Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. 412p., 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 loose leaves, much edgewear; the cuts tend to be sound but some are not, less often because of..... More
Cat.No: 196625
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
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1939. Hardcover. 26p., frontis, decorated title page, vignettes, limited first edition of 500 copies, signed by author on half-title page, rough faux-deckled edges; small faint stain to bottom edge and mild wear and soiling, gray boards and blue cloth backing with paper title label on spine... More
Cat.No: 213384
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1939. Hardcover. 26p., frontis, decorated title page, vignettes, limited first edition of 500 copies, personal inscription signed by author on half-title page and dated Appleseed Farm 1958, rough faux-deckled edges, very good in gray boards and blue cloth backing with paper title label on spine,in unclipped... More
Cat.No: 213526
San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1964. xviii, 238p., preface, footnotes, illustrations, very good first editionin gray buckram cloth, worn dj with sunned spine and closed tear on spine at head. More
Cat.No: 157295
San Francisco: PAWS [Pets Are Wonderful Support], 1988. [12p] 8.5x11 inches, event program, biographies, ads, rusted staples, light wear otherwise a very good souvenir program in stapled pictorial wraps. Juliet Prowse and Marga Gomez were emcees. Bow-Wow Beauty Dancers and The Barkettes performed. An award show for service dogs helping... More
Cat.No: 234211
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
Irvine, CA: Bow Tie Press, 2007. Hardcover. 208p., 8.75x9 inches, prelude, beautiful color vector-style illustrations, very good first edition in pictorial boards and unclipped matching dj. Camp, humorous book filled with delightful drawings. More
Cat.No: 212779
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
New York: a Roundtable Press Book, Simon and Schuster, 2004. Hardcover. [60p] 4.75x7.5 inches, color cartoons with captions on facing pages, fine first edition humnor book in green boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 212780
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
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
Palo Alto: the Kennel Club, 1975. 224p., very good in original wraps. More
Cat.No: 118303
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