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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill
Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 96 of 100 copies in a special edition printed on Ticonderoga text, specially bound, boxed, and signed by the author. "The most comprehensive..... More
1920s PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF NATIONAL PARKS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA
Remarkable photographic album of a 1926 grand tour of U.S. and Canadian national parks, featuring original prints from several prominent park photographers. The oblong album contains a total of 431 black and white photographs with images..... More
THE HOMECOMING
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, signed by Harold Pinter. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Winner of the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play..... More
ONE HUNDRED POEMS FROM THE FRENCH
Cambridge: Pym-Randall, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 25 of 400 clothbound copies signed by Rexroth alongside his personal chop stamp. Designed by Joanne Randall, and printed by the Wallace Press in Milford, New..... More
THE LIFE OF COLIN CAMPBELL, LORD CLYDE: Illustrated by Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Frontispiece portrait, with 16 maps and plans, including nine folding. Standard biography of the British soldier who was commander in chief of..... More
NELSON ALGREN'S CHICAGO
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Art Shay to Hugh Hefner on the title page and again on page 34, below Shay's 1968 portrait of Hefner..... More
TEMPERANCE IN ALL NATIONS. History of the Cause in All Countries of the Globe. Together with the Papers, Essays, Addresses, and Discussions of the World's Temperance Congress, Held by The National Temperance Society, in Chicago, Ill., June, 1893
New York: The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Tall octavo. Original burgundy cloth bindings, with gilt and black stamping. Some dust staining to the top edges and less..... More
HISTORY OF THE "FREE FRANKING" OF MAIL IN THE UNITED STATES.
1936 1st. 1936. First edition. Hardcover. With 133 plates reproducing 1,000 illustrations. New York: H.L. Lindquist, 1936. First edition. Definitive history of the Free Franking System in the United States, and its role in the..... More
ENGLISH NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
London: A. Zwemmer, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Based on extensive research in archives and drawings collections, as well as detailed investigation of the surviving buildings, this book is illustrated with over 400 photographs of the..... More
GOD HAS A DREAM: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, signed by Desmond Tutu. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Drawing on personal and historical examples, Archbishop..... More
EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE, with an Appreciation by Brander Matthews and an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing with "E-X" on the copyright page. Posthumously published collection of 35 articles that range in date from the early 1870s to 1908. Some..... More
BRADBURY: An Illustrated Life - A Journey to Far Metaphor
New York: William Morrow, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A sumptuous survey of the life and career of Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), focusing on his connections to media - pulps, radio, theater, film, television, and visual art..... More
GESTA REGUM ANGLORUM, ATQUE HISTORIA NOVELLA. Ad Fidem Codicum Manuscriptorum Recensuit Thomas Duffus Hardy.
London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. William of Malmesbury's Deeds of the English Kings is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle..... More
THE CAPTAIN'S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS
London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. This posthumously published collection includes pieces on Goldsmith, Ruskin, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, and Woolf's own father, Leslie Stephen, as well as the feminist article "Memories of a...... More