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Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience
by Janie Hendrix , John McDermott
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- Used - Fine
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- First printing
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- 2007
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- 9780743297691
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$50.00
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A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.
4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.
With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signa ture of Rudyard Kipling]
by Hamlin Garland
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- Used
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- 1st ed.
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- 1928
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$225.00
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Macmillan, New York. 1928. 1st ed.. Inscribed by Garland, with added signature of Rudy . CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to ba ck free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing p age. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
Memoires of the Reign of King Charles I With a Continuation to th e Happy Restauration of King Charles II
by Warwick, Sir Philip
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- 1702
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$85.00
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London: R. Chiswell. 1702. Second edition; first published in 1701. 12mo, brown calf. 437 pp . plus front and back matter. Warwick fought on the Royalist sid e at Edgehill and served Charles I until the king's execution in 1658. He then went on to become a knight under Charles II, and th e diaries continue into this… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work
by Hudson, Derek
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- Used - Very Good
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- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1960
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- Cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$75.00
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London: William Heinemann. Very Good. Cloth. 1960. First Edition. 1st edition of the classic biography of Rackham, including 32 tip ped-in color plates and numerous b&w drawings in-line with text. Bibliography and checklists. APPENDIX A Bibliography, APPENDIX B Drawings and paintings in Collections, APPENDIX C The Printed Wor k of Arthur Rackham. D/w soiled with several large closed… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years experience in the Saddle as c owboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow trail in the wooly Old West. Also the Doings of Some "bad" Cowboys, Such as " Billy the Kid," Wess Harding and "Kid Curry"
by Siringo, Charles. A
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- Used
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- 1919
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$150.00
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Santa Fe: NM: Siringo Press. 1919. First edition. 8vo, red cloth covered boards; yellow titles and i llustration of Texas Longhorn on front board. 291pp, plus one pag e of advertisements. Black & white photographic illustrations. Si ringo's experiences in frontier Texas and New Mexico (Six Guns #2 029, Herd #2074). Near fine; lettering on cover and spine very li… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES
by Crockwell. James H.
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- Used - Good
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- 1st edition
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- 1900
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$75.00
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Salt Lake Cit: James H. Crockwell. Good. 1900. 1st edition. 12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second Preside nt of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Arthur Rackham His Life and Work
by Hudson, Derek
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1973
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- Cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$40.00
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-Near Fine. Cloth. 1973. Classic biography of Arthur Rackham, with 32 tipped in color plat es and numerous b&w illustrations, portraits, facsimiles in-line with text. 1973 reprint edition. Also "the printed work of Arthur Rackham", a checklist. Book condition: near fine. DJ condition: very good. . Item Price
$40.00
Quand Tout Le Monde Portait Un Chapeau. [When Everyone Wore a Hat ]
by Steig, William.
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st ed., limited to 400 copies
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- 2003
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$85.00
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s Books, NY . Fine. 2003. 1st ed., limited to 400 copies. Small 4to, stiff paper covers with illustrated paper label. No.17 of 400 copies. 22 full-page color illustrations. 34 pp. Publish ed in association with an exhibition of the artwork at: Galerie M artine Gossieaux, Du 9 Octobre au 29 Novembre, 2003. Accompanied by a… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Arriving in Hollywood / Letters 1929
by Whale, James
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- Used
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- 1989
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$110.00
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Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press. 1989. 1st ed., softcover. limited to 300 copies signed by James Whale a nd publisher James Pepper. A tiny bit of wear adjacent to the sta ples on the spine; otherwise a pristine copy. . Item Price
$110.00
The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller
by [Miller, Henry]
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$15.00
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[Miller, Henry] Moore, John. The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller. Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1962. A critical evaluation in poetic form. With authorâs illustrations. 8vo, stapled wrappers . 24 pp. Very good. Minor edgewear, corners bumped. . Item Price
$15.00
The Life and Work of Harry Clarke
by Bowe, Nicola Gordon
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- Used
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- 1st ed.
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- 1989
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$150.00
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Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1989. 1st ed.. 8vo, cloth, 301 pp. The first substantial biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his varied work: stained glass, book illust ration, commercial art. 24 color plates and 180 b/w illustrations . A marvelous treatment. Fine; as new in d/w with some very min or shelf-wear. A near… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
An original Dead End Kid presents: dead end yells, wedding bells, cockle shells, and dizzy spells
by Leo B Gorcey
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- Used - Near fine
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- Fair
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- 1st edition
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- 1967
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$375.00
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Vantage Press. Near fine. 1967. 1st edition. NY: Vantage Press, 1967. 1st ed., 8vo. 111 pages. Maroon cloth wi th silver lettering to spine in original dj. A near fine review c opy in fair dust-jacket. The book has a ½â hairline crack at the bottom of the frontgutter and some very minor shelf-wear on b ottom edge.… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domesti c history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the F irst [with] â¦Some Further Portionsâ¦[One Volume Edition of 184 8]
by [Rathbone, Hannah Mary]
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- Used - Good
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- 1st thus
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- 1845, 1848
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- Marbled boards
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$100.00
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans . Good. Marbled boards. 1845, 1848. 1st thus. 3rd edition of the original work, first edition of the latter. Pr inted by Charles wittingham at the Chiswick Press in a single vol ume. 12mo. 220 pp. [1] 216 pp. A later 19th century rebinding, marbled boards, leather label. Full-page woodcut… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Profile: Cesar Chavez [Signed by both PM and Cesar Chavez]
by Matthiessen, Peter
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- Used
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- 1st ed.
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- 1969
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$625.00
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Los Angeles: UAW Western Region Six. 1969. 1st ed.. 24pp, Union offprint from the June 21 and June 28, 1969 issues of the New Yorker. The origin of what would later be expanded to Sa l Si Puedes. Fine and bright in stapled wrappers; no tears, chips or markings. Signed . t cover. The only copy we… Read more about this item Item Price
$625.00
Le Roman D'un Caricaturiste André Gill. [The Story of a Caricatu rist / Andre Gill]
by VALMY-BAYSSE Jean.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st edition
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- 1927
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$45.00
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Paris: Seuher . Very Good. 1927. 1st edition. Inscribed by author on FEP . 1st ed., 8vo, iii-322 pp., 29 plates, 4 in color and 126 b/w illu strations in the text. A very clean copy; inscribed by the autho r on fep. André Gill (17 October 1840 â 1 May 1885) Gill was the most popular… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
Diario / The Journal of Padre Serra translated by Ben F. Dixon
by SERRA (Padre Junipero)
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- 1st ed.
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- 1964
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$45.00
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San Diego: Don Diego's Libreria. Very Good-Near Fine. 1964. 1st ed.. The Journal of Padre Serra, From Loreto, the Capital of Baja Cali fornia, to San Diego, Capital of the New Establishments of Alta C alifornia in three months and three days March 28 to July 1, 1769 . Including San Diego's Great Water Rights Document Now Published for… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
From the Backwoods of Old Tuolumne
by Grigsby, Russell C.
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- Used - Good+
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- 1st ed.
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- 1943
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$250.00
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Stockton CA: Russell C Grigsby. Good+. 1943. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo, dark green boards, 154 pp. Grigsby lived in the Tuo lumne/Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada from 1907. This memoir s cover his early years, through the Depression and his work with the California Conservation Corp, through the publication date 1 943. Good+: Presents as very good-near… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
James Branch Cabell
by Mencken, H.L.
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- Used
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- 1927
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$25.00
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NY: Robert T. McBride & Company. 1927. First edition. 12mo stapled slate blue wrappers. Simultaneously p ublished in hardcover. 32 pp. biographical and bibliographic stud y by the noted critic. Published for free distribution to promot e the Kalki Edition of Cabell's works. . Item Price
$25.00
Writings from Willa Cather's Campus Years
by Cather, Willa
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Sacramento, California, USA
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1950: University of Nebraska Press. First edition; 8vo, 142 pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jack et. The book is pristine in essentially as-new condition. The dus t jacket has no chips or tears; just some mild age-toning on the spine that has lightly faded the title. This volume collects wri tings that first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mark Twain: The Story of His Life and Work. A Biographical Sketch .
by CLEMENS, Will M.
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- 1st ed.
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- 1992
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Sacramento, California, USA
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$75.00
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San Francisco: The Clemens Publishing Company. 1992. 1st ed.. 1st ed. 12mo, publisherâs printed wrappers with a portrait of T wain on front. 211 pp. First edition. BAL, p. 251. Fair: Internal ly clean and tight. Covers rubbed at extremites; bottom right cor ner of front cover and first leaf clipped 1/8â, similar sized c rease on next several leaves;… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00