London: Jonathan Cape, (2008). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. xiii of 25 copies of the special edition binding, octavo size, 258 pp., signed by author. English writer Julian Barnes (b. 1946) "gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science, and family as well as a rich array... More
![The Long Shadow of Little Rock, A Memoir [Association copy - Dunbar Ogden]. Daisy Bates, Eleanor Roosevelt, Foreword.](/pictures/thumb/18040803_1.JPG?v=1535237129)
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962. Hardcover. Octavo size, 252 pp., inscribed by Daisy Bates. Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914-1999) was a pioneering civil rights activist, as well as a newspaper founder and publisher. Despite the tragic loss of her mother, abandonment by her father, impovershed childhood and poor... More
New York: Printed by Andrew Hoyem for Frank Hallman, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies (unnumbered/out of series), octavo size, [14] unnumbered pp. Written by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) for the Memoir Club, shorly after the death of her younger sister, author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), published here for... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by John Henry Nash], 1922. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 135 of 400 copies, octavo size, [253] pp. The Letters of American author and journalist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) were here published for the first time, ranging from 1892-1913. Bierce's friend and contemporary... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 125 copies in a special binding (total edition 2125), quarto size, 238 pp., signed by author. Bruce Rogers (1870-1857), American typographer and inventer of the "Centaur" tyepface (based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson), is considered by many to... More
![The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. [together with] Johnsoniana; Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D. by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy and Others Together with the Diary of Dr. Campbell and Extracts from that of Madame D'Arblay. James Boswell, Alexander Napier, Notes and Appendices, Robina Napier, Newly Collected.](/pictures/thumb/17043102_1.JPG?v=1515610248)
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 46 of 104 large paper sets, 5 vols., quarto size, approx. 2,612 pp., signed by printer Charles Whittingham & Co. The quintessential writings, and authoritative texts on Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784) whom the OED describes as "arguably the most distinguished... More
San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by The L-D Allen Press, 1946. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen at the Black Vine Press], 1954. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 375 copies, quarto size, [55] pp., with original prospectus slipped in. This edition publishes for the first time Gelett Burgess' (1866-1951) whimsical recollections of... More
(New York): The Macmillan Company (1970), 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 221 p. Inscribed by Author(s). First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED BY MAURICE CHEVALIER on the front free endpaper: "To / Merv Griffin - / With affectionate / admiration. / Maurice Chevalier". Perhaps one of... More
New York: John Lane Company, 1918. Hardcover. Although a reprint, we offer this book for the binding which is simple yet effective. Bound in brown cloth, the front board has a gilt rectangle with gilt lettering and a depiction of a gatling gun, also in gilt; the spine has gilt... More
(New York): American Council for Emigres in the Professions, Inc. [Mallette Dean], (1966). Dean, Mallette. Hardcover. Quarto size, [12] pp. A memorial tribute to humanitarian Else Staudinger (1889-1966), who founded and lead The American Council for Emigrés in the Professions, Inc., and worked tirelessly to rescue liberal scholars from Nazi... More
San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, Jr. / Printed by John Henry Nash, 1924. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 63 of 225 copies, folio size, 51 pp. A hitherto unpublished collection of twenty-five facsimile autographed letters by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), and one letter by Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 102 p. Limited edition of 483 copies printed for members of the Bibliophile Society, plus a "limited number" printed for the editor. An illuminating correspondence between a young Charles Dickens and his friend, William Henry... More
Paris: Vuibert & Nony, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, [408] pp. Joseph Athanase Gaston Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (1857-1932) was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902; he went on to be President of France until his assassination in 1932. French Indochina was a grouping... More
[Kentfield, California]: Mallette Dean (laid out at The Allen Press), 1959. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies., quarto size, [66] pp. The lively firsthand account of John Charles Duchow's voyage on the Clipper Staffordshire from Boston around Cape Horn, on his way to California. After the Allens... More
Concord, California: Heron House, 2010. 1st and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, 161 pp., with prospectus, signed by the editors. An in-depth look at the life and work of Valenti Angelo (1897-1982), well-known and highly regarded 20th century illustrator who did so many books for the... 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
![In Memoriam, Edwin Grabhorn, 1889-1968 [Roxburghe Club Keepsake]. Grabhorn Press, David Magee.](/pictures/thumb/16111605_1.JPG?v=1496108789)
[San Francisco]: [Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1969], 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. 22 p. One of 150 copies, unnumbered. A tribute to the incomparable Edwin Grabhorn, who with his brother, Robert, created some of the... More
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1992. Graham, Rigby. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 146 of 150 copies, elephant folio size, 58 pp. Rigby Graham (1931-2015) was a landscape and topographical artist, book illustrator and muralist who worked within the British Romantic tradition. His work is distinguished by bold lines, a.... More
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Westgate Press, 1930. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, octavo size, [122] pp. An early Grabhorn Press publication, in wonderful condition with most signatures unopened; with initials designed by Valenti Angelo. Publised by The Westgate Press, one of the... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1982-1988), 1982. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 4320 p. Henry Adams (1838-1918), a descendant of two U.S. Presidents, became a noted political journalist and was best known during his lifetime for a 9-volume work on the History of... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. Hardcover. Quarto size, 672 pp. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), "Lawrence of Arabia" was a British military officer, archaeologist, and writer, best known for his role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he describes in... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by Mallette Dean, 1964. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, quarto size, [131] pp., with prospectus. An expanded version of fourteen-year-old Carrie LeConte's Yosemite journal of 1878, rewritten and enhanced with pen and ink sketches in 1880; Carrie accompanied... More
New York, London: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1927. Malone, Robert James. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Author's Presentation Edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is 'P4', quarto size, 308 pp., signed by Lindbergh and by publisher G.P. Putnams Sons, with the publisher's biographical pamphlet slipped in. The first printing... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 384 pp., inscribed by James Lovell. The story, told by the astronaut who experienced it first-hand, of the Apollo 13 mission which, as a result of a mysterious explosion, almost ended in catastrophe. A year later turned into a movie... More