Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. Wretched copy, wonderful breaker: 412p., humerous chromos staring boys mostly, two girls, and an elderly man, described below. Find profuse b&w wood-engraved plates, ads; clothbacked boards with pastedown illustration. A virtually unrestoreable exemplar; terrifically worn casing is detached from its terrifically shaken textblock; many..... More
Cat.No: 196625
n.p. Ephemera, INC, 1998. 1.25 inch diameter pin, white text on brown-orange field, very good. There is a line of text printed on the curl - "Made in U.S.A. Style #5278" More
Cat.No: 248712
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1981. Paperback. 184p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. More
Cat.No: 173500
San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1964. xviii, 238p., preface, footnotes, illustrations, very good first edition in gray buckram cloth, worn dj with sunned spine and closed tear on spine at head. More
Cat.No: 157295
San Francisco: UCSG Oral History Program, Department of the History of Health Sciences, UCSF, 1992. Paperback. xvii, 174p., foreword, preface, introduction, appendixes, index, footnotes, references, illustrations and photos, first edition in 9x7.5 inch wraps. Newspaper obituary tipped-in to inside front cover; it has toned but not offset. Mild edgewear, a...... More
Cat.No: 146604
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Los Angeles: Published by Almo, "His Master's Eyes" Co., 1938. Paperback. xvi, 124p., glazed paperstock throughout with scattered b&w photographic illustrations. Softcover; staplebound textblock in 8x5 inch decorated cardstock wraps. Third "edition" of a revision of the 1935 first issue. One blank has pulled back to reveal that the staples..... More
Cat.No: 183587
Oakland: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Pamphlet. 66p., decorated with cover drawing and rear panel author photo. Softbound, 8x5 inch stapled pamphlet; a near-fine copy, entirely sound and clean, but bears a doubtless accidental ink dot that marks titlepage and six adjacent leaves. Dedication page: "to the dogs"; humor vies with bitter..... More
Cat.No: 243871
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Hardcover. xiii, 271p., fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. On Eighner's homeless period in Austin and hitchhiking to California with his dog. More
Cat.No: 228159
Providence: Lost Roads, 1995. 62p., scattered b&w illustrations, square 7.3 inch glossy wraps featuring b&w selfportrait in oils (photoportrait at the back). A fine copy. Texts range from postmodern fancy to children's-story plain. Foo, born in Malaya, lives in New York; Karl Barx was a beagle who lived with Foo..... More
Cat.No: 177314
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1913 [?]. Sheet_music. 5p., ad, large fascicle of 12x9 inches, rubricated titlepage with nice cover illustration (by T.J. Cain?). Rather worn with old vertical and transverse crease-lines, hand-soil and flecks; complete but as is. A rubber-stamp (neatly applied) lets us know the item was originally purchased..... More
Cat.No: 228863
San Francisco: LIKK, 1994. 115p., paperback, orange wraps lightly faded along spine, otherwise very good; text in Russian. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Vignettes on sports,dogs, and other subjects, illustrated with cartoons. More
Cat.No: 213293
Davis CA: Self-published by the author, 1993. Hardcover. 167p., illustrated with mounted photographs (photolithographed), a finepress item in 10.5x7 inch white linen boards with a wide brown cloth backstrip spine-titled gilt. A quite good copy; clean, sound, square and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 242254
San Francisco: Open Mind Pub. 2005. Unpaginated, 8.5x10 inches, illustrated with full-page color illustrations, very good first edition children's book in pictorial boards and matching unclipped dj. Personally inscribed and signed by the author in silver pen on the red endpaper. Total nonsense! neither cats nor dogs nor human children..... More
Cat.No: 161815
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [ix] 337p. 3 leaves [6p.] of ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, very good first edition per Sisson page 94, BAL 11973, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name in black, covers lightly rubbed, 5 small stains at..... More
Cat.No: 191778
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [viii] 344p. [viii] ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, large bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown, mild shelfwear otherwise a very good first edition per Sisson page 96, BAL 11974, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name..... More
Cat.No: 192304
New York: Holiday House, 2000. Hardcover. Hardbound item; [28]p., color illustrations throughout, first edition laminated pictorial boards in glossy ditto-image dust jacket, 10x10 inches, a fine clean copy. Blues story for children, featuring two dogs, a young guitarist and an elderly percussionist who plays "the bones". Includes lyrics and notations..... More
Cat.No: 138371
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San Francisco: PAWS, 1988. 11x16.5 inch poster, folded into thirds for mailing, creased at the two folds. The fundraiser and dog show, held at Castro Theatre, included entertainment by Jeanie Tracy, Marga Gomez, comedian Danny Williams, and Empress Lily Street as Cruela de Ville. More
Cat.No: 220486
