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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973 Reprint. 4to. Illustrated throughout with numerous drawings. A fine copy in spine-faded dust jacket..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963 First edition. x, 262pp. Map endpapers, numerous photographs; index. Brown and cream cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. McDougall left his Ontario home in 1873 and became a trader on the Fort Carlton Trail, and then a merchant in Edmonton, beginning in 1879. He witnessed the Indians selling their lands to the Crown; the hamlet of Edmonton by-passed by the railroad; the second Riel Rebellion; the Edmonton boom during the Klondike rush; its decline resulting from the abandonment of the overland route to the Yukon, etc. Then followed his long and hard climb to prosperity as a merchant in furs, hardware, etc. An important work that sheds light on that period of Canadian history..

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936 Limited to 275 copies signed and hand-numbered by the author. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered red leather labels to spine and front cover. Spine faded and slightly rubbed at the ends, otherwise fine. In original slipcase. Slipcase is lightly worn and is beginning to crack on lower edge..

San Francisco: printed for Carroll T. Harris, 1961 First edition. One of 200 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. 36pp. Printed in red and black. Handset type on English handmade paper. Blue and green decorated boards, natural linen back, paper spine label. Front endpapers with slight offsetting and just a bit of spotting, else a very fine copy. Short historical/biographical sketches of various Bay Area private presses and private press people, with their printing devices printed in red. Includes The Allen Press, The Nova Press, The Archetype Press, Mallette Dean, The Peregrine Press, Herbert and Peter Fahey, Helen Gentry, The Grabhorn Press, The Colt and Jumbo Presses, Johnck and Seeger, The Windsor Press, and many others. David Magee has selected a few representative titles for each press discussed. [Grabhorn: 622]..

San Francisco: NCC/ABAA, 1977 First collected edition. Compiled & Arranged by David Magee. Preface by James D. Hart. [26]pp. 2 plates. Printed in red & black. Original printed wrappers. A mint copy. A reissue of this San Francisco bookseller's wonderful parody, "A Course in Correct Cataloguing," published in 1958 in 175 copies, and his "Second Course in Correct Cataloguing," published in 1962 in a similar limitation. This reissue is limited to 1000 copies designed by Graham Mackintosh..

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1989 First edition. One of 3000 copies. Quarto. 47pp. plus 47 photographic plates by Mahurin. Titles of photos listed at rear of book. Title page printed in red and black. Original red cloth, printed in black. A very fine copy with brick dust jacket, printed in black. Very scarce, especially in this condition. A beautiful collection of full-page black & white photographs by Matt Mahurin taken from around the world. The photos were taken in New York, a Texas prison, Nicaragua, Harlem, London, Paris, a Texas mental hospital, California, Ireland, etc. Mahurin is also known as an illustrator, painter, film director, cinematographer, producer, and teacher. This photographer has done it all, from landing Time Magazine cover illustrations right out of school, to his music video works for bands like Metallica, U2, and R.E.M.. Illus. by Mahurin, Matt.

Modesto: Dry Creek Books, 1987 Second printing. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. A very fine copy..

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1950 First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Index. Blue cloth. A fine copy in spine-faded dust jacket. A travel guide to Norway. Includes complete hotel listings, basic language translations, suggested activities to partake in, etc..

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1953 First edition. Quarto. 284 pp. 8 color plates and 116 monochrome illustrations from photographs. Glossary, bibliography, index. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, spine slightly faded. A fine copy. Limited to 1500 copies. Excellent study. Includes a transcript of the 1779 Wedgwood & Bentley catalogue..

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982 First edition. xv, 302pp. Numerous tables. Extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index. Yellow cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A social history of these two towns from their founding during the Gold Rush through the industrialization of the mines. Tables chart demographic, social and economic changes..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944 First American edition. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Gilt is wearing from spine and spine ends are lightly rubbed, else a fine copy..

New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World , 1964 First American edition. Translated by Peter Green. Hardback boards. Very fine copy with slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket. Account of the 1959 Italian expedition to climb Mount Saraghrar in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and China..

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000 First edition. Small quarto. [6], 154pp. Drawings, numerous photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Ochre cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Spratling's life in Taxco, Mexico (1929-1967) and career as an artist working with silver. Spratling was an artist, architect, writer and collector of Mexican folk art and earlier pre-Columbian artifacts. His friends included William Faulkner, Diego Rivera, Miguel Covarrubias and numerous other writers, artists, and actors. Much of his art work is shown and discussed..

Polo: Transportation Trails, 1990 First edition. 4to. 272pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs; track map, appendices, bibliography, index. Gilt-lettered brown leatherette. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Interstate Public Service operated one of the longest electric interurban routes in the Midwest, running from Indianapolis to Louisville. The author presents a well-illustrated history of interstate trains and their effect on commerce. The appendices include information on predecessor companies, route lists, operating periods, traction motor details, interstate rosters, timetables, etc., as well as tickets and transfers..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1966 Edited with an Introduction bby Havelock Ellis. Illustrated with copperplate engravings by Albert Decaris. Olive green cloth, lettered in gilt. A very fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase faded. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Four of Marlowe's plays: "Tamburlaine Part I," "Tamburline Part II," "Doctor Faustus," and "Edward the Second.". Illus. by Decaris, Albert.

New York: Heritage Press, 1953 Virgil's Georgics. Tall octavo. Illustrated by Bruno Bramanti. Translated into English verse by John Dryden, introduction by George F. Whicher. Green cloth decoarted in gold and black. Spine very slightly darkened, else a fine copy in slipcase.. Illus. by Bramanti, Bruno.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953 First edition. Each chapter illustrated with a small line drawing by Margaret LeFranc. Tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy with lightly worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket. The role of women on ranches. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855 First American edition, published the same year as the British edition. x, [11]-393pp. Frontispiece plus 25 wood engravings. Publishers blind stamped Royal blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minimal scattered foxing, a bit more so to first ten leaves, early owner's name and date on endpaper. Slight darkening to spine, but a fine, tight copy. Marryat came to California in June, 1850 and stayed almost 3 years. His book gives one of the best descriptions of life in San Francisco and in the mines in the 1850's. The plates graphically show the hardships everyone faced, but they also reveal the Englishman's wry sense of humor. His "High and Dry" and "Winter of 1849" rank among the most memorable views of that time period. "Excellent narrative of experiences in the diggings" (Wheat). "Marryat began his narrative in April 1850, as he approached Chagres. On June 14, 1850, he arrived in San Francisco. In the summer and fall of… Read More

New Castle: W. B. Thomas, 1884 First edition. 262pp. Rebound in dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine label. Lacking frontispiece portrait, four leaves with stain to lower blank border, else a fine copy. A very rare account of Rose's experiences in the Rockies as a hunter and trapper. Rose was a member of the Wyeth expedition and trapped with all the famous mountain men (Bridger, Carson, Meek, Sublette, et al). "An important addition to the stories of the Wyeth Expedition in the history of the early days of the fur trade" (Streeter). [Graff: 2688; Howes I: M-306; Howes II: M-306; Streeter: 2115]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 BookClub edition. Octavo. Spine ends bumped. Dust jacket has some light rubbing, head of jacket spine chipped. Overall, a near fine copy. A thourogh analysis of the military tactics during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains..