New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Presented in this magnificent volume is a comprehensive selection of the finest alchemical emblems, brought together for the first time and reproduced to a standard that..... More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by William F. Nolan on the front flyleaf. An early critical companion to the writing and influence of Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), embracing the full range of..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 75 of 100 copies signed by the author, from a total print run of 1,000 copies. "This landmark publication written by photographic art..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. "British merchant Alexander Forbes wrote the first book published in English relating exclusively to California. His narrative, as observed by Hubert Howe Bancroft, was..... More
San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. As Millard Fillmore's Indian agent for Southern California, Benjamin Davis Wilson compiled a report in 1852, reproduced within for the first time in book form, which..... More
Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the half-title. An annotated list of thirty-six nonfiction books about Southern California. 12mo..... More
London: John Calder, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Barbara Wright. "This is not only an autobiography but a forceful declaration of the delights of an uninhibited..... More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Updating and expanding upon his Three Wonderlands of the American West (1912), Murphy attempts to convey a sense of the beauty and grandeur while telling of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. A Breton sea captain, Duhaut-Cilly (1790-1849) was possibly the first outlander to become intimately acquainted with Spanish California. He seems..... More
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London: E. Wilson King, 1836-1838. Hardcover. The first two years of the Royal Numismatic Society's annual journal, now called The Numismatic Chronicle. Includes scholarly articles on the Saxon Skeatta of Wildfrid, the unpublished Half-Groat of..... More
![Item #76092 THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS: A Polemic [and] PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES (Fragment). Friedrich...](https://johnsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/76092.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694037168)
Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche (1844-1900) using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline..... More
London: Harrap & Co., 1912. The first trade edition of this striking presentation of the Arthurian legend, brilliantly designed and illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955). Features numerous illustrations, including 16 tipped-in color plates, as well..... More
The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection based on Wouter Nijhoff's L'Art typographique published in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Martinus Nijhoff on January 1, 1978. Text in English..... More
Cambridge: Printed for presentation to members of The Roxburghe Club, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. A study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library, with a handlist compiled by David McKitterick. Quarto..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "David Gilson's bibliography of Jane Austen was at first intended as a revised edition of Sir Geoffrey Keynes's 1929 Nonesuch Press bibliography of the novelist, but while..... More
Glendale, California: Xiccarph Edition - Roy A. Squires, 1974-1977. First Edition. Wraps. Manuscript Edition, each demy quarto volume is numbered ("LXIV") and limited to between 75 and 89 copies. The second series of uncollected verse..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 3,144 copies printed. An excellent selection of Smith's standalone science fiction and fantasy stories. Dust jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. Octavo. Original..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. First edition thus, with illustrations by Karel Thole and a new dust jacket design by Milton Glaser. A high spot in modern American literature, this..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 2,520 copies printed. Anthology of never before published weird tales, including contributions by H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The Dharma Bums, at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene, is notable for..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. In its time Kerouac’s masterpiece was the Bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. Inspired by..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies signed by Roberto Juarez and John Hersey (this copy is unnumbered). A work of historical fiction, this novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Hardcover. This is copy number 303 of 1,500 signed by Czeslaw Milosz and Janusz Kapusta, and accompanied by a color lithograph pulled at the Water Street Press. This..... More
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,593 copies. This is one of 615 pre-publication copies with a bookplate signed by E. Hoffmann Price and illustrator George Evans affixed to the..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 1,559 copies printed. The sixth book published by Arkham House: "Exceptional stories of Caribbean magic, mostly from Weird Tales, by Lovecraft's friend who..... More