1939. Dallas, TX: Cecil Baugh, 1939. 8vo, xiv, 376 pp. Black & white illustrations. Brown cloth with silver lettering and image of cowboy & his horse on front cover. Cloth very lightly rubbed; a very good copy without dust-jacket. § First edition. Short histories of some of the famous Texas..... More
1824. New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824. 8vo, ix, 432 pp. Full sheep, flat spine, red label on backstrip. Considerably worn, foxed, and stained, frontispiece torn. A good copy only. § First American edition, published the same year by J & T Clarke..... More
1802. Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver & Co., 1802. 16mo, 131 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 6 plates hand colored. Printed music throughout. Contemporary straight-grained morocco, paneled in gilt, backstrip gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked. Light scuffs to the lower board, small smudge on title page, a very good..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1972. Roy. 8vo, 45pp. . Frontispiece portrait of Wilde, folding color illustration of "The Modern Messiah," from "The Wasp.". Red cloth, upper cover and backstrip lettered in gilt, outline portrait of Wilde on upper cover. Very good. § Limited to 500 copies. An account..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1940, 8vo, x, 46pp. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Fine in beige boards with dark brown illustrations. §..... More
2014. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2014. 4to, 49pp. With poem “Hermits,” by Kay Ryan signed in pencil and laid in. Signed by all five poets. The boards of the book are covered in an indigo sheet of pure Belgian flax, handmade at Cave Paper in Minneapolis, Minnesota..... More
1963. [San Francisco:] Book Club of California, 1963. Folio, (6), 64 pp. Original red cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Tipped-in colored frontispiece from the Ellesmere Manuscript at the Huntington Library, two vignettes, and nineteen full-page reproductions of pages from various editions of Chaucer’s works, from the..... More
1918. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1918. Slim 4to. 30 pages .Blue-grey boards, tan muslin backstrip with printed paper label. Very good copy of a fragile book, hard to find in acceptable condition. Bookplate of Rosa Walter Meertief. § First edition, copy #242 of 300 copies. Smith's very..... More
1983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1983. 4to. 58,(4)pp. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, an original leaf, and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards, white paper spine label. As issued, in perfect condition. § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is “ Jupiter and..... More
1879. Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1879. 8vo, xii, 304 pp. Large paper copy handsomely bound by Lloyd in full polished calf with triple gilt fillet, richly gilt backstrip with green and red labels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Backstrip a little worn with a...... More
1875. Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1875. 8vo, xxii, 295 pp. Large paper copy handsomely bound by Lloyd in full polished calf with triple gilt fillet, richly gilt backstrip with green and red labels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Backstrip and joints a little worn..... More
1860. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 3 vols. 8vo. Full tree calf with floral gilt border, gilt-tooled backstrips with title and volume labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Backstrips dulled, upper joints of first two vols. cracking, endpapers only lightly foxed, very good. § Tenth edition. A handsome edition..... More
1939. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 vols. Large 8vo, viii, 392; iv, 388 pp. Portrait frontispiece and folding plate of facsimile manuscript. Half red morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, backstrip with raised bands compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Bindings a little rubbed and soiled, gilt dulled, internally a...... More
1823. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1823. 6 vols. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf ruled in blind, backstrip with raised bands and black, gilt-lettered labels. Boards scarred, backstrips a little rubbed, some labels chipped; internally a very good, clean copy with occasional spotting to the endpapers but almost none to the next. Armorial..... More
1848. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated throughout by the author. Bound by Root & Son in full crushed red morcocco with triple gilt fillet, a pictorial centerpiece on upper board depicting Thackeray as a jester surrouned by vines, backstrip compartments ruled and stamped in gilt..... More
1881. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. 2 vols. 8vo, xi, (3), 338; (vi), 341 pp. Frontispiece. Finely bound without the ads in half calf and marbled boards, backstrips gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bindings a little scuffed but respectable, scattered foxing, bookplates of Richard Ormond of Tynemouth in..... More
1842. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. Sm. 4to, 191, (1) pp. Original remainder binding of brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on backstrip, endpapers renewed, orange sprinkled edges. Small ticket of Books Inc., Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco on rear pastedown. Cloth faded, small chip in center of..... More
1723. London: Printed for E. and R. Nutt, et al, 1723. 4 vols. 12mo, vi, 336, (10); iv, 376, (12); viii, 352, (16); vi, (4), 352, (12) pp. Full contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, volume numbers stamped on backstrips, vol. 4 with additional label lettered "Tat / lers". Hinges cracked..... More
1768. London: Printed by H. Woodfall by J. Dodsley, 1768 and 1769. 3 vols. 8vo, 332, (4, index); vii, 343; viii, 360 pp. Engraved frontispieces, title vignettes in "vols. I & II, folding map of the Leasowes, several other vignettes and decorations. Contemporary full speckled calf, double gilt rules, backstrips..... More
