Carmel, California: The Seven Arts, 1925. First Edition. 109 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Daisy Bostick in ink on a front free endpaper, "To my new friend Jane from Daisy Bostick / Carmel. Feb. 15, 1931." Orange illustrated boards. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". No dj as issued. Profusely illustrated from... More about CARMEL AT WORK AND PLAY
Paris: New York Herald Tribune, 1953. Third and Expanded Edition. 80 pages. Presentation copy to Darryl F. Zanuck. SIGNED/INSCRIBED on the title page in ink by Art Buchwald to movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, "To Darryl / A Bon Vivant's BonVivant / Art Buchwald July 1953". Laid in is a.... More about Presentation Copy) PARIS AFTER DARK
Los Angeles: Round Table West, 1980. First Edition. Cloth. 192 pages. This is the late actor Burgess Meredith's copy. SIGNED/INSCRIBED to Burgess Meredith in ink by the Author on the title page: "To Burgess Meredith with fond memories of the "Golden Years" and so happy to have your "So Far... More about ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS AMBASSADOR AND COCOANUT GROVE....
Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Cloth. (ix) 276 pages. SIGNED in ink by Herb Caen on a front free endpaper. First Edition (stated). Cloth. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from drawings by Howard Brodie, including illustrated endpapers. Index. A colorful portrait of 1949 San... More about BAGHDAD BY THE BAY; A Colorful, Entertaining, Profile of Life, People, and Places in Modern San...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. (xix) 291 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Ben N. Powers. In you I feel that I have a true friend whom I hope to meet again. In the meantime when you... More about FIFTY YEARS ON THE OLD FRONTIER AS COWBOY, HUNTER, GUIDE, SCOUT, AND RANCHMAN
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition. 167 pages. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by David E. Lilienthal (then head of the Tennessee Valley Authority -TVA) to movie executive Darryl F. Zanuck, in ink on a front free endpaper, "Presented to Darryl F. Zanuck distinguished interpreter of democracy with the compliments of David... More about THE VALLEY AND ITS PEOPLE. A PORTRAIT OF TVA
New Orleans, Louisiana: Faust Publishing, 1986. First Edition. 20 pages. SIGNED by Ellen Gilchrist in ink on the half title. First Edition. This is one of fifty deluxe specially bound binder's copies, produced in addition to 300 numbered copies. Leather-backed purple cloth. 7 3/4" x 11". Frontispiece from photograph of... More about RIDING OUT THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION; Selected Poems 1975-1985
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. (XIX) (1) 140 pages. Ilustrated from onstage photographs. Light brown cloth with gilt cover device and gilt spine titling. Dust Jacket. First Edition (Stated). 5" x 7 1/2". INSCRIBED in ink by author Oscar Hammerstein II on a front free endpaper, "To... More about CARMEN JONES; Based on Meilhac and Halevy's Adaptation of Prosper Merimee's CARMEN
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. 311 pages. SIGNED in ink by Sir Cedric Hardwick on a front free endpaper. Illustrated, including from vintage photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Cloth. The amusing, acerbic memoirs of the great British stage and screen actor, of whom George... More about A VICTORIAN IN ORBIT. THE IRREVERENT MEMOIRS OF SIR CEDRIC HARDWICK
Hollywood: Warner Brothers, Inc., 1973. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL candid still photograph from the Irish set of "MACKINTOSH MAN", a 1973 Warner Brothers film, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason. SIGNED in ink at the upper lefthand corner by Director John... More about "MACKINTOSH MAN" ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED CANDID STILL PHOTOGRAPH
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1973. First Edition. Leather-backed linen boards. (xxix) 200 (1) pages. SIGNED in ink by poet William Everson on the colophon. Copy #115 of 250 copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh at the Capra Press. Preface, Introduction, Afterword and Notes by William Everson. Red leather-backed linen... More about THE ALPINE CHRIST & OTHER POEMS WITH COMMENTARY AND NOTES BY WILLIAM EVERSON
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 about THE ALPINE CHRIST & OTHER POEMS WITH COMMENTARY AND NOTES BY WILLIAM EVERSON
Van Nuys, California: Toastmaster Publishing Co., 1963. First Edition. Cloth. 176 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Jessel in ink on a front free endpaper, "To My Friend Peter--George Jessel". First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Small octavo. Tan cloth. From the jacket, "An anthology of messages from famous Hollywood Personalities as might... More about HALO OVER HOLLYWOOD
San Francisco: The Associates of the J. Porter Shaw Library, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. (xi)(3) 180 pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by author on the title page. Illustrated, including from vintage photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Blue cloth with gilt titling. Bibliography. Index. Appendix listing... More about SCAMMON. BEYOND THE LAGOON; A Biography of Charles Melville Scammon
Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945. First Edition. 238 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Gertrude Lawrence in ink on the half-title: "For Joyce. Sincerely Gertrude Lawrence." First Edition (stated). Dust jacket illustrated with a color portrait by Cecil Beaton. Endpapers illustrated from photographs from the author's hit shows. 5... More about A STAR DANCED
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 215 Pages First Edition SIGNED/ INSCRIBED by Actress/Author Helen Hayes in ink on a front free endpaper: "To Lois Nichols / Blessings / Helen Hayes".Illustrated dust jacket, including a photograph of Ms. Hayes on the back cover. Cloth-backed boards... More about WHERE THE TRUTH LIES A Novel of Glamour and Murder in Hollywood
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Limited Edition. 128 (colophon) pages. Cloth-backed boards. Blue pictoral dust jacket. Octavo. afterword by Hen ry Miller. From the colophon: "Two hundred copies, specially bound, have been signed and numbered by the author." This copy INSCRIBED by Lawrence Clark Powell in ink on the colophon... More about THE BLUE TRAIN
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth First Edition Fine in Fine DJ (xv), 160 pages. Illustrated. Chronology of LCP Keepsakes. Checklist of published writings of LCP. Designed by John Anderson. Printed at Paul Weaver's Northland Press. SIGNED in ink by Lawrence Clark Powell on the half-title. Prior owner's neat... More about VOICES FROM THE SOUTHWEST. A Gathering in Honor of Lawrence Clark Powell
Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First Edition (Uncorrected Bound Galley). Original illustrated wrappers. 106 (2) pages. SIGNED by Gary Snyder in ink on the title page. According to the back cover: "THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEY--NOT FOR SALE". Illustrated wrappers. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Per the back... More about DANGER ON PEAKS. POEMS
First Edition. ORIGINAL photograph of Poet/Essayist Gary Snyder, SIGNED in ink by Mr. Snyder just below the image. 5" 1/2" x 8 1/2" in total, with an image measuring 4 1/2" x 5 3/4". Gary Snyder (Born 1930) is best known as a poet, associated with the San Francisco Renaissance... More about ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
San Francisco: 1896. First Edition. Brown wrapper. This is an ORIGINAL SIGNED contract dated September 1, 1896 between Adolph Sutro and Paul Thereux of San Francisco. Two pages of folded typescript, with a brown stapled backing, with identifying text on the outside. SIGNED in ink by Adolph Sutro and Paul... More about ORIGINAL1896 MUSICIANS CONTRACT / AD0LPH SUTRO & PAUL THEREUX (MUSICIANS UNION
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. 175 (11) pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by Author Larry Watson on the title page. 175 (11) pages. Green cloth. Gilt titling.5 1/2" x 8".The 1993 Milkwood National Fiction Prize winner. Afterword by David Huddle, National Fiction Prize judge. A 12 year-old... More about MONTANA 1948
Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc, 2001. First Edition. (xxvii) 324 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Dennis Wearver in ink on the title page, "To John / Dennis Weaver". First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from B/W photographs.Octavo. Boards. The autobiography of the star of the Gunsmoke and McCloud television series... More about ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1949. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. Unpaginated. SIGNED in ink by Carl I. Wheat on the front free endpaper. A limited edition of 500 un-numbered copies, Printed by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. Illustrated. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4". Cloth-backed illustrated boards. Rubber stamps... More about BOOKS OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH; A Centennial Selection
New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition, Later Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. (xvii) 216 (3) pages. SIGNED in ink by Jonathan Winters on the half-title, "With affection /Jonathan Winters / Halloween 1992". Illustrated dust jacket with photograph of Jonathan Winters on rear cover. Illustration from drawing by Winters on a rear... More about WINTERS' TALES; Stories and Observations for the Unusual
