Category: Antiques & Collectibles

The Joys of Collecting Children's Books

By: Alla Tchikoff Ford (1910-1994)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, Ford Press : 1968

Seller ID: GHEEY312-1

Condition: Very Good

Hong Kong: Ford Press, 1968. Miniature Book. 2 3/8 x 1 15/16 inches. [vi], 106, [2] pp. Black-and-white frontispiece of the title page for an American edition of Janeway's A Token for Children, and 15 other black-and-white illustrations from vintage children's books, front free end-paper and colophon embellished with hand-drawn flower illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped red cloth; bindings slightly askew, front paste-down beginning to come up. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the colophon. GHEEY312-1. Very good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, this is number 166. The FIRST EDITION in book ...
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Cinderella: Or, the History of the Little Glass Slipper

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alhambra, CA, C. F. Braun & Co. : No Date

Seller ID: OG915-002

Binding: Marbled paper wrappers, bound with white string

Condition: Very Good

Alhambra, CA: C. F. Braun & Co., n.d. Not Quite a Miniature Book. 4 x 2 5/8 inches. [ii], 32, [i] pp. A note from Carey S. Bliss, frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations throughout; text clean, unmarked. Marbled paper wrappers, stapled; binding square and tight. OG915-002. Very Good.Facsimile Reprint of the earliest known American edition of Cinderella, published by Mathew Carey in Philadelphia in 1800. This volume is a photolithographic facsimile by the private press of C. F. Braun & Co., in Alhambra, California, and faithfully recreates the tones of the pages of the original 1800 edition...
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Cinderella: Or, the History of the Little Glass Slipper

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alhambra, CA, C. F. Braun & Co. : No Date

Seller ID: OG915-003

Binding: Marbled paper wrappers, bound with white string

Condition: Very Good

Alhambra, CA: C. F. Braun & Co., n.d. Not Quite a Miniature Book. 4 x 2 5/8 inches. [ii], 32, [i] pp. A note from Carey S. Bliss, frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations throughout; text clean, unmarked. Marbled paper wrappers, bound with white string; binding square and tight, white paint stains on front cover. OG915-003. Very Good.Facsimile Reprint of the earliest known American edition of Cinderella, published by Mathew Carey in Philadelphia in 1800. This volume is a photolithographic facsimile by the private press of C. F. Braun & Co., in Alhambra, California, and faithfully recreates ...
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Interesting Scripture Stories

By: Anonymous

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New Haven, CT, Sidney's Press, S. Babcock : 1833

Seller ID: SKU523-001

Binding: Original printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Good

New Haven, CT: Sidney's Press, S. Babcock, 1833. Miniature Chapbook. 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches. 8 pp. Zebra vignette on title page, 4 engraved illustrations; text unmarked, paper toned, water-staining to outer margins does affect text, insect damage works in from rear wrapper mostly confined to the margins but does affect 3 lines of text on page 4 (just a few letters affected). Original printed wrappers, stitched, with wood 3 engravings on the outside of the wraps (insides blank). Ownership signature inside front cover [illegible]. SKU523-001. Good. SECOND EDITION of this very SCARCE miniature chap...
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A Leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome, First Printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome, c. 1466-1467. With an Historical Essay by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams and a Bibliographical Essay by John L. Sharpe III

By: Bennett Gilbert, editor

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA and London, UK, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge - H. M. Fletcher : 1981

Seller ID: QG915-001

Binding: Quarter vellum, marbled paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles and London: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge - H. M. Fletcher, 1981. Folio. 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches. [vi], (36) pp. Pocket with the printed incunable leaf mounted at the rear, half-title, title-page with a Jerome-and-the-Lion vignette in red, 2 red initials within typographic borders, the original leaf has a blue hand-painted initial "B" as hand-rubricated when first issued; text clean, unmarked, the printed leaf has some marginal water-staining. Quarter vellum, marbled paper over boards, spine label titled in gilt; binding square and tight. QG915-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies,...
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Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories

By: Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Co. : 1853

Seller ID: DB722-006

Binding: Brown cloth, printed paper spine label

Condition: Good

Boston Brahmin Critiques the Revolutions of 1848With and Autograph Note, Signed, by the AuthorBoston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [viii], 158 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, printed paper spine label, added mylar dust-jacket; binding square and tight, shelf wear, corners showing, spine ends chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of Eugene Bechtold, Los Angeles, CA on the tail of the rear pastedown. Autograph note, signed from Norton to "My Dear Mr. Dwight." DB722-006. Good. FIRST EDITION. This is Charles Eliot Norton's first book, published anonymously. With an...
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Poetical Magazine; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Muse, By the Agent of the Goddess, R. Ackermann

By: COMBE, William (1742-1823), author. ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1757-1827), illustrator. ACKERMANN, Rudolf (1764-17834), publisher

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, Rudolf Ackermann : 1809-1811

Seller ID: DB722-010

Binding: Half calf, marbled paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

[London: R. Ackermann, 1809-1811]. Four volumes, complete. 8vo in 4s. 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches. iv, 404, [4]; 372, [4]; 364, [4]; 32, [4, last a blank] pp. 52 plates (2 uncolored, 50 hand-colored, 28 of which are by Thomas Rowlandson and relate to the Doctor Syntax poem), 1 figure, indexes to each volume; pages toned and offsetting associated with the plates, as usual, 2 instances of pencil marginalia in Vol. III (inoffensive). Half late-nineteenth-century brown calf, marbled paper over boards, raised bands, dark red spine labels, spine decorated and titled in gilt, new end-papers; binding square ...
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Image for L. A. Type: A Concise History of Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc. Compiled by Vance Gerry from a University of California, Los Angeles Oral History Program Interview with Don Winter

L. A. Type: A Concise History of Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc. Compiled by Vance Gerry from a University of California, Los Angeles Oral History Program Interview with Don Winter

By: Don Winter (1920-1946) interviewee. Vance Gerry (1929-2004), compiler

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, The Weather Bird Press : 2000

Seller ID: LH1022-015

Binding: Blind-stamped olive-drab cloth, printed paper spin

Condition: Very Good

Pasadena, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 2000. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches. (44) pp. Half-title, title page printed in orange and black inks with a bell vignette in orange, color portrait of Walter Gebhard tipped-in, color and black-and-white illustrations of printing samples and specimen sheets on plates, folding plate of rule specimens, the "Technical Notes" at the rear include some cuts of printing presses and line drawings of matrices, "Patrick Reagh supplied much of the pictorial material shown as well as technical information," p. (7); text clean, unmarked. Blind-stamped olive-drab cloth, pri...
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Some Letters Concerning D. H. Lawrence, From Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence to Eliot Fay

By: Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883-1977), Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), and Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Fallbrook, CA, Weather Bird Press : 1978

Seller ID: 782-241-001

Binding: Red cloth over flexible boards, printed paper fron

Condition: Very Good

Fallbrook, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 1978. Pamphlet. 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches. [iv], 12, [4] pp. Half title, frontispiece portrait of Lawrence in red, short biography of Eliot Fay at the end of the text; text clean, unmarked. Red cloth over flexible boards, printed paper front cover label; binding square and tight, small bump on lower corner of text block, small bump at head of rear board. 782-241-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. These letters belonged to Eliot Fay (1902-1954), was a professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. In preparation to write his book about D. H. ...
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On the Illustrating of Books. From The Private Libraries Association Quarterly, July, 1957

By: Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Fallbrook, CA, Weather Bird Press : 1986

Seller ID: LG223-001

Binding: Quarter black cloth, patterned paper over boards,

Condition: Very Good

Fallbrook, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 1986. Narrow 8vo. 8 1/2 x 4 9/16 inches. [x], (14 last blank) pp. Half-title, title-page vignette, 4 illustrations in the text; text clean, unmarked. Quarter black cloth, patterned paper over boards, sewn head-bands, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, light shelf wear and toning to jacket. SCARCE. LG223-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies printed with Linotype Scotch on Rives buff wove paper, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, bound by Bela Blau. "Unlike his contemporaries, Bawden, Freedman and Ravilio...
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Ode Sung at San Francisco, October 29, 1850, At the Celebration on Hearing of the Admission of California into the Union as a State

By: Elizabeth Maria Bonney Wills (d. 1892)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, The Press of Muir Dawson : 1947

Seller ID: BMR423-001

Binding: Printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Good

[Los Angeles, CA]: The Press of Muir Dawson, 1947. 4to. 9 3/8 x 8 inches. Unpaginated. [8] pp. Foreword by Glen Dawson; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, wrappers with a variety of wear, like a bumped top corner, but still a nice exemplar of a scarce item. Pencil notation in the gutter at the last page of the text block reads: "1948 gift of the printer." SCARCE. BMR423-001. Good. FIRST EDITION, thus. Sung to the tune Star Spangled Banner. This poem was printed contemporarily as a broadside in San Francisco a couple of times. Foreword by Glen Dawson pro...
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Tractatus Physiologicus de Pulchritudine. Juxta ea quae de Sponsa in Cánticis Canticorum mystice pronunciantur

By: Ernest Van Veen (Vaenius) (1595-1654)

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Brussels, Typis Francisci Toppens : 1662

Seller ID: CL1022-002

Binding: Contemporary full calf over boards

Condition: Very Good

Brussels: Typis Francisci Toppens, prope Templum Societatis Jesu, sub signo S. Spiritus, 1662. Small 8vo. 6 1/2 x 4 inches. 29 copper engravings, decorative initial, 5 tailpieces; text clean, unmarked. Contemporary full calf, gilt ornamentation on the board edges, 5 raised bands, spine decorated in gilt, brown leather spine label, all edges colored; binding square and tight, rubbed, especially at the joints. French-language bookseller's description on front paste-down. CL1022-002. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of this odd little book which takes as its source the Song of Songs of Solomon, and bring...
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Following Bernhardt Wall

By: Francis Joseph Weber (b. 1933)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1974

Seller ID: IY915-101

Binding: Quarter black calf, decorative paper over boards,

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1974. Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches. [ii], 18, [2] pp. Half-title, frontispiece which is 1 of 4 intaglio reproductions by Tony Kroll mounted throughout the volume; text clean, unmarked. Quarter black calf, decorative paper over boards, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight, minor use wear. IY915-101. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies printed by Wm. M. Cheney. Father Weber's preliminary study of the work of Bernhardt T. Wall (1872-1956), American historian and illustrator. Weber would go on to produce a more extensive study of Bernhar...
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The Lady, or the Tiger? and The Discourager of Hesitancy

By: Frank Richard Stockton (1834-1902)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada, Heavenly Monkey : 2022

Seller ID: HM323-001

Binding: Yellow-orange cloth spine, black paper over boards

Condition: Fine

Vancouver, BC, Canada: Heavenly Monkey, 2022. 8vo; two stories bound tête-bêche. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [iv], (11); [iv], (11) pp. Each tale with a multi-color frontispiece by Walter Bachinski, along with 19 single-color illustrations at the head of each text-page, title pages printed in 2 colors; text clean unmarked. Yellow-orange cloth spine, black paper over boards, one side with a stamped pattern and the other side with gilt-stamped pattern, painted end-papers, comes in black-paper-covered slip case with printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Walter Bachinski on the ...
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Image for Spiritual Aphorisms of Baron von Huegel. Selected and Edited by Roger R. Hilleary. Arranged with Biblical Reflections by Paul Tyler Coke

Spiritual Aphorisms of Baron von Huegel. Selected and Edited by Roger R. Hilleary. Arranged with Biblical Reflections by Paul Tyler Coke

By: Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925). Roger R. Hilleary (1931-2011), compiler

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Monterey, CA, Monte Regio Press : 2001

Seller ID: GKK1020-013

Binding: Red cloth, front cover and spine labels

Condition: Fine

Monterey, CA: Monte Regio Press, 2001. 12mo. 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. [ii], (38) pp. Half-title, 2 photographic portraits of Baron Friedrich von Huegel tipped-in (1 at the frontispiece), red fleuron on the title-page, 1 running head in red and 1 in black fleurons, printer's device in red on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Red cloth, front cover and spine labels titled in black with red typographic ornaments, goldenrod end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. SCARCE. GKK1020-013. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 36 copies, this is number 19, designed by Roger ...
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Two Essays on the Decretum of Gratian. Together with an Original Liaf Printed on Vellum by Peter Schoeffer at Mainz in 1472

By: Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (1903-1992) ade Charles McCurry (1943-1980)

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge; Bernard Rosenthal : 1971

Seller ID: BRW423-001

Binding: Vellum spine, marbled paper sides, vellum tips, ve

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge; San Francisco, CA: Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., 1971. Folio. 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [18] pp. Half-title, leaf with flaps and tissue guard holds the vellum leaf, text and title page printed in red and black inks with a red Peter Schoeffer printer's device on title page, facsimile of the colophon of the 1472 edition of the Decretum, Plantin Press printer's device on colophon; text un-marked with minor finger soil in the outer margins of a couple of pages. Vellum spine, marbled paper side, vellum tips, vellum spine label titled in gilt, comes in...
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El Alisal: Where History Lingers

By: Jane Apostol (1911-2016)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Historical Society of Southern California : 1994

Seller ID: 782-341-018

ISBN-13: 9780914421122

Binding: Gilt-stamped green cloth, slip case

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California, (1994). 8vo. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. (126) pp. Half-title, title page printed in turquoise and black inks, title-page vignette, 51 illustrations, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped green cloth, slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Apostle and Ritchie on the colophon. 782-341-018. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies of the special edition, hardcover in slip case, and SIGNED by the author and the designer. Foreword by Thomas Andrews. Chapters include "Charles Fletcher Lummis," "El Alisal," The Lummis Home Ga...
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Image for Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States of America. Washington, D. C., Inauguration Day : 20 January, 1961

Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States of America. Washington, D. C., Inauguration Day : 20 January, 1961

By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Printed by Students of "The Art of the Book" at the Press of the Department of Fine Arts, University Southern California : 1962

Seller ID: GKK1020-001

Binding: Parchment paper spine, decorative paper over board

Condition: Fine

[Los Angeles, CA]: (Printed by Students of "The Art of the Book" at the Press of the Department of Fine Arts, University Southern California, 1962). 12mo. 4 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches. [iv], 13, [3] pp. Half-title, title page printed in red and black, running heads; text clean, unmarked. Parchment paper spine, decorative paper over boards, printed paper spine label, clear plastic dust-jacket, slip case covered with grey paper; binding square and tight, light offsetting from adhesive on spine parchment. From Glen Dawson's personal collection without distinguishing marks. SCARCE. GKK1020-001a. Fine. LI...
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Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4). Edited by Herbert David & Harry Carter

By: Joseph Moxon (1628-1691)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1962

Seller ID: LH1022-020

Binding: Dark green cloth

Condition: Very Good

London: Oxford University Press, 1962. 8vo. 10 x 6 3/8 inches. (lxiv), (488) pp. Frontispiece portrait of Moxon, Introduction, in addition to the 33 facsimile illustrations within the text, there are 17 figures on plates, bibliography of Moxon's published writings, index, 2 folding specimens sheets bound-in at the rear; text clean, unmarked. Dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, rear inner hinge cracked, light shelf wear, with an air of mustiness. LH1022-020. Very Good. SECOND EDITION. Joseph Moxon was hydrographer to Charles II as wel...
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The History of La Canada Flintridge. Illustrations by Virginia Robertson

By: June Dougherty (1920-2011)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: No Place, La Canada Flintridge Historical Society : 1993

Seller ID: BO118-081

Binding: Dark Green cloth, color illustrated label on front

Condition: Very Good

N.P.: (La Canada Flintridge Historical Society [on label on front cover]), [1993]. Pamphlet. 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches. [vi], 31 pp. Maps, illustrations by Virginia Robertson throughout, index; text clean, unmarked. Dark Green cloth, color illustrated label on front cover, tabled end-papers, stitched pamphlet sewn into the cloth binding; binding square and tight, what appears to be the plain paper covers have paste residue and on the outside of the rear cover is written in ink "Slipcase, binding & end papers by Alice Vaughan." BO118-081. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. June Dougherty was a long time La ...
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