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Parisiis: P. Didot et F. Didot, 1801. Editio Stereotypa. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Trilingual in Italian, Latin and French. 12mo hardcover format, all edges gilt, leather covers, dentelles-ruled along edges, cracking to half of rear joint, an inch to the front joint, else still quite sturdy, moderate rubbing to extremities, clean interior, with blue marbled endpapers. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually Anglicised as Sallust (86 – c. 35 BC), was a Roman historian and politician from a plebeian family, according to his Wikipedia entry. "Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline (on the eponymous conspiracy), The Jugurthine War (on the eponymous war), and the… Read More

University Park, Maryland: The Pennsylvania State University Press, for The American Academy in Rome, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar of a value. Blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Printed paper dust jacket, illustrated, lightly worn, single chip along bottom edge. The authors provide a comprehensive survey of the archaeological excavations that have occurred at the American Academy in Rome at Cosa. Commenced in 1948, they were ongoing until the 1990s publication of this tome. This Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 B.C., Cosa, which is mentioned in the works of Rutilius Claudius Namatianus who noted that, by 416 A.D., Cosa was effectively deserted, in ruins. The archaeological excavations were done originally by Frank Edward Brown, an American archaeologist. This volume details the 1948-1954, 1965-1972 field… Read More

New York / Davis, California / Mill Valley, Califo: John Elder Gallery / John Natsoulas Gallery / Susan Cummins Gallery, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Arthur Gonzalez. Published jointly between three different art galleries in a colorful, glossy catalog, arresting works of ceramics and assemblage, collage and painting, in First Edition state and Fine condition. 36 pp., and stuffed with full-color plates, illustrations. Former price sticker on rear panel bottom near spine. Complete with plates, list of exhibitions, and a chronology.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 463 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at title page. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Phaidon, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Cai Guo-Qiang. Sterling condition softcover copy in big, tall, nearly square quarto-sized format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy white covers with black lettering, glossy pictorial wraps thereover, in gate-fold. 160 pp. including a List of Illustrations. Many score black-and-white and full-color illustrations augment this study of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most important Chinese artists to have emerged in the 1990s. Best known for his spectacular firework projects, Cai has explored a diversity of media and artforms (First Search).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Gaius Gracchus," a dramatic verse tragedy set in Ancient Rome, penned by "Odin Gregory," pen-name of J.G. Robin. Nice-looking exemplar of a First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser, author of Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy, and other classics of literature. Bound in brown linen cloth over boards, red stamped lettering to front cover. Light bumping to spine head and foot. 172 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, Ltd, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Medieval Studies series. David Howlett presents a documented account of the origins of a brilliant Scottish Latin literature fro the end of the eleventh century and the twelfth century. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. "Over 550 works for the period Gold Rush to post-WWI." This descriptive bibliography includes printed book sources, magazines, periodical literature sources, unpublished works, memoirs, California Jewish newspapers and newsletters and more. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-175 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998. Softcover. New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Tall quarto softcover format, brightly illustrated on high-gloss card stock. 560 pp., profusely illustrated in full color, duotone and black-and-white, complete with maps, bibliography, index and other scholarly apparatus. From the publisher's marketing blurb, "the first publication to survey the entire history of California Art from maps of the early explorers to the socially and politically activist work of the late twentieth century.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A dozen pamphlets, complete. Measuring 8 1/4" x 10" in size and with printed wraps, then laid in loosely into a Fine condition cloth-covered folder fitted in to a Fine condition, also blue cloth-covered slip-case, a bit sunned and toned, slip-case being graced with two cloth labels neatly affixed at spine head and foot with gilt-lettering thereto. Published for its members in The Book Club of California in 1980. Printed on heavy cream-colored paper and then bound in printed heavy paper wraps. 33 [2] pp., and including a short bibliography. Introduction by Muir Dawson and Carey S. Bliss, and then with multiple contributions by Carey S. Bliss, Richard Dillon, and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco / Laguna Beach: Joseph Chowning Gallery / Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, staple-bound, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Fine and engaging essay by John Fitzgibbon (also Fitz Gibbon) about the participating artists, among them Susan Adan, William Allan, Susan Balshore, Richard Berger, Joan Brown, Eduardo Carrillo, Lauren Cogburn, Gordon Cook, Deborah Dano, Victor Faccinto, Richard fees, John Ford, Bill Gis, Kahty Goodell, Don Hazlitt, O.O. Johns, Steven Kaltenbach, Michaele LeCompte, irving Marcus Joan Moment, Robert Bagnasco Murray, Gladys Nilsson, James Nutt, Jack Ogden, Helen Oji, Irene Pijoan, Joseph Raffael, Barbara Riley, Nate Shriner, Michael Stevens, Carolos Villa, Mary Warnter, Ken Waterstreet, Karl Wirsum, and Tom Witt. Unpaginated text, then a score of full color reproductions of fine paintings.Member,… Read More

Youngstown, Ohio: The Butler Institute of American Art, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Attractive copy bound in a bright yellow wrap, covered by a stiff Mylar jacket, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with the initial signature pulling a bit. Acknowledgments written by Louis A. Zona, Director of the Museum. John Fitz Gibbon penned an Introduction of sorts, he being the Curator of this exhibit. Several score lovely reproductions in full color by California artists, rendered alphabetically in 92 clean and unmarked pages, William Allan to Elmer Bischof, Robert Colescott, Bill Dane, Eduardo Carillo, John Ford, Charles Garabedian, Roger Herman, Irving Marcus, Richard Jackson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Judith Linhares, Anthony Berlant, Jim Melchert, Richard McLean, Manuel Neri, Jack Ogden, Philip Makanna, Peter Saul, and more.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest… Read More

Santa Barbara, California: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, for the author, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Fine condition copy from the personal library of the owner of California Collectible Books, in Martinez, California, Lloyd Mason. Bound in an octavo hardcover format, bright red cloth covers with a blind-stamped illustration to front cover, bright and distinctive gilt lettering to spine, deckled fore-edge, and plentiful illustrations in black-and-white. This work of social history recounts the period in the 1880s when lawless bands of vigilantes marauded throughout the State of Indiana and then spread to adjacent and non-contiguous states, including, eventually, to California, akin to the ways in which the Knights of the Golden Circle spread terror prior to the Civil War. As the "White Caps" spread they spread fear and terror and twisted senses of morality. The so-called "Lake County incident" involved these Ku Klux KIan-like vigilante… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Burgundy cloth covers, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. [8], 9-320 pp. Augmented with 17 full color plates, 35 photographs and prints, and nine maps of the major wine-growing regions of California. Special focus on the Napa Valley, the Sonoma region, Mendocino, the Central Coast, the San Joaquin valley, and then Southern California.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Los Angeles, California: Times-Mirror Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound simply in blue cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and spine, little discernible wear beyond that to extremities, bright interior, unmarked. Fine frontis black-and-white photograph of the author as a wee lad. Protected in plastic jacket. Long sections and even chapters devoted to hunting deer, antelope, and sage hens in Idaho and Nevada," long yarns about spectacular trout-fishing trips, one on the Creel Club on the San Gabriel River, on quail shooting, hiking and camping. Well over 50 fine illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 330 pp. plus extensive prelims.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume in stated Second Edition state, revised and enlarge. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. The book is arranged by counties in alphabetical order and subdivided by county histories, directories, and general references. Double-column texts, more than 17,000 entries. xv [1], 1-611 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the American Trails Series, edited splendidly by A.B. Guthrie, and a particularly lovely copy of Stewart's best-known work. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy bound in tan cloth, with unbruised tips, illustrations to front cover, lettering to spine, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers, being a lovely pencil drawing of two steers in lockdown and then a two-page map of California. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter + 339 pp., and lots of lovely illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the American Trails Series, edited splendidly by A.B. Guthrie, and a particularly lovely copy of Stewart's best-known work. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy bound in bright-red cloth, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers, being a lovely pencil drawing of two steers in lockdown and then a two-page map of California. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter + 339 pp., and lots of lovely illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for… Read More

Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Salesman's dummy for the eventual four-volume work of California-based social history of California and Californians. The full set feature Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez's "The Spanish Period," "The American Period," by Rockwell D. Hunt, and California BIography, by a special staff of writers. Green heavy card stock, textured, and with gilt lettering to cover, yarn tie-stitched. Unpaginated, but roughly 40 pp. and with plentiful fine black-and-white photographs and other illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.