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London: A. Brown and Sons, 1915 First edition. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Small folio. xlvi, 240pp. 270 half-tone photographic plates in sepia, 10 color plates (illustrating over 700 examples). Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt lettering and pictorial device on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of boards, stains from dried flowers to rear endpapers, two leaves with slight crunching to border near fore-edge. A very good copy.... more information

New York: Halcyon House, (1925). First edition. 205 reproductions and diagrams including 12 in full color. The outside has some light wear, externally a very good copy, internally a fine copy. A complete guide to different types of China. 53D. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975 Quarto. Softcover. Profusely ilustrated. With a selected list of American Folk painters, bibliography and index. Stiff pictorial wrappers. General wear to edges and spine. A few notes written in ink by a previous owner on the ast free endpaper. A very good copy. . ... more information

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1957 First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by C. Gregory Crampton. Pp. [6], vii, [1], 168. Mounted frontispiece portrait, folding map. Bibliography and index. Rust cloth, gilt. A fine copy. An important Gold Rush diary being the record of Eccleston's experiences in the Southern mines during 1850-51. He joined the Mariposa Battalion, explored the Yosemite with the Savage-Bunnell party, the Big Trees, and the Sierra between the main forks of the Merced and San Jo... more information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1986 Cloth. Very fine with pictorial dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Christian Scientists' Publishing Co. First facsimile edition. A facsimile edition of the first sixteen issues of this landmark periodical, published and edited by the founder of the Christian Science movement. This facsimile printing was produced because of the demand for copies of the Journal. In the 1880's there were but a few hundred Christian Scientists. In the 1950's there were several hundred thousand, and the demand for copies increased proportionally. The original printing of the... more information

Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom and Saul Marks, 1967 First edition. One of 800 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Typography by Saul & Lillian Marks of The Plantin Press. Presentation inscription, signed by Jake Zeitlin to Ida Schuman. Large octavo. Pp. [8], 131. Title page vignette, frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Bibliography. Patterned cloth boards, orange cloth spine, paper label printed in orange. Some light offsetting to front endpapers, tiny spot to fore-edge of leaves. A f... more information

La Jolla, California: The Green Tiger Press, 1979 First edition. Oblong quarto (8 x 15.5 inches. [34]pp. Color illustrations throughout by the author, many full page. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. A very fine copy. This whimsical fantasy tells of the gathering and polishing of the stars at the beginning of time, and how they become everyone's hearts.. ... more information

Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1983 Eleven volumes. First editions, mixed printings. Half the volumes are first printings, the rest are second or third printings. Each volume limited to between 1561 and 2020 copies. Each volume approx. 300pp. Some illustrations, folding map. Index, notes and bibliographies. The final volume contains and index to the series. Original teal cloth, gilt. A very fine set. These diaries and letters are filled with touching drama, great love and unendurable hardships. Each ... more information

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1962 First edition. One of 600 copies. 128pp. Illustrated. Blind embossed cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A review of 25 key books of Western Americana the author would retain in his library if he were forced to dispose of the rest. Scholarly discussion of each of the selections. Also mentions about 200 outstanding books on Southwest deserts. [Edwards Enduring Desert: p.72].. ... more information

Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1940 First edition. Stated limitation of 1,000 copies but only 500 copies were printed. Quite scarce. [6], 122pp. Frontis map. Rust cloth printed in silver on front cover, paper spine label. Spine label slightly darkened, slight offsetting to endpapers. "Part One of this work is an attempt to coordinate the source accounts affecting the identity of the several parties who crossed Death Valley in 1849. Part Two (pp. 71-122), presents the first and - thus far - the only descr... more information

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969 First edition. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand. Pp. xiv, 306. Tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with publisher's slipcase. One of the best. An annotated bibliography of more than 2000 titles along with a condensed gathering of approximately 150 journals and diaries recounting the early Southern California desert crossings. This work is considered the standard reference and the most complete bibliography on books about California deserts.. ... more information

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1962 First edition. One of 600 copies. Wonderful presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author to fellow author, W. W. Robinson. 128pp. Illustrated. Blind embossed cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A review of 25 key books of Western Americana the author would retain in his library if he were forced to dispose of the rest. Scholarly discussion of each of the selections. Also mentions about 200 outstanding books on Southwest deserts. [Edwards Enduring ... more information

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., (1976) First edition. 4to. Color photos by Lee Boltin, black & white photos by Harry Burton. Gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. Small smudge on front cover, else a fine copy with dust jacket.. ... more information

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932 One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 48pp. One colored facsimile from an 1837 lithograph of San Francisco. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Fore-edges of endpapers with offsetting. Small bookplate on inner cover. A fine copy. Treasurer of the Willamette Cattle Company, Edwards arrived in San Francisco on February 29, 1837. He had originally come to Oregon in 1833 with Captain Wyeth's party. This day-by-day narrative e... more information

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976 Large quarto. Revised and Expanded Edition. 55 color plates, 192 black & white illustrations. Decorated red cloth. Minor watermarks to bottom of front cover, internally clean and beautiful. A fine copy in torn and worn pictorial dust jacket. . ... more information

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958 First special edition with extra colophon leaf signed by the author. A fine copy bound in blue-backed red cloth. Dust jacket chipped with minor damp stain on rear. A re-examination of the factors which brought about the Civil War and theories of how it could have been prevented.. ... more information

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1947 First edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs, maps, and reproductions. Cracked front hinge and very minor damp stains to front cover, else a fine copy in red cloth. A history of the Civil War, laregly taken from the original writtings of first-hand accounts.. ... more information

Norwalk: Heritage Press Illustrations by Lynton Lamb in black and pink. Brown and white basketweave cloth. A very fine copy in slipcase. . Illus. by Lamb, Lynton. ... more information

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891 12mo. vii, 535pp. plus 15 original mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's ads on verso of half title. Publisher's full white vellum, beveled cover edges, with red leather onlays to both covers and spine, extensive gilt floral decoration and dentelle, front cover with an exquisite red fleur de lys and red title highlighted in gold, all edges stained red. Publisher's plain red, thick-paper dust jacket. Small bookplate and dated signature of original owner. A... more information