San Francisco: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2005. v, 133p., extensive appendix, illustrated with period and contemporary photography (many aerial views) and line plats in colors; first issue 11x8.5 inch wraps with binder's tape spine, a very good copy. Appended leaves are rather elaborate; these show..... More

Cat.No: 173558

Simi Valley, CA: Oak and Cactus Distro, 2000. 18p., wraps, crude zine-style guidebook on how to sabotage genetically engineered crops. More

Cat.No: 131710

Madrid: Dirección General de Agricultura, 1933. xii, 250p., government presswork on alkaline glazed paperstock, a few photoillustrations, morocco-bound hardcover with minor wear. Annual report on agricultural pests and diseases. More

Cat.No: 234960

Berkeley: Peoples Park Defense Union, [1991]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, minor toning, calling for a torchlight march to protest plans for building volleyball courts on the site of the park. More

Cat.No: 244907

Dunedin: Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust; Shanghai Museum, 2013. 111 pages, slender paperback, very good. " ... Tells the story of the world's southern-most Chinese garden, a garden that was conceptualized in New Zealand, designed and built in Shanghai, before being shipped 13,000 kilometres to Dunedin. Lan Yuan thus connects two..... More

Cat.No: 247345

Wing Haven [Charlotte] NC: Self-published by the author, 1944. Pamphlet. 25p., softbound, a 9x6 inch pamphlet stapled into blue wraps titled white. Worn copy of the first edition (several times reprinted) with handling soil and vertical creasings to cover, titling hard to read, staples rusting but scarcely any rust-migration. Within..... More

Cat.No: 241005

Piedmont CA: Board of Trustees of the City of Piedmont, 1911. Unpaginated, about twenty pages, printed on coated alkaline paperstock and illustrated (or padded) with numerous b&w photos of public buildings and private gates and vistas. Large paperbound in plain printed 11.5x9 inch wraps, fastened with both thread (in good..... More

Cat.No: 227107

Des Moines: Meredith Publishing Company, 1939. Cover story (announced there; cover illustration per se simply an indoor flower-arranger at work) begins with a double-spread on pp20-21 with one half-page b&w photo and ten vignettes and a tiny map of central California, thereafter comprised of 4 or 5 full columns of..... More

Cat.No: 208478

Honolulu: Tongg Publishing, 1958. 128p., 8.5x11 inches, 65 b&w photos, very good first edition in tan cloth. More

Cat.No: 161785

Portland ME: Kendall & Whitney, 1899. Pamphlet. 80p., illustrated with numerous nice vignette steel-engraved illustrations (of blooms, veg, tools), softbound, a stapled 9.5x6.5 inch pamphlet in paste-fastened wraps printed in embossed gilt. Covers are crimped along the spine, edges are worn with turned corner-tips, item is complete, otherwise sound, clean..... More

Cat.No: 242647

Pittsburg, CA: RAW ArT PRESS, 2005. Paperback. 62p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Mostly poems about cancer, the poet's and others. More

Cat.No: 131808

Tokyo: Maki Shoten, 1952. 156p., hardcover in slipcase, slipcase edgeworn, the book generally very good but for neatly penned gift inscription on front endpaper, chipped dustjacket. Second printing. On the design and architecture of gardens and tea rooms; text in Japanese. More

Cat.No: 159266

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, published for the Irish Georgian Society, 1963. Paperback. Unpaginated, the called-for twelve plates constituting v.I, each b&w photographically reproduced plate faced or followed by one to two pages of commentary; softbound in oblong 8x10 inch brown wraps with printed spine- and cover-labels. Mild edgewear with outer..... More

Cat.No: 188269