[Nice]: 1961. Booklet: octavo size, 60 pp. plus printed wraps; see below for details on all items, all items in French. The Monaco Grand Prix has been a fixture of racing for decades: "Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1939. Stapled. Quarto size, [4] pp. This publication by the renowned San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press is a keepsake from the annual meeting of The American Institute of Accountants in 1939, and contains brief, humorous descriptions of some attractions in San Francisco and California's Pacific Slope..... More
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1891. Hardcover. Quarto size, 671 pp. This hefty and thorough reference work contains information on the temperance movement and the "drink question", as a rising tide of anti-alcohol sentiment, largely led by religious groups, grew in the United States; the volume includes information about legislation..... More
[United Kingdom]: [Fontwell Park]. Full leather. Elephant Folio, 504 pp. The manuscript accounting ledger for Fontwell Park Race Track for the years 1967-1972. Fontwell Park is a horse racing park located in West Sussex, UK., established by Alfred Day in 1924 as a hurdles track. Queen Elizabeth II had her..... More
[Nevada City, California]: 1881. Leather bound. Folio size, 626 pp., with accompanying "History of Nevada County" While the California Gold Rush may have begun in 1849, mining activities continued for many decades and this bank ledger offers a glimpse into the individuals and businesses that were still in operation in..... More
New York: Jemima M. Lewer, 1838. Hardcover. Quarto size, 399 pp., from the library of Edwin Grabhorn. American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and..... More
New York: National Military Publishing Co., 1917. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 77 pp. Seemingly scarce in the trade, with no copies currently online that we can find; per an OCLC search conducted as of this writing this volume is held by eighteen institutions. Noted as the "Latest Edition" on the title..... More
![Item #22020703 The Land of the Wine [Association Copy, Inscribed to Angelo Heilprin]; Being an...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22020703_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700509042)
London: The Author's Syndicate, 1901. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 567 pp., inscribed by Biddle to Angelo Heilprin. An interesting work about the history of the Madeira Islands, inscribed to one fascinating man by another. The author, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. (1894-1948) was (per Wiki) "a millionaire whose..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1925. Hardcover. All volumes bound into one book, quarto size, 191 pp. "The Lick Observatory Bulletins assembled in this volume (Volume I only) represent contributions by the members of the Staff and by Graduate Students of the Berkeley Astronomical Department of the University of..... More
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
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2009. Kiki Smith. The book is 13-7/8 inches square, with 16 printed panels and two blanks, in concertina format. The paper is Mohawk Superfine cover. The type is Scotch Roman, handset, using 24-point for the text and other sizes for display and subsidiary material, printed..... More
![Item #25032601 My Camera in Yosemite Valley [with] Ahwahnee Menu; 24 photographs and an essay...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25032601_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743113784)
Yosemite National Park [and] Boston: Virginia Adams [and] Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Adams, Ansel. First Edition. Comb binding. Folio size, 70 pp., inscribed by Ansel Adams. Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was noted as a perfect balance of photographer and environmentalist. Most of us have seen Ansel Adams' photographs and have..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English, octavo size, 199 pp. "In 'Homo Sacer', Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics...'" (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue..... More
Paris: Seuil, 2016-2017. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), quarto size, approx. 1620 pp., all text in French. Offering all three volumes of this set: Volume 1, "De l'Antiquité aux Luminières"; Volume 2, "Des Lumières à la fin du XIXe siècle"; and Volume 3, "De la find du XIXe siècle à nos..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2011. Tom Holland. The book is large octavo, 6-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches, 172 pages. The types are Monotype American Garamond and Univers, printed by letterpress on Revere, an Italian mould-made paper. The binding has a purple goatskin spine, with title stamped in silver foil, and..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2015). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 551 pp. Yehuda Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer, 1924-2000) is considered by many today to be one of Israel's greatest poets. Written in Hebrew, his poems have been translated into forty languages (n.b., per the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 141 copies on Van Gelder paper, octavo size, 150 pp., with slipcase. A handsomely produced collection of articles on American books, their bindings and binders by the American book collector par excellance, William Loring Andrews (1837-1920). For this..... More
[San Francisco]: Pacific Editions, 2009. Hobson, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 5 of 39 copioes, folio size, 11 pp., signed by Roger Angell and Charles Hobson, with TLS. For those touched by a love of sailing and the sea, this work, masterfully blending Angell's essay with Hobson's design, personifies that..... More
University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing, two volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 850 pp. "The Song of Roland" is "one of the earliest and most famous chansons de geste, based on the 8th-century Battle of Roncevaux Pass where Charlemagne's rearguard..... More
![Item #23111601 Delia's Cooking: A Taosenãs Story [Cover Title]. Delia Mingenbach Archuleta,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23111601_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774734098)
[Taos?]: [Delia Archuleta], n.d. Limited Edition. Binder. One of 100 copies, octavo size, 54 pp., signed by the author on the title page. A charming story of a destitute family and how they survived during the Great Depression, with recollections by the author of her life growing up and living..... More
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane (Vol's I and II), John Lane The Bodley Head (Vol's III - XIII), 1894-1897. Hardcover. Thirteen volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 4150 pp. Called "the gay nineties" in America and "the naughty nineties" in Britain, the decade of the 1890s was, in many respects..... More
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. Nielsen, Kay. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 207 pp. Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886-1957), was born in Denmark hearing the traditional Norse fairy tales related by his mother, studied art in Paris, and moved to London in1911. His artwork brought immediate critical acclaim..... More
[Boston]: [The Merrymount Press (D. B. Updike)], [1904]. Hardcover. Octavo size, 98 pp., "Note on [the] New Type" loosely laid in. Michelagnolo (now spelled "Michelangelo") di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) has likely been the artist with the most pervasive influence on Western art. Not only his sculptures (the "Pieta" and..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1998. Carroll Dunham. Hardcover. The book is in a large oblong format, 10 by 14 inches, consisting of 80 pages, 56 pages for the text on cream paper and 24 pages for the 12 drawings on green paper. The paper is German mouldmade Bugra. The..... More
