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1955010837Culver City CA: Radex 1955 Circa 1950s. Color printed book-shaped box with light wear slide images are slightly dusty or perhaps it's the viewer. Inside the box is a Radex stereoviewer and six slides with brief text and scenes from Jack and the Beanstalk to be viewed through the viewer appearing 3-dimensional. Uncommon to find complete sets in the original box and with Radex order form laid in. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Radex. Radex unknown
197628372Boston: Little Brown & Co 1976. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Beckett Sheilah. 1st ptg. 4to adapted from Perrault's Cendrillon of 1697 by the novelist and illustrated in delicate line by Sheilah Beckett. Fine in fine unclipped dj with tiny closed tear to bottom edge no previous owner's marks. Little, Brown & Co hardcover
102858Boivin et Cie n.d. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. In French. Shelfworn. Boivin et Cie unknown
198631756Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1986. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. 6 x 9.25in. 215pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows a small remainder mark to the bottom edge otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows shows slight handling a very small chip of the back panel otherwise remains bright colorful and distinct. As pictured. Cornell University Press hardcover
19859597New York: Dutton 1985. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Gooding Beverly. 1st ptg. 4to picture book illustrated boards charming color drawings by Beverley Gooding a Chinese legend of how the panda got its markings. Fine in fine price-clipped dj no previous owner's marks. Dutton hardcover
199521889New York: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic 1995. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Dillon Leo and Diane. 1st ptg. 4to cloth backed boards African American folktales fairy tales and true tales gorgeously illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Publisher's bookplate signed by Hamilton laid in. Fine in fine unclipped dj Laura Ingalls Wilder Award sticker to front panel no previous owner's marks. Bookplate signed by the author. Blue Sky Press/Scholastic hardcover
I-3-books-8Good. 1918 Hardcover. Ex-Library somewhat water damaged. Missing both end pages. Scribble to half title page. Cover wear/soil/cloth bubble/spine end rub. Very used with clean text. Tracking Link provided. Quick Personalized Daily Shipping! hardcover
196014333San Francisco: The Sierra Club New York Lithographing Corporation Printer 1960. First Edition. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Limited to 2500 copies 8.75x5.75in; xii 1 148 pp. 2 nine images including frontispiece and facsimile of original 1875 title page bibliographical notes;Tan paper boards with brick-red cloth spine and gilt letteringl all edges trimmed tan end papers; Red dust jacket with tan letters and half-tone illustration on front and lettering on spine; Minimal shelf wear to covers corners and edges with slight rubbing at top and bottom of spine prior owner ink numbers on title page; Dust jacket Minor shelf wear to dust jacket with rubbing to joint and corners spine faded not price clipped. Joseph Le Conte 1823-1901 arrived in Berkeley in 1869 as a Professor of geology natural history and botany with the newly established University of California. In 1870 he was invited by several students to join them on a four week camping trip to Yosemite and the High Sierra. This trip was his first visit to Yosemite which began a lifetime love affair with preserving the Valley. While John Muir is more closely associated with promoting the establishment of national parks Le Conte was instrumental in laying the foundations for the Yosemite National Park in 1890. He co-founded the Sierra Club with John Muir. He died in Yosemite of a heart attack in 1901.<br /> <br /> Francis Peloubet Farquhar 1887-1974 was a mountaineer environmentalist historian author and certified public accountant. He was active in the Sierra Club from the early 1920's for the rest of his life. He was also active in the California Historical Society and the San Francisco based California Academy of Sciences. The Sierra Club (New York Lithographing Corporation Printer) unknown
193069803San Francisco: The Sierra Club 1930. One of 1500 copies. Octavo. x 8 152 pp. Publisher's stiff brown wrappers with printed paper spine label. A very good copy.A reprint of the 1875 edition. Following the Civil War Joseph and his brother moved to California where he helped organize the University of California. LeConte Hall on the University of California Berkeley campus is named for him. In 1889 Joseph embarked on a five week horseback trip to the Yosemite Valley and the High Sierras. This group started a campaign to establish today's Yosemite National Park and to promote more recreational uses of the Sierras. The group was also instrumental in establishing the Sierra Club. The LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley is the Sierra Club's headquarters in the park. The Sierra Club unknown
193970Doubleday Doran 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo 332 pages brown cloth loss of text to torn leaf 227/228. <br/><br/>Presentation Copy inscribed by Olive Beaupre Miller to a Mary M. Beaupre "with much love from the author . Thanksgiving Day 1939." Illustrated by Richard Bennett. Tales about Pecos Bill the Cardiff Giant Mike Fink Finn MacCool coal miners Paul Bunyan Captain Kidd and many more. Doubleday, Doran, hardcover
18974471Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl 1897 . Seventeenth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 56 iv pages clothbacked chromolithographed boards <br/><br/>With 6 chromolithographs by the team of Offterdinger & Leutemann with fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The excellent frontispiece shows Gretel pushing the witch into the oven. Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl hardcover
199730311Boston: Little Brown & Co 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. As New. Sanderson Ruth. 1st ptg. 4to picture book illustrated boards illustrated in rich autumnal color throughout by Sanderson. Publisher's bookplate signed by Sanderson laid in fine in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. Bookplate signed by the artist. Little, Brown & Co hardcover
1928002972Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Millard C. E. 8vo. x 2 312 pp. Bound in full yellow cloth title and decoration stamped in black on cover and spine deckle edge top edge stained orange illustrated endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. Full-color frontispiece and three full-color fifteen full-page black and white and numerous in-text black and white illustrations by C. E. Millard. Good internally age-toned evidence of water staining to text block effecting lower margins of many pages top edge of front cover also has some light blue staining some light soiling bumping and fraying to extremities and fading to spine. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1948011066Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co 1948 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards with a small break at top of spine light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with dust soil small edge tears and wear no printed price. A selection of poems from Child's Garden of Verses illustrated in alternating color and b&w. A charming lovely and uncommon edition of Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Steffie E Lerch. 8vo. Wilcox & Follett Co unknown
196964126<p>NY and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company. 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and tattered. ; Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in metallic ink. Black cloth binding. Index photos. A detailed chronicle of the New York Times and its influence in American culture and politics by former staff writer Gay Talese. Dapper author photo on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 555 pages .</p> The World Publishing Company hardcover
19929025<p>New York: Macmillan 1992. <i><b>Signed by Tan on the title page also inscribed: To Vanna Moon magic wishes. Amy Tan and additionally signed by Schields and dated in the year of publication</b></i>. First edition / First printing. Red cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket.</p> Macmillan, hardcover
1966004925London UK: J.M. Dent & Sons 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. No. 767 of the Everyman's Library; Clean tight unmarked; green dustjacket is unfaded with edgewear and an scraped area in the center of the spine below the title; illustration by Noel Fisher on dj is of the doctor holding a vial with a skull looking into a mirror with a reflection of Mr. Hyde; cloth cover is green with bright gilt title Book also includes 'The Merry Men' 'Markheim' 'Thrawn Janet' 'Will 'o the Mill' 'Ollala' and 'The Treasure of Franchard' all by R.L. Stevenson. <br/> <br/> J.M. Dent & Sons hardcover
19600006761Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1960. New edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. John R. Neill. Quarto 252 pages acquamarine cloth <br/><br/>An editorially marked-up copy formerly in the publisher's archive. OZIANA 23. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Reilly & Lee hardcover
19350006749Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1935 circa. Regular edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. John R. Neill. Quarto 297 pages green cloth pictorial color plate on top cover; title chipped from spine other chipping to dj large chip on rear panel at top traces of tape adhesive on endpapers <br/><br/>No color plates inside rear dj flap lists 36 titles through MAGICAL MIMICS IN OZ and with dj prices changed to $2.50 measures 17/16ths wide. OZIANA p. 89. Illustrated inside by John R. Neill. Note: laid in is a holograph note and rubber stamp of the publisher. Reilly & Lee hardcover
19462020528Chicago & New York: Reilly & Lee 1946 circa. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto 283 pages variant brown cloth color label on top cover. Note: second state dj with the original price clipped and a $2.00 rubber stamp which is repeated on the rear flap. <br/><br/>OZIANA 22. Illustrated by John R. Neill: the color plates were eliminated in the later printings as here. Jacket flap lists titles 1-36. Reilly & Lee hardcover
1926209663New York: Harper & Brothers 1926. Hardcover. VG-: A thin line of the picture on the front cover is torn away. Wear to the edges and corners. Some of the front pages before the first page are loose at the bottom but remain bound at top. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. Clean plates. A black casebound book with green text on the spine and a color illustration on the front cover. 596 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. Color frontispiece. Harper & Brothers hardcover
193972952New York: Weird Tales 1939. Pulp Magazine Good. Harold S. DeLay. New York: Weird Tales: 1939. Pulp Magazine Good Cover artwork by: Harold S. DeLay Two small pieces of aging clear tape applied to lower edge of spine some chipping to front cover see picture spine somewhat faded and with front cover detatched at upper fold. Weird Tales unknown
193873852New York: Weird Tales 1938. Pulp Magazine Good. Virgil Finlay. New York: Weird Tales: 1938. Pulp Magazine Good Cover artwork by: Virgil Finlay Spine reinfirced with clear tape half-inch black tape on lower corner of front cover. Still quite solid. Weird Tales unknown
195332292New York NY: Weird Tales 1953. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear with some tiny tears tiny chip at lower left front tiny tear base of spine a nearly fine copy. 32292. Octavo single issue cover art by Virgil Finlay pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Joseph Payne Brennan L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt Mary Elizabeth Counselman and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Weird Tales unknown
19401071pPopular Fiction 1940. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover by Virigil Finlay. Featuring The Fifth Candle by Cyril Mand. Other writers include Robert Bloch Clark Ashton Smith Edmond Hamilton et al. Bottom edge a little rough. Popular Fiction unknown