Circa 1920s. 32 pages; portrait; stiff paper wrapper (5 x 7 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Library stamp on the cover and 'Discarded' stamp on the inside. Quotations from reviews and letters about Irvin S, Cobb, the American humorist and author of the Judge Priest books. Very good clean copy. View More...
"Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural history, Vol. XLVII, Art 1, pp. 1-38, New York, Issued July 20, 1922.: Original wrappers. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology stamp and ink withdrawal notation on front cover. Illustrated with one text figure and four photos, one in color. View More...
Circa 1960's. Two-page letter on personal size stationery with an imprinted return address in Switzerland. From Adrianne Allen (b. 1907), English actress, to Godfrey Winn (b. 1908), English writer, congratulating him on his book. View More...
Circa 1950s. One page typed signed letter on Allen's stationary dated November 17. Ann Andrews Allen was the wife of Hervey Allen whom she married in 1927. Hervey Allen (1889-1949) was a popular American novelist, biographer, and poet in the 1930s/40s. His best known work is ANTHONY ADVERSE (1933). He is also the author of a respected biography of Edgar Allen Poe ISRAFEL (1926) 2 volumes. In this brief letter, Ann Andrews Allen writes about Hervey Allen's unexpected death, saying that the period after his death was one of "shock and readjustment" for her. About her husband she writes "No, he d... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrappers backed with black cloth. Red and blue decorative stripes on front cover. Bound by the Angwin Book Bindery in Angwin, California. 6 5/8" x 9 5/8." Pages 721-744, complete. Sixteen color plates, one black and white plate, and two black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. In the upper-left corner of the front cover are numbers handwritten in red pencil. "South Sacramento School" stamp in the lower-left corner of the front cover. Very slight rippling near the top edge. Back cover has a coupl... View More...
No. 1077 of 1990 signed by artist. Includes 1983 Nevada Department of Wildlife Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Gadwall ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, Colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions. View More...
No. 579 of 750 signed by artist. Includes 1983 California Duck Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Green-Winged Teal ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions. View More...
Bulletin 425, revised. 95 pages pamphlet; illustrations, tables; wraps. Goes into all the areas of cultivation of apples along with the results of studies carried out by the university. Deals also with the wide varities from Winter Bananas to Tompkins King, where to plant them and best ways of marketing them localy and nationally. Good overview of the state of apple production in California during the 1930s and what technology was envolved. View More...
(1922). Gilt decoration and lettering front covers and spines. Gilt page tops. Numerous illustrations, some in color; most illustrations are copies of paintings, some maps, and some photographs of older buildings. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 319 to 366 pages. Vol. II has an 8 x 10 3/4 fold out color map of the Plan of Versailles showing the palace, the Trianons, the gardens, and a portion of the town. Vol. III has an 8 x 10 3/4 color map of Paris and environs. Contents include: Vol. I -- Growth of the French Nation, Splendor of the Bourbon Monarchy in France, The Degrada... View More...
Paper wrapper, moderate chipping, stamp and pencil notes on front, not affecting text. Fold line in back cover. Paginated 27 - 42. Reprint of an article first published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol V, Article III. Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer who conducted several expeditions to Mexico from 1890-1910 for the American Museum of Natural History. This booklet lists the birds and mammals collected on one of these expeditions. View More...
Pages 141-143; plates; paper wrapper with title on the cover (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inch). Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XVI, article XIII (April 12, 1902). Unopened copy with stamp of J. Grinnell, the noted ornithologist and Director of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, on the top of the cover with a UC-Museum of Vertebrate Zoology stamp and the word 'dup' in pencil. The bear is Ursus merriami, named after Dr. C. Hart Merriam. View More...
Pages 149-188; tables, plates; paper wrapper with title on the cover. Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XV, article XI (June 15, 1901). unopened copy with very slight discoloration along the edges. View More...
Pages 587-612; bound in paper wrapper with title on the cover (6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inch). Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, article XXIV (November 12, 1903). Unopened copy. Very slight discoloration along the edges, otherwise a clean copy. Concerned with a collection of mammals collected in New Mexico with descriptions. View More...
"Author's Edition, extracted from BULLETIN of the American Museum of Natural History, XVI (July 1902)". Pages 159-168; gray paper wrapper (6 x 10 inch) with title on the cover. Discussion of various latin names for mammals in North America in an attempt to settle on proper names. Fine clean copy. View More...
142 pages, frontispiece by Sigismond de Ivanowsky, patterned cloth, dust wrapper. Nice attractive copy in jacket which is edge worn, darkened, and split along front hinge, protected by mylar. "An exquisite story backgrounded by the great cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights in New York City." View More...
Limited to 250 copies. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth with decorative front cover. 286 pages. Book measures 7 1/4 x 10 1/2. Uncut page edges. Browning to end papers. In the Introduction, the author acquaints the reader with some events of his childhood and in particular his family's move to a farm. He uses those memories as background for this fictional story. View More...
Limited to 100 copies, signed by the author. New edition revised with a new Preface. Spine label. Uncut page edges. Some unopened pages. 276 pages. Ink notation rear end paper. Chipping to spine top and bottom, small tear spine top. Some sun fading rear cover. Front end papers small tears at spine. The author describes his childhood and youth living on a farm. View More...
308 pages, illustrated by H. Pyle, original gilt stamped cloth, 7.5 x 5". Spine rubbed and dull, else a sound copy. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. View More...
281 pages, green cloth with gilt stamping including oval vignette of the heroine on front cover, gilt top edge, 7.5 x 5.25", dust wrapper. Fine copy, jacket with light edge wear and a scratch in rear panel, protected with a mylar jacket. View More...
