New York: The Century Company. Title page undated; copyright 1924.462 pp, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Original pictorial blue cloth boards. Mile sunning to spine and top edge of front board, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. A lively travel narrative, in which the author comments... Item #20516
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 368 pp, illustrated. Original red cloth, no dust jacket. Some minor insect damage to boards, internals fine. Signed by Lyman (without inscription) on the half-title page. William Chapman Ralston became one of the richest men in California by monopolizing... Item #20515
![Ralston's Ring, California Plunders the Comstock Lode [SIGNED]. George D. Lyman](/pictures/thumb/20515.jpg?v=1555622295)
Portland, Oregon: Self-published, 1907. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 6-3/4" stapled printed bluewraps, pp. 142-200 (continuously numbered from earlier issues) + several pages of ads, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Some general wear to wrappers, several pages with annotation from an early reader in red pen. Includes articles by A.A. Smith, George... Item #20514
Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1919. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, unpaginated, illustrated with six original etchings by Walser, one of which (the frontispiece) is pencil-signed. #184 of a total edition of 240 numbered copies. Original leather-backed blue boards with title in gilt. Leather scuffed, lower corners bumped, interior about fine, with mild... Item #20512
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1976. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint of the 1935 Shelley House edition. 172 pp, in original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Sunning to spine and 1.5 inches of front board, some spotting to top edge of text block. Binding sound, text clean. Item #20510
Chicago: W.E. Wroe, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large octavo, 116 pp, in original half-leather and paper-covered boards with title in gilt on front cover. Illustrated with four color plates and many line drawings in the text. As ususal, the leather is scuffed and worn. Binding is sound and... Item #20507
Miami: Everglade Land Sales, 1912. Hardcover. Very good-. Second edition, much enlarged from the first, published in 1911. 8vo, 226 pp + index, illustrated with half-tone photographs and line drawings. Original pictorial cloth boards, rebacked, with new endpapers (original endpapers also retained). Some staining to front board, otherwise clean and... Item #20506
Brussels: G. van Oest & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two folio volumes in original brown paper-covered boards with vellum spines and corners. Two hundred thirty four plates in all (134 in Volume II and 100 in Volume II), many folding, with descriptive text. Spines are unevenly soiled... Item #20504
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three large folio volumes (approx. 15 x 19 inches) uniformly bound in publisher’s original three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with mounted red leather labels. All three volumes are very clean internally, and all have scuffing to the leather. Black leather... Item #20501
New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1896. Hardcover. Very good. First American edition. 12mo,. 230 pp, in a lovely floral-themed decorative cloth binding. Top edge gilt, deckled edges. Corners ligjtly bumped, otherwise minimal wear. A collection of short stories and sketches on themes as diverse as fox hunting; the siege of... Item #20499
Berlin: Pan-Presse, Paul Cassirer, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 162 of 250 copies issued. 77 pp, 10 x 13 inches, in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. Forty original etchings by Behmer tipped in. Boards lightly scuffed, binding has some play, large art... Item #20496
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. One of 518 numbered copies. Quarto, 58 pp, with frontis portrait and eight illustrations. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with paper spine label. As new. The original leaf in this copy is from "The Tortoise and the Eagle." Item #20495
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #137 of 300 copies, signed by both authors in pencil on the colophon. 193 pp, with color frontispiece, illustrations in black and white. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block, slight fading to top inch of rear... Item #20494
![A Collection of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Pamphlets and Ephemera [SIGNED]....](/pictures/thumb/20494.jpg?v=1554932438)
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy #202 of 750 copies of the signed, limited edition. Fine copy in a near fine slipcase with some uneven toning to the back panel. No glassine jacket. Item #20493
Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, illustrated, in original two-toned cloth. Light foxing to endpapers, spines lightly sunned; very good. Small label of Douglas C. Ewing on front pastedown of each volume. Original edition of "one of the finest private library... Item #20492
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1958 and 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two folio volumes bound in matching decorative paper-covered boards backed with beige linen; paper spine labels. First volume printed at the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 400 copies, the second printed by Mastercraft Press and... Item #20491
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2005. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Folio, 132 pp, with illustrations (some color), biographical dictionary, bibliography. Black and blue cloth boards, spine lettering in yellow. A fine copy in the original acetate jacket, signed by Seaton on the half-title page. Laid in... Item #20489
London: Dropmore Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Number 175 of 550 copies. 8 x 10.5 inches, 102 pp + colophon. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Original rust-colored cloth boards lightly sunned and rubbed at top and bottom edges; previous... Item #20488
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Revised and enlarged edition. 402 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs. Light spotting to top edge of textblock, offsetting to two pages where a piece of newspaper was used as a bookmark; else fine. Dust jacket... Item #20486
Hobart: Anson's Photographs. Hardcover. Very good. Souvenir view book printed in Germany for this Australian photography firm. Undated, internal evidence places it between 1890 and 1892. 5.75 x 4.25 inches (oblong). Red paper-covered boards decorated in gilt and black, containing 14 accordion-folded photolithographic (albertype or a similar process) views. Brothers... Item #20485
![Picturesque Southern Tasmania [Port Arthur]. Anson Brothers](/pictures/thumb/20485_1.jpg?v=1553624299)
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by... Item #20479
Boston: Little, Brown, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, two volumes, pp. xliv, 270; xiv, 271-547; extensively illustrated with color frontispiece, photographic plates, and line drawings in the text; 4 maps and plans (one folding). Publisher's cloth backed boards, decorated in gilt; no dust jackets. Light rubbing to extremities... Item #20476
Colombo: Times of Ceylon, [1924]. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 233 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs, folding map. Publisher's paper boards with parchment spine, mounted half-tone photo of an elephant on the front board. Small tear at base of spine, mild spine slant, all else very good. Third edition, and... Item #20475
Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1937. Softcover. Very Good. xviii, 155 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, works cited, index. In original plain wrappers with title on spine. Internal tape repair to front cover near the gutter, else sound and clean. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "For my good friend _________, with... Item #20474
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii, 940, + ads, with many plates (including one folding panorama), portraits, and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth, Clifford Carleton, Harry C. Edwards, E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue... Item #20473
