Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899. First edition. This work was preceded by a ninety-one page pamphlet, published the same year. This is a fuller explication of the ideas discussed there. Numerous text illustrations. A very good, clean copy. Rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Octavo. xiii, [1], 480 pp. The use.....
A Avignon: Chez le Veuve Girard, Impr. Libr. À la Place St. Didier, 1763. First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece and two folding diagrams in Vol. I and engraved headpieces and initial letters; three engraved folding diagrams in Vol. II. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight scuffing and soiling to boards.....
[ Sherman Oaks, California: [: Ninja Press, 2019. One of 70 copies designed, printed, and bound by Carolee Campbell with assistance from Farida Baldonado Sunada of the Ophelia Press. Text was printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in Wisconsin. Eight additional hors commerce copies were also.....
[Vancouver, British Columbia:]: Heavenly Monkey, 2011. First edition. One of thirty copies, signed by Westergard. Out of print upon publication. Forty mounted engravings. A fine copy. Bound by Claudia Cohen in dark blue Japanese cloth with gilt black morocco spine onlay. Small folio. 98 pp, A delightful book, featuring darkly.....
[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, 2002]. One of 135 copies signed by both Campbell and Bruce Whiteman. XXIV Short Love Poems commemorates the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Bruce and Deborah Whiteman. With three small cyanotype prints (photographed by Carolee Campbell), bordered in navy, and mounted on printed gold rectangles. The.....
[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.....
![Item #17397 The Literary Women of Italy. [Manuscript article.]. Alice Howard Cady](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17397.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679776145)
[ New Yok: n.d., ca. 1892.]. Both the article and the manuscript note are undated, but were likely written around 1892, when Alice Howard Cady (1855 – 1901) returned from a trip to Italy. During the trip, she met with Italian women writers and encouraged them to send their books.....
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.....
![Item #17188 The Prisoner of Chillon. [Illuminated by W. & G. Audsley, Architects.]. W....](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679776142)
[ London: Day and Son, 1865 ]. First edition thus. The poem was originally published in 1816. [20] ff. chromolithograph plates (printed on one side only). Beautifully illuminated by Audsley with decorations by W.R. Tymms. Expertly recased. Slight rubbing to extremities. Faint contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf. A very.....
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.....
[Oneida, NY: Oneida Community,], 1850. First edition. A fresh, near-fine copy of a fragile item arguing for the abolition of both slavery and traditional marriage. White paper self-wrappers titled in black. Sixteenmo. 14, [2, blank] pp. A metaphorical dialogue between three figures: Judge North, who speaks from an anti-slavery perspective;.....
[[ 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.....
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1972. One of 200 copies printed at the Plantin Press of Saul and Lillian Marks. A fine copy. Marbled green wrappers, beige printed label. Three-hole pamphlet stitch binding. Inscribed to by the author on the front free endpaper in green ink by the poet and Mel.....
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.....
![Item #17390 Sarcófagos de Sennedjem. [Cover title.]. Luis Lopez Loza](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17390.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678252989)
[n.p., Mexico City: El taller de Luis López-Loza, 1976]. One of thirty copies signed and numbered by the artist. Ten panels, unfolding to about 50 in. Six etchings with aquatint and carborundum print accents. Letterpress printed on Arches paper. Pencil gift inscription in, dated January 1977, to preliminary blank. Some.....
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.....
Seattle: The Windowpane Press, [2010]. No limitation given. Printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman and eight student collaborators in a Windowpane Press printing class. Printed in red and black on heavyweight paper. A fine copy. Leaves bound at top edge with fabric strip. Backed with brown board. Top edges perforated so.....
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1929. Later edition. First published in 1909. All editions are uncommon in commerce. With over two hundred full-page illustrations of sign designs, including fifty-eight pages of type specimens. Edgewear, and spotting to cloth. Twentieth century bookplate of a David A. White to corner 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.....
![Item #17375 Chapter HB P.E.O. Cook Book. [Cover title.]. Home economics, Philanthropic...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17375.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677792847)
[ San Francisco: Philanthropic Educational Organization, n.d., ca. 1930s.]. First edition. Some toning and smudging to wrappers. Slight staining around staples inside. Otherwise, very clean inside. A very good copy of a rare cookbook published by the San Francisco chapter of the Philanthropic Educational Organization, a women’s group focused on.....
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.....
[ Northridge, California:]: California State University Northridge Libraries, Santa Susana Press, 1984. One of three hundred numbered copies in a total edition of 326. The “first book edition and first illustrated edition” of George Silverman’s Explanation (1868), the last work of fiction completed by Charles Dickens. With text illustrations by.....
[ 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.....
[San Francisco:]: The Book Club of California, 2007. One of 350 copies. This is book number 222 of the Book Club of California. With eight photographs and illustrations from the author’s collection. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Computer layout by Kina Sullivan. Set.....
