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New York: Aperture, [1975].. Oblong quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated in b&w. First edition, clothbound issue. A few marks on the extreme bottom edges of boards, fore- edge has a couple of tiny spots, else about fine in dust jacket with a bit of trivial edgewear. ... more information

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1872.. 352pp. Quarter pebbled calf and boards. First edition. Minor scattered foxing, extremities rubbed, but a good copy, with the half-title. CARTERET II:298. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, [1965].. Cloth. First edition of the author's first novel, the Harper Prize Novel Winner for 1965. Fine in dust jacket with light smudge. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers: [1965].. Cloth. Book club printing, inscribed by the author on the title page. This book was the Harper Prize Novel Winner for 1965. Ink ownership signature on front and rear endsheets, but a good copy in moderately rubbed and smudged dust jacket. ... more information

Philadelphia. November 1965.. I:6. Quarto. Stapled mimeographed typescript. Slight tanning and a few corner creases, otherwise very good. Edited by Fred Fry. Bimonthly. "A non- profit literary journal produced by co-operative labor," including poetry, prose, music reviews, documents from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, etc. ... more information

Berne, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, [1971].. Large quarto. Rough woven cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Picasso, four hundred plus black & white plates of graphic print works, both published and unpublished. Bookplate on front pastedown, else about fine in near fine dust jacket with minor use at edges. First edition. The second volume of the four volume catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works. Introductory text in French, English and German, descriptive text in French. ... more information

Oakland, CA.: Mills College, November 1945 through May 1948.. I:1-4; II:1-4; and III:2 (wanting only III:1 for all published). Nine issues. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. Four wrappers a bit soiled; good to very good or better. Edited by various hands, with faculty advisors. Published quarterly. Contributors include Jeffers, Stevens, Williams, Woody Guthrie, R. Lowry, Miles, Schevill, Elliott, Eberhart, Sender, Koch, Aiken, Rexroth, Swallow, et al, as well as student contributors. ... more information

[St. Lucia, Queensland]: University of Queensland Press, [1968].. Boards. First edition. Very good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with fraying to the head of the spine. ... more information

Chicago: Ludlow Typograph Company, 1928.. 20pp. Boards, paper label. Bookplate, NYPL duplicate release stamp, label a trace dust soiled, but a good copy. First edition. A formerly uncommon McMurtrie piece, in which he introduces a contemporary account of the first press unionism in California. ... more information

San Francisco: D.B. Company, September 1959.. Prototype for whole number one. Quarto. Pictorial spiralbound wrappers. Illustrations and photographs. Upper wrapper a bit dust soiled, one ring of binder warped, light discoloration at lower edge, else very good. Edited by June Oppen McKeen. A mock-up/prospectus for the proposed first issue of a monthly periodical focusing on matters pertaining to the Pacific rim. Wallace Stegner's story, "Indoor-Outdoor Living," appears. Much of the bulk of this ... more information

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997.. Cloth and pictorial boards. First edition, limited issue. Edited by Jim Cory. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. As new. ... more information

New York: Farrar, [1986].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Farrar, [1986].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

[New York]: Delacorte Press, [2000].. Pictorial glossy wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. A near fine copy, with publisher's promo sheet laid in. ... more information

London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1898.. Small octavo. Light green cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A fine, bright copy. "Second Edition," but according to the bibliographical note on the verso of the half-title, the First American edition, printing the 1893 British text less the "Golden Age" stories, issued in another form. ... more information

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.. Cloth and batik boards. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies. Lower edge shelf-rubbed, else near fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. ... more information

Portland, ME: Smith & Sale, 1923.. Quarto. Cloth and boards, lettered in gilt. First edition. Slight bumping at corners, otherwise a nice, bright copy of this lavish presentation of the remarkably florid verse of Jack London's early friend. ... more information

Boston & Redding. Winter 1930 through Fall / Winter 1932/3 (i.e. Jan/March 1933).. Volume one number one through volume three, number four. Twelve issues. Printed wrappers. Wrappers of I:1 affected by old damp causing color bleed to prelims and terminal leaves (somewhat offset by a brief inscription from Johns above the copyright notice); small nick in spine of I:3; II:4 sunned at edges; wrappers of III:4 a bit damp marked at edges resulting in some color bleed to extreme margins of facing leaves, other... more information

New York: Random House, 1939.. Oblong octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Illustrations, maps, and photographs, some in color. First edition. With a Foreword by Grover Whelan. Inscribed and signed by Bates on the half-title. Endsheets foxed, cloth somewhat soiled and marked, but a good copy, lacking the printed dust jacket. ... more information

London: Chapman & Hall, 1916.. Gilt cloth. Frontis portrait. Second, revised edition. Ink ownership inscription, erasure from pastedown, spine a bit darkened, head of spine frayed, tips rubbed, but a good or better copy. ... more information