Search Results: Titles starting with N from Chanticleer Books

[San Francisco]: Press of Commercial Publishing Co., 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing and light spotting to covers, else very good. 16mo, (7.25 x 3.75 inches), original beige cloth, 74 pp. Charles A. Gunnison (1861-1897) was the secretary of the Commercial Publishing Co. in San Francisco. This volume is one of seven small story books by Gunnison published by the Commercial Publishing Co. Gunnison's 1896 Christmas calling card laid in. Wright III, 2311.

Glendale: Interurbans, 1988. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good in vey good jacket/very good. Original green cloth, quarto (9 x 11 inches), 575pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage b/w photos, maps. The Napa Valley Route ran from 1905 to 1937, served travellers from San Francisco en route to the spas of Calistoga at the upper reaches of the Napa Valley

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2004. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Hardcover. Like new. Original natural linen cloth over boards; pictorial paper inset on front cover; quarto (10 x 12 inches); xi, 363 pp. 43 full-page plates from historic photographs. Pictorial endpapers. Large folding map printed in colors at rear. A superb history of the Napa Valley from the aboriginal Wappo Indians, through the first European pioneers, to the end of the 19th century. Photographer Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was born in Folsom, CA, but lived most of his life in San Francisco. His archive of nearly 5000 images of California forms part of the Alice Phelan Sullivan Library of the Society of California Pioneers in San Francisco.

Austin: The Steck Company, 1935. Facsimile of the 1844 first edition. Hardcover. Second volume with small faded area at top of front board, else a fine set. 2 volumes, original dark green ribbed cloth, octavos, 405; 406 pp. Large folding map in first volume, frontispiece in each volume, 3 plates. An important and much-reprinted work. Wagner-Camp records 10 printings through the 7th edition of 1856.

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Small nick to edge of spine, slight fading to covers, else about fine. Original red cloth with title in silver, oblong folio (16 x 12.5 inches), unpaginated. Japanese and English text. 51 full page color plate reproductions of paintings by 51 different artists of scenes in the National Parks of Japan, each with 1 preliminary page of descriptive text (text mainly in Japanese, with artist name and title of painting in English) map, several b/w photos.

San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, original beige buckram with cover design and title lettering stamped in green; 80 pp., many full-page illustrations. Slight fading to spine, front inner hinge starting, else near fine Collects 8 short stories originally published in magazines. Includes "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse; "The Journey to Hanford"; "One of Our Future Poets, You Might Say" et al. Autographed by the author on the limitation page.

Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original full calf; quarto; [8], 32, 232, 104, [2], 105-163 (but 164), 31 pp. (penultimate section with page 152 misnumbered 151 with error continued). Boards somewhat warped, joints cracked but most of the cords are holding, covers scuffed, contemporary ink notes and ownership inscriptions to endpapers. Thomas Halyburton (1674-1712) was a Scottish divine of the Church of Scotland and Professor of Divinity at the University of St. Andrew. This, his first publshed work, is a concerted attack on the idea of natural religion as propounded by the Deists, particularly in the influential writings of Lord Edward Herbert (1581-1648). In four sections separately paginated: Preface signed: Ja. Hog.; "Oratio inauguralis habita Andreapoli, .. " by Archibald Pitcairne with a separate titlepage. Separate title pages for: An Essay Concerning the Naure of Faith, or the Ground upon which Faith Assents to the… Read More

NY: Random House, 1939. First edition, limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Slight soiling to spine, some wear to corners, else near fine. Original 1/4 white leather and marbled boards, gilt-stamped red lettering piece on spine; folio (11 x 16 inches), pp (x), (44) + 22 full-page color plates with facing descriptive titles. A fine Grabhorn production. Plates are printed in gravure then overprinted in colors from linoleum blocks. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 317.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Free endpapers have rusty stain at edges likely from old jacket protector adhesive, else fine in near fine jacket with slight toning to jacket spine and light soiling to white rear panel. Original green cloth, octavo, 413 pp. A novel of family life in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author's second book.

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

London: Mills & Boon, Ltd., (1923). First UK edition. Scattered foxing, else fine.. Original blue cloth, octavo, 270 pp. Many full-page plates from photographs. First United Kingdom edition of "Our Hawaii - Islands and Islanders", the 1922 revised edition of the 1917 "Our Hawaii" Charmian London's memoir of the many trips she and her husband made to the Hawaiian Islands.

(Boston: P. R. Warren Co., Printers, 1906). First edition. Mild wear to covers, else fine.. Original green cloth, octavo, 303 pp., including several leaves of advertisements. A basic book of home cooking offered by Acker. Merrall & Condit Company, a large grocery firm with several stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maryland. They also had a mail-order department. A section at the rear of the cook book is headed "Forty Recipes of the 'Four Hundred'" and contains signed recipes from the elite of New York society.

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Moderate scuffing and soiling to boards, bit of foxing, contemporary owner name to front free endpaper, else very good.. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind, octavo, 349 pp. Most of the stories were originally published in Overland Monthly and other western magazines. Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902) had a nearly lifelong career in letters. Along with her sister Metta she began writing for publication while still a schoolgirl at the Female Seminary in Wooster, Ohio. The sisters moved to New York in the 1840s and in 1851 together published an acclaimed collection of their poems - "Poems of Sentiment and Imagination." In 1862, Frances Fuller married Henry Clay Victor, a naval engineer and the brother of her sister's husband (Orville James Victor, author and editor for Beadle's Dime Novels). They moved to San Francisco, where Frances continued writing, mainly feature, advice and criticism columns,… Read More

Austin: The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1985. First paperback edition. Paperback. Short tear at bottom of front wrapper, crease to lower corner tip of rear wrapper, else very good. vii, [1], 101 pp., illustrated; pictorial wrappers, 11 x 8.5 inches.

Palo Alto: Radcliffe Institute, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Cover gilt dulled, else very good. 167 pp., square octavo, brown flexible bookcloth with gilt title on front cover. Text seems to be mimeographed from a typescript.

Portland Oregon: International Bible Publications, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine (as new) in lightly scuffed slipcase. Typeset xxix pp introduction followed by unpaginated facsmile (about 600 pages), orginal red buckram book cloth, all edges gilt. First complete facsimile of the first English language translation of the New Testament. Reproduced from the Rawlinson Mss. 259 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK. The manuscript dates from the 15th century and was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by RIchard Rawlinson in 1755. Edition of 999 numbered copies, this #346. Autographed on the iimitation page by Donald L. Brake.

Santa Barbara: J. F. Rowney Press, 1942. First edition. A very good copy, quite clean and unworn in moderately edgeworn jacket. 411 pp., frontispiece; octavo, blue leatherette spine and blue cloth boards, pictorial jacket. A hollow-earth adventure fantasy with a utopian vision of solving the problems plaguing human societies.

New York: Bernard Ackerman, (1945). First edition. Hardcover. Minor fading to edges of covers, else very good in moderately worn jacket. 124 pp., original burgundy cloth, jacket. 10 chapters present a variety of magic tricks.

Lubeck: Christian Iverson & Compagnie, 1772. Eighth revised edition (Achte verbesserte ausgabe). Hardcover. Very good. Contemporary full calf, 12mo (4 x 7 inches), engraved frontispiece and 557 pages. Respined with new leather and lettering piece, soiling to endpapers. Text block quite clean. Bitting page 293 lists the fourteenth edition, 1785. 762 recipes with index. With charming frontispiece engraving of cooks busy in a kitchen.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1913). Early reprint. Hardcover. Slight fading to spine, owner name and date (1920) in pencil on front free endpaper, else about fine in restored jacket with tissue mends to underside. Original light-blue cloth with cover design in black and maroon, 8vo, 290 pp., color frontispiece illustration, pictorial jacket Ten collected stories, including the boxing tale "The Mexican." Early, possibly first Grosset & Dunlap edition in scarce original jacket.