Rare books from Arroyo Seco Books

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1922. First Thus . Cloth. Very Good+++/No Dust Jacket. 9 3/8" Tall. 351 Clean And Unmarked Pages. First Printing Thus. Cover Paste-Down Illustration On The Book Still Unworn And Brilliantly Colored. Laid In Loosely In The Book Is A Fine Four-Page Brochure Printed In Black And Yellow, For A Ballad "Lorna Doone" Published By Witmark, With Actress Madge Bellamy On The Cover, In The Same Pose As On The Paste-Down Illustration On The Book Cover. Bellamy's Breakout Role Was As The Title Character In The 1922 Film Adaptation Of The 1869 Novel Lorna Doone She Thereafter Became Known As "The Exquisite Madge" (Artist Penrhyn Stanlaws Later Called Her "The Most Beautiful Girl In America"),[Wikipedia]. This Copy With The Standard Printed Inscription, Plus A Handwritten Personal Inscription By Madge Bellamy To Motion Picture Editor/Writer Le Roy Stone, And With His Small Library Stamp On One Of The Interior Rear Endpapers. Spine Gilt Is Quite Darkened But… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. 8 1/8" Tall. Stated First Edition, 8 1/8" Tall (Taller Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"), 1 5/16" Thick (Thicker Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"). The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks, Without Marks Or Damage, Just A Tiny Point Of Fraying Of Cloth At Each Of The Two Lower Tips, A Little Wear/Dulling To The Spine Gilt And A Little Rubbing/Bumping To The Ends Of The Spine. Dust Jacket With The Portrait Of Salinger On The Rear Panel, And With The $3.00 Price On The Front Flap, Second State With Slight Space Between Top Of Head And Top Of Dust Jacket (Apparently The First Issues Of The "First Edition" Were Slightly Shorter And With Cropping Of Salinger's Head In The Photograph On The Dj). The Dust Jacket Is Spectacular, No Chipping Or Tears, Without Restoration Or Cleaning Of Any Kind: No Fading To Orange-Red Or Yellow Colors On Spine And Front Panel, The… Read More

New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. / Western Electric Co., Inc., 1951. First Edition . Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 10 15/16" Tall. 792 Pp. Grey Card Covers Printed In Black. First Printing. "The Material Included Herein Covers The Same Ground And Supplements The Talks Given At A Symposium On Transistors, Which Was Held At The Bell Telephone Laboratories During The Week Beginning September 17, 1951. Includes Reprints Of Important Shockley Papers Including The "The Theory Of P-N Junctions In Semiconductors And P-N Junction Transistors" From The 1949 Bell System Telephone Journal, And 33 Other Articles By Shockley And Others, Most Of Which Are First Published Here, Representing A Comprehensive Overview Of The Latest Developments In This Important Milestone In Electronics. Includes A Joint Article By Shockley And Sparks On P - N Transistor Junctions; The Junction Transistor, First Announced By Bell Labs In 1951, Was More Efficient And Consumed Far Less Power Than The Original 1947 Type, And Led… Read More

London [1894, 1895]: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Editions 1st Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. Viii, 212; (Ii), 238 + 2 Page Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Lettered And Decorated In Gilt; All Edges Gilt; Slate Grey Endpapers. Both Volumes With Late 19Th Century Engraved Bookplates Of George Lindsay Bury [Of Moreton Central Sugar Mill, Starfield Observatory, Etc.]. The Jungle Book, 1894, First Printing, In Good To Very Good Condition, Gilt Complete But With Some Wear To Illustrations On Spine And Cover, Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine Cloth A Little Darkened; Hinges Beginning To Crack; Contents Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Tissue Guard Intact. The Second Jungle Book, 1895, First Printing, Very Slight Wear,All Gilt Complete And Brilliant, Very Good + To Near Fine Condition, 1" Crack At Center Of Rear Hinge, Slight Rubbing At Corners.

London: Longman's Green & Co, 1885. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book. 6 1/2" Tall. 101 Pp., With Two Preliminary Blanks, Adverts. Page, Half-Title, Three Final Blanks. Attractively Bound In Well Preserved 3/4 Dark Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And Author, Over Beautifully Marbled Paper Boards, Matching Hand Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. First Printing, First Issue, One Of 1000 Copies, With No Mention Of "Two Series" In List Of Books By Stevenson. No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage, Pages Clean And Just A Little Aged [With One Very Small Foxing Spot]. Gift Quality. Ex Collection Of Dorothy Gish But Not Marked As Such.

London: A. Bell / B/ Lintot, 1712. First Edition . Full Leather. Fair. 8+" Tall. Lacking All Maps / Plates. (I)-(Xii), Including "Memorandum" On Xii, Noting That The Recent Publication Of A Continuation Of Cook's "Voyage", Containing Attempts At Views Of Harbors And Land In The South -Sea, Prevented His Intention Of Supplying Such Views In This Book, But Indicating That They Could Be Presented In A Later Coasting-Pilot-Book For That Trade; 50 Pp., The Appendix, Placed At The Front Of The Book, Containing A Description Of Coasts Etc. 17 Degrees N To 44 Degress S;1-428 Pp; (14) Pp, An Unpaginated Index At End. Defective And Worn, Lacking The Preliminary Pages Before The Title Page, And Lacking All Maps / Plates, Which Were Apparently Neatly Excised; Book Begins At Title Page And Is Otherwise Complete; Conditioned And Furbished. Pages Clean And Square. The First Of Several Early Editions, All Scarce. [Also Included Is A Separate Book, The Longmans, Green & Company Reprint Of This Edition, With… Read More

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck, 1905. First Edition . Single Embossed Tin Sheet. Very Good +. 14 1/2" x 11. Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading, Numbered Vol. Lvii No. 149, Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy, Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up, With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians, Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D. Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich [Father-In-Law Of John D. Ii) With Dark Skins, Each Dressed Only In A Short Skirt Or Tutu Bearing The Legend "Gold Dust", Aldrich Holding A Model Of The Capitol And Standing On A Model Of The Stock Exchange, John D. Holding A Satchel Of Money And A Standard Oil Can, With Uncle Sam Looking On… Read More

Lee And Shepard (Boston) / Lee, Shepard, And Dillingham (New York), 1872. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Ix, 224 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Issue With "Wade " For "Wake" On P. 21. Original Brown Endpapers. Wear, Gilt Bright Except Some Wear Through Publisher's Gilt Monogram On Bottom Of Spine, Fraying At Corners And Top 1" Of Rear Spine Edge, Hinges Tight. Former Owner's Name James Duane Moore, 117 E. 17Th Street, New York, On Second Front Free Endpaper, With Pencil Inscription Above. A Decent Example. First Printings, Uk Or American, Of The Alice Books Are Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser In Entirely Original Bindings. .

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Dark Blue Cloth. Fine/Good. 207 Pp + Publisher's Catalog At Rear, Dated 1959. 1960 Reprint, The Eighth Impression Of The Book Which Was First Published 1922, With A Few Corrections In 1933. This Example With The Translation Uniquely Corrected In Pencil Throughout By A Rhodes Scholar Circa 1963-4. The Translation Corrects Obvious, Clear Mistranslations And Omissions To Such A Degree That It Constitutes A New, Corrected Translation. The Translator Of These Corrections, William Zaltonoga, A Champion Oxford Boxer While A Rhodes Scholar, Appears To Understand That Wittgenstein Is Discussing How One Thinks About Objects Of One's Own Private Thoughts. Wittgenstein May Be Seen To Make Highly Pointed Conversational Observations Which Tear The Structure Of Consensual Academic Philosophical Thought With Jab After Jab, Demolishing Conventions, Not By Creating A Complete Philosophy But By Identifying How One May Think More Exactly On… Read More

London: George Allen And Unwin, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 92 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, Minute Loss At Top Of Two Flap Folds, No Foxing, Bright And Clean, Hint Of Fading To Spine Panel.

Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1907. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Tan Boards. Good. 270 Pp. First Printing. Light Tan Cloth Stamped In Black, Red, Yellow And Blue, Publisher's Name Stamped In Large And Small Capital Letters On Spine (Binding A); Front And Rear Endpapers Printed In Full Color; Illustration On P. 221 Printed In Color; Advertisement On P. 272 Lists Only The Land Of Oz And John Dough And The Cherub. "O" In "Ozma", P 11, Line 5, Is Lacking, But Bienvenue States That The "O" Shows Only On The Earliest Copies Of The First Printing; Pages 135/136, 153/154, And 221/222 Are Integral, Not Tipped In. Good Only But Still Collectible, No Repairs Or Changes, Wear And Dust To Covers, Fraying At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine And At Tips; Hinges Intact With No Cracking And Still Tight, Endpapers Clean And Bright. Aging To Edges Of Pages And Page Block.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1908. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 256 Pp. First Printing, Binding B, With Olive Green Endpapers.Light Blue Cloth. Front Cover Paper Label Illustrated In Full Color On Metallic-Gold Background; Spine Stamped In Black With Vignette In Silver; Publisher's Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case Letters; Advertisement At Front With Three Titles Only; 16 Full Color Plates; Rare Variant Endpapers With Light Olive Green Background, Of Which Bienvenue Reports Only One Copy Known (One Copy, Probably A Different One, Appeared At Auction In 2019). Light Rubbing, Mostly At Corners; No Names Or Marks; Very Slight Aging To Pages. In Much Later Dj With Titles On Flaps To #34, Scalawagons Of Oz.

London: Edward Moxon, 1853. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece. X, 388 Pp. Full Morocco, Elaborately Gilt Spine, Covers, And Turns; All Edges Gilt; Yellow Endpapers. 19Th Century Blindstamp Of John Mylrea, Bookseller, Douglas. Previous Owner's Inscription Dated 1854; Later Inscription Dated 1983. Fine (Leather Professionally And Invisibly Conditioned, Corners Touched Up, Furbished). Very Old, Primitive Fore-Edge Painting Of A Fencing Lesson In A Drawing Room.

Donning, 2008. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvi,532 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Expanded Third (And Last) Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Quite Scarce; Worldcat Records Institutional Holdings Only In Denmark. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Munger And Buffet Have Been The Solidest American Investors For Half A Century. They Didn't Buy Crypto- Currency Or Nft's Or "Managed Risk" Bubbles Or Promised Wonders. They Paid Their Taxes After Making Landmark Charitable Gifts And Strongly Encouraged Others To Do Likewise. They Made Other Investors And Business Leaders Look Like Inmates Of A Deluxe Long Term Custodial Care Facility For Dangerous Sociopaths.

Reading, Massachusetts 1963 1964 1965: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1963. First Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 11 1/4" Tall. Profusely Illustrated with Black and White Charts, Graphs, Diagrams and Equations. Volume I First Printing, 1963, Perfect Bound, As Issued; No Indication Of Later Printing, No Isbn, No Publisher's Code On Last Page. Volume Ii Also First Printing, 1964, No Indication Of Later Printing, With Publisher's Code Abcde6987654 At Bottom Of P. 6 Of The Index At End; Volume Iii Shows No Additional Printing On Copyright Page, And Code Abcde698765 At Bottom Of Page 7 Of The Index At End. First Two Volumes With Ownership Signatures Of A Prominent California Engineer. Lightly Used, No Other Marks, Slight Rubbing.