set of 13 volumes in original rose-colored cloth. Mild to moderate foxing (depending on the volume), but no markings or loss of text. Spines partially or fully perished on some volumes, some with the letters covered in..... Item #14202
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Washington: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1865. Very good. Single leaf, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, possibly originally issued with two leaves, the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text, signed in print by Lincoln, William Seward, and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11, 1865..... Item #21167
Sturgis & Walton: New York, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv, 326 pp, in original pictorial cloth boards. No dust jacket. Corners rubbed through, some soiling to front board, paper over hinges cracked, but still sound and internally clean. Wiki: "In November 1910 the anthology, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier..... Item #21225
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
Gardner, MA: Art Publishing Company, 1891. Cover titled simply "Souvenir." 5.25 x 7 inches, bound in paper wrappers patterned to simulate leather, tied with a shoelace, and with an illustration of a shoe on the front wrapper. Unpaginated. 23 leaves, including text and 16 leaves of plates. Light general handling..... Item #19965
Talahassee: Florida Department of Agriculture, 1927. Softcover. Good. 10.25 x 7.75 inches, 203 pp, extensively illustrated, in colorful pictorial wrappers. Good only: most of backstrip missing, rear wrapper partially detached, soiling to fore edge of text block. Internally clean. A series of articles highlighting the work of the Home Demonstration..... Item #21211
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers..... Item #2928
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: Howe & Bates, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 x 6.25 inches, in orignal brown cloth with mounted paper label (rubbed) on spine. Boards lightly soiled and edgeworn, foxing throughout text. Odd Fellows library bookplate ("I.O. of O.F. Library Inst.d June 1842") on front pastedown. A sensationalist anti-Catholic..... Item #19884
