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By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Los Angeles, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.: 1933
Seller ID: 2453
Condition: Fine condition
Vol. 3 only; 501 pp., indexed; 4to; brown fabrikoid, spine titles stamped in gilt; full page black & white portrait photographs throughout. Approximately 250 prominent citizens of Southern California represented, along with brief histories of several institutions such as the Santa Monica Writer's Club, Mount Saint Mary's College, Ventura County Free Library, Redondo Union High School, and Riverside Public Library. View more info
By: (Cover Title: Pen Pictures of the Garden World).
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co.: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 6888
Condition: Very Good condition
637 pp. Illustrated with 34 plates (including 30 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 3 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11¼x9, original full decoratively embossed brown morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, Illustrated." Rubbing to covers at edges; moderate rubbing to a faded spine, otherwise a very clean, solid copy. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for John Howell by John Henry Nash: 1922
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 3873
Condition: Very good or better condition
No. 126 of 500 copies printed. 58 pp., photo portrait frontis of little Stevenson; 8vo; decorated paper over boards, blue cloth spine with paper spine label. Reproducing the records kept by Stevenson's mother for the first year of his life. Rubbing & minor bumping to leading corner tips. Introduced with 'A Note to the Reader' by Stevenson's stepdaughter, Katherine D. Osbourne. Two penned inscriptions on front endpaper: "To Frederick H. Randall with kind regards, Katherine D. Osbourne, New York City, 1923", this is lined out followed by an inscription "To Eleanor Muggley from Katha... View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: London & N.Y., London and New York Pub. Co.; News Companies: 1875
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 6547
Condition: Fair condition
[iv], [703]-1073 [i.e. 1075], [8] p., 4 plates of heavy card stock with 4 original albumen portrait photographs of Gen. H. A. Cobb, Wm. M. Gwin, A. P. Hotaling, Esq., and Captain R. L. Ogden. Full red calf, lettered & decorated in gilt. Spine and edges well rubbed and chaffed; joints cracked, particularly the front which appears to have undergone some repair, both somewhat tender, but hinges solid so holding well. Portrait photographs appear to be in uniformly good condition with minimal fading. "Surpressed Edition" written in pencil at top of title page; occassional margin brackets m... 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.](/assets/images/product/8217.jpg)
By: ADAMS, HENRY.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Cambridge & London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 1982
Seller ID: 8217
ISBN: 0674526856
Condition: Fine condition in Fine jackets
8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Index in volume 6. View more info
By: Andrews, Wayne.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Atheneum: 1963
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 5395
Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, with Mylar Wrap
237 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; green cloth with moderate foxing bottom edge; in price clipped, lightly soiled blue jacket wear at corners & edges; loss up to a half-inch top of spine. View more info
By: ANON. (MARIANNE-AGNE`S PILLEMENT, DAME DE FAUQUES).
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Londres, S. Hooper: 1759
Seller ID: 8977
Condition: Very Good condition
189 pp.; 12mo; brown half-leather and paper over boards; leather spine label; four raised bands. Moderate wear to cover; small ownership label front pastedown of Albert Hooper; bottom 1" of front endpaper clipped out; small owner's name in pen on title page; old adhesive toning to endpapers and pastedowns at corners; occassional light foxing, with light, even toning to text pages. Text in French."Martin, Mylne and Frautschi, Bibliographie du genre romanesque franyais (1751-1800), 59.12. Not in fact a translation. The English version, although perhaps published first, was transl... View more info
By: Boulard, Garry.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lafayette, LA, The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3813
ISBN: 0984940490
Condition: Near fine condition in fair jacket, in protective mylar wrap.
182 pp.; 8vo; red cloth stamped in gilt, in pictorial red jacket; black & white photographs. Light soil to front endpaper; jacket heavily creased at bottom and top edges with with chips and some loss including a 1" square piece out near heal of spine. View more info
![Image for [Two Volumes] Vladimir Nabokov, The Russian Years; The American Years.](/assets/images/product/8700.JPG)
By: BOYD, BRIAN.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press: (1990, 1991)
Seller ID: 8700
Condition: Fine condition in fine jackets, in protective mylar wraps
607 & 783 pp.; 8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Half-inch closed tear inside one flap, but essentially fine copies. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press: 1969
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 8906
Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap
335 pp., portrait frontis; 4to; cloth in price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs and other reproductions. View more info
By: BRANDEIS, ERICH.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: N.Y., American Offset Corp.: (1936)
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 8500
Condition: Fine condition
55 pp.; 8vo; orange wrappers; illustrated with portrait drawing, photographs. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins: 2008
Seller ID: 8577
ISBN: 0801889936
Condition: As New
2 vols.; 4to; green cloth in slipcase; still in original shrinkwrap.In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in In... View more info
Price: $450.00
Publisher: N.Y., Dutton: 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 9137
ISBN: 0525246487
Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap
First Printing. 216 pp. 8vo; cloth-backed blue paper over boards; illustrated white dust jacket. Hint of wear & soil, a crisp, clean copy. View more info
By: Cate, Curtis.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4271
Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap
812 pp.; 8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket; illustrated with photographs. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: N.Y., Chambliss & Company: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3848
Condition: Very Good condition
xiv, 408 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; original blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front cover lettering stamped in silver with gold & silver illustration. Illustrated with over fifty copper-plate half-tones and photo-engravings, including twenty-five society pictures by Laura E. Foster. Moderate soil to covers; rubbing to spine ends; front endpaper with moderate soil; slight thumbing to title at foredge; rear hinge slightly cracked but firm.William H. Chambliss (b. 1865), a Mississippian, came to California as a member of the crew of the U.S. Essex in 1886 and made San Francisco his hom... View more info
By: Coe, George W., as related to Nan Hillary Harrison.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 1951
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 5407
Condition: Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrap
220 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; burgundy cloth lettered in light blue; six plates containing photographs. In dust jacket with chips & a few closed tears at edges, corner; minute loss at rear top corner tip; paper label remnant inside front flap top edge.2nd ed. of Six-Guns, 458. "Though a good friend of Billy the Kid, the author was never considered an outlaw. As a participant in the Lincoln County Wars, he gives, I believe a fairly accurate account of the affair and the Kid's activities. . ." View more info
By: Cohen, Edgar H.; Day, Lillian.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: N.Y. & London, Houghton Mifflin; Jarrolds: 1970 & 1978
Edition: 1st Editions
Seller ID: 5496
Condition: Very Good condition in Very Good jackets
Two separately published volumes; cloth with light scattered foxing to edges. In dust jackets with protective mylar wraps.Portraits of the seductive and witty seventeenth-century Frenchwoman who believed in freethinking, free love and who resolutely practiced both. View more info
By: Collins, John.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll: [1992]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2367
Condition: Fine condition in Fine jacket
317 pps., index; 8vo; dust jacket; black & white photos, reproductions. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co.: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4562
Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, with Mylar Wrap
324 pp., portrait frontis, includes index; cloth; 8vo; map endpapers; blotches of foxing to extremities of prelims and title page; in price clipped jacket with creasing, chips, closed tears primarily to top edge. View more info
