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Price: $125.00
Publisher: Winterport, ME:, Borrower's Press,: 1976
Seller ID: IY915-275
LIMITED EDITION of 289 copies, this is number 199. Miniature Book. 7/8 x 3/4 inches. 28 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Jefferson; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled dark green leather, decorative end papers; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Jane Bernier on limitation statement. SCARCE. Fine. A very brief biography of Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, No. 2881. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Winterport, ME:, Borrower's Press,: 1976
Seller ID: IY915-276
LIMITED EDITION of 289 copies, this is number 199. Miniature Book. 7/8 x 3/4 inches. 28 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Jefferson; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled dark green leather, decorative end papers; binding square and tight, inner hinge cracked. SIGNED by Jane Bernier on limitation statement. SCARCE. Fine. A very brief biography of Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, ... View more info
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Berkeley, etc., University of California Press: 2001
Edition: First Editions
Seller ID: JR1018-027
FIRST EDITIONS. Volume I: Academic Triumphs; Volume II: Political Turmoil. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 427; 540 pp. Numerous illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Navy cloth, spines titled in gilt, dust-jackets in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University California, Berkeley (1952-1958), and twelfth President of the Universi... View more info
By: David Lavender (1910-2003).
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Palo Alto, CA:, American West Publishing Company,: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-193
Series: Western Biography Series, No. 5. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. (416) pp. Frontispiece portrait of Ralston, black-and-white illustrations throughout, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled blue cloth, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, light shelf wear, dust jacket with minor chipping and shelf wear. INSCRIBED by author on front free end paper. Very Good. William C. Ralston was an American businessman and financier. He g... View more info
By: David Lavender (1910-2003).
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York:, Doubleday & Company, Inc.,: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-189
Tall 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. (xii), 444 pp. 33 illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth titled in silver, maps in end-papers, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, foxing along inner hinges, dust jacket toned and bruised at spine ends. INSCRIBED by author on title page. Very Good. This is a biography of Collis P. Huntington, the robber baron who built America's first trans-continental railroad. David Lavender researched this g... View more info
By: Eugene A. Rose.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Berkeley:, Howell-North Books,: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: EE516-195
8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 160 pp. 56 black and white photographs; text clean, unmarked. Light brown cloth titled in brown ink over boards, dust jacket, maps in end papers; binding square and tight, top edge dust soiled, slight shelf wear on dust jacket, sticker residue on front of jacket. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Orland Bartholomew was the first to solo climb Mt. Whitney in winter. This book is an account of his solo journey, drawing from his diary and including 56 ori... View more info
By: Francis Whitaker (1906-1999).
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Francis Whitaker,: 1995
Seller ID: GO617-056
4to. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. (vi), 122 pp. 29 black-and-white photographs, memoriam notice tipped in; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped black cloth; binding square and tight, shelf wear, ex library bookplate removed from front paste-down. Ex library copy, stamped on free end papers. Comes with newspaper clippings of Whitaker's obituary. Pall Bohne's copy with his pencil notations on rear pastedown. Very Good. Francis Whitaker was a legendary blacksmith. This autobi... View more info
By: George Dunlap Lyman (1882-1949).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: San Francisco, CA:, California Historical Society,: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: EE516-100
FIRST EDITION. In: Quarterly of the California Historical Society, Vol. IV, No. 3, September, 1925. 8vo. 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Vallejo article: pp. 284-289. Entire issue: [ii], (219)-304 pp. 6 illustrations including a portrait of Platon Vallejo with his father in 1865; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers; binding square and tight, covers soiled. Very Good. George Dunlap Lyman's biography of Platon Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1841-1925). Platon was the son of Gener... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: EE516-263
SECOND EDITION. Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches. [4] pp. 1 sheet of French-fold paper stitched within gray printed wrappers, printed in black ink with red decorations; text clean, unmarked, minor shelf wear. SCARCE. Very Good. "So many requests have come in for copies of this that a reprint has been made for us by Wm. Cheney this 15th day of September, 1959." Recounts Zeitlin's moody visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1956. REFERENCE: Not in Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticke... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: EE516-264
SECOND EDITION. Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches. [4] pp. 1 sheet of French-fold paper stitched within gray printed wrappers, printed in black with red decorations; text clean, unmarked, use wear. Very Good. "So many requests have come in for copies of this that a reprint has been made for us by Wm. Cheney this 15th day of September, 1959." Recounts Zeitlin's moody visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1956. REFERENCE: Not in Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker. View more info
By: James Lamar Weygand (1919-2003).
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Nappanee, IN:, Private Press of the Indiana Kid,: 1969
Seller ID: GO617-038
LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. 8vo. 8 x 5 1/2 inches. [iv], ii, (40) pp. Title page illustrated in color, engravings by Neel throughout, 2 photographic plates tipped in, specimen sheet bound in with the covers of Storm Over the Mountains and Chimera I; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine, yellow paper boards stamped with a Neel engraving; binding square and tight, small spot of soiling on back cover. Very Good. Printed and bound by the author-compos... View more info
By: James Lamar Weygand (1919-2003).
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Nappanee, IN:, Private Press of the Indiana Kid,: 1966
Seller ID: GO617-048
LIMITED EDITION of about 250 copies. 8vo. 8 x 5 3/4 inches. (44) pp. Color ornaments throughout, 2 photographic plates, bibliography of the Crandall Press, 4 illustrations tipped in; text clean, unmarked. Light blue paper over boards, illustrations on both covers, printed paper spine label with a duplicate label bound-in at the colophon; binding square and tight, shelf wear, spine faded. Very Good. A biography of Allen Crandall, a history of his press, The Crandal... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York:, The Century Company,: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: EE516-225
FIRST EDITION. Extract from: The Century Magazine, Vol. XLVI, New Series 24, May, 1893, pp. 120-123. 8vo. 9 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches. Engraved portrait of Muir; text clean, unmarked. 3 loose leaves from the original publication; puncture holes in the gutter, Louis Lanzer Books & Prints business card attached to the upper corner. Sold AS IS. Short biography of John Muir by Muir's close friend, John Swett. Swett is considered to be the "Father of the California Public Sc... View more info
By: Joseph John Ellis (b. 1943)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: MB718-007
Fifth Printing. 8vo. xiv, 320, [6] pp. Index; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket; binding square and tight. Very Good. Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and writer whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. This biography of George Washington is based on Ellis' careful reading of the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia. This book is a finely det... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Denver, CO, The Range Press: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: JR1018-036
LIMITED EDITION of 125 numbered and SIGNED copies of which this is number 66. 8vo. 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. 134 pp. Twenty-five chapters giving inspiring life lessons; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped half green morocco, green paper over boards, plain white jacket with debossed spider-web pattern in mylar; binding square and tight, minor shelf wear, jacket with light toning. SIGNED on the limitation page by Nolie Mumey. Very Good. Inspirational messages on various aspec... View more info
By: Pamela Herr.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York:, Franklin Watts,: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-257
FIRST EDITION, first printing. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. (xvi), 496 pp. Frontispiece, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled brown cloth spine, white paper boards, pictorial dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Gift inscription from "Dove," November 21, 1987 on front free end-paper. Fine. Jessie Benton Fremont (1824-1902) was the daughter of the powerful U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and wife to John Charles Fremont. Outsi... View more info
By: Richard H. Dillon (b. 1924).
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York:, Coward-McCann, Inc.,: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-208
8vo. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. (xx), 364 pp. Double title page, 16 pages of black-and-white plates, index. Blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth, decorative end pages, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, spine ends softened, dust jacket price-clipped, toned with small chips. INSCRIBED by author on half-title, "This vol. is said to be my best book. (I'll not argue the point.) R. H. Dillon." Very Good. Meriwether Lewis, of the famed Lewis and Clark Expe... View more info
By: Richard H. Dillon (b. 1924).
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York:, Coward-McCann, Inc.,: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-209
8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 223 pp. 16 pages of black-and-white plates; text clean, unmarked. Black-stamped brown cloth, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, dust jacket with light soiling, spine toned. INSCRIBED by author on half-title. Very Good. This is a biography of Grizzly Adams, born John Adams, a legendary figure in the American West and California history. View more info
By: Richard H. Dillon (b. 1924).
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York:, Coward-McCann, Inc.,: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-204
8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 320 pp. 16 pages of black-and-white plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped black cloth, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, dust jacket with shelf wear, a rip in the back flap, price lined through in pencil. INSCRIBED by author on half-title. A Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. "In the distinguished tradition of his prize-winning biographies Meriwether Lewis and Fool's Gold, Richard Dillon re-creates t... View more info
By: Richard H. Dillon (b. 1924).
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York:, Doubleday & Company, Inc.,: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-207
8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. (xx), 362 pp. 41 black-and-white photographs and line art, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-titled dark green cloth, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, rear end-papers soiled, dust jacket with light shelf wear, price-clipped. INSCRIBED by author on front free end paper. Very Good. "Sixty-three of the most interesting figures in California's history are the subjects of this fascinating group biography. The author, ... View more info
