Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Folio size, 256pp, text is in English, French and German. Small rippling to very edge of the top of the d.j. In Mylar, still gift quality. Beautifully executed full color book of an art exhibition featuring 150 artists, each witih a message...
New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Tall thin 4to, 128pp.
New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight heavy 4to, 294pp. A gorgeous book of architectural plans and black and white and color photographs of the summer homes of the high and mighty in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The stone work and wood...
1984, 1st., California Native Plant Society, 0943460107. Softcover, 4to, 174pp, VG but cover is lightly soiled.
New York: Russell & Russell, 1970 reissue of 1946 original. Hardcover. Clean tight 8vo, 422pp includes lengthy bibliography and index. Dust jacket is a plain brown one that was added by the former owner, book was issued without a d.j. The biography of one of the west's greatest historians. The...
Minneapolis, Minnesotta: Creative Pub. international, 2009. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight square 4to, 144pp. Includes a CD! A gold standard for books on trouser construction. With this book and a well-fitting pattern and these detailed, illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions, any person who loves sewing can create trousers (pants) that look professionally made.
New York: Ca. 1997. Hardcover. New York, Maurizio Martino, ca. 1997, reprint of 1914, limited to 150 copies. Clean, tight 8vo, 279pp +Chronological, title and subject indices. Introduction by Henry R. Wagner and additional notes by Robert G. Cowan. Original was published by the Book Club of California in 1914...
Hardcover. Virginia, Nevada (now called Virginia City), F. Boegle Bookseller & Stationer, 1889, first edition. Clean tight 12mo in an orange cloth cover, 158pp. Appears to have been rebound at some point. Title page and page158 (last page) have had some sophisticated repair of tears, a small closed horizontal tear...
Hardcover. Idaho, Great Northern Pacific Publications, first priting, 1998. Clean, tight, 8vo, 192pp, copiously photographed. Very slight shelf wear. New locomotive acquisitions, locomotive retirement, leased locomotive fleet, and BNSF locomotive renumberieng plan plus a fabulous color photo gallery, charts and many, many black and white photos.
Glendale, CA: Trans-Anglo books, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. clean, tight, 4to,191pp, copiously illustrated. The Union Pacific West traveled from the banks ofthe Missouri River in Omaha and Kansas city, to the Pacific ports of Seattle, San Franicosco, and Los Angeles.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Second edition. Hardcover. Previously published in Spanish in 2003. Tall 8vo, 314pp. A very complete and comprehensive study of the Basque diaspora (scattering of Basque colonies outside the Basque homeland), ethnicity maintenance abroad, ethnic institutions, effects of migration on the homeland, group identity, and etc.
Hardcover. Chicago; Charles C. Thompson Co., 1916, 3rd edition, original from 1911. Tips lightly bumped and scuffed. Light shelf wear. Some architectural drawings pencilled on verso of the ffe and back of frontispiece. Blue cloth cover is clean and tight. Copiously illustrated with house construction drawings. Scarce and collectible. "A...
1987, Weathervane Books/Crown, 0517632292. Clean, tight folio with very light shelf wear and a pencilled mark on the bottom edge. Absolutely lovely color and black and white drawing and text about the wading birds and allied marsh birds of the North American continent north of Mexico. Herons, egrets, bittern, ibises...
Hardcover. New York; Harpercollins, 1991, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Book is near fine but has a small note neatly penned on the verso of the bfe. The untold story of the longest running legal fight in American history; the Sioux nation's one hundred-year...
New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. first. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo. Inscribed by the author and signed by Ellroy. Very slight smudges on bottom edge, otherwise near fine. A crime novel by the author of The Black Dahlia & The Big Nowhere. A gripping portrayal of corruption, double-dealing and terrible twiest passions.
1965, 1st ed., Robert Hale. HB, lg. 8vo, 623pp, VG/G+ with minor chipping to d.j. and in a protective cover, slight mustiness. Contains 48 colour photos, 69 b/w photos, 33 figures in text. .Every aspect of the rose and rose growing is covered, including the history of the rose and...
Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996, first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 403pp, The fascinating story of how the railroads transformed American life from 1829 to 1929.
Modesto, CA: Dry Creek Books, 1989. Third printing. Hardcover. HB, 8vo, 239pp, very clean and tight, has a f.o. name neatly stamped on the title page. Jacket has some chipping and small chips across top and bottom edges, otherwise in great condition. The tragic story of the women of the...
Hawaii: University Press of Hawaii, 1974. No stated. Softcover. Clean, tight, oblong folio, 193pp + 47pp of index, appendices. Published by the Sea Grant College Proram. UNIHI-Seagrant-MR-74-01. Very slight shelf wear to cover. Information regarding the marine formations of Hawaii County, Maui County, City and Country of Honolulu, Kauai County...
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 430pp. Dust jacket shows some fading on the spine, some chips and small tears along the edges, is otherwise okay. Book is brown cloth with only minor bumps to the spine ends. Eight maps and multiple illustrations and...
New York: Viking Press, 1957. Yehuda Harari. First edition. Hardcover. Clean tight 8vo, 205pp. Book shows moderate shelf wear with minor toning of the ffe where it appears there may have been some sort of paper ephemera, but is no longer. The author SIGNED the book on the ffe. Dust...
Softcover. Montana Historical Society, 1979, clean tight 4to in wraps, 63pp, very light rubbing to spine edge, very small old sticker scar on back in the corner. Well written with interesting historic photographs of the routes and the people and places the Wells Fargo Stage covered delivering people, packages and...
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Engravings by George tute. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 405pp, quarter calf, graphic covers on boards. Marking ribbon in place. F.O. bookplate on ffe. A beautiful book of Kipling's wonderful poems illustrated with engravings by George Tute.
Taiwan: 1972. First edition. Softcover. An extremely scarce tome, heavy 4to, 433pp. The softcover is somewhat chipped and peeling away at the tips from the plasticine cover. Text block is tight and clean. A "materia medica" of Chinese plants - Taiwanese primarily. The author had 33 years of experience at...
Hardcover. Hawaii; Maui Publishing Co., 1994, first edition. Clean, tight oblong 4to, pp. Very light shelf wear. Signed and inscribed by one of the contributing architects; Barry Rand. AIA. Scarce book. A compendium of architectural works by a number of Maui's architects; 115 examples of religious, civic, commercial, residential and...
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