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Price: $125.00
Publisher: Winterport, ME:, Borrower's Press,: 1976
Seller ID: IY915-275
Condition: Used: Like New
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
Condition: Used: Very Good
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, No. 2881. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Berkeley, etc., University of California Press: 2001
Edition: First Editions
Seller ID: JR1018-027
Condition: Collectible: Like New
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 University of California (1958-1967). As President of the University of California system, Kerr oversaw the opening of campuses in Sa... View more info
By: Francis Whitaker (1906-1999).
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Francis Whitaker,: 1995
Seller ID: GO617-056
Condition: Used: Very Good
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 autobiography, as told by Gary Mansfield, covers Whitaker's time with Samuel Yellin, his two years in Germany with Julius Schramm, ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: EE516-263
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
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 Typesticker. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Los Angeles:, Wm. M. Cheney,: 1959
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: EE516-264
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
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
Condition: Used: Very Good
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-compositor. Biography of Marvin Neel, proprietor of the Backwoods Press. Includes a bibliography of the 13 titles issued by the B... 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
Condition: Used: Very Good
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 Crandall Press, and a bibliography of the 12 titles published by the same. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York:, The Century Company,: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: EE516-225
Condition: Used: Acceptable
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 School System." In 1863 Swett was instrumental in founding the California Educational Society, and was elected California Stat... 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
Condition: Used: Very Good
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 detailed portrait written in lyrical prose. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Denver, CO, The Range Press: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: JR1018-036
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
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 aspects of life. Doctor Nolie Mummy was a noted physician, Western historian, author, and collector. Mummy amassed an extensive pr... View more info
By: Pamela Herr.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York:, Franklin Watts,: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: GY815-257
Condition: Used: Like New
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. Outside of her relationships with these powerful men, Jessie herself was a powerful player in American politics and culture in the... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, etc., Simon & Schuster: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: MB718-012
Condition: Used: Very Good
FIRST EDITION with full number line. 8vo. xix, 443 pp. 3 maps, 32 photographic illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Paper over boards, gilt-titled spine, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, small green felt-tipped marker mark on top edge, looks more like a stray marker tip than a remainder mark, minor wear to jacket. Very Good. Robert Grenier is a longtime CIA officer who served as the CIA's top counter-terrorism official from 2004-2006. Robert Grenier was the CIA's man in Pakistan and Afghanistan on September 11, 2001. In this autobiographical account, Grenier give... View more info
By: Roger E. Backhouse, editor
Price: $30.00
Publisher: South Bend, IN, St. Augustine's Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: DBW4298-10
ISBN: 1890318280
Condition: New
Key Issues Series. Trade Paperback. ix, 257 pp. Figures, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked. Pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight, some minor shelf wear. Brand-New. Excellent! Your order receives my personal attention. This book makes available the contemporary reactions to John Maynard Keynes' "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (1936). View more info
By: Ruth Hoffman and Richard J. Hoffman (1912-1989)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Van Nuys, CA, Richard J. Hoffman: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: BO618-004
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies, printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. (144) pp. Title-page printed in 3 colors, headpiece in 2 colors, printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Quarter red cloth, spine titled in gilt, patterned paper over boards; binding square and tight, gentle bumps to upper corners, else Fine. Subtitle: "The record of a sabbatical year, 1966-67 made up of notes written by Ruth Hoffman with asides [in brackets] added by Richard Hoffman who first set the type in 1967; the project was resurrected & completed in the Fall of 1972." Records a sa... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston:, Society of Printers,: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: KSF713-190
Condition: Collectible: Like New
FIRST EDITION, a second edition was issued in 1999. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [vi], 48 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped blue cloth; binding square and tight, minor toning to cloth, else Fine. Muir Dawson's copy. Lists 100 members of the New England-based Society of Printers. This directory was compiled by Charles A. Rheault, Jr., and Rollo G. Silver with the assistance of Christopher C. Kellogg. Design by Michael McCurdy. View more info
By: Stephen J. Gertz, editor and introduction.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: McMinnville, OR:, Booktryst,: 2017
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: BT1217-001a
Condition: Collectible: Like New
LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies with 25 hors commerce, this is copy number 61, designed and printed by Alastair Johnston at the Poltroon Press in Berkeley, CA, binding by John DeMerritt, Emeryville, CA. 8vo. 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches. (54) pp. Half-title, frontispiece portrait by Linda Moorcock engraved by Francis Butler, title page printed in purple and black inks, list of contributors; text clean, unmarked. Decorative cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label, comes in a maroon-cloth-covered slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by the printer, Alastair Johnston and ... View more info
By: Theodore Payne (1872-1963)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Theodore Payne: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: B0118-079
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches. (102) pp. Black-and-white frontispiece photographic portrait of Madame Helena Modjeska, 8 black-and-white photographic illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Green cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, minor wear to jacket. INSCRIBED: "Yours Sincerely, Theodore Payne." B0118-079. Fine. Theodore Payne was an English horticulturist, gardener, landscape designer, and botanist. His best-known work was done over his adult life in Southern California. Payne arrived in California at age 221 and was in charge of the gardens ... View more info
By: William M. Cheney (1907-2002).
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Downey:, Dawson's Book Shop,: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: OG914-028
Condition: Used: Like New
FIRST EDITION. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/2 inches. [ii], 26, [ix] pp. Frontispiece slate cut by David Kindersley March 1967, Cheney's printers device on title page, black-and-white photograph of Cheney as a child on p. 4, a photo essay of 6 black-and-white photographs on how to print; text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, Cheney's printers device on front cover, gilt spine; binding square and tight. OG914-028. Fine. Printing by William M. Cheney, lithography and paper by George Kinney (The Castle Press), binding by Bela Blau. William Cheney was a Los Angeles printer and publisher whose car... View more info
