Early California Travels Series
by Dawson, Glen (Publisher)
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Most volumes stated edition size of 200, volumes 1 through 20 (continuous), duodecimo size, approx. 1600 pp. total, with two pieces of related ephemera. Per the check-list, "The Early California Travels Series is a set of small volumes relating to the history of California printed by a number of different California printers." The list of printers is indeed impressive, making this Series fascinating both for its subject matter... Read More
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Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texas in '51); Number Seven of the Rare Americana Series Printed & Published by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco in May, 1933
by Dawson, Nicholas; Watson, Douglas S. (Editor); Camp, Charles L. (Introduction); Parker, Arvilla (Illustrator)
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Parker, Arvilla. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with note to Subscribers and original mailing label. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico, then back to New Orleans; he returned to the West infected with Gold Fever, and then eventually settled... Read More
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A Tribute to Else Staudinger
by Dean, Mallette (Book Designer and Decorator)
(New York): American Council for Emigres in the Professions, Inc. [Mallette Dean], 1966. Hardcover. Near fine. Dean, Mallette. Quarto size, [12] pp. A memorial tribute to humanitarian Else Staudinger (1889-1966), who founded and lead The American Council for Emigrés in the Professions, Inc., and worked tirelessly to rescue liberal scholars from Nazi Germany during WWII. Staudinger emigrated to the United States with her husband Hans (1889-1980) in 1934, who had been arrested by the Nazi regime the previous... Read More
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Rhumb Lines
by Deaton, Anthony
Winona, Minnesota: Sutton Hoo Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 136 copies, quarto size, 24 unnumbered pp. Anthony Deaton works for the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer and has served in Italy, Syria, and Namibia; this volume is his first book of poetry, a beautiful fine press book printed by the Sutton Hoo Press. Some of these poems have appeared in journals including the Paris Review, the Gettysburg Review, The Nation, and... Read More
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Don Quixote
by de Cervantes, Miguel; Grossman, Edith (Translator); Wiley, William T. (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Leather. New. Wiley, William T.. Both volumes octavos, Book I with 576 pages and Book II with 632 pages; Book I with 42 prints and Book II with 55 prints. The type is Centaur roman and Arrighi italic, handset and in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris. The size of the text type is 16 point, cast on a 14-point body, leaded two points, so that the effect is solid... Read More
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Writing on the Body; Degas's Words about Drawing the Figure
by Degas, Edgar; Hobson, Charles (Artist)
San Francisco: Pacific Editions, printed at The Greenwood Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hobson, Charles. Number 35 of 45 copies, quarto size, [19] pp., signed to each plate and to the colophon by Charles Hobson. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) has long been considered one of the greatest of the French impressionists, especially concerning the female body in movement which is given a masterful homage in this intriguing volume. Degas did many monotypes "and in many cases he applied... Read More
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Lispet, Lispett and Vaine
by de la Mare, Walter; Robins, W.P. (Artist)
London: [Vine Books, printed at The Morland Press], 1923. First and Limited Edition. Vellum. Fine. Robins, W.P.. One of 200 copies, large octavo size, 49 pp., signed by Walter de la Mare. Walter John de la Mare (1873-1956) wrote poetry, short stories, novels, children's books, and psychological horror; he would win the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1947, and "is considered one of modern literature’s chief exemplars of the romantic imagination" (n.b., from the web site... Read More
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FDM / ALH; One Hundred Copies Printed for the Friends of the Poets at the Arion Press / Con Amore
by De Martini, Francesco; Hoyem, Andrew
[San Francisco]: The Arion Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Folio sheet, folded. Fine. One of 100 copies, quarto size, [4] pp. A lovely bit of early ephemera from The Arion Press, being a poem in Italian by Franceso De Martini, and a poem in English by Andrew Hoyem. Both poems are on the subject of poetry or poets. ___DESCRIPTION: One sheet of heavy laid paper folded twice to make 4 pp., with hand-colored decoration to title-page, upon... Read More
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Prison Notes
by Deming, Barbara
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First printing in book form, octavo size, 212 pp., signed by Barbara Deming. Barbara Deming (1917-1984) tells, in this memoir, why and how she was jailed - not once, but twice - for participating in "an integrated cross-country peace walk" in Albany, Georgia. Deming was known for her advocacy for social change having been influenced by Gandhi, and was a prolific author. A committed lesbian, after a... Read More
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The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
by Derrida, Jacques; Hobson, Marian (Translator)
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing, large octavo size, 228 pp. "For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by prior acts of the transcendental subject...[b]ut the book is most important in allowoing us to follow Derrida's own development as a philosopher by tracing the roots of his later work in deconstruction to these early critical reflections on Husserl's phenomenology"... Read More
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La Reliure, Recherches historiques, techniques et biographiques sur la reliure francaise (De Luxe edition with separate folio)
by Devauchelle, Roger; Labarre, Albert (Preface)
(Paris): Editions Filigranes, 1995. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. No. 122 of 220 (total edition 250), folio size, 319 pp., in French. Roger Devauchelle (1915-1993) was apprenticed at an early age to a bookbinder and eventually trained in all aspects of bookbinding; he opened his own bindery which, as a family business, is still in operation today as the Atelier Devauchelle. This volume reviews bookbinding in France, its history and techniques, and provides a biography of the better-known French... Read More
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![[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/371/338/1127338371.0.l.jpg)
[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction
by de Ville-Hardouin, Geoffroi; de Wailly, M. Natalis (Translator)
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose, and though not written from an entirely objective point of view, is an essential historical text, by a contemporaneous participant of the Fourth Crusade. The text... Read More
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The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens
by Dickens, Charles
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. First separate printing of "Poems" only, sixteenmo size, 142 pp. The writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is often considered the greatest of the Victorian era novelists, blending drama and comedy into compelling stories. However, in various forms and on rare occasions, he turned his hand to poetry and, per the writer of the book's Preface, in the writing of such "his hand did not altogether forget... Read More
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Sketches by Boz
by Dickens, Charles; Cruikshank, George (Illustrations)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cruikshank, George. Octavo size, 534 pp. First one-volume edition, with 40 sketches by George Cruikshank. Originally published in two series/three volumes, "Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839. Cruikshank designed a cover, enlarged the plates and created 13 new illustrations for these monthly parts. In May 1839, Chapman and Hall... Read More
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Sampler [with extra print]
by Dickinson, Emily; Smith, Kiki (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Smith, Kiki. Octavo, 11 by 7 inches, 220 pages. The type is Walbaum, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, and in hand composition with type cast at the Bixler Foundry. The artist scratched the images onto negatives that were directly exposed to make polymer plates. The text was printed in black ink, and the images in red-brown ink. The paper was made by Twinrocker Handmade Paper. The... Read More
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Last Tales
by Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym, Karen Blixen)
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, octavo size, 352 pp. Isak Dinesen (nom de plume, Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke of Rungstedlund, nee Dinesen, 1885-1962) is likely best-remembered today for "Out of Africa", a fictionalized recounting of the life she led with her husband operating a coffee plantation, and for her short story, "Babette's Feast", both of which were adapted into Academy Award-winning films. This collection includes stories written... Read More
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Babette's Feast
by Dinesen, Isak; Olney, Richard (Afterword); Wikstrom, Karin (Illustrations)
[Covelo, California]: [The Yolla Bolly Press], 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wikstrom, Karin. One of 250 copies, folio size, 57 pp., signed by Richard Olney and Karin Wikstrom, with prepublication announcement and prospectus. Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, wrote in both Danish and English, and is best known for her memoir "Out of Africa", an account of her life in Kenya on a coffee farm. Her story "Babette's Feast", written in... Read More
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Bishop's Oakland Directory; For 1878-9, Containing a Business Directory, Street Guide, A Correct Map of the City....Also, Directories of Berkeley and Alameda..
by D. M. Bishop & Co., Compilers; [Grafton Tyler Brown, Map]
San Francisco [Oakland]: B. C. Vandall, Publisher [W. B. Hardy, Bookseller and Stationer], 1878. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo size, 756 pp., with the original map lithographed by Grafton Tyler Brown. A somewhat scarce directory, as of this writing we see no copies online (we searched for the years 1875 through 1890) and only two auction records (RBH) neither of those for this exact publication (1878-9). Per Rocq, this year was the first to include the city of Berkeley,... Read More
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![St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks. Volume XXIX Part II, May 1902 To October 1902 [Includes first appearance of "The Cruise of the Dazzler" and "To Repel Boarders" by Jack London]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/027/150/1017150027.0.l.jpg)
St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks. Volume XXIX Part II, May 1902 To October 1902 [Includes first appearance of "The Cruise of the Dazzler" and "To Repel Boarders" by Jack London]
by Dodge, Mary Mapes (Editor) [With stories by Jack London, Mary Austin, etc.]
New York: The Century Co, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo size , 582 pp. This volume includes six months of the wonderful St. Nicholas children's magazine, with the July issue containing the first published appearance of the short story "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (pp. 784-812). ___DESCRIPTION: Decorated red cloth boards with black and gilt designs, title in black inside a gilt shape with black and gilt patterns on the spine, rear board with ruled... Read More
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Modern Medicine; A Few Highlights on Diagnosis Treatment and the Specialties
by Don Tworry (pseudonym for Hadden, David)
Eugene, Oregon: Printed by John Henry Nash, University of Oregon, 1939. First Edition. Wraps. Very good +. Quarto size, 25 pp., inscribed by David Hadden. An uncommon book of verse by David Hadden, one printed late in the career of the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947); this volume contains humorous poems regarding several branches of medicine, a comedic take on the experiences of both doctors and patients. ___DESCRIPTION: Light blue paper wraps, black lettering... Read More
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A Natural Curiosity
by Drabble, Margaret
London: Viking, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. No. 102 of 150, octavo size, 319 pp., signed by Margaret Drabble. English novelist Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) wrote "A Natural Curiosity" as an unintended sequel to her earlier novel "The Radiant Way"; the story continues to follow the lives of three women featured in the earlier book, and examines middle-class life within the context of a post-industrial, post-Thatcher England. This volume is the first edition of Drabble's novel, bound... Read More
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The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
by Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Marie Ruiz, and Dr. Immanuel Ness (Editors)
(2019): Oxford University Press, (Oxford). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing, quarto size, 918 pp. From the web site of the publisher: "The objective of 'The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises' is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as 'migration crises.' The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that generate migration crises around the globe. At the same time, it illuminates how the... Read More
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A Typographical Masterpiece; An account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931
by Dreyfus, John; Gill, Eric (Artist)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press], 1990. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Gill, Eric. One of 450 copies, folio size, 120 pp. This publication from the Book Club of California is an in-depth look at the Golden Cockerel Press edition of "The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ", printed in 1931; John Dreyfus presents the history and development of this masterful work through numerous facsimiles of documents pertaining to the publication,... Read More
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Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics
by Dummett, Michael
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First US edition, first printing, large octavo size, 345 pp. From the jacket flap: "No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett...Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous impact on Bertrand Russell and later on the young Ludwig Wittgenstein, making Frege one of the central influences on twentieth-century Anglo-American philosopy...." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound... Read More
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The Structure of Rime
by Duncan, Robert; Lobdell, Frank (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. New. Frank Lobdell. The edition of the book is limited to 275 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. The format is 11-1/4 by 7-1/2 inches, 96 pages. The type is Perpetua, designed by Eric Gill, composed by hand and on the Monotype. The paper is German mouldmade Zerkall Book Laid. The printing is by letterpress, except for one page bearing two photographs of the poet, printed... Read More
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