!["Rosie the Riverter" Manual] Richmond Shipyard Number One](/pictures/thumb/18112121_1.JPG?v=1579052945)
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
Philadelphia: William Young, 1792. Leather. Octavo size, 436 pp. An ambitious magazine publication, "The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine" contained writings, in verse and prose, on a variety of subjects, such as politics, travel, the arts, and medicine; this particular volume also has a history of the American Revolution for..... More
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, [1924]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 220 pp., inscribed by author, volume in French. The author was a Guggenheim Foundation recipient appointed to study the influence of accounts of America, Africa and Asia printed in French upon the thought of the French Renaissance. He was..... More
New York and London: George Virtue & Co., ca. 1856. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), octavo size. Three volumes, covering the following (per Woodwards' preface): "The first volume narrates the discovery and colonization of the country, and the earlier and more momentous disputes respecting the possession of it...The second volume contains..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, quarto size, 611 pp. for both volumes. The westward explorations of Lewis and Clark remain a source of fascination, with the courage and daring it took to explore then-unknown territory. This edition of Lewis and Clarkâs Expedition..... More
Providence, RI: Angell & Co., Printers, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 230 pp. William J. Brown (1814-1855) was a free African American born in Providence in 1814, the son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown. William Brown wrote and published his captivating autobiography as a means..... 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
![Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [Grant's Memoirs]. Ulysses S. Grant](/pictures/thumb/19102201_1.JPG?v=1577913188)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. Leather bound. Vol. One published in 1885 and Vol. Two in 1886, octavo size, 1232 pp., bound in sheepskin, two volumes (complete). Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) is arguably one of the most important generals in U.S. History, at times referred..... More
![Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [Grant's Memoirs]. Ulysses S. Grant](/pictures/thumb/19100208_1.JPG?v=1579123337)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, Volume I published in 1885 with 584 pp., Volume II published in 1886 with 647 pp. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) is arguably one of the most important generals in U.S. history, at times referred..... 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
![The Union Memorial [includes "Under the Washington Elm" and "Faith in the Union"]; Containing...](/pictures/thumb/19062001_1.JPG?v=1562014878)
Boston: Published by Abel Tompkins, 38 & 40 Cornhill (Printed by Bazin & Chandler, 37 Cornhill), 1861. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 72 pp. A Civil War-era pamphlet which is scarce in the trade, with none online as of this writing and a single auction record which dates back to 1909, for..... More
Providence, R.I. Ziggurat Press, [1991]. Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 12 of 17 of the special edition, oblong quarto size, [30] pp., signed by Walter Feldman, with prospectus. Walter Feldman (1925-2017) was an art professor at Brown University and established the Ziggurat Press in 1984. This work is an..... 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
![Japanese Costume Before the Restoration [with] Military Costume in Old Japan. K. Ogawa, Photographer](/pictures/thumb/19053103_1.JPG?v=1563820253)
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