San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. (vi) 89 (1) pp. Prospectus laid in. Edition limited to 600 un-numbered copies. Printed at The Grace Hoper Press. Frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Truman and his family from a photograph in the Los Angeles Public Library. Truman writings checklist..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Cloth. 771 pages. SIGNED and dated in ink by author Gary Kurutz on the half-title. Illustrated. one of 1000 un-numbered copies. Original blue cloth with gilt cover vignette. 7 1/4" x10 3/4". Location symbols. List of references consulted. Index. Introduction..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 81 pages. One of a limited edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press. Bound by Cardoza-James Binding company with photographs printed by Marin Star Graphic Arts. Cloth with gilt spine-titling..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 81 (3) pp. Illustrated, including frontispiece of Frank Pixley at his desk from a photograph. Plain paper dust jacket. Custom spine titling. Prospectus, ordering envelope and delivery notice laid in. One of an edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Illustrated..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1996. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 133 (1) pp. Plain paper dustjacket; custom spine titling. One of 400 un-numbered copies. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of Oscar Lewis from a photograph by James Hammond. In text drawings. Cloth-backed boards. 8" x 10 3/4". Designed and..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. First Edition. Cloth. (xxiv) 260 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from period photographs, including Maclean family photographs. Cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Edited and with Introduction by O. Alan Weltzien, Professor of English at The University of Montana Western. From the jacket..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1980. First Edition. 274 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Frontis portrait. Illustrated from photographs. Index. Bibliography. Cloth Backed Boards. Octavo. Silver spine lettering. A well-researched biography of O'Hara, the hard-drinking author of Butterfield 8, Appontment In Samara, From The Terrace and Pal Joey..... More
New York: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 274 pages. DIllustrated, including photgraphs of David Magee's San Francisco bookshop. Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". The memoir of the great San Francisco antiquarian book dealer David Magee, written in..... More
New York: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 274 pages. SIGNED in ink by David Magee on the front free endpaper ("With best wishes David Magee"). Illustrated, including photgraphs of David Magee's San Francisco bookshop. Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell. Illustrated dust jacket. Prior owner's neat bookplate..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. (xiv) (2) 68 (1) pp. One of 550 un-numbered copies of a limited edition. 32 illustrations, including 8 in color and 3 folding. Notes. Chronological checklist of Mexican lithographic works: 1826-1899. List of printers and lithographers of..... More
New York: Harper & & Row, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 412 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Notes. Bibliography. Index. White cloth with gilt spine titling. The story of the celebrity foreign correspondent reporters (Harry Scovel, Stephen Crane, Cora Taylor, Richard Harding Davis, James Creelman and others) covering the Spanish-American War in..... More
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. (vii) 421 (1) pp. SIGNED in ink by George Plimpton on a front free endpaper. Pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth; silver spine titling. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". A sequel to George Plimpton's Paper Lion, including the particular stories of..... More
Tucson: Privately Printed, 1987. First Edition. 85 pages. Illustrated from vintage photographs. Blue cloth; Gilt spine titling. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Small gift card laid in ("With best wishes / Lawrence Clark Powell, 6288 North Campbell Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85718"). Printed by Richard J. Hoffman of Van Nuys, California..... More
New York: The Little Bookroom, 2006. First Edition. Illustrated boards. 188 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket showing Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald and daughter walking in a Paris park.. Profusely illustrated throughout from photographs and artworks. Illustrated boards. 7 1/2" x 7". From the jacket flap: "This elegant guide..... More
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1985. First Edition Thus. (xi) 95 pages. First Edition Thus. Illustrated dustjacket. Frontis portrait of Powell from photograph by John P. Schafer, 1984. Cloth. 4 5/8" x 7 1/2". One the recto of the FFE: "This Special Copy Is Presented to You with Our..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards First Edition Near Fine in (Mylar) DJ 157 pages. Preface. Title page vignette of roadrunner. Cloth-backed patterned boards. PRESENTATION COPY: Card laid in, "With good wishes from the author, 6288 North Campbell Avenue/ Tucson, Arizona 85718". Some minor shelfwear..... More
New York: David Lewis, 1971. First Edition. (ix) 345 pages. first Edition (Stated). Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. Octavo. From the flap: "Despite Edmund Wilson's reputation as a distinguished critic and his many contributions to a variety of literary genres, no one has attempted to compile a comprehensive list of his..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. (xiv), 368 (1) pages. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling. Illustrated, primarily from facsimiles. Index. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Author David Randall was the manager of Scribner's Rare Book Department in New York before becoming Librarian of..... More
Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Company, CA. 1916. First Edition. Original wraps. 129 pp. Number 18. Original tan wrappers. 6 3/4" x 10 3/4". 636 descriptions of items offered by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. Many amazing treasures of literature at period prices. As explained in a first note, many of the..... More
Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Company, 1935. First Edition. Original wraps. 123 (1) pp. Original blue wrappers. 6" x 9". 519 rarities offered by Doctor Rosenbach. Issued in the midst of the Great Depression, the Catalogue's entries are surprisingly reasonable in price. Expressed in the doctor's colorful language, entries include, "A Superb..... More
Los Angeles: UCLA, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. 46 pages. Foreword by W. W. Robinson. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Printed stapled wrappers. 6" x 9". A listing of the published writings of Lawrence Clark Powell as of 1966, by subject and type, including essays, literature and criticism, history..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2004. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. (xii) 213 (2) pages. First Edition. Illustrated including some from color photographs of Colt publications. Prospectus and order envelope laid in. Cloth-backed illustrated cloth. 6 3/4" x 10". Foreword by Andrew Hoyem. Preface by William Matson Roth. Checklist..... More
