THE OLD MISSION CHURCHES AND HISTORIC HOUSES OF CALIFORNIA: Their History, Architecture Art and Lore by Newcomb, Rexford - 1925

Pownal, Vermont: Storey Books, 1998. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. Fine/Fine. Beautiful book, 10.25 inches in height by 9.5 inches in width, Book and Jacket are both Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Jacket in new mylar sleeve. First Edition with 10-1 number line on copyright page, beautful book with high quality color and black and white photogrpahs, excellent section on herbs with very fine illustrations. 215 pages including index. ME.

Lippincott. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Oversized blue cloth stamped in gilt, TEG. Slight soil to cloth, slight cornerwear, spine a bit flattened. Tissued color frontis. Illustrated. ; quarto; 379 pages .

J.B. Lippincott, 1925. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. First edition. Covers edgeworn. Front hinge cracked. Name written inside front cover.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. very good -. Quarto (11" x 8"). xvii, (1), 379, (1)pp. Index. Pictorial blue buckram stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated with photographs, ground plans and architectural elevations that include a color frontispiece, 217 illustrations and measured drawings, 24 line drawings and a title page vignette. This copy is further illustrated with 6 additional color plates mounted on the blank preliminaries. White library call letters at foot of spine and blue rubber stamps of "Research Dept. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" on several blank margins. An interestng Hollywood association copy. Binding with some old soiling & rubbing, but quite sound.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1925. 1st printing; navy c w/gilt decorations/titles; ownr's insc w/two photos laid in; 379 clean, unmarked pages/Index. (top edge gilt;. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by B/w. folio.

London: The Argonaut Press, 1926. Limited Edition. Publisher's cloth. near Fine/none. Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was an Elizabethan Master Mariner. This account of his early voyages was compiled by his nephew and first published in 1636. Near Fine, beautiful book, Limited Edition 46/975 numbered copies, printed on fine Japanese vellum. 232 pages Illustrated with title page color vignette, 3 illustrations and 4 route maps, index. Quarto: 10.5 by 8 inches wide. publisher's quarter bound with vellum spine with bright gilt title, spine a bit bumped at heel, over very clean blue buckram boards, gilt sailing ships illustration on upper top corner of front board. No previous owner bookplate or writing. A superior Limited Edition. Protected in a custom mylar sleeve.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. Spine slightly faded, else a nearly fine copy. 1925. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to, 379 pp. .

Philadelph: J. B. Lippincott, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Blue cloth, with gilt-stamped title on spine and cover, 28 cm, 379 pages, with color frontispiece and black & white plates. Very good condition.

1 . Hardbound. Fine. Their History, Architecture, Art and Lore. With a frontispiece in color, 217 illustrations and measured drawings, 24 line drawings. 4to. First edition. Philadelphia (Lippinccott) 1925. Blue cloth, lettered in gold top edge gilt A fine copy in frayed dw.