New York: The Success Company, 1897. First Edition. 504 pp, with many illustrations, in publisher's pink illustrated cloth binding. Old dampstain visible on the top inch of the back cover, mild rippling to the pages, insect damage to front endpapers, spine toned. Still a good, sound copy of this scarce..... Item #21342
Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald. "Compiled and translated from the latest and most authoritative surveys and records by the staff of the Far Eastern Geographical Establishment." Second edition, undated, but 1917 or 1918. Large folio, 21.25 x 15.25 inches, pp [12], xi, [1], 88, 187, xxxiii, [18], with index..... Item #21339
Quarter-leather album, 9.5 x 12 in., containing 97 large (almost all 7" x 9" or 8" x 10") black and white photographs mounted one per side on 43 leaves, with the final photo on the rear pastedown. Most are affixed to the page at only one edge, so the backs..... Item #21338
New Orleans, LA: F.F. Hansell, Stationer and Printer, 1883. Softcover. Very good. Only edition. 32 pp, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, in original pink sewn wrappers. Very light surface soiling, mild old vertical folding crease; very good. A scarce, pocket-sized general visitor's guide to the city of New Orleans. Lists scenic..... Item #21335
Shanghai: Mercury Press, [1935]. Softcover. Very good. Undated, but OCLC, which locates just two copies, puts it at 1935. Unpaginated, ca. 200 pp, in original wrappers. 7 x 4 inches, with tabs along the fore edge separating the sections on each city. Some chipping and closed tears to wrappers, dogeared..... Item #21334
Scrapbook-style record book containing 280 circulars, bulletins, handbills, postcards, and similar items distributed to law enforcement agencies in California to provide and seek information about wanted individuals. Includes items from all over California, stretching from San Diego in the south to Humboldt County in the north. Many offer rewards, and..... Item #21333
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. Copy #178 of 550 issued. 30 pp, illustrated, in original orange cloth, with poem "Ave! Imperator Norton!" by William McDevitt (3 pp) tipped in at the end. Title handwrittem on the spine, endpapers lightly foxed. Label of bookseller Fred M. DeWitt of..... Item #21330
London: Asher & Co., 1870. Hardcover. Very good. New and Augmented Edition. 4to, pp vii, 88. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with title stamped in gilt on front board. Cloth slightly toned, one small white mark on front board, corners rubbed. Foxing to first few leaves and last few leaves..... Item #21329
Santa Monica, CA: Angel City Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 271 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. A fine copy, in like dust jacket, signed by Read with short personal inscription to "a fellow Rotarian" on the title page. "Tells the little-known story..... Item #21326
![From Mountain Man to Mayor, Don Benito Wilson, Los Angeles 1841 to 1878 [SIGNED]. Nat B. Read](/pictures/thumb/21326_0001.jpg?v=1602213724)
1888. Very good. Chromolithograph trade card, 3 x 5 inches, advertising Street & Smith's "Select Series of Popular American Copyright Stories" and their periodical, the New York Weekly, via an illustration of a pink-cheeked young woman and the motto "Love is the Lord of All." The Select Series was a...... Item #21325
Very good. Three-page manuscript letter, approximately 800 words, from Dr. G.A. Hinnen of Cincinnati, Ohio, to his parents. Dated March 22, 1937 and written on letterhead of the National Association for the Elimination of Home Work, of which the Hinnen was on the Advisory Committee. Writing more than a month..... Item #21323
New York: New York Peace Society, [1909]. Softcover. Good. Single sheet 12.5 x 18 inches, folding to 9 x 6.25 inches, printed in red and black. Short tears along folds, a few small splits at intersections; good. Scarce illustrated circular advocating allocation of government fund "for productive, humane, and enlightened..... Item #21322
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, [1920]. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. First trade edition. Two volumes, pp xxx, 439; xxii, 531,with a total of 36 beautiful color plates by Flint. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped decoration on upper..... Item #21320
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
Cincinnati: William Scott, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 237 pp, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Binding tight, previous owner's signature and ink stamp on front free endpaper, moderate foxing throughout, chipping to cloth at spine ends. Errata slip tipped in at title page. Includes a page of testimonials from..... Item #21314
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 494 pp, with index, illustrations. A very good copy with light general handling wear, signed (without inscription) by Starr on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket has a few chips and closed tears..... Item #21313
![Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915 [Signed]. Kevin Starr](/pictures/thumb/21313_0001.jpg?v=1601526067)
New York: Macmillan, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. pp x, 250, indexed, bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly sunned at spine, and has some..... Item #21312
Eugene, Oregon: [1949]. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Number 275 of an edition of 1000 copies, signed on the Colophon by H.J. Cox. 309 pp + b/wphotographic plates. Bookplate of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Library on front pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, call number on spine. Binding tight, text clean..... Item #21311
New York: Macmillan, 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to boards, binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket has some chipping, mild indentations at the front fold, internal tape repairs. Still reasonably presentable and now protected by a mylar cover. The last, posthumously..... Item #21310
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 314 pp, in publisher's brown cloth, lettering in green. Small bump to upper corner of front board, else fine, with a review slip laid in. Dust jacket has chipping to spine ends and..... Item #21308
New York: Cupples and Leon. Hardcover. Very good. Title page undated, copyright 1926.14 x 10.5 cm, 47 pp, with 8 lovely color plates, bound in orange paper-covered boards with two mounted color illustrations. No dust jacket. Stain to rear board, one plate with a crease, but overall a very nice..... Item #21307
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12 mo, 118 pp + 12 pp publisher's ads. Bound in original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow coated endpaper. Chipping to head of spine, otherwise a very nice copy, clean and tightly bound. BAL 21780. Item #21306
Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum, 1996. Softcover. Very good. 9 x 12 inches, 254 pp, indexed, with b/w illustrations. Light cover wear, clean and tightly bound. A collection of articles prepared for a February 1996 symposium held in conjunction with the exhibit "Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and..... Item #21305
Near fine. Original Cold War-era editorial cartoon in pen and ink by Gary Viskupic (b. 1944), an American artist best known as the long-time chief illustrator for the Long Island, New York, newspaper Newsday. Viskupic also did the cover art for many Doubleday Book Club editions of science fiction titles..... Item #21304
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Volume I (all published). Quarto, pp xix, 655, with 7 maps and 81 plates, in publisher's elaborately decorated brown cloth boards with beveled edges. Mild rubbing to extremities, last five leaves with short tears at outer..... Item #21303
