Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1969. Trade paperback. 41 volumes. Textual illustrations and maps. Amsterdam, Detroit, et al: The Society for the History of Discoveries, 1969-2009. A nearly complete run of this interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal. "The aim... More about TERRAE INCOGNITAE: The Annals of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Volume 1 - 41
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1921. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Monumental history of Orange County, California, gathering a vast array of information about the land, its people, industry, and resources. Includes chapters on... More about HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, with Biographical Sketches of The Leading Men and Women of...
London: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Published in association with the Royal Geographic Society, Alpine Club, and Mount Everest Foundation, this is the official publication celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest... More about EVEREST: 50 Years on Top of the World
Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Benny Carter. Introduction by Dan Morgenstern. Two volumes. 16 pp. photographs, with textual musical examples. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The... More about BENNY CARTER: A Life in American Music
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth collection of verse by Father Berrigan (1921-2016), a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam... More about NO ONE WALKS WATERS
Tokyo, Japan: East-West, 1951. Third Edition. Hardcover. The second in a series of six photographic books by American photojournalist Horace Bristol (1908-97). His book on Korea is particularly notable for its humanistic concern for the... More about KOREA
Newark, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1992. First Edition. Songs written by Clifford Burke to drawings by Ruth Fine, with the book and structure by Claire Van Vliet. This is 86 of 150 copies signed by... More about BONE SONGS
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A retrospective study of the film career of George Lucas, from the stark and disquieting view of the future in THX 1138 to the wry... More about GEORGE LUCAS: The Creative Impulse
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Six volumes. Textual illustrations and maps. Chicago, IL: Loyola University Press, 1962. Facsimile reprint of the 1866-72 first edition of John Gilmary Shea's complete English-language translation. One of the... More about HISTORY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF NEW FRANCE. Translated, with Notes, by John Gilmary Shea
DeWinton, Alberta, Canada: Starart Productions Limited, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy number 227 of the Limited Edition of 300, which are signed by the contributors: Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Klaus Voorman, Ron Wood... More about STARART
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Cotton to Peter Dobereiner on the front... More about THANKS FOR THE GAME: The Best of Golf with Henry Cotton
San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. Hardcover. This is copy Number 167 of the Argonaut Edition, autographed by both publisher and editor, and of which but one hundred copies in all, numbered 151 to 250 inclusive... More about SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA: A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political...
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "Israel's most famous general explores the archaeology of the Holy Land and re-interprets familiar Bible stories in a new light." Inscribed and dated by... More about LIVING WITH THE BIBLE
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 128 p. 17 textual figures. "As the speaking-telephone, in which magneto-electric currents were utilized for the transmission of speech and other kinds of sounds, was invented... More about THE TELEPHONE: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in...
Berlin: Springer International, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 76 textual figures. Berlin: Springer International, 1980. First edition. An in-depth exploration of dualist-interactionalism, a concept Sir John Eccles developed with Sir Karl Popper, in the context of... More about THE HUMAN PSYCHE: The GIFFORD Lectures, University of Edinburgh 1978-1979
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Hardcover. Second printing. Fisher (1867-1947) was an American economist best known for his work in the field of capital theory. In this important treatise, he developed the modern concept... More about THE PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY: Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A copy of the first trade edition, together with the author's typescript of the manuscript with the original hand-drawn maps. The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty... More about The Author's Typescript of SON OF HEAVEN: A Biography of Li-Shih-Min, Founder of the T'ang Dynasty
Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition, first issue with no publisher's ads at the rear. Fitzgerald's semiautobiographical and sadly prophetic second novel explores New York cafe society and... More about THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcover. First edition, second printing (April, 1920). The author's first novel, which takes its title from a line in Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 233 p. Dust jacket art by Anthony Gross. The author's second novel (following The Lord of the Flies), concerning the extinction of one of the last remaining... More about THE INHERITORS
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Newly translated by Ralph Manheim, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. A previously unknown Grimm tale, preserved in a letter written to a young girl, Mili... More about DEAR MILI
New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1857. Second edition, revised and expanded. Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Hittell (1825-1901) graduated from Miami University (Ohio) and practiced law before... More about THE EVIDENCES AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
1906. First edition. 93 pp. halftone relief illustrations from photographs. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First edition. 9½" x 6½"; xv, 401 + 2 pp. advertisements. Southern California's most prominent sportsman, the father... More about LIFE IN THE OPEN. SPORT WITH ROD, GUN, HORSE AND HOUND IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington; G. Robinson; T. Cadell; T. Evans; and R. Baldwin, 1783. New Edition. Hardcover. One of the first of the immensely popular 18th-century “it-narratives”, Chrysal (1760) tells the... More about CHRYSAL; or, The Adventures of a Guinea
Penzance: Morrab Library, 1997. First Edition. Limited to 50 copies signed by the author. Typescript of an address delivered by John le Carre on February 26, 1997 in Penzance, Cornwall, accepting the presidency of the... More about MORRAB