Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publications, 1983. Photography by Bill Baker and Harry Geron; Sketches by Sue Hibicke. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt decorated burgundy textured cloth, 88pp, index, 32pp of color plates showing 137 flies. #55 of a limited edition of 300 copies. The book presents a selection of 137.....
Berkeley: The Center for Environmental Structure, (2002). Hardcover. Tall 4tos, blue cloth, x, 476pp, xviii, 636, xi, 697pp, x, 355pp, fully illus. Book One: The Phenomenon of Life; Book Two: The Process of Creating Life; Book Three: A Vision of a Living World; Book Four: The Luminous Ground. A revolutionary.....
Liverpool: The Liverpool Printing and Stationery Company, Limited / Henry Whitty, (1886). First issue thus. 4-3/8 x 5-1/4", gilt decorated green cloth over thin boards, 45pp, appended by 1p advertisement for Henry Whitty Fly Making catalogue. 9 colour plates illustrating 55 flies. Preface derides Kirby Hooks as being now chiefly.....
Bozeman: Christina Z. Anderson, 2013. Softcover. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 336pp, 500 illustrations from over 100 photographers. Instruction on digital negative process co-written by Ron Reeder, followed by a comprehensive treatment and history of two dichromated colloid processes (gum and casein) with pigment and troubleshooting charts. A survey of other.....
Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, 1967. Hardcover. Rebound in 3/4 textured black cloth, blue decorative paper over boards, original wrappers bound in, fully illus. 12 of 13 original maps in cloth pocket attached to rear paste-down endpaper. Missing Map #12 ("Key Map of Whole Site"). During the summer of 1966.....
New York: Viking Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, light grey/beige cloth with red/black striping, 343pp, black top-edge, notes, biblio., index. First U. S. Edition. In her classic work, Arendt analyzes the 18th-century rebellions in America and France and traces the changing character of war and revolution in the 20th.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue leatherette, 296pp, illustrated. #21 of a limited edition of 60 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator on pasted-on folding card with custom fly attached first paste-down endpaper. Inscription to fishing companion signed by the author with extra fly.....
New York: Anglers Club of New York / The Macmillan Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth with Angelr's Club of New York slug in gilt front board, 195pp, 2 color plates bound in, 2 additional copies of the color plates laid in. Limited to 222 copies printed for.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, one-half turquoise cloth, grey paper over boards, 311pp. A First Edition of this dystopian fantasy of a future puritanical Republic of Gilead which interprets the biblical Book of Genesis literally - and in which women's rights are sacrificed to a lesser.....
London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1988. Softcover. 7-1/2 x 10-1/4", stiff pictorial wrappers, fully illus. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, 10 May - 19 June 1988 by the Oriental Ceramic Society in London. A survey tour of iron-bearing pottery in China from the pigments of the.....
San Francisco: The Author, 1891. Third Edition (Revised). Hardcover. 8vo, lavishly decorated green pictorial cloth, endpapers decorated with green leafy design, vii, 154pp, addendum, index, 34 illustrations. The author worked for the California-Russian Fur Company, the corporation which opened negotiation for the U.S. purchase of Alaska from the Russian Government.....
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 black cloth, green paper over boards. Signed in bold ink by the author: "To Mr. Monster, Best Wishes - Clive" with elaborate full-page + illustration by the author first free endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. Five creative and disturbing tales.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, 150pp, black endpapers and fore-edge. Signed by the author on the title page. In predictable middle age, Tony Webster is compelled to recall his boyhood and must revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1911). Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8/1/4", elaborate gilt decoration to green cloth, 267pp, frontis. illus., with tissue guard, pictorial title-page, 11 half-tone plates in text by F. D. Bedford. The classic story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up.....
New York: Random House, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt and silver titled red cloth, 308pp, gold endpapers, black top-edge. #34 of 300 copies of the first edition that have been specially bound and signed by the author. A winner of the National Book Award winner comprised of three.....
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011. First Ediiton. Hardcover. Thick quarto, 10-5/8 x 11-7/8", green cloth, xv, notes, biblio., chronology, index, over 1400 illustrations. First Edition. Monograph on Sam Bass (1920-1996) whose graphic design work includes iconic film titles and posters for works such as Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Preminger classics "Anatomy.....
London: William Heinemann, 1996. First U. S. Edition. Pop-Up Book. Folio, 14-3/8 x 11-3/4", pictorial paper over thick boards, accordion folding story attached to front paste-down, envelope with 14 freestanding figures and movable models rear paste-down. Detailed pop-up castle providing a three-dimensional space for children's imaginations to roam. With formal.....
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First Edition. Quarto, 9-3/8 x 11-3/8", blue cloth, 210pp, yellow endpapers, biblio., fully illustrated. First Edition. A compete chronological retrospective including over 200 color and black and white reproductions of the artist's paintings, architectural projects, exhibition and graphic designs, which also contains his findings.....
New York: Philomel Books / Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000. Illustrated by the author. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 9x11", glossy pictorial paper over boards, fully illus. in brilliant color. Presentation copy with signed initial (BHB) and flying heart illustration by the author. Inspired by the question "How many.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Leather. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered. Fly plates by Dr. Edgar Burke; Drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. Originally published in 1947, Bergman's classic offers a wealth of information on bait-fishing, fly-fishing, bait casting, spinning and trolling. Octavo, black and gilt decorated.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 7-5/8 x 9-1/2", 1/2 black cloth, black paper over boards, 376pp, classified list of compositions, over 100 illustrations, photographs and musical notation. Presentation inscription signed in red ink by the author at Christmastime in year of publication. Bernstein recalls.....
Bogota: Ediciones Lerner LTDA, 1979. Softcover. Small 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, fully illustrated with black & white photographs and the artist's renderings, one color plate. Signed by the artist on title page in Medellin, 1979. Catalogue of the retrospective expedition of the work of Colombian sculptor Rodrigo.....
London: Dean & Son, (1878). Hardcover. Octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-5/8", green cloth, with gilt chess-board decoration front board, xvi, 248pp, tri-fold frontispiece with illustrations of three chess boards dedicated to chess companion A. P. Barnes (notably representing the author's initials - H. E. B.), yellow endpapers with advertisements, includes 30.....
London: Blacker, 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green embossed cloth, xiv, 259pp, fully illus. Moderate foxing, rubbing to cloth front board, contemporaneous ink owner's name title-page, owner's ink stamp front paste-down endpaper, hinges unobtrusively reinforced, original deep brown endpapers, very good. Second and best edition, the previous edition published.....
Hamilton, MT: Oso Publishing Company, 2003. Hardcover. Quarto, pictorial paper over boards, 352pp, biblio., glossary, index, pen & ink illustrations by the author, 0ver 140 photos. A concise history of every lumber company that operated a railroad in the Klamath country of south-central Oregon during the first half of the.....
