London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the best titles in the Black's Beautiful Books series. Palmer's vibrant illustrations nicely compliment Austin's vivid descriptions of some of California's best natural scenery... More about CALIFORNIA: The Land of the Sun
Franekerae: Idzardus Alberti, 1651. First Edition. Hardcover. Little known in his native Sweden, Banck (1617-62) was a professor of law in Franeker and a distinguished scholar in several fields. Many of his texts are highly... More about TAXA S. CANCELLARIAE ROMANAE. In lucem emissa, & notis illustrata; Accedit Index...
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. #206 of 1,500 copies signed by the artist, Rockwell Kent. Also, laid in is a typed letter signed by Rockwell Kent on... More about THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO: Translated by Richard Aldington
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...
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
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 about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
London: Michael Joseph, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's third novel of psychological suspense. From the library of acclaimed American crime novelist Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), with his ink La Jolla, California address stamp and a.... More about ACCIDENT TO ADELINE
London: Academic Press, 2008. Hardcover. "In recent years, the late Mesozoic fossils found at Jehol in northern China have shown the world some of the most astonishing creatures to be discovered since the first complete... More about THE JEHOL FOSSILS: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants
New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. Hardcover. Enlarged and Edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. Three volumes. New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962. Limited to 350 sets. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. An... More about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FISHES
New York: New Directions, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. The uncommon first English edition, issued in August 1947 by the Falcon Press, with the printed paper label opposite the title page and the British price (17/6)... More about THE CRACK-UP, With other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters
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
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. The plot of this, the ninth book in the James Bond series and the eighth full-length novel featuring 007, centers on the theft of two atomic... More about THUNDERBALL
New York: John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 16 of 100 copies signed by James Frey, Terry Richardson, and Richard Prince. A pairing of three stories from Frey's... More about WIVES, WHEELS, WEAPONS
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. All three of the stories in this collection deal with middle-aged love and marriage, and love out of marriage, and marriage without love. An American novelist, travel writer... More about PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE
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
London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak, Jocelyn Gohary makes a study of Akhenaten's celebration of the heb-sed or Sed-festival, an ancient Egyptian religious festival that... More about AKHENATEN'S SED-FESTIVAL AT KARNAK
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, a volume in The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. First published in 1887, this novel is widely considered to be one of the great classics of... More about SHE
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
London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., [et al], 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Martin Francis Wyld on the front flyleaf, with a full page inscription by Wild on the following... More about THE PILGRIM: A Poem
1933. A small archive of 25 postcards sent in 1933 to Missouri State Senator Carl J. Henry, urging him to support the "local option" on the issue of prohibition of alcohol. Also included is a.... More about PROHIBITION AND POLITICAL PERSUASION IN MISSOURI
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 about ADELAIDE NEILSON: A Souvenir
Riehen: Foundation Beyeler, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout, largely in color. Riehen and Chicago: Foundation Beyeler and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. First edition. For the past three decades, the influential American conceptual... More about JENNY HOLZER
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
Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece facsimile. Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1980. First edition, #45 of 64 copies containing an original leaf from the 1876 first edition and signed by the author... More about THE MOST REMARKABLE TEXAS BOOK: An Essay on W.W. Heartsill's FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND 91 DAYS IN THE...
Philadelphia: The Ideal Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 177 p. Four plates. Inscribed and dated by Lamsa to Rev. Cornelius Greenway on the front flyleaf. Small octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light... More about THE SECRET OF THE NEAR EAST: Slavery of Women, Social, Religious and Economic Life in the Near East