[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, [1990]. One of 137 copies. With a two-page title with two large printed decorations (including an ens , an empty circle, a design common in the Japanese Zen painting tradition). Printed in three colors in handset Garamont Light on yellow kozo kusaki and kyousei papers.....

[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 1995 ]. One of 160 copies signed and numbered by W.S. Merwin (1927 – 2019). Eighteen lettered hors commerce copies were also produced. “The Real World of Manuel Córdova” was inspired by the experiences of Manuel Córdova-Rios, a vegetalista (herbalist and shaman in indigenous Peruvian.....

Philadelphia: Printed by John Omrod, 1798. First American edition of this educational classic that shows the influence of Rousseau on the work of Erasmus Darwin (1731 – 1802). First published in London the previous year. Included in this edition is an American printing of Mrs. M. Peddle’s Rudiments of Taste.....

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. First edition, scarce in commerce. Minor cracking at hinges, but binding remains very tight. Spine sunned. Otherwise, a clean and attractive copy, internally bright and fresh. Very good. Publisher’s purple cloth stamped in blind, gilt-lettered spine, brown coated endpapers. Octavo. vii, 424, [8.....

[[ Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1970 [. One of a small number of copies, the limitation of which is not stated, printed for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks. A fine copy. Printed gray wrappers. 6.25 in x 4.5 in. [2], 17, + [1, colophon] pp. The Second Coming contains.....

Pasadena: Harry Ward Ritchie, [Printed at the Abbey of San Encino Press,], 1930. Printed by Ritchie for the Zamorano Club two years before the establishment of the Ward Ritchie Press. At the time, the Zamorano Club had only been active for two years. Based on Ritchie’s other work from around.....

Seattle: Windowpane Press, 1995. No limitation given. In an 8 x 1 in. paper wrapper printed in gold with facts about the poor working conditions faced by Mexican laborers in California. Panels are printed in gold, brown, and purple on a Vandercook SP15 from photoengraved plates. Art by Jennifer Kennard.....

Los Angeles: [n.d., 1928]. Printed to announce the moving of Jake Zeitlin’s shop from a South Hope Street address to a Sixth Street address, just around the corner. Zeitlin occupied the South Hope Street for less than a year before moving to the larger Sixth Street shop. The text of.....

Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. First edition. With thirty-eight photo plates, including frontispiece. Minor marginal toning. Foxing to bottom edge. A very good, bright, and tight copy. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gold. Octavo. 201 pp. The perspective of a white southerner on the slave revolt led by Nat Turner.....

Los Angeles, CA and Middletown, CT: Robin Price, Printer and Publisher, 1984-2012. Approximately fifty items. Including press catalogues, broadsides, keepsakes, prospectuses, letters to subscribers, invitations, announcements, an Occidental College certificate, stationery, and a cassette tape of a radio interview by Price, and more. Many items letterpress printed in color. Fine.....

[ Los Angelesw:]: Paradise Press, 1988. One of 125 copies inscribed by Susan King on the colophon. Main text in French printed on paper made by David Carruthers at La papeterie St-Armand in Montreal. Interspersed with Kozo overlay leaves with an English translation and manuscript “corrections” to the text by.....

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863. First edition. With a large folding map of the “Country of the Nestorians” (i.e., the area occupied by the Assyrian people), a frontispiece, a full-page illustration, and five text illustrations. Aside from the map, the illustrations were done by a missionary who traveled with the.....

Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1938]. First edition, second printing, of this memoir by journalist, author, and pioneering radio reporter Irene Corbally Kuhn (1898 – 1995). Kuhn tells the story of her international reporting career, from Paris and London to Shanghai and Manila. Binding is bright and attractive. In the original color-printed dust jacket.....