Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967-1977. Hardcover. Five volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 2000 total pages, in cardboard slipcases. The founder of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong (1893-1976), while transforming China into a world power, was the leader of a totalitarian regime which, through its policies and actions..... More

San Francisco: [Printed for The Book Club of California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn], (1927). Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, thirty-twomo size, [42] pp. The second edition of The Book of Ruth printed by the Grabhorns, the first being in a larger format and printed the..... More

n.p. Rainmaker Editions [printed at the Red Butte Press in the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah], [2004]. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, one of 26 lettered copies, quarto size, 21 pp., signed by Salman Rushdie, Alfredo Benavidez, and Victoria Hindley, in the publisher's..... More

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2005. Katz, Alex. Hardcover. The book is printed on one side of the sheet only, in the French-fold manner, where the folds at the top edge of the book remain uncut. The paper is thin white Ingres, a mouldmade paper from the Zerkall mill in..... More

(London): NLB, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 218 pp. Per the jacket flap, in this work "[t]he problems of base and superstructure in historical materialism, and of affiliation to values in the past, are reviewed...". A relevant work in today's politically charged environment. As of this writing..... More

(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 544 pp. Per the jacket flap: this book "sets out to change our view of the medieval world....[it] is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men....[it] will revolutionize the way we think..... More

Seal Beach, California: Mel Kavin/Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, miniature book, 166 pp., signed by eight contributers to making the book. A stunning book which can indeed be judged by its cover...bound in full black leather, red and blue leather abstract designs cut in on..... More

[San Francisco]: Seiko Tachibana, [1994]. First and Limited Edition. Accordion. One of 100 copies, small octavo size, 21 pp. A lovely and amazingly creative artist book which celebrates the sound of Japanese numbers through the use of visuals...or, as the colphon states, " 'Numbers' is a book dealing with phonetics."..... More

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith Incorporated, 1930. Ward, Lynd. First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing, octavo size, 258 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. American artist Lynd Ward's (1905-1985) wood engravings are rich in detail and emotion; his prior (and first) book, "God's Man" was the first American wordless novel..... More

n.p. [Self-Published], 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, folio size, 72 pp., inscribed by Pendell, with ANS and separate Errata slip. The first published work by Dale Pendell (1947-2018), whom the Los Angeles Times, in an online article, called "The Poet of Plants". Wiki describes him as "an..... More

[San Francisco]: [The Greenwood Press, Jack Werner Stauffacher], [1992]. Limited Edition. Wraps. "Odes" no. 98 of 250 copies, "Continuity" one of 500 unnumbered copies, the two volumes in a slipcase, with accompanying ephemera, folio size, 96 pp. and 32 pp., "Odes" signed by Jack Stauffacher. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (known simply..... More

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 242 pp. A study of whether cultures with similar socio-economic bases have similar religious systems, using as a test case "the present-day Nilotic peoples of East Africa (Nuer, Dinka, and Masai) and the..... More

[France]: Imec Grasset. Hardcover. Octavo size, in original shrink-wrap, the first three volumes (note: the publisher has since released a fourth volume), all text in French. The three-volume set which publishes the writings of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), the influential philosopher "who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism..... More