New York: Henry Holt. First Ediion. Octavo. 225 pages. Robert Houston in the NY Times Book Review says there are a different voice from Faulkner or Erskine Caldwell and sharper sense of irony. Jamie Miller in The Bloomsbury Review writes "his prose, is complex and ironic: it as beautiful and...
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1914. 446 pages. 36 leaves of plates. When Alexander Smith Taylor's article, "the Indianology of California" appeared in a 1860 edition of the California Farmer, it became the basis for work by Bancroft, Powers and Kroeber. This work was a supplement of the work and...
Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1842. 12mo. 54 pages. An important and uncommon work based on the New Testament book written to Philemon who was an early convert of the Apostle Paul. When his escaped slave, Onesimus was thrown in prison next to Paul, he became a convert so Paul...
Hollywood, CA: The Cloister Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. Limited. 3 preliminary leaves, 26 pages, photographic illustrations. This rare item is in as new condition of which only 500 copies were printed and has been sought after by the most serious collector of surfing books. It is considered the first...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1865. Small Octavo. 364pp., illustrated. The author writes about the causes of the outbreaks, of the commencement of the massacres and the battles of redwood ferry, wood lake, etc., the many captivities of families, trials of the prisoners, executions, The battles on the Missouri along...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 256pp., illustrated. The sequel to his first book on California. This work includes Oregon, including a journey through Washington Territory to Victoria, in Vancouver's Island and the Sandwich Islands. He writes about the farm lands, Hawaiians, wine country, the rivers...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863. First American Edition. Octavo. First issue with the word "about" repeated twice on page 314. Francis or Franny was from a theatrical family. She followed in their footsteps soon traveling to the US for a two-year theater tour. She was well received with many...
New York; (1875): Ivison, Blakemann and Co. First Edition. Small Octavo. . 263pp., For the beginner in geology which covers kinds of rocks, their structures, making rocks, ways plants and animals contributed to rock making, air, moisture and more throughout time. A fine bright copy bound in dark green pictorial...
Boston: S.E. Cassino and Co., 1885. First Edition. Octavo. Translated from the German by Rev. A.B. Hervey. 466pp. (4)pp. ads at rear. illustrated which includes various types of microscopes, their used, adjustments, lenses, etc. Bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt, floral endpaers, rubbing to joints and corners, light wear.....
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1887. Octavo. 4th edition. 655pp.. xxvii, (1)pp. description of the plates, (1)pp. errata, illustrated. Such topics include; The Danish Shell-mounds; The Swiss lake-dwellings; The Flint Implements of the Drift; North American Archaeology, Cave-men and more. Bound in green cloth, pictorial gilt spine lettered in...
London: John Van Voorst, 1875. Octavo. Third edition of which an additional 100 pages of new matter. The original articles have been revised according to modern researches and views. The plates have all been newly engraved by copper for a sharper image and three new plates have been added and...
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First America Edition. Octavo. First priinting. T. E. Lawrence's story of his journeys in the middle East in support of the Arab rebellion against Turkish Ottoman rule. His knowlege of the east and the desert landed him a job with the British intelligence service...
London: Cassell and Company, 1910. Octavo. 568pp., illustrated with 24 colored plates and numerous other illustrations. Many of the illustrations were taken in the 19th century. The text has been carefully revised and numerous changes made where recent observations have made such changes necessary. Information includes all planets, comets, shooting...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. 310pp., publisher's catalog at rear. illustrated with several full page and folding plates. This work grew from lectures delivered at Columbia University. The subject presents a wide field of the solar system. In order to keep within reasonable bounds, many interesting...
Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1991. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author. Acollection of works pertaining to Southern California with an index of authors and titles. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy.
Los Angeles: Cheney, W.M. (printer), 1958. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to only 45 copies, printed for Lawrence Clark Powell. 8pp. (1)pp. colophon. A fine bright copy string bound in beige paper wraps lettered in black.
Los Angeles: The Ward Richie Press (printer), 1955. Small Octavo. Signed by Ward Richie who was the printer and Lawrence Clark Powell who wrote the foreword. 23pp. A check list of the Jeffers collection in the Mary Norton Clapp Library published on the fifthieth anniversary of his graduation, June 1955...
Tokyo; (2006): Kodansha International, Ltd. First Edition. Quarto. . First printing. 192pp. Illustrated treaties on sword polishing--the first in English. Illustrated with detailed photos; glossary. Index. Bound in blue paper covered boards lettered in silver, spine lettering silver, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.
Nordingen: Beck, 1868. First Edition. 355p. The author founded a major chemical laboratory in Munich in 1853. He was the founder of the Vierteljahressschrift fuer Pharmacie. This is one of his scarce books published in his prime as a researcher scholar on plant analysis. ex-lib bookplate on front endpaper, numbers...
Greenwich, CN: Ablex Publ. Corp. 1997. First Edition. Octavo. 385pp. Text. References. Indexes for subject and author. Bound in tan boards, with black lettering.
