1910. Photograph. Three photographs (one duplicate) laid down on canvas (as issued?). Roughly 9-1/4 by 7-1/4 inches. The two views are taken from opposite sides of a small inlet. The mining operation consists of a water-powered conveyor leading to two spinning drums. Water is pumped out of the drum enclosures.....
1979. Ephemera. Postcard, 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches. Addressed to Tony [Anthony] Lewis (of the New England Science Fiction Association) and family with a friendly joke: 'Staring at you, Tony, and then at Alice, I begin to wonder about Sue's fidelity. Kid doesn't even have a beard.' He continues: 'As for.....
1983. Ephemera. One page, 6 by 8 inches, dated 1 December 1983, probably in response to a fan letter, describing a most memorable event in the great Science Fiction author's career. Folded once else a fine copy. Signed in blue ink by Asimov following the typed message: 'It is hard.....
Lone Goose Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Oblong, about 9-3/4 by 6-1/2 inches. Fine binding, printed on Zerkall German Ingres paper. A limited edition of the 1996 Pushcart Prize-winning essay by Lopez in honor of Stegner. This edition limited to 150 signed and numbered paperback copies, plus 29 deluxe signed and.....
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Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 38 pages. 6-3/4 by 10 inches. An extract from the then forthcoming book entitled Letters. One of 50 deluxe copies bound in leather; from a total edition of 350 signed and numbered copies. 'Lord John Press gets its funny name from the founder's.....
Published by the Library, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I, pages 241-511; Volume II, Part I, pages 1-250; Volume II, Part II, pages 25-522. First edition (first printing). Near fine 3 volume set with matched bindings.Damaged glassine wrappers on Volume II, Part I and II. Pages uncut.
Edward Denny & Co., 1875. Ephemera. 13 by 5 inches. A stock certificate for the company that built the first railroad in Humboldt County, California, a line from the bay up Salmon Creek to the old growth redwood forests there. The company was founded by H. H. Buhne, one of.....
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 441 pages. The author's first book. First edition in a second issue dust jacket, with the title font reduced to better fit the spine (the difference between the two jackets is perhaps most easily measured in the height of the spine title.....
University of California Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. 604 pages. Myths, stories and tales. First edition (first printing). A paperback copy in very good condition. Light corner crease to cover and first few pages; spotting to top of page block.
Plimpton Press, 1926. First Edition. Photograph. Photogravure from Volume 18 of The North American Indian (facing page 188). One of approximately 400 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. 'The Piegan possess several bundles associated with an elaborate ritual of songs and dances...The bundle of which Fat Horse is custodian was.....
Alameda Water Carnival. Printed by C. Leidecker & Co., 1902. Trade Paperback. 47 pages. Many B/W illustrations of Alameda buildings, homes, bridges, and school. Numerous business and political ads. Programme for each day of the Festival with Parade and firework display on Monday, September 15, Concession Day on Tuesday with.....
Chris Felver, n.d. ca. 1970s. Photograph. B/W photograph, 8.5 x 12 inches, printed on 11 x 14 inch paper. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a poet who spent most of his life in San Francisco, often identified with the poets of New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. He was a......
Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 398 pages. The first of Ferber's autobiographical works, this one filled with opinion and commentary about the state of the world and even an example of the kind of anti-Semitic hate mail she regularly received. First edition (first printing). A near fine.....
Leteradura, 1978. Pamphlet. A black-and-white facsimile reprint of this satirical Catalan periodical. 502 pages in 32 separate issues. Many significant Catalan artists of the era contributed covers and drawings. Reprinted here in the Coleccion Ready-Made. Shipping box very good; issues near fine or better.
[Palaemon Press], 1980. Trade Paperback. Broadside, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on white. 'Limited to twenty-five copies privately printed for Stuart Wright, December, 1980.' - printed at bottom of broadside. 'Third edition, or, more likely, second edition, second impression. According to the colophon which now appears below Faulkner's.....
The Great Courses, (2015). Trade Paperback. 283-page Course Guidebook, plus a 6-Disc DVD set containing thirty-six 30-minute lectures on the topic of communication skills. DVD set in original case plus the guidebook. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). DVDs fine in a fine case.
San Francisco State College, 1971. Poster. Three-color silkscreen poster, 20 by 26 inches, promoting an exhibition of the art of ancient Mexico during the Sixth Annual Raza/Hispanidad Festival. Signed in pencil by Garcia below the central image. Rupert Garcia Print and Posters, 1967-1990, catalogue raisonne no. 34. Edition of approximately.....
Random House, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 657 pages. John Garner's first book, a textbook for English students consisting of an introductory essay on forms of fictional narratives, followed by an anthology of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, et al. First edition (first printing).....
(n.p.), 1971. Poster. Broadside poster, 11 by 17 inches. A poem published in the form of a poster for a May Day protest in Washington, DC, May 1 through 7, 1971. The first separate appearance of this poem, which ran in Quicksilver Times, March 17, 1971; it was later collected.....
1855-1865. Hardcover. George D. Gray, Class of 1865, from San Francisco, compiled this collection. Contents: The Laws and Regulations, Amherst College, 1855; Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Amherst College for the Academic Year 1859-60; Catalogue...1862-63; Catalogue...1863-4; Catalogue...1864-65; Catalogus eorum Qui munera et Officia Academica Gesserunt...1863; Catalogue of the.....
Kemink en Zoon, 1858, 1861, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I: A-K: lxxviii,463 pages; Vol. II: L-Z: lxxxviii, 517 pages; Vol. III: cccxviii, 489. Contains collection of proverbs from the Netherlands. First editions (first printings). A very good uniform set in marbled paper over boards and leather covers with title.....
Horace F. McCann, 1882. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 31 pages. The pamphlet recounts the author's visit to several Episcopal missions and schools operating on Sioux reservation lands in South Dakota and Nebraska. Welsh was an earnest advocate for the rights of the American Indian. He founded the Indian Rights Association.....
Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. 150 pages followed by 2 pages of ads. 5 by 7-1/2 inches. With black-and-white illustrations. The title story was adapted for a 1996 made-for-television production and remade in 2006 with the title Christmas Do-Over. First edition (first printing). Brown-orange cloth with red lettering.....
The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 141 pages. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. First edition (first printing). Reinforced, illustrated binding. Minor edge wear else a fine copy in a dust jacket with light toning to the spine. Inscribed by the author to a journalist: 'For Tony Scaduto / greetings.....
Schwickertschen Verlage and E. B. Schwickert, 1803-1836. First Edition. Hardcover. A rare complete set of this early 19th century German dictionary of pure mathematics, published in five volumes (in six books) and a two-volume supplement (Supplemente zu G. S. Kluegel's Woorterbuche der reinen Mathematik). Volumes 4 and 5 were co-written.....