Picture City, Agoura P.O., California: Elizabeth C. Hazelton, [1928]. Softcover. Good. 43 pp, with illustrations from photographs, decorative border on each page. Original pictorial wrappers are detached from text block, chipped at the top edge, and have amateur tape repairs to the spine. Interior clean and sound. A scarce work..... Item #21295
Bermuda: Belmont Manor, 1929. Softcover. Very good. Brochure, 9 x 3.5 inches when folding, unfolding to 18 x 14 inches to reveal a "Detail Map of Belmont Manor Golf Course," surrounded by a border of 16 half-tone photographs of golfers, the course, and related amenities. Includes descriptive text on the..... Item #21292
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. #172 of an edition of 525 copies. 72 pp, with color frontispiece, map, and many other illustrations from photos, engravings, and drawings. Some light offsetting to endapers, but still a fine copy, in the original..... Item #21291
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 193 pp + 3 pages of ads for Raymond's Vacation Excursions. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering, floral-patterned endpapers. Rubbing to extremeities, one scuff mark on front board, but still an attractive copy. The author recounts her experiences on an..... Item #21290
Privately Printed, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 97 pp, with frontis portrait of Keats. #116 of 250 copies issued. Original red cloth with top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned, but gilt lettering remains bright. Bookplate of William W. Clary on front pastedown, two other ownership signatures in pencil on..... Item #21289
Softcover. Very good. This collection includes volumes I-VII (i.e., seven issues) of Spanking, An Anthology (collections of fetish fiction and cartoons) and six single issues (1994-1995) of Red Tails, The Newsletter for the Spanking Enthusiast (which contains fiction, but also photo contests, personal ads, letters to the editor, ads for..... Item #21288
London: Charles Gilpin, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 512 pp + publisher's ads, bound in original brown cloth. Old staining to boards. loss of cloth at head of spine, mild spine slant. Internally clean, but with a section of pages (283-317) that were opened roughly and have creasing and..... Item #21287
Einsiedeln: Art. Inst. Benziger & Co., 1895. Softcover. Fine. 4 pp, 5 x 3.5 inches, with chromolithograph cover, timetable inside, and route map on the back. A fine copy of this scarce and lovely little booklet, which provides schedules (in both directions) for the following routes: Rapperswil-Einsiedeln-Arth Goldau; Wädensweil -..... Item #21284
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. Copy #238 of 550 issued. 30 pp, illustrated, in original orange cloth, with poem "Ave! Imperator Norton!" by William McDevitt (3 pp) laid in. Rubbing to extremities, some toning to pages. "Emperor Norton I is among the most unique and celebrated characters..... Item #21283
Map. Fair. NP, ND. Scarce bird's-eye view of the greater Morro Bay area, created to promote the new development of Baywood Park in San Luis Obispo County, California. Developer Richard S. Otto purchased the land in the early 1920s and developed it over the next two decades, making this view..... Item #21282
Paris: Dourdan. Hardcover. Good. Undated, c. 1900. Portfolio of 40 loose chromolithograph plates showing skillfully rendered faux finishes in marble and wood, intended for use by artists and decorators. Explanatory text for each sample offers instruction for how the effect can be created in oil paint. Text is in French;..... Item #21279
Very good. Four photographs, 4" x 5.5" (two on 6" x 7" mounts and two on 5.25" x 6.5" mounts). A nice grouping of what we presume are amateur, unpublished images that convey some of the flavor of a stroll through the exposition grounds. Our personal favorite is a wonderful..... Item #21278
San Francisco: Press of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 56 pp, illustrated. Publisher's green cloth with gilt illustration on front board. Near fine, a touch of wear to edges, previous owner's name on front pastedown. Published in the same year Sutro became Mayor of San..... Item #21277
Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Book in as-new condition; dust jacket has a few small spots on the front panel, light creasing to the back. 237 pp. Publisher's description: The publication of this collection of articles on Qumran Messianism by a team of..... Item #21276
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
Chicago: Reilly & Lee. Hardcover. Very good. Undated. Copyright 1908, but printing date can be no earlier than 1919, when Reilly & Britton became Reilly & Lee. List of Oz books at the end goes to The Tin Woodman, which was published in May of 1918. 57 pp, 5 x...... Item #21274
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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications. Softcover. Very good. Digest 18. Title page undated, copyright 1944. 23 pp, in white printed wrappers. Pages toned, light surface wear to wrappers. Vance Randolph (1890-1982) was best known for his studies of the folklore of the Ozarks, but--somewhat ironically-- this pamphelt is dedicating to conveying..... Item #21273
Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: "Temples, Idols, Shrines, Sacrifices, Domestic Peculiarities, etc., etc., Connected Therewith." Undated, ca. 1895. 785 pp, indexed and extensively illustrated. Bound in publisher's red cloth decorated in gilt and black. Evidence of water splashed across lower front board, cloth rubbed through at corners and..... Item #21272
Sixteen pamphlets ranging in length from 8 to 29 pages, published between 1916 and 1930. Some general handling wear, minor chipping and creasing, very good overall. The social hygiene movement emerged in the wake of World War I, when venereal disease was identified as a major cause of disability among..... Item #21269
Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 171 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads, with frontis portrait of the author. Original black cloth with blind-stamped decoration and image of a ship on each board. Complete but well worn; spine slant, corners rubbed through, small losses of cloth at head..... Item #21267
Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Insitute of Near Eastern Studies, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 223 pp, with footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Light rubbing to edges of boards, mild sunning to fore edge of front board; internally sound and clean. CNI Publications 19. From the Foreword: "This book is intended to..... Item #21266
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 92 pp + 24 b/w plates, color frontispiece, and folding map. Fine copy in original green cloth. As described in the foreword: "Of the oriental religions that swept across the Roman empire as forerunners of Christianity, the cult of Iuppiter Dolichenus was..... Item #21265
Boston: Colby & Rich, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 8.25 x 6 inches, 224 pp, in publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt and black, engraved portrait of Bailey as frontispiece. Slight spine slant, minimal soiling to front board, foxing to front matter only; very good. Daniel E. Bailey was a...... Item #21264
San Francisco: Colonel Warren, 1858. Complete single issue (Volume X, Number 13) of the first agricultural journal published on the West Coast. [8] pp, 14.5 x 21 inches. Moderate foxing, one page roughly opened at the top; good to very good overall. The California Farmer was founded in 1854 by..... Item #21262
[Washington]: [GPO], 1862. Softcover. Very good. 4 pp. Report No. 83 of the 37th Congress, 2d session. Lower corners creased, some dust soiling; very good. House Bill 143 was entitled "A bill for the relief of certain half-breeds of mixed bloods of the Dacotah or Sioux nation of Indians and..... Item #21258
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