Search Results: Autographs (also see our subject-specific catalogs on this site) from Arroyo Seco Books

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 310 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Third Printing, 1929, Signed By Harold C. Urey). Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Ownership Name And Signature Of Nobel Prize Winner Harold C. Urey On Front Free Endpaper, With Printed Donation Label From Urey To The Ucsd Library. Light Wear, But Re-Backed And Re-Tipped In Matching Green Cloth. Harold Clayton Urey (1893 -1981) Was An American Physical Chemist Whose Pioneering Work On Isotopes Earned Him The Nobel Prize In Chemistry In 1934 For The Discovery Of Deuterium.. He Was A Research Associate At Johns Hopkins University , And At Johns Hopkins Urey And Arthur Ruark Wrote Atoms, Quanta And Molecules (1930), One Of The First English Texts On Quantum Mechanics And Its Applications To Atomic And Molecular Systems He Became An Associate Professor Of Chemistry At Columbia University. In 1931, He Began Work With The Separation Of Isotopes That… Read More

Anaheim, 1982. Original One of a Kind . No Binding. Near Fine. Circa 1982 Anaheim Angels team signed baseball, 22 signatures, obtained by a lifelong sports fan who knew many of the players.

Original Note . Small Note Fragment. Near Fine. 3" x 3 1/2. Small (3" x 3 1/2") clipped bottom of a note written and signed by KAtte Greenaway, reading in full "last night and (this?) morning I- keep feeling I ought to make haste to work. So with love Good by. Kate Greenaway

1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Undated Small Sheet From A Notebook, Signed "Yours Truly- Lorado Taft Mch 17-'35".

Los Angeles, 1949. First Edition . Single Sheet. Very Good. From a concert May 7, 1949, nicely inscribed to Ethel, daughter of Will Durant, and dated 1949. With a magazine clipping photograph of Sayao, and a sheet from a 1949 program.

1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Undated Small Sheet From A Notebook, Signed "C D Gibson" With Typed Information On Other Side.

Los Angeles, 1949. First Edition . Single Sheet. Near Fine. A check scrap nicely inscribed to Ethel, daughter of Will Durant, and dated 1949. With a magazine clipping photograph of Munsel, and a sheet from a 1949 program.

Pasadena: Pasadena Music and Art Association, 1930. First Edition . Single Sheet. Near Fine. From a concert in Pasadena February 25, 1930, nicely signed in blue ink by both on torn sheet from the program.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates, With Tissue Guards. Xii, 515 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Volume I Of What Became A 3 Volume History. The Saturday Club, Established In 1855, Was An Informal Monthly Gathering In Boston, Massachusetts, Of Writers, Scientists, Philosophers, Historians, And Other Notable Thinkers Of The Mid-Nineteenth Century. Out Of Its Meetings Evolved What Became The Atlantic Monthly. This Copy With Ownership Signature Of Moorfield Storey, A Member Of The Club Since Circa 1894/5-, President In 1925, With His Address At 175 Walnut St., Brookline. Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) Was An American Lawyer, Anti-Imperial Activist, And Civil Rights Leader Based In Boston, Massachusetts. According To Storey's Biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., He Had A Worldview That Embodied "Pacifism, Anti-Imperialism, And Racial Egalitarianism Fully As Much As It Did Laissez-Faire And Moral Tone In… Read More

Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1972. First Edition . Cloth. Fine Book/Fine DJ. 17" x 11 1/4. B/W and Color Plates Throughout. 160 Pp. Historical Photographs With Color Plates Of His Artwork. Fine In Fine Dj, Scarce Thus. With Presentation Pocket Attached To Front Endpaper, With Text "In Recognition Of Your Munificent Contribution To The Eisenhoweer Medical Center This Book And The Personally Autographed Photograph By Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Are Presented With The Compliments And Appreciation Of Your Thunderbird Five-Star Dinner Hosts: Lucy And John Curci / Evelyn And Peter Kiewit / Eleanor And Walter Probst." Photo Is 10 X 8, President Eisenhower With A Hearty Smile, Mamie Smiling With Her Eyes Closed.

California: The Associated Students of the University of Southern California, 1935. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12 1/4" Tall. Photographs. 439 Pages, Clean

Boston: Little, Brown, 1900. First American Edition . Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 378 Pp + 2 Pages Ads At Rear. Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, Tiny Areas Of Faint Wear, Small Area With Very Light Red Stain On Front Cover. Signed In Pencil By Harrison Gray Otis As "H G Otis" On Front Endpaper; An Interesting Association With The Most Imperial Of Angelenos.

Bremen, Indiana: New Walter Hotel, 1938. First Day Cover . Envelope. Near Fine. Pre-printed first day cover, green block showing fielkds, farm, and airplane, with text "Bremen, Ind. Where Peppermint and Spearmint is Grown, Refined and Marketed/ National Air Mail Week May 15-21, 1938", with vertical stamp "First Air MAil Flight From Bremen Indiana" and postmark dated May 19, 1938 in Bremen. 6 cent airmail stamp (red eagle with blue background). Signed nicely on front by "Eugene Baksley, Pilot". Additional Indianapolis postmark on rear of cover. First flights between two destinations are fairly common; first flights from any particular location remain scarce.

Los Angeles Ca: Westerners Los Angeles Corral, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 23 Pp. Green Wrappers Printed In Black. One Of 600 Copies. Fine

Munich / Berlin: Friedrich Bruckmann, 1872. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 97 Pp With Mounted Plates. Red Cloth, Heavily Embossed In Gilt, Beveled Edges With Double Borders Embossed In Blind, All Edges Gilt, Cloth Endpapers. Bookplate Of Leopold, Duke Of Albany. Inscription On Second Free Endpaper From Queen Victoria Of England To Her Son Leopold, "For Dear Leopold, From (Illegible Two Words Dea---- ---A---A)) (Shortened Name Used By Queen Victoria) Osborne January 1, 1873." Leopold Was Then A Student At Oxford. A Fine New Year's Gift, With What May Be Viewed As Exceptionally Romantically Maternal Germanic-Victorian Plates.

U.S.A.: Vision, 1999. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Xv, 335 Pp. Brown Cloth. Second Printing. As New In As New Dj. This Example Signed By Pete Newell On The Front Free Endpaper.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1866. Deluxe Reprint . Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 9 7/8" Tall. Illustrated with More Than Two Thousand Figures and Including Color Plates. Deluxe Binding Of Quarter Red Calf (Spine, Adjacent Areas, Tips), And A Spine With Seven Bands And Six Compartments, Elaborate Gilt Designs In Each, Etc. Two Morocco Spine Labels On Each Volumje, Top One Dark Green, Bottom One Black, Each Fine, Gilt Brilliant. Marbleized Boards, Endpapers, And Edges Of Page Block. Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates With Unusual Delicacy Of Color Detail. Vol. I With 568 Pages, Uncolored Frontispiece, Colored Title, 9 Uncolored Plates (Of 14 Listed In Index, No Trace Of Missing Plates), And All 13 Colored Plates. Vol. Ii With 663 Pages Including Directions To The Binder At The Rear, Uncolored Frontispiece, Colored Title, All 21 Uncolored Plates And All 23 Colored Plates. Bindings Worn At Edges, Frayed At Tips, Rubbed At Joints And Top/Bottom Of Spine, But All Nicely And… Read More

New York: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/Very Good. 279 Pp. Green Cloth. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine, Dome Fading At Top And Bottom Edges Of Front Cover. Inscribed "Good Health, Luck, And Happy Days To Ya! Joe Willie Namath". Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Slight Wear, 2" Tear Along Top Of Front Spine Edge.

U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1975. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 333 Pp. As New In As New Dj. Third Printing, Signed By Mckay. With A "Dear Associate" Card From J Robert Flour And Kennedy B. Galpin, Presenting An Autographed Copy Of This Book.

Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1936. First Edition . Blue Cloth / Gilt. Very Good Book/No Jacket. 9 1/4" Tall. Photographs and Charts. 199 Pp. A Clean Copy, Gilt Lettering On Spine Present And Clear But Somewhat Dulled. Some Rubbing At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, With A Few Points At Top Of Spine Where Frayed. Inscribed On Ffep "For Robert Hemphill With Sincere Regards William C. Menninger Dec. 25, 1937.