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1883166754San Francisco: A. Roman 1883. 17x12 cm pp. i-ix x-xv xvi 17 18-216 217-219: ads 220: blank flyleaves at front and rear inserted frontispiece original red cloth front panel stamped in black and gold spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind floral patterned endpapers. Second edition enlarged. A new edition of A YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME San Francisco: A. Roman & Company 1867. The 1867 edition is uncommon. "Among the earliest schoolbooks relating exclusively to California. The author Louise Palmer Heaven wrote a number of children's books under different pseudonyms" Howell. Heaven was a popular contributor to OVERLAND MONTHLY and the author of "indifferent novels" Walker San Francisco's Literary Frontier whose best known work is CHATA AND CHINITA 1889 a novel set in Mexico. Cowan 1933 p. 456. Sabin 55495. California news agent's stamp on the front and rear flyleaves. Cloth worn at edges a sound good copy. A nice copy overall. #166754 A. Roman unknown books
1988WRCLIT64813Los Angeles: Paradise Press 1988. Oblong octavo. Open-sewn pastepaper boards label. Fine. First edition. One of 125 copies printed on Kozo and St. Arman paper at the Paradise Press and bound by Shelley Hoyt. An exploration in the form of a dialogue of sorts -- an instructor's annotations juxtaposed with the student's translations and notes on the learning of a language. Paradise Press hardcover books
196120290London: Golden Cockerel Press 1961. leather_bound. Orig. full navy and red morocco panels with gilt front cover design of a cat bordered by gilt lettering in French Teg. Fine in near fine navy slipcase. Ottten T. 187 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition copy 56 of 100 specially bound by E.W. Hiscox on Saunders mould-made paper from total edition of 400 signed by the translator Reginald Bretnor in ink with a squiggle illustration by him of a cat face below his signature. Collotype reproductions of 10 etchings by T. Otten after designs by Coypel. This collection of eleven letters and ten poems on cats first published 1727. Cat lovers initially made the original work a great success; however later it became the object of satire and ridicule and the author removed it from his collected works. It's survival is proof it continues to provide pleasure and delight. COCK-A-HOOP 213. Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
1961315516London: Golden Cockerel Press 1961. NUMBER 75 OF 100 "SPECIALLY BOUND" COPIES from an overall edition of 400. 10 illustrations by Cypel. 187pp. 8vo. Full red and blue morocco t.e.g. Slipcase. NUMBER 75 OF 100 "SPECIALLY BOUND" COPIES from an overall edition of 400 10 illustrations by Cypel. 187pp. 8vo. Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
19612221803<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Original full blue and red morocco spine lettered and decorated in gilt emblem gilt stamped on front cover t.e.g. navy blue linen-covered slipcase by E. W. Hiscox. Numerous collotype plates after etchings designed by Charles Antoine Coypel for the first edition of 1727. No dust jacket. Fine. 187 pages.</p><p>#25 of 100 specially-bound copies.</p><p>Inscribed on front free endpaper in Medford Oregon in 1973 by the translator with a small caricature of a cat.</p><p>Laid in is a Polaroid photograph of Bretnor and his wife taken by the recipient of the inscription with a brief description of the circumstances.</p><p>This attractive volume was one of the final productions of the Golden Cockerel Press.</p> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1608045526Rouen: Claude le Villain 1608. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three rare Rouen imprints from 1608 bound as one as printed with separate title pages in modern full red morocco with inner dentelles raised bandsmarbled endpapers - old bookseller or binder stamp on front endppaer. Very slight fading otherwise a fine binding. Light browning trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the titles and running titles small paper repair in the margin of the final page of Paradis otherwise clean internally. All the titles are rare - three copies of the first title two 1616 one 1606 one of the second Paris 1603 but incomplete and one of the third Paris 1604 in OCLC. 60 ff.; 20 ff.; 210 ff. Potier 1399 the first title A rare collection of Rouen imprints on the subject of love in its various guises originally published in Paris in 1606 for the second two titles and collected here for the first time. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 045526. <br/><br/> Claude le Villain hardcover books
