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Richmond, California: The Permanente Metals Corporation (printed by Carlisle, SF), 1942. Second Edition. Stiff boards. Duodecimo size, 45 pp., with small photo of two sailors loosely laid in. With the demand for men to serve in the United States military during World War II, women for the first time worked..... More
London: Verso, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 612 pp. "At the time when European powers colonized the New World the institution of slavery had amost disappeared from Europe itself" (n.b., from dust jacket). The author, editor of the "New Left Review" and author of "The Overthrow of..... More
London: Verso, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 570 pp. "This is the first book to tell the story of how New World colonial slavery was overthrown in the Age of Revolution" (n.b., from dust jacket). The author, editor of the "New Left Review" and author of "The..... More
[n. p.]: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Hardcover. Six volumes (complete), octavo size. The correspondence between Arthur Plantagent, 1st Viscount Lisle (ca. 1470-1542), his wife, Honor Plantagenet, and numerous servants, courtiers, and friends, are gathered in these six volumes; the letters provide an intimate look at life during the..... More
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. Mai (ca.1751-1780), was mistakenly known as "Omai" in Britain, and that is how many still think of him today. He was a young Polynesian priest who was brought..... More
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1862. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (first printing was in 1861), duodecimo size, 131 pp. One of many voices calling for an end to slavery in the United States, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) writes an impassioned plea for the emancipation of slaves in "The Rejected..... More
Reno, Nevada: The Elms Publishing Co., 1913. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 1305 pp. This history of Nevada, edited by journalist and historian Samuel Post Davis (1850-1918), spans two volumes; using biographical narrative and anecdotes to tell the history of the state, and giving biographical sketches of the people..... More
![Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte...](/pictures/thumb/15101601.JPG?v=1554315679)
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, 1991. Sawkins, James Gay. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, oblong quarto, [126] pp., with prospectus. James Gay Sawkins (1806-1878) was a virtually unknown English artist who spent several years painting Hawaiian landscapes;..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, octavo size, 309 pp. This diary, written by the young Lewis H. Garrard, includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also includes legendary characters such as..... More
Dublin: Robert Jackson, 1790. Leather. Four volumes, octavo size, [2,246] pp. The initial volumes first published in 1789, with Volume IV being first published in 1790, a year before the author's death. The last book by English religious writer and schoolmaster John Gough (1721-1791), who was himself from a family..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1887. Kemble, E. W.; Pennell, Joseph. Leather bound. Four volumes (complete), quarto size, 3175 total pp. This four-volume set is a thorough history of the Civil War, taken from accounts of people who fought in both the Confederate and Union armies; at once personal and..... More
Stanford, University: James Ladd Delkin, printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France of to-morrow! What do we know..... More
[Stanford, California, Printed in San Francisco]: James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France..... More
Hamburg: Cigaretten Bilderdienst, 1933. Hardcover. Quarto size, [152] pp., illustrated. A profusely illustrated souvenir book charting the history of the Nazi Party (the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparte) or, in English, the National Socialist German Workers' Party) up until 1933; note that all text is in German. While we abhor the..... More
London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, [ca. 1870s]. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), quarto size, 2762 pp., illustrated. This edition is a handsome nineteenth century reprint of David Hume's (1711-1776) "The History of England", of which volume one was first published in 1754. For any lover..... More
Lunenburg, Vermon: The Limited Editions Club, printed at The Stinehour Press, 1967. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 376 pp., signed by Lynd Ward, with announcement and LEC Monthly Newsletter. This collection of the works of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is illustrated with lithographs by..... More
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Tokyo: Published by K. Ogawa [printed by C. B. Woodward, St. Louis], 1893. K. Ogawa. First Edition. String Binding. First printing, folio size. K. Ogawa (1860-1929), an innovative Japanese photographer known for his portraiture and masterful use of collotype, presents examples of costumes in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration..... More
New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 33 pp. 'Deep South Showman' is the life-story of Eddie Wilson, an Alabama-born African-American who became known as "The Moving Picture Man" in the rural South during the Twenties and Thirties (from the dust jacket). The story..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [Printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1926. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Full Vellum. No. 5 of 250 copies, folio size, 39 pp. Chosen as one of the Fifty Books of the Year, it was also awarded the gold medal by the American Institute of..... More
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers and Sold by John Wilkie, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. Eight volumes bound in one, sixteenmo size, [384] pp. A collection of almanacs from the year 1785, with a lovely scenic fore-edge painting which shows a road leading to..... More
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Leipzig, Germany: Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Altona/Bahrenfeld, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, [133] pp., in German. We offer this book as a part of history, as it provides an interesting glimpse into the supposed popularity of Adolf Hitler by the German people when he was coming into power. This is..... More
New York: Social Science Publishers, 1926. First Edition. Soft cover. Duodecimo size, 272 pp., inscribed by Scott Nearing. Title page continues: "A Cooperative Study by The Labor Research Group", with Scott Nearing stated as "Leader". Volume inscribed by the author in the year of publication and includes essays written by..... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, quarto size, 2082 pp. First edition of this three volume set, which "provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years..... More
![Scotish [Scottish] Songs; In Two Volumes. Joseph - Ritson](/pictures/thumb/PTBR005_1.JPG?v=1586906524)
Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1869. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 587 pp. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was an interesting and, even for his day, unusual man. Described by the DNB as an "antiquarian"; at the age of 20, upon reading the "Fable of the Bees" he decided to "forswear..... More