Seattle, Washington: Hermetic Press, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Trade paperback. "...provides an informative overview of the many types of marked cards available - tricks with them - subtleties that completely disguise their use - applications..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias..... More
Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. An engaging casebook of true stories from a self-styled "gambling detective" that reveals the inner workings of backroom poker cheats, dice scams, bunco artists..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1954. Hardcover. Later printing (circa 1990). Signed by Clyde Robert Bulla on the half-title. Tells of the adventurous life of the Wampanoag Indian who went to London with some..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first, a protest novel about an African American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II. Best known for..... More
New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. A fantasy set around military officers from the four Allied Occupation Powers (American, British, French and Soviet) of postwar Germany. The play premiered at The..... More
Los Angeles: The Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Biographical tribute to the American nisei military leader, lawyer, and judge. Aiso (1909-87) was the Director and head instructor of the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. A magical adaptation of the classic French fairly tale, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown (1918-2015), who was awarded the 1955 Caldecott Medal for this work..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press in Pasadena. Using the words of Delfina Cuero, this short work attempts to recapture..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A novelist, social critic, poet, and publicist, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was also an innovating abstract artist who in the first heyday of international..... More
Los Angeles: Lorrin L. Morrison, Printing and Publishing, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jennie Hollingsworth Giddings (in an aged hand) and inscribed and dated in the year of publication by her daugher-in-law, Ada Giddings..... More
Chicago: FUN Incorporated, 2005. First Edition. Trade paperback. "From the history of marked cards to more modern developments in 'reader' technology, Charles breaks down the advantages, disadvantages and nuances you'll need to know." Includes a...... More
London: High Stakes, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "The truth about Walter Irving Scott and those other Phantoms of the Card Table who spent years practising a craft they rarely talk about ... cheating at cards."..... More
San Francisco: Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, 1950. First Edition. Wraps. Issued as Bulletin 150, this report covers an area topographically mapped by the Federal Government in five 15-minute quadrangles comprising an area..... More
Kalamazoo: The Private Press of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. Limited to 10 copies, the smallest limitation of any of Duensing's publications. This is the twelfth book printed by Duensing (1929-2006) and documents..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,003 copies. Inscribed by Cameron Rogers to noted bibliophile Henry H. Clifford on the front flyleaf, with the carbon copy of a...... More
Claremont, California: Saunders Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. History of the little Southern California town in the New England tradition, founded in 1887 during a railroad boom, and now best known as the home of..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Moraga was the leading Spanish explorer of the California hinterland in the early years of the nineteenth..... More
Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. This is number 294 of 750 copies. "Caire, a grand-daughter of one of the ten Frenchmen who formed the Santa Cruz Island Company in..... More
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Santa Barbara and Tucson: McNally & Loftin and Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1984. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1937 first edition, with a new introduction by Bruce Craig, Channel Islands National Park. The recollections of..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,077 copies. "The account of Pio Pico, last Mexican governor of California, was recorded by Thomas Savage for Hubert Howe Bancroft in..... More
Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. Introduced and Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Translations by James Donahue, Maynard J. Geiger, O.F.M., and Iris..... More
Fullerton, California: Nikkei Writers Guild Division of Japanese American Living Legacy, 2010. First Edition. Trade paperback. Inscribed by Ansho Mas Uchima and signed by Minoru Shinmoto on the title page. Drawing on The Rafu Shimpo's..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. The recipient of the very first Caldecott Medal. Thirty richly detailed black-and-white drawings illustrate the favorite stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first Christmas..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed by Ronald Takaki on the half-title. In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of..... More