Peoria, Illinois: Gold Quoin Press, 2013. First Edition. This is copy 4 of 200. Fourteen pieces, including one duplicate, ranging from a mock passport poem to a trio of cardboard coasters. All are enclosed within..... More
Los Angeles: Brewster Maps, circa 1966. Hardcover. The first three of four volumes in the atlas (the fourth covers the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley). As with much of Southern California, the Second..... More
New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stuart on the front flyleaf: "Presented to Daniel B. Martin, Esq. Chief Engineer U.S. Navy from his friend The Author." Martin succeeded..... More
Napoli: 1704. First Edition. Hardcover. The author, a conservative Italian jurist, rose to prominence with this defense of the right to succession of Philip V against Charles of Habsburg. Castagnola (d.1760) was to later serve..... More
London: George Allen, 1897. Hardcover. The celebrated Walter Crane edition, limited to 1,000 sets printed on handmade paper. Crane’s illustrations for The Faerie Queene were the most ambitious of his career. Overall, they took him..... More
Los Angeles: Atwood & Ferguson, 1883. Hardcover. A rare survivor, not in Quebedeaux, this early directory was published just two years after the Los Angeles Times began publication and a year prior to the arrival..... More
Paris: Maurice Magnier, Editeur, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Appropriately enough, Ponsard (1826-94) was associated with the literary circle that met at Le Chat Noir, the Paris cafe founded by Rodolphe Salis. Illustrations by Leon Lebegue..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. "A nonsense book written by a big child for little ones, containing pictures in imitation of dolls and animals cut out of paper for the amusement..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Large-Paper Edition, this is number 57 of 380. This collection of letters and magazine articles spans nearly thirty years of the author's writing and..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Regarded as the finest example of Bontemps’s independent work, this children's novel follows a boy and his pet dog living in a rural part of..... More
Dunwoody, Georgia: Norman S. Berg, Publisher, 1973. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. "When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S...... More
Dallas, Texas: The Story Book Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. With a brief typed letter signed (TLS) by the author laid in. Chad Seal and his little pal, Danny Flipperfoot, romp through a motion picture..... More
New York: Geo. A. Crofutt & Co., Publishers, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo: 208 p. with a folding map (railway time tables printed on the verso) and textual woodcut illustrations. Original green cloth binding..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by a Korean-American, and published shortly after the conception of the League of Nations and the approval of the Treaty of Peace with Germany..... More
Lugduni Batavorum: S. et J. Luchtmans, et A. et J. Honkoop, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Later writings by the Dutch philologist and critic Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), with a selection of work by his disciple, Lodewijk..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. This sumptuously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive study of Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden (c.1400-1464) in twenty-five years. Incorporating all the latest scholarship..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Groundbreaking academic study by two members of the University of Chicago faculty, concerning the immigration and assimilation of Japanese into California. Following the lifting of Japanese..... More
Paris: Editions Albin Michel, circa 1960. Hardcover. Each volume is limited to 3,000 numbered copies, selected for friends of the Club International du Livre. The complete Claudine series, originally published between 1901 and 1904. Among..... More
New York: Aperture, 2008. Hardcover. Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New West signaled a paradigm shift in the photographic representation of American landscapes. Foregoing photography's traditional role of romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams..... More
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. "...this book traces the stylistic and iconographic evolution of Etruscan wall paintings over the span of five hundred years and analyzes what they reveal..... More
Gottingen: High Museum of Art and Steidl, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "For much of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, photographer Harry Callahan's wife, Eleanor, was his most regular subject. She stares out of his acclaimed..... More
Santa Barbara, California: Ballena Press, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. "...a foray into the mental workings of a Native American culture. Unlike many studies of ancient cosmology, it draws upon data gleaned both from the material..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Second printing. "During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Venetians lined their government council chambers and religious fraternities with narrative paintings of pageantry, diplomacy and..... More
London: Max Andrews, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 600 copies of which this is No. 350. Classic textbook for the student of card magic, with 20 chapters describing various methods of Pass, Location, Palming..... More
Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. One of his generation’s most popular painters, Friedrich (1774-1840) imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from within the confines of his studios. This breathtaking monograph..... More