Art from Hardy Books

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1959. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pp. Illustrated from 52 color plates. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and newspaper article laid in. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Introduction by Harold P. Stern. Folio. Cloth-backed green and white decorated boards. Paper spine label. The… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Red Cross, 1918. First Edition. Linen backed. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL WW1 POSTER: "RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL". 1918. Linen mounted. Full color lithograph. 19" x 28" with a linen perimeter of appoximately 2". The poster is in vivid, fresh colors and shows heroic classic figures of a Red Cross Nurse and Columbia, framing a… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 191 (1) pp. SIGNED BY BOTH Herb Caen and Dong Kingman in ink on a front free endpaper.Illustrated from 41 full-color paintings (some double page) and 29 two-color paintings plus many black and white sketches. List of illustrations at rear pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth.… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Pess, 1944. First Thus. Near Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. (xii) 223 pp. Illustrated from art by Fletcher Martin. Introcusction by Oscar Lewis. Publisher's slipcase. Cloth-backed gold metallic paper on boards. 6 1/2" x 10". Thirteen of Harte's stories of the California Gold Rush, including The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and… Read more about this item

Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 116 pp. Illustrated from drawings by Daniel Wadsworth Coit, including frontispiece self-portrait. Historical introduction by Editor George P. Hammond. Edition limited to 1250 un-numbered copies, designed and printed by Lawton and Alred Kennedy of San Francisco. Gilt spine titling. Illustrated cloth. 9" x 13". Includes twenty-one letters… Read more about this item

San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies. Pictorial brown paper over boards. Paper spine… Read more about this item

San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1942. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. Unpaginated (71). One of 700 limited un-numbered copies printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. 56 plates from period pencil drawings by William Rich Hutton reproduced frrom the originals in The Huntington Library. Introduction by Willard O. Waters. Frontis portrait from photo'graph of Artist… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 277 pages. A presentation copy, SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Gene Fowler in ink on the title page: "To my long-time friend Lucius Beebe, the arbiter. With the best / Gene / 1954". First Edition. Endpapers illustrated from photographs and drawings. Illustrated dustjacket. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards. From the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xviii) 99 (1) (11 Facsimiles). Illustrated from drawings by Caroline LeConte, both in-text and full page. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. Limited edition: one of 450 un-numbered copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean for The Book Club of California, San Francisco. Frontispiece… Read more about this item

Hollywood: 20th Century Fox, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL one-sheet novie poster for "DADDY LONG LEGS' starring Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark and Ray Anthony and his Orchestra. Directed by Jean Negulesco. Linenbacked for restoration and ease of handling. A One-sheet poster: 27" x 41". Fred Astaire (1899-1987) is… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1934. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL fully restored, linen-backed three-sheet (41" x 81") movie poster for "THE FIGHTING RANGER" starring Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Frank Rice, Bradley Page and Ward Bond. Buck Jones posters from the 1930's are among the most colorful, spectacular and collectible of all the Western movie posters. This particular three-sheet… Read more about this item

Warsaw: Asia/Pacific Museum, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL poster of a highly stylized "BUDDHA" by Polish Artist FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) adveristing an Exhibit at the Asia/Pacific Museum in Warsaw in 1982-3. 26 1/4" x 36 1/4". Expertly linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. Franciszek Starowieyski is an important Polish artist whose posters are… Read more about this item

Warsaw: Unknown, 1984. First Edition. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL poster by renowned Polish artist FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI advertising a Polish Music Festival in 1984. Image: 16 3/4" x 21 1/2"with a linen border. Expertly linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. Franciszek Starowieyski (1930-2009) was a Polish Artist whose distinctive style deviated from the socialist realism that prevailed… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1935. Illustrated Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL vintage LOS ANGELES COUNTY (California) promotional booklet/brochure. Printed in Los Angeles by George Rice & Sons. Unpaginated (20pp). Illustrated stapled wrappers. 4" x 9" (folded); 8" x 9" (opened). Cover full color art by famed California illustrator Arthur… Read more about this item

Boston: The Gorham Press, 1908. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 44 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by INA COOLBRITH in ink on the title page: "To my dear girl Josie Zeller from her friend Ina Coolbrith / Dec. 1907". Illustrated from original illustrations by Maynard Dixon, including the front cover, two paintings and several drawings. Also illustrated… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1967. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of a poster for a concert at San Franisco's Avalon Ballroom on August 24-27, 1967. Featuring Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), Bo Diddley, Bukka White and Salvation Army Banned. This is the first printing of this poster, before the concert, with… Read more about this item

Dallas: The Heritage Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (iv) 54 pages of illustrated text; 80 pages of art and descriptions. SIGNED by Joe Grandee in ink on the title page. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Joe Grandee on page iv to Custer historian and author John M. Carroll (1928-1990): "To my friend John Carroll / Best regards /… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. (xiii) 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, mostly from period photographs, including frontispiece portrait of Sadakichi Hartman. Long Introduction by Jane Calhoun Weaver. Chronology. Checklist of Artists named in the Essays. Hartmann Bibliography. Index. Gray cloth; gilt spine titling. 6" x 9 1/4". From the jacket flap: "Brilliant… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. Charles Dana Gibson. (X) 219 pages. Beautifully illustrated from black and white drawings by Charles Dana Gibson (of "The Gibson Girl"), including some plates. Gray cloth with gilt spine and cover titling. 5" x 7 1/2". Paris vignettes by Richard Harding Davis, the world… Read more about this item

Berlin: PLAN+FORM ADVERTISING AGENCY, 1950. First Edition. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL German poster advertising FOUCHE cognac titled "EIN HERZ UND EIN FOUCHE" (One Heart and One Fouche) by artist WALTER MILLER. Expertly linen mounted. Paper on archival paper/linen canvas. 23 1/4" x 33" image; 27 1/2" x 37" with linen border overall. The poster shows a man's… Read more about this item