San Francisco: OrchidMania, 1994. Four-panel newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, financial reports, lists of donors and volunteers, requests, travel packages, very good. No dates or issue numbers but from the financials either late 1994 or early 1995. Fund-raising organization for AIDS research and patients using sales of orchids. At time of publication..... More
Cat.No: 235764
San Francisco: Self-published by the author/artist. 2007. Hardcover. 66p., profuse color illustrations reproduced very well, presswork on superb alkaline paperstock and hardbound in oblong 9x11 inch openweave black cloth boards with an onlaid color reproduction. Cloth has picked up offset white particles (mostly to rear cover) else pretty much as..... More
Cat.No: 288930
Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952. Hardcover. xi, 171p., illustrated with charts and other facsimiles, and a few b&w photographs. First edition, hardbound in textured dark blue cloth boards spine-titled and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is mildly edgeworn with two slightly turned corner-tips, some mottling of..... More
Cat.No: 296660
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1922. Hardcover. xviii, 381p. plus publisher's menu, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock, illustrated with profuse captioned b&w site and portrait photos throughout a running text, front endsheets occupied by a doublespread Rand McNally map of Oceania, in colors. Hardbound in 9x6 inch dark green cloth..... More
Cat.No: 296661
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 181p., profuse b&w and color photography with captions and nearby text, first edition (it has been reprinted) with presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and, as an appendix, a matte section bearing text and silhouettes only. Hardbound in nice openweave linen, buff-colored, titled in..... More
Cat.No: 298340
Paris: Chambre Syndicale des Fleuristes de Paris et Banlieue, 1939. Pamphlet. 16 pp., illustrations, wraps. 10.5 x 7.25 in. Inserted loosely is a 1 leaf questionnaire (printed recto only). Toning and staining to edges; entire booklet is folded once vertically. An issue of the journal of the Parisian Union of..... More
Cat.No: 297428
Melbourne: NGV / National Gallery of Victoria, 1979. Pamphlet. A first version was issued in 1967; 24p., a pamphlet in 8.5x6 inch glossy color wraps, numerous captioned b&w reproductions amidst a running text, text paper also glossy and alkaline, too bad the only color repro decorates the front cover (shown..... More
Cat.No: 296728
Honolulu: Agricultural Publications and Information Office, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, 1990. Staplebound. 19 pg. staplebound pamphlet, 6 x 9 inches. Wraps lightly shelfworn, else very good. Illustrated with charts and b&w photos. Circular 420. More
Cat.No: 276680
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1931. Hardcover. li [51], 109p., xlvii [Society matters], hardbound in the classic Hakluyt design: bright blue cloth boards gilt & blind, illustrated with two folded monochrome maps (as called for), the frontis map has a mildly misfolded margin. Signatures opened expertly and neatly throughout..... More
Cat.No: 281608
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. 101p., profuse b&w illustrations from photography, one color plate set as frontispiece, small hardbound in 7x5 inch green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is very good: sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket is edgeworn with a...... More
Cat.No: 298108
Orcutt / San Diego: C.R. Orcutt, 1891. Respectively 73-104, 105-136p., plus science/medicine ads; softbound journals in 9x5.5 inch plain printed terracotta wraps. Ex library (from collection of "Microscopical Journal") with neat rubberstamp to cover and some old pencilled acquisition marks, but no real abuse. Staples are rusted with migration, dust..... More
Cat.No: 261301
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Hardcover. xx, 311p., illustrated with b&w photos and a few line maps, first edition hardbound in orange cloth covers and enclosed in the price clipped dust jacket. Aside from a blotchy textblock edge blotchy with foxing, item is fine: quite sound, otherwise clean, and..... More
Cat.No: 297664
Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch, 1929. Hardcover. ii, 153p., illustrated with b&w photographs, diagrams and tables, hardbound in 9x5.5 inch green cloth boards gilt. Covers bear splotchy discolorations, front hinge opens strangely but is holding well enough, find a loopy ownership signature on front free endpaper (repeated at..... More
Cat.No: 298230
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1956. Hardcover. xxiv, 193p., b&w and color exhibit photos, showing tools, techniques and finished work; hardbound first edition in 7x5 inch tan papered boards lettered in black and enclosed in the dust jacket. The dust jacket is foxed and very mildly edgeworn, the book itself entirely..... More
Cat.No: 298120
