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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. 333 pages. with a frontispiece in color and one hundred and three illustraions from old prints and photographs. End paper and chapter heads by Kurt Wiese. This is the Author's Autograph Edition signed by Phil Stong. Shipping will be extra, please inquire. Very light spot on leading page edges, otherwise book looks in fine condition. ; Limited Edition; 7 3/4 x 10 1/2

Tomorrow's House - how to plan your post-war home
Nelson, George & Wright, Henry
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1945
. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, 11" x 8". khaki color cloth lettered red, no dust jacket. Cloth a little soiled . The cloth is shelf-soiled. The binding remains tight, Name on front free endpaper to a previous owner, the text otherwise unmarked. Illustrated throughout, 214pp.

Title: Blackfoot Confederacy: Indian Chiefs, ...Publisher: Job Printing Dept., The Lethbridge HeraldBinding: HardcoverCondition: Used - Very Good, slight split at base of spine and first page. Two blank back end pages torn but no loss to any text. Previous owner's name in pen on first page.
Blackfoot Confederacy: Indian Chiefs, Ancient and ModernChief Mountain
Published by Job Printing Dept., The Lethbridge Herald
1954. Cloth. 8vo. 178 pp. Illustrated. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition

Cloth/Boards. Condition: Excellent. 1st Edition. 1st Ed - Ltd. Ed 500 copies 61pp, illus, cloth/boards nice Mintz 500 Overland from Missouri to Sacramento in 1849, early years in Vacaville & Nevada City, a finely crafted volume. Ltd to500 copies.

Signed by author Charles F. Outland. Second edition copy of Man-Made Disaster. Wear damage along the edge of the book and binding

On March 12, 1928, a huge dam nestled in the foothills north of Los Angeles collapsed and spread death and devastation from Newhall to the Pacific Ocean near Ventura. Some 450 lives were lost, making this disaster equivalent in its human tragedy to the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. But the earthquake was an act of God, while the dam's collapse resulted from the actions of men.From its canyon above Castaic Junction the wall of deadly water was unleashed on the Santa Clara Valley and its ranches, citrus groves, towns of Fillmore, Santa Paula, and the valley south of Ventura. Homes, schools, bridges, highways, power lines, a railroad-all were ravaged under a blanket of seething water and debris.This classic account of one of California's great tragedies is once again made available to the public after being out-of-print for over twenty years. It is a fascinating… Read More

Misty of Chincoteague
Henry, Marguerite; Dennis, Wesley (ill.)
Published by Rand McNally & Company
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Light blue cloth over boards with yellow lettering. An early edition.
Copyright page is dated 1947 and states Edition of 1947 , C . 173 pages. Dust Jacket is missing the Spine part. Covers are rubbed and a bit toned, with some fading around edges. Corners and head and foot of spine are slightly bumped, and the head of spine appears shelf-cocked. Otherwise covers are clean and unmarked. Front cover also has yellow stamping of three horses running in grass. Front and rear free endpapers are illustrated with a watercolor painting of a horse running through landscape. Black and white illustrations throughout, although there are a few in color. Pages are slightly toned on edges, but are clean. Binding is strong. Overall, a very good copy

THIS LAND WAS OURS: THE DEL VALLES AND CAMULOSSmith, Wallace E.Published by Ventura Historical Society, Ventura, 1977
FIRST EDITIONUsed - Hardcover 
Condition: Very Good Plus
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Incl. notes and 'Index of Persons'. Limited to 1000 copies. A few illustrations from old photographs; endpapers decorated with family tree and map. Tan cloth stamped in red.

Moller's Pocket Guide of Ventura County
Copyright 1951 by George Moller, Los Angeles, California
Very lRare small book of Points of Interest and maps of all parts of Ventura County on 41 of the pages
5 1/2 x 7 1/2
@ 55 pages.
Flexible plastic binding
Spiral bound splitting on back cover. Library Discard stamp on three pages.

The Chronological Succession of the Members and Many Curious Particulars Relating to English and French History from Hitherto Unpublished Documents. London: William Pickering 1841. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth (spine slightly frayed) with paper title label on spine. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full blown cloth with calf and gilt title label to spine, crown octavo, light shelfwear, cracked hinges.

Tecumseh , A Drama and Canadian Poems. (Master-Works of Canadian Authors, Volume XIV. With Introduction by Robert Norwood.
GARVIN, John. (editor). MAIR, Charles.
Published by Toronto: Radisson Society, 1926., 1926
Hardcover. Deluxe edition, limited to 974 copies. Tall 8vo. 470 pages, publishers leatherette spine, cloth, gilt decoration on spine, lxxii, 470pp. Very Good with small tear at top of spine. Minor sun fading at top of back cover

FONTAINE'S FABLES ILLUSTRATED BY Jean De LORIOUX. Racine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Company 1934.
Cloth backed pictorial boards with some scuffs and rubs to the cover boards and edges, two or three small nicks on the front cover, more scratches on the back cover, see photo. Black fabric covers the spine very well. Amazing condition for a children's book this old).
I've been dealing in rare books for over 30 years and this is one of the most impressive and wonderful illustrated book I have ever seen. It sells for a lot more money on the rare book sites.
It is often called "One of the most marvelous and imaginative editions of these fables" this is illustrated by FELIX LORIOUX in bold, full color and in line with his wonderful humanized insects and animals and with a few lines of text for each illustration. Full of humor and style and beautifully printed. Containing: The Town Rat & The Country Rat, The Grasshopper & The Ant, The Wolf & The Lamb, The Crow & The Fox, The Fox & The Stork and The… Read More

With Johny Cash NOT listed because for some reason but he appeared in the 1963,
6x9
327 pages
Back cover separated and taped back on to hold in place
First two pages with ragged edges but tight. A little dirty on the cover but readable.

The Miracle
The Miracle staged by Max Reihnhardt Souvenir booklet and Civic Auditorium program booklet [two items]Reinhardt, Max, Karl Vollmoeller, Engelbert Humperdinck, Friedrich Schirmer, Norman Bel Geddes, Rudolf Kommer, Mrs. James O'Donnell, J. H. Thuman, Ashton StevensPublished by F. Ray Comstock & Morris Gest, offset lithography by Sackett & Wilhelms and Civic Auditorium, SF, New York & San Francisco, 1926
Two program booklets including: [40p] 9.25x12.5 inch souvenir booklet illustrated with color plates by Bel Geddes of the costumes and sets including a full-color center-spread of the set design, b&w photos of participants, a synopsis by the author, essays and biographies, covers detached but present, covers rubbed and edgeworn with much wear to the spine-fold, stapled text-block pages are very good with bright plates. Some scuffing at edges of cover and a little bending of back cover but minor and very good inside.
The Second program is from the Los Angeles production in 1927. 7x10 inches… Read More

The Boy from Lam Kien
July, Miranda
Published by Cloverfield Press, Los Angeles, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976047829ISBN 13: 9780976047827
BOOK FIRST EDITION
Quantity: 1Soft cover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st Edition. Hand-numbered 924. Stated First Edition, Second Printing.

The History of the California Fruit Growers Exchange
MacCurdy, Rahno Mabel
Published by California Fruit Growers Excahnge (Sunkist), Los Angeles, 1925
Pamphlet. Condition: VG Plus. Original First Printing. A nice copy with just a little wear to the very edges of the covers. Laid-in is a typed lettersheet with "California Fruit Growers Exchange 'Sunkist'" letterhead from the publishers presenting this book to exhange members with a little history and extra information regarding this title contained there-in. It is in fine conditon - but folded in half. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 10" Tall. 106 pages

Hardcover. Condition: Price has been lowered due to condition problems. Still on of the greatest books in the hisotyr of photography.
Condition: Good but water stains at top of some pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Reprint (1938.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 196 pages and 87 plates. The book is good but about half the pages have water stains at the top and/or bottom of the pages not affecting the photos. Previous owners name in ink on front end page. The dust jacket is in good condition with some shelf wear and missing a small piece at top of spine and front, right corner, $2.50 price on front flap of DJ which is separated from the rest of the DJ. Lacking errata slip. "Photos of Americana and the human situations for which Walker is so well known. published for the first exhibition of Evans' photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. One of America's most renowned Photographers."

The Mythological Travels of a modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs, and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn . together with divers speculations thereon
The Mythological Travels of a modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs, and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn . together with divers speculations thereon

The Laird Of Logan; Or, Anecdotes and Tales Illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland.[CARRICK, John Donald]Published by David Robertson, Glasgow, 1845. Seventh Thousand.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in dark brown leather over marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, spine in 5 compartments with gilt, black leather spine label lettered in gilt; engraved title page 528 pages Very old newspaper clipping inserted between two pages left a stain.
Spine still attached to front and back covers but separated from the book itself. Looks like an easy repair.

James BoswellThe Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson
No map in this book
This is a Book Repair project on a rare book. Price reflects condition.
Spine is attached but front and back covers are detached along with first two blank pages. Previous owners book plate. Otherwise in good condition with cover at base of spine missing.
The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D . Containing some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, Relative to the Tour, and Never Before Published: A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: with an Authentic Account of the Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II, in the Year 1746
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonJames BoswellPublished by London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786) but 1791., 1791

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A very Nearly Fine first edition copy, clean, straight, and tight with very slight rubbing of boards. Scarce as unsigned copy without inscriptions; Wonderful Americana collectible with classic 1920's illustrations. 17 articles by leading naturalists of the day, all covering various topics of Yosemite. Attractive moss green cloth hardcover stamped with vintage ivory and black pictorial scenes; 27 black and white photos, folding map; 8vo; xiii, [1], 347, [5] pages.