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The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California [Rare Edition with 20 Mounted Photos]

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California [Rare Edition with 20 Mounted Photos] by Kneeland, Samuel

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Seller: Walkabout Books
Title
The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California [Rare Edition with 20 Mounted Photos]
Author
Kneeland, Samuel
Seller
Walkabout Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Boston and New York: Alexander Moore [and] Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1872. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition, revised and enlarged; second printing. Small quarto, pp. [v-x], xi-xii, 13-98, with two maps and 20 original mounted albumen photographs credited to Boston photographer John Soule. In publisher's green cloth with beveled edges; front board decorated in gilt, black, and rose; all edges gilt; each text page and each photograph bordered in red. A very good copy with rubbing and fraying to corners and spine ends, bookplate of Canadian bookseller and collector G. Ducharme on front pastedown, handwritten date of December 15, 1872 on front free endpaper, evidence of an erased ink stamp on title page. Lacks tissue guard over plate facing p. 35, all others present. Contents sound and clean. This is the rarest and most desirable edition of this work, as it is the only one to contain 20 (rather than 10) mounted photographs. Kneeland (1821-1888) was a physician, naturalist, and Professor of Zoology and Physiology at MIT. This book is based on his first visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1870, and includes a narrative of his trip from and return to Boston. "Kneeland made every effort to obtain current and accurate information and each of the later editions of the guide incorporates new material....Weston J. Naef [in his book Era of Exploration, the Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885]...comments that the photographs 'are curious because there is no evidence that Soule, a talented landscape photographer, was ever in California...[which] suggests that he might have purchased the negatives from a California photographer, not an uncommon transaction'" (Currey & Kruska 225). Eadweard Muybridge and Martin Hazeltine are both considered strong candidates to have been the actual photographer. Farqhuar #10; Cowan p. 333. Only two copies of this edition have appeared at auction in the past 30 years, and there are no others on the market as of September 2025.
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] JACKSON, George L. (text); GENET, Jean (introduction)

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Title
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] JACKSON, George L. (text); GENET, Jean (introduction)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-330,[6]pp. Crown gently bumped, with a tiny nick to cloth at upper edge of front board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a lower ink price written beneath the printed $5.95 price on front flap; modest shelfwear, a few tiny tears and attendant creases, and two faint rubbed spots at upper spine panel; Very Good+. A substantial and moving collection of prison letters written by George Lester Jackson (1941-1971), written chiefly from Soledad Correction Training Facility and San Quentin Prison. Published two years before his death in San Quentin and the release of Blood In My Eye, this collection of letters to family, friends, and supporters paints a bleak picture of his struggle to maintain humanity while behind bars. "Jackson pleads and reasons and even threatens in a desperate effort to make his family understand his life, to make them aware of the monstrous things that are being done to him inside prison because he refuses to submit to the debasing and brutalizing practices of the prison authorities, to make the family accept his total commitment to revolutionary change (from the flap text). Elusive in commerce. BLOCKSON 10508; SUVAK 159.
Background to Danger

Background to Danger by Ambler, Eric

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Title
Background to Danger
Author
Ambler, Eric
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. [xii], 280 pp. Publisher's orange cloth binding with dark brown stamping. Very Good with light rubbing to cloth at edges, toning to pages and browning to paste downs from binder's glue. In a Good+ dust jacket with price intact, rubbing at folds, medium-sized chips to edges and fraying at the spine ends.
DONNERJACK [Signed]

DONNERJACK [Signed] by Zelazny, Roger; Lindskold, Jane

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Title
DONNERJACK [Signed]
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Zelazny, Roger; Lindskold, Jane
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1997. Signed First Edition, 1/850 Copies. Hardcover. Octavo. In Very Good condition. Sealed in original plastic shrink wrap. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Edges of textblock gilt. Signed by Lindskold within. Shelved in Case 8 1/4. 1394219. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Voyage d'un Francois en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 & 1766 [Tome VII]

Voyage d'un Francois en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 & 1766 [Tome VII]

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Voyage d'un Francois en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 & 1766 [Tome VII]
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Paris: Chez Desaint, 1769. Hardcover. Small leatherbound octavo. G+ condition. Brown leather spine with gilded text on red/yellow spine labels. Boards strong, binding strong, general shelfwear, rubbing to corners; Textblock slightly darkened from age, occasional foxing, otherwise clean. 475pp. 1321180. Shelved Rockville Bookstore.
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FROM APES TO WARLORDS : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1904-1946) OF SOLLY ZUCKERMAN by Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron, 1904-1993

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Title
FROM APES TO WARLORDS : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1904-1946) OF SOLLY ZUCKERMAN
Author
Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron, 1904-1993
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780241896594
Description
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Hardcover. Octavo, xv, 447 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket has light edge wear, with short tear at bottom of spine, toning to spine. Price unclipped: "￡7.95 net". Boards in purple cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, light bump to front bottom edge. Text block has name in ink on front pastedown. Illustrated: b&w plates (photograph), maps. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1382484. FP New Rockville Stock.
A Account of Two Voyages ... into China

A Account of Two Voyages ... into China by Backhoff, Feodor Iskowitz, and Zachary Wagener

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A Account of Two Voyages ... into China
Author
Backhoff, Feodor Iskowitz, and Zachary Wagener
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Thorn Books (United States)
Description
London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .
Cinderella; Or, The Glass Slipper, Cinderella Series

Cinderella; Or, The Glass Slipper, Cinderella Series

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Cinderella; Or, The Glass Slipper, Cinderella Series
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1900. [JUVENILE]. Front cover title: Cinderella, Cinderella Series Small 4to (9 3/8" x 6"); [8]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper featuring a young girl combing the hair of a seated woman, rear wrapper features an illustration of Cinderella and the Prince; two staple binding; alphabet with red capital letters on verso front wrapper, alphabet featuring lower case letters in red on recto rear wrapper; 8 color pictorials with text; light hand-soiling of wrapper, 2" split at bottom of spine fold; very good plus. The rear wrapper publisher's ads are not present in this Cinderella book, instead, there is an illustration. One of the many varieties of series published by McLoughlin, and the multiple re-issues of titles.
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Creature Comforts by ADDAMS, Charles

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Creature Comforts
Author
ADDAMS, Charles
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 4to, cloth backed boards, d.w. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, (1981). First Edition. Fine.
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Dali by ADES, Dawn and TAYLOR, Michael R.

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Dali
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ADES, Dawn and TAYLOR, Michael R.
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
New York: Rizzoli, 2004. paperback. near fine. Dali. With the assistance of Montse Aguer. More than 200 full page color plates, many other illustrations in both color and black & white. 607 pages. Thick 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Rizzoli, in Association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (2005). First softcover edition. A very near fine copy.
DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES

DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES by BACHELLER, Irving

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DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES
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BACHELLER, Irving
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Lothrop, 1903. KELLER, Arthur I.. BACHELLER, Irving. DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Boston: Lothrop, [1903]. Sm. 8vo., decorative red cloth. First Edition. Signed inscription from Bacheller on half-title page. Bookplate of Clifton Waller Barrett. Very Good. $85.00.
Three Men on a Horse: A Comedy in Three Acts

Three Men on a Horse: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott

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Three Men on a Horse: A Comedy in Three Acts
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John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Samuel French, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Samuel French, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; [10],141pp.; photographic frontispiece. Light wear to jacket margins, the whole rather dust-soiled, spine panel toned, cloth edges faintly spotted, else Very Good and sound. Tipped in announcement on p. 3: "As performances of this play may be restricted in the British Isles, application MUST first be made to Samuel French...PRIOR to making any arrangement for production.
Paul Martin: Victorian Photographer
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Paul Martin: Victorian Photographer by FLUKINGER, Roy, et al

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Title
Paul Martin: Victorian Photographer
Author
FLUKINGER, Roy, et al
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780292764361
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
Austin:: University of Texas Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0292764367 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Foxing on top edge, previous owner's name on front free endpage, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
Sappho Darling (Original photograph from the 1968 film)

Sappho Darling (Original photograph from the 1968 film) by Albert Zugsmith (director, screenwriter); Carol Young, Yvonne D'Angers, Alyn Darnay (starring)

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Sappho Darling (Original photograph from the 1968 film)
Author
Albert Zugsmith (director, screenwriter); Carol Young, Yvonne D'Angers, Alyn Darnay (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: Cambist Films, 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Despite her boyfriend's best efforts, lovely young Sappho is intent on remaining a virgin until marriage, until she meets the gorgeous buxom hitchhiker Brigitte. Shot on location in Stockholm, Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

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