California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024
The 56th California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to San Francisco in 2024.
Bernard, Jeffrey and Adam look forward to meeting old friends and customers and meeting new ones too.
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Scoop.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $13,256.00 - Original price $13,256.00Original price $0.00$13,256.00$13,256.00 - $13,256.00Current price $13,256.00| /There are two states of the first impression dust jacket for Scoop. The first state, seen here, shows the tromp l'oiel newspaper image with the pa...
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These Thirteen. Stories.
FAULKNER, William.Original price $2,983.00 - Original price $2,983.00Original price $0.00$2,983.00$2,983.00 - $2,983.00Current price $2,983.00| /An important early collection of short stories and, incidentally, one of the most attractive books of its era.First edition, first printing, first...
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The Personal History of David Copperfield.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price $11,599.00 - Original price $11,599.00Original price $0.00$11,599.00$11,599.00 - $11,599.00Current price $11,599.00| /Of all my books, I like this the best...'. First edition in book form in variant binding. Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition of...
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan:
POUND, Ezra; YEATS, W.B.Original price $995.00 - Original price $995.00Original price $0.00$995.00$995.00 - $995.00Current price $995.00| /Limited edition of 350 copies. A choice example in the scarce unprinted dustjacket of this collection of four Noh plays selected by Ezra Pound, bas...
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Prufrock and Other Observations.
ELIOT, T.S.Original price $27,000.00 - Original price $27,000.00Original price $0.00$27,000.00$27,000.00 - $27,000.00Current price $27,000.00| /One of 500 copies. Egoist - under the direction of Ezra Pound - produced in wartime conditions just 500 copies. They were not built to last and cop...
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The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst.
[BAKST]. ALEXANDRE, Arsene; COCTEAU, Jean.Original price $5,966.00 - Original price $5,966.00Original price $0.00$5,966.00$5,966.00 - $5,966.00Current price $5,966.00| /With fine provenance . An exceptionally fresh example of this major luxury work on Bakst's art.Cecil Hopkinson (1898-1977) was a musical bibliograp...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price $86,163.00 - Original price $86,163.00Original price $0.00$86,163.00$86,163.00 - $86,163.00Current price $86,163.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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Indian Currency and Finance.
KEYNES, John Maynard.Original price $2,121.00 - Original price $2,121.00Original price $0.00$2,121.00$2,121.00 - $2,121.00Current price $2,121.00| /Royal Statistical Society's copy. The Royal Statistical Society's copy of Keynes' first published book, Indian Currency and Finance. Keynes himself...
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The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
YEATS, W.B.Original price $1,293.00 - Original price $1,293.00Original price $0.00$1,293.00$1,293.00 - $1,293.00Current price $1,293.00| /A very good copy of this later work by W.B. Yeats, in the distinctive T. Sturge Moore binding and jacket, notable perhaps for the inclusion of the...
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The Tower.
YEATS, W.B.Original price $4,309.00 - Original price $4,309.00Original price $0.00$4,309.00$4,309.00 - $4,309.00Current price $4,309.00| /Important collection of Yeats' poetry containing poems such as 'Sailing To Byzantium' and 'Leda and the Swan'.First edition, first impression; 8vo...
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The Fifth Column. A Play in Three Acts.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price $3,314.00 - Original price $3,314.00Original price $0.00$3,314.00$3,314.00 - $3,314.00Current price $3,314.00| /First separate edition of Hemingway's play with an original print run of 1174 copies. Adapted by Benjamin Glazer and produced by the Theatre Guild...
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Absalom, Absalom.
FAULKNER, William.Original price $5,966.00 - Original price $5,966.00Original price $0.00$5,966.00$5,966.00 - $5,966.00Current price $5,966.00| /Sound and the Fury notwithstanding, this may be Faulkner's best-loved work. And minor flaws apart this is a rather handsome copy of book with rare...
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Tarikh-e vaqaye' va savaneh-e Afghanistan, History of Events and Incidents in Afghanistan,
PRINCE IHTIZAD AL-SULTANEH [ALI QULI KHAN].Original price $3,977.00 - Original price $3,977.00Original price $0.00$3,977.00$3,977.00 - $3,977.00Current price $3,977.00| /An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...
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Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].
IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].Original price $1,989.00 - Original price $1,989.00Original price $0.00$1,989.00$1,989.00 - $1,989.00Current price $1,989.00| /The first book on tea printed in Ottoman Turkish. First edition of the first printed book on tea in Ottoman Turkish. Seyyed Mehmed Izzet (1819-1909...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.Original price $178,954.00 - Original price $178,954.00Original price $0.00$178,954.00$178,954.00 - $178,954.00Current price $178,954.00| /The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...
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[A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding (or 'blad') with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price $3,314.00 - Original price $3,314.00Original price $0.00$3,314.00$3,314.00 - $3,314.00Current price $3,314.00| /The key to this rare curiosity is the hand-written letter with the salutation to 'George' and signed by a A. R. Warnock or Warwick, dated 5th Feb'...
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Hold Fast By Your Teeth.
BAWDEN, Edward (author & illustrator).Original price $2,188.00 - Original price $2,188.00Original price $0.00$2,188.00$2,188.00 - $2,188.00Current price $2,188.00| /From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...
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The Maze.
SANDOZ, Maurice; DALI, Salvador (illustrator).Original price $3,314.00 - Original price $3,314.00Original price $0.00$3,314.00$3,314.00 - $3,314.00Current price $3,314.00| /Signed by the illustrator. An attractive first edition, signed by Salvador Dali on the front free endpaper.A macabre tale by the pioneering Swiss f...
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Where The Wild Things Are.
SENDAK, Maurice.Original price $11,268.00 - Original price $11,268.00Original price $0.00$11,268.00$11,268.00 - $11,268.00Current price $11,268.00| /The true first edition. The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket. A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-lov...
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