San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 10 of 60 copies, sixteenmo size, [11] pp. Poet and playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was much acclaimed on the Pacific coast; a prolific poet, Sterling was part of the group of writers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area..... More

San Francisco: John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, [1927]. Nash, John Henry. No binding. Folio, single leaf folded once to form [4] pp. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn (1872-1964) was an advocate of free speech and higher education based on the idea of a self-governing community, with advisors teaching..... More

London: Harvill Secker, (2007). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 75 of 100, octavo size, 239 pp., signed by J. M. Coetzee. J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the Jerusalem Prize, CNA Prize (thrice)..... More

San Francisco [Oakland]: B. C. Vandall, Publisher [W. B. Hardy, Bookseller and Stationer], (1878). Hardcover. Octavo size, 756 pp., with the original map lithographed by Grafton Tyler Brown. A somewhat scarce directory, as of this writing we see no copies online (we searched for the years 1875 through 1890) and..... More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose..... More

Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. Hagreen, Philip. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered..... More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by E. & R. Grabhorn (the Grabhorn Press)], (1931). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 293 pp. From the description in the BCC bibliography: "The journal covers three years of travel from Greenville, Illinois, to St. Louis..... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 420 pp. From the Introduction: "We all believe that some actions are morally wrong. But when we claim that an action is wrong, what kind of judgment are we making..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, (2019). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 598 pp. From dust jacket flap: "A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic deseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola". ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey paper over boards, silver lettering on the..... More

San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1927. Wilke, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 47 pp. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was one of the pre-eminent printers in the early part of the 20th century, printing high-quality editions at his..... More

London and Oxford: Ernest Benn Limited and Basil Blackwell (printed by the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon), 1924. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, large quarto size, 60 pp. and 60 plates, with original dust jacket and prospectus. Ernest William Gimson (1864-1919) is know as one of the..... More