Search Results: Titles starting with R from Hardy Books

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1981. First Edition. Linen-backed. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL one-sheet movie poster for "REDS", the 1981 Paramount film starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski and George Plimpton. Directed by Warren Beatty. Experly linen mounted. Image: 27" x 41" plus 2" border. Based on the life of journalist Jack Reed, who wrote "Ten Days That Shook The World". "REDS" won Academy Awards for Best Director (Beatty), Best Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton) and Best Cinematography (Vittorio Storaro). A stunning poster, beautifully linen mounted and certainly suitable for framing. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

San Francisco: West Coast Transit Co., Inc, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL brochure entitled "REDWOOD HIGHWAY TOURS CALIFORNIA" issued by West Coast Transit Co., Inc. of Eureka, California. Illustrated, including MAP of Northern California/Oregon stage routes. Folded: 9" x 4". Open: 9" x 16". Advertising tours through the "Redwood Highway" of Northern California and Oregon, from San Francisco to Portland, via "Motor Coaches", featuring smoking sections and windows that could be raised and lowered. Scarce. Near Fine (rubbed from handling), now in a clear 4mil mylar protective envelope. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. Very Good Plus/Clear Mylar (Custom). (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Laid in is the September 20, 1933 announcement of the Grabhorn Press' new building at 642 Commercial Street, with mention of this title. Introduction and Reader's Guide by Douglas Sloane Watson. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. Paper spine title. Paper label on front cover with facsimile of Brown's signature. Title and chapter headings in sepia. First series of Rare Americana, No. 10. British fur trader turned hotelier and prominent man of affairs, John Henry Brown describes the colorful early days of San Francisco, from 1845 to 1850. Zamorano 80: 10. Wheat, Gold Rush, 23 note. Kurutz 88b. Heller & Magee 190. Howes B-853. Mintz 60. Rocq 8430. Some edgewear; corners showing… Read More

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 358 pages. Frontispiece portrait from photograph of Senator Stewart. Red cloth. Gilt cover and spine titling. T.E.G. 6" x 9". An early participant in the California Gold Rush, Stewart was stricken with "Panama Fever" and was taken by teamsters to a fresh water spring at the top of Roger Williams Ravine in Nevada (now, Nevada City), just a short distance from where I write this listing. He recovered and became a miner in the rough and tumble world of pre-statehood California. In 1852, he left mining for the law, and in 1864, became a U. S. Senator from the state of Nevada. Stewart was the author of important mining laws, and became known as the "Silver Senator". Kurutz 604; Wheat, Books 198; Cowan II p. 616. A Near Fine copy (sunned spine) now in a custom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. Near Fine/Clear Mylar (Custom). (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Laid in is the September 20, 1933 announcement of the Grabhorn Press' new building at 642 Commercial Street, with mention of this title. Introduction and Reader's Guide by Douglas Sloane Watson. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. Paper spine title. Paper label on front cover with facsimile of Brown's signature. Title and chapter headings in sepia. First series of Rare Americana, No. 10. British fur trader turned hotelier and prominent man of affairs, John Henry Brown describes the colorful early days of San Francisco, from 1845 to 1850. Zamorano 80: #10. Wheat, Gold Rush, 23 note. Kurutz 88b. Heller & Magee 190. Howes B-853. Mintz 60. Rocq 8430. Some edgewear; corners showing and… Read More

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1901. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (9). Printed for members of the Sierra Club by the Stanley-Taylor Company of San Francisco. Small bookseller's stamp (Chessler Books) on inside of rear cover. String-bound wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8". A poem written upon the death of Professor Josph LeConte of the University of Californina. Professor LeConte (1823-1901) was a physician and co-founder of the Sierra Club. He died in Yosemite. Poet Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) was a lawyer, physician, Dean of Hasitings Law School and Mayor of San Francisco from 1907- 1910. Scarce. A Very Good Plus copy (Rubbed from handling; cover slightly faded; vertical bend shadow), now in a clear 4mil mylar protective envelope. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map ("Western Territories In The Forties") laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is #903. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling. Brewerton's narrative originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853. It presents an accurate portrait of Kit Carson and describes their journey from Los Angeles to Taos over what came to be known as the Old Spanish Trail. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books via media mail to any United States address.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling. Brewerton's narrative originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853. It presents an accurate portrait of Kit Carson and describes their journey from Los Angeles to Taos over what came to be known as the Old Spanish Trail. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1954. First Thus. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 168 pp. Illustrated from facsimiles. One of 400 un-numbered copies. Black cloth-backed reddecorated cloth. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2". Printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Concerning Stevenson's stay in 1880 in an abandoned bunkhouse in "Silverado", a mining town near what is now St. Helena, California (Now Robert Louis Stevenson Stae Park). GB 557. Per Magee: One of the most ingenious books that the Press has printed. The original Journal was heavily corrected. These corrections and deletions have been indicated in red; where the author transposed one line from another this has been shown by means of rules bent to shape. There are also eleven inserts showing notes on the versos of theoriginal Journal. These have been printed on a lighter shade of paper...". A Near Fine copy (Spine title rubbed; slight edgewear), now in a custom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our… Read More

San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc, 1936. First Edition. (xiv) (2) 173 (3) pages. First Edition. Limtited to 300 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated by 8 plates plus the frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Octavo. Quarter bound in green morocco in orange decorated boards. From the author's Introduction: "This book, then, is not an explantion of the influence of the sea on Jeffers and his work, but rather is a questioning study of this interesting and significant phase of his talent, and a compilation of all materials pertaining to the sea contained in his poetry." Prior owners' bookplate at front pastedown; spine slightly faded; some toning to endpapers; 2" stain to lower right upper board; Very good or better overall, and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

Pasadena: Commander Scott Productions, 1945. First Limited Autographed Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 307 (12) pp. SIGNED by Author Scott on the half-title. Profusely illustrated from vintage photographs, maps, and drawings by Claude G. Putman. Illustrated endpapers. Appendices including pronunciation of Spanish place names. Blue cloth. 6" x 9 1/4". Circa 1945 California travel guide by the then popular Radio star. Entertaining and useful for research. A Very Good copy (Sunned spine; rubbed from handling; front hinge open but holding) now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via USPS media mail to any United States address.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. Fine/Near Fine. (xiv) (1) 125 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Brother Antoninus in ink to fellow poet Robert Dawson on the half-title: " for Robert Dawson from Brother Antoninus with the presence of the poet in the man: good! / Oct 23, 1967 / Kentfield Priory". Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed maroon cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: The Rose of Solitude, his fourth book of poems, grows out of a very real and personal encounter, the archetypal communion of man and woman, and is perhaps one of the most fiercely anguished and incandescently lyrical love poems in contemporary American literature." Born William Everson, Brother Antoninus was a lay brother of the Dominican order. In 1969, during a reading at University of California, Davis, he removed his Dominican robes, and became William Eveson again, to enter into marriage and resume his lay life. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (some… Read More