Category: Antiques & Collectibles

Unsun Karuta: An Outline History of Unsun-Karuta: (Old Japanese Playing Card of Portuguese Origin). [Pamphlet title]

By: Keizaburo Yamaguchi (1928-2012)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Ashiya, Japan, Tekisui Art Museum at the Yamaguchi Culture Hall : 1967

Seller ID: GKK1020b-008

Binding: Textured white paper over boards, printed gold-pap

Condition: Fine

(Ashiya, Japan: Tekisui Art Museum at the Yamaguchi Culture Hall, 1967). Japanese Miniature Book. 3 9/16 x 2 11/16 inches. [ii], 35, [1 blank] pp. Text in Japanese, 8 text figures, 13 full page black-and-white illustrations, 3 folding plates printed with brick-red ink on Japanese-style paper; text clean, unmarked. Textured white paper over boards, printed gold-paper spine and front cover labels, illustrated end-papers; binding square and tight. Comes in a paste-paper-covered slip case with a printed paper spine label; slip case has a small nick near the head of the spine, some minor rubbing, e...
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The Heart of a Bee. An excerpt from Put A Feather In Your Hat

By: Louise Seymour Jones

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, Weather Bird Press : 2004

Seller ID: 782-241-004

Binding: Burgundy cloth spine, patterned paper over boards,

Condition: Fine

Pasadena, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 2004. 12mo. 7 x 5 3/8 inches. (20) pp. Half-title, title page within a typographic border, list of authors mentioned in the text; text clean, unmarked. Burgundy cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, spine title in gilt, dust-jacket with woodcut bee-hive illustration in archival mylar; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Vance Gerry on the colophon. SCARCE in the market. 782-241-004. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies, SIGNED by Vance Gerry at the colophon, Linotype Caslon, bound by Mariana Blau, wove machine-made paper. Ward Ritchie originally printed ...
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The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Books by or Relating to the Press in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, Incorporating Works Recorded Elsewhere

By: Paul Naiditch, Nicolas Barker (b. 1932), editor, Sue Abbe Kaplan, associate editor

Price: $475.00

Publisher: Berkeley, etc., University of California Press : 2001

Seller ID: LG421-001

ISBN-13: 9780520229938

Binding: Hardcover in slip case

Condition: Brand New

Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2001.4to. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. (674) pp. Half-title, title page printed in red and black, catalog of the collection that is divided into 6 categories with an appendix, lists / illustrations of typefaces, printer's devices and watermarks, indexes and concordance; text clean, unmarked. Full tan cloth with pictorial printed front cover label, printed paper spine label, and black-stamped title of the publisher at foot of spine, matching cloth-covered slip-case; binding square and tight. LG421-001. Fine. FIRST EDITION, first printing. The Aldine Pres...
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Grant Dahlstrom, Master Printer. A Tribute on his 75th Birthday

By: Philip S. Brown (d. 1995) et al

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, New Ampersand Press : 1977

Seller ID: 782-229-003

Binding: Black cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, pr

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: The New Ampersand Press, 1977. 8vo. 9 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches. [viii], 36, [2] pp. Half-title, black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Dahlstrom tipped-in, title page printed in red and black inks with ampersand vignette; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, some light spotting to cloth at spine. 782-229-003. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies printed by Vance Gerry at the Weatherbird Press in Linotype Janson on Warren's Olde Style wove paper, bound by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders....
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Jane Austen

By: Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, The Ampersand Press : 1948

Seller ID: II921-002

Binding: Black cloth, printed paper front cover label

Condition: Very Good

Pasadena, CA: The Ampersand Press, 1948. 8vo. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches. [iv], 16 pp. Rose ornament on title page and head of text, black-and-white portrait of Jane Austen; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, printed paper front cover label; binding square and tight, no dust-jacket. Bookplate of Grant Dahlstrom/The Castle Press mounted on front free end-paper, although the paste has relaxed from the bookplate which is now loose. II921-002. Very Good.FIRST EDITION. Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poet...
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The Sierra Nevada Suite. Thirty-one Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener

By: Richard Wagener (b. 1944)

Price: $500.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, The Book Club of California : 2023

Seller ID: SBT423-002

Binding: Dark-blue cloth spine, green paper over boards, wo

Condition: Fine

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2013. Series: Book Club of California Publication, No. 231. Tall 4to. 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Unpaginated. [66] pp. Title page with wood engraving vignette, 2-page introduction by Peter Koch "Richard Wagener's Mountains," 31 engravings of the Sierra Nevada mountains (2 folding); text clean, unmarked. Dark-blue cloth spine, green paper over boards, wood engraved vignette on front cover, printed paper spine label, original slip case with blue cloth top and bottom edges, covered with green paper boards and printed paper spine label on the slip case; ...
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Marbling at the Heyeck Press

By: Robin Heyeck

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Woodside, CA, The Heyeck Press : 1986

Seller ID: 785-36-001

ISBN-13: 9780940592209

Binding: Quarter grey morocco, suminagashi marbled paper ov

Condition: Fine

Woodside, CA: (The Heyeck Press), 1986. 4to. 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches. 65, [3] pp. Marbled paper sample frontispiece with tissue guard, 28 paper samples tipped-in (most with tissue guards, a few without which have some faint offsetting); text clean, unmarked. Quarter grey morocco, suminagashi marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt, slip case; binding square and tight. Laid in are 3 bits of correspondence from Robin Heyeck to Jim Lorson of Lorson's Books and Prints of Fullerton, CA. 1) is a post card, typed, and SIGNED by Robin Heyeck dated January 11, 1987 in which Heyeck discusses the p...
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Bagatelles. Illustrations by Robert Bonfils

By: Tessie Jones (1886-1967)

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Maurice Darantiere : 1926

Seller ID: GIL123-009

Binding: Plain stiff-wrappers with a fold-over jacket with

Condition: Very Good

Paris: (Maurice Darantiere), 1926. Small 4to. 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches. (64) pp. Half-title, 11 color pochoir head-pieces to 11 literary pieces with 8 smaller pochoir tail-pieces of flowers; text clean, unmarked. Plain stiff-wrappers with a fold-over jacket with a pochoir illustration of a bouquet of flowers, clear mylar jacket; binding square and tight, original jacket rubbed. Laid-in is Miss Tessie Jones' calling card with ms. note and dated Christmas 1926 and a 3-page ALS from Miss Jones on 2305 Park Avenue, Minneapolis letterhead. GIL123-009. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 numbered copies, ...
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Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975-1987

By: Ward Ritchie (1906-1996)

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Verde Imprenta : 1987

Seller ID: 782-344-001

Binding: Quarter red morocco, design in red on front cover,

Condition: Fine

[Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1987]. 4to. 10 1/2 x 8 inches. Unpaginated. [68] pp. Half-title, 3-color design on title page, many designs and illustrations in a variety of colors throughout the text show what was used in many of the titles produced during the period, printer's device on the colophon; text clean, unmarked. Quarter red morocco, design in red on front cover, gilt-titling on red leather on front cover, comes in the original black-paper-covered slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Ward Ritchie on the colophon. Bookplate of "The Weather Bird Press, Vance Gerry"...
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The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon

By: Ward Ritchie (1906-1996)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Anderson, Ritchie & Simon : 1961

Seller ID: 782-341-015

Binding: Black cloth, stamped with printer's device on fron

Condition: Fine

(Los Angeles, CA: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon), 1961. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. x, 156, [2] pp. Half-title, printer's device on title page in 2 colors, decorative initials in blue, title pages reproduced in full color, bibliography, indexes; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, stamped with printer's device on front cover in gilt, spine is gilt-decorated, red leather spine label titled in gilt, comes in the original blue-paper-covered slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Ward Ritchie on the colophon. 782-341-015. FineLIMITED EDITION, this is number 120 of 300 SIGNED copies in slip case ...
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In Black & White: A Wood Engraver's Odyssey

By: Wesley W. Bates

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Newtown, PA, Bird & Bull Press : 2005

Seller ID: GIL123-008

Binding: Black cloth, printed paper front cover label with

Condition: Fine

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. 4to. 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. 74, [4] pp. Half-title, title page printed with red and black inks, title-page vignette, 31 examples of Bates' woodcut (1 printed with red ink, 1 folding in 4 colors); text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, printed paper front cover label with a Bates woodcut, red leather spine label titled in gilt, comes in the original slip case covered in red cloth; binding square and tight. Comes with 2 copies of the prospectus laid in. GIL123-008. Fine. LIMITED FIRST EDITION of 140 copies, this is copy 17, printed on Zerkall Mouldmade Paper, co...
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The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India In a Series of Letters to Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq

By: William Adam (1796-1881)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Weeks, Jordan, & Company : 1840

Seller ID: DB722-007

Binding: Brown Cloth

Condition: Good

Boston: Weeks, Jordan, & Company, 1840. 12mo in 6s. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. 279, [1 blank] pp. Foxed, as is typical. Publisher's brown textured cloth, brown leather spine label titled in gilt; binding square and tight, label rubbed and illegible. Bookplate of Frank J. Novak. DB722-007. Good. FIRST EDITION, an English edition appeared later that year (London, Smith, Elder and Co.). Adam's book on slavery in India was part of the international anti-slavery agitation of the first half of the nineteenth century. Like a serial novel, it is takes the form of a series of letters addressed to Thomas Fow...
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Fifty Years of Book Collecting

By: William Webb Clary (1888-1971)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, The Zamorano Club : 1962

Seller ID: 782-229-002

Binding: Brown cloth spine titled in gilt, gray paper over

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: The Zamorano Club, 1962.8vo. 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches. [iv], 49 pp. 9 black-and-white photographic illustrations (3 double-page) of material in Clary's collection; text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth spine titled in gilt, gray paper over boards; binding square and tight, minor rubbing, lower corner with a fleck of paper dislodged. 782-229-002. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, printed in Linotype Aldus by Grant Dahlstrom. William Webb Clary was an American lawyer and academic. He was a partner in O'Melveny & Myers and was involved with the administration of the Claremont College consortium,...
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I. Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit: An Historical Approach by W. W. Robinson. II. Personal Considerations: Essays by Lawrence Clark Powell. Illustrations by Irene Robinson

By: William Wilcox Robinson (1891-1972) and Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1958

Seller ID: SBT423-003

Binding: Quarter tan cloth, patterned paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. Tall 8vo. 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. [vi], 86, [2] pp. Half-title, title page printed in red and black with color vignette, double-page color map of The Malibu, each chapter with a color headpiece, with black-and-white and color illustrations in the text and as tailpieces, printer's device on the colophon; text clean, unmarked, upper corner of double-page map with some dog-earring. Quarter tan cloth, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label, clear plastic dust-jacket; binding square and tight, light dust-soiling to top edge of text block, to...
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