New Arrivals
BONFIRES AND BELLS: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "...brings together in a novel and illuminating way the history of popular culture and mainstream politics in Elizabethan and Stuart England. During these..... More
DELTA OF VENUS: Erotica
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the most important works of modern female erotica. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a...... More
PANORAMIC SAN FRANCISCO, FROM CALIFORNIA STREET HILL, 1877
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, circa 1910. Hardcover. Folding halftone of Eadweard Muybridge's famed 360-degree photograph of San Francisco. With the margins, the image measures 59 1/2" x 6 3/4" (11 panels) and folds into..... More
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. Second Edition. Hardcover. In this concise volume, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century (Nobel Prize, 1933) attempts to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing..... More
THE RAIN IN THE TREES
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by W.S. Merwin on a prefatory blank leaf. A collection of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness. Among the most widely..... More
THE RIVER SOUND
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by W.S. Merwin on the title page. Merwin's 18th book of poetry pays tribute..... More
NATURE'S HARMONIC UNITY: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. A treatise on the laws governing proportional form in both nature and the arts and sciences, this well-illustrated volume amply demonstrates how a design's..... More
RELATIVITY: The Special and General Theory
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated by Robert W. Lawson, M.Sc. From the age of Galileo until the early years of the 20th century, scientists grappled with..... More
DEATH VALLEY IN '49. Important Chapter of California Pioneer History. The Autobiography of a Pioneer, Detailing His Life from a Humble Home in the Green Mountains to the Gold Mines of California; and Particularly Reciting the Sufferings of the Band of Men, Women, and Children Who Gave "Death Valley" Its Name.
San Jose, California: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. After leaving lead mining in Wisconsin for gold mining in California in July 1849, Manly (1820-1903) traveled via the Oregon Trail to..... More
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS IN OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The Harlow-Ratliff Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. A comprehensive review of the oil and gas industry of Oklahoma, and the prospects for the future development of the industry. A large portion of..... More
BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Philadelphia: The Chamberlain Press, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Only about 650 copies of the first edition were distributed before a flood and a fire conspired to destroy the unsold stock. Signed by Richard Matheson..... More
A STIR OF ECHOES
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Matheson on the title page. This eerie ghost story inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Octavo. Original black cloth..... More
HALO IN BRASS
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Harold Browne on the title page. The third of four hardboiled novels featuring Chicago private eye Paul Pine. Browne (1908-1999) served as..... More
S IS FOR SPACE
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. A collection of 22 short stories, several of which are previously unpublished. Among the best..... More
DARK CARNIVAL
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 3,112 copies printed. Signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. The author's first book, a collection of some of his..... More
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN: The Southwest
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Classic Gravure Corporation, 1980. Hardcover. Limited to 228 copies designed and printed by Amaranth Press in San Francisco, California. The text volume, abridged from Volumes I, II, XII, XVI, and XVII..... More
HEAD AND FACE MASKS IN NAVAHO CEREMONIALISM
St. Michaels, Arizona: The St. Michaels Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Edition is Limited to Five Hundred Numbered Copies of which this is Number 274," with the uncommon Legend to Color Chart of Navaho..... More
NAVIGATION MAPS OF GULF INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY, PORT ARTHUR TO BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
Galveston: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Office of the District Engineer, January 1955. Wraps. The Intracoastal Waterway is a 3,000-mile inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts running from Boston southward along..... More
JAPANESE EXCLUSION: A Study of the Policy and the Law
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925. This report, submitted to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, provides a comprehensive history of diplomacy leading up to the adoption of the Immigration Act..... More
IMAGES OF A YOUNG WOMAN'S TRAVELS TO CUBA AND CALIFORNIA
A photographic album with more than 230 images recording the travels of Agnes Elizabeth Adams between 1913 and 1915, including snapshots of her time at Mount Saint Joseph’s College in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as..... More
WYOMING AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE. Speech of William M. Springer, of Illinois, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 27, 1890.
Washington, D.C. House of Representatives, 1890. Scarce anti-suffrage piece, expressing arguments in support of disenfranchising women, as well as Mormons. Springer (1836-1903), a Democrat, opposed the admission of the Territory of Wyoming to the Union..... More
THE TAO OF PAINTING: A Study of the Ritual Disposition of Chinese Painting, with a Translation of the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, 1679-1701
New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Second Edition. Hardcover. "...an exploration of certain ideas that have traditionally motivated and governed Chinese painting, and of the technical methods used to express them. Its core is the first..... More
CHRONICLES OF FASHION, from the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, &c.
London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. A social history of English fashion which takes into account the appointments of the house, as well as the style and customs associated with banquets. 15 plates. Octavo..... More