In Sara's Tents
by Starkie, Walter
New York: Dutton, [1953] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Some light offsetting to front free endpaper from an inset. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket chipped at head and foot of spine and lightly soiled.
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Los Angeles Architechture: The Contemporary Condition
by Steele, James
[London:] Phaidon, [1998] Stiff wrappers, with dust jacket. Quarto. Color illustrations. Fine.
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The Earliest English Music Printing: A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century
by Steele, Robert
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, December 1903 Quarter linen over light brown paper boards, spine stamped in black, top edge gilt. Quarto. Numerous facsimiles. A very good copy. With the bookplate of William P. Wreden, the Palo Alto bookseller.
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The Red Dress
by Steele, Valerie
New York: Rizzoli, [2001] First edition. Boards. Large octavo. Color illustrations of the little red dress in fasion history. Fine in fine d.j.
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Francis Bacon: A Sketch of His Life, Works, and Literary Friends; Chiefly from a Bibliographical Point of View. With forty-three illustrations
by Steeves, G. Walter
London: Methuen, [1910] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bottom corners bumped. Very good.
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All the Little Live Things
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking Press, [1967] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. A little foxing to spine. Very good+ in like d.j. D.j. has a little age-toning along the flaps of the d.j. but is bright and intact.
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What are Masterpieces
by Stein, Gertrude
Los Angeles: The Conference Press, [1940] First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in dust jacket. Spine of jacket a bit faded, and jacket has several neat internal mends with archival tape. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.
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Reflection on the Atomic Bomb. Volume I of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
by Stein, Gertrude
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973 One of fifty copies handbound by Earle Grey. Each copy of the special edition contained a copy of the first printing of "Literally True" by Gertrude Stein, published privately in 1947. Octavo. Fine in dust jacket. Spine of jacket a bit browned.
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Why Are There Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet
by Stein, Gertrude
[n.p.:] Aloe Editions, 1973 First edition. One of 74 numbered copies out of a total edition of 100 copies. Original gray printed wrappers, stitched at spine. Octavo. A little fading near spine. Otherwise fine.
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A Shipbuilding History 1750-1932
by Stephen, Alexander & Sons, Limited
London: Printed for Alexander Stephen & Sons by Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., [1932] Cloth. Large octavo. Plates. Vignettes in text. Spine and part of front cover very faded. A good, clean copy.
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The Pacific Ocean in History: Papers and Addresses Presented at the Panama-Pacific Historical Congress Held at San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto, California, July 19-23, 1915
by Stephens, H. Morse, and Herbert E. Bolton, eds
New York: Macmillan, 1915 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Corners, spine extremities lightly worn. Donor's inscription, dated 1925, contemporary bookplate. A good, tight copy.
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Etched in Moonlight
by Stephens, James
New York: Macmillan, 1928 First American edition, limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. Beige cloth over beige boards. Octavo. Spine a bit browned. Very good in cracked but sound slipcase.x
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The Sterling Library: A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Literary Manuscripts Collected by Sir Louis Sterling and Presented by him to the University of London
by Sterling, Louis
[n.p.:] Privately printed, 1954 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Frontisportait. Spine a bit faded, light shelfwear. A very good copy.
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Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971)
by Stern, Jean, and Evelyn Payne Hatcher
Berly Hills: Petersen Galeries, 1990 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Includes a catalogue of 95 painiting, with illustrations in black and white and in color. Top edge of boards and top corners lightly bumped. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Jacket has a little light edgewear. California artist. Hardcover copies are uncommon.
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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick.
by Sterne, Laurence
Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1936 One of 175 copies. Full polished calf with red morocco spine label stamped in gilt and marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt and pages untrimmed in both volumes. Marbled board slipcase. . Two volumes, small octavo. . Pictorial titles printed in brown and gray in addition to the printed titles. Printed on dampened hand-made paper. Typography and composition by Margaret B. Evans. Presswork by John F. MacNamara. Light offsetting from pictorial title. Some very light... Read More
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The Beauties of Sterne: Including all his Pathetic Tales, & most distinguished Observations on Life. Selected for the Heart of Sensibility...The Fifth Edition, with considerable Additions.
by Sterne, Laurence
London: Printed for G. Kearsley.. 1782 Contemporary mottled sheep, neatly rebacked. . Twelvemo. A very good copy.
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Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics, Number 4: Tristram Shandy...With Six unpublished Illustrations in aquatint from the original copper-plates engraved in 1820: and an introductory note by John Oldcastle
by Sterne, Laurence
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, [1886] First edition. Original brown paper wrappers, stamped in black and gilt. Octavo. Spine cracked, back cover detached, flap of back wrapper torn off, but present. Otherwise a good, clean copy of a fragile book. Prints six excerpts from the novel, each with an aquatint illustration from the 1820 edition. Leadenhall Press Sixteenpenny Series.
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Mannie's Crowd: Emanuel Lowenstein Clorful character of old Los Angeles and a brief diary of the trip to Arizona and life in Tucson of the early 1880s
by Stern, Norton B
Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good in very good d.j.
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A Child's Garden of Verses...With nine poems not published in prior editions. Illustrations by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. Introduction by Janet Adam Smith
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1978 One of five hundred copies, three hundred of which were bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery. The remaining two hundred copies were issued in folded gatherings for hand bookbinders. Signed on the colophon by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and Adrian Wilson. Bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery in green silk. . Octavo. With nine full-page illustrations (including frontispiece), two tailpieces, and thirty-eight decorative initials, all printed in color. Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany... Read More
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Prayers Written at Vailima. With an Introduction by Mrs. Stevenson.
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973 One of 530 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press.. Orange printed boards with a gray printed paper spine. Binding designed by Saul and Lillian Marks and executed by Bela Blau. . Miniature book, 2.4 in x 1.9 in. . xxxviii, [2], 61, + [1, colophon] pp. Title page printed in black and red. Wood engraved frontispiece by Mary Kuper. A fine copy.
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Summer Sun. Illustrated by Carmen Voss.
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
[Fullerton, California:] Lyceum Press, [2001] One of twenty-five copies, signed by Wm. Erik and Carmen Voss. Broadside, 12" x 18." designed, printed and painted at the Lyceum Press by Wm. Erik and Carmen Voss. . Includes a hand-colored illustration, 7 7/8" x 6 3/4," of flowers in the sunlight, plus a hand-colored vignette of a bee. A fine copy.
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The Silverado Squatters. With an Introduction by Oscar Lewis
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1972 One of 500 copies. Designed and printed by Sherwood and Katharine Grover at the Gracce Hoper Press in Aptos, California. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine.
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Vassar Viewed Veraciously. 16 Pencil Sketches
by Stevens, Wallace
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1995 One of 350 copies. Wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Quarto. Fine.
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Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints: A Collector's Guide to All the Subjects Illustrated Including an Exhaustive Account of the 'Chushingua' and Other Famous Plays, Together with a 'Causerie' on the Japanese Theater
by Stewart, Basil
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922 First edition of one of the first attempts to classify Japanese prints, based on schools and subject matter. This is a revision of an earlier work that the author published in 1920. Tan cloth over blue paper boards, gilt black morocco spine label. Folio. Illustrated with reproductions of over 270 prints from the author's collection and other sources, 22 in color. Bibliography and index. With appendices on the dating of Japanese... Read More
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The Enid Blyton Dossier
by Stewart, Brian, and Tony Summerfield
[Cornwall:] Hawk Books, [1999] First edition. Pictorial boards. Folio. Color illustrations throughout. Fine. Chronicles the work of one of the most popular children's authors of all time (1897-1968).
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