Washington DC: GPO, 1915. Hardcover. x, 519p., illustrated with a fold-out "Index to Charts referred to in this book," a sort of map of maps (hydrographic maps available from government sources, none reproduced here) - and provided with perforated coupons that entitle bearer to free paperwork (all coupons present and..... More

Cat.No: 296958

Paris: Editions Burkard, 1939. Single long folio sheet, 9.5x24 inches, folded twice to make eight panels (recto + verso) measuring 9.5x6, each panel providing directions and illustrations how to knit supportive clothing for French soldiers: sweaters (breast pockets for cigs), vests, socks, caps, knee-warmers, modeled by males and at least..... More

Cat.No: 287536

San Francisco: California Sea Grant, Marine Advisory Publications, no date. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, maps, tables, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes tide and weather information, sport fish drawings, descriptions and limits, etc. More

Cat.No: 87717

London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1929. Hardcover. xxii, 170p., plentiful illustrations from photography and sketching, all printed sepia on glazed inserted stock; hardbound first edition in handsome waxed green cloth boards gilt, tinted top edge, a nice production. Book itself is perfectly sound and square, but spine-gilt..... More

Cat.No: 297023

unknown: unknown, unknown. Paperback. Large oblong, 10.5x15 inches, string-fastened in traditional manner, covering nineteen numbered b&w plates printed recto only (versos blank), the terminal plate copied color to show stamp impressions in red. Edgeworn with marginal tears ( the largest inch-long). No English-language helps other than bare titles. Find lots..... More

Cat.No: 310155

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. Hardcover. xi, 228p., illustrated with line maps and emphasizing topography over ethnology (by a long shot!), let's hazard the guess that this study is partly a preparation for the struggle with Japan; dedication specifies an Army Air Force colleague. Hardbound first edition in blue..... More

Cat.No: 296574

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948. 31p., presswork on laid-lined paperstock, sewn pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps, signatures are only partially opened (not too badly), former owner pooped out. Thread is sound, covers a little crimped and toned, clean and unmarked within, a good to very..... More

Cat.No: 256320

Honolulu: the museum, 1923. Paperback. illustrated with two line maps and a few tables and diagrams, first edition, a 10x7 inch softbound in plain printed drab wraps. sewn, threads holding well but the wrapper is badly chipped, wrinkled and worn, and coming loose from textblock at both top and tail..... More

Cat.No: 297207

NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1963-1967. Pamphlet. Issues run 8p. each, folio leaves of alkaline paperstock printed, folded and paste-fastened into standard 11x8.5 inch newsletter-brochures; illustrations are portraits (of human investigtators) as well as photos (of possible extra-terrestrial vehicles), also diagrams and pix of applicable engineering. Each..... More

Cat.No: 263604

London: Faber and Faber, 1977. 186p., illustrated with a doublespread map and numerous tables, hardbound in green papered boards titled silverfoil, enclosed in the dust jacket, the item in good order all round: sound, clean, unmarked. More

Cat.No: 262938

Mendocino: Kelley House Museum, Inc., 2009. Magazine. 24p., illustrated with b&w vignette photography, period and modern, with two larger color photos reproduced on the covers. Softbound, journal-style pamphlet on nice alkaline paperstock, pix are reproduced well, stapled 11x8.5 inch color-decorated white wraps. Quite sound, clean and unmarked. Laid in are..... More

Cat.No: 251539

San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1966. 42 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps in very good condition. More

Cat.No: 122964

Tokyo: Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition Organizing Committee, 1995. Unpaginated preliminaries, 258p., illustrated with line maps, with b&w photography (snow surfaces a favorite, plus team members using the special devices that allow one to take a sub-zero crap), tables and graphs, and many mysterious numbers. Hardbound in 10x7 inch green papered..... More

Cat.No: 230376