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Works of Art from the Wernher Collection (2 volumes).

By: (AUCTION CATALOGUES).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Christie's: 2000

Seller ID: 8255

4to; 2 vols. in slipcase; illustrations, chiefly full page in color, throughout. Auctions in London & South Kensington July 5th & 7th, 2000. Prices realized for both auctions laid in. View more info

Bohemian Club. History, Officers and Committees, Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and Rules, Former Officers, May 1965; Weaving Spiders, Come Not Here.

By: (BOHEMIAN CLUB).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, [The Bohemian Club]: 1968

Seller ID: 8207

133 pp.; 12mo; gilt stamped red cloth. View more info

Image for Noticias de California : first report of the occupation by the Portola´ Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the original printings, a new translation, contemporary maps, and a narrative of how it all came to pass.

Noticias de California : first report of the occupation by the Portola´ Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the original printings, a new translation, contemporary maps, and a narrative of how it all came to pass.

By: (CARLOS FRANCISCO DE CROIX CROIX, MARQUÉS)DE; GEORGE P HAMMOND.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Book Club of California: 1958

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 8232

400 copies issued. 53 pp.; 4to; printed and decorated dull purple paper over boards; clack cloth back, in plain paper jacket. Frontis is a nicely reproduced folding map with border vignettes that was first included in Father Miguel Venegas's, 'Noticiia', 1757. Folding map in rear is the Map of California by Miguel Costanso, Mexico, 1771. These along with reproductions of manuscripts and a sketch of the Presidio of Monterey. View more info

Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt - Rottluff, A Centenary Celebration.

By: (EXHIBITION CATALOG).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 1985

Seller ID: 8295

Exhibition organized by the Dept. of Prints and Drawings; essay by Gunther Thiem; Ahmanson Gallery, July 11-September 15, 1985. 34 pp.; square octavo; printed & stapled brown wrappers; reproductions; checklist of 82 works. View more info

(Exhibition Catalog) Jose Bedia, February 26 - April 3, 1999.

By: (JOSE BEDIA) CURATED BY DAHLIA MORGAN, ESSAY BY RONI FEINSTEIN.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Miami, The Art Museum at Florida International University: 1999

Seller ID: 8190

36 pp.; 4to; blue wrappers; reproductions throughout; exhibition checklist; artist's biography. View more info

Image for Louis Christian Mullgardt 1866-1942. An exhibition marking the centennial year of the architect's birth. Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara; The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.

Louis Christian Mullgardt 1866-1942. An exhibition marking the centennial year of the architect's birth. Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara; The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.

By: (MULLGARDT, LOUIS).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: (Regents of the University of California): 1966

Seller ID: 8127

39 pp.; sq. 8vo; pictorial brown wrappers; b&w photographs and plans throughout. Includes notes, bibliography, chronology. Mullgardt, a native of Missouri began studying architecture in St. Louis, with further studies at Harvard and in Euripe, before beginning to design in Chicago. He moved to San Francisco in 1905 to establish a solo office becoming associated with the First Bay Tradition. View more info

A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. Corrected and Augmented; with Travelling Maps, Plans of Towns, etc.

By: (MURRAY GUIDES).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1861

Edition: 9th Edition

Seller ID: 8299

489 pp., plus 54 pages Handbook Advertiser; 12mo; red cloth over limp boards lettered in gilt with fading and spots of foxing on spine and front edges. Four folding maps, including one in rear pocket; three folding scenes of the mountains, and other reproductions. Front hinge cracked 1" at both ends but remains fairly firm.Note in pencil opposite half-title crediting this guied to a noted Alpinist: "John Ball's last edition before producing his own." View more info

Image for The Dominican College of San Rafael, Department of Music Presents, Isaac Stern, Violinist, Assisted by Alexander Zakin at the Piano. Angelico Hall, Wednesday, March Twenty First, Nineteen Hundred Sixty Two, At Eight Thirty

The Dominican College of San Rafael, Department of Music Presents, Isaac Stern, Violinist, Assisted by Alexander Zakin at the Piano. Angelico Hall, Wednesday, March Twenty First, Nineteen Hundred Sixty Two, At Eight Thirty

By: (PROGRAM) ISAAC STERN, VIOLINIST.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: (San Francisco), Lawton Kennedy, Printer:

Seller ID: 8218

Single sheet of cream stock double fold to 10" x 6.5"; printed in black with principles names in red. Verso contains a biography of Stern, recto is the program; back page, Acknowledgments, Donors, Sponsors. View more info

Image for The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California.

The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California.

By: (UNIVERITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY).

Price: $350.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan: (1899)

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8239

Oblong 4to. (10 x 14 inches). 152pp.; original printed wrappers, stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates, drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst, portraits of the six members of the jury, 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Laid in is a folded 23" x 10", 1933 map of the campus and a 19" x 13.5" folded section from California Architect and Building News, illustrating the General Elevation and... View more info

Image for [Two Items] The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California, together with a promotional booklet: California's Memorial Stadium.

[Two Items] The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California, together with a promotional booklet: California's Memorial Stadium.

By: (UNIVERITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY).

Price: $350.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan: 1899

Seller ID: 8240

Oblong 4to. (10 x 14 inches). 152pp.; original printed wrappers, stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates, drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst, portraits of the six members of the jury, 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Covers soiled; corners chipped with closed tear to cover foot of spine and a triangular 1" piece out bottom edge.A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus re... View more info

Image for The Literary Digest Liberty Map of the Western Front, Together with a Complete Area Map of The Great World War, Showing the Battle-Line of Liberty As It Stood April 15, 1918. Also the Lines of the Farthest Invasions of German and Allied Territory. With complete index of over 11,000 names.

The Literary Digest Liberty Map of the Western Front, Together with a Complete Area Map of The Great World War, Showing the Battle-Line of Liberty As It Stood April 15, 1918. Also the Lines of the Farthest Invasions of German and Allied Territory. With complete index of over 11,000 names.

By: (WORLD WAR I).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.Y., Funk & Wagnalls Co.: 1918

Edition: Map Cloth Edition

Seller ID: 8179

Folded color map printed on laminated map cloth; 42" x 51"; Map of the Western Front, with inset of the Area Map lower left portion. 32 p., index in color illustrated, stapled wrappers. Housed in original printed folder. Production makes this map very duarable, in fine condition; booklet fine; folder with soil and age toning. View more info

The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec By Henri Toulouse Lautrec.

By: ACKER, KATHY.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: (N. Y.), (TVRT Press): (1978)

Seller ID: 8292

201 pp.; 16mo; cover design by Laurie Jewell Wegman; drawings by William Wegman.Offset printed artist's book, chapters include: The case of the murdered twerp; Longing for better things; The desperation of the poor; The creation of the world; How love can lead youngsters to murder; The future; The Life of Johnny Rocco. View more info

Image for The Letters of Henry Adams. (6 vols., complete) Edited by J.C. Levenson [and others] with the assistance of Jayne N. Samuels, Eleanor Pearre Abbot.

The Letters of Henry Adams. (6 vols., complete) Edited by J.C. Levenson [and others] with the assistance of Jayne N. Samuels, Eleanor Pearre Abbot.

By: ADAMS, HENRY.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Cambridge & London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 8217

8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Index in volume 6. View more info

Image for Twenty Four Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists, as rendered into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, with illustrations after the etchings of Marcus Gheeraerts the elder.

Twenty Four Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists, as rendered into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, with illustrations after the etchings of Marcus Gheeraerts the elder.

By: AESOP.; ROGER L'ESTRANGE, SIR; MARCUS GHEERAERTS .

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd.: 1928

Seller ID: 8250

52 pp.; sm 4to; purple cloth front cover ruled in gilt decoration, spine lettered in gilt; each of the twenty-four fables illustrated with nice reproductions of etchings. Fading to cloth at extremities, faint mottling to cloth on parts of front cover. View more info

Alfred Kubin: Handzeichnungen aus der Sammlung Roland Graf Faber Castell. .

By: ALBRECHT DURER GESELLSCHAFT KATALOG 16 .

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Nurnberg, Albrecht Durer Gesellschaft: 1970

Seller ID: 8256

Sq. Octavo; Illustrated white wrappers with light age toning to extremities. A catalog of 148 pieces with a plate section showing 36 reproductions. View more info

Marginal Man [inscribed by the author].

By: ALLWOOD, MARTIN S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., The Liberal Press: 1947

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8309

Inscribed top leading edge of title page: "To Felix Greene, sincerely from Martin Allwood, 10. 5. 1961, at San Jose." Octavo; red wrappers printed in black. Upper fourth of wrappers faded; Moderate dampstain to bottom edges of title and text pages. View more info

The World War, Utterances concerning its Issues and Conduct, by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; printed for its archives and for free circulation.

By: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: N.Y., By the Academy: 1919

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8244

90 pp.; 4to; purple cloth lettered in gilt. Fading to spine and top portion of front cover near spine.Essays by: John Burroughs, George W. Cable, William Gillette, William Dean Howells, Henry Cabot Lodge, Brander Matthews, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry Van Dyke, Woodrow Wilson, Owen Wister, John Hay, Julia War Howe, and many others. View more info

Alfred Kubin : Drawings 1897-1909. In conjunction with the Exhibition Alfred Kubin, Drawings 1897-1909, Neue Galerie New York, September 25, 2008 - January 26, 2009.

By: ANNEGRET HOBERG; ALFRED KUBIN.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Munich, London, N.Y., Prestel Verlag: 2008

Seller ID: 8246

230 pp.; 4to; illustrated dust jacket; illustrations (some color), map, portraits. Still in original shrinkwrap."Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) created drawings that plumb the depths of the shadow world of the human subconscious, with its unguarded impulses and fears. Though a contemporary and fellow countryman of artist Gustav Klimt and designer Josef Hoffmann, Kubin eschewed the decorative impulses found in their work. Instead, inspired by the art of Francisco Go... View more info

Trio (with two page copy of a t.l.s. by the author to fellow writer Janet Lewis).

By: BAKER, DOROTHY.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1943

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8266

8vo; green cloth in dust jacket. Offset tanning from a clipped newspaper caricature of Baker regarding the novel affecting page opposite half-title, verso of half-title, and title page; light soil and wear top edges. Jacket with chips and creases top edge; loss at spine top and top leading corners. Publishers printed, "With the Compliments of the Author" card was paper clipped to top of front endpaper leaving imprint of clip, now laid in.Dorothy Baker, ca... View more info

One Reel a Week.

By: BALSHOFER, FRED J., AND ARTHUR C. MILLER.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press: 1967

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8211

218 pp., frontis; 8vo; cloth in price-clipped blue jacket. Illustrated with movie stills, b&w photographs.Two veteran filmakers, who began as cameramen in the early years of American film tell of their experiences in the formative years of the industry. View more info