Eight-panel brochure, folding to 9 x 4 inches. Near fine, with light wear to edges, "Peck-Judah Distribution" ink stamp on front panel. Rare and attractive 1920s brochure promoting the two main developments of architect and planner S.H. Woodruff. The famed Hollywood sign was created in 1923 to promote his Hollywoodland..... Item #21604
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii, 366 pp, with 19 steel-engraved plates (portraits and views of the authors' homes), 14 wood-engraved vignettes (of which 7 are printed in color), and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands..... Item #21559
New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 359 pp, in publishers's blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head and foot, corners rubbed through. Binding tight, text clean. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Esther Church with the kind regard of the Author, H.W. Beecher." Esther Church..... Item #21548
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Grand Rapids, MI: Cornerstone Publications, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. 114 pp, with illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography. As new. No dust jacket. A discussion of the Lawrence-related entries in Meinertzhagen's diary that are believed by many to to be fictional (along with other entries), this volume "achieves the dual purpose of establishing..... Item #21547
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 185 pp, in original red cloth with floral patterned endpapers. Boards dust-soiled, cloth frayed along joints and at spine ends. Binding sound, text clean, with the exception of a small spot on the title page. Original owner's signature, dated 1887, on front..... Item #21541
Ithaca: Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1844. Hardcover. Good. Fourth edition (first published 1838), 8vo, 416 pp; with folding frontispiece map of the Oregon Territory and one engraved plate. Publisher's brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration, gilt lettering on spine. Spine slanted, cloth partially split along front joint, old dampstain visible on..... Item #21540
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and their Horses by W.S.B. 445 pp, (complete in one volume), illustrated with engravings, colored folding map, folding chart giving the pedigree of Arabian thoroughbred stock. Reading copy..... Item #21539
Paris: Chez Frouelle, 1788. First Edition. Complete set of four parts bound in three volumes. 8vo, pp. 383; 259; 292; 366. In a soiled and partly damaged contemporary full leather binding, and with old staining from damp and mildew (nothing active, no bad odors) to varying degrees in all three..... Item #21538
Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. pp. xxiv (Goodman's Introduction), 27, illustrated, with map endpapers. Copy No, 8 of 200 signed and numbered copies printed specially for members of the Zamorano Club by Grant Dahlstron at the Castle Press in Pasadena..... Item #21537
London: John Murray, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi, 378, 38 (Appendix), with folding map, 8 plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine, new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page, frontispiece, and some plates foxed (as..... Item #21534
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
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 504, [2] index, illustrated with line drawings. Good only, with wear and soiling to the boards (flexible cloth), front hinge cracked. Includes a useful general history of the region and interesting detail on place names, topography, natural resources..... Item #21531
New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1945]. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Second printing (not stated, but without the Farrar & Rinehart lozenge on the copyright page. Tiny bit of spotting to top edge of boards, else a fine copy in green cloth with purple..... Item #21530
London and Boston: John Lane, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 179 pp + 16 pp publisher's ads, dated 1895. Pages lightly tanned, hipping to cloth at spine ends, one corner bumped, partial split in paper over front hinge. Still a reasonably nice copy of this novel about a woman..... Item #21529
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 616 pp + publisher's ads. 9.5 x 7 inches, in original publisher's cloth binding. Lower corners bumped, old dampstain to lower spine, visible throughout the text block (see images). Binding tight, text otherwise clean. Two previous owners' names on front free endpaper..... Item #21528
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1958]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 224 pp, bound in aqua cloth. Some toning at edges, 1 cm diameter stain on rear board. No dust jacket. Inscribe on the front free endpaper "Dear Mr. Hewitt, Prof. Pollack [?] had told me about your kind admiration for..... Item #21527
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New York: Nomad Publishing, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 7 pp, 53 pp, with a map and two tipped-in half tone photographs--one a portrait of Stefansson and one showing him with Robert E. Peary and Adolphus Greely. Wrappers lightly toned, some chipping and short tears to the..... Item #21525
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920. First American Edition. 85 pp, in grey paper-covered boards. No dust jacket. Rubbing to spine and corners, binding tight, contents clean. Highlights similarities between World War I and the Peloponessian War. Scarce. Item #21523
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1865. Hardcover. Good+. Early edition (first published 1861). 9.5 x 6 inches, 144 pp + 60 beautiful chromolithographed plates. Publisher's blue cloth binding decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, corners rubbed through. Binding sound, text and plates clean and bright..... Item #21519
London: Edward Stanford, 1876. Hardcover. Good. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, 180 pp + 16 pp publisher's ads. Original maroon cloth shows some rippling and old insect damage, and there is some staining to the fore edge of the text block and the rear endpapers. Binding tight, text clean. Part of..... Item #21518
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: "and the piratical head-hunting Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia." 351 pp + publisher's ads, with 24 illustrations from photographs and a map showing the coastline of British Columbia. Front board stained, otherwise very good. Binding..... Item #21517
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 92 pp, 6.75 x 4.5 inches. Old dampstaining visible on lower boards and endpapers, cloth chipped at spine ends. Text clean, binding sound. Anti-Spiritualist work in which the author alleges that any attempt to communicate with the dead is "heathenish,"..... Item #21516
London: James Watson, 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp, in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth, small water stain on front board, paper cracked over front hinge (but hinge secure). Foxing to title page only, otherwise interally clean, binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake..... Item #21515
Oakland, CA: [1908]. Softcover. Very good. 5.25 x 7.5 inches, in original stapled wrappers. [12] pp, including two maps at center (Southern Mexico, Lands of the Roblito Rubber Plantation). Prospectus for this newly formed company, which was to be run by S.C. Miller, who had just finished overseeing construction of..... Item #21514
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near fine. Translation by A.A. Brill, introduction by Charles Neuringer. Collector's edition in full dark gray leather binding with decoration in gilt. Raised bands, all edges gilt, satin endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Very faint shadow from a bookplate on front pastedown, else..... Item #21509
