Search Results: Titles starting with O from Pacific Coast Books

San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Beautiful Book in Fine condition, small folio 12.25 inches in height by10.25 inches in width, 300 pages with 109 color plates capturing early images of the Golden State, landscapes from artists such as Bierstadt, Hill, Rose and others are featured, prominent California authors John Muir, J. Smeaton Chase, Mary Austin, Clarence King and others tell the story in illustrative prose. Landscapes, Gold Rush, the variety of natural beauty and early pioneering efforts are beautifully presented. Book and Jacket are Fine, high quail ty production in Never read condition. Ultra clean green cloth with bight gilt title to front board and spine, No previous owner bookplate or writing. Jacket is Fine with painting of the Sonoma hills and upper San Pablo Bay. The green slipcase in matching publishers cloth is near Fine. Ultra clean, As New and most presentable. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Amsterdam/ New York: N. Israel/Da Capo Press, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Bibliotheca Australiana #68, 72 pages plus 2 folding charts and 1 plate. Book is 10 inches in height by 8 inches in width, all plates, charts and maps present, As New Never Read, No previous owner bookplate or writing, simulated vellum with blue and gilt titles to front board and spine, clear mylar cover is as new, facsimile reprint of the 1791 First Edition printed for the author by T. Cadell, J. Robson, J. Sewell, London , Most presentable volume of this important voyage title. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Iron Trail Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. These Rows of Green Trees Lead to the Orphan's Homes,1907 First Eedition, collection of vintage photographs and text reflecting building and maitnenace costs in 1907, more than 51 Odd Fellows Homes throughout the United States are represented, nice study of building types and architecture. Great format 96 pages, yellow floral border around text and vinatge photographs, brown cardboard cover with illustration on front board, tight and square with No previous owner bookplate or writing, a few stary smudges else Fine. A very clean and most presentable piece of Americana. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, Calfornia: John Henry Nash, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Beautiful Work of Printing by legendary John Henry Nash, Number 186 of Limited Edition of 200, 13 inches in height by 9 inches in width, TWO volumes in custom slipcase, Printed for William Andrews Clark Jr. Volumes are FINE, light grey paper boards with vellum spines, bright gilt tittles, NO previous owner name or bookplate, plus facsimile of 1774 printing. Frontis portrait of Mr. Gray. Volumes Fine, There is a 4 inch minor split along the top edge of the chemise next to the label, holding strong, Publishers Slipcase is near Fine, some light toning and some light wear, nice spine label. Professionally shipped via USPS Media. BARGAIN PRICED. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Boston: Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. Limied Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited Edition number 195 of 550 copies, hand made French paper, nice untrimmed top and foreedge, Privately printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, Breviary Treasures, 214 pages each illustrated with beautiful black and white border illustrations around the text, photo frontis of Greek lyre player. Book is Very Good overall, hardcover two toned boards shows wear to corners and some light brown paint on brown paper boards, cream 1/3 bound paper spine is lightly soiled and sunnned, titles very readable, Text is Fine, previous owner tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, no jacket. All and all a solid Very Good copy with stong hinges and sound binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition, 2002 Allen Lane, U.K.printing, 430 pages, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson Benson, two outstanding Steinbeck scholars, Excellent collection of Steinbeck's non fiction gathered in Chapters with titles as: Places of the Heart, Engaged Artist, On Writing, Friends, Journalist Abroad and more. Book is near Fine because of previous owner name and blind stamp on first free page else Fine, unclipped Jacket is Fine and protected in a new mylar sleeve. Rather scarce Steinbeck title. Never read condition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. MOLLHAUSEN, [Heinrich] Baldwin (1825-1905) Of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition. With an Introduction by Alexander Von Humboldt Beautiful Early Color Views and Map from Artist and Topographer Mollhausen Very Important early exploration of the West with early chromolithograph plates of the Southwest. Folding handsome map of the1853-54 expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Author Baldwin Mollhausen served on the 1853-54 expedition as topographical draftsman and naturalist. Mollhausen made three visits to Western America: 1849-52, 1853-54; and 1857-58. On the second trip he accompanied the Whipple Expedition as artist and naturalist and a number of the plates in the Whipple report were lithographed from his drawings. On his third visit he traveled with Ives on the Colorado River expedition and his sketches are also lithographed… Read More

Chicago: Homewood Publishing Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. circa 1890's, Adams Herd 224, 216 pages plus advertisements, black and white illustrations, Book is Good, previous owner name on first free page, spots and soling to binding, gilt and blue embossed design on light blue cloth boards, Text is Fine. Solid copy at a bargain price. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. First edition study of aged people on Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic. This is a presentation copy bound in a beautiful 3/4 brown leather binding with paper boards, truly in Fine condition, the book is inscribed by the author in Danish, the book is 236 pages, high quality coated paper and binding, many charts, in depth look of the relation between condition of limbs and capacity for work in 65 and 70 year old natives of the Danish isalnd Bornholm. A beautiful book in Fine condtion. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Santa Ana, California: The Fine Arts Press, 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. One of 750 copies, Reprint, 89 pages, dual column text, California Gold Rush life in 1850's, little sunning to title paste down on front board, 89 pages, clean map end papers, no previous owner bookplate or writing, Zamorano 80-29, near Fine, Value priced.

Seattle, Washington: Dogwood Press, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Fantastic Book, Scarce Northwest Title, Limited Edition One of 250, Complete with Twenty Signed Plates Printed from the Original Wood Blocks, The subjects of this collection of historical wood engravings were all found in a 30 mile radius of Salem, Oregon. Artist Constance Fowler received her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon in 1940. She devoted many years teaching and inspiring Northwest artists. Her selected media ranges from woodblock printing to watercolor and oil. Fowler exhibited in many cities including; New York, Wichita, Denver, Indianapolis, Oakland, San Francisco, Salem and Coos Bay, Oregon. She also presented one-person shows in Seattle and the Portland Art Museums. Her work is in many collections and institutions such as the Seattle Art Museum, Washington State College Library, University of Oregon Special Collections and University of Oregon Museum of Art. Folio 15 inches in height by 12… Read More

Newport Mon England: The Ceramic Book Company, 1962. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1962 Second Edition, spectacular book, definitive work on Old English Lustre Pottery, detailed information and heavily illustrated, folio,12.5 inches in height by 10 inches in width, 132 pages including index, with 545 illustrations of which 44 are in color, Very clean red cloth with gilt tiles to front board and spine, a touch of light wear but very nice an much better than usual, uniform red top stain, No previous owner bookplate or wring, nice secure binding. A most presentable Second Edition Folio. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Montreal, Canada: Payette Radio Limited, 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Interesting book primarily in French but some English text as well, Folio 14 inches in height by 10 inches in width. Limited Edition with number #01399 stamped on title page. 462 pages of Canadian history including Quebec and Montreal. A collection of French documents and four large folding maps and plans of Montreal, some black and white photographs, yellow end papers have a collection of facsimile signatures of key historic figures, Book is at least Very Good, black hardback with gilt title to spine, spine dished, top corners bumped, a four inch stain on the top of the front board, also light white stain on bottom half of spine and a little on the front board, (could probably be easily polished out), text and maps near Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, presentable and rather scarce Limited Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Chicago: Consolidate Book Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition signed in greeen ink by author on first free page, 362 page satire attacking bunk advertising in the Untied States in the 1920's. interesting illustrations with comparisons to Greek mythology. Book is orange cloth in Very Good condition, some light staining and soiling, spine a tad sunned, tight and square with No previous owner bookplate or name. Interior clean some light foxing on end papers. No jacket. A most presentable signed first edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Rivingtons, 1898. Publishers Cloth. near Fine/None. Two Volumes, Near Fine, Third Edition, Volume 1: 287 pages including index and folding map. Volume 2: 279 pages with folding map, complete, 2 page illustrated frontispiece Volume 1, publisher's blue cloth with bright gilt title to spine, gilt fleur coat of arms on front board, little wear to heel of spine and corners, tight and square with No previous owner bookplate or writing, very clean blue/green clay endpapers. A very nice 2 volume ser.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition stated, 718 pages, Lucy Marsen is the widow of the Civil War's last surviving solider, this fictional account of the Civil War is gritty, with humor and insights into life of the Civil War on the front and at home. Book is Fine, very clean two toned binding tight and square, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Never Read Condition, Jacket is Fine with original $21.95 price intact, protected in a new mylar sleeve. A very clean and most presentable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamburg, Germany: H.F. & PH.F. Reemtsma, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fantastic book on the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Book is German and printed in Hamburg, Germany, Blue cloth just over 12 inches in height, Book is complete with all tipped in vintage black and white and color plates of athletes, venue and events. 142 pages plus fold out graph depicting the Olympic medal count of 11 countries. Book is Very Good Plus, boards show some light rubbing a few scratches and light wear on corners, gutters sound front board some play, sound binding and No previous owner bookplate or writing, small German bookstore label on front paste down, internally Fine. The very rare dust jacket is Very Good, collage of black and white photos with Olympia 1932 diagonally on front panel edge and corner wear, two- 2 inch square pieces missing from top edge of rear panel, very presentable and shows nicely in a new mylar sleeve. A very rare title in much better than found condition. A… Read More

The Ampersan Club, 2005. First Trade. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. This edition printed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Ampersand Club, this is one of the 500 trade edition copies. In very Fine never read condition, includes a chronological list of articles on book collecting by Arne Kjelsberg, 43 page collection of book related articles that appeared in the Princeton Union Eagle newspaper. A Fine copy, grey cloth boards with clean paper title label. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: W. Trounce, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprinted from the "Journal of Society of Arts" June 12, 1891, from a paper read at te Society of Arts on May 14, 1891 by Thomas Wardle, Trounce published the article in book form in 1891, 47 pages dual column text, illustrated with great frontispiece engraving of the Great Buddhist Temple at Buddha-Gaya, Bengal, interesting text illustrations an map on one page. 9.75 inches in height by 6.75 inches in width. Book is perhaps Very Good minus, No previous owner name or book plate, publisher's green cloth with gilt title to front board and spine, wear to edge and corners, spine has wear as well, binding cracked in a few places internally and a few pages loose but still holding. Original end papers show rubbing. Protected in a new mylar sleeve. No jacket. Clean and Presentable Edition at a bargain price. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: William Morrow Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition 1930, detailed look at the career and travels of Major Horace Bell in the 19th Century, Bell was one of the first lawmen in Southern California, new material discovered upon Bell's death in 1918, 336 pages including index, 32 half-tone black and white illustrations. Important early historical narrative of Southern California. Six Guns #188. Book is near Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, tight and square with sharp points, very clean dark grey weave publishers' cloth with red and black title block on front cover and on spine. Illustrated end papers with four old engravings, Jacket is Very Good Plus, price intact, light corner wear also at head and heel of spine, edge wear especially bottom edge of front panel has light chips and folds. Looks sharp in a new mylar sleeve. Very clean and most presentable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.