Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Centennial Invitation Committee, 1936. 4" x 9", four-fold brochure printed on both sides, with illustrations from photographs. Light soiling to rear panel, handling wear; very good. While ackowledging that Arkansas is known for cotton, this brochure seeks to highlight diversification in the State's agricultural output --..... Item #21881
New York: Duell, Sloane, & Pearce. Hardcover. Very good in a Good dust jacket. Sixth printing, with no date on title page; copyright 1948. 263 pp, plus and additional 64 pp of photographs. Topographic map of Machu Picchu and vicinity on the front endpapers. Previous owner's address stamp on front..... Item #21875
Very good. One-page letter on engraved letterhead (ca. 8" x 11"), accompanied by original mailing envelope addressed to Mammie Green of Pelham, South Carolina. Letter has folding creases, one 1/4-inch split along a fold. Very good. George H. Wilson (1866-1949) of Louisville, Kentucky, received a patent for his "artificial eardrum"..... Item #21874
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
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, [1928]. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket. First printing of this edition.414 pp, indexed. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front free endpaper, a touch of sunning to top and bottom edges of boards, else a...... Item #21868
Firenze: Vallechi, 1955. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Scarce first printing of this edition. Quarto, 442 pp + 62 color plates (some folding) and additional ornaments in the text by Leo Mattioli; original publisher's prospectus laid in. Corners bumped and rubbed, otherwise minimal wear. Dust jacket..... Item #21867
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Boston: Bradbury & Guild, 1852. Hardcover. Good. viii, 192 pp, "embellished with over forty elegant wood engravings." Original publisher's cloth with blind-stamped decoration, title stamped in gilt on front board. Wear to extremities, 1.5-inch split in cloth at lower front joint, some pale water stains affecting boards only; binding sound..... Item #21866
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. First printing. 216 pp, indexed. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. Includes letters to Lawrence from A.J. Balfour, Gertrude Bell, Wilfred Blunt, H.G. Wells, John Buchan, Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, E.M. Forster..... Item #21865
Los Angeles: R.Y. McBride, 1901. Softcover. Good. Early reprint (first published 1895). 7.75 x 5.25 in., 90 pp, in damaged original wrappers, with illustrations from photographs. Front wrapper detached and heavily chipped, partial loss of paper over spine, which has the title written on it by hand. Text tightly bound..... Item #21863
Basileae [Basel]: Sumtibus Johannis Christ, 1741. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Five-volume set, complete. Text block measures 22.5 (h) x 18 (w) cm and appears slightly trimmed. Ex-library, with ink stamp on each title plate and presentation bookplate of donor (Rev. R.B. Taggart) on each front pastedown. Uniformly bound in black..... Item #21862
Albany, NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1858-1864. Hardcover. Very good. First three bound volumes of this annual, which was published from 1855 to 1881. These three volumes (each containing three years) cover the period 1855-1863. 5" x 8.25", uniformly bound in publisher's plum cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt vingette..... Item #21860
[San Francisco]: Printed and Bound by Schwacher-Frey Stationery Co. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1920. 144 pp, bound in blue cloth with mounted paper illustration showing Weeks and his successful poultry farm. A good copy, with boards rubbed, lightly soiled, and slightly bowed. More than just a book about poultry farming..... Item #21858
San Francisco: 1949. Softcover. Very good. 37pp, with folding map, addendum slip tipped in. Text reprinted from the Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume XXIV, No. 3, June 1939. Two small nicks in front cover (see accompanying image), bookplate of American businessman Garner A. Beckett on inside front cover. Item #21851
Pomona: California State Polytechnic Institute, [1985]. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, minor shelfwear. Inscribed on the title page "To Sonya in appreciation, Cordially, Dione Neutra, X-mas 1985." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the most influential architects..... Item #21850
London and Oxford: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers for W. Strahan; T. Cadell; and D. Prince, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Two volume set, complete.Folio. Volume I: pp. xxi, [14] (Table of Cases, Errata), 679, 38 (Table of Principal Matters Contained in this Volume). Volume II: pp. [18], 681-1333..... Item #21849
London: Bibliographical Society, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XXI. Quarto, xlvii, 234 pp + plates showing more than 300 facsimiles. Ex-Francis Bacon Foundation library, with their stamp on the front pastedown, sticker shadow on spine; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Item #21848
[San Francisco]: Lawton Kennedy for the Book Club of California, 1975. Softcover. Fine. Facsimile of the original (and only) issue published July 1, 1896 by Gelett Burgess, under the pseudonym James Marrion. [15] pp. Fine. Originally included as part of the Book Club of California's keepsake for 1975, Unusual California..... Item #21847
Lexington, KY: A.T. Skillman & Son, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: "Also, on the Character of Spiritual Influence in Conversion and Sanctification, and on the Expediency and Tendency of Ecclesiastic Creeds, as terms of Union and Communion: Held in Lexington, KY., from the Fifteenth of November to the..... Item #21845
Tacome, WA: A.H. Barnes, 1911. Softcover. Very good. 69 pp, 9 x 11 inches, in string-tied paper wrappers. Split in paper at head of spine, spotting to first and last blank pages, previous owner's name on front blank, light handling wear. A celebration of Mount Rainier, with seven pages of..... Item #21838
London: Nisbet & Co. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1920. One of a limited edition of 675 copies, complete with 10 color plates. Binding worn, some foxing. A good copy. Item #21837
London: George Rivers, [1879]. Softcover. Near fine. Four-page pamphlet (single sheet, folded), 4.25 x 6.75 inches, printed in blue on cream stock. One tiny nick on first page, else fine. After explanatory remarks, Drury reprints excerpts of (mostly critical) reviews of his book, "Drury's Comical French Grammar; or French, in..... Item #21836
Oakland: Thomas Brothers. Softcover. Very good. Undated, likely 1930s. 15 x 21.75 inches. Folding creases, previous owner's name (Betty Jean Newell) stamped twice on blank areas, another owner's name in pencil on the back; very good. A complete, indexed plan of the city, showing streets, lot and subdivision numbers, beachfront..... Item #21835
New York: Random House. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Book club edition. No printing date, latest copyright date is 1946. Complete and unabridged text, with a foreward by Morris Ernst, Joyce's original foreword, and the decision by Judge John M. Woolsey lifting the federal ban on..... Item #21834
London: Macmillan, 1896. Hardcover. Good. 436 pp, in publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. A good copy, with mild rubbing to boards, paper along front hinge partially cracked (hinge still tight), mdoerate foximng -- mainly to first and last 20 pages or so. Gift inscription dated..... Item #21833
Walkerville, Ontario: Hiram Walker & Sons Limited. Softcover. Fine. 3.25 x 6 in., 12 pp, stapled wrappers. Fine. Stated 14th edition, undated, but likely early 1930s, slightly before the end of prohibition in the United States. Published for the Canadian market, this relatively scarce giveaway from whisky distiller Hiram Walker..... Item #21831
