![Item #18049 [One sheet, folded to make eight pages from the following book:] Landredth, Katherine...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18049.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1788458544)
Los Angeles: Printed by Ward Ritchie at Laguna Verde Imprenta for Dawson’s Book Shop, 1983. Fragment of a miniature, with each page measuring 3 7/16 x 2 7/16." The published book ran to [16] pp. This fragment is half is essentially half of it, but it includes the pig illustration.....
London: 10 November [1933]. The letter is to her nephew, Quentin Bell (1910-1996), who would have been only twenty-three at the time. It concerns her daily activities in the company of fellow members of the Bloomsbury circle. It primarily speaks to her sister Vanessa's aeronautical adventures, which Virginia found quite.....
[New Haven, CT]: [Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co.], [n.d., ca. 1894–1906]. OCLC records numerous printings, the earliest purported to be 1892 and the latest, 1907. A personal account in the present copy details health developments occurring in the winter of 1894. The presence of the name “Healy” suggests this copy was.....
London: The Wynkyn De Worde Society, 1976. First and only edition. Single full-page black and white photo portrait of Ritchie. Initial printed in red. Typography by Banks and Miles. Paper donated by Grosvener Chater & Co. Ltd. Printed at the Curwen Press. Very mild finger-soiling to wrappers. Slight bend to.....
[n.p.: Naugatuck, Connecticut?:]: Published by the makers of Keds, 1924. OCLC lists a single copy of the 1924 edition at Harvard, and two copies of a 1923 edition (Harvard and the Ohio History Connection – formerly the Ohio Historical Society). Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight browning to top third.....
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1950. One of fifty copies. OCLC records 10 copies held in libraries. Three tipped-in silver gelatin prints, including frontispiece. Title-page and colophon printed in red and black. Printed by Will Cheney. Bound by Margot Archer. Some fading and tearing to spine. Mild toning and rubbing.....
Petaluma, California and Gig Harbor, Washington]: 2024. One of thirty “slipcase edition” copies out of a total edition of 82 copies.This project is the fourth collaboration between Mixolydian Editions and Nawakum Press. The first section is titled “A Bonsai-Shaped Mind” and includes five short essays on bonsai from Marc Peter.....
[Claremont, California]: Scripps College Press, 2004. One of ninety-three copies. Signed by the students and by Professor Kitty Maryatt. Includes a facsimile of a page from the Gutenberg Bible, printed by the students in Professor Kitty Maryatt’s class. Illustrated with linoleum cuts in red, green, and blue; two tipped-in illustrations.....
Pomona [CA:]: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2005. One of 150 unnumbered copies. Title page in red and black. Fabriano paper. Calligraphic types designed by Robert Slimbach. Typography by Jerry Kelly. Tips slightly bent. A fine copy. Patterned green and white paper wrappers. Paper spine label. Octavo. [4], 5-115, [1] pp. John Addington.....
[Various places and publications, 1961-1965]. Includes the following offprints: 1. JACOB, François, and Jacques Monod. “On the Regulation of Gene Activity.” Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Volume XXVI, 1961, pp. 193-211; 2. MONOD, Jacques, and François Jacob. “General Conclusions: Teleonomic Mechanisms in Cellular Metabolism, Growth, and.....
Norwich, CT: Printed by Russell Hubbard, 1816, First and only edition of Sigourney’s second published work. While OCLC lists numerous copies, copies in original boards, uncut, are rare. With dedication poem and ten page subscriber list. Perished spine with cords holding. Front joint cracked. Covers rubbed. Some foxing and toning.....
Pasadena: Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press, 1976 [i.e., 1978]. One of 200 copies. “The title-page is dated 1976 but the publication was delayed until 1978. The size of the leaves varies considerably in the copies seen,” (Vance Gerry bibliography #41). With an engraved headpiece and a full-page engraving by.....
[Pasadena:]: Kenmore Press, [1978]. First edition. One of 125 copies, and one of only five copies to contain a manuscript insert signed by the author. Text in red and black. Line drawing illustrations by Steven S. Chayt throughout in black and grey. Includes frontispiece and colophon. Text hand-set in Bembo.....
Alhambra, California: Ophelia Press, 2025. One of 33 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and by the printer, Farida Sunada. Illustrated by eight collages, made from the papers of Japan, Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Spain, England, France, and Bangladesh. Printed on Twinrocker Handmade Paper (abaca). Handset in Dante.....
Pasadena: Ampersand Press, 1951. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom for distribution at The Rounce & Coffin Club and elsewhere. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers. Very mild dampstaining to front wrapper. Lengthy ink inscription from Jake Zeitlin to Gloria Stuart on front wrapper that reads: “To Gloria. Who should have been.....
Chattanooga: The Chattanooga Medicine Co., [n.d.,, 1920s]. First edition. With advice for women on diet, exercise, recovery from pregnancy, health issues related to menstruation, and various "womb troubles" Five text figures. A few very small stains to front wrapper. Tear to top third of front wrapper fold. A few small.....
![Item #18033 Mirrors. [from] The Smart Set, a magazine of cleverness, August, 1913. [Bound with: ]...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18033.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786423564)
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, [1993.]. One of about fifty copies, of which “about forty survived” (according to a hand-written note on the colophon by Ward Ritchie). The colophon states that this is “probably the final book of Laguna Verde due to age and failing vision. A hodge-podge of.....
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1974. One of 250 copies total printed for K. Garth Huston. One of 80 copies printed for the members of the Rounce and Coffin Club. One of three variants. Facsimile of the 1628 title-page of the original book. A fine copy. Grey wrappers, stitched at spine.....
Los Angeles: Invierno Press, [c 1979]. Invierno Press edition, copyright 1979. This series was first produced in 1935-36 in an edition of 60 copies, with each print signed in pencil by Landacre.The present edition was published by the Invierno Press in both a numbered issue of 350 copies, and this.....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1938]. First UK edition. A Boston, Houghton Mifflin edition was published in 1937. Numerous illustrations throughout. Two black and white plates (including frontispiece). Index and bibliographical references. Mild shelfwear to board extremities. With illustrated dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear and soiling, predominantly to spine. Dust jacket corners clipped. A......
Los Angeles: [Printed at the Ampersand Press by Arthur M. Ellis & Grant Dahlstrom], 1932. One of a small number of copies, exact limitation not known to us. Wood-block on title page. Decorative chapter heading. Very light scuffing to front wrapper. Very minor ink off-setting to first front free endpaper.....
Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom, The Castle Press, [n.d., ca. 1966]. First edition. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." A fine copy. Scarce. Self-wrapper printed in red and black. Paged untrimmed. iv, [12] pp. "During the Summer of 1956 I was asked to participate in a series of discussions held at Santa Barbara.....
![Item #18024 [Two holiday cards, including the following:] Holiday Greetings & Good Wishes for...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18024.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785542944)
All three items are in near fine or better condition. Both cards housed in an opened approximately 8 x 12" letter envelope, hand addressed to Mr. Ray Marlow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The return address written on the envelope’s seal is 1052 Manzanita street, the address.....
[New York]: [The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation], [1953]. No limitation given for this impressive paper specimen collection. 107 diverse paper samples across 112 leaves. Frontispiece of handmade, watermarked paper from Cartiere Miliani-Fabriano. Index. Some rubbing to board extremities. Binding slightly loose between samples 45 & 46 and 92 & 93. Some.....
Los Angeles: Invierno Press, 1979. Twelve woodcuts, 9 3/4" x 7 1/4", loose in printed paper wrapper. The composers depicted include Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Frack, Tschaikovsky, Bach, Brahams, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Stravinsky, and Sibelius. A fine copy. Laid in is a second item, "Landacre," by Ward Ritchie, published by the.....
