LARDEAU. Selected First Poems.
Toronto: Island Press, 1965. First printing Limited to 350 cc. Unpaginated, though 52 pp. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 8-1/2". Black cloth spine over yellow paper covers printed in black. More
Toronto: Island Press, 1965. First printing Limited to 350 cc. Unpaginated, though 52 pp. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 8-1/2". Black cloth spine over yellow paper covers printed in black. More
Minneapolis: Published by Fred P. Hutchinson, (1935). 1st printing thus. 96 pp. Illustrated with b/w player half-tone photographic images. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8". Paper covers, printed in shades of brown. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
[San Francisco]: [The Bohemian Club], 1959. 1st printing. SIGNED in the plate by Lonie Bee. Broadsheet poster printed recto and verso. Large illustration by Bee of a knight & buxom lady fair. 22" x 16-1/2". White paper printed in dark & light pink, and black to recto. Red & black..... More
London: Published by the Locomotive Publishing Co., Ltd., 1903. 1st book edition. vii, [1 (blank)], 245, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Original publisher's tan cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
Boston: 1879. 1st printing (presumed). Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Engraved headpiece, and small engravings in text for ads. 11-7/8" x 9". Printed self wrappers. Apparently this play a crowd favorite at the Boston Museum, for Bolton records earlier performances in 1877 & 1878 [cf. CH 80..... More
San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 1961. 1st edition. x, 70, [2 (blank)] pp. T.p. cut. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6". Dark grey and white floral paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title onlay to spine. Insert "notice" of last minute cast changes. More
San Francisco: Published by J. W. Stacey Incorporated, 1939. 1st edition. xi, [1], 689, [1] pp. Index at rear of volume. Color frontis. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Green cloth binding stamped with gilt. Pale green dust jacket lettered in black with image to front panel... More
Ca early-to-mid 1920s. Frame: 23" x 20". Painting, to matte: 16-1/2" x 13-1/2". Painting matted, and housed in a gilded wooden frame. Picture depicts an elevated view of the harbor from the hills to the South-SouthEast. More
Cincinnati & New York: Fillmore Bros. (1900). 1st edition (presumed). Unpaginated, but 192 songs. Sheet music printed throughout. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2". Black cloth spine over Beige linen color printed paper (in red and navy blue). "First. We call attention to its large number of really fine choruses for mixed voices..... More
Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, (1966). 1st edition. xi, [3], 193, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-1/2" x 6". Scant. Dark teal cloth binding, gold printed lettering to spine. Brown b/w printed DJ. More
Chicago: Macfadden Publications, 1939. 1st printing. 96 pp. Many intratextual illustrations & b/w photographic images + full size color photographic images to wrappers [Gary Cooper photograph to front wrapper]. 14" x 10-3/4". Stiff color illustrated printed paper wrappers. Title printed in red. More
New York: Weekly Publications, 1946. 1st edition thus. 96 pp. Many intratextual illustrations. 11-1/4" x 8-3/8". Color illustrated printed paper wrappers. More
Portland, Oregon: (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1950s. 12 pp. 9" x 6". Printed yellow paper wrappers, stapled. More
London: W. Satchell & Co., 1882. 1st edition. 32 pp. Frontis. 7 inserted plates. Cuts. 8vo. 8-9/16" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's printed grey paper wrappers. More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 421; Smith 6627). vi, [7] - 168 pp. Illustrated with frontis, 5 portraits & 8 plates. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. "During the 1872-3 Modoc uprising on the California-Oregon..... More
Carmel: Center for Photographic Art, (1996). 1st Edition. Unpaginated. 100 photographic images in b/w. 13" x 10". Black cloth binding with white title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Black dust jacket with white title lettering printed to front panel and spine. Grey eps. More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853. 1st Edition. vi, [1], 8 - 400, [2 (blank)] pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Green cloth binding with blind design stamped to front and rear boards. Gilt title lettering and design stamped to spine. More
Volcano: California Traveler Inc, (n. d.). 48 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w adversiments and photographic images. 11" x 8-1/2". Brown front paper wrapper with black title lettering and photographic image of a boat. White paper wrapper to back with a brown "D". Stapled binding. While two additional volumes were published..... More
New York: Beadle & Adams, 98 William St. 1885 [1889]. 4th edition (Johannsen BEADLE 1/2DL-395). Ca 1889, per rear page series advert. 15, [1] pp. Text triple column. Unopened. Last page an advert. Large wood engraving to front wrapper. 4to. 11-1/2" x 8-1/4" [scant]. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in..... More
New York: Ace Books Inc., (1965). 1st book publication ['Venusians']. 138 pp. / 177 pp. [2 between with publisher's advertisement]. B & W illustrations. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Illustrated wrappers, dos-a-dos format. Yellow edgestain. 2 complete novels in one volume. More
New York: Hill & Wang, 1964. 1st edition. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. xiii, [1] 242 pp (including Index). Illustrated by Lynette Logan. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding with red spine lettering. Red topstain. Dust jacket. More
New York: Beadle & Adams, 98 William St. 1885. Ca December, 1891. 28, [4] pp. Adverts last 4 pages (noting No. 688 as the last published in the series). Wood engraving to front wrapper. 4to. 12-1/4" x 8-1/4". Printed self-wrappers. "A good, well-written yarn of a Rocky Mountain mining camp."..... More
NY: Prentice-Hall, (1976). 1st thus. Unpaginated. Illustrated by the author. 4to. Pictorial composition boards. Dust jacket replicates binding design. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. 1st edition, PBO. 190 pp. 12mo. Color printed wrappers. Orange edgestain. More
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Book Company, (1955). 208 pp. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Brown cloth binding. Dust jacket. More