Los Angeles: Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles, 1928. Softcover. Very good. 6" x 9", 63 pp, with illustrations and 2 maps, printed in black and orange, in original illustrated wrappers. Some tiny tears to top edge of front cover, light handlng wear; very good. Published shortly..... Item #22293
Edmonton, Alberta: C.W. Mathers, 1901. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6" x 9", oblong, in illustrated stapled wrappers. 23 pp, including title page, a one-page Introduction and 20 half-tone photographic plates. Minor chipping and creasing to wrappers, ink stamp of Ernest Brown Photographers (Edmonton) on text page; very good. Rare..... Item #22292
Malaga: El Arroyo de los Angeles, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Number 695 of an edition of 750 copies, of which 450 were offered for sale to the general public. 78 pp, 21 x 16 cm, in original plain wrappers with dust jacket printed in red and black and..... Item #22291
[Rapid City, SD]: 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 65 pp, with numerous illustrations from photographs, in original stapled wrappers. Light cover wear. Binding tight, text clean. Compiles accounts from many different people describing experiences and observations of this devastating blizzard, which dumped 50 inches of snow on the Black..... Item #22290
Montpelier [VT]: Printed for Josiah Parks, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 3.5" x 6", pp. [1-5], 6-81, + [3] (index). Worn contemporary binding of paper-covered wooden boards with muslin spine. Cookery-related newspaper clippings affixed to front pastedown, handwritten recipes (icing for tarts, "Washington Cake," and three kinds of gingerbread)..... Item #22289
Wichita, KS: Published by the Author, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Good+. 228 pp, in original printed wrappers. Some chipping to the paper on the spne, general handling wear. Good to very good overall. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper from the author's wife, Flavilla Northrop. Navis p. 199: "With..... Item #22288
New York: A-D Publishing, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 102 pp, in original wrappers, with illustration, layout, and design by Ukrainian-American artist Irvine Kamens. Light wear to edges, contents clean, binding sound. Item #22283
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 14 pp, original tan printed wrappers, with one plate (frontispiece). As new. From the text: "In October, 1907, the banks in San Francisco experienced great difficulty in securing coin to supply the needs of the community for circulation....[One means of..... Item #22282
Stanford University Press, 1932. Softcover. Very good. A paper read before The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of California at San Francisco, California, April 5, 1932. 17 pp, + one photographic plate, frontis map. Very good copy in original stapled wrappers, with light handling wear..... Item #22281
San Francisco: Printed for the Society, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Single issue, 87 pp, in original wrappers. A few minor library markings, smal chip at upper spine; very good. Contains a short early paper by Nobel-prize winning mathematical physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1925). Although this is a short note..... Item #22280
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped..... Item #22279
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 9 inches, 340 pp, in original paper-covered boards. Some chipping and small losses to paper covering spine, all else very good. Original unused order form for the cookbook (which cost 75 cents) laid in. The..... Item #22277
New York: Scovill & Adams Company, 1893. Hardcover. Near fine. Eighth edition, 48 pp + [20] pp (ads). Scovill Photographic Series No. 7. A near fine copy in original brown cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Small bump/indent to fore edge of both boards, previous owner's name and date..... Item #22276
Softcover. Fine. Thirty-four brochures, each 6" x 3.25", with two pages of text, illustrated cover, and publication details on the back. Each is numbered and identified as part of the Facts about Fabrics series, which ran to more than 50 issues. All are in fine condition. This eye-catching series of..... Item #22274
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. very good-. First printing of this edition, which followed a limited edition of 500 copies published in Tokyo in 1964. 5.5 x 5.5 inches, unpaginated. Internally clean and tighly bound. White cloth boards are lightly soiled. No dust jacket. Item #22273
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 208 pp + publisher's ads. Spine has a small paper label (likely a private library number) and is chipped at both ends, corners rubbed through; binding tight, text and endpapers unmarked. "Charles Lanman (1819-1895), a writer, amateur explorer and..... Item #22272
London: Waddington Graphics, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 64 pp, fully illustrated in color. Near fine, with minimal handling wear. The Waves was "a series of 13 screenprints with lithographic and linoleum block printings, hand-coloring, marbling, and collage. Each in an edition of 60 with 10 artist's..... Item #22271
Leyden: A.W. Sythoff, 1963. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 457 pp, indexed. Once corner bumped, law library bookplate on front pastedown and card pocket at rear, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Dust jacket is chipped along the top edge. Per the jacket, "the first part of..... Item #22270
[Albany, NY]: [Cluett & Sons Pianos and Organs], [1882]. Very good. Trade card, ca. 4.5 x 55 inches, advertising Cluett & Sons Pianos and Organs and a performance of the comic operetta "A Merry War" at Tweddle Hall in Albany, NY. Contemporary newspaper reviews date the performance to 1882, the..... Item #22269
New York: Little, Brown, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 308 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Some uneven toning to cloth, light dust soiling to top edge, pale stain at margin of title page. Otherwise claan and sound. In the scarce original dust jacket..... Item #22268
Paris: Ancienne Librarie Germer Bailliere et Cie, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 323 pp + table of contents and publisher's ads. First Edition, published as No. 74 from the Bibliotheque Scientifique Internationale. Spine faded but legible, some old moisture damage visible on front board (not affecting interior), library bookplate on front pastedown..... Item #22267
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription..... Item #22266
London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper..... Item #22265
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing in original dark green cloth with orange lettering, yellow top stain, illustrated with photographs of portrait busts by Tennessee Mitchell. Bumping to fore edge of boards, slight fraying at head of spine and rubbing to corners. Binding sound..... Item #22264
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs. Hardcover. Very good-. Deuxieme edition, undated, ca. 1910-1915. 5 x 6.25 inches, in original paper-covered boards with mounted color illustration. 63 pp, illustrated in color throughout. Boards slightly bowed, some foxing to endpapers, soiling to fore edge. Includes six tales, "Rumpelstilzchen," "La Gaspilleuse." "La Fiancee du..... Item #22263
