Beverly Hills, California: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. The presentation label in this copy bears the name of Playboy magazine founder Hugh M. Hefner, a lifelong film aficianado. Accompanied... More about 1937 ACADEMY PLAYERS DIRECTORY BULLETIN: Limited Special Edition
West Olive, Michigan: Early American Artistry - Trading Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 349 illustrations, including several in color. West Olive, Michigan: Early American Artistry - Trading Company, 1995. First edition, numbered (#737) and signed... More about TOMAHAWKS, PIPE AXES OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 295 p. This collection contains many of the shorter pieces Balliett wrote for The New Yorker during the 1980s, as well as a few previously unpublished... More about GOODBYES AND OTHER MESSAGES: A Journal of Jazz, 1981-1990
New York: Grove Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial exhibit of Borst's extraordinary collection of vintage horror, fantasy, and science-fiction film memorabilia, incorporating nearly six decades of cinema posters and related art, from The Cabinet... More about GRAVEN IMAGES: The Best Horror, Fantasy, and Science-Fiction Film Art from the Collection of...
New York: William Wood & Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 789 wood engravings. Octavo. In a period full calf binding, with a pair of gilt-stamped black morocco spine labels. Two small ink stamps... More about A TREATISE ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Rochester, New York: The Manas Press, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. A noted early 20th century American architect, Bragdon (1866-1946) discusses universal principles behind the harmonious forms and proportions of ancient and modern buildings. His observations... More about THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
Chicago: The Western Historical Association, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 1528 p. Three volumes. Illustrated with engraved portraits, etc. Quarto. Original pebbled blue cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The spines are a.... More about HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES, with Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses...
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. As the commercial agent for several major mercantile houses in New York, Elisha Smith Capron traveled to California via Nicaragua in 1853, visiting the principal cities and... More about HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME; Comprising Also a Full Description...
Ventura, California: ARTLIFE, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 120 copies. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue and final publication of ARTLIFE (or ART/LIFE), which billed itself as the longest continually published artists’ periodical of the Twentieth... More about ARTLIFE: Volume 25, Number 11 – Issue No. 276
Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications, Inc, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 243 p. Preface by Lin Yutang. Colorfully illustrated throughout. First edition in English. An exhaustive study of origin and development of Chinese opera and its... More about CHINESE OPERA AND PAINTED FACE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. In addition to writing about innovative philanthropic and social action by individuals and corporations that effect change both down the street and across the globe, the... More about GIVING: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. First edition. The poet's first collection of verse. Inscribed and dated by Doty on the title page. Octavo. Original cream cloth binding... More about TURTLE, SWAN
Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition, first printing with the "1902" date on the copyright page. Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories includes three of his best known... More about TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcover. First edition, third printing (April, 1920), lacking tipped-in "The Author's Apology" leaf. The author's first novel, which takes its title from a line in Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
1985-2005. A small archive of correspondence written by Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931–2008) to Nicholas Patrick Beck (1934–2017), an avid F. Scott Fitzgerald collector and scholar, who was also a journalism professor at California State University... More about MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI CORRESPONDENCE
London: Victor Gollancz, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. The eighth thriller by the British crime writer who also published under the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr. Small octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles... More about A DEATH IN THE CHURCH
Austin: The University of Texas at Austin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 240 p. Frontispiece portrait. First edition, limited to 1,200 copies. The definitive descriptive bibliography to the works of John Steinbeck (1902-68), an essential reference... More about JOHN STEINBECK: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. Goldstone Collection
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 22 plates. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1907. First edition. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Griffis to Reverend John Batchelor (1854-1944) on... More about THE JAPANESE NATION IN EVOLUTION: Steps in the Progress of a Great People
London: Macmillan, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The finest expression of Henderson's culinary oeuvre: using everything that is possibly edible of fowl, beast, and fish, creating dishes that fuse high sophistication with... More about NOSE TO TAIL EATING: A Kind of British Cooking
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 478 p. One of Herrick's self-styled "idealistic" novels, concerning a poverty-stricken girl who inherits a valuable piece of land and through an unsuccessful marriage... More about CLARK'S FIELD
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 400 p. Edited and Annotated by Charles H. Lange. 34 plates, with 44 figures and a map. The product of field research spanning nearly eighty... More about AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. The true first edition, preceding the American issue. Irving's account of the lives of the trappers who, in braving every kind of wilderness hazard to capture the rich... More about ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE, or Scenes Beyond the Rocky Mountains of the Far West
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. While living in Hollywood, Isherwood (1904-86) was introduced to Vedanta (Upanishad-centered philosophy) and the circle of Hindu Swami Prabhavananda by his friend Aldous Huxley. Adopting... More about VEDANTA FOR MODERN MAN
Boston: The Page Company, 1914. Second Impression. Hardcover. Inscribed by James on a prefatory blank leaf. Lavish popular guide to the Golden State's people, places, and history, along with descriptions of its flora and fauna... More about CALIFORNIA ROMANTIC AND BEAUTIFUL
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Title page illustration by Valenti Angelo. [San Francisco]: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1940. First edition, limited to... More about FIRE AND OTHER POEMS