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Boston: Cornhill Publishing Co., nd. Early reprint. Hardcover. Fine. 460 pp., frontispiece and 48 half-tone plates, many illustrations in the text; 8vo, rebound in half black morocco and tan boards (binding signed "W. H. French"), top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Finely bound copy of this classic work on Japanese art.
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THE ABC OF JAPANESE ART
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERICA: To which are added the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China . . .
by Coxe, William. (1747-1828).
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London: Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1780. First edition. Hardcover. Scuffing to boards, corners reconstructed, occassional spotting to maps and text, offsetting to pages adjacent to view plate, overall about very good. xxii, 344, [16] pp., 5 folding plates (large frontispiece "General Map of the Russian Empire", view of the Frontier Town of Miamatschin, 3 additional folding maps); quarto (267 mm) contemporary marbled boards, later rebacking with russet calf, maroon morocco lettering pieces. A well-researched account of Russian voyages of discovery. Coxe combed the libraries of St. Petersburg for the journals of Russian explorers Nevodsikoff, Serebranikoff, Trapesnikoff, Pushkareff, Drusinin, Kulkoff, Korovin, Glottoff, Solovioff, Otcheredin, Krenitizin, Levasheff, Synd, Bering, Chirikov, et al, and the text is largely his translation of extracts of these journals. Pp. xi-xii contain a bibliography of works used. Errata on p. xiv, including a pasted-on slip of additional "Omitted from…
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THE ACORN-PLANTER: A California Forest Play. Planned to be Sung by Efficient Singers Accompanied by a Capable Orchestra.
by London, Jack.
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London: Mills & Boon, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt somewhat dulled faint splash stain to front cover, light foxing, else near fine. Original slate blue cloth lettered in gilt; vi, 84 pp., 4 pp. advertisements for Macmillan's Jack London books at rear. This Mills & Boon first UK edition is bound from the first US (Macmillan) edition, including the Macmillan catalog at rear. Title page is a cancel (tipped in) with Macmillan printing and copyright on back of page and Mills & Boon's name on front. Only 1350 copies of the first US edition were printed, likely many fewer bear the UK imprint. NB: Sisson & Martens (Jack London First Editions) make note of BAL's error concerning the number of pages of advertisements at the rear of the US edition: 4 in all examined copies, not 6 as reported in BAL. BAL 11964; Sisson & Martens p. 128.
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ACROSS CANADA: This is a Souvenir of trip on the Canadian Pacific" (envelope caption). 5 Folding menu cards.
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n.p.: Canaian Pacific Railway, 1946. Original edition. All about fine in worn envelope. Each bifold menu approximately 10 x 7 inches folded, 10 x 14 open, illstrated front covers, in original mailing envelope
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ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE.
by Shaw, R. C. (Reuben Cole).
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Farmland, Ind.: W. C. West, 1896. First edition. Slight wear to covers, frontispiece tissue guard slightly stained, small ex libris at upper corner of front fixed endpaper, about very good. 200 pp., frontispiece; 12mo, original green cloth with gilt title. Custom slipcase. R. C. Shaw was a member of an overland party numbering some 50 men nder the rubric "the Mount Washington Mining Company." Their Boston-to-California expedition began in April and concluded in September, 1849. The first leg of the journey was via rail and steam boat from Boston to Indepence, Missouri, thence by horseback. A fine account.Graff 3744; Howes S349; Kurutz 571a.
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ADTYPE WORK BOOK: a complete showing of hundreds of type faces in current use, each in complete fonts and in all available sizes. linotype, monotype, foundry, photo lettering and associated photo processes.
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Los Angeles: Adtype, (1956). First edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately faded and scuffed, page edges moderately frayed, contents quite clean and overall near very good. Folio (14.5 x 13 inches), black cloth 4-ring metal-hinged binder; v, 498 pp. 2 index tabs at fore-edge. A massive mid-century type catalog. Text, display, and ornamental types of all sorts. OCLC locates only 6 copies.
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THE ADVANTAGES AND NECESSITY OF A DEEP DRAIN TUNNEL FOR THE GREAT COMSTOCK LEDGE.
by Sutro, Adolph.
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San Francisco: n.p., 1865. First edition. Paperback. MInor staining to wrappers, chip to lower right corner of front wrapper, paper separating at bottom of spine, presentable and near very good. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pp. "The original prospectus for the famous Sutro Tunnel, which was constructed to drain water from the mines on the Comstock Lode." (Streeter catalog). Flake 1922 (for an 1876 edition); Streeter sale 2343. Rare in commerce. The 1968 Streeter sale is the only auction record for this pamphlet. OCOC/Worldcat locates 17 copies.
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THE ADVENTURE OF DEATH.
by Mackenna, Robert W.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Moderate soiling to boards, else very good. xiv, 197, [5] pp.; small octavo, gilt boards, top edge gilt. These explorations on the theme of death were prompted by the terrors of the World War. A companion volume, The Adventure of Life, followed in 1919. The author was a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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ADVERTISEMENTS FOR IRELAND: Being a Description of the State of Ireland in the Reign of James I. Contained in a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. An Extra Volume of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
by O'Brien, George. Editor
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Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1923. First edition. Very good. viii, 66 pp.; royal 8vo, green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Text is from a manuscript of uncertain authorship, but dated with certainty to 1623. This was toward the end of "plantation" period during which the British government seized Catholic owned lands in Ireland and turned them over to Protestant settlers, mainly from England, Wales, and Scotland.
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AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN
by Huxley, Aldous.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good in near very good jacket with shallow chips to edges, tear at upper left edge of jacket front panel. 356 pp., octavo, original maroon cloth, dustjacket. Written soon after Huxley left England for Southern California, this novel is described on the front jacket panel as "Crowded with amusing characters and situations, this new novel of a rich man obsessed by the desire to live indefinitely is Huxley at his most entertaining . . ." The central character, a Hollywood millionaire, has been compared to Orson Welles' Charles Foster Kane, a character modelled after William Randolph Hearst. Stated first edition with 2 Harper date codes on copyright page. Harper Bromer A49.2.
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AGAIN THE LITERARY ASPIRANT. (Article in "The Critic." Vol. XLI, No. 3. Sept. 1902)
by London, Jack
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NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. First edition, first printing. Moderate soiling to wrappers, bottom of spine chipped, else very good. Complete magazine with all pages, illustrations, advertisements, etc.. Original printed wrappers. London discusses the tribulations of writing for a living. Uncollected. Woodbridge #815
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A-GYPSYING.
by Mezquida, Anna Blake.
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San Francisco: Marvin Cloyd, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Light wear to edges of covers, but about very good. 71 pp., 12mo, brown textured card covers with gilt title. A book of verse by the San Francisco writer, poet, and journalist Anna Blake Mezquida (1883-1965). Inscribed and signed by the author on front blank leaf, with re-gifting inscription following.
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AH-WAH-NE-DAYS. A VISIT TO THE YOSEMITE VALLEY IN 1872.
by Jackson, Helen Hunt. [H. H.]. Introduction by Oscar Lewis.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very fine, entirely clean and unworn, in plain paper jacket . 84 pp, title-page illustration and 7 chapter head pieces in colors by Mallette Dean; octavo, yellow-green cloth shelfback with printed title label, green and beige decorative boards. Text is from articles by Helen Hunt Jackson published in the New York Independent in October and November 1872. They were later collected in her 1878 book "Bits of Travel." This volume the 137th from the Book Club of California. Printed by Mallette Dean at Kentfield, CA with Van Dijck monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris.
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ALBUM OF SUTRO HEIGHTS. San Francisco, California. (cover title).
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(Leipzig: Carle Sarte), circa 1890. Original edition. Slight wear to wrapper spine, else about fine. Original textured red wrappers blocked in black, 6.25 x 5 inches, 25 accordion-fold panels each with 2 or more lithographed illustrations, 4 pp text at rear. Stunning view book of one of San Francisco's major attractions in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes a plan of the grounds and a portrait of Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) the German-born engineer and mining entrepreneur who made his substantial fortune through his Comstock Lode silver mine in Nevada. He served as mayor of San Francisco from 1895 to 1897.
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ALBUM OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 42 PHOTO VIEWS. (cover title).
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San Francisco: Bancroft Co., 1889. Original edition. Fine. 42 photo-lithograph views on 28 accordion-fold panels, embossed red cloth covers, 5x6 inches. A remarkably well preserved example of this charming view book. Scarce.
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ALCOHOL: One Man's Meat.
by Strecker, Edward A. and Francis T. Chambers, Jr.
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New York: Macmillan, 1944. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good jacket. Original red cloth, octavo, xvi, 230 pp. Jacket. . . . is another man's poison. An analysis of the psychological and physical effects of alcohol on drinkers recognizing that to some, alcohol is poison.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY: A Biography Volume 1, 1894 -1939 (and) ALDOUS HUXLEY: A Biography Volume 2, 1939 - 1963.
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London: Chatto & Windus in Association with Collins, London, 1973, 1974. First editions. Hardcover. Both volumes fine in near fine jackets. 2 volumes, original blue cloth, octavos, xv, 400; xiii, 378 pp. frontispiece and several illustrations from photographs in each volume, jackets.
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ALICE IN ORCHESTRALIA.
by La Prade, Ernest. Foreword by Walter Damrosch. Illustrated by Carroll Snell.
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Early reprint. Hardcover. Contemporary owner name to front free endpaper, else very good in jacket with moderate soiling, dampstain to lower corner of rear jacket panel. Original orange cloth, small octavo, 171 pp., b/w illustrations, pictorial dustjacket An introduction to the orchestra for children borrowing Lewis Carroll's "Alice" as the main character in the fantasy adventure.
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ALOHA!": A Hawaiian Salutation
by Chaney, George Leonard
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. First edition. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, couple spots to covers, top edge dusty, still very good copy. Original green cloth with gilt title and decoration; small octavo (5 x 7 inches); ix, 299 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 2 plates with tissue guards, folding map A 19th-century Yankee's fond account of his trip Hawaii
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ALONE. (The Ariel Poems Number 4)
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(London: Faber & Gwyer), [1927]. First edition. Faint stains to covers, else very good. 6 unpaginated leaves; illustrated with black and white wood engraving on front cover and full-page color wood engraved frontispiece; 12mo, white card wrappers. #298 of 350 copies on Zander's hand made paper. Printed at the Curwen Press.
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