San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 1916. 1st edition. xii, 60 pp. "List of Preceding Grove Plays", p. 60. Illustrated with 6 [of 7] tipped-in color plates by Dixon. Lacking the plate to p. 25, "The Friar Superior". 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2". Quater-bound with rough-weave linen spine & grey paper wrapped..... More
California Library Association, 1950. 1st Printing. [134] - 195, [1] pp. Adverts trhoughout. One b/w halftone photographic portrait of Mr Joy Lichtenstein, Member No. 4 of the C.L.A. 8vo. Bound in period flexible brown cloth covers, gilt stamping to front cover, original Bulletin wrappers retained/. While I started this catalogue..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Reprint. xi, [1], 212 pp (including Index). Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. Tan cloth binding with red stamping. Dust jacket. More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1951. 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 214). # 63 / 1500 cc. xxxii, 157, [1 (colophon)] pp. Mostly unopened. Illustrated by Kredel. Folio. 13-1/8" x 8-7/8". Full cream buckram binding with gilt stamping. Bevelled edges. Slipcase. More
New York: The Macaulay Company, (1933). 1st US edition (Hubin I, p. 490). 246 pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's linen cloth binding with lettering outlined in red. Red topstain. Green dust jacket printed in white, red & black, designed by Guischard. Leblanc "was a French novelist and writer of short..... More
Tokyo / New York / San Francisco: Kodansha Internation Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition in English. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author. [6], 397, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine. Blue dust jacket. More
Winchester / New Castle: St. Paul's Bibliographies / Oak Knoll Press, 1994. 1st printing of this later edition of the 1928 text. xxxviii, 359, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. White glossy paper covers printed in blue. Classic work on the subject. More
Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1947. 1st edition (Gimbel D217). 22 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. 8-3/16" x 5-1/8". Green wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dickens wrote a preface for Overs' literary effort, EVENINGS Of A WORKING MAN [London: 1844]. More
New York: Published by Charles Magnus & Co., 12 Frankfort Street, (n. d.). Ca 1858 - 1860. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed panoramic image [4-1/2" x 8-13/16"] of Kingston Lake at top of sheet, after an original sketch by William Henry Bartlett, ca 1840. 11-1/8" x 8-1/2". Now housed in an archival..... More
New York: Published by Charles Magnus, (n. d.). Ca mid-1850s. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed panoramic image [4-1/2" x 7-3/8"] of Milwaukee at top of sheet. Under image at left: "Exec by G. G. Lange Darmstadt" 11-5/8" x 9-1/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. From an AAS record, we find..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, (1935). 1st US edition (Hubin I, p. 490). 246 pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding with lavender stamping. Pale green dust jacket printed in white, orange & black. Leblanc "was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 1st US edition. xxii, 228, v, [7] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering. TEG. More
New York / London: The Macmillan Company, 1904 - 1909 - 1908. Part First - 1st US edition. Part Second - Second Impression. Part Third - 1st Edition. 3 volumes. Prior owner has added a portrait of Hardy as a frontispiece to Vol I. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Limited to 400 cc. xiii, [1 (blank)], 121, [7] pp. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Tall 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Light blue dust jacket. Useful reference for Beerbohm first editions, lists of contributed writings, uncollected & unpublished works, caricatures..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1968. 1st Vest Pocket Edition. 153, [5] pp. Red ribbon page marker. 4 b/w photographic images of Mao at front. 16mo. 4-1/4" x 3" Red vinyl covers, with blind stamped lettering to front panel. More
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., (1910). 1st edition thus (deWaal 1156; Hubin I, p. 490), i.e., with this title / translator. 350 pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's light green cloth binding with white & dark green stamping. White dust jacket with black printing. Leblanc "was a French novelist and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1965). 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author. 218, [2] pp (including Index). Two suites of illustrations. 8vo. Brown cloth binding. Yellow topstain. Brown dust jacket printed in yellow. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. 1st Edition. [10], 191, [3] pp. Decorations by Giacomo Patri. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Pictorial eps. Topstain. Yellow dust jacket. Jackson tells the story of 4 early California Gold-Rush highwaymen: Black Bart, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick & Dick Fellows. More
San Francisco, California: Privately Printed [by Taylor & Taylor], 1948. 1st Edition. xiv, 80, [5] pp. Decorations by Dan Adair. 8vo. Paper covers, wood motif, printed paper title label to spine. More
Lake Sherwood, California: Casa della Madonna. Done into type and privately printed by Dorothy and Frank Shields, San Francisco, 1951. 1st Printing. [10], 8, [2 (blank)] pp. Deckle edges. "Come let us build a little kirk," a poem by Thomas Lennon: p. [iv - v]. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8". Green paper..... More
London: Printed for the Limited Editions Club, 1939. 1st Edition thus (Newman & Wiche 113). #598 / 1500 cc, SIGNED by the book's designer, George W. Jones. xxi, [1 (blank)], 309, [1] pp. Imperial 8vo. 12-1/2" x 7-3/4". Quarter bound with white canvas spine over grey-green paper boards printed in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. 1st edition. SIGNED by the Author on the ffep. xvi, [2], 589, [1] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff-Street, 1832. 1st US Edition (American Imprints 13130). xix [including 12 pp. adverts], 242 pp + adverts; 248 pp. 12mo, bound in 6s. 4" x 6 5/16". Linen cloth binding with printed black lettering. More
San Francisco: (1928). 1st edition thus. 193, [2] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated, primarily b&w, though with a few inserted sheets of color adverts. Landscape format: 9-1/4" x 12-1/4". Reddish brown cloth spine over light brown paper covers printed in red. A wonderful catalogue displaying a plethora of children's toys..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967. First Pocket Edition. 79, [2] pp. Photographic image of Mao at front. 16mo. 5-1/4" x 3-5/8". Paper covers, inserted into a red vinyl cover, with title blind-stamped to front panel. More
