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196850834Lickapoo Falls: Hangyard Press 1968. First edition. 18mo. 4 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover lettering in Wagner’s holograph. One of a small number of Runcible Spoon titles done under this fictional location and press name. OCLC locates copies at Delaware and Univ of Illinois. Lickapoo Falls: Hangyard Press, unknown books
197056232Sacramento: Press of the Blue Bees 1970. First edition. 4to. 30 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 120 copies “for friends etc†SIGNED by Wagner. “not intended to be a book but a collection of works and assorted thinkings.†Sacramento: Press of the Blue Bees, unknown books
197051856Sacramento: Press of the Blue Bees 1970. First edition. 4to. 30 pp. Some insect damage to a bit of the top edge else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of “120 copies for friends etc. not intended to be a book but a collection of words works and assorted thinkings.†Wagner has penned lyrics sixty-eight lines worth over three sides of the four covers. Sacramento: Press of the Blue Bees, unknown books
1970Embry 175752National Railway Historical Society 1970. First edition number 50 of 1000 copies signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover in fine faintly rubbed publisher's slipcase. B&W photos maps drawings. National Railway Historical Society, 1970. First edition, number 50 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. unknown books
1941CA42238California Historical Society San Francisco 1941. Fine unopened. First Edition Limited edition: One of 750 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches ii 94 1 colophon pages decorative boards with linen spine and paper spine label Includes four-color frontispiece and 3 large decorative initials in red. Special Publication Number 17 of the Society. California Historical Society, San Francisco hardcover books
1926025340San Fancisco: John Howell 1926. First Edition. Thick Quarto. x 543 pages illustrations portraits maps some folded. "to the Missouri Historical Society Compliments of H.R. Wagner." Ex-Library Label. Henry R. Wagner's volume is the results of massive and minute research. His knowledge of the Spanish sources are important and here translated. The notes on the back of the book are remarkably full and still useful to scholars on early voyages today. Bound in dark blue linen spine lettering gilt with paper shelf label. A very nice clean copy. John Howell unknown books
1921WRCAM7610San Francisco: John Howell 1921. 4193pp. Large octavo. Cloth backed boards printed paper label. Edgeworn. Ex-library with spine label removed; bookplate on front pastedown and embossed stamp on titlepage. Corners heavily worn. Light wear to text some contemporary notations. About good. First "available" edition after the rare suppressed first edition of the previous year. AXE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER 8. FLAKE 9500. RITTENHOUSE 610 note. John Howell hardcover books
2009224524Leiden: Brill 2009. Hardcover. ix 354p. printed pictorial boards still in shrinkwrap New. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures vol. 33. Brill hardcover books
196408694New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Very Good copy with small hole front panel outer hinge minimal rubbing edges faded ink stamp title page scuffs from removed bookplate rfep. <br/><br/> Alfred A . Knopf hardcover books
1976300345New York: Abaris 1976. Reprint. hardcover. fine/near fine. Arthur Rackham. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 2 volumes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 64 colour plates and 23 line drawings. Large square 8vo green cloth d.w. New York: Abaris 1976. Fine in near fine dust wrappers.<br/><br/> A facsimile of the original 1910/11 Rackham editions.<br/><br/> Abaris unknown books
20089008619Seattle: Marquand Books 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. <br/><br/> Marquand Books hardcover books
9891New York Doubleday Page and Co. n/d. Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrated with 26 full page colour plates and textual vignettes by Arthur Rackham. Bound in quarter cloth and green paper over boards with title and decorations stamped in gilt on the front and spine. Wear at corners and head and heel of spine minor soiling to paper boards front interior hinge is weak otherwise very good. Text block is clean and tight. <br/><br/> New York, Doubleday Page and Co., [n/d]. hardcover books
19201505137William Heinemann & Doubleday Pace & Co 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Later Printing 1920. Very good book tears of cloth on top edge of front and back cover dent on bottom edges and light stain on back cover and rubbing on front and back cover spine corners and forend. William Heinemann & Doubleday Pace & Co hardcover books
192649407San Francisco CA: John Howell 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. San Francisco CA: John Howell 1926. First edition. Inscribed and signed by publisher John Howell on front free endpaper with his name and address written on rear pastedown. B/w engraved frontis portrait of Drake and a further 3 engraved portraits; 69 b/w illustrations maps folding maps charts and views. x; 543 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Lightly bumped and rubbed at head heel and corners; endpapers and title page toned and foxed; else interior clean and binding tight. A nice copy. Very good/No jacket issued. John Howell hardcover books
1944260607Berkeley: Cortes Society 1944. First. hardcover. good. 18 plates. xxxvi 564pp. 4to gray cloth several small areas of very light soiling edges of corners lightly worn and bumped head of spine rubbed inner hinges strengthened. Berkeley Cortes Society 1944. First Edition<br/><br/> Biography of Fernando Cortes through his conquest of Mexico. One of 300 copies. Internally a tight bright copy.<br/><br/> Cortes Society unknown books
19822627San F. 1982. 745pp. illus. Cloth. Fourth edition. Revised enlarged and edited by Robert H. Becker. At last the long awaited revision of the premier reference book of western Americana. The significance of this new edition lies in its thorough bibliographic treatment of each known issue and edition of each title giving line-by-line transcriptions of every page and every map full collations references and confirmed locations of copies together with brief editorial comments and an index of authors titles and subjects. hardcover books
1982742San Francisco: John Howell-Books 1982 Fourth edition greatly enlarged and corrected. Printed at the Arion Press. Revised Enlarged and Edited by Robert H. Becker. 745pp. Frontis plus several illustrations. A very fine copy as new. The best and most useful edition of this classic bibliography. Includes 429 separate items with excellent annotations and full collations. This work is considered the standard and invaluable reference for American travel and exploration up to 1865. John Howell-Books unknown books
044396Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. 1960-1962. Volumes I-II 714; 619p. original blue cloth loose obituary clipping of the author included Sammlung romanischer Elementar- und Handbücher. 3e Reihe: Wörterbücher 6. Carl Winter Universitätsverlag unknown books
1901000165Berlin: Fischer and Franke 1901. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fine. George Bariosius. Folio. Gothic type with text of full libretto and every page with Gothic decoration evocative of opera's time and place plus wonderful illustrations interspersed. Interior tight and clean. Leather has some wear. <br/><br/> Fischer and Franke hardcover books
191361356London:: Wm. Reeves. Very Good. 1913. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Translated from the German by Edwin Evans. First edition thus. Octavos bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering along the spines. Small dimple to the rear board of the second volume foxing to endpapers else both volumes are very good. No dust jackets. ; 732 pages . Wm. Reeves, hardcover books
19396243New York: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. 1939 With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. Small quarto. 24 full-page color illustrations. Blue cloth gilt lettering to spine. Corner's very slightly bumped. A fine copy. Illus. by Rackham Arthur. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. hardcover books
1939269888London: Heinemann 1939. hardcover. very good. Rackham Arthur. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 24 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham thick small 4to decorative blue cloth. London: William Heinemann 1939. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
1928002109New York: Sears 1928. Wagner Rob. TESSIE MOVES ALONG. NY: Sears 1928. First Edition. A bright Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket lightly used tiny chips and closed tears. A Hollywood novel about a young flapper starlet who rises from the Bowery "Pork and Beanery" to the top of movie industry stardom. Art Deco dust jacket design very cleverly puts Tess in a wraparound "celluloid" design. The author Rob Wagner worked in Hollywood as journalist screenwriter and bon vivant. He even places himself in the novel page 301! A nice find with excellent eye appeal for the collector of early Hollywood novels or indeed delightful dust jackets. Scarce in condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Sears Hardcover books
19365051Lubbock TX: Texas Technological College 1936. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. SIGNED BY ALL 5 AUTHORS on the title page. Clean and VG in its red stapled wrappers with one even crease and former owner name to the front panel. Octavo 142 pgs. Also includes the original mailing envelope from the Texas Technological College Bulletin. A nice Texas rarity. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Texas Technological College paperback books
19877848New York. Rizzoli. 1987. Bound in gilt titled brown cloth over boards. Folio. First Edition. This is the combined publication of four separate volumes originally issued in Vienna in Ltd. editions. In 1889 1897 1906 and 1922 and never since reproduced in their entirety. Illustrated throughout with full page photographs Sketches plans diagrams etc. A stunning compendium of the work of the influential founder of the Vienna School. A Very Fine pristine copy in a Very Good dustwrapper.Featured Art. Rizzoli. hardcover books