Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB (Over 1,500 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Travels at Home by Mark Twain. First edition, later printing in printed cloth binding. Harper & Brothers, New York, (1910). Copyright page states: Published April, 1910. Binding with some rubbing and discoloration, but a tight clean copy. 143 pages. 5 x 7 3/8 inches. Inventory #24-130. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 24-130

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories by Mark Twain. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, (1896). First edition, later printing in original red cloth with gold medallion on the front cover. Later printing without 1896 on the title page and with boxed ads on the copyright page (BAL 3447). Binding is in near fine condition, light fading to the spine. Contents clean and bright. 418 pages. 5 � x 8 inches. A scarce title as the first printing was only 1000 copies. Inventory #24-131. Price: $500.

Seller Inventory # 24-131

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. First American edition, later printing in origin red binding with pictorial pastedown of small animals. Later printing without the date on the title-page. Publisher> Frederick Warne and Co., New York, (1903). There are 27 color plates, with 11 repeated from the privately printed edition, and 16 new plates. Binding is in very good condition, light foxing to the half-title page. 4 � x 5 � inches. 85 pages. Inventory #24-137. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 24-137

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. First American edition, later printing in origin red binding with pictorial pastedown of small animals. Later printing without the date on the title-page. Publisher> Frederick Warne and Co., New York, (1903). There are 27 color plates, with 11 repeated from the privately printed edition, and 16 new plates. Binding is in very good condition, spots of light foxing to the half-title page. 4 � x 5 � inches. 85 pages. Inventory #24-136. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 24-136

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Step by Step by Winston Churchill. First Edition in original dark green cloth binding. Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, (1939). 365, (1) pages plus folding map in the rear. First edition with copyright notation: First Published . 1939. Binding is in fine condition. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. Contents clean and bright. Ink notation on the ffep "B-A 2-7-39 (1)". A disturbingly prophetic account of the events leading up to World War II, this anthology is a collection of Churchill's reporting for the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard from 1936 to 1939, tracing Hitler's rise to power, the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland, and other events leading up to the declaration of war. Inventory #24-124. Price: $350.

Seller Inventory # 24-124

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Step by Step by Winston Churchill. First American Edition in dust jacket and original blue cloth binding. Publisher: G.P. Putnam and Sons, New York, (1939). xii,323,(1)pages. Frontis portrait of Churchill. Original green and black dust wrapper. Wrapper is in very good condition creases and a few chips mainly at the top of the spine otherwise is complete and unfaded. Wrapper is not price clipped with a price of $4.00. Binding is in fine condition. 6 � x 9 � inches. Contents clean. Woods A45 with 5000 copies published in the US on August 25, 1939. Inventory #24-125. Price: $275.

Seller Inventory # 24-125

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain. First printing in original brown cloth. Publisher: American Publishing Company, Hartford, 1894. First printing with 1 1/8 inch bulking and publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. Beginning of cracking to front endpaper but no separation. Neat owner's signature on the ffep. 432 pages. Inventory #24-132. Price: $900.

Seller Inventory # 24-132

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Publisher: Alfred Knopf, New York, 1959. First edition, so stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in near fine condition, light stain to bottom of rear. The dust jacket is not price clipped with a price of $3.50. First issue jacket with only one paragraph on the back flap. Binding is in near fine condition, toning along top edge. Book contents clean throughout. 185 pages. 5 � x 8 � inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory # 18-398. Price: $250.

Seller Inventory # 18-398

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance by Mark Twain. Publisher: Sheldon & Company, New York, (1871). First edition, first state without the ad on copyright page. Tight clean copy. Binding is in very good condition, spine darkened. Contents clean, new endpapers. 47 pages plus ad page. BAL 3326. Overall a nice copy. Inventory #24-139. Price: $400.

Seller Inventory # 24-139

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance by Mark Twain. Publisher: Sheldon & Company, New York, (1871). First edition, second state with the (Ball, Black & Co.) ad on copyright page. Tight clean copy. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean, light smudge to the tight page. Bookplate on the front pastedown and transfer to the ffep. 47 pages plus ad page. BAL 3326. Overall a nice copy. Inventory #24-129. Price: $400.

Seller Inventory # 24-129

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Lord Randolph Churchill by Winston Spencer Churchill. First edition American edition in original red cloth with gold lettering. The Macmillan Company on the bottom of the spine. Publisher: Macmillan & Co., New York, 1906. 2 volumes, 563, 532 pages including index plus ads. First edition with the publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. Bindings are in near fine condition, light shadow of a small label to spine of both volumes else in fine condition. Contents clean and tight, bookplate to the pastedown to both volumes. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #24-123. Price: $1,200.

Seller Inventory # 24-123

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Following the Equator by Mark Twain. First edition first printing in original blue cloth with ornate binding and embossed elephant label on the front cover. Publisher: American Publishing Co., Hartford, 1897. First printing with "(161)" at the end of the text on page 161 and publishing date on both the title-page and copyright page. 712 pages. 6 � x 9 � inches. BAL 3451. Binding is in near fine condition, light rubbing to the elephant label. Contents clean. Tissue guard over frontispiece. Inventory #24-128. Price: $750.

Seller Inventory # 24-128

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Follies of the Year; A series of Hand-Colored Etchings from Punch's Pocket Books 1844-1864 by John Leech. In original decorative binding. Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London, [1866]. Twenty-one hand-colored etched plates with original front cover bound in. Plates are clean and bright. Binding is in very good condition, fading and wear to the decorative spine. Boards with some color touch-up to the back board. Over-all a handsome binding. Oblong: 8 � x 12 � inches. Field page 101. Inventory #24-133. Price: $350.

Seller Inventory # 24-133

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven by Mark Twain. First printing in original red cloth, white lettering and decorative imprint. Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909. First printing with "Published October, 1909" on the copyright page. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean. A tight copy. 121 pages. 5 � x 8 inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory# 24-126. Price: $400.

Seller Inventory # 24-126

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Critic or a Tragedy Rehearsed. A Dramatic Piece in three Acts as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London. Printed for T. Becket. Publisher: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London, 1781. First edition in full leather binding. Binding is in fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Contents clean, occasional spot of foxing. 98 pages. 5 � x 8 � inches. Inventory #24-138. Price: $500.

Seller Inventory # 24-138

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chisholm's All Round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence. First edition in original blind-stamped cloth with an ornate front cover in gold lettering. Publisher: Chisholm & Co., Montreal 1870. 126 pages plus three folding maps of Niagara Falls & vicinity, Lower St. Lawrence & Sagunay Rivers, & Railroad & Water Excursion Routes and includes the folding panorama by Alfred E. Waud is a full 11 1/2 feet long with 40 engraved panels showing both sides of the river from Quebec to Cape Vincent, with an add on of the Niagara River & Falls. Numerous full-page ads in the rear. 4 � x 7 � inches. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean with pages toned with age. Inventory #24-122. Price: $750.

Seller Inventory # 24-122

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Catalogue Descriptive of Simple and Compound Locomotives built by Brooks Locomotive Works. First edition in original black cloth with ornate logo in gold on the front cover. Publisher: Brooks Locomotive, Dunkirk New York, 1899. Annual Capacity, 400. 336 pages including the index. Full page B & W photos of locomotives with accompanying page of diamentions Wonderful catalog of early railroad. 6 � x 9 � inches. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. Inventory #24-121. Price: $850.

Seller Inventory # 24-121

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Signed first printing in dust jacket. First state with man-woman on page 25 line 16. Later changed to madwoman. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, (1997). First printing with complete number line 1-10 on the copyright page. Flat signed on the title-page. Dust jacket is in fine condition. Jacket has the endorsement medallion on the front. Jacket is not price clipped with a price of $24. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. 356 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-557. Price: $350. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 11-557

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Signed first printing in dust jacket. First state with man-woman on page 25 line 16. Later changed to madwoman. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, (1997). First printing with complete number line 1-10 on the copyright page. Flat signed on the title-page. Dust jacket is in fine condition. Jacket has the endorsement medallion on the front. Jacket is not price clipped with a price of $24. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. 356 pages. Protected by Mylar. This is a beautiful copy!!! Inventory #11-482. Price: $350.

Seller Inventory # 11-482

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. First edition, third printing, in dust jacket. Publishing: Random House, New York, 1957. With glazed boards and dust jacket with price of "195/195" on the flap. Dust jacket is in near fine condition, slight surface wrinkling to front cover. Binding is in near fine condition with corners and spine ends with slightest of wear. Book contents clean throughout. 61 pages of text. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #16-015. Price: $450.

Seller Inventory # #16-015

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. First edition, first printing in original blue cloth with gold lettering. Publisher: Macmillan & Co., London, 1897. First printing without additional copyright notations. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean. Tiny bookseller sticker on front pastedown. Fore edges in gilt. 245 pages plus ads in back. 5 � x 7 � inches. A wonderful copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-357. Price: $810.

Seller Inventory # 15-357

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Acts passed at the First Session of the Second Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the Twenty-fourth of October 1791: and of the Independence of the United States, the Sixteenth. Congress of the United States, Begun and held at the city of New-York, On Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. Contents includes summaries of acts pertaining to nine states. The entire text of the First Session of the Second Congress in also presented in forty-four chapters. Pages of the acts pertaining to states and the text of the First Session are numbered consecutively as pages 329 through 421. Pages are bound in what appears to be the original owners blue paper wrapper with ink inscription Act 1st Session 2nd Congress. Wrappers with wear and loss. Text complete and exceptionally clean. Top corner next the spine with loss through page 334 (6 pages).Sequoia High School stamp on first and last pages. Last page in cut in half apparently as part of the binding process. Last item in scroll indicating the end of the text. Edges of pages not finished, page sizes vary as printed. 6 � x 10 inches. Inventory #23-091. Price. $750.

Seller Inventory # 23-091

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Photos of Prospective Wives. Nineteenth Century. Five small 2 x 3 inch photos with inscription on back describing attributes of the women in the phots. Typical item: "Cass Co Mich / age 19 5 '2"/ Weight 125 / Brown hair / D. blue eyes / has means." Inventory #24-120. Price: $500.

Seller Inventory # 24-120

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT SAN FRANCISCO 1915. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION. [wrapper title]. This is a facsimile reproduction of the original which featured hand-colored illustrations and this edition was offered by Hibernia Bank. Publisher: (Brooklyn), San Francisco, undated. Small stamp on inside rear wrapper states: Complements of Hibernia Bank and first page offers an overview of the exposition and a history of the bank. Twenty-two pages with Twenty-five mounted Albertype (colored) photographs In wrappers, string-tied. In near fine condition, slight wear at the top of the spine. 10 � x 12 � inches. Also included is a loose World's Fair Souvenir Booklet. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. Inventory #23-272. Price: $100.

Seller Inventory # 23-272

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Two volumes. Later American edition in original red cloth with ornate blind stamping on the front and back covers. Publisher: Harper & Brother, New York, [1853]. Later edition as an undated edition but with Harper Brothers Pearl Street address. xi, 288; viii, 307 pages. Bindings in near fine condition, a small spot on the front cover of each. Contents generally clean, a smudge and occasional spots of foxing. Foxing to the pastedown and to the first two free endpapers in both copies. Both are tight copies in attractive bindings. 4 � x 6 � inches. Inventory #23-276. Price: $125.

Seller Inventory # 23-276

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sheet music circa 1880s. Seven sheets of music sponsored by Bromo-Seltzer. Publisher: Emerson Drug Company, Baltimore, ca: 1880s. Possibly promotional handouts as each has a different drug store stamp on it. Each is a single printed sheet folded 10 � x 14 inches (21 x14 single sheet) The front page indicates the song title and also lists the current number of selections available. Depending when published this to ranges from 52 , 74 and 171 popular selections. The inner pages are the musical scones. The back page offers a full page of Bromo-Seltzer ads in three instances and the other four consist of three pages of musical scores. Contents bright and clear. Edges with evidence of wear and close tears. Melodies include: Indian March; Lullaby; What Are The Wild Waves Saying; Home Sweet Home; Old Year Dies To-Night; When the Angles Have Lifted The Veil; and The Difference In The Morning. Inventory #24-107. Price: $100.

Seller Inventory # 24-107

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Zero Day by David Baldacci. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, New York, (2011). Signed on the title-page. First edition with 1-10 number line and copyright notation: "First edition: November 2011" Dust jacket and binding are in fine condition. Jacket flap with price of $27.99. 436 pages. 6 � x 9 � inches. Inventory #24-079. Price: $125. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 24-079

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Impact by Douglas Preston. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Tom Doherty, New York, (2012). Signed on the title-page. First edition with 1-10 number line and copyright notation: "First edition: January 2012" Dust jacket and binding are in fine condition. Jacket flap with price of $25.99. 364 pages. 6 � x 9 � inches. Inventory #24-085. Price: $100. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 24-085

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fever Dream by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Grand Central, New York, (2010). Signed by both on the title-page. First edition with 1-10 number line and copyright notation: "First edition: May 2010" Dust jacket and binding are in fine condition. Jacket flap with price of $26.99. 405 pages. 6 � x 9 � inches. Inventory #24-086. Price: $100. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 24-086

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Cold Heart by Jonathan Kellerman. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, (2003). Signed on the title-page. First edition with 1-10 number line and copyright notation: "First edition: May 2003" Dust jacket and binding are in fine condition. Jacket flap with price of $26.95. 388 pages. 6 � x 9 � inches. Inventory #24-098. Price: $100. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 24-098