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

Knopf, 1946. Stated First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A wonderful copy of the first edition. Jacket crisp and clear of flaws. Book fine in blue cloth.

New York: Harpers, 1924. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Harpers, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good, First Edition. Tan cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs and drawings. Some modest shelfwear, binding is sound. DUST JACKET is price clipped, moderate wear to the outer extremities, with chip to the head of the spine . Still, a very attractive and collectible copy of Grey's fishing in Florida and the southern states. Bright, Illustrated jacket with a vignette of a jumping tarpon. Copies in a jacket are highly prized and are expensive in the marketplace. Here an opportunity to have a collectible copy in an original Dust Jacket. Size: Quarto

New York: Harpers, 1928. First Edition. . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good +. with Photographs By the Author. 1st Edition. The book is in fine condition with crisp and clean plates and with no flaws or fading, chips, loss of cloth or discolorations. The Dust Jacket is near fine with light edge wear, is not price clipped and without stains. A small craese lower front. No chips or significant tears. An Attractive Copy. Size: Quarto

Harper Bros., 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Bound in dark gray gilt stamped cloth with minor fraying at the lower spine. Else a near fine copy of this beautifully illustrated book by Grey in New Zealnd. Jacket with light fading to the spine panel and light edge wear to folds. End papers and text clear and bright with all photographs present and in fine condition. A very nice copy of this difficult Grey title.

New York: MacMillan, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Smithson Broadhead. Signed by Jimmy Heinold, Jack London's friend and propreitor of the The Last Chance Saloon in Oakland , Ca. A collectible copy of London's tales of working with the fish patrol and the many exploits of the fish patrol and the outlaw fishermen making their living on the vast San Francisco bay. Lightly bumped on the spine and vibrant colors on the front and spine panels.

New York: Harpers, 1925. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Bright green gilt binding with a small 1/4" bump on the front panel in a clear and crisp non-price clipped jacket. Jacket with some closed tears on the front panel but no chips, staining, fading or discoloration common to these large well read and oft-handled fishing books. Wonderful photographs and sumptuous line drawings throughout and a fascinatingly readable text. K-Z code and very small producers stamp otherwise no names, signatures or ownership.wrap-around endpapers unblemished and bright. A Nice copy. Size: Quarto

New York: Harpers, 1924. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harpers, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good, First Edition. Tan cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs and drawings. Some modest shelfwear, binding is sound and exceedingly bright internally with unopened pages and clear unfaded photos.DUST JACKET is price clipped, moderate wear to the outer extremities. A very attractive and collectible copy of Grey's fishing in Florida and the southern states. Bright, Illustrated jacket with a vignette of a jumping tarpon. Copies in a jacket are highly prized and are expensive in the marketplace. Here a copy in an original Dust Jacket. Size: Quarto

Harrisburg: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1987, 1905. First Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine. Smithson Broadhead. Self Wrappers. Nearly Fine. 1st Ed., 1st Printing, 1st Appearancec. Published in 7 parts starting in February 1905, the book was published 7 months later in September of 1905. Small folio with minor seperation at some of the folds and light chipping, otherwise fine and bright with superior illustrations. In advance of the book publication by some months, these stories are of supreme California importance as they comprise "Jack London's First Set of Stories Set in his Home State" and his home port, San Francisco Bay. Filled with violence, greed, exploitation of San Francisco Bay resources, exclusion of the Chinese, slugging through bar rooms and the docks; this was the world of London's youth and formative years. Walker - Fiction of Jack London, Sisson, Woodbridge.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Fine/Fine. Fine copy, boldly signed on the 1/2 title in a fine jacket with the famous Coit Tower pictured on int cover. Nice collectors copy. Size: Octavo

San Francisco, 1968. First Edition. . Cloth. Nearly Fine. Teal cloth with fine photograph on the front panel. Signed by Mrs Wores. Second printing; identical to first printing. Filled with information on the authors time in Japan and California, a list of writings, institutional holdings and biographical facts. A nice copy. Size: Large Octavo

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. First Edition, Signed by the Author. . Cloth. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Cream colored cloth printed in crisp red and black. INSCRIBED on the front fly "To Jimmy Starr whose kindness to the "unknown" is a Hollywood tradition - with gratitude and admiration - Horace McCoy August, 1935." A very good jacket with mild creasing and tape reinforcing in a few place on the verso. 1/8" paper loss at the folds but no chipping. A fabulous incription from McCoy and a sly comment on the cold hearted Hollywod of the depression era of 1935. Size: Octavo

Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine. Original Wraps. No Jacket. Fine in maroon paper boards with reproductons of the manuscript interviews of early Mexican residents by Thomas Savage in 1877. Commissioned to record these memoirs by H.H.B ancroft for his HISTORY of CALIFORNIA. These remberences are caring and illuminating. Fine Press. Oral History. Mexican Era. California.

First Edition. . Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. New York:1947. 1st edition. Fine in a near fine jacket (closed tear on the front panel). Nice copy of this unusual novel set in Santa Barbara. California. Literature. Fiction.

New York: Cosmopolitan, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Special Large Size Edition." Bound in deep green cloth all edges evenly stained green. Illustrated in Two Colors. A light green dust jacket very well preserved with closed tear on front panel. A scarce edition published simultaneously with the common trade edition. A very pleasing copy.

New York: Scribners, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Bright blue cloth with owners inscription. Jacket without chips or paper loss. Front panel and spine unfaded and bright. Unnoticed closed tears. Biography of the author on back panel.

Waterville: Five Star, 2003. First Edition in a Dust Jacket. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Award winning western stories by this popular and talented northern California author. Size: Octavo

New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Pulitzer Prize winner and a defining book for this California author who emboddies the people of his home state in this play set in a San Franciso waterfront bar. A clean cloth binding with slight soiling in a very good Dust Jacket, bright and clean with edgewear and a little loss at the top of the spine. A nice copy of this important California book. Size: Octavo

New York: MacMillan, 1939. First Edition, 1st Printing. . Cloth. A Fine Copy./Very Good +. Red cloth with pictorial endpapers of a Highwayman awaiting the oncoming stage. Jacket with edge wear, not price clipped and bookplate. Bright example of an Jackson's rendition of the more famous California outlaws. Size: Octavo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918, 1918. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. Terracota cloth with a fine printed pictorial plate on the front panel of an Indian boy and a mountain lion over looking a native american cliff dwel ling. Color frontis and line drawings thoroughout. Jacket with thumbnail chip at lower spine and back panel, fraying at the upper edge, front panel illustration of the boy and mountain lion clear and bright. A collectible copy of this scarce jacket and a fine example of Austin's love of the southwest. Fiction, dj, women, New Mexico, California, American 1sts.

New York: Time Warner (Mysterious Press), 1990. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1/4 Cloth and Paper Boards. First Edition, 1st Printing. Signed by Author. Octavo. Gilt spine, Crisp white paper boards. A fine copy in a fine jacket, not price clipped and with the authors photo on t he end flap. Replete with San Francisco Bay landscapes and recalling the days of the Free Speech Movement, Sharon McCone again weaves her brand of detective magic. California Fiction, murder, private- eye, Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley.