Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1899, First English language edition. Tight bound 8vo, 192pp, copiously illustrated. The cloth cover is soiled and shelf worn. Tips lightly bumped, some rubbing to spine edges. Gift inscription on ffe. Interestingly, someone has altered the faces on many of the photographs in the... More
Chicago: Yoga Publication Society, 1931. Third printing. Hardcover. Small, tight-bound 8vo, 286pp. Bottom of spine is lightly scuffed and bumped, tips are lightly scuffed and bumped, spine gutter is somewhat rubbed. No dust jacket, probably as issued. Former owner names penned on the ffe. More
London: L.N. Fowler & Co., 1931. Third printing. Hardcover. Small, tight-bound 8vo, 337pp. Bottom of spine is a bit ragged with a small piece missing, tips are lightly bumped. Back pastedown and BFE are somewhat soiled. No d.j. probably as issued. Former owner name neatly penned on the ffe. More
General Publishing Co., Ltd., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 361pp. Red cloth covers are clean and neat, slight bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket is very nice in Mylar, with one short closed tear to top edge near spine top. The history of the interpreters; Native American Indians... More
Los Angeles: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1930. First thus photographic reproduction of the original edition from London in 1892. hardcover, green cloth. Clean, tight, tall 8vo, 389pp. Very small bookplate on the bottom front pastedown tip. Some interesting pencilled notations on the back pastedowns in tiny, but legible writing, appears to... More
New York: M. Evans And Company/Lippincott, 1973. Probable second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, heavy 4to, 640pp. Heavily illustrated. Bottom spine end is lightly bumped, light shelf wear to edges of dust jacket, price clipped. A fascinating encyclopedia of who did what bad thing to whom and when, from Winnie Judd... More
Ghost Town Pubns, 1977. Fifth printing. Softcover. Clean tight 8vo, 104pp. Signed on the title page by Reinstedt. Very minor shelf wear. Near fine condition. Located twwetween beautiful Big Sur and magnificent Hearst Castle, Monterey's Mother Lode is the story of gold in California's coastal mountains. More than 100 rare... More
New York: Atheneum, 1964. Alton Raible. First edition. Hardcover. Collectible. Clean, tight 8vo, 133pp. Price clipped, signed by the author on the ffe. NOT an ex-library. Only flaw is that the dust jacket is in Mylar and then has been taped to the book. The story of a young girl... More
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1935. 4th Doubleday printing. Hardcover. Collectible. Clean, tight small 8vo, 477pp. Dust jacket has a 2x2" open tear on the bottom front edge (see photo) and a few minor chips along the edges. Book is in lovely condition with minor toning to the free endpapers. "Here... More
Canada: Madison Marketing Limited, 1991. Jane Goodall. First edition. Hardcover. Two clean, tight square 12mos, unpaginated. Both are SIGNED and inscribed by Jane Goodall. Beautifully photographed by the author with the accompnying histsory and biology of the wonderful primates. Written primarily for children 4-up, but still very interesting for every... More
Indiana University Press, 1994. Revised and expanded edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 224pp. Light shelf wear. A dynamic national cinema. "A provocative blend of film history and applied history. Transcultural drama which negotiates deftly and creatively between close readings, panoramic views, and theoretical perspectives. A classic study of film au;thorship... More
Mylapore Madras India: Sri Ramakrishna Math Printing, 2005. Not stated. Hardcover. Two clean, tight 8vos, 1060pp total. Both volumes are in very good plus condition with dust jackets in Mylar cover and with marking ribbons in place. Vol. 1 has a bookstore stamp on the bottom tip of the title... More
California: History Department of the Oakland Museum, 1986. First edition. Clean, tight 4to, 119pp. Dust jacket has some light shelf wear and very slight curling to top and bottome edges. Tiny chips at top of spine head. Images and essays by Leslie Bowman, John Burke, Deborah Cooper, Donald Chaput, Elliott... More
Harper Collins, 2009. First edition. Unknown. Clean, tight 8vo, 507pp, Very light shelf wear to the dust jacket. An epic journey from the Mexico city of artists Diego Rivcera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. A poignant story of a man pulled... More
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 361pp, 33 illustrations, 2 maps. The dust jacket shows shelf wear, light curling to the edges, some light chipping, price clipped. Book has a gift inscription. The authentic saga of the 49ers who trekked to California to get rich... More
New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1970. Reprint from U. New Mexico. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, unpaginated. Annotated checklist intended to provide a key to the information on New Mexico and Arizona in the "Serial Set" which is the serially numbered set of documents publsihed for the use of... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 228pp. An excellent collection of photos. Many of the Black men who traveled to the San Francisco and Bay Area were more independent, educated, sophisticated, and single than the mass exodus of the Black families who moved from the... More
New York: Ecco, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 263pp. Jacket shows some shelf wear. Black pen mark on the bottom edge, otherwise in very nice condition. Mata Hari (1876-1917) was the 20th century's most romanic, enigmatic, tragic spy. Her real name was Margaretha Zelle. She married a Dutch... More
University Of Nebraska Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 237pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear with a tiny 1/16th inch hole on the spine gutter on the front and a small closed tear on the top edge by the spine head. Bode was a German immigrant who... More
Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Somewhat scarce, clean, tight 8vo, 249pp. Excellent photo section. Price-cliipped dust jacket shows some shelf wear and a couple of edge chips. The top right tip on the flront is very sliightly bumped. The Marquis de Mores was... More
Sage/Swallow Press, 1979. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, fat 8vo, 500pp. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear at the edges with very minor chips. As close to the truth about this famous character out of the wild west as you can get. More of a biography of his family life... More
Dolphin Books, 1982. Second printing. Softcover. Clean, tight-bound 4to, 235pp. Cover shows some shelf wear with a mildlybent tip in the back cover and some chipping along the edge. Former owner book stamp on the ffe. The big picture of the earth shelter movement, its problems and potentials. Earth shelter... More
Preservation Press, 1988. Not noted, probably later edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 192pp.Second revised and expanded edition. The book attempts to answer the question of what types and designs of lamps and lighting fixtures to use in an historic home or commercial building. The catalog lists more than 480 authentically... More
Preservation Press, 1990. Second revised and expanded edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 303pp. The book attempts to answer the question of what types and designs of fabrics to use in an historic home or commercial building. The catalog lists more than 600 authentically reproduced fabric types and patterns from the... More
Preservation Press, 1992. Second revised and expanded edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 263pp. The book attempts to answer the question of what to do with the walls of an historic home or commercial building by offering this catalog of more than 1,000 authentically reproduced wallcovering designs available today. This is... More