Rare books from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press [1992]. Fine. 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. From a total edition of 135, this copy one of 85 copies that were bound in a cover of Japanese cotton over boards and housed in a linen slipcase; of these copies numbered 31-90 were offered for sale; this copy not numbered but reserved for the press and lettered K, signed by Baskin and Fowles on the colophon. 101 pp.; folio; both the Lawrence text and the Fowles commentary are composed in the Bembo types and printed, with the nine Baskin blocks, by letterpress on mould-formed English Somerset paper. Includes prospectus, also The Making of the Book, with photographs of printer Aaron Johnson, binder Rene Menge, Baskin, Fowles, and Michael Gidron working on the box. In his final novel, published less than a year before his death, Lawrence takes up the theme of Christ's resurrection and his final days on earth. The origins of this last novel had no fewer than eight versions of the manuscript in… Read More

no place: By the author (1968). Fine. 1968. Hardcover. Unpaged; (98) pp.; 5' x 8 1/2"; plain red cloth over boards; tan endpapers; hand-drawn and colored drawings on each page (you can feel the ink on the paper's surface). Designed in the form of a flip book, which format Deitch had used in 1967 with "Nudnik, the cut finger fumble", published by Cinémathèque Canadienne occasion of the World Retrospective of Animation Cinema as part of Expo 67. This work appears to have never been published in book form, but was produced as a film. The book appears to be unique, bound as a 'pitch bible' for The Giants. There are several pastedown replacements/edits on pages form textual parts, to half, to whole page. It appears that some leaves, are actually two pages stuck together, as another way of removing or editing parts, or reusing the back side of a page to redraw a part. One of these was just separated enough to be able to see partial drawings… Read More

San Pablito, Mexico. Fine. 1978. Softcover. Unique copy. Accordion-folded amate paper, hand lettered and illustrated with 30 amate-paper cut-out figures. Page 8 "Ceremonia" is blank below text, and with no caption under where a cut-out would be; written on rectos only with each page numbered; original yellow ribbons attached across covers. ; Manuscripts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 28 pages; "A manuscript testimonial of Otomi´ paper-based magical practices used in folk medicine. The text describes shamanic rituals for various maladies (enfermedades) with mounted cut-out paper figures representing spirit entities drawn from both indigenous and Christian mythos". (WorldCat) .

Argentina: (Mamablanca). Fine. (1980). Hardcover. 8 photocopy leaves, paged 15 to 22 bound with string and candle wax, through 3 punch holes to folding board, illustrated and stamped on all sides, with extended string and more candle wax junctures. Inside, a six panel fold-out in a collage of illustrations, text; photographs, hand stamps with some sections pasted down, on both sides of the panels. Seven pages of photocopy text, typed on one side attached to the outside back board. With Mamblanca mailing envelope, one side covered in postal stamps, ticket, etc. Addressee on label is Tourism Show on Travel, HELLER ART GALLERY, 304 Eshleman Hall, U. C. Berkeley, (etc. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; The Argentine Graciela Gutiérrez Marx is one of the foremost Latin American exponents of mail art (a practice that involved sending small-scale art using the postal service). Born in La Plata in 1945, she graduated in 1967 with a degree in education and sculpture from the Escuela Superior… Read More

Nevada City: Daily Gazette Book and Job Office. Good. 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine & corners rubbed; front joint split top and bottom 2"; bit of bubbling to rear cloth; toning to endpapers and pastedowns at edges; hinges cracked but cords holding firm; dampstain to rear pastedown, and lower portion of text pages at gutters, 1.5" up the inside, receding in size to about p.182 then disappearing. Binding somewhat stressed at p. 166 causing the gathering of two pages of ads there to spring a bit but still intact. Ownership name C. V. Welch in pen front pastedown. Overall the binding is solid and the ads and text pages are clean. ; Half brown leather, and pebbled black cloth over boards, lettered and ruled in gilt. Front cover lettered: "Ianthus Jerome Rolfe, Nevada City, from, E. F. Bean. Pencil note on front pastedown, "C. L. Camp - Sept. 1971, Presentation copy to the printer from the author." Provenance, bookseller collector John Ogden, from the library… Read More

N. Y.: Covici Friede Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1936. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Hint of dust soil to cloth top edge; very light toning to margins of text pages, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Jacket with moderate soil, most apparent on light yellow back panel; spine a bit darkened; front flap with 2" closed split at fold ends, rear flap with 1" split and a spot of loss at bottom fold end; chips and short closed tears top edge; spine of jacket with two small holes of loss, the largest about 1/4" sq. , and a bit of loss at bottom edge; 2" closed split from spine top edge. In protective mylar wrap. ; Goldenrod cloth lettered in black, ruled in red; top edge stained red; price $2.50 front flap. Goldstone & Payne A5b. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Steinbeck's novel about a strike of migratory apple pickers and the attempts of communists to organize them. A realistic presentation of partisan passions crushing men of good will. .

London: Published By the Author, At the Egyptiona Hall, Piccadilly. Very Good. 1841. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Moderate fraying to spine ends, volume one; moderate bumping, wear to leading corner tips; quarter piece spotting to lower leading corner volume two. Clear tape repair to top half of rear hinge volume one. Light spreckled foxing to pastedowns and endpapers; volume one with remnants of bookplate removal, volume two with bookplate of William Wentworth Clapham. Volume two, shows some stress at gutter, page 63 causing some separation. Overall bindings solid, text pages and plates very clean. ; Black cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt; color frontis illus. Vol. 1, color frontis map Vol. 2; two colored maps in text, one folding; illustrated with 176 plates containing 310 color illustrations. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 264 & 266 pages .

San Francisco: The Institute of Historical Cartography. Near Fine. 1957-1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Volumes 1-4 with light offset tanning from plain brown paper jackets that the volumes were originally issued with. ; In an addition of 1000 copies, designed by the Grabhorn Press. Green cloth backs, lettered in gilt and linen over boards; over 300 reproductions of historical maps, many folding. Without the plain paper jackets. The Prospectus Volume bound the same , contains 8 printed leaves, reproducing title pages for volumes 2 through 5, along with descriptions of the project, and reviews. This followed by 7 blank leaves. There are two 8 page printed announcements, one inserted at first title page, the other laid in ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Volume One, The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase, 1540-1804; Volume Two, From Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845; Volume Three, From the Mexican War to the Boundary Surveys 1846-1854; Volume Four, From the Pacific Railroad… Read More

Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press. Fine. 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Notes by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz. Xvi, 123, [2] pp. 12 color etchings by Enrique Chagoya. (Folio) original pictorial cloth with stitched linen spine, linen slipcase. Poems by eleven Mexican poets. Signed at the colophon by Chagoya, Paz, and Weinberger, as issued. One hundred and forty-one copies in the edition, of which one hundred and twenty-one were offered for sale. This copy number 29 of 85 copies in slipcase. Prospectus include, in original publisher's mailing envelope. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Making Books in the Woods: 4to; 10 leaves; printed title on opaque paper endpapers. One thousand copies were printed. The type was set in Bembo by Monotype at M&H Type in San Francisco, and by hand at the Press. Illustrated with photographs of the Press taken by Brian Shea and printed by duotone offset lithography. A description of a distinctive approach to the printing of fine books -… Read More

Darmstadt: Gassdorf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Map. Paper envelope with foxing and soil, contents fine. ; Index: 36pp. ,8vo; in card covers of coated stock. Indexes map illustrations; communities; names of landscapes. Map: 49"x34" full color folding map. .

London: Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research; Trubner & Co.. Good. 1886. First Edition; 2nd State. Hardcover. Re-backed and sturdy, with original spine cloth laid down both volumes, also later burgundy paper pastedowns and endpapers; spine cloth volume one with a short streak of rubbing across lower portion; leading corner tips bumped with a bit of rubbing which looks like it has been treated also; small bubble to cloth lower front of volume two. Hinges solid & contents clean. ; Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Second state, with additions and corrections. Includes drawings, tables, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 573; 733 pages .

London: Nodder & Co.. Very Good. (1790-1813). Hardcover. 5 of the 48 plates show more pronounced degrees of offset from facing text page; several others have very faint offset, most are quite clean. There is offset from images to facing text pages, most obvious opposite the first 6 plates. Rubbing and wear to corners and edges with some wear through to boards at corner tips and front edges. Bottom and middle panel of spine leather with shadow of library labels; front pastedown shows stain and scuffing from plate removal. No other library marks or stamps; rear pastedown with a scuff and vertical 7"X3" area of tanning with offset to rear endpaper likely from library pocket. Save for the offset to some plates and facing pages, interior text pages and plates very clean. Binding tight. ; Contemporary red half-morocco, lettered & ruled in gilt and marbled paper over boards. Without title page as issued, two dedication pages, one in Latin the second in Latin. Illustrated with 48… Read More

Los Angeles: The Philosophers Press. Very Good. 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Chip to leather bottom of the spine; very minor rubbing top of spine; top portion of back cover faded. Offset tanning from leather to paper along front and rear hinges, and where paper covers leather binding at ends, about 1.25". Leading top corner tips rubbed with boards just showing. ; Author's Edition, Limited to 100 Copies. So stated on title page. Signed in ink under Hall's portrait on plate facing Introduction, "Sincerely, Manly P. Hall." Two additional plates in text, one folding. Quarter bound red leather, and marbled paper over boards; spine lettered, decorated, and ruled in gilt. Includes extensive bibliography. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 198 pages; "A classic treatment of various aspects of the doctrine of rebirth. There are extensive references to and quotations from traditional sources." [Popenoe, The Yes Guide]; Signed by Author .

Washington, D. C.: Eynon Printing Co.. Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth mottled mainly at extremities and spine; rubbing at spine ends and leading corner tips; pastedown papers cracked near hinges show repair, hinges themselves solid. Ownership name and 1935 date in pencil front endpaper; 3 line note in pencil bottom portion front endpaper: : "Send $4 to, The Frontier Times, Bander, Texas". Interior prelims and text pages clean. ; Red cloth lettered in gilt; photographic portrait frontis of Mackenzie and two plates with photographic portraits of Captain Carter, and Chief Quanah-Parker. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 542 pages .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Trivial wear to jacket at top of spine and leading corner tips. In protective mylar wrap. ; Blue cloth; color frontis photograph of Tenzing on the Summit of Everest; 48 plates of black & white and color photographs; drawings and vignettes in the text. Signed "Ed Hillary" on the title page. An exceptionally well preserved copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (300) pages .