New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelvemo size, 235 pp. Written after the author had passed 88 years of age, this important early work follows his decision as a young man to leave his home in the East to seek gold in California in 1850. The..... More

n.p. The Private Press of Alvin S. Fick, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. One of 70 copies (not stated), miniature book, [20] pp., letterpress printed. A perfect Christmas keepsake, which is how this was presented, as set forth in the introduction Alma and Al Fick wrote, beginning with: "When Christmas..... More

Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1908. Kimball, Alonzo. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often..... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with note to Subscribers and original mailing label. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought..... 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

Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Clarendon Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), all three volumes the first printings in English, octavo size, approx. 1500 pp. Leszek Ko akowski (1927-2009) is best known for this work, "Main Currents of Marxism". Per Wiki: "Owing to his criticism of Marxism and..... More

Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1981. Hardcover. Nine volumes (complete), all first printings (1981-1986), octavo size, approx. 4250 pp., with accompanying booklet, all text in German. Karl Löwith (1897-1973), student of Husseri and Heidegger, "was one of the most prolific German philosophers of the twentieth century" (n.b., from Wiki). "His main..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp. Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) was a woman far ahead of her time; at a time when women were just beginning to be admitted to the halls of higher education, she not only earned a...... More

London: Academic Press / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. Octavo size, 258 pp. Seven presentations by noted scientists all having to do with silicon geochemistry. As an essential nutrient, and the basis of the skeletal material of certain organisms, silicon occupies a dominant position in biogeochemistry; and this book..... More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was..... More

London: (Longmans, Green and Co. [printed at The Chiswick Press]), 1903. Horne, Herbert P. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, unnumbered, duodecimo size, 111 pp. "Sarah Treverbian Prideaux (1853-1933). Born in London, S.T. Prideaux ended up as one of the most distinguished female bookbinders and binding designers of her..... More