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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1887. First Edition. Very Good. Illustrations W.C. Jackson, H.W. McVickar. [8x9.25"]; [1], viii, 409 pp. [1], frontispiece engraving of battle of Lake Champlain, 71 engravings on plates and illustrations in text; Dark blue and cream buckram over covers with embossed gilt lettering on front and spine, embossed gilt illustration of sailor climbing the ropes up the mast on front; Some shelf wear, rubbing and light soiling to covers, edges and corners, corners bumped, spine faded and rubbed, pp. 103 to 108 loose. A detailed account of the forgotten War of 1812, also known as the second revolutionary war. This was a confusing short war that President Madison was forced into. It was about impressment of US merchant ships, British use of natives to harass and limit western expansion and defiance of the British slave trade ban. This book is a detailed account of naval actions during the two and a half year war.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1887. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Very Good. W.C.Jackson, Illus.. [8x9.25"]; [1], viii, 318 pp. [1], frontispiece engraving of sinking of the Alabama, 55 engravings on plates and illustrations in text; Dark blue and cream buckram over covers with embossed gilt lettering on front and spine, embossed gilt illustration of a sail and arm on front; Some shelf wear, rubbing and light soiling to covers, edges and corners, corners bumped, spine faded and rubbed, front hinge cracked, but tight. This is an account of the Union naval battles and blockade and rivers control of the South during the American Civil War [1861 to 1865].

San Francisco: John Howell-Books [Alfred and Lawton Kennedy, Printers], 1970. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Limited to 5,000 copies [14x10.5in]; xi, 77 pp., 26 color lithograph illustrations by Abert, two color fold out maps, glossary, references and index; Cream cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, top and bottom edge trimmed with deckled foredge; White dust jacket with red and black lettering on front; Minimal shelf wear to bottom edges of book; Some soiling, age-toning and marks on front and edges of dust jacket with small chips along top edge. [Reese Best of the West 101]. James W. Albert (1820-1897) was a US Corps of Topograhical Engineers explorer and artist. He particiapted in several expeditions in the West and with Fremonts 3rd expedition as an artist and illustrated the reports and map sketches. This book is the second of two books published by John Howell from the discovery of Abert's journals in the 1960's. The first is Western America in 1846-1847 (1966), editied… Read More

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Company [Yosemite Park and Curry Company], 1938. Third Edition. Stiff wraps. Very Good. Ansel Adams. [12x8.5in], 48 unpaginated pages, frontispiece color image of Yosemite Falls, 54 black and white images by Ansel Adams, double page color map of Yosemite National Park; Stiff forest green wrappers with dark green lettering and illustration of Mirror Lake and Half Dome on front, three staple binding; Some shelf wear with mild soiling and age toning to wrappers with several stain spots along front joint. In the 1930's, motor car trips were becoming more common and these type of destination travel guides and advertisements for National Parks published. These are early and more commercialized photographs by Ansel Adams (1902-1984). During this period he became more established as a large landscape photographer and experimented in developing his style and compositions. This publication shows that range of work from images of people activities in Yosemite Valley and the National… Read More

Austin: The Encino Press, 1971. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine. SIGNED by author, #674 of 850 numbered copies, [xin]; [1], 51 pp., [1] colophon, five black and white images (several double pages); Dark brown paper on boards with gilt lettering on spine, cream label with image of a horse rangler and black lettering on front, all edges trimmed, image of cowboys and horses herding cattle on both end papers; Negligible shelf wear with prior owner book label on front end paper and author's signature on front free flylealf.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition, Later Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. [9.25x8.25in]; 211 pp., frontispiece of Endurance trapped in ice and heeled over, many images from Frank Hurley of the 150 that were saved with the rescue; Black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Speckled brown dust jacket with black and white lettering on front and spine, image of Endurance beset in the ice on front; Minimal shelf wear to edges. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition in 1914-1917. It was a complex plan that involved landing the Polar party on the Weddell sea ice shelf to travel an unknown route to the South Pole. A second team was landed to lay supply depots on the Ross Ice Shelf for over 400 miles to the Beardmore Glacier. These depots were to supply Shackleton's northern journey from the South Pole to the Ross Sea. The expedition did not achieve the objectives as the Endurance was beset and crushed in the ice covered Weddell Sea… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition, Later Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. [9.25x8.25in]; 211 pp., frontispiece of Endurance trapped in ice and heeled over, many images from Frank Hurley of the 150 that were saved with the rescue; Black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Speckled dark brown dust jacket with black and white lettering on front and spine, image of Endurance beset in the ice on front; Negligible shelf wear to edges, corners or covers, dust jacket has small closed tear on front top edge by joint. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition in 1914-1917. It was a complex plan that involved landing the Polar party on the Weddell sea ice shelf to travel an unknown route to the South Pole. A second team was landed to lay supply depots on the Ross Ice Shelf for over 400 miles to the Beardmore Glacier. These depots were to supply Shackleton's northern journey from the South Pole to the Ross Sea. The expedition did not… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, Later Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. [9.25x8.25in]; 211 pp., frontispiece of Endurance trapped in ice and heeled over, many images from Frank Hurley of the 150 that were saved with the rescue; Black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Speckled brown dust jacket with black and white lettering on front and spine, image of Endurance beset in the ice on front; Minimal shelf wear to edges. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition in 1914-1917. It was a complex plan that involved landing the Polar party on the Weddell sea ice shelf to travel an unknown route to the South Pole. A second team was landed to lay supply depots on the Ross Ice Shelf for over 400 miles to the Beardmore Glacier. These depots were to supply Shackleton's northern journey from the South Pole to the Ross Sea. The expedition did not achieve the objectives as the Endurance was beset and crushed in the ice covered Weddell Sea… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1988. First Edition. Fine. The Greenwood Press. limited to 450 copies printed by The Greenwood Press [#187] [Designed by Jack Stauffacher and printed by Patrick Reagh] [6.75x10.5"]; Illustrated gray toned covers with black lettering on white paper label on spine; xxiii, 192 pp. [4] , frontispiece image of Allyn, 10 plates of illustrations and images, notes, bibliography and index. Joseph Pratt Allyn [1833-1867] was a journalist and an Associate Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln for the Arizona Territory. This book is a collection of seventeen letters written to the Hartford Evening Press from 1863 to 1866 about his travels in the West. From the Introduction: "What emerges above all from this collection of letters is Joseph Allyn's extraordinary resilience and his unusual insight into the course of future events and alertness to what has not yet been experienced and developed. One can only regretfully reflect on what he might have seen, done and written… Read More

San Francisco: Amos Publishing Co, 1915. Later printing. Staple bound wraps. Near Fine. [4.25x6.25in]; Unpaginated, 32 plates with 110 black and white images, panoramic day and night image of Exposition; Light-blue paper wrappers with raised gilt lettering image of Tower of Jewels on front in gilt borders, image of Palace of Fine Arts on back in gilt borders, image of model of Woolworth building, New York, on inside back cover, two staple binding; Minimal rubbing to covers and spine, faint water spots on front, very little staple rust, small chip at bottom front and spine, corners and edges clean and tight. The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a significant event for San Francisco, California and the United States. The planning for the exposition began in 1904, two years before the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed most of the City and caused significant damage to most of the bay area. As part of the rebuilding and recovery efforts for San Francisco, the PPIE… Read More

New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. First Edition. Near Fine. [In Two Volumes] [The English Translation of 'Sydpolen'] 8vo [9.25x7in]; Dark navy blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt with other edges untrimmed; Vol. I - [1], xxxv, 392 pp., frontispiece of Amundsen with tissue guard, introduction by Fridtjof Nansen, 82 images, two maps one color foldout at back, Vol. II - x, 449 pp., same frontispiece, 52 plates with illustrations and photographs, with folding plan of "Fram" sectional, and 20 maps and charts, including one folding and one color; Minor shelf wear to edges, bright gilt lettering, Vol. I hinges cracked, Vol. II front hinge cracked, minor bumping and wear of corners. [Rosove 9.B2a, Spence 18, Conrad p. 113, Howgego A13]. Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) originally planned the expedition to repeat Nansen's drift through the Arctic Ocean with the ‘Fram' and likely an attempt to reach the North Pole. On hearing that Cook and Peary both claimed to have reached… Read More

London: John Murray, 1912. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine. two volumes [9.25x7in]; Vol. I - xxxv, [1], 392 pp., frontispiece image of Amundsen portrait with tissue guard, 58 plates with 84 images and chart, folding color map, Vol. II - x, 449 pp., [1], frontispiece of Amundsen in polar kit with tissue guard, 45 plates with 52 images and 2 charts, folding diagram of ‘Fram', folding chart folding colored map, 16 charts in text; Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, red border on front with debossed Norwegian flag illustration, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; Some shelf wear overall, edges and corners bumped, top and bottom of spines rubbed with minor fraying, vol. I prior owner bookplate on front endpaper, vols. I & II bookseller stamp on rear endpaper, small blind embossed stamp of ‘Royal Institution of Great Britain' on title pages, ink stamp of ‘Disposed by the Royal Institute" on lower rear endpapers. Overall a very Near Fine and bright condition… Read More

San Jose, CA: Kay Archuleta and Smith McKay, 1977. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Joe Seney. [10.25x7in]; [6], 116 pp., two page 1871 map of Calistoga before title page, pen and ink illustrations and images, appendix and index; Orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear to covers, signed by author and illustrator; Tan dust jacket with dark brown lettering on front and spine, illustration of Samuel Brannan on front; Minimal shelf wear to dust jacket edges, closed 1/2 tear on front top edge, spine faded. Includes a tipped in original typed errata sheet and a 1979 letter from the Silverado Museum, St. Helena regarding the book. The story of upper Napa County is also the long and colorful story of Samuel Brannan. He lead the Mormon Battalion to San Francisco in 1849 to explore establishment of a Mormon community in California only to discover the beginnings of the Gold Rush in progress. He stayed in San Francisco to manage the Mormon interests while the… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Very Good. E. Boyd Smith, Illustrator. [October] [8.5x6.5in]; Olive green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and front, pictorial illustration of vulture, wolf, skeleton and shrubs on front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; xi [5] 280 [2] pp., pictorial title page and frontispiece illustration with tissue guard, 3 plate illustrations and 73 illustrations in brown ink in text and chapter headings; Shelf wear and rubbing to covers, spine, edges and corners, slightly darken spine, minor fraying of cloth at corners, top and bottom spine and front joint, front and rear hinge cracked, past glue repairs to front end paper, prior owner pencil notes on front fly and colorful children's bookplate on half-title, closed tears at edges to pages 29 and 47. [Volkmann Z80 #2, Graff 114, Howell50 273, Cowan64 p24]. Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an American writer of the Southwest. This was her first of 35 books and, by many… Read More

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1987. First Edition. As new/As new. [9.25x6.25in]; [8], 309 pp., index; Tan cloth backstrip and deep red cloth covers with black ink lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Dust jacket light brown with color image of Indian baskets on front and black lettering on spine, insert of color illustration of Austin and black lettering, advertisements on back. Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an American writer of the Southwest in the first half of the 20th century. Her first book, The Land of Little Rain (1903) was, by many accounts, her best of the 35 books published. She was a story teller of life and nature on the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of Owens Valley, the Inyo Mountains, Mojave Desert, Death Valley and Western Nevada. In Lawrence Clark Powell, California Classics, he writes "There in the county of Inyo she put down roots and absorbed the lore of the Paiute and Shoshone Indians and of the shepherds, ranchers and miners. With her feet on the earth and her… Read More

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1917. First Edition. Near Fine. E. Boyd Smith, Illustrator. [7.75x5.25in]; Brown cloth covers with dark brown lettering on spine and front, all edges trimmed; [10], 440 pp., frontispiece and three illustrations by E. Boyd Smith; Minor edge wear and bumped corners, old tape offsets on front and rear endpapers, small chips at bottom of illustrations list and following page, no loss of text, small stain bottom of page 5;. Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was a western writer with settings in California and New Mexico. She is best known for her works on the California desert landscape in The Land of Little Rain (19030) and other writings on Native American culture, literature and mysticism. She was also active in the California artist community of Carmel and Greenwich Village.

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition, 1st Printing. Very Good. Eric Pape, Illustrator. [April][7.5x5.25in]; Light olive green cloth on covers with gilt lettering and maroon/blue illustrations on spine, front and rear, all edges trimmed, light green with maroon patterns endpapers; [10], 425 pp., [1], [2] advertisements, frontispiece and three color illustrations by Eric Pape; Self wear to edges and covers, spine slightly darken, rear hinge cracked, binding still tight. Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an American writer of the Southwest and best known for her first book in 1903, The Land of Little Rain. Of her 35 books over her writing career, this third book was her first novel. Set in Mexico, it is a mission romance novel of the mid 1800's.