SOUTHWEST CLASSICS. The Creative Literature of the Arid Lands. Essays on Books and Their Writers.
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1974. 1st edition. 370 pp (including index). Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Black cloth binding. Dustwrapper. More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1974. 1st edition. 370 pp (including index). Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Black cloth binding. Dustwrapper. More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1931. 1st edition. xlvii, [1], 621 pp (including index). 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" Original maroon publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Uncommon. More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912. 1st edition. xvi, 712 pp (including index). Illustrated with 3 plates. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" Original maroon publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Uncommon. More
(n. p.): Antique Collecters' Club, (1984). 1st Edition. 265, [3] pp including appendix, bibliography, and index. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color drawings. 11" x 8-3/4". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Illustrated eps. Red dust jacket with white title lettering to front..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, [1961]. 1st softcover edition. xv, [1], 63, [5] pp. Laid-in a printed leaflet advertising the availability of a limited hardcover edition, which has "twelve illustrations from original photographs by Mary Farquhar". 4to. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4". Printed wrappers. Yapp edges. More
London: Printed for Thomas Thorpe, 1832. 1st Edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, 260). 208 pp. Frontispiece by Augustus Fox. 8vo. Later pebbled half-calf with marbled paper boards & eps (front board professionally reattached). TEG. Marbled eps. "Gent was a printer and writer, born in Ireland, who spent most of his..... More
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, 1913. 8 unnumbered pages. 9 photographic images printed in very dark green ink, of scenes at Kanyonkrag and Sohlohnee. 4-3/16" x 6-1/4". String-bound white self-wrappers printed in very dark green and grey. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as..... More
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, [1914]. 16 unnumbered pages. 16 photographic images printed in very dark green ink. 4-1/4" x 6-3/8". String-bound cream self-wrappers printed in very dark green. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as an ardent naturalist and owner of two remarkable..... More
London: W. W. Gibbings 18 Bury Street Bloomsbury, 1892. 1st Edition thus. Small paper issue, limited to 240 cc. [10], 78, [8], 84 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/8". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. TEG. Bevelled boards. Essays on Poe, Fielding, Emerson..... More
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. 1st Edition. x, 197, [1] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth stamped in coral and black; orange dj printed in purple and black. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition. 100 pp. B/w frontis and plate. 8" x 5-1/4". Light blue cloth, navy lettering stamped to spine. Beige dj with dark blue lettering. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1996). 1st edition. ix, [3], 339, [1] pp (including index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
New York: 1885. 1st Edition. #78 / 100 cc printed. 220 printed pages, interleaved with blue-lined paper. Small folio: 12-3/16" x 8-1/4". Bespoke brown half-sheep over flexible pebbled leather boards. Marbled eps. The finished catalogue would be issued in the year of Barlow's death, 1889. More
London / New York: C. Elkin Mathews, At the Sign of the Bodely Head, in Vigo Street, W., 1889. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1063). Limited to 250 cc. [10], 89, [3] pp. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 5. Original publisher's parchment backed blue paper boards. Printed paper title label to spine. The..... More
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. 1st edition. 570 pp (including Index). Frontis. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Paper spine label. Issued w/o dj. Essential to any collector, or seller, of Dickens works. More
Santa Barbara: E. A. Thompson, [1974?]. 1st separate printing (presumed). SIGNED PRESENTATION copy from Thompson to Dorothy Hutchinson. [25] - 38, [2] pp. Colophon annotated as to the piece coming from the "Bibliographical Society of London Transactions, v. 8, Oct. 1905 - Mar. 1906, pp. 25 - 38. Printed in..... More
University of Alabama Press, 1946. 1st printing. 151, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Printed red stiff-stock paper wrappers. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. 1st Edition. [10], 83, [3] pp. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Tan dj printed in black, orange rule and flourishes. More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1988. 1st Printing. 52 - 97 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, card stock wrappers, printed in pale yellow, orange and black. Stapled. With a mail-in subscription envelope, an announcement about discounted back issues and an 8 page leaflet with advertisements and events... More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 122 - 159 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in pink, lavender and black. Stapled. More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 82 - 119 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in red and black. Stapled. With an 4 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 42 - 79 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in orange, green and black. Stapled. With an 4 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 39 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, thin card stock wrappers, printed in yellow and black. Stapled. With an 6 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. A one page erratum correcting the new address for the magazine. More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1981. 1st Printing. 114 - 150 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, thin card stock wrappers, printed in red, orange and black. Stapled. With an 6 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. A one page erratum correcting an image that originally printed upside down..... More
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1983. 1st Printing. 39 pp. with slip Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in red, blue and black. Stapled. With an 4 page "classified advertisements" More