Bibliographical References: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Edited by Bradford Torrey. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906, pages 470-471; and see Borst B3. A manuscript leaf from Thoreau's famous Journals, which were edited and published posthumously. This two-page fragment dates from 1851 and in it Thoreau writes... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells. More
San Francisco: The Lantern Press, Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc., 1929. Edition: First edition, number 5 of 50 numbered copies (of 500 copies), signed by Wood and Boynton on the frontis. Bibliographical References: Magee, Grabhorn Press Bibliography, 121. ¶ Bookplate of San Francisco book collector Morgan A. Gunst on the front paste-down. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Edition: First Grabhorn-Hoyem edition, one of 300 copies. ¶ A charming story about Florence Nightingale's pet owl, written by her sister and published in a highly limited edition in about 1855 for private distribution. This second edition was edited by San Francisco bookseller David Magee and... More
New York: Random House, (1949). Edition: First American edition. More
(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1999. Edition: First edition, one of 450 copies. From the library of Robert Harlan, who wrote the preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Robert - Your support & friendship made this book possible - Jack 22 July 1999 San Francisco." More
Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. ¶ An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find... More
[Southbury, Conn.:] Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. Edition: First edition, one of 285 copies. From the library of David and Valerie Belch. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, (1971). Edition: First edition, one of 750 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Holbrook Teter of the Cranium Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987. Edition: First edition, one of 75 copies (of a total edition of 225) bound by the printer. ¶ A series of eleven prose sketches by Maxine Hong Kingston with accompaning colorful wood-cut illustrations by Deng Ming-Dao, handsomely designed and printed by Leigh McLellan of the... More
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987. Edition: First edition, one of 150 copies of the regular issue; there was also an issue of 75 copies in a special binding. ¶ A series of eleven prose sketches by Maxine Hong Kingston with accompanying colorful wood-cut illustrations by Deng Ming-Dao, handsomely designed and... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Edition: First edition, one of 325 copies. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch. More
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1968. Edition: First edition, one of 150 copies. A handsome publication of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. From the library of David and Valerie Belch, stalwart members of the Roxburghe Club. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1995. Edition: First Arion Press edition, number 136 of 300 copies, signed by Roth. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch. More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Edition: First Arion Press edition, one of 326 copies, signed by Washburn. From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Edition: First Arion Press edition, one of 400 copies, signed by Mamet and McCurdy. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch. More
New York: Hurd and Houghton; Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1876. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9572. ¶ A campaign biography for the reform Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes by fellow Ohioian Howells. A similar work at the beginning of Howells’ career, the Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1993. Edition: First Arion Press edition, number 107 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Sam Shepard and Stan Washburn. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
(Austin:) Duncan & Gladstone, 1985. Edition: First edition, number 71 of 22 numbered copies, printed by David Holman of the Wind River Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
Austin: Roger Beacham, 1974. Edition: First edition, large paper copy, one of 120 copies (of a total edition of 295). From the introduction: "If, as Plato said, poverty be the parent of meaness and viciousness, then the wonder is that Texans as a people have any reputation remaining for generosity... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. Edition: First edition, number 29 of 225 numbered copies. ¶ Prospectus laid in. From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
(Santa Cruz: The Quail Press, 1977). Edition: First edition, number 205 of 240 numbered copies, signed by Killion. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
(Austin:) Roger Beacham, (1972). Edition: First edition, one of 275 copies printed by William Holman. ¶ A commonplace book of over 40 passages and quotations about Texas fby abeza de Vaca, Sam Houston Stephen Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea and others, all illustrated with a woodcut by Barbara Whitehead... More
Newtown, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Edition: First separate edition, one of 350 numbered copies. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1955). Edition: First edition. ¶ 28 drawings which originally appeared in the New Yorker, collected here with a foreword by Thurber and issued as a keepsake by his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton. There was no equivalent American edition. Hamish Hamilton issued A Thurber Garland without a dust... More