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197524472San Francisco: Mother's Hen 1975. First edition. 60 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations by Florence Monzasch. San Francisco: Mother's Hen, unknown books
1975107667San Francisco: Mother's Hen 1975. unpaginated 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations first edition in original pictorial wraps spine panel slightly burst in two places with mild soil to covers. Signed by the poet who was the publisher of SF's Panjandrum Press. His first book of poetry. Appended find plea and petition on behalf of "poet Ross Laursen" then nine years in Folsom unjustly imprisoned for a crime that victim witnesses and actual perpetrator have sworn in affidavits he did not commit. Mother's Hen unknown books
1983424051983. KORAN ART. ART TREASURES OF SEOUL with Walking Tours. By Edward B. Adams. Seoul: Seoul International Tourist Publishing Co. 1983. 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards; prelims. 172 pp. Some rubbing at boards; else near fine. unknown books
1990123299Hamburg Germany: Literaturhaus Hamburg 1990. First edition. Softcover. 36 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran in April in Hamburg and in May in Bonn. Text in German. Includes numerous black and white images with a great photo of author Kurt Vonnegut. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with a large abrasion to the rear panel but otherwise a nice copy. Scarce with only 2 listed in OCLC. Literaturhaus Hamburg unknown books
197317773San Francisco: Panjandrum Press 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . 9vo. Wraps with French flaps. Very good plus to near fine. Minor rubbing edgewear soil faint. Overall. bright and sound. <br/><br/>Includes the "Frank O'Hara Supplement" with works and remembrances from many of his friends. Contributors include: Bob Brown Kathleen Fraser Joe Brainard Lawrence Ferlinghetti Grace Hartigan etc. Panjandrum Press paperback books
198943236Oakland CA: WIM 1989. 1st Edition. SIGNED by both authors. Mauve cloth with gilt rules and color illustration pasted to front board cream stamped lettering. Light soiling and sunning faint tide lines to rear board and spine foot. Slight ripple to last few pages else internally clean and crisp. VG. 8 382 2 pp. 168 full color plates. 14-1/4" x 11-3/8" <br/><br/>A catalogue of the stunning collection of California paintings acquired by Coran and Nelson-Rees issued just two years before the Oakland fire decimated it. The collection was valued at $45 million of which over 800 paintings were destroyed including Albert Bierstadt's rare 1872 painting of San Francisco Bay shown on Plate No. 1 here. Los Angeles Times Oct. 23 1991 Other artists with featured works include Franz Arthur Bischoff William Henry Clapp Lafayette Maynard Dixon Henry Chapman Ford Edward Thomas Hall Granville Redmond William Wendt and many more. Each plate is accompanied by a brief note from the collectors about the locale history of the painting provenance and museum collections it has been loaned out to. Also included are essays by Arthur Millier Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr. and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure. WIM hardcover books
19896326Oakland CA: Privately Printed 1989. Hardcover. VG with light wear to covers. Inscribed by both authors/owners. Purple cloth. 382 pp. 168 large color plates. Includes essays by Arthur Miilier The Art Temperaments of Northern and Southern California Compared-reprinted from 1927 Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr. Collecting California Art: An Interpretive Essay and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure California Art North and South. Includes a six-page bibliography and an eight-page index. Each picture is annotated and it's acquisition described as well as any research done by the collectors. The collection and the majority 1200 copies of this book were destroyed in the Oakland fires making this book all the more critical as a lasting record of these paintings. Quite rare. Privately Printed hardcover books
17951227232 vols. Bath: Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson etc. 1795. 2 vols. 8vo xii 2 248 Preliminary Discourse 266; viii 519 12 indexpp. Engraved fold-out map of Arabia three genealogical tables two folding and a plate illustrating "The Temple of Mecca" all from the 1735 first edition. Old calf rebacked a good copy tears in folding map repaired. § Fourth edition the first thus of the first translation of the Koran into English. Peter Harrington notes: "George Sale c.1696-1736 although a solicitor by profession was also a leading orientalist having acted as corrector to the SPCK's Arabic translation of the New Testament 1727. His translation is prefixed by a long "preliminary discourse" a compendium of all that was known about the religion of Islam itself separately translated into and published in several languages. In 1921 Edward Denison Ross claimed that Sale's version had not yet been superseded and more than fifty years later Sale's objectivity still guarded him from criticism in Edward Said's Orientalism 1978." Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson [etc.] unknown books