Recent Arrivals from Carpe Diem Fine Books
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To Hell and Back
by Murphy, Audie
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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Monterey, California, USA
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$1,313.00
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 274 pp. Red cloth spine over blackboards in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (with slight rolling at spine ends) in very good dustjacket (loss of paper at spine head; wear and creasing along edges and corners). Here America's most decorated G.I recounts his personal experiences in the foxholes… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,313.00
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Peter and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M.
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- First American Edition
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- 1911
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American Edition. 8vo. vii, [3], 267, [1] pp. Frontisepiece with tissue guard, eleven plates by F. D. Bedford. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt lettering and elaborate gilt decoration to spine and front cover. Wear to extremities and spine ends; spotting to front cover; dampstain along edge of rear cover; dampstain to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Little Women - Parts One & Two
by Alcott, Louisa May
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- 1869
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Monterey, California, USA
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$2,625.00
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Part One is an early printing in 1869, with notice or Part Second on page 341 and no Part One statement on the spine. BAL indicates that there were at least three printings dated 1869 before the notice was added to p. 341 and that four 1869 printings took place without the Part One statement… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,625.00
A book of tested recipes collected and arranged by the Ladies' Aid Society of Siloam Baptist Church, Marion, Ala
by Dahi, Arthur L.
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- First Edition
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- 1905
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$105.00
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Marion AL: Ladies' Aid Society of Siloam Baptist Church, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 158pp (including 12 leaves of advertisements), followed by 22 pages reserved for 'Memoranda,' some of which have been used to record recipes in pencil. Decorated endpapers (previous owner 'Mrs. J. C Reynolds' to front endpaper). This well-used book of recipes is worn, with front hinge… Read more about this item Item Price
$105.00
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An Account of the State of the Roman-Catholick Religion throughout the World..
by Steele, Sir Richard
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- 1715
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Monterey, California, USA
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$105.00
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London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First Thus. Small octavo; lxxviii, viii, 197, x, pp. Contemporary full brown calf ruled in gold and stamped in blind, spine with raised bands and faded red title label; hinges cracked (front hinge barely attached), browning to text; 1747 gift inscription to front pastedown from Charles de Holzendorf. '... Written for the Use… Read more about this item Item Price
$105.00
The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, of California
by Hittell, Theodore H.
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- First Edition
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- 1860
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [9] 10-378 [379-382]pp with brown coated endpapers. Illustrated with frontis engraving of Adams and 11 other tissue-protected engravings by Charles Nahl. Complete (with two gatherings pulled loose with several closed tears) in worn publisher's brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel… Read more about this item Item Price
$263.00
Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph: The Years 1915-1946 & The Years 1950-1968 (2 Volumes)
by Strand, Paul
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- First Edition
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- 1971
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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New York: Aperture, 1971. First Edition. Large 4to. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with black & white photo-reproductions. Fine copies in near fine dustjackets (light wear to extremities; 2 short closed tears at edges of Volume 1). This two-volume retrospective was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and then St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco… Read more about this item Item Price
$158.00
Jewelry of the 1940s and 1950s
by Raulet, Sylvie
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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New York: Rizzoli, 1988. First Edition. Large 4to. 332 pp. With 546 illustrations, 235 in color. Biographical sketches of the designers and firms. Bibliography; Glossary. A fine copy in publishers color illustrated dustjacket, as new. The first English language edition after the original French edition of 1987. An essential reference work on the sumptuous jewelry designed and created in… Read more about this item Item Price
$158.00
Bernard Buffet: Lithographs 1952-1966
by (Bernard Buffet); Georges Simenon; Fernand Mourlot
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- First Edition
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- 1968
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Monterey, California, USA
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$788.00
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New York: Tudor Publishing, 1968. First Edition. Folio. 177, (6) pp. Includes 66 reproductions of lithographs (mostly in color), plus 11 original full-page color lithographs made especially for this edition (including frontis and cover). Preface by George Simenon. Compiled by Fernand Mourlot. Softcover with color illustrated dustjacket in publsher's slipcase. Previous owner bookplate else Fine copy. Splendid collection of… Read more about this item Item Price
$788.00
Emil Nolde: Catalogue Raisonné of The Oil-Paintings (Volume One 1895-1914)
by Martin Urban (Emil Nolde)
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- 1987
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Monterey, California, USA
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$210.00
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London: Sotheby's, 1987. First Edition. Large 4to. 604 pp. Color and black & white reproductions. Contains 636 catalogue entries. Black cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy. The definitive work on Nolde, leading figure of the German expressionist movement. Includes an illustrated biographical survey of Nolde's life, a description of his working method, a summary of the documentation… Read more about this item Item Price
$210.00
Not Man Apart: Lines from Robinson Jeffers
by Jeffers, Robinson; David Brower (Editor)
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- First Edition
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- 1965
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1965. First Edition. Large 4to. 160 pp. Edited by David Brower. Photographs by Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch, William E. Garnett, Philip Hyde, Eliot Porter, Cole Weston, Edward Weston, Don Worth, Cedric Wright, and others. Twenty-eight illustrations lithographed in color, fifty-one printed in gravure. Red cloth with gilt lettering, in color illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
$263.00
Donald Teague: A Life in Color
by Meyer, Claudia
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- First Edition
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- 1988
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- 9780962032714
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Monterey, California, USA
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$53.00
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Montana: Nygard Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 126 pp. Chronology; Awards; Bibliography; List of 103 Plates (3 black & white). Fine in fine dust jacket. The definitive work on an important twentieth century American artist. The text is based on extensive interviews and conversations with Teague, along with his personal records, letters and notes. Item Price
$53.00
To A Cabin
by Lange, Dorothea; Margaretta K. Mitchell
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- First Edition
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- 1973
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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New York: Grossman Publisher, 1973. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Black and white photo reproductions. Tan cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities, moreso to spine head). Published after her death by Lange's friend, Margaretta Mitchell, here is their "...intensely personal record of a setting in which the beauty of both people and… Read more about this item Item Price
$158.00
Plein Air Painters of California, the North
by Westphal, Ruth Lilly
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- First Edition
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- 1986
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- 9780961052010
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Monterey, California, USA
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$53.00
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California: Westphal Publishing, 1986. First Edition. Square 4to. x, 206pp. Bibliography. Index. Over 200 illustrations (142 in color). Offering circular laid in. Fine in near fine dustjacket (short closed tear near spine). A unique and comprehensive reference source including works by noted artists Carl Oscar Borg, Emil Carlsen, Paul Dougherty, E. Charlton Fortune, Percy Gray, Armin Hansen, Arthur &… Read more about this item Item Price
$53.00
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (Two leatherbound volumes)
by [Ernest Hemingway] Spanier, Sandra, Robert W. Trogdon and Albert J. DeFazio III, editors
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- First Editions
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- 1913
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- Hardcover
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- 9781107020269
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1913. First Editions. Hardcover. Octavos; lxxix, [v], 431pp (Volume 1, 1907-1922); lxvii, [vii], 519pp (Volume Two, 1923-1925). Very minor spotting to front cover of Volume 1, else an 'As New' set of the Numbered, leatherbound edition (V. 1 is #16/500; V. 2 is #6/500) in black lettered brown leather. Each volume with red ribbon… Read more about this item Item Price
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Signed Photograph of Members of USAAF Flight 2657, Squadron BP-2
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- 1948
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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San Antonio: Lackland Air Force Base, 1948. 9" x 20 1/2" photograph in simple black frame, signed by most of the ~ 58 members of the March, 1948 Flight 2657, Squadron BP-2 class of the Indoctrination Divison at Lackland Air Force Base. Originally known as 'The Hill,' it had been separated from Kelly Field in 1942 in response to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad: Together with a Traveler's Guide and Business Man's Handbook
by F. N. Otis
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- First Edition
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- 1861
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Monterey, California, USA
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$394.00
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Harper & Brothers: Harper & Brothers, 1861. First Edition. 8vo. 263, [1] + [4 pp advertisements] pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations; wood engraved plates; 2maps. Errata slip tipped-in. Original decorated brown cloth stamped in blind, with gilt-lettered spine, brown endpapers. Some water-staining to outer edge of rear cover, minor wear to extremities; else near fine with both text and plates… Read more about this item Item Price
$394.00
SIGNED Print Depicting a Sailor Getting a Tattoo
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Monterey, California, USA
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$210.00
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Image size 12" x 10 1/2"; paper size 15 1/2" x 13". The sailor receiving the tatoo has "USS Panama" inked on his arm, most likely dating the print 1917 - 1920. USS Panama (SP-101) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1920. The artist (C. R. McKuen?)… Read more about this item Item Price
$210.00
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Music on my Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist
by Willie the Lion Smith with George Hoefer
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- First Edition
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- 1964
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Monterey, California, USA
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$551.00
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Doubleday, 1964. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Tom Noel. A fine man who knows all the good thngs in life. From Willie the Lion Smith = Jane - all the best in life." 8vo. 318 pp. Smudging and soiling to to grey cloth boards; offsetting to front endpapers; a very good copy in near fine illustrated dustjacket (light wear to… Read more about this item Item Price
$551.00
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Winemaking in California
by Ernest Peninou and Sidney Greenleaf
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- Limited Edition of 150 copies
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$368.00
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San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1954. Limited Edition of 150 copies. Hardcover. Small 4to. [vi], 34, [3] pp. With linoleum block illustrations and decorations designed and cut by Patricia Evans. Designed, handset and hand printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. Cream boards with black cloth spine and paper label with green lettering; green block decoration to front… Read more about this item Item Price
$368.00