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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good, lightly edgeworn price-clipped jacket. xii, 285 pp., illustrated; octavo, brown cloth, dustjacket. Full account of the raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico by the Alianza Federal de Mercedes led by Reies Lopez Tijerina. This New Mexico-based militant Chicano movement sought justice for descendants of the original Spanish colonists in the region. The Alianza claimed that Spanish and Mexican land titles ostensibly guaranteed under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo were dishonored. The purpose of the raid was to capture and put on trial the county District Attorney - who was then out of town. State governor David Cargo sent in the National Guard. A pivotal event in the Chicano civil rights movement.

(Tokyo: Seibunsha, 1947). First edition. Edges somewhat spotted, else very good in very good printed jacket, outer plain jacket somewhat worn. Original pictorial boards with color cover illustration by Nakagawa, 331, 5 pp. Color pictorial endpapers,10 color and 15 monochrome plates after artwork by Nakagawa. Plain and printed jackets Autobiography of the noted Japanese artist, Kazumasa Nakagawa, (1893-1991). Subtitled "a memoir of hs old friends, art and daily life." Text entirely in Japanese.

(Missoula): Black Stone Press, (1978). First edition. Paperback. Fine. Decorative wrappers, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, 39, [1] pp., frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations printed in red A whimsically surreal alchemical farce with appropriate accompanying illustratiions. Edition of 526 copies: 500 in wrappers and 26 in boards.

Sacramento: Sacramento Pioneer Foundation with the Sacramento Historic Landmark Commission, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, original brown cloth, 230 pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions from vintage photographs, lithographs, engravings, etc. Designed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Publisher's prospectus laid in.

Venetiis (Venice): L. Lazari, 1837. Early printing. Light rubbing to covers, crease to spine, else fine. [5], 432, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece; 12 mo, 19th century full tan calf, all edges gilt. The twenty-four prayers of St. Nersis Shnorhali (1102-1173) translated into twenty-four languages and printed in their native writing systems (some of the less obvious are clarified, we hope accurately): Armenice (Armenian); Graece; Latine; Italice; Gallice; Hispanice; Germanice; Hollandice; Suetice; Anglice; Hibernice; Russice; Polonice; Illyrice (Western Balkan, Cyrillic alphabet); Hungarice; Iberice (Georgian, Mkhedruli alphabet); Aethiopice; Turcice; Persice; Arabice; Siriace; Hebraice; Chaldaice (Chaldean, Syriac Madenhaya alphabet); Sinice (Chinese).

Tokyo / London: Holp Shuppan / Bodley Head, 1981. Facsimile edition. All parts are in fine condtion. Contains 16-page facsimile reproduction of the game rules and verses pamphlet, reproduction of the cloth-backed color printed game board (22.5 x 17.75 inches folded to 7.5 x 4.5 inches in facsimile reproduction of sleeve/box, and modern sleeve housing the lot Reproduced from the original in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Toronto Public Library

Sausalito: Litra-Ad Publishing Co., n.d. (1927?). First edition. Hardcover. Fading to spine, 1937 gift inscription to front fixed endpaper, else fine. Original greenn pictorial boards, octavo, 47 pp, illustrated with 2 mounted photographs

Paris: l'Autheur et J. Mynial, [1926]. First edition. Minor scuffing to covers, text browing, else near fine. 333 pp., page decorations printed in rose thrughout; small quarto, rebound in contempory navy blue morocco and decorative boards, original wrappers bound in. Bitting p. 343; Cagle (2nd ed.) 364. Not in Simon

New York: Appleton, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt somewhat dulled, else very good. 261 pp., octavo, original blue cloth. Astronomy and the history of astronomical discoveries by the former Astronomer of the Observatory of Paris.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1986. First edition. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Original red cloth and decorative boards, quarto, 238 pp. Edition of 500 copies. Supplements the Book Club's 1956 "The Letters of Frank Norris," edited by Franklin Walker.

Oakland: The Holmes Book Co., printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1948. First edition, 500 copies printed. Minor scuffing to covers, but very good.. Original cloth and boards; quarto; (10), 217 pp. Frontispiece and several full-page illustrations. Printed "Terms of Sale" sheet laid in. Finely printed catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Western Americana. 4311 items described.

London: Geo. Lawford (and) John Murray, 1829, 1833. First volume is the second edition; second volume is the first edition. Light wear to joints; evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown in both volumes, old embossed stamp to title pages. 2 volumes, contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards; octavos; viii, 272; liv, 241 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes, and 100 wood engraved initials (first volume); 177 wood-engraved vignettes and 101 wood-engraved initials (second volume). James Northcote (1746-1831) was a prolific English painter and draftsman whose career was much advanced through his apprenticeship with Joshua Reynolds, for whom he worked for about 5 years, beginning in 1771. In his foreword to the first volume of Fables, Northcote states: "Although the original invention and designs for the prints at the head of each Fable are my own, yet they have been most excellently drawn on wood, and prepared for the Engravers, by Mr. William… Read More