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PRIMITIVO AND HIS DOG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1949). Hardcover first edition - A story of the friendship between a young Mexican boy, living in a silver mining town in the mountains, and Fonzo, his dog and best friend, and of his struggles to get enough money to send Fonzo to the vet, when the dog was hit by a car. Illustrated with large black and white photographs by the author on every page, with just a few lines of text below. Large format, unpaginated.
Condition: Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, no dj.
Book ID: 84193More details Price: $15.00 -
LETTERS FROM KATRINA: Stories of Hope and Inspiration.
Edition: First printing.
Longmont, Colorado: Growing Fields Books, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book with photographs and letters of some of the children involved in a project to send books and letters to survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf States, and with their replies about what it was like living through that disaster. It began in one elementary classroom in Colorado and eventually included schools, classrooms and students from California to Virginia. "In searching their heart and mind for meaningful words to write...the children found their own voice of value and a way to make their own special contribution." Full color photographs on every page by Kim Lemaire. SIGNED on the title page by Mark Hoog. Large oblong format. 96 pp. ISBN: 978-0977039197.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 76232More details Price: $35.00 -
LINING UP: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth collection of poems by Pulitzer prize winning poet and translator. Includes several closet-dramas in verse, called by the author Two-Part Inventions, and featuring black and white photographs of writers of the Belle Epoque. 88 pp. ISBN: 0-689114206.
Condition: Fine in magenta cloth in a near fine silver dust jacket.
Book ID: 86228More details Price: $25.00 -
VIETNAM: THE BATTLE COMES HOME: A Photographic Record of Post-Traumatic Stress With Selected Essays.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1984. First edition - Essays on post-traumatic stress disorder as experienced by Vietman vets by Carl Trocki, Robert J. Lifton, John P. Wilson, Jim Goodwin, Tom Keller and Jerry Atchison, Arthur S. Blank, Jr., Arthur Egendorf, Peter Marin and Robert O. Muller. Illustrated with photographs by Gordon Baer. Directory of Outreach Programs, bibliograhy. Large square format. 112 pp. ISBN: 0-871001993.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of back cover).
Book ID: 84997More details Price: $16.50 -
MOUNTAIN MEASURE, a Southern Appalachian Verse Notebook.
Edition: First printing.
Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1975. SIGNED first edition - Illustrated with photographs of the Appalachian Mountains, and of the people who live in them, by Robert Amberg. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For.... who has made an art of geography, with all good wishes."
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 4154More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ART OF SHAPING SHRUBS, TREES AND OTHER PLANTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - How to create beautiful healthy plants by pruning and cutting, illustrated with over 150 black and white photographs by the authors of topiary from across Europe and North America and Japan. 125 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (partially price-clipped)
Book ID: 83662More details Price: $16.50 -
GRANTA 60, Winter 1997: UNBELIEVABLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1997. SIGNED first edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Aimee Bender at her story 'Loser." Also includes contributions from Ariel Dorfman, Clive Sinclair, a photographic essay on the Nuba people of Sudan and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (some wear to the covers, creasing to first page)
Book ID: 60361More details Price: $16.00 -
CALIFORNIA MISSIONS: A Pictorial History.
Edition: First printing.
Menlo Park, CA: Lane Book Company, (1966.). Hardcover first edition - A Sunset Book - "A comprehensive, readable text enhanced by historical illustrations, the lavish use of new photographs, maps, decorative renderings, plans and drawings." Large format. Bibliography, index. 322 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 55447More details Price: $15.00 -
ZYZZYVA: The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists, Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 1996.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: ZYZZYVA, Inc. 1996. SIGNED first edition - The eleventh anniversary issue of this interesting magazine - includes contributions from James Broughton, Joseph Hansen, Jane Hirshfield, Gary Snyder and more. SIGNED by THREE authors: Jane Hirshfield at her poem 'The Adamantine Perfection of Desire", Kevin Killian at "Who" and Adam Hochschild at his essay "Finding the Trap Door." Illustrated. 160 pp.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 57280More details Price: $35.00 -
Building for Battle: U-BOAT PENS OF THE ATLANTIC BATTLE.
Edition: First printing.
Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Military, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - Revisits the giant pens built during World War II in the ports of Brittany, France, to shelter more than a dozen submarines at one time. Illustrated throughout with over 150 photographs of then and now, in both black and white and full-color. Bibliography, index. Slightly oversized. 175 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 978-1526705440.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89169More details Price: $21.50 -
JEFFERSON'S CHILDREN: The Story of One American Family.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A journey across the country by Shannon Lanier, a descendent of Jefferson, and photographer Jane Feldmen, to meet the rest of his family, the descendants - both black and white - of Thomas Jefferson -and in some cases, of Sally Hemings. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author, Shannon Lanier, and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated throughout with photographs in both color and black and white. Introduction by Lucian K. Truscott IV. Index. Large square format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-375-805974.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 83154More details Price: $40.00 -
WE WON'T MOVE: Poems and Photographs of the International Hotel Struggle.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 88646More details Price: $100.00 -
RED INK: A Native American Student Publication Volume Three (3) Number Three (3), Spring 1995
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1995. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes articles on American Indian identity by Frederick Lomayesva, on films by Brent Michael Davids. Words of the Wind by Adrienne King, photo essay by Annetta Sapier, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format. 46 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78455More details Price: $18.00 -
BERNARD MAYBECK: Artisan, Architect, Artist.
Edition: First printing, a large square paperback.
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1983.). First edition - A study of the influential San Francisco Bay Area architect Maybeck by his friend Kenneth Cardwell. Maybeck designed numerous homes (including the shingled houses in Berkeley), the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, buildings on the U.C. Berkeley campus, and much more Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, plans and elevations. Includes a Chronology of Executed Works & Projects & Bibliography. Bibliography; Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-87905-1485.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57588More details Price: $21.50 -
BERNARD MAYBECK: Artisan, Architect, Artist.
Edition: 2nd printing, a large square paperback.
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1983.). A study of the influential San Francisco Bay Area architect Maybeck by his friend Kenneth Cardwell. Maybeck designed numerous homes (including the shingled houses in Berkeley), the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, buildings on the U.C. Berkeley campus, and much more Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, plans and elevations. Includes a Chronology of Executed Works & Projects & Bibliography. Bibliography; Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-87905-1485.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57587More details Price: $15.00 -
IN TUSCANY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lavishly illustrated tribute to Italian village life with new essays by Mayes, including one by her husband poet Edward Mayes, illustrated with 200 full color photographs by Bob Krist, including many 2 page spreads. SIGNED by Frances Mayes on a bookplate on the front endpapers. Slightly oversized, printed on heavy stock, 269 pp. . ISBN: 0-7679-05350.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56945More details Price: $31.50 -
CALIFORNIA LANDMARKS: A Photographic Guide to the State's Historic Spots.
Edition: First edition.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Combines more than 100 photographs with maps for motorists, divided into four main areas: Southern Coast (including San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura); Mid-Coast (Monterey Peninsula to Drake's Bay); The Mother Lode Area (gold rush country in the Sierra foothills); and other scattered areas. Historical Key and index of place names at end of book. xvi, 149 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription, some rubbing to the dj)
Book ID: 68752More details Price: $25.00 -
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY McCUNE.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - An indictment of our prison system - McCune, a "low IQ" man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death although his sentence was eventually commuted (but not until after he mutilated himself), and even after the commutation he spent months in isolationm but despite this he continued to write his story. Illustrated with photographs by Lyon, who also wrote the introduction. Many of McCune's drawings were included in Lyon's 1971 book 'Conversations with the Dead." 154 pp. ISBN: 0-879320494.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover.
Book ID: 88516More details Price: $21.50 -
BURR MCINTOSH MONTHLY, JULY, 1909, Volume XIX, Number 6.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good (some wear to the edges of the cover, a few pages with short edge tears, but overall very bright and attractive.)
Book ID: 81660More details Price: $50.00 -
JAMES A. MICHENER'S USA: The People and the Land.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A large format book illustrated with many photographs. Produced in conjunction with the 5-part teleivision series of the same name. Foreword by Michener, edited by Peter Chaitin. Index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-517545276.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 11475More details Price: $18.00 -
HENRY MILLER: The Paris Years
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French by Timothy Bent. Based on unpublished letters and recollections of conversations, this is an intimate account of a writer's self discovery as observed by his friend, the famed photograper Brassai. Illustrated with sixteen black and white photographs by Brassai. Translator's note, map, bibliography. ix, 224 pp. ISBN: 1559702877.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 54176More details Price: $18.00 -
OLD DOG TOWN.
Edition: First printing.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs and stories of some of the dogs which live at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah - from Amra the Malamute sheriff to Jethro the shaggy-dog mayor, to Ginger, a Chesapeake Bay retriever who was liberated from a puppy mill. Small square format; 43 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-586851101.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83747More details Price: $15.00 -
PACIFIC LUMBER SHIPS.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: Superior Publishing Company. (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The stories of the ships - both sail and steam - that plied the lumber trade in and out of Pacific ports like Seattle, Tacoma, Eureka, San Francisco, and Hawaii, bringing the lumber needed to build the new West. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of old photographs. Index of pictures. Large format, 192 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43467More details Price: $30.00 -
THIS IS CALIFORNIA.
Edition: First edition.
Menlo Park, California & Germany: Lane Pub. Co., / Ludwig Simon Verlag, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - Large format book illustrated with 216 black and white photographs by Ebert. Includes a ten page introduction by the photographer, a map and an index to the photos. Printed in Germany.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (name stamped on front endpaper, price-clipped, some short closed tears to the dj, chipping at top of spine of dj.).
Book ID: 58406More details Price: $25.00 -
THE FACES OF FANTASY.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: SIGNED by SEVEN authors at their photographs: George R. R. Martin, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Peter Straub, Diane Paxson. Peter Beagle and Charles de Lint. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49127More details Price: $65.00 -
A TRIP AROUND CAPE COD: Our Summer Land and Memories of My Childhood.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overalll in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover, and beveled edges - some rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine, the corners, and even the lower edges of the boards, front hinge cracking, and title page almost detached, but still holding. Despite the flaws this is an appealing vintage book in the uncommon blue binding.
Book ID: 85206More details Price: $75.00 -
BEING PERFECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A small volume, a single essay on the "perfection trap" and how to avoid, illustrated throughout with photographs. INSCRIBED on a blank prelim page. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505490.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61193More details Price: $24.50 -
STONES WITNESS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - "Nine miles down a primitive trail, over hills of sand and rock, across ankle-deep streams, and around mires of quickmud lies Kiet Seel, a thirteenth-century ancestral Puebloan ruin. This is the place, ancient and enduring, from which Margaret Randall begins her meditations in Stones Witness.. . Her words and photographs take us from the paintings surviving on the walls of Kiet Seel to the paintings preserved on the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With her we visit red rock canyons, touch ancient stones, and feel the ebb and flow of the natural world." SIGNED on the first page and dated March 13, 2010. A beautiful book, a collection of poems, prose-poems and full color photographs. Notes, 180 pp. ISBN: 9780816526437.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 57844More details Price: $25.00 -
RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written for children (but a book which will appeal to all ages), this is an explanation of the different events included in a rodeo - "cowboy games" - illustrated with the award-winning author's hand-colored photographs. Slightly oversized oblong format, unpaginated [30pp]. ISBN: 0-805033882.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 82157More details Price: $18.50 -
RED INK: A Native American Student Publication Volume FIVE (5) Number ONE (1), FALL 1996
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1996. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes articles on Indian gaming by Robert Morin, on memories of memories of Eskimo culture by Mary Jane Litchard. archeology on the rez by Al Livingston, poetry by Nantiki Rose, Cindi Landrum, E. K Kim Caldwell, art by Jessica Estrada, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format. 98 pp. Cover art by Leonard Chana.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78456More details Price: $20.00