OYEZ PRESS. Recent Titles. Forthcoming.
Berkeley: Oyez Press, [1974]. 1st printing. Single sheet of pale yellow paper, printed recto only. 7" x 9-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
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NARRATIVE Of The MYSTERIOUS CAN, Illustrative of the Washingtonian Reform. To Which is Appended the Temperance Platform.
[Amenia, NY]: Printed at the Amenia Times Office, 1854. 1st Edition. 104, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo. 5-7/8" x 3-1/2". Period brown cloth spine over marbled paper boards. More
![PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS For] H.M.S. SULPHUR At California, 1837 and 1839.; Being the accounts of...](/pictures/thumb/18322.1.JPG?v=1598312411)
[PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS For] H.M.S. SULPHUR At California, 1837 and 1839.; Being the accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simplinson and Captain Edweard Belcher.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. C. f., Olmsted 132. One sheet, folded, forming an unpaginated 4 page brochure, last page blank. Map vignette to p. 1. 25 x 16.5 cm. Self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. PLEASE NOTE: this is the publisher's Prospectus, NOT the..... More
COBWEBS To CATCH FLIES. Illustrated books for the Nursery and Schoolroom 1700 - 1900.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. 1st Edition. 163, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth binding with gilt title title stamped to spine. Blue dust jacket with illustration and white title lettering printed to front panel and spine. More
From PRIMER To PLEASURE In READING. An Introduction to the History of Children's Books in England from the Invention of Printing to 1900.
Boston: Horn Book Co., 1972. 1st US Edition. x, 340 pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-3/8" Grey linen cloth binding. Pictorial eps. Brown paper dust jacket printed in green. More
An ACCOUNT Of The REVENUE And NATIONAL DEBT Of IRELAND. With Some Observations on the late Bill for Paying off the National Debt.; In which is contained, A Speech to the Parliament of Henry Lord Viscount Sidney, Lord Lieutenant in the Year 1692, as also an Order of Council, and several Resolutions of the House of Commons, extracted from their Journals, parallel to the present Juncture of Affairs in that Kingdom.
London: Printed for H. Carpenter, in Fleet - Street. 1754. 1st printing (Goldsmith 8932). iv, 5 - 48 pp. 7-3/4" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The GRAND EXHIBITION. Sheraton at Fisherman's Wharf.
[San Francisco]: [1976]. 1st printing (presumed). Single sheet of poster board, with menu mounted thereon, twin flaps open to display menu underneath. "Great Menu Award" seal affixed in lower right corner. Verso with Sheraton imprint & image of stagecoach & horses. 18" x 12". Now housed in an archival mylar..... More
NOAH'S ARK. Novelized by Arline de Haas
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). 276, [6 (adverts)] pp. Illustrated with Scenes from Warner Bros. Photoplay. 12mo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with black stamping. No dust jacket. More
NEITHER Of US CAN BREAK The OTHER'S HOLD. Poems for My Father.
Berkeley, California: Shameless Hussy Press, 1981. 1st Printing. 71, [1] pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Photographically illustrated paper covers. Cover photograph by Martin Schweitzer. More
TRIAL And IMPRISONMENT Of JONATHAN WALKER, At Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape from Bondage. [Cover title: The Branded Hand].; With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of His Life.
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 25 Cornhill, 1846. Early printing (American Imprints 46-7296; Blockson Catalogue 10153; Dummond, p. 113), first published in 1845. Not in the Library Company Afro-Americana Catalogue, though see 10892, listing a Marsh imprint. vi, [7] - 126 pp. Frontispiece of Walker. T.p. cut of a...... More
SWINBURNE'S COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS. Volume I. Volume II.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 571). xlii, 976; xiv, 1294 pp. Vol II includes Index of First Lines. Crown 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/8". Green cloth bindings stamped with gilt. Buff paper dust jackets printed in green. More
The CRUEL SIDE Of WAR With The ARMY Of The POTOMAC. Letters the Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898. 2nd edition, and 1st edition with this title (cf. Nevins II, p. 139). ix, [5], 210 pp (including Index). T.p. printed in red & black. Frontis + 2 inserted portrait plates. Sanitary Commission medallion to t.p. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original green cloth binding with gilt..... More
ORDENANZAS De TIERRAS Y AGUAS, Ó Sea: Formulario Geométrico-Judicial Para la Designacion, Establecimiento, Mensura, Amojonamiento y Deslinde de las Poblaciones y Todas Suertes de Tierras, Sitios, Caballerias, y Criaderos de Ganados Mayores y Menores, y Mercedes de Aguas: Recopiladas; A beneficio y obsequio de los pobladores, ganaderos, labradores, dueños, arrendatarios y administradores de haciendas, y toda clase de predios rústicos, de las muchas y dispersas resoluciones dictadas sobre la materia, y vigentes hasta el dia en la república Mexicana.
Mexico: Impresa por Leandro J. Valdes, 1844. 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged. N.B. Sabin lists only the 4th and subsequent editions, cf Sabin 26466. [2], IV, [3] - 184 pp. Head- tailpieces. 2 plates. Numerous intratextual figures. Tables. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Period full contemporary green & brown mottled Mexican..... More
SKIN Of GRACE
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970. 2nd Printing. [14], 45, [5 (blank)] pp. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2". White paper covers, printed in olive green & black. Photographic image of the author to rear cover. The author was the winner of the Devins Memorial Award for 1967. More
A POSY Of WILDFLOWERS. Gathered in the Countryside of English Literature and Furnished with Appropriate Sentiments
London: Allan Wingate, 1946. 1st Edition. 124 pp. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. 6-3/4" x 4-1/8". Light blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Grey dust jacket. More
To ALL APPEARANCES
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1974). 1st edition. 163, [3 (blank)] pp. 8" x 5-3/8" Blue & green paper covers. More
HERE. NOW. ALWAYS. Fragments of a Childhood.
New York: New Directions, (1977). 1st pb edition, ARC, with silp laid-in. 153, [7] pp. 8" x 5-1/8". Black & white printed glossy paper covers. More
RANDY STARR AFTER An AIR PRIZE or The Sky Flyers in a Dash Down the States. Randy Starr Series #1.
Akron: Saalfield, (1931). 212 pp. Frontis. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Green buckram cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Red dust jacket. More
PILOT Of The HIGH SIERRAS.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1937. 1st edition. 350 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding lettered in red. Orange topstain. Red & black pictorial dust jacket. An early title in the Dodd Mead Career series. More
The YONG SOULDIER:
London: Printed by J[ohn]. R[aworth]. for Joseph Hunscott, 1642. 1st edition, "J. R." issue (Wing R-419D). 16 pp. Typographic printer's ornament to t.p. Drill formations, displayed typographically, pp. 6 - 7. 4to: [A] - B4 7-5/8" x 5-3/4". Disbound, with some remnants along spine. Now housed in an archival mylar..... More
JIMMY HAS LOST HIS CAP. WHERE CAN IT BE?
Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1959). Unpaginated. Illustrated by the author. Folio. Color pictorial hardcover with cloth spine. More
NATIONAL SEMI-PRO BASEBALL 1940. OFFICIAL GUIDE.; Rules • Teams • Photos 35¢
Wichita, Kansas: Published by The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, 1940. 1st printing thus. 128, D-32 [Directory]. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2". Photographic blue paper covers. More
1954 OFFICIAL BASEBALL ANNUAL. Non - Pro; Rules • Teams • Photos Price $100
Wichita, Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America, 1954. 1st printing thus. 332 pp. Pale blue order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2". Red, white & blue paper covers. More
1955 OFFICIAL BASEBALL ANNUAL.
Wichita, Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America, 1955. 1st printing thus. 268 pp. Yellow order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2". Green, yellow & brown paper covers. More
1956 OFFICIAL BASEBALL ANNUAL. Non - Pro; Rules • Teams • Photos Price $100
Wichita, Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America, 1956. 1st printing thus. 252 pp. Pink order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2". Black & orange paper covers. More