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
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 about JAPAN AND THE CALIFORNIA PROBLEM
London: Headline, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Neil Gaiman’s complete original scripts for the six-episode Amazon Studios and BBC original series, adapted from the classic novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett. Signed by Gaiman on the..... More about THE QUITE NICE AND FAIRLY ACCURATE GOOD OMENS SCRIPT BOOK
New York: New Directions, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition. This inspiring collection of remarks, aphorisms and exhortations about the nature and purpose of poetry began in the late 1950s, when Ferlinghetti was... More about POETRY AS INSURGENT ART
Mysore: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Laudatory history of the school founded in 1880 by the Christian Mission Society in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Later, the school was named after... More about FIFTY YEARS AGAINST THE STREAM: The Story of a School in Kashmir, 1880-1930
Phoenix, Arizona: Goldwaters, 1939. First Edition. Trade paperback. "An authentic history of the fabulous Lost Dutchman and of other originally Spanish mines in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, including the maps, photographs and clues obtained... More about TRAIL OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN
Los Angeles: Pied-Piper Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Quintero to the prolific radio producer C.P. MacGregor on the front flyleaf. Little is known about Quintero or this conspiracy novel, which pits a maverick... More about RADIO ROCKETEERS
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Chronicles the rise of Mercedes-Benz from the pioneering contributions of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler to the German marque's brilliant return to Grand Priz racing in... More about THREE-POINTED STAR: The Story of Mercedes-Benz Cars and Their Racing Successes
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the first complete and connected history, projected against a unique background of political corruption and "legitimate sin," of the New Orleans underworld from the "correction girls"... More about THE FRENCH QUARTER: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
Denver, Colorado: The Author & Journalist Publishing Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Practical advice for the aspiring writer from the prolific writer and journalist. Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) contributed numerous stories to The Argosy, Blue Book, Golden... More about THE GRADUATE FICTIONEER, With an Introduction by Erle Stanley Gardner
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe... More about RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING: Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. A Finalist for the 1958 National Book Award for Fiction, this novel deals with the experiences of an idealistic young soldier at an Army training camp... More about SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER
Boston: New York Graphic Society Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. The first major retrospective of Caponigro's career, featuring images drawn from thirty years of work and never before seen in a single volume. Includes an... More about THE WISE SILENCE: Photographs
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tiepolo was a decorative artist in the 18th century, this prize-winning volume provides a cogent and sympathetic analysis of Tiepolo, tracing the development of... More about GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO: His Life and Art
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Critical biography of the American photographer whose career paralleled the development of the abstract expressionist painters, many of whom were his close friends. Siskind (1903-91) focused... More about AARON SISKIND: Pleasures and Terrors
New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "Siskind’s style of gesture and nuance, a new form of visual calligraphy, dominated his work for the next forty years, and ran parallel to the developments of..... More about AARON SISKIND 100
Davis, California: Library Associates, University Library, University of California, Davis, 1979. First Edition. Trade paperback. Limited to 1,000 copies. The catalogue to an exhibition held at University of California, Davis from February 22 to April... More about FIVE FINE PRINTERS: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, William Everson
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Second printing. An investigation into the psychology of decorative design, the creation and function of formal orders. 455 illustrations, including 11 in color. Quarto. Original red cloth... More about THE SENSE OF ORDER: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. "Andrea del Verrocchio was the preeminent sculptor in late fifteenth-century Florence and one of the leading artists in Renaissance Europe. In every genre of statuary, Verrocchio made formal... More about THE SCULPTURES OF ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. A revised version of the celebrated Nya Stora Kokboken, translated into English for the first time and adapted for use in English-speaking countries with American measurements... More about THE GREAT SCANDINAVIAN COOK BOOK: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Cookery
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Hardcover. This book celebrates the achievements of the greatest among seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters, Jacob van Ruisdael. Seymour Slive evokes the artist’s career as a painter, draftsman, and etcher..... More about JACOB VAN RUISDAEL: Master of Landscape
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Hardcover. "Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal... More about GUSTAVE MOREAU: Between Epic and Dream
New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., et al, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first monograph on Felix Teynard, the great French master of the calotype who photographed Egypt with considerable sensitivity in 1851-52... More about FELIX TEYNARD: CALOTYPES OF EGYPT - A Catalogue Raisonne
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "This beautifully illustrated book encompasses the work of his entire career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 and first exhibited painting in the Royal... More about G.F. WATTS: Victorian Visionary
New York: Rizzoli, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "For this book the distinguished Italian photographer Liberto Perugi has made a complete photographic record of Michelangelo's surviving works which amounts to an independent critical essay of the... More about THE SCULPTURE OF MICHELANGELO