U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1852. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Map, 17 x 13.5 inches inside borders; sheet size, 21.75 x 20.25 inches. Soundings are expressed in fathoms. Relief shown in hachures. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Previously folded Scattered foxing and tanning especially near map borders.....
El Dorado County, 1873. Trade Paperback. Certificate, 6.5 x 8.1 inches, printed in black. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. On front of certificate Edward Allen 'has paid me upon Lot No. (6) ten (sic), Block (10) ten in Town of El Dorado,... Oct. 14th, 1871, Chas. F. Irwin.....
Harper & Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. 147 pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches; in the publisher's 'little novels' series. An early novel by the Kentucky writer. Illustrated in black-and-white. Very good in somewhat soiled tan cloth, stamped with brown, silver and gilt. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown has offset to endpaper.....
The Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. Stories; the last book by the Kentucky author. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with faded spine.
University of California PRess, 1920. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 119 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Page block starting to detach from wrappers at spine head.
J. T. Bowen, 1856-1871. Print. 6-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches. Handcolored lithograph from the royal octavo edition of Audubon's The Birds of America, measuring 6-3/4 by 10-3/8 inches. Modern name: Black Tern (Chlidonias niger). About this bird, Audubon wrote, 'Often have I watched their graceful, light and rapid flight, as they.....
John T. Bowen, 1840-1845. First Edition. Print. 6-1/2 by 10 inches. Original hand-colored lithograph from the first printing of the Royal Octavo edition of Audubon's Birds of America. First edition (first printing). A fine, bright example.
J. T. Bowen, 1856-1871. Print. 6-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches. Handcolored lithograph from the royal octavo edition of Audubon's The Birds of America, measuring 6-3/4 by 10-3/8 inches. Modern name: Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis). About this bird, Audubon wrote, 'As soon as the cold blasts of winter have stiffened the earth's.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination.....
Vintage, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. James Baldwin's timeless, bestselling novel of love and solidarity in the face of injustice--the beloved classic that inspired the major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins "One of the best books James Baldwin has ever written--perhaps the best of all."--The Philadelphia Inquirer.....
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1971. Trade Paperback. 757 pages. About 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Essays by the eighteenth century Scottish poet and philosopher. Fascimilie of the 1776 edition. A very good copy bound in red cloth with gilt titling on faded spine. Page corners bumped. No dust jacket. A large, heavy.....
Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1784. Trade Paperback. xii, First Book, pp. 1-32; Second Book, pp. 33-107. Beattie's (1735-1803) most well-known work, praised by Samuel Johnson. The first book was published in 1771, the second in 1774. This 'new edition' combines both. 'New.....
Caveat Lector, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 32 pages. Chapbook format with poetry, stories, drawings. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Trustees of the British Museum and the Commonwealth Relations Office, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 147 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. In very good dust jacket, mildly surface soiled with edge and corner wear at spine ends. Spine.....
Government Printing Office, 1893 / 1894. Hardcover. Two Bureau of American Ethnology bulletins bound (chronologically reversed) together in one volume. 278 and 81 pages. Bound with original covers. Bound in red cloth with white lettering on the spine. Library stamp on the front free endpaper.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 376 pages. A novel about post-Revolutionary War Americans pushing West to the Mississippi River and beyond. First edition (first printing) With 'A' on copyright page. Light stain on top edge, thus near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of.....
Twowindows Press, n.d., ca. late 1960s. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Six broadside poems of various sizes in large brown folder with inside pocket and cream label on front printed in red on white. Kay Boyle, 'The Lost Dogs of Phnom Penh,'; William Dickey, 'The Anniversary,'; Don Gray, 'lemon grove 3.....
Midwestern University, 1965, 1966. First Edition. Broadside. Broadsides, 7 loose sheets, 8.5 x 11 inches. Penny Poems was conceived of by Jon Bracker while at Amarillo College. He continued the project after moving to Midwestern University. Each sheet was priced at One Penny. 'Subscription price is $1.50 for ten volumes.....
San Francisco Art Festival. Printed by East Wind, 1964. First Edition. Broadside. Contains 11 unnumbered loose sheets, 13 x 20 inches with limitation sheet, 1/300 copies, and 10 broadsides: September California: Richart Brautigan; illustration by Richard Correll; I Heard in the Shell: James Broughton; woodcut by Larry Landa; When did.....
National Geophysical Data Center, 1991. Trade Paperback. 260 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Paramount Pictures, 1979. Trade Paperback. 4 sheets, 8.5 x 11 inches. Title sheet, Cast of Characters sheet, Technical Credits sheet, and more details last sheet. Film stars Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Syzygy Press, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 4 pages. Cover art by Galen Garwood. Inscribed by the author on title page: 'Cheers to Kermit & Jane from James & Joel.' - signed by both. Also signed on limitation page by Broughton. Limited edition, #105/200 copies. First edition (first printing). A......
1976. Ephemera. Broughton was a poet, poetic film-maker and an important member of the San Francisco Renaissance. He was an early poet of the Radical Faeries and a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. He produced 23 films and 23 books durting his career, with both books and films.....
Manroot, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 5 pages. Designed, handset and printed by Paul Mariah and Joel Singer. Frontispiece B/W frontal nude photograph of author. Signed by the author on limitation page. Limited edition, #112/226 signed copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in yellow wrappers (paperback), sewn. Wrappers.....