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THE ANTIQUE DOLLS GO TO A PAPER DOLL WEDDING.
Edition: First edition.
Pleasant Hill, CA: Evergreen Press, 1976. Third book of paper dolls by this illustrator. Includes four original paper dolls, based on actual antique dolls in the artist's collection with authentic costumes in full color. Designed to be cut out, this large format book includes a page on stiff paper of dolls and another of a bride's trunk, and 3 pages on glossy paper of clothes. Printed on one side only. Notes on the dolls and the costumes on the back cover.
Condition: Fine (as new.) Bound in stiff illustrated covers with a sewn cloth spine, oblong format, 11 inches tall by 14 1/2 inch wide.
Book ID: 19293More details Price: $20.00 -
20TH CENTURY LIMITED.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. First edition - A "testament to the halycon days of railroading in America." A book which can be used to cut and assemble a replica of the 20th Century Limited, the New York Central Lines train that ran between Grand Central Station in New York and Chicago. Includes a brief introduction with information and photographs of this train as well as other photographs and small reproductions of advertisements scattered throughout. Tips for assembling a diarama of the train rounding a bend of the Hudson River at the end. A Dolphin Book, printed on card stock and measuring 14 inches tall by 11". Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-385-277679.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy stapled covers, pages on card stock and marked to be cut out to create color model. (as new)
Book ID: 81640More details Price: $50.00 -
Promotional Brochure for "LET IT BLEED."
New York: Springboard Press / Hachette, (2009). An eight page promotional brochure for the book "Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont and the End of the Sixties." Illustrated with photographs throughout, printed on glossy stock. Measures 9 3/4 by 11 inches. Uncommon.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 81663More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STOWAWAY: Stone of Tymora, Book 1. SINGLE CHAPTER EXCEPT.
Edition: Advance excerpt (slim paperback booklet. )
Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, (2008). A chapter in the first book by R. A. Salvatore and his son Geno for young readers, featuring the dark eft Drizzt do'Urden. 14 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68766More details Price: $10.00 -
MARIPOSA COUNTY GUIDEBOOK: Six Historical Tours in Mother Lode Country.
Edition: First printing, a slim pamphlet.
Yosemite, CA: Flying Spur Press, (1984). SIGNED first edition - Six tours along Highway 49 and the backroads of the Sierra foothills just west of Yosemite National Park, illustrated with many photographs of historic buildings. Includes a walking tour of the town of Mariposa. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Maps, ads, index. 48 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (sticker with "pamphlet" on front cover). A rather uncommon guidebook, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 79856More details Price: $25.00 -
SIEGFRIED SASSOON: A MEMORIAL EXHIBITION.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Austin, TX: Humanities Research Center / The University of Texas at Austin, 1969. First edition - Catalogue for an exhibition at the Academic Center Library at the University of Texas, September - December, 1969. Two years after his death, this exhibition was designed to honor Sassoon as a poet and as a man. Complied by David Farmer, introduction by fellow war poet and close friend, Edmund Blunden. Illustrated with black and white photos. Issued in an edition of 2100 copies (although not stated, 2000 copies were in wrappers, 100 in boards), designed by David Price. Index. 68 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in tan illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80130More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SHREWSBURY GHOST BOOK.
Edition: Brochure.
Shrewsbury: Artscape, n.d. A very specialized guidebook, illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. Double page map. 43 pp. ISBN: 1-870738004.
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated tan wrappers.
Book ID: 74846More details Price: $9.00 -
CRIME FICTION SAMPLER 2019-2020,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Hoboken, NJ: Polis Books / Agora, 2019. First edition - Includes brief excerpts from new books by thirteen authors, plus a page of information about each author, and an illustration of the cover of each book. Among the authors are Gary Phillips, Steph Post, J. D. Rhoades, Alex Segura, Erica Wright and more. 75 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82517More details Price: $15.00 -
ECONOMY DRIVING HANDBOOK.
Edition: First edition, a slim pamphlet.
New York: Magnum Publications Inc., (1958). First edition - 1950s tips on how to save money on buying both new and used cars, on tires and on gasoline. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 64 pp.
Condition: Good overall in stapled wrappers - usual toning to the pages, light crease to lower corner.
Book ID: 79972More details Price: $10.00 -
IT LOOKS LIKE YESTERDAY TO ME: Port Washington's Afro-American Heritage.
Edition: First printing, a slim brochure.
Port Washington, NY: Port Washington Public Library, 1984. First edition - An oral history of several families in the area - some whose roots go back two hundred years and more, others who came during the Great Migration of the 1920s. Illustrated with vintage photographs. Foreword by Farrell Jones and introduction by the compiler Elly Shodell. 36 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled, illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71561More details Price: $30.00 -
SONGS WE KNOW: Hawaiian Melodies.
Edition: Slim paperback.
n.p. Smith's Motor Boat Service,
n.d. (ca 1960). Contains the lyrics only to 74 songs, in both Hawaiian and English. 40 pp.Condition: Very good in stapled pale green illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72285More details Price: $15.00 -
GO ROUND, Poetry Postcard.
Edition: First printing.
El Paseo & Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, (1967). First edition - A large postcard, with a single poem by Snyder, printed in two colors on glossy stock - measures 7 1/4 by 5 inches.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 87106More details Price: $25.00 -
GO ROUND, Poetry Postcard.
Edition: 2nd printing.
El Paseo & Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, (1967). A postcard, with a single poem by Snyder, printed in two colors on glossy stock - this second printing is slight smaller than the first at 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 87108More details Price: $15.00 -
A COLLECTOR'S DECABIBLON: An Address to the Annual Meeting of Gleeson Library Associates April 23, 1972.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1972. First edition - An entertaining speech in which this collector reminiscences about books, collections and booksellers, including his purchases from the 1948 auction of Mosher's own library, incunabula, booksellers like David Magee, and much more. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. One of 200 copies specially printed for private distribution by the author, out of a total printing of 1,000 copies. 21 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 43425More details Price: $20.00 -
TRADING EIGHTS: THE KEEPSAKE OF TWO EXHIBITIONS.
Edition: First printing.
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library. (1987). First edition - Introduction by Kimberly Chambers, afterword by Joan C. St. Crane, curator of American Literature Collection at UVA Library. Includes selections ranging from Frederick Douglass to Charles H. Rowell, including Houston Baker, Jay Wright, Albert Murray, Zora Hurston, Robert Stepto, Toi Derricote, Rita Dove, Gerald Barrax and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs. One of 2500 copies. Unpaginated (48 pp) A slim volume.
Condition: Fine in stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 70841More details Price: $16.50 -
CELEBRATION OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION, SEPTEMBER 8, 1850.
Edition: First thus.
San Francisco: Frank Eastman and Co., 1888. First edition - A booklet issued by The Society of California Pioneers to commemorate the celebration in honor of the 38th anniversary of the Admission of California into the Union on Sept 10. 1850; this event was held at Camp Taylor in Marin County on Sept 10, 1888. About 600 Pioneers and their families took the steamer 'San Rafael' from San Francisco to Sausalito and then a special train to the camp, where a rather expansive outdoor feast awaited them. Includes the text of the various speeches, a poem by Rev. Joseph Benton, in addition to a description of the festivities. 30 pp, sewn, in light blue wrappers with a small engraving on the front cover. Uncommon.
Condition: Overall good condition: some toning to the covers, spine of cover beginning to split.
Book ID: 30521More details Price: $25.00 -
MARK TWAIN IN THE WEST: State of California Department of Education, Bulletin No. 21, November 1, 1935.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, a slim pamphlet.
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, (1936). First edition - A "bulletin prepared for the public schools in the hope that a brief story of his life and travels here and in Western Nevada will add interest to his books." Illustrated with photographs, chronology, calendar of his travels in the West, books about Mark Twain. vii, 30 pp.
Condition: Good only (some dampstaining and bleeding to upper edges of several pages)
Book ID: 87223More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GREAT LANDSLIDE CASE: Three Versions.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: The Friends of Bancroft Library, 1972. First edition - Number 20 in the Keepsakes series produced for members of The Friends of the Bancroft Library. Three different scenarios of a mining incident in Nevada Territory are presented - the final version is Chapter 34 in Twain's Roughing It. Includes background historical material and editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch. No. 20 in series of Keepsakes of Friends of the Bancroft Library. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated. Fold-out page reprint from the Daily Call with a letter from Mark Twain attached inside back cover. 64 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan wrappers with yapped edges (small spot on front cover)
Book ID: 74473More details Price: $20.00 -
PLUMAS COUNTY WILDERNESS MAP: Recreation, Tour and Service Guide Map.
Concord, CA: Universal Productions, Inc. nd (ca 1980.). First edition - Jumbo edition PC-J-SO-R. Full color, includes many advertisements, Information on towns, detailed street maps, partial street indexes. Approximately 22 by 28 inches folded to 3 1/2 inches by 9 inches. Priced at $1.00.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 42485More details Price: $10.00 -
THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY: An Address.
Edition: First printing, a slim chapbook.
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1955. First edition - First separate printing of this address by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court delivered on the occasion of the Second Century Convocation of Washington University, St. Louis, February 19, 1955. A very fine copy in wrappers with Christmas slip from Helen and Frank Altschul laid in. One of 750 copies. 13 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in stiff dark blue wrappers with a red panel on the front cover.
Book ID: 54203More details Price: $25.00 -
THANK YOU FOR SO MANY THINGS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Panda Prints, (1968) dh. Hardcover first edition - A simple little book, not much more than an expanded greeting card (in fact the author is best known as the designer for the Panda Print greeting cards), but a book which is very much a product of its time - written and illustrated by the author, printed on bright pink stock throughout. Small format, approx 7 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches, unpaginated (26 pp)
Condition: Fine in red illustrated cloth in a very good dust jacket (small chip to upper edge of back cover of dj, partially price-clipped).
Book ID: 85334More details Price: $13.50 -
SOMEBODY'S THINKING OF YOU.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Panda Prints, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple little book on the true meaning of friendship, not much more than an expanded greeting card (in fact the author is best known as the designer for the Panda Print greeting cards), but a book which is very much a product of its time - written and illustrated by the author. Small format, approx 7 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches, unpaginated (26 pp)
Condition: Fine in gray illustrated cloth in a very good dust jacket ( price-clipped).
Book ID: 85335More details Price: $13.50 -
2 PIECES of WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" & "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France"
Condition: Fair condition with several edge tears, and some separation at the fold.
Book ID: 81646More details Price: $15.00 -
AMERICAN CATALOG AND STANDARD PREMIUM LIST OF ALL UNITED STATES COINS.
Edition: 8th edition.
Los Angeles: R. A. Wilson. 1936. Gives a price range for each coin to allow for condition and selling and buying. Includes a Mint List. Illustrated, ads, small format. 96 pp.
Condition: Good overall in stapled blue wrappers - some toning to the pages, minor wear to the covers.
Book ID: 81847More details Price: $15.00 -
RIVERS OF GOLD,
Edition: First thus.
Auburn, California: Placer Savings & Loan Association, nd (ca 1970). A collection of anecdotes and short stories about the early days in California's Mother Lode and Upper Sacramento Valley Country. Includes a story of a miner who was working at two mines in Amador City - Keystone and Bunker Hill - at the same time, the story behind the name "Murderer's Bar". photographs of the flood which washed out the bridge across the American River on Highway 49 in December 1964 and much more. Issued by Placer Savings & Loan Association, with a notation on the front cover "Compliments of Placer Savings." Illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings. While undated, this appears to be a slightly expanded version of the 1966 first edition, Ad for Placer Savings inside back cover. Large format, 44 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled full color illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name) Uncommon.
Book ID: 85675More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WOOING OF SODNAM DROLMA
Edition: 2nd printing.
Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1962. A story told in the mountains of Tibet. An old couple are tricked by a rogue into giving him their beautiful daughter in marriage but she is rescued by a handsome young hunter, who in turn tricks the rogue. Illustrated in full color throughout by Yoa Yu-tuo and Yoa Yu-hsin. 92 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some toning)
Book ID: 86722More details Price: $50.00 -
A COMP'S-EYE VIEW OF FOOTNOTES.
Edition: First printing.