Search Results: Titles starting with L from California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Fine Crisp. Small Octavo. Mustard colored cloth printed in green and light brown, jacket tape reinforced at the head of the spine otherwise a very good + example of the jacket with a Condor gliding over the title. This is a true second edition (1920) being a smaller binding and sheets printed with the same type set but with a different colored ink for the illustrations (Medium Brown) and the illustrations have been moved around on the indivdual pages and omitted in a few instances. The jacket is altogether different with no Coyote as on the front panel of the first edition jacket and having commentary on the newest Austin books ( 26 Jayne St. being the the latest book, published in 1920.) Often overlooked as a later printing, this is actually a new edition retaining the charm and allure of the scarce and expensive first edition in original jacket. Amer. 1st, california fiction, literature, desert, Edwards - Enduring… Read More

New York: Walker, 1985. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A nice copy of an early Elena Oliverez novel where the "Chicana Detective" investigates the death of a Santa Barbara author and historian. Signed by the author. Size: Octavo

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. San Francisco: Book Club Of California. First Edition, 1978. Edited by Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs, With an Introduction by Carlton A. Sheffield. 1/500 copies printed at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles. Orange paper boards, tan cloth spine, spine label, in tan dustwrapper. Fine/Fine. 119pp. A nice copy. Size: Octavo

Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Good. 2 volumes in fine bright maroon cloth largely unopened and rough cut edges. The rare and fragile jackets with loss of one spine are still wonderful examples of the original pictorial front panels with President Lincoln seated on his throne of justice.

San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 2003. Stated First Edition. . Cloth. As New/Fine. Herb Dengler Watercolors. A sumptous volume bound in green cloth and gray endpapers. Full color DUST JACKET with text on verso. A wonderful production with striking reproductions of Watercolors and vintage photographs make this a wonderful history of Portola Valley and the Stanford lands of the mid-peninsula. A welcome addition to the sparse local historical writing of the Bay Area's motherland. Size: Square 4to

London (1925): Nelson and Sons. First English Edition. . Original Cloth. Very Good./Very Good +. red cloth a little spotted and pages yellowed as usual in a birght and colorful jacket - not price clipped. "From the library of Loren Grey" stamped on the front fly leaf and a Sydney booksellers label. A nice copy. Size: 12mo

Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. . Soft cover. A Fine Copy./Original Wrappers. Original Wraps. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light blue folding wrappers. A printed lecture of the high spots of California's literary history. Fiction, criticism, gold rush,

Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First American Edition. . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Slightly cocked, red/ coral cloth. Jacket with light edge wear an 1/8 chip at spine tips. Not price clipped. A collectible copy

New York: Knopf, 1947. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Nearly Fine/Near Fine. Stated 1st edition. fine for small spots on the back panel. DUST JACKET fine for lightest of edge wear, price clipped. No fading, chips, creases, or bumps. Spine of jacket is clear and bright without the usual fading to the red and black. Photo of a young Himes on the back flap. Race relations in war time Los Angeles. Authors 2nd book. Nice copy. Size: Octavo

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1987. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. First Edition. Octavo. A fine copy in dark gray cloth and a red paper spine label. 1 of 250 copies issued with no jacket and printed by Coffee House Press.