Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Descriptive Catalogue of the Goewey Collection of Browning Pictures 1898-1917; Together with an Introductory Paper Read Before the San Francisco Browning Society

Mrs. James M. Goewey · 1917

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

San Francisco, California, John Henry Nash, 1917. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Mrs. Goewey's fascinating recollections of the process of amassing her own personal and her family's collection of the poet Robert Browning's images and memorabilia...

The Best of Beardsley, Collected and Edited by R.A. Walker

Walker, R.A. (Rainforth Armitage) · 1967

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Spring Books, 1967. Third Impression. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a structurally sound exemplar of the stated Third Impression of the reprint of the 1948 edition. Bound in the ori...

The Best of Beardsley, Collected and Edited by R.A. Walker

Walker, R.A. (Rainforth Armitage) · 1957

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

London, Spring Books, 1957. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a structurally sound exemplar of the Special Edition bound in the original title-blocked yellow and black cloth, still quite shar...

Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1701-1712, with Biographical and Other Notes

Shipton, Clifford K. · 1937

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly at first free endpaper to Rupert Hughes. Fine frontis portrait of Edward Holyoke, a President of Harvard College 1737-1769. ...

Hogarth

R.B. Beckett · 1955

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Book & Art Shop, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the light tan cloth covers, lightly worn, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, brigh...

Early British Drawings in the Huntington Collection: 1600-1750

Wark, Robert R. · 1969

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

San Marino, California, The Huntington Library, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plasti...

Quintus Horatius Flaccus Editions in the United States and Canada As They Appear in the Union Catalog of the Library of Congress

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Flaccus, Quintus Horatius) · 1938

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

California, Mills College, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Handsomely bound Imperial octavo hardcover format copy, brick-red cloth over over boards, still sharp and distinct blue lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated,...

Jamaican Interlude

Timpson, George F. · 1938

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

London, Ed. J. Burrow & Co. LTD, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the former Governor of Jamaica, George F. Timpson, being a Presentation Copy, published by Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., 1938, London. Only one additional copy in this signed state ...

Under a Fool's Cap

Henry, Daniel, Jr. · 1884

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.39 | ¥8,942)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly to "Farny," "who was at one time to have also found shelter [under a fool's cap], this capital decoration is affectionately offered by the presen...

The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmiana

Winthrop, Theodore · 1863

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth over boards, blind-stamped illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, ru...

Grillo Canti Dieci D'Enante Vignajuolo

Vignajuolo, Enante [Baruffaldi Girolamo] · 1738

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Venezia, Homobon Bettanino, 1738. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy and lovely of exterior Probably a Second Edition, there having been published another edition close in date to this e...

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Kulick, Don · 2019

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine-grained ethnography of long-term engagement with the Gapun people of Papua New Guinea and the slow but inexorable decline of their language Tayap. Bitte...

California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings

Rocq, Margaret Miller · 1970

$23.20 (€21.05 | £17.56 | ¥3,705)

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume in stated Second Edition state, revised and enlarge. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright inter...

The Books of California

Stoughton, Gertrude K. · 1968

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Los Angeles, California, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and readable introduction to the history and the heritage of California as revealed in the collection in the Pasadena, California Public Library as assembled by Nel...

Catalogue de Vente Aux Enchã¨Res/ Cinquantes Livres Et Autographes Prã©Cieux Provenant Du Cabinet D'Un Amateur- 4 Dã©Cembre 1987, Drouot,Salles 1 Et 7

Ader Picard Tajan · 1987

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Paris, France, Schiffer, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being only a single addition copy available of this useful compendium of signatures and art history. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible we...

Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction

Bain, George · 1990

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Constable, 1990. Fourteenth Impression. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in tall quarto-size format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated stiff ca...

Southwest Heritage: A Literary History with Bibliographies

Major, Mabel and T.M. Pearce · 1972

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1972. Third Edition, revised. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A concise, readable, accurate bibliographical guide to the literary history of the southwestern United States, now in its Third Edition. Sturdy, attractiv...

A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837

Russell, Norma · 1963

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press at Oxford University, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Fine frontis portrait of the subject in black-and-white. Blue cloth...

Ben Jonson, His Volpone: Or the Foxe

Jonson, Ben; Vincent O'Sullivan; Robert Ross · 1898

$236.00 (€214.12 | £178.63 | ¥37,686)

New York, John Lane, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published by John Lane, New York, 1898, being the First Beardsley Edition (title page says "A New Edition"). Published a year following his death. Copy #245 of 1000 copies, printed and published fo...

Golden Odyssey: John Stroud Houston: California's First Controller and the Origins of State Government

Judson A. Grenier · 1999

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Los Angeles, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Bound in bro...