London: Ward and Lock, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, with a preface by Lascelles Wraxall. Aimard was a French adventurer who wrote more than 70 popular novels about life on the... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Edwin Corle. Profusely illustrated. Recollections of Merle Armitage (1893-1975), founder and manager of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association, then the manager of... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 217 p. 187 illustrations, including 52 tipped-in plates in full color. Brilliant study of the life and work of the German-born American painter of figure... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 296 p. Textual photographs and illustrations. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition. "Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve... More
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
Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy "O" of 15 deluxe copies with illustrations hand-colored by Nanda Currant. A book of poems for children written by Jill Block and illustrated... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, numbered and signed by George W. Bush. Also includes a special color photo frontispiece not found in the trade edition. In this extraordinary memoir, America's... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus. The California edition of the Pennroyal Press Alice represents an extraordinary blend of artistic imagery, meticulous craft, and scholarly care. Illustrated by Barry... More
Privately Printed, 1999. First Edition. Spiral bound. Limited to 1,000 copies. An accomplished Aikidoist and a noted artist render in words and drawings the relationship between movement and breath that is at the heart of... More
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
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Masterly three-volume study of Richard Strauss (1864-1949), the outstanding German Romantic composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His symphonic poems of the 1890s and... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 254 p. Oxford Theological Monographs. Evagrius Ponticus (c.345-399) was the most prolific writer of the Christian Desert Fathers. This book is a study of his life, works... More
Paris: J. Dumaine, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 379 p. Fourteen plates, including one folding, with three folding maps. Fay was the aide de camp of Pierre Bosquet (1810-61), the French general who played a key... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition. Riotous and unexpected events unfold as Poo-Poo and his dragons romp and galumph from... More
London: The Fleuron, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Wood Engravings by Paul Nash. London: The Fleuron, 1925. First edition, limited to 525 copies printed at the Curwen Press. An early collection of verse, illustrated by British... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 240 p. Edited by Nikos Stangos. Illustrated with over 350 reproductions of Hockney's paintings, graphic designs, and experimental work, most in full color. Picking up where he... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with nine mounted albumen photographs, including the portrait inset on the front cover, and an engraving. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. First edition. Few... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition, #107 of 150 copies signed by the author. The authentic, completely documented stories of seven gunfighters: Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Ben Thompson... More
Los Angeles: Know Now Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Trade paperback. Inscribed by Inosanto on title page, with his Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts business card laid in. Books signed by Inosanto (b.1936), the Filipino-American... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 286 p. Frontispiece, with 32 pp. photographs and pictorial endpapers. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First edition. First biography of... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995-1996. Trade paperback. Volume I: Books 1-4, ISBN 0521281717; Volume II: Books 5-8, ISBN 0521281725; Volume III: Books 9-12, ISBN 0521281733; Volume IV: Books 13-16, ISBN 0521281741; Volume V: Books 17-20... More
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Numerous textual photographs, most in full color. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1991. First American edition. Renowned Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner (b.1944) describes the forces and events that have shaped... More
Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Alson Clark. Foreword by David Gebhard. Illustrated with color plates, vintage black-and-white photographs, architectural renderings, plans, etc. Wallace Neff's flair for originality brought grandeur... More
London: Printed by C. Baldwin for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English of Oersted's magnum opus (pp. 273-276), preceded by a small Latin pamphlet (Experiemnta circa effectum conflictus... More
