Albert Love Enterprises, 1958. Hardcover. Commenced Training 11 September 1958. Completed Training 14 November 1958. Unpaginated. Dark blue covers with embossed ship hull with gold lettering and anchor on front cover. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Cover edges bumped.
Taylor Publishing Company. 1963. Hardcover.
Taylor Publishing Company, 1960. Hardcover.
Taylor Publishing Company, 1961. Hardcover.
Taylor Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover.
Taylor Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover.
Bacon & Company, 1887. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Pp. 233-336, plus ads. A short-lived San Francisco magazine, with short stories, poems, and essays on topics of the day (the education of women, the cable car conductors and and street car drivers strike). The article on the strike mentions the use.....
Hardcover. Set of two matching scrapbooks, one 9-1/4 by 12 inches with [30] pages, and the other 10-3/4 by 14 inches with [15] pages. Each filled with pasted black-and-white portraits of nineteenth century authors to the pages and endpapers, most of which include an example of the authors' signatures. Most.....
[1943]. Ephemera. 5-3/8 by 8-1/4 inches. In Italian, printed both sides. A leaflet dropped in Italy following the successful campaign in Africa. The leaflet mentions the Nazi defeat in Tunisia and announces bombing raids to come in Italy. Missing a piece of the border (not affecting text); else very good.....
University of Nebraska, 1937. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Two issues, 24pages. Color illustrated covers. First editions (first printings). Very good copies in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers with edge and corner wear, some scuffs and mild soiling.
Alexander Gardner, 1893. Hardcover. 656 pages. Green cloth with black decoration on the cover and gold lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Former owner's illustrated bookplate and former seller's small sticker on the front pastedown.
H. De Marsan, 1861-63. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside songsheet, 10.25 x 6.6 inches. Ten 4-line stanzas. 'H. DeMarsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham str, New-York' printed at bottom of sheet. Decorative border with 'comic heads.' Cf. Edwin Wolf, American Song Sheets, border S. H. De Marsan operated at 54 Chatham St from.....
Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog, (ca. 1915). Ephemera. 4-3/4 by 3-3/4 inches. A label for this popular San Francisco restaurant's house madeira wine. Printed in gold and black. Fine, unused label.
n.d., ca. 1900. Print. Print, 7 x 10.5 inches, printed in blue and white on tan paper. Identified as Plate XLII with sheet describing the vase: 'of Persian form...The mark inscribed underneath is a leaf, outlined in blue, a common sign of the K'ang-hsi period (1662-1722), to which this little.....
n.d., ca. 1900. Print. Chromolithograph, 7.5 x 13.5, printed in vibrant blue on cream. A fine copy.
H. De Marsan, 1861-3. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside songsheet, 9.75 x 6.6 inches, Three 8-line stanzas. Decorative borders with fighting and naval scenes.'H. De Marsan, Publisher, Songs, Ballads, toys, books, paper dolls, small playing cards, motto verses &c., 54 Chatham St., New York' printed at bottom of songsheet. De Marsan.....
Stanford and Swords, 1850. Leather. Book of Common Prayer, 504 pp; P{salms of David, 256 pp. 1850 edition. Near fine copy in flexible leather covers with 5 raised-bands on spine and title in gilt on spine. All page edges gilt. Slight edge and corner wear.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1948. Trade Paperback. 91 pages. 303 items. Lake wrote an engaging memoir of his collecting life called Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist. Very good in wrappers; somewhat tanned, some tears to the yapped edges.
F. Warne & Co., January 1888. Hardcover.
Print.
Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, folded, with engraving printed from the original woodblock. In dark blue wrappers. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Corner creased on rear cover.
The Western Railroader, 1965. First Edition. Pamphlet. Issue 307 (vol. 28, no. 8; August 1965). 12 pages (including 4-page news supplement). First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (pamphlet). Cover tanned, probably from a newspaper lying on top of it.
Howard Allied Mills, (n.d. but 1939?). Ephemera. 8-3/4 by 12 inches, folded. Three panel brochure promoting color printing with a circus motif. The center spread is a dazzling color image of the interior of a paper factory with circus vehicles above. Not dated, but stylistically ca. 1940 (assuming Color Week.....
Camera Craft, 1912-1929. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Each issue about 50 pages with multiple pages of ads. Numerous photographic illustrations in each issue. Vol. XIX, No. 1, January, 1912; Vol. 22, No. 11, November, 1916; Vol. XXXII, No. 2, February, 1925; Vol. XXXII, No. 5, May, 1925; Vol. XXXIII, No.....