London: Harvill Secker, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Murakami on the title page, with his name stamped underneath. Accompanied by a ticket for the book signing event at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival... More about COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE: Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
London: The Church Union, Church Literature Association, 1955. First Edition. Wraps. A rather uncommon work, in which Lewis (1898-1963) urges those seeking happiness to abstain from preoccupation with other people's faults. This undated sermon originally... More about THE TROUBLE WITH "X"
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #129 of 375 copies signed by Harlow and printer Grant Dahlstrom. A significant work of scholarship, which "makes clear that one hundred years passed... More about MAPS AND SURVEYS OF THE PUEBLO LANDS OF LOS ANGELES
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Hardcover. Later printing. This story of a mischievous monkey is set in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles. Born in Fresno, California, Leo Politi (1908-96) spent his... More about PICCOLO'S PRANK
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's Autograph Edition, #482 of 1,000 copies signed by Charles Lindbergh. This copy is additionally inscribed by Otto W. Timm, who gave Lindbergh his first flight... More about "WE": The Famous Flier's Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic flight, together...
[Chicago]: Art Media Resources, Inc., 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,400 copies. For over fory years, the name Virginia Atchley has been synonymous with the collecting of miniature Japanese arts in America. Her eclectic... More about THE VIRGINIA ATCHLEY COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MINIATURE ARTS
New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. "This first etched book, a dog eulogy, containing 15 etched pages, was published in 1920. The edition of 125 is exhausted, excepting 14 special copies, which are... More about MAN'S BEST FRIEND: A Plea to a Jury
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. This paean to the high California desert consists of fourteen sketches based on personal observation following solitary sojourns tramping through desert trails and... More about THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. "As quoted by Lawrence Clark Powell, in his California Classics, bibliographer and historian Phil Townsend Hanna proclaimed Atherton’s Splendid Idle Forties as 'the finest stories ever..... More about THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES: Stories of Old California
Burbank, California: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 24 of 100 copies signed by the author. A series of six broadcasts on the Columbia Broadcasting System from June 28, 1943, to... More about CEILING UNLIMITED
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Standard history of the private bank founded in London in 1753, which existed until 1969, when it became part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Twenty... More about GLYN'S, 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. Near fine. More about MY HAVANA: The Musical City of Carlos Varela
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016. Trade paperback. Introduction and Commentary by Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill. This copy is inscribed by Christopher Merrill on the title page. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Some light... More about SONG OF MYSELF, With a Complete Commentary
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Discusses the history of some 130 Oklahoma ghost towns, including Keokuk Falls; a wide-open liquor town; Sacred Heart, a town established around an Indian mission; Piney... More about GHOST TOWNS OF OKLAHOMA
Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. An artful blending of contemporary and historic photographs, together with a concise narrative that brings to life the colorful histories of more than 130 early mining... More about GHOST TOWNS OF IDAHO
Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. An important study of department stores, published a little over a year after the stock market crash of October 1929. In particular, Emmet (1885-1972) discusses... More about DEPARTMENT STORES: Recent Policies, Costs and Profits
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. "The following work is an attempt to find a scientific basis for Genealogy, which has been hitherto a department of dry antiquities, and very much... More about THE KINSHIP OF MEN: An Argument from Pedigrees or Genealogy Viewed as a Science
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Prince Chula on the front flyleaf: "For Ann Carlisle Taylor with best wishes and in souvenir of a pleasant voyage and with many thanks for... More about LORDS OF LIFE: The Paternal Monarchy of Bangkok, 1782-1932, With the earlier and more recent...
Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "A twofold object has been kept in view in writing this book. In the first place the aim has been to describe the rise of the great... More about OLD CHESHIRE FAMILIES & THEIR SEATS
Princeton, New Jersey: Louis des Cognets, Jr., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. A pairing of "William Russell and His Descendants" (1884) by Anna Russell des Cognets with "The Russell Family in Virginia" by Louis des Cognets... More about THE RUSSELL FAMILY IN VIRGINIA
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Literature is used to elucidate not only the cultural but also the economic and political history of the period; studies of manuscripts provide important evidence for... More about ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. "For his last novel, Tully returned, in a more nostalgic and even spiritual mode, to his family and his Ohio roots. 'Biddy' was his mother's nickname... More about BIDDY BROGAN'S BOY
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tully had started making contacts (and friends) in the nascent movie industry within a few years of his arrival in Southern California in 1912. In... More about JARNEGAN
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tully had started making contacts (and friends) in the nascent movie industry within a few years of his arrival in Southern California in 1912. In... More about JARNEGAN
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "Much of Tully's oeuvre is unabashedly autobiographical, but even by his standards Shanty Irish goes deep into the well; told in the first person, it... More about SHANTY IRISH