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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First U.S. edition. Tan cloth, stamped in black. Large octavo. With 78 photographic reproductions. Spine a bit browned. Very good+ in price-clipped but bright, attractive dust jacket. Jacket has a crease on the front cover portion, but is very good.

London:Chaundy & Cox, 1922 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Minor shelfwear. Near fine in very good d.j. D.j chipped at head of spine.

Paris: The Legend of Ermengarde. Translated from the Provençal by Homer Rignault. 1929 One of 250 copies. . Original tan wrappers, folded over French style, front cover printed in black and red. . Octavo. A little light foxing. Otherwise a fine copy, uncut and mostly unopened.

[Santa Fe, New Mexico]: Press of the Palace of the Governors 1998 One of sixty-five copies designed and letterpress printed by Pamela Smith. Presentation copy, inscribed "For Sam / Pam The Printer." Also signed by the translator. . Bound in handmade paper wrappers with vellum ties by Bridget O'Malley of Cave Paper. Binding designed and executed by Martha Little. . Quarto. Illustrated with two maps, one full-page, a chart, and other drawings by artist Deborah Reade; numerous facsimile journal entries by Peterson Engravings, Los Angeles. Title-page printed in blue and black and illustrated with the figure of a Spanish Colonial soldier from a late eighteenth-century Cieneguilla, New Mexico prayer book; the soldier was originally hand drawn on the book's leather cover. Printed on handmade Moravia paper. A fine copy. "In 1992, while developing an exhibition about Hispanic residents of New Mexico in the late Spanish Colonial period, Palace of the Governors Museum curator Diana DeSantis discovered the… Read More

London: John & Edward Bumpus, 1912 Quarter parchment over light blue boards, gilt front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. . Octavo. Frontispiece and twenty-two photogravure plates, plus six photogravure head- and tail-pieces. Bibliographical catalogue of the best-known works illustrated by Choffard. Boards slightly soiled, otherwise a fine, clean copy.

[ Barcelona: Porter, 1963, reprint of the 1872 Valencia edition] Later cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Minor shelfwear. Near fine. The great nineteenth-century Spanish book catalogue, with 4070 entries and good annotations.

[various places, including Fresno and Seattle:= [ca. 1904-1953.] The earliest item is dated June 1904 (three men seated at a table) and the latest is dated February 1953 (the envelope), with the bulk of the items dating from the 1920s-40s. The earliest item that indicates Salvation Army involvement is the 1924 certificate indicating Alexander Hall's promotion. Most of the manuscript notes specify locations of Fresno and Seattle, Washington, with a few others noting locations of Aberdeen, WA and San Jose, CA. One photograph was taken in Phoenix, Arizona and another in Reno, Nevada. . Some black-and-white and some sepia photographs. Nine photographs are matted or mounted on board, and some have manuscript ink notes (dates, locations, and/or names of subjects) photographer's ink stamps on versos. . Fifty-seven photographs: thirty-two large photographs (8 x 10" or larger); three oblong photographs (6 x 10 " or larger); twenty-two smaller photographs (3 x 4" to 5 x 7"). With multiple copies of some photos:… Read More

[n.p.:] Day Moon Press, [1990] One of 100 copies on Somerset Satin, signed by Maralyn Crosetto. . Blue cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. . Oblong octavo. Fifteen illustrations, printed in two colors from mezzotint half-tone engravings of the original pencil drawings. Text handset by Maura Shapley and Maralyn Crosetto in Garamont from monotype cast by Gerald Giampa. A fine copy.

[ North Hollywood:] The Window Pane Press, 1993 One of 75 copies, numbered and signed in ink by the author and artist on the colophon. Designed and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman. This is copy no. 40. Bound by the BookLab, Inc. in quarter black and red patterned cloth over red cloth lettered in gilt. Black endpapers. . Large folio. Five illustrations with tissue guards, titles, and initial letters drawn by Michael Woodcock. Illustrations printed from photoengravings of drawings and linocuts. A fine, uncut copy in a fine red cloth slipcase. Barry Sanders is a writer and academic. He has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of fourteen books as well as over fifty essays and articles, and earned a doctorate in medieval literature from USC in 1966. Sanders' work is often described as occurring in the "intersection of art and activism." His story The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism was named one of top-censored stories by Project Censored in 2009. Fourteen… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 First edition. Half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. . Twelvemo. Light wear to binding extremities. The occasional minor stain or smudge. Clean tear to upper margin of terminal blank, 1/3 of rear flyleaf has been cut away. A very good, tight copy Elizabeth Poole Sandford (1797-1853) was a domestic moralist and the wife of Church of England clergyman John Sandford (1801-73). Woman, in her Social and Domestic Character is a work that serves to encourage woman to both accept and excel in their natural domestic roles in order to create as tranquil a home life for their husbands as possible. However, she notes the importance of letters to women and writes, "We cannot, indeed, for a moment question the advantage of letters to a religious woman. They afford her occupation, refresh her mind, and increase the power of her usefulness." (p. 31). Religion is also advocated as inherently necessary to a woman in terms of cultivating… Read More

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, [1986] Cloth. Quarto. With 126 full-page monochrome plates + numerous smaller photographs. Fine in fine d.j.

[Mansfield Centre, CT: Maurizio Martino and Krown & Spellman, [n.d.] Cloth. Three volumes, octavo. A fine set.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900 1900 First edition. There are a number of copies dated 1901 in libraries, but the first edition is quite scarce. Octavo. Black and white photographic illustrations by W.B. Dyer with tissue guard. Blue cloth ruled in white. Title and author's name also printed in white with floral gilt and heart design on front cover. Title and author's name gilt stamped on spine. Top edges gilt. Pages uncut with some pages being unopened. Some minor rubbing to corners and fading to spine. A very good, sound copy. Margaret E. Sangster (1838-1912) was a popular American editor, poet, and author.

In Venetia: Gioliti, 1588 Quarter later stiff vellum over pink cloth boards, pink decorative endpapers, edges stained yellow. Small quarto. Elaborate woodcut architectural border on title-page, each leaf within woodcut border. Three full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut floral device on final leaf. Covers lightly soiled. A very good, crisp copy. Sannazaro (1458-1530) was born in Naples of a family of noble Spanish birth. As a poet, he was patronized by Frederick, King of Naples, and he accompanied that monarch in his exile to France. His best known work is the pastoral poem, Arcadia, which is esteemed as a model of elegance and purity of verse. While traveling in Venice, Sir Philip Sidney is said to have purchased the 1571 Sansovino edition of Sannazaro, and, as Katherine Duncan-Jones reports in her 1991 Sidney biography: "This purchase was momentous for Elizabethan 'Golden' literature, for it determined the title and genre of Sidney's own Arcadia and also, if the theory [first put forth in a… Read More

London: Constable and Company Ltd., [1922] First edition. Cream-colored cloth with front cover and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine a bit toned, free endpapers lightly browned, as usual, a little light foxing. A very good or better copy, tight and bright. One of 100 copies, signed by the author, and dated "Jan. 1923" in his hand.

New York: Scribners, 1938 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink inscription. Very good in price-clipped d.j. Spine of d.j. browned.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899 First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed: "Nancy Toy from G.S. Oxford July 1899. Original green cloth. Twelvemo. Spine ends neatly reinforced. Santayana identifies Nancy Toy in The Middle Span, his second volume of autobiography: "Beyond my philosophical colleagues [at Harvard University] I had hardly any acquaintances among the professors, except Professor Toy, because of his wife, who was a friend and frequent hostess of mine for many years" (p. 162).

Madrid: Libreria General Victoriano Suarez, 1958 Printed wrappers, lightly soiled. Quarto. Very good, mostly unopened.

Phoenix: Bridgewood Press, [1996] First paperback edition, published simultaneously with a hardback collector's edition. Pictorial wrappers. Quarto. Fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: "For Dora Einzig. With the sincere hope that she will enjoy reading these simple American plays & with all good wishes. William Saroyan March 1942. MGM. Cloth. Octavo. Spine slightly faded. Very good in very good, price-clipped jacket. Spine of jacket also faded, with a little light chipping around the edges. American postage stamp featuring William Saroyan pasted in.