Berkeley: Associated Students Store, University of California, (1925). Hardcover. The 1925 issue with additional material, octavo size, 1246 pp., with original dust jacket. Willis Linn Jepson (1867-1946) is known as California's most distinguished early botanist, being identified with the University of California, Berkeley, for most of his long career as..... More

Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small octavo size, 351 pp. A fictitious story taking place in the ancient past, with a striking binding design by William Henry Bradley (1868-1962). "Nicknamed the 'Dean of American Designers' by The Saturday Evening Post, [Bradley] was the highest-paid American..... More

[Vancouver, B.C.]: Heavenly Monkey, [2020]. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 40 copies, folio size, 68 pp., signed by Rollin Milroy, Claudia Cohen, and Barbara Hodgson, with accompanying letter and booklet. Rollin Milroy has earned an enthusiastic and devoted following through his attention to detail and exquisite letterpress printing..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 604 pp. Per the dust jacket flap, this work "cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music..." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound..... More

New York: The Century Co., (1926). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 370 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. Per the jacket flap, "[t]his book completes the record of a two years' sojourn and wandering among the peoples of eastern and east central Asia, a record begun with 'Glimpses of..... More

New York: Random House, 1936. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1250 copies, small quarto size, [48] pp., signed by Lynd Ward, in the publisher's slipcase. American artist Lynd Ward (1905-1985) demonstrates his masterful storytelling in "Song Without Words", a wordless novel made with wood engravings, depicting a woman's..... More

Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2016. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 19 copies (unnumbered), small quarto size, 96 pp. Timothy Hawley, founder of The Contre Coup Press, bought his first press in 1979. His first book was published in 1980 and he would print "stuff that [he] enjoyed reading and..wanted to..... More

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, (2020). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing by this publisher, octavo size, 369 pp. From the web site of the publisher: "In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s 'Ethics' while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George..... 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

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Small quarto size, 311 pp., in dust jacket. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885-1955) "had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important..... More

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (printed at The Philopolis Press), 1912. Mathews, Arthur F. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 118 pp., inscribed by Alexander McAdie. This volume is a thorough examination of weather patterns in the city of San Francisco, famous for its year-round fog, written by American meteorologist Alexander..... More

[Austin, TX]: Privately Printed by [for] John S. Mayfield [printed by A.C. Baldwin & Sons], 1928. First Edition. Wraps. First (and only separate) printing, small quarto size, 16 pp. American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was a prolific writer of the twentieth century; his bleak and uncompromising style of poetry was..... 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