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

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition, 1st Printing. Quarto. A near fine copy in a very good+ jacket with shallow chip/ tear at the head of the spine and some creasing to the edges of the jacket. Book with very light toning to the top edge, otherwise bright and clean internally. Nice example of this scarce dust wrapper, price clipped. The large format and the fragile nature of the jacket are here in a vibrant blue with the baleful look in the eye of the Bluefin Tuna on the front cover is clear, bright. Photographic plates by Emerson and the charming and colorful paltes by Malmquist make this scholarlly publication a collectible and important addition to California natural history. 69 plates.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938. First Edition in a Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Cowboy protects the girl after she uses a gun to protect herself from evil. Fine copy in jacket with light edge wear and some creasing. Collectible copy of a Salinas CA native writing westerns in Steinbeck country. Size: Octavo

New York: MacMillan, 1943. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good./Very Good. Bound in dark blue cloth with small chip to spine otherwise very nice. Jacket bright with a chip to the spine end. clean and bright front and back panels. Advertising exec has to choose between career or quite life in Baja California.

First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Chicago, 1927. Green cloth, photo on front cover and many striking photographs. INSCRIBED by a nun's Plaintive inscriptions in pencil having served in the missions. A very good copy. Weber;Calif. Missions Bibliography. pg.52. California. History. Missions. Inscribed.

London: Harvill, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine bright unblemished jacket. A theft of Millions from the P2 Masonic lodge. A great copy.

London: Richard and John Taylor, 1844. First Edition, 1st Issue. . Hardcover. Very Good +. A wonderful copy of Gould's fourth Monograph and the only work to examine birds of America exclusively. Bound in 1/4 Morocco and cloth - corners with gilt-bordered leather. Spine vertically labeled in gilt. 32 hand colored, folio, plates by John Gould and Henry Richter, greatly increasing the number of previously known members of the American partridge family. Gould was inspired to study these birds by seeing "the beautiful Callipepia Californica (California Valley Quail) specimen presented to the Zoological Society of London by Captain Beechey, in 1830." Gould's interest was further peaked by specimens sent by David Douglas which were from Northern California (the Mountain Quail) and were previously unknown to Gould. In all, Gould's Monograph solidified the knowledge of the Quail populations of the north america at the time of the Gold Rush and beautifully rendered plates of lasting… Read More

San Francisco: Wagner, 1939. First Edition, 2nd Impression. . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A bright and colorful copy filled with photographs and selected views of the gold rush legacy in the golden state. Frontis, over 50 photos, index and a lively narrative . this is an important piece of Gold Rush history.

New York: Appleton, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Bright yellow cloth and black printing. A fine copy in a lightly scuffed jacket with the lightest of wear to the folds and spine tips. A nice copy

San Francisco: Crocker, 1922. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 pages of ads, , index, frontis of author. Listed in "Calif. in the Kitchen

Hartford, Conn.: Worthinton, 1890. First Edition, Later Printing. . Original Cloth. Very Good +/No Jacket Issued. Bright red original cloth with tissue guards for the numerous plates and several color plates describing a nurses experiences in the War. Bright gilt on the spine and cover, light scuffing to the spine ends keeps this copy from being a fine example of this popular and well read narrative. Owners bookplate over original endpapers. A tight, hinges intact, internally clean copy. Size: Large Octavo

Century, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth with black lettering in a bright and colorful jacket with some fading to upper spine and edge wear. A surprisingly difficult book in a jacket. Stated first printing.

Doubleday, 9139. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. Stated first edition - special edition. Orange cloth fine for crease on back panel. Jacket : nice wraparound of two lovers with light edge wear and minor creasing. Collectible copy