London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1943-4. First Edition. Cloth. 256 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink on a front free endpaper to Captain Burgess Meredith by a wartime London family: "To Captain Burgess Meredith, A very small expression of appreciation from the Stanton Family, who found in you on 21st October 1943 (when..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. 122 pages. First Edition. One of 550 limited copies. Prosptectus laid in. Blue cloth. Printed spine and cover title labels. Quarto. Color frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated with eight plates (including two folding). Designed and printed at the Arion Press..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. 136 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Jacket, binding and typography by Paul Rand. Red illustrated cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4. Appendix of Stork Club staff suggested cocktails. Index by alphabet. Index by ingredients. A book of drink receipts, punctuated..... More
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1936. First Edition. (xiv) (2) 173 (3) pages. First Edition. Limtited to 300 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated by 8 plates plus the frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Octavo. Quarter bound..... More
Columbus, Missouri: The Author, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. 398 pp. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographic portraits. Orignal maroon cloth; gilt titling. Octavo. Plain white custom dustjacket in clear mylar protectve sleeve. Per Adams, Six-Guns 283: "A book different from all the others dealing with the James and Younger brothers, and..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded blue paper map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Introduction and Reader's Guide by..... More
Tokyo: 1958. This is an ORIGINAL vintage theatrical linen mounted Japanese poster for the 1958 Anthony Mann film, "GOD'S LITTLE ACRE". The sourcework was the contorversial Erskine Caldwell novel, the book "They said could never be filmed". The film starred Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Vic Morrow..... More
New York: Liveright, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. (xxv) 591 pages. First Trade Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Custer historian John M. Carroll in brown ink on the title page, "To the Campions with my personal regards / John M. Carroll". Illustrated dust jacket. 7 1/2" x 10". Brown cloth. Notes, Bibliography. Index..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. 1st Edition, 4th Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. 148 pp. A presentation copy, SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Author Conrad, with an original ink drawing of "'Viejo Torilero"' by BC" with added text: "For Doris" with a stylized signature by "B Conrad" as an artist palette. On the..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1921. First Edition. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (vi) 70 pages. First edition. #43 of a limited edition of 300 copies.Terra cotta cloth-backed marbled boards. Octavo. Title in black and red; captions in red. Handset Garamond type. Handmade French paper. The first book printed by..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1931. First Thus. Leather backed marbled boards. (xviii) 96 pp. Limited edition. One of 475 un-numbered copies printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated from seven contemporary facsimile lithographs on folded blue paper; one facsimile pamphlet, inserted. Green suede-backed marbled boards. 8 5/8" x...... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. (xxi), 80 pages. Limited to 550 un-numbered copies. First Edition Thus after the 1853 first edition. Illustrated from drawings by Charles Nahl. Frontispiece, twenty headpieces and four (4) full-page drawings in color. Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. Cloth-backed boards. Paper..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 277 pages.TV SHOWMAN / N.Y. COLUMNIST ED SULLIVAN'S COPY.. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Gene Fowler on the title page, "To my friend of a long time, Ed Sullivan / With the best / Gene Fowler 1954". Endpapers illustrated from photographs..... More
Washington DC: United States Food Administration, 1918. First Edition. Linen-mounted. This is an ORIGINAL vintage World War One poster, entitled "Sugar Means Ships" by Artist E. Fuhr.1918. 15.5" x 19" plus 2" linen border. Printed by The Carey Printing Company of New York. Expertly linen-mounted by dba Innis Archive. The theme..... More
Berkeley: St. Hieronymous Press, 1980. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL poster by renowned poster srtist DAVID LANCE GOINES for a screening of the silent movie "WINGS", directed by William Wellman at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. (“WINGS” was the first movie to win the Academy Award for..... More
Portland: Richard Abel & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 140 pp. Annotated by William F. Heintz. Foreword by Thomas W. Chinn, a Founder and First President, Chinese Historical Society of America. Two Illustrations. One of 1000 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Orange cloth. Index..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961. First Thus. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. (8) 106 (1) pages. First Edition Thus. Illustrated by David Stone Martin. Limited edition of 475 un-numbered copies. Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Edited with Introduction by Prof. James D...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, mostly from period photographs, including frontispiece portrait of Sadakichi Hartman. Long Introduction by Jane Calhoun Weaver. Chronology. Checklist of Artists named in the Essays. Hartmann Bibliography. Index. Gray cloth; gilt spine titling. 6" x...... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1943. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Cloth. (ix)158 pp. SIGNED in ink by both James Hilton ("with all good wishes James Hilton") and Dr. Corydon Wassell ("Comdr. C. M. Wassell, (M.C.) U.S.N.R.") and a gift INSCRIPTION in ink from Dr. Wassell's wife, Madeline D. Wassell ("To..... More
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1928. New Revised Edition, October, 1928. Illustrated Cloth. (xxii) 351 pp. Illustrated, primarily from black and white period photographs. Folding map of Lake Tahoe (Loose, following page 12). Folding panoramic photograph of Lake Tahoe from Zephyr Cove. T.E.G. Illustrated green cloth; gilt titling. 6"..... More
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1973. First Trade Edition. Boards. (xxix) 200 (1) pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by William Everson in ink to the late bookseller and publisher Robert Hawley, on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Hawley / as fine a friend as they come! / Bill Everson / June 19, 1974"..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Vellum-backed Boards. 127 pp. Edition limited to 375 copies of which 350 were for sale . This copy #53 0f 375 copies, SIGNED in ink by Robinson Jeffers on the limitation page. Vellum corners and backed black boards. Black spine titling. Top and..... More
New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932. First Edition (Limited). 147 pp. #88 of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies of which 185 were for sale. SIGNED by Robinson Jeffers in ink on the limitation page. Blue cloth; gilt titling. Blue board slipcase.Many pages unopened. 6" x 9 1/2". About this..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. (xv), 307 pages. First Edition ("(1)" at end of text.). Blue cloth, flexible covers. Illustrated. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4". Small bookseller's stamp (Hale's Books and Stationary) on rear pastedown. A Manual for the World War One U. S. Army..... More
Boston: Eastern Book Company, 1881. First Edition. 416 pp. Illustrated from woodcut plates. Ilustrated cloth with gilt titling. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Author Dio Lewis was a physician who journeyed west for adventures after practicing medicine in the East for more than thirty years. He writes of his three..... More
