Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Toward A Healthy Economy by Gerald R. Ford. First edition in beige wrappers. Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., [1978]. Lecture delivered before the Institute. Wrapper is in fine condition. Contents clean. 6 x9 inches. 14 pages of text plus 2 pages of forward. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. Inventory# 20-027. Price: $35.

Seller Inventory # 20-027

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. San Francisco 1939. (San Francisco). Golden Gate International Exposition. Souvenir. 1939. With signed letter from John Cuddy, Managing Director of the Exposition, dated 6 March 1939. Published by Californians, Inc. Unpaginated. 6 x 9 inches. In fine condition. A very nice tight copy in pictorial wraps. Black and White pictures of San Francisco and surrounding areas of California. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #16-045. Price: $65. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 16-045

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Greenleafs New Intellectual Arithmetic by Benjamin Greenleaf. 1870 edition in pictorial blue-green boards. Publisher: Robert S. Davis & Co., Boston, 1870. Binding is in very good condition, slight wear to the corners and along the edges. Contents clean without writing. Stain to top corner and bottom of rear free endpaper, else a clean copy. Owners inscription on first free endpaper. 180 pages. 4 � x 6 � inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #17-035. Price: $ 75. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 17-035

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Win At Pac-Man by Ernest Zavisca Phd., and Gary Beltowski. First printing with A-H issue line on copyright page. Publisher: Greenwich House, New York, (1982). Text and black and white diagrams throughout. 64 pages. In publisher's red cloth binding. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. Inventory #22-094. Price: $75.

Seller Inventory # 22-094

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. A Textbook on Tobacco by Carl Werner. Fourth edition in original green cloth with gold lettering. Publisher: The Tobacco Leaf Publishing Co, New York, (1914). 323 pages. Foreword ends: "a tobacco book for tobacco men." Sections: Historical, Leaf Tobacco, Manufacturing, Laws and Regulations, Statistical, Science & Sanitation, Selling and Storekeeping. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. Green endpapers with edge toning. Black and White photos. 5 � x 8 � inches. Inventory #23-172. Price: $100.

Seller Inventory # 23-172

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University of California. 1925 Blue and Gold, A Record of the College Year 1923-1924. Volume 51. Bound in blue leather over boards. 719 pages including the index. Binding is in near fine condition, some edge cracking along front of the spine else solidly bound. Contents clean 8 x 10 inches. Inventory #23-166. Price: $100.

Seller Inventory # 23-166

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Tobacco Directory for the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Ninth edition in leather over board binding with gold lettering. Publisher: Costa's Directories Company, New York, 1946. 175 pages. Binding is in very good condition. Contents clean but with the occasional notes or "x" outs, heavy check marks to the Illinois section. 8 � x 11 inches. A nice reference item to tobacco distribution. Inventory #23-170. Price: $100.

Seller Inventory # 23-170

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Finger Print Instructor by Eliza P. Frederick Kuhne. First edition in original green cloth with gold lettering and gold palm print. Publisher: Munn & Company, New York, 1916. First edition with publishing date on the title-page and on the copyright page. Binding is in very good plus condition, some rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine. Contents clean. Eleven finger print sample cards inserted in rear pocket (as called for). 155 pages including the index. Black and white pictures and illustrations throughout. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #14-015. Price: $125 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 14-015

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. An elementary Treatise on Lunar Theory by Hugh Godfray. 2nd edition in original dark blue cloth. Publisher: Macmillan & Co., Cambridge/London, 1859. Second edition so stated on the title-page. Text includes a brief sketch of the history of the problem up to the time of Newton. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. 119 pages plus list of the authors books plus 48 pages catalog. 5 � x 7 � inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #18-021. Price: 125. Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 18-021

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. The Gasoline Automobile by George W. Hobbs, Ben G. Elliott and Earl L. Consoliver Elliott, and Ben G. Consoliver. Publisher: MacGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, Later edition, second edition, fourth impression 1920. In original dark green cloth with gold lettering. 483 pages including the index. Binding is in near fine condition, slight corner and spine end rubbing, else in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. Front endpapers with a small white label and a spot of white-out. A nice tight copy with black and white photos throughout. Inventory #23-082. Price: $125.

Seller Inventory # 23-082

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. San Francisco A Pageant by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Signed first edition, fourth printing in dust jacket. Publisher: D. Appleton, New York, 1934. Signed by both Charles Caldwell Dobie and the illustrator E.H. Suydam on the half-title page. Fourth printing with the (4) on the last page of the text. Dust jacket in very good plus condition, small chip at top of the spine and on front top edge, toning to the spine. Dust jacket is not price clipped with price of $5.00. Binding in fine condition. Book contents bright and clean throughout. 351 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #12-022. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 12-022

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Parleys Cabinet Library. The World and Its Inhabitants. By the author of Peter Parleys Tales. First edition in original beige wrappers. Two volumes. Publisher: Bradbury, Soden & Co., Boston, 1845. Wrappers in very good condition. Some foxing, chipping to the spine ends in the first volume, all lettering present. Minor foxing to the wrapper verso and ffep, else a clean text. Owners signature in ink at the top of each wrapper front. 4 � x 7 1/16 inches. 1-176, 176-328 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #17-033. Price: $135. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 17-033

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The Field Practice of Laying Out Circular Curves for Railroad by John C. Trautwine. Early edition in its original folding leather wrapper. Publisher: E. Claxton & Co. Philadelphia, 1853 (first was 1851). 83 pages. Wrapper with wear, missing slip through tab, but still solid. Contents clean, Owner's name on FFEP and repaired tear to this page. Contents clean, title-page with light spots of foxing. Contains tables and diagrams. 4 � x 7 inches. An unusual item. Inventory #23-051. Price: $150.

Seller Inventory # 23-051

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. United States Private Tobacco Proprietary Stamps, Including All Known Essays, and a List of Foils Taken from J.J. Crooke Co. Records By Alfred A. Post by Bartlett, J. Delano, and John W. Prevost. First edition in beige wrappers. Publisher: J. Delano Bartlett & John W. Prevost, Springfield, Mass., 1909. 62 unnumbered pages. Original oblong wrappers (6 � x 10 inches). Wrappers are in fine condition. Contents bright and clean. Inventory #23-171. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 23-171

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New Hampshire Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. First edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Old America Company, Framingham, (1923). Dust jacket is in near fine condition, but with a one inch tear to the top middle front and one to the back bottom next to the spine (both are difficult to see. Else a wonderful dust jacket overall. Price noted on the front flap along the upcoming editions. Binding is in fine condition, bright and clear. Title in bright gold. Contents clean. 302 pages. Black and White photos and illustrations throughout. A wonderful tight clean copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-458. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-458

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Massachusetts Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. First edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Old America Company, Framingham, (1923). Dust jacket is in fine condition but with 3 small close tears at the top front. A wonderful dust jacket overall. Price noted on the front flap along the upcoming editions. Binding is in fine condition, bright and clear. Title in bright gold. Contents clean. 301 pages. Black and White photos and illustrations throughout. A wonderful tight clean copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-460. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-460

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Maine Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. First edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Old America Company, Framingham, (1924). Dust jacket is in fine condition. A wonderful dust jacket overall with no tears or wear. Price noted on the front flap along the upcoming editions. Binding is in fine condition, bright and clear. Title in bright gold. Contents clean. 302 pages. Black and White photos and illustrations throughout. A wonderful tight clean copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-461. Price: $200. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-461

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The Panorama of Professions and Trades or Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen. Second edition in original pictorial cloth with leather back strip. Publisher: Uriah Hunt, Philadelphia, 1837. Binding solid but in fair condition. Contents with damp staining and foxing but text bright. Wonderful descriptive text of various trades during this period including: Tobacco Planter, Physical, Lawyer, Cooper, Potter with a total of 68 professions and trades. Each chapter discusses the importance of each profession and its influence on economics as well as business practices. Includes 82 engravings. 320 pages. 6 x 7 � inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #22-007. Price: $250.

Seller Inventory # 22-007

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University of California. 1922 Blue and Gold, A Record of the College Year 1920-1921. Volume 48. Bound in blue suede over boards. Tipped in color plates by artist Pedro J. De Lemog (1882-1954). He is considered one of the most influential of the Bay Area's "Craftsmen Era" for artists and educators. 704 pages. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean, toning to the end paper edges. 8 x 10 inches. A nice deluxe edition. Inventory #23-164. Price: $250.

Seller Inventory # 23-164

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. John Henry Nash: The Biography by Robert D. Harlan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1970. [i-viii], ix-xii, 1-159, [160-167] pages. Binding is in dark blue cloth with transparent vellum wrapper. Both in fine condition, wrapper with edge toning. Inventory #22-069. Price: $300.

Seller Inventory # 22-069

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours by George Barnard. [ 2], i-ii, [1-7) [7]- 268 pages. New and enlarged edition. Thirty plates, all with tissue guards, of which 28 are in color using the Leighton Brothers Chromatic Process, two tinted lithographs, and 69 woodcuts in the text. All plates present. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1858. Binding is in full with ornate gold lettering. Binding is in near fine condition, with minor spots of wear, else in fine condition. Contents with minor paper toning and an occasional spot of foxing. 8 x 10 � inches. A nice tight copy. Inventory #22-065. Price: $300.

Seller Inventory # 22-065

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language by J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. First edition in two volumes as issued. Publisher: Joseph Lilly, Covent Garden, 1865. 555, 593 pages. Bound in quarter black leather with like label and greenish grey cloth. 6 � x 9 inches. Binding with wear to corners else fine. Contents clean. Tape repair to last page in volume 2. Heavy toning to the title-page. Overall a nice tight set. Inventory #13-269. Price: $350. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 13-269

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Bibliographers Manual of English Literature by William Thomas Lowndes. Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London. 1857 through1864. 4 � x 7 � inches. In near fine condition in blue cloth. 10 volumes bound in 6 including the index volume. Pages: 1-576;577-1155; 1156-1756; 1757-2400; 2401-3027; 1-336 plus ads (48 pages including an index to the ads) Containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold. Including the Appendix volume dated 1864 by Bohn who performed the revision and enlargement of Lowndes' original. Contents clean. Slight toning of the paper. The verso of each section title page has a pencil inscription: Walker Bequest, Mar 22, 1875. A nice tight clean set. Inventory #13-275. Price: $450. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 13-275

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Mark Twain) Geers Hartford City Directory for July 1879. With listing for : Clemens Samuel, L., author, h. 95 Farmington on page 51. A wonderful Twain ephemera item. Publisher: Elihu Geer, Hartford, 1879. In original blue cloth over boards. Binding solid and tight but with some wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Boards with some rubbing. Spine titling in gold in bright and clear. Contents exceptionally clean including pages 165 through 216 with full page ads printed on multi-colored paper. Occasional light pencil underline or tick mark. Bookplate on front pastedown and names and date of owners on ink on the ffep dated 1940. Total pages are 332 plus 3 full page ads in the rear. Fold-out map of Hartford in the front. A very scarce Twain item. Inventory #13-297. Price: $750. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 13-297

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. 2 Volumes. Second edition so stated on the title-page. 1755/1756. Publisher: Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, London. Unpaginated. Large folio 10 � x 16 � inches. Bound in modern full leather with raised bands, decorative lettering to the spine, ornate front and back leather tooling. Marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to the boards else in fine condition. Contents clean with the exception of foxing to the last 7 pages of volume 1 and the last 4 pages of volume 2. Title-page of volume 1 repaired and is complete. Overall an exceptional copy of a classic publication. Inventory #20-381. Price: $12,500. The book is also a compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the masters, often Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson illustrated the meanings of his 40,000 definitions with more than 100,000 quotations drawn from the time of Shakespeare down to Johnson' s own time.

Seller Inventory # C-381

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone. Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765. Four volumes(three first edition and one third edition in original uniform period leather bindings with red leather printed labels. Each volume with 5 raised bands. Bindings are in very good condition, tight copies. Volume One: 1765, first edition, 473 pages plus 8page supplement at the end, errata notation on verso of page iii; Volume Two: 1768, third edition, 520 pages plus 19 page Appendix, also included is the Table of Consanguinity (between pages 202/203) and the folding Table of Descents (between pages 240/241); Volume Three: 1768, first edition, 455 pages plus 27 page Appendix; Volume Four: 1769, first edition, 436 pages plus 7 page Appendix and an extensive unpaginated Index. Contents remarkably clean and bright, occasional ink notations in tiny handwriting throughout the volumes. Small Bookplate on the pastedown plus small square library label on the ffep for each volume. Two ink signatures on each title-page. Remarkably complete set. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-551. Price: $12,500.

Seller Inventory # C-551