The California International Antiquarian Book Fair opens tomorrow and we are thrilled to see some of you again in person in Booth 504. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a selection of what we will be exhibiting, including new acquisitions in Americana, African-Americana, Literature, Art, Photography, and Science.
Copenhagen: 1928. Inscribed "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" in pencil. Baker's (1906-1975) first performed in Copenhagen in June 1928 in the show "Wien, Wien – Oh Josephine" at the Dagmar Theatre. Her performance, which included her famous banana skirt dance, caused a sensation. The Danish avant-garde embraced her, while the conservative..... Read More about Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928"
Price: $2,000
New York: 1909. Author's Original Corrected Typescript. [WITH:] The Silver Horde. Frontispiece. 390pp. 8vo. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Front hinge starting. Later slipcase In 1900, Florida-born Rex Beach came to Alaska during the gold rush, where after five years of..... Read More about The Silver Horde ... [the original typescript with numerous manuscript corrections throughout in...
Price: $2,500
New York: Doubleday, Page, [October], 1906. First edition, BAL state A (no priority). SIGNED BY BIERCE. First edition of a work (comprising definitions for A through L) that later gained fame as The Devil’s Dictionary (a complete alphabet was published in 1911 as volume VII of the Collected Works). Bierce’s..... Read More about The Cynic's Word Book
Price: $5,500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1846. First edition. Henry Keppel was a British naval officer who served in the Opium War and was sent to the Malacca Straits in the 1843-44 campaign to suppress Borneo pirates. Keppel Harbour, a stretch of water at the southern tip of Singapore, was named after..... Read More about The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the...
Price: $1,250
London: Sidgwick & Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood], 1915. First edition of the poet's posthumous second book. Eddie Marsh to John Drinkwater. An outstanding association from the inner circle of Rupert Brooke’s poet friends. Marsh, who was Brooke’s agent, edited the Collected Poems. Both he and Drinkwater..... Read More about 1914 and Other Poems
Price: $7,500
London: Smith, Elder, 1898. First edition. Brilliant Copy, with a Letter from the Author. Excellent copy of this whaling classic, greatly admired by Kipling, and the author's first book. "Bullen describes a violent cyclone at sea, gives extremely detailed accounts of the extraction of whale oil from blubber, and recounts..... Read More about The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World after Sperm Whales
Price: $2,000
London: sold by A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson, n.d. [ca. 1766-69?]. First edition. This Journal of the circumnavigation of the Dolphin in 1764-6 starts out as a seafaring account of travel from Plymouth to Madeira to Brazil, and the claiming of the Falkland Islands for the..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage round the world, in His Majesty’s ship the Dolphin, commanded by the...
Price: $1,750
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bootom of spine. Read More about The Troll Garden
Price: $750
Fort Chartres, Illinois Country: December 31, 1766. The Fur Trade with Native Americans on the Western Frontier. Following the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris (1763) extended British control of the frontier as far west as the Mississippi River and transferred the French forts along the river to..... Read More about Autograph document signed, a bill of exchange for £100 Pennsylvania currency drawn on Baynton,...
Price: $4,750
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American..... Read More about A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain
Price: $5,000
[London: 1872]. Published at p. 213 of Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875). ‘something to respect, something to admire, something to love’. An outstanding manuscript leaf of a humorous talk by Mark Twain on women, his “Speech at a Scottish Banquet in London”, delivered in..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Leaf from a Speech in Praise of Women
Price: $7,500
Bordeaux: Feret Fils, 1850. First French edition. 'Bordeaux et ses vins'. The first French edition of the classic reference guide to the wines of Bordeaux, preceding by several years the official classification of the region in 1855. In 1846 Michel-Edouard Feret suggested to Charles Cocks, an Englishman living in Bordeaux..... Read More about Guide de l'Étranger à Bordeaux et dans la Gironde. Bordeaux ses Environs et ses Vins Classés...
Price: $5,000
London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. With The Rare Explanatory Remarks by Fothergill. First edition of this important account of Cook's first voyage, based on the journal of Parkinson, who had been engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully...
Price: $17,500
London: Privately printed at R. Martin's Lithographic Office, 1827. Done Entirely in Lithography. According to the subscriber's list the privately-printed work was limited to only 100 copies, subscribed for by 97 individuals. Very scarce with five examples cited by OCLC, with varying numbers of leaves: British Library (41 leaves); Yale..... Read More about Flowers: A Series of Short Poems, original and translated: illustrated with figures drawn and...
Price: $4,500
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Price: $6,000
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Published in parts between 1846 and 1848, and illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), Dombey and Son follows Paul Dombey and his two children, Florence and Paul, and the trials and tribulations of the family and the shipping company Paul Dombey hopes to..... Read More about Dombey and Son
Price: $750
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342, line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400, line 21 and 'f' in 'of' perfect in the headline on page 432. Pickwick, Finely Bound. Read More about The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Price: $2,000
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New York: D. Appleton, 1866; London and New York: Macmillan, 1872. First edition, second issue of Adventures; first edition of Looking-Glass, first issue with "wabe" misspelled. The Immortal Alice. An attractive set of the Alice books, with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the first printing, second issue, comprising the sheets..... Read More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By...
Price: $35,000
[Chicago]: 26 October 1894. AMERICANS HONOR DOYLE DURING HIS AMERICAN TOUR. On verso is written a poem by attendee Alice A. Russell incorporating the names of the guests, beginning "Why this joyous turmoil? / 'Tis to greet Dr. Doyle! / Oh, who would not hustle / To see Mr. Russell..... Read More about Signature, "A. Conan Doyle," at the top of a card, followed by the signatures of 17...
Price: $1,250
New York: Printed and Sold by William Elliot at the Tontine Coffee-House, 1812. First edition. An unusual early New York directory which lists the city's residents alphabetically and includes their occupations and addresses, followed by a separate listing by street identifying residents in order by street and address number. "The..... Read More about Elliot's Improved New-York Double Directory
Price: $950
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. One of 300 copies. Tripping in Wales: The Poet and the Publisher. The publisher’s copy inscribed to him at the conclusion of the poem, “For Tom Maschler from Brother Allen Ginsberg” with a drawing of an arrow through a heart. At the foot of the..... Read More about Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967
Price: $1,750
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition. Foundations of Rocketry and Space Flight. One of the earliest publications on rocketry and space flight, and "the most influential and important of Goddard’s scientific papers ... The short treatise offered detailed mathematical proof that solid propellant rockets were capable of boosting modest..... Read More about A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
Price: $9,500
New York: Norton, [1977]. First edition. GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB. First book by Gould, with the ownership signature of Ashley Montagu on the front flyleaf. Montagu’s blurb is at the top of the back cover: “Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most brilliant of..... Read More about Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History
Price: $4,000
n.p: n.d. [Ca. 1916]. Repaired tear on last page, else fine; preserved in a fine dark blue morocco-backed slipcase with inner wrapper. Read More about “Sailfish”: Typescript, with numerous annotations and excisions in Grey's hand
Price: $2,500
n.p: n.d. [Ca. 1930?]. Zane Gray's Own Typescript of “What Fishing Means to Me”. Read More about “What Fishing Means to Me”: Typescript, with annotations in Grey's hand
Price: $3,750