Search Results: Titles starting with A from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

San Francisco: Grapestake Gallery, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The rare deluxe issue, this is number 41 of 100 copies bound in cloth and signed by Richard Misrach. This copy is additionally inscribed by Misrach to acclaimed American photographer Ralph Gibson on the front flyleaf, with Gibson's ink stamp above the first photograph. Quarto. 54 black and white photographs. Original white cloth, with a black and white photograph mounted on the front panel, and the spine printed in black. In the original acetate dust wrapper, slightly short as issued, with some light yellowing. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. An excellent association copy of "his masterwork"; "many of Misrach's early negatives were destroyed in a fire in the late 1970s, which makes this book a valuable reference for the series as well as a compelling work" (The Photobook).

London: The Bodley Head, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The first state, one of about 50 copies with the essay on the Dr. John Bodkin Adams trial that was suppressed under threat of legal action. The popular English author of thrillers examines Lizzie Borden and several classic trials of the 19th century, as well as notorious cases of more recent times, including the Finch-Tregoff murder in West Covina, California. Octavo: 222 p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Holiday House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 32 p. Illustrated by Samuel Byrd. A narrative poem chronicling the life of the 16th President of the United States. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Lyon and Paris: A. Rey and Librairie J.B.-Bailliere et Fils, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Report on the first modern excavations at the large rock shelter of La Colombiere, near Poncin, Ain, some 30 miles southwest of Geneva. Representative of the Magdalenian culture (12,000 to 17,000 years ago), the site yielded flint tools, the fossil remains of various mammals, and period engravings. The most significant of these was a large fragment of mammoth bone on which are engraved human figures - believed to be the first prehistoric anthropomorphic representations ever discovered. Octavo: 205 p. with 102 figures and 25 double-page plates. In a period one-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper binding, with gilt stamping, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, and a ribbon marker. The spine is a touch sun faded; else very good or better.

London and New York: Regency Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed by Edwards on the half-title. Fitzwalter's highly personalized account books "readily illuminate the life of a nobleman and his dependents in the second quarter of the 18th century: how he rebuilt his country house; how his town house was run; how he travelled; how he managed his financial affairs. Those interested in specific Georgian topics will find plenty on furniture, clothing, medical matters, pictures and books." Frontispiece, with four illustrations. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. The contents are sagging a bit. Some very light sun fading along the spine, with minor bumping to the lower corners; else about very good.

Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A full and detailed portrait of the Seneca chief whose magnificent oratory masked his schemes to maintain his position despite double-dealing against his people's interests. Munsell's Historical Series, No. 13. Octavo: xv, [1], 356 p. with a frontispiece portrait and 8 plates. Original burgundy cloth binding, with a printed paper spine label. Partially uncut. Minor staining to one of the plates. Though the hinges are starting, the binding is quite sound. The spine is a touch sun faded, with some general toning to the paper label; otherwise very good.

London: Peter Dawnay Ltd, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Detailed account of the trial of Geza de Kaplany, the Hungarian-born physician who was convicted of first-degree murder in California after mutilating his wife with a scalpel and corrosive acids, thus causing her death. The author covered the proceedings for the San Francisco Chronicle. Octavo. 255 p. with textual photographs. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very mild wear; otherwise very good.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. An uproarious testament to the joys and tribulations of country living. Small octavo: 126 p. with drawings by R. Osborn. Original brown cloth binding, with dark brown and blue stamping. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a hint of edgewear.

New York: Wilson-Erickson, Inc, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Reprint of the Original Edition with Reproductions of Numerous Photographs Taken by Louis Palenske and Foreword and Epilogue by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. New York: Wilson-Erickson, Inc., 1936. First edition thus. Alonzo Delano, a native of Auburn, New York, resided in Ottawa, Illinois, at the time of the gold discovery. He left on April 5, 1849, with a company of fifty men, crossed the Missouri River at St. Joseph, and entered California via the Lassen Trail. He then made it to the Feather River on September 9 with $4 in his pocket. While providing what has become one of the great classics of the Overland Trail, Delano also wrote in detail about his adventures in the mines and the general conditions of newly arrived emigrants, miners, and Indians. During these first years in California, he spent much time in Sacramento, the mines of the Yuba River (making $600 in only two weeks), Marysville, the Gold Lake country, Nelson's… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed by Dick Francis on the half-title. Omnibus of Flying Finish (1966), Blood Sport (1967), and Enquiry (1969). Thick octavo. Original orange cloth binding, with white titles. A crisp, unread copy. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very light rubbing. Better than very good.

Houston, Texas: Stagecoach Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, limited to 300 copies signed by Jack D. Rittenhouse, the book's designer and printer. From the library of noted collector Irving W. Robbins, Jr., with his printed bookplate to the front pastedown. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed; otherwise a near fine copy.

London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. This book is a study of 'Romantic Pantheism' and its part in the development of the Romantic theory of the Imagination. The crucial point in the history of English Romanticism came when the philosophical concept of the 'active universe' met the developing theory of the Imagination. In its leading sense, Imagination meant full response to, and implication with, the living qualities of natural objects. That is why it was able to assimilate and transform contemporary theories of merely passing interest into an important poetic approach to the universe." Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The story of a woman's rise from high-priced call girl into a political career that made her governor of Louisiana. This was the first of two novels by Wirt Williams (1921-86) to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Inscribed and dated by Williams on the title page. Octavo. Original black buckram over mauve buckram binding, with lavender and silver titles. Some offsetting to the front endpaper. Remainder mark to the bottom edge. The dust jacket is a bit edgeworn; otherwise very good.

Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, No. 42. Frontispiece portrait by David Levine. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Original green cloth binding, with white titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy. Signed by Author.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Standard work on the Greek humanist scholar whose advocacy of a revived classicism laid the intellectual foundations for the Greek struggle for independence. Octavo: 181 p. with a frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The signature of classical scholar James Henry Oliver appears on the front flyleaf, with a Center for Hellenic Studies presentation bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Few telegrams shocked the fashionable world in the United States more than that received in mid-August 1880 announcing the sudden death in a French hotel of the English actress Adelaide Neilson (1848-80). From her first visit to America in 1872 at Booth's Theatre in New York, playing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Julia in The Hunchback, Rosalind in Twelfth Night, and Pauline in The Lady from Lyons until her fourth and final tour in the winter of 1879-80, she enjoyed a critical and popular adoration unequaled by any actress of the age, with the possible exception of Lotta Crabtree. Illustrated with nine mounted albumen photographs, including the portrait inset on the front cover, and an engraving. Octavo. In a three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper binding by Stikeman & Co., with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, and matching marbled endpapers. The original wrappers are bound in. The bookplate of Edmund Lincoln… Read More

Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Original gray buckram binding, with burgundy titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip tipped in on the front flyleaf. From the library of journalist Elizabeth Brough (1867-1943), with her signature to the front flyleaf. Brough employed the pen name Helen Dare, and was a feature writer for several San Francisco newspapers, including the Call, Examiner, and Chronicle. "...a subtle contribution to the suffragette propaganda - a sustained, consecutive, exhaustive argument for woman's rights - but not along familiar oratorical and emotional lines. On the contrary, it is calmly scientific and historical, leaving the reader to be startled by facts, not language, and, in tracing the history of woman 'from the earliest times to the present,' it makes a study of her in nature and society straight through from the protoplasm to the woman of today in all her variety" - from a November 24, 1912 review in the San Francisco Chronicle, which may have been written by… Read More

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Color frontispiece by Fred Everett, with photographs by Clyde Childress and drawings by Firman Bradway. From among the books of American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader Artie Shaw, with his pencil notations to the rear endpaper. Shaw was an avid angler who left music for nearly three decades in part to work on his fly fishing. Original green cloth binding, with a color pictorial label on the front and gilt titles. The boards are somewhat edgeworn, largely at the spine ends and corners; otherwise very good.

London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...presents an updated and coherent view of recent advances in this significant and expanding area, with contributions from some of the leading authors in the field." Octavo: 384 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.