1935. Leather-bound. This is an actual white leather baby shoe, not a book. SIGNATURES Amelia Earhart Roscoe Turner; Frank Hawks (aka “Meteor Man”); (Later-to-become Admiral) R.E. Byrd (VERY faint, above bottom seam, down and to the left of Earhart’s signature) Shoe is nested in a decorative, hinged, wooden box, with..... More about BABY SHOE WITH AMELIA EARHART'S SIGNATURE (AND THAT OF THREE OTHER AVIATORS
New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1937. Hardcover. Large oversize book. 14.5" x 11". Bound in red cloth boards, with black and gilt lettering and illustrations to front cover. Contains dozens of illustrations, as well as over a hundred maps of different regions, over 2 dozen maps of large... More about COLLIER'S WORLD ATLAS AND GAZETTEER
St. Louis, Missouri: The Drygoodsman, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (9.50" x 6.25"). Brick-Red cloth-covered boards with black, embossed border to front board, and black lettering as well. On cover, title reads: "The Drygoodsman's Handy Dictionary for the Dry Goods and Shoe Trade". Corners bumped. Discolorations/stains to boards and in... More about THE DRYGOODSMAN'S HANDY DICTIONARY; A book of reference containing definitions and explanations...
Harper and Brothers, 1863. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Handsome, dark brown octavos, original tooled cloth with embossed figure of Japanese Dragon on each volume's front board. Striking gilt, almost copper-like lettering to tooled spine. A bit of shelf-rubbing to several corners and to spine caps, more on Vol. II. All..... More about THE CAPITAL OF THE TYCOON: A NARRATIVE OF A THREE YEARS RESIDENCE IN JAPAN (2 VOLUME SET
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1712 The Oliver Building, 1928. First Edition. 59+2 pages. Stiff paper wraps, quarto. Cover titles in black. Corners bumped and moderate soiling to wraps, text clean and bright, binding tight. Housed in a hand made folder of paper covered boards. Walter Arensberg [1878-1954], was fascinated with Rosicrucianism, and... More about THE BACONIAN KEYS
San Francisco: Luna's Press, 2000. Redo. First Edition. Paperback. Unpaginated [34 pages]. Black and white drawings throughout. Illustrated staplebound wraps, square octavo. Some light soiling to wraps, interior clean and bright. Bilingual love poems in Spanish and English. More about PAINTING SHADOWS / PINTANDO SOMBRAS
Chicago, IL: A.T. French / Souvenir Publishing . Company, 1898. Hardcover. Fo. 15.75" x 11.5". Bound in green cloth boards, with illustration of U.S. Navy ship to front board. Contains over 150 original illustrations in black and white, as well as numerous maps in color. Also contains Historical, Military, Naval... More about PICTORIAL ATLAS ILLUSTRATING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: COMPRISING A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONFLICT...
New York: Garden City Publishing, 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Tan cloth with black lettering. Broken spine. Fraying to spine-caps and light rubbing to corners. With 53 illustrations including frontispiece of the Five Points in 1829, and photographs of such characters as Dopey Benny, Little Augie, Sheeney Mike Kurtz, Googy Corcoran, Clops... More about THE GANGS OF NEW YORK : AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE UNDERWORLD
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 434 pages. Frontis, 24 illustrations. Foldout color map of West Indies at rear. Endpaper maps. Red cloth, octavo. Spine titles in gilt. Corners bumped, edgewear, spine dulled. Some foxing to front edge, foxing to glassine protector for frontis, toning to... More about THE BRITISH WEST INDIES : THEIR HISTORY, RESOURCES AND PROGRESS
Chicago, IL: B. Heller & Company, 1926. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. 6.5" x 3.75". Dense card covers. Wear to extremities, small dent to top rear edge, scratching to boards. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 302 pp. More about SECRETS OF MEAT CURING AND SAUSAGE MAKING: HOW TO CURE HAMS, SHOULDERS, BACON, CORNED BEEF, ETC....
Honolulu: Privately Printed, 1928. 3rd Printing. Staplebound. 15 pages. Red color illustrations on each page. Illustrated gray card wraps with flaps. Staple bound. Small light stain [coffee?] to front wrap and light soiling to edges. More about THE VIRGIN OF WAIKIKI : A TORRID TRAGEDY OF THE TROPICS
San Francisco, CA: Boothby's World Drinks, Co., 1934. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Yellow paperback depicts a mail and female hands holding driniks, against a backdrop of a glove. Book contains a massive amount of information about mixing drinks within., as its author was one of the prime "Mixologists" of his or... More about "COCKTAIL BILL" BOOTHBY'S WORLD DRINKS AND HOW TO MIX THEM; Completely revised and...
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Pamphlet. Final issue of Sparrow. 11 Poems by Charles Bukowski: junk; 8 rooms; the killer smiles; horse and fist; close encounters of another kind; mermaid; hug the dark; 59 cents a pound; promenade; metamorphosis; we'll take them. Faint age-tanning to edge... More about WE'LL TAKE THEM : SPARROW 72
London: Macmillan, 1891. John Tenniel. Hardcover. Stated People's Edition, twenty-fourth thousand. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel including full page frontis. 174 pages of text, followed by "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice.", the poem "Christmas Greetings [From a Fairy to a Child]", three pages of publisher... More about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Dallas, TX: Taylor, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED in black magic marker by ORLANDO CEPEDA to front free endpaper. Orange metallic lettering to spine of blue boards. Orange and green lettering to glossy pictorial jacket. 9.25 x 6.5". 238 pp with epilogue, appendices, acknowledgments and index. a wee bit of... More about BABY BULL : FROM HARDBALL TO HARD TIME AND BACK (SIGNED
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris... More about THE LITTLE SISTER
Livingston, Montana USA: Clark City Press, [1976]1990. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. Reissue of original 1976 Doubleday publication, but re-edited and expanded to include more than seventy photographs of the great fishermen and rivers of the West Coast, from San Francisco, north to British Columbia. Off-white cloth-covered boards with one or... More about THE ANGLER'S COAST (SIGNED
Portland, OR: Salmon Trout Steelheader, 1978. Jeff Dayne. Second Printing. Hardcover. 4to. 11" x 8.25". Bound in green boards with silver lettering to spine and front cover. Minor foxing to page edges, and light rubbing to dustjacket. DJ now protected in mylar. Contains numerous black and white photographs of fishermen... More about STEELHEAD FLY FISHING AND FLIES
St. Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press Company, 1890. Leather_bound. Complete two volume set. Volume 1 published 1890 and volume 2 published 1893. xii,844 + 652 pages. Index to each volume. Half-leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titles, thick quartos. Both volumes have chafed corners, edgewear and scuffed boards. Spine to volume... More about MINNESOTA IN THE CIVIL AND INDIAN WARS 1861-1865 : TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE
Biloxi, MS: Taylor Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. AS NEW. Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. "Colt collectors Ken Condry and Larry Jones have collaborated on a very informative text on Colt commemorative guns produced to date. The book contains over 200 hardbound pages with a 9x7 inch photo of each commemorative... More about THE COLT COMMEMORATIVES 1961-1986
London: W. Lowndes, 1788. Hardcover. A "NEW" EDITION. SOLIDLY BOUND. Red morocco half-leather. Rubbing at extremities. Corners are scuffed and gently nudged Some foxing, particularly pp. 217 to 245 in Vol. 1. Gilt lettering debossed to leather spines with five raised bands and ruled gilt. Illustrations with copper plate, 6... More about THE WORKS OF MR. CONGREVE, IN TWO VOLUMES A NEW EDITION, ORNAMENTED WITH COPPER-PLATES TO WHICH...
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2008. 36 pages of text followed by 137 full page manuscript which contains 135 animal illustrations. Blue cloth with large spine titles in gilt. Quarto. In bright color illustrated jacket with some edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Facsimile of the beautiful 13th century bestiary at... More about THE BOOK OF BEASTS : A FACSIMILE OF MS. BODLEY 764
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 30 volume complete set of the works of Charles Dickens, bound in blue boards. Top edges gilt. Foredges and bottom edges untrimmed. Some pages uncut. Each volume measures ~ 8.5" by 5.5". Minor wear to extremities. Some minor dings to edges, and some... More about THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS (COMPLETE SET, 30 VOLUMES
Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1884. H.K. Browne. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. 457+464 pages. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. Brown cloth with black decorations, spine title in black over gilt. Corners bumped and chafed, head and tail of spine show wear, cover a bit faded. Decorated endpapers, previous owner's... More about DOMBEY AND SON : TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
San Francisco: The California Historical Society, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. xxxiii, 124 pages. 1,300 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. Introduction by Kevin Starr. Photo of Dixon by Dorthea Lange, five drawings in black and red by Dixon. Linen cloth over light brick colored boards with spine label. Quarto. Corners sharp... More about RIM-ROCK AND SAGE : THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MAYNARD DIXON
