Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ansel Adams on the title page. The distinguished photographer shares his experiences and details the circumstances, methods, and technical and aesthetic problems surrounding the..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. The first state, one of about 50 copies with the essay on the Dr. John Bodkin Adams trial that was suppressed under threat of legal action. The..... More
Two holographic letters written in 1857 concerning the procurement of turkeys to supply Boston during the forthcoming Thanksgiving holiday. While observed by various states, it was not until 1863 that Thanksgiving was made a national..... More
1948-1949. A remarkably crafted photographic album documenting the activities of a high school drum corps in Coffeyville, Kansas during the 1948-1949 school year. In addition to nearly 150 original photographs of the Tornado Drum Corps..... More
Los Angeles: James Madison, 1932-1934. Wraps. Presumably a complete run of this scarce Depression-era periodical “that tells which old books, magazines, and pamphlets have value – and why. Also money-making information about autographs, dime novels..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Harold Browne on the title page. The third of four hardboiled novels featuring Chicago private eye Paul Pine. Browne (1908-1999) served as..... More
Boston: Clarke & Carruth, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece, with three textual portraits. Signed by Clark below his frontispiece portrait. Small octavo. Original dark brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Near fine. More
New York: William Morrow, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title. Spunky Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in. Signed by Colin Dexter on the title page. The second novel in..... More
Rome, Italy and St. Louis, Missouri: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 212 p. An Annotated English Translation of Benno Ducrue's Relatio Expulsionis, Edited by Ernest J. Burrus, S. J. Eight illustrations, with a...... More
London: George Philip & Son, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 268 p. Three maps, including the folding frontispiece. The so-called "cheap edition" of this Klondike Gold Rush guidebook, also published as The Routes and Mineral Resources..... More
An 1852 autograph letter signed (ALS) by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, a British author, art critic, and historian, to her friend, the singer Charlotte Fletcher, to cancel her performance due to a scheduling conflict. Lady Eastlake..... More
Paris: Se vend Chez Martinon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. A gastronomical classic, originally published in sixty parts and presented here complete. Includes selections from Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste, a selection of Bacchic songs, La Gastronomie..... More
Honolulu: Published by the authors, 1980. First Edition. Trade paperback. The first book on the history of the 'ukulele, accompanied by A Tradition in Hawaiian Music: The 'Ukulele (1980), the guide to the 'ukulele exhibit..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Ironic novel about eroticism and exoticism in the milieu of quaint but lewd old British ladies at an English spa resort. Valmouth is noted for its florid..... More
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
Washington, D.C. Gales and Seaton, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, the preferred Senate issue, which includes astronomical and meteorological data omitted from the House issue. A cornerstone work on the early exploration of..... More
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
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 20 in an edition of 60. "In light of new scholarship about medieval women, the typography students were asked to write about an..... More
Five autograph letters signed by Lady Louisa Lamb (1849-1927) of Beauport, Sussex, to publisher William Tinsley concerning her little-known contributions to Tinsley’s Magazine in the late 1870s. Lamb was the sister-in-law of another famous Victorian..... More
London: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Peter Lovesey on the title page. The author’s first detective novel, which is set within a historically accurate depiction of a 19th century..... More
New York: Aperture, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Mary Ellen Mark on the half-title. The first collection of her remarkable images realized in the United States since 1963, with a poem by Maya Angelou..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Matheson on the title page. In 1944, long before he wrote such classic novels as I Am Legend (1954) and What Dreams May..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The seventeenth book in the Hopalong Cassidy series, this novel served as the basis for the 1935 Howard Bretherton film starring William Boyd..... More
