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The Naked and the Dead (Uncorrected proof)
New York: Rinehart, 1948. 721 pages. Advance copy of the debut novel by the author who would go on to win two Pulitzer Prizes. Based in part on Mailer's experiences in World War II.
Very good in wrappers (paperback). Spine toned and concave, with wear to the flap folds. Inscribed by the author to a noted book collector: "To Don Kaufmann / I saw galleys on The Naked and the Dead while living in Paris through the winter of 1947-1948, but this edition put together before publication for reviewers was never glimpsed by me until after my return to the states in 1948. / Norman Mailer / Sept. '75." A unique copy of this important book.
Book ID: 267462More details Price: $8,000.00 -
The Naked and the Dead
First edition
Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1948. 721 pages. The author's debut novel, which shot to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for eleven weeks. Mailer would go on to win two Pulitzer Prizes. Based in part on the author's experiences in World War II.
First edition (first printing) with the Rinehart logo on copyright page. Light edge wear else a fine copy in a dust jacket with a light hint of toning and wear to the spine head. An exceptional copy as noted by the exuberant inscription by the author to Donald Kaufmann: "Don, this may be the finest copy extant of the Naked and the Dead. Cheers, yes. Norman Mailer." Kaufmann published one of the first critical studies of Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years).
Book ID: 267456More details Price: $7,000.00 -
Three California Schoolhouse Maps with Oak Map Case: Lentell's Map of California, 1894 / Denny's Official Map of the County of Humboldt California, 1911 / J. N. Lentell Map of Eureka Humboldt County, Cal., 1904
Oak case in nearly fine condition. Several screw holes to rear panel for mounting. Eye hook latches on sides secure door when closed. **Please contact the store for shipping options**
Book ID: 261966More details Price: $5,000.00 -
If It Would All Please Hurry
First Edition
Amherst: Shanachie Press. Printed at Oxbow Press, 1980. Loose sheets laid into a clam-shell box. 10 engravings , six are full-page with tissue guards. A beautiful production. ISBN: 281AIB1048129.
Signed by the author and illustrator on colophon page. Limited edition, #XXIII/XXV. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine box with paper label on front.
Book ID: 263093More details Price: $1,800.00 -
The Sacred Well of Chichen Itza
San Francisco State College, 1971. Three-color silkscreen poster, 20 by 26 inches, promoting an exhibition of the art of ancient Mexico during the Sixth Annual Raza/Hispanidad Festival. Signed in pencil by Garcia below the central image. Rupert Garcia Print and Posters, 1967-1990, catalogue raisonne no. 34. Edition of approximately 75 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1017930.
Two thumb-tack holes in the upper margin, surface loss in a small area of the lower margin, probably from tape removal, thus a very good copy. [webonly] [JSP01; JSP04]
Book ID: 80062More details Price: $1,250.00 -
Aesop's Fables [Signed & Numbered]
First Edition Thus
London: William Heinemann, 1912. xxix, 224 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. This edition with 13 color and more than 50 black-and-white illustrations by Rackham. The color illustrations are mounted on brown paper and inserted into the text. A lovely edition, published in an edition of 1450 signed and numbered copies. ISBN: 281AIB1043903.
First Rackham edition and first edition of this translation. Spine browned, else near fine in white muslin cloth. With the small broadside for the Leicester Galleries exhibition of the original paintings made for this book laid in, as seen in some copies. Bookplate designed by Arthur Nelson Macdonald for Benedict Erstein on front pastedown. Signed by the illustrator. [JSP01; JSP04]
Book ID: 222418More details Price: $1,250.00 -
Badge of Evil
First Edition
London: W. H. Allen, 1956. 200 pages. The novel on which Orson Wells loosely based the 1958 film Touch of Evil starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Masterson is a pseudonym for the American writing partnership of Bob Wade and H. Bill Miller. ISBN: 281AIB1046023.
First British edition (first printing). Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Near fine in a dust jacket with a short closed tear to the cover and a short snag to the rear panel and spine head.
Book ID: 243628More details Price: $1,200.00 -
History of Humboldt County, California, with Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Farms, Residences, Public Buildings, Factories, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, Etc., from Original Drawings, Including Biographical Sketches
First Edition
San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co, 1881. 218 pages plus nearly 100 pages of lithograph illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1015228.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in new black cloth binding with original front cover title and ruling glued on. New end papers. Map of Califronia and of Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity Counties present. Clear tape repair to frontis illustration and to closed tears to 2 other [JSP02]
Book ID: 227179More details Price: $1,200.00 -
Distance Table 6. Book of Maps [Cover Title]
First Edition
(N. Pl. but San Francisco): Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, 1967. 33 maps. 23 x 17-1/4 inches. Table of Contents divided into: Sectional Maps (4); Metropolitan Area Maps (3); Composite Map (1); Zone Maps: San Francisco Area (12 ), Los Angeles Area ((6), San Diego Area (2); and Extended Area Maps (5). Scarce, WorldCat locates 3 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1049007.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in 4-bolted quarter cloth over paper-covered boards as issued, paste-down cover label on front board. Covers with some mild soiling and scuffing. Maps are near fine.
Book ID: 264467More details Price: $1,000.00 -
Support the Black Panther Party
Folded twice, else near fine. [webonly] [JSP01; JHG2019]
Book ID: 93630More details Price: $1,000.00 -
The Photo-Miniature: A Monthly Magazine of Photographic Information (Issues 1-65 in 15 volumes)
A mixed set of leather bound later printings of issues 1-60, and first editions of issues 61-65 in original printed blue wrappers. A very good 15 volume set. Leather volumes with five raised bands and gold lettering on the spines. A bit edge worn with some fading to spines. Water stains to issue 62. [JSP01; JSP04]
Book ID: 224951More details Price: $1,000.00 -
Historio dos feitos recentemente praticados Brasil e noutras partes sob o governo do ilustrissimo Joao Mauricio Conde de Nassau, Etc., ora governador de Wesel, Tenente-General de Cavalaria das Provincias Unidas sob o Principe de Orange
First Edition Thus
Rio de Janeiro: Ministerio da Educacao, 1940. 424 pages with 55 leaves of plates, most folded, of portraits, maps, views, etc. Plates are reproduced from the 1647 Latin edition. In 1647 Barleu wrote an account of the Dutch colonial empire in Brazil inspired by the leadership of John Mauricio of Nassau, who was appointed governor of the Dutch West India Company in 1637 and continued as governor until 1644. Limited edition. ISBN: 281AIB1049067.
First edition thus. A very fine copy in full leather covers over boards with gold insignia and lettering. Covers with bevelled edges. Spine with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Binding by A. V. Emmott & Sons, Houston. Presentation copy signed by the Minister of Education with typed presentation (translated from Portugeuse): "Rio, 7.7.40 Mr. Judge Florencio de Abreu, I am pleased to offer you an example of the work of Caspar Barleu - 'Brasil under the rule of Joao Mauricio de Nassar', translated and published by the Ministry of Education. With the expression of my high intellectual appreciation, (signature follows)." Presentation slip bound in preceding the half-title page. The presentation slip and front free endpaper have rust marks from removed paperclip.
Book ID: 264525More details Price: $1,000.00 -
"A Southern Miwok" (photograph)
1924. ISBN: 281AIB1018253.
Original photogravure from The North American Indian, vol. 14, plate 495, folio. This is one of ~100 copies printed on tissue paper and mounted on the standard Van Gelder paper. **Please contact the store for shipping options**
Book ID: 81303More details Price: $950.00 -
"A Coast Pomo Woman" (photograph)
1924. ISBN: 281AIB1018252.
Original photogravure from The North American Indian, vol. 14, plate 483, folio. This is one of ~100 copies printed Van Gelder paper. **Please contact the store for shipping options**
Book ID: 81304More details Price: $950.00 -
Magyar kozmondasok es kozmondasszeru szolasok
First Edition
Budapest: Kiadja Kokai Lajos, 1897. 770 pages. This collection of Hungarian proverbs and idioms was the most extensive and important up to its day, with neary 20,000 entries. The book was reprinted a number of times, most recently in 1998. Uncommon and important. ISBN: 281AIB1030190.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the publisher's original binding. With the bookplate of proverb collector Victor de Guinzbourg.
Book ID: 137438More details Price: $937.50 -
"Captain Charley - Maricopa" (photograph)
1907. ISBN: 281AIB1018251.
**Please contact the store for shipping options**
Book ID: 81305More details Price: $850.00 -
Modern War
First Edition
London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. 79 pages. Color frontispiece, "Column of the March," with 24 full-page B/W plates printed on recto only. ISBN: 281AIB1051093.
Signed by Nevinson in pencil under the frontispiece plate. A very good copy in green paper over boards and cloth covers with paper label pasted to front cover and spine. Edge and corner wear ro covers with boards showing at corners. Spine label is chipped at edges not affected lettering. Small chip missing from spine edge. Endpapers are foxed. Plates are near fine.
Book ID: 268092More details Price: $800.00 -
Radjatarangini: Histoire des rois du Kachmir [Rajatarangini: History of the Kings of Kashmir]
First Edition
Very good in half morocco and marbled paper-covered boards. Spine in six compartments with gilt titles. Wear to bottom edges; old paper shelf label on spines, and stamp of an Arabic or Persian library on title pages. Minor foxing to pages, but generally clean and bright. [JSP02]
Book ID: 49518More details Price: $750.00 -
Business Directory of Humboldt County. 1895-6. A Complete Register of the Citizens of Eureka and Humboldt County, California, with Classified Directory; Description of Humboldt County Mail Routes, with Time Table; Location and Industries of Every Town and P.O.; List of City and County Officials, Justices of the Peace, and Constables of Every Township; School Districts, Teachers and Clerks, Etc.
First Edition
Eureka, CA: Ed. B. Spencer, 1895. 152 pages, including advertisements inserted on varying colors of paper stock. The fourth Humboldt County directory, compiled by one of the owners of a milk depot. ISBN: 281AIB0029133.
First edition thus. A good hardcover copy in printed paper-covered boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Interior hinges reinforced with tape, content near fine. Covers lightly soiled, but still an attractive copy of a scarce directory. [JSP02; JHG2019]
Book ID: 17490More details Price: $750.00 -
Masks [Lettered Issue]
First Edition
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, in a fine or near fine traycase. This is one of 52 lettered copies.
Book ID: 202887More details Price: $750.00