n.d., ca. 1940s. Hardcover. Three volumes of comic gags, 2-5 lines each, organized by subject, e.g, in Volume Abs - Drug: Absent-Minded, Accident, Actor - Theater, Adam and Eve, Aeroplane, etc. 13.25 x 8 inches. Literally thousands of gags. Presumed first editions. Near fine copies in blue cloth with gilt.....
Michael Annals, n.d., ca. 1980. Art - Original. Painting 17 x 11 inches on sheet 19.5 x 13 inches. Michael Annals (1938-1990) was a theatrical scenic and costume designer. He designed sets for the Old Vic and Broadway productions, and for films. He was nominated for Tony Award for Best.....
J. P. Meline, 1834. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tome Premier: 345 pp. with Le Vendetta, Souffrances inconnues, La Femme de trente ans; Le Bal d Sceaux; Tome deuxieme: 347 pp. with Gloire et Malheur, La Femme vertuese, La Paix du Menage; Tome troisieme: 328 pp. with Le Conseil, La Bourse.....
(n.p.), 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 372 pages. Autograph Edition. *** A biography of the man who gave Colorado's capital its name -- a land speculator named his settlement after James W. Denver, then governor of the Kansas Territory, which included present-day Colorado. Denver also served as a general during the.....
![Item #259550 Here in the Village [1 of 50]. Donald Barthelme](/pictures/thumb/259550.jpg?v=1619128050)
Lord John Press, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 52 pages. One of 50 numbered and signed copies with a frontispiece collage by the author not included in other editions. There was also a limited edition of 275 copies. Most of the contents were written for The New Yorker's Notes and.....
Bartlett and Welford, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. 412 pages. Dictionary and appendix arranged alphabetically. First edition (first printing). Publisher's original brown cloth with embossed design and gilt lettering on spine. A very good copy. Some loss to the spine ends. Foxed most noticably at the endpapers. One (?) page with.....
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.....
Ten Crow Press, 1980. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Contains 12 poems, 4 signed monotypes by Cain, 14 woodcut or lino-cut illustrations. In addition to Cain's work there is a poem by William Brown from 'The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel.' The work is letterpress printed on domestic etching paper.....
FBI, 1968. First Edition. Ephemera. Wanted Flyer 447, issued December 13, 1968, 3 days following a Federal warrant issued on December 10, 1968, at San Francisco, California, charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement after conviction for assault with intent to commit murder. Photo-printed poster with 4 images.....
Longmans, Grene and Co., (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. 631 pages. A novel of World War Two; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. First British edition (first printing). Spotting to page block and endpapers thus a very good copy in a dust jacket with some loss to the top edge.....
![Item #141626 Manifesto [title in Greek]. Caresse Crosby](/pictures/thumb/141626.jpg?v=1619126972)
(the author), (ca. 1952). Ephemera. 143 by 213 mm. Small broadside manifesto, in Greek, issued by Caresse Crosby for her world citizenship movement. Crosby, an American, was the co-founder of expatriate Black Sun Press in Paris and spent much of her adult life in Europe. In 1948, she published a......
Kiadja Kokai Lajos, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 770 pages. This collection of Hungarian proverbs and idioms was the most extensive and important up to its day, with neary 20,000 entries. The book was reprinted a number of times, most recently in 1998. Uncommon and important. First edition (first printing). A......
Wallace W. Elliott & Co., January 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 218 pages plus nearly 100 pages of lithograph illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in new black cloth binding with original front cover title and ruling glued on. New end papers. Map of Califronia and of Humboldt.....
Gallimard, 1934. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. A7.20 in William Faulkner: The Carl Peterson Collection. First French edition (first printing). Review copy of the first French trade edition, with 'S.P.' imprinted on front cover and title page. Very good copy. In original folded glassine wrapper. Spine is tanned.
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.
n.d., ca. 1944. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 21 pp. typescript. Title page with author name on front sheet. Lester Cowan (1906-1990) was an independent film producer in the 1930s and 1940s. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy on onionskin. (paperback). Note by Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, in.....
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. The first published collection of the author's short stories. First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, else a very good copy in a lightly faded dust jacket with some loss to the spine head, else very good.
![Item #305900 Captain Bottell [Limited edition]. James Hanley](/pictures/thumb/305900.jpg?v=1656191835)
Boriswood, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 423 pages. One of 99 numbered and signed copies. There were also 11 presentation copies. Gibbs A10a. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Light bumps to edges. Numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page.....
Coward-McCann, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 274 pages. Harry Summerfield Hoff (1910-2002) also wrote novels as William Cooper. This is his first novel. It was titled 'Trina' in the first British edition. First US edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with yellow decoration on front cover and.....
Selmar Hess, 1894. Hardcover. Complete set. Each volume about 200 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Short, illustrated essays about famous people of history. Black-and-white plates with printed tissue guard protectors. Brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine and covers, with gilt page edges. Volumes I - II with.....
San Francisco Art Festival, 1964. Broadside. Broadside, 12.5 x 20 inches, printed in black on white. Poem and art by Jess. Limited to 300 copies, this was issued in a portfolio with nine other broadsides under the title: 'A Poetry Folio, 1964,' issued by San Francisco Art Festival. Signed and.....
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.....
![Item #267561 Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots [1 of 100]. Norman...](/pictures/thumb/267561.jpg?v=1619128834)
Lord John Press, 1980. First Edition. Leather. 102 pages. One of 100 deluxe leatherbound copies out of an edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. Mailer's critique of television culture in which he recounts his TV appearances with people including Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Gore Vidal and others. First appeared.....
Donald Martino, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 27 pages. On verso of title page are the lyrics for the 7 choral pieces. On page 1, following the title page, 'Musical Settings by Donald Martino of Seven Pious Pieces from His Noble Numbers or His Pious Pieces by Robert Herrick.' This.....
various, 1931- 1963. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Miscellaneous pamphlets on early imprints in the Western United States and Canada. Douglas C. McMurtrie (1888-1944) was a well-known type designer, writer, biographer and historian of printing. Inscribed by Zeitlin. First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in wrappers (paperback). 'The First Printing.....