New York: The Century Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. x, 284 pp. 32 full page plates from photographs by Huber, Taber, Le Conte and the Pillsbury Picture Co.; 3 folding maps. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt, periwinkle, and royal blue stamping, top edge gilt. Slight bump..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24. Manuscript edition, copy #414 of 750. Includes a piece of John Muir's original handwritten manuscript mounted at the front of the first volume, the beginning lines of chapter four of The Mountains of California: "Early one bright morning in Autumn while the glacier meadows were..... More
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. First edition. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine, with dulling to gilt titles, shallow chipping at head of spine. Several small stains to top edge of textblock. Small corner missing from front..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. First edition. Signed by S.J. Perelman on the front free endpaper. [x], 213 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with blue and black stamping. Near Fine with light wear in Very Good+ dust jacket, price-clipped, chipped along back panel top edge. A signed account..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. First edition of the first gay guide to London, offering "an ironic--if heavily veiled--indictment of contemporary sexual mores." Ostensibly taking the form of coded dialogue taking place in the "Theleme Club" between a young man with prophetic knowledge of the city telling an older..... More
New York: Robert H. McBride & Company, 1947. First edition. Signed by explorer Matthew Henson, subject of this book, "Matt Henson" on the half title. Laid in is a program for the unveiling of a bust of Henson sponsored by the NAACP in New York City, Feb. 9, 1953, where..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First edition. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page and inscribed with birthday wishes to a former owner. Bound in publisher's cloth; Near Fine with faint droplet stains to top edge, softening to crown, previous owner initials and date to half-title page. In..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 430 of a limited 500 sets signed by Theodore Roosevelt, and printed on Ruisdael paper at the De Vinne Press. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original half leather over boards. Very Good with uneven toning to leather, bindings lightly rubbed..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 86 of a limited 500 sets signed by Theodore Roosevelt, and printed on Ruisdael paper at the De Vinne Press. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original half leather over boards. An unusually nice copy, Near Fine, with light wear to..... More
El Centro, CA: Desert Magazine Press, 1940. First edition. 72 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with light mottling to cloth and two small pen marks, git inscription on paste down, hinge starting at front, a few light stains to endpapers (probably offsetting). A posthumously-published..... More
Tokyo: Suwaraya Ihachi, Tenpo 5- Tenpo 7, [1834 & 1836]. First edition. 14 of 20 volumes; lacking vols. 11,12, 14, 16, 17 and 20. Original publisher's blue wrappers with blind stamped pine branch decorations and paper title labels, later hand numbered in pencil in Arabic numerals. Printed from woodblocks on..... More
Detroit: [Herold Press] For private circulation only, 1904. First edition. Author's hand-written poem on verso of front free end paper, with his signed inscription on the following page. Bound in publisher's full calf illustrated on the front cover in gilt, with red silk end sheets and deckled edges, with 12..... More
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2014. First edition. Signed by John Schott in pencil on a slip visible through a window in the rear board; an unnumbered copy issued alongside a run of 350. Bound in silk with black lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, housed in Near Fine publisher's silk..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in silver. Very Good with cloth rubbed at joints and worn at corners and spine ends, lightly soiled. Front and rear inner hinge exposed. Pages toned especially at edges, contemporary gift inscription to title..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1971. First edition. Bound in publisher's white cloth with black and red lettering. Housed in black cloth chemise with bone clasps and paper label, original cardboard mailing box. Fine in Fine dust jacket, Fine chemise. Box has one end opened, otherwise in nice shape..... More
London & Derby: Bemrose & Sons, 1889. First edition. xvi, 243, (1) pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Very Good with bright gilt, binding a bit shaken, worn at tips, edges foxed, front free endpaper corner-clipped, wear to paste down from removed bookplate, former owner's..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. xiii, [iii], 388, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black, pink, and green stamping. Near Fine, with glue from now-gone bookplate on paste down, name written on front free endpaper, old photo of Manila Railroad Station mounted to page at..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885. First American edition. xxvii, 528; x, 483pp. with 12 pages of ads at rear. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, white, red, black, and white. Near Fine set with both large maps in rear pockets, all illustrations and other fold-out maps, bright gilt, internally..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington Limited, 1890. Two volumes. Demy quarto edition de luxe. Copy #53 of 250 signed by Henry Stanley. A near fine set with lightly rubbed morocco and vellum, slight lifting to Vol. I’s front vellum; internally clean and bright. The finest edition of a...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. An advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in original coarse off-white cloth stamped in black and brown. Fine, with faint foxing to cloth, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light staining to spine..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. [viii], 246 pp. Bound in publisher's white cloth stamped in crimson and black. Foxed cloth, else Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, soiled and lightly worn, spine panel dulled. A first of Steinbeck's bestselling American travelogue. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. A fantastic copy, very sharp and bright, with light wear to the textblock edge, and the bottom corners of pages 463-470 uncut and creased in a binder's error, else Fine in a...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, first printing. x, 598 pp. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning and dimple to spine panel; two tiny closed tears to bottom of front panel, one of which is..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1869. First edition. 470 pp. with tissue-guarded frontispiece. Publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt lettering, gray endpapers. A Fine copy with light wear to head and tail cloth, small stain on front free endpaper. An uncommon neat, clean copy of an illustrated European travelogue..... More
London: Longmans, 1959. First edition of the author's first publication in book form. Signed by Wilfred Thesiger on the title page. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; map present in pocket at rear. Very Good with tanning to spine and light stain to foot..... More