The FASCIST BRANDING POMES #2
Vancouver, BC: blewointmentpress, 1974. 1st printing. Limited to 700 cc. 41, [3] pp. P. 41 mispaginated as 49. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Pale blue card-stock paper covers, printed in black, stapled. More
New Arrivals
leaf leaf/s
Los Angeles: The Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 1st book edition. SIGNED by the author. #88 / 125 hardbound cc., out of a total limitation of 625 cc. 53, [3] pp. 8-7/8" x 5". Canary yellow cloth binding by Earle Gray. Bright yellow eps. Printed paper title onlay to front cover..... More
As LONG As YOU'RE HAPPY. Poems.
Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1986. 1st Printing. [12], 81, [3 (blank)] pp. 9-1/4" x 6". Orange cloth spine over blue paper-wrapped boards. Pink dust jacket. More
NURSING Of CHILDREN.
Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1945. 5th edition, 5th printing. 579, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Printed pale blue paper dust jacket. More
The "PEARS" EDITION Of CHARLES DICKENS' CHRISTMAS BOOKS. A Christmas Carol. The Chimes. The Haunted Man. The Battle of Life. The Cricket on the Hearth.; With an Introduction to each by Clement Shorter.
[London]: Published by A. & F Pears Ltd, [1912]. Ca 1912 (cf. Gimbel B155 [Chimes]; B165 [Cricket]; B179 [Battle of Life]; B186 [Haunted Man]; Hearn, p. 178 for the set). 5 volumes (139, [1]; 147, [1]; 160; 144; 140 pp). Adverts begin & conclude each volume. 'Cricket' illustrated by L...... More
GOD'S TROMBONES. Dramatic Sequence for Two Speakers, Soloists, Mixed Chorus and Small Orchestra. I. Opening: A Prayer. II. The Creation. III. Go Down Death. IV. The Judgment Day. V. Closing: A Prayer.
(n. p.): Shawnee Press, 1955. 1st edition. 48 pp. 10-1/2" x 7". White printed & illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Stapled. Poems by James Weldon Johnson, based upon American Negro folk sermons. Music by Roy Ringwald, based upon American Negro Spirituals. More
From BRICKS To BOOKS. A Miscellany
London: Grafton & Co., 1949. 1st edition. 160 pp (including Index). 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Brown & white dust jacket. More
The COMPLETE WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS.
Leipzig: Frederick Fleischer, 1839 - 1840. 1st Collected Edition of Dickens' works. Not in Gimbel. 6 volumes [Pickwick, 2v; OT; Nickleby, 2v, Sketches]. Each volume [except Vol I, Pickwick] with a 'Works' t.p. as well as an individual t.p. Vol I with frontis, the Macready portrait. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/8"..... More
BOOKS And PEOPLE. Five Decades of New York's Oldest Library.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. 1st edition. ix, [3], 372 pp (including index). Illustrated. 8vo. Orange cloth binding. Dust jacket. A history of the New York Society Library, founded in 1754. More
BOOKS In My BAGGAGE. Adventures in Reading and Collecting.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1960). 1st edition. 255, [3] pp. Title page illustration. 8-1/2" x 5-7/8" Hardback. Dust jacket. More
WINE GROWING And WINE TYPES.; Including: Quality, Handling and Care, Uses of Wine. Wine Handbook Series No. 2.
San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board, 1950. 1st edition (presumed). 48 pp. Many black and white photographic images throughout. 9" x 6". Red and white glossy printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
COLLECTOR'S PROGRESS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 1st Edition. 253, [1 (blank)], xiii, [5] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Maroon cloth spine over pink patterned paper boards. Dust jacket. Author's fascinating personal account of building his world renown (now @ Yale) Horace Walpole/Strawberry Hill collection. More
The VICTORIANS And Their READING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Third Printing. 444 pp (including Index). 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Red dust jacket. Another classic in the genre, along with her work, "The Shaping of English Literature." More
MUDIE'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY And the Victorian Novel.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1970). 1st edition. xii, [2], 272 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with silver spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
DU FU A Life in Poetry.; Translated by David Young.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 1st Edition. xvii, [1], 226, [10] pp. 8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's paper covers. More
The WATER MUSIC And Other Stories.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1944. 1st Edition. [4], 154, [3 (blank)] pp. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8"". Yellow cloth binding with dark blue spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE For 1953.
St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1953. 1st edition thus. 576 pp (including index). Illustrated from b/w photographs. 6-5/8" x 4-7/8". White paper covers, printed in red & blue. More
BIRTH Of A SHARK. Poems.
London: MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1964. Uncorrected Proof. 56 pp. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". Orange wrappers, printed in black & white. Grey dust jacket, printed in black and white. More
The WEST COAST TRAIL POEMS
Lantzville, British Columbia: Oolichan Books, 1977. 1st paperback edition. Unpaginated. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed paper wrappers with map design. More
RESTAURANT "LITTLE HUNGARY".; o, Rue De Suréne, Paris.
(n.p.): Ca. 1930's. 1st Printing. Broadside. 14-3/4" x 10-3/4". Off white paper loose leaf, printed in red and navy blue, typed in blue/purple ink. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
CARTA Del GIORNO.; Hotel Quirinal Rome.
(n.p.): 1934. 1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette to head of menu. 13-3/4" x 9-1/2". White card stock loose lease, printed to recto only in black and blue ink. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
GENNARO'S RESTAURANT.; Italian Cooking is our Specialty.
(n.p.). 1933. 1st Printing. Loose leaf. Decorative illustration to head of recto. 13-1/2" x 10". Tan card stock, printed to recto and verso in lavender, navy blue and red. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. The verso with a full page of wine and liquors. One of the few Italian restaurants..... More
AL WILLIAMS' PAPAGAYO ROOM.; The Fairmont Hotel - Atop Nob Hill.
(n.p.): Ca 1940s - 1950s. 1st Printing. Printed bifolium. 4 pp. Unnumbered. Picture of Al Williams with parrot to upper wrapper. Multiple illustrations surrounding the menu items. 12-3/4" x 9-1/4". Card stock, self wrappers. Printed in red and black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
A TRIBUTE To GEORGE W. BUSH. Forty - Third President of the United States of America.; Printed for the gratification of the Members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs
Mountain View, California: Printed .. by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, 2008. 1st Printing. Unpaginated bifolium, so 4 pages. P. 2 blank. Cut to pp. 1 & 4. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2" White paper, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Mencken's quote found on p. 3..... More
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MOFFETT NAVEL AIR STATION OFFICERS' CLUB. [with accompanying ephemera]
(n.p.): 1962-1968. 1st Printing. Two Bifoliums. Five loose leaves. All pieces have small illustrations and/or decorative borders. Main menu: 11" x 8-1/2". Second bifolium: 6-1/2" x 4-3/4". Three loose leaves: 10-1/2" x 6-1/2", one 12" x 8" and the last one approx. 9-3/4" x 13-3/4". Menu bifolium is white card..... More