Rare books from Gibbs Books

San Fran. Cal: Henry Holt & Company, 1940. Book. Illus. by Jean Bruller. Fine. Hardcover. 1st. American Edition.. First American Edition,1940 , Hardcover with the dust jacket in a clear protected mylar cover, with 92 pages.This is a FINE condition pictorial hardcover book in a dye-stamped blue coth boards,with the DUST JACKET ( extremety rare with the jacket ).Endpapers decorated with armorial bearings of the Thinifers and Fatapoufs houses. Colors in this book are clean and brillant with no marks rips or any damage. The boards have some edge ware and light bumps at the corners and the pages have the very lightest of tone to the edges. This extremety rare book is in the best condition of any copy you will find . Now for the condition of the , dust jacket it is complete, with age and damage to the edges and spine ,the front bottem and spine is missing a piece about 1.5"x 2" , and at the top a small missing piece about 0.5" x 0.25" . This beautiful book authored by one of… Read More

New York: Morgan & Morgan , Inc., 1979. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.ed. 1979 Hardcover with pictorial boards,320 page. Illustrated with color and black and white photos and line drawings .This is the hardcover copy and is VERY uncommon to find . Condition: Fine, A clean tight copy and a book that will last longer as a hard cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wisconsin: Centennial Photo Service, 1988. Book. Illus. by Author. New. Hardcover. 1st.ed. 1988 ,Hardcover with dust jacket. One of the best reference books on Union Cases (thermo-plastic) with price guide (1988) . Condition NEW. New in publishers shrink wrap never opened, now out of print. Only 2000 ever printed ,this book has become as scarce as the Rinhart book on Union Cases. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington ,DC.: Smithsonian Press, 1989. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st.Edition , 1st. Printing 1989,Hardcover with the dust jacket , 368 page book. IIlustrated with black and white photography and with color prints and maps.This was the first war to be photographed just as the Daguerreotype was the first mass market photo-proscess to be used this was the beginning of photo-journalism .This is one of the best reference books on the Mexican War and on the photos and prints of that time.A scarce book and becoming very hard to find in any condition.See the book cover at : GibbsBooks. Condition : New still in the publishers shrink wrap. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa 0 Book. Illus. by Unknown. Very Fine. Soft cover. Not Stated.. Tokyo 1885 - 1921 Hasegawa , vol. 19. Hand made book with silk stitched wraps, unpaginated . Illustrated with woodblock printed by hand on hand made creped Masa paper , profusely colored illustrations . This is only one vol. of this very rare set of twenty books, many of the tales were translated to english and then printed in Japan by B.H. Chamberlain , David Thompson , and Kate James. This hand printed and hand made book made of hand made creped paper to look and act like cloth , to withstand the wear of children reading it.Please take a look at the photo of this book and you will see how detaled the woodblock carvers had to be. Condition: Very Fine , a clean and tight book with no damage . Size : 4"w. X 6"h. or 16mo Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Berlin, Germany: Im Propylaen - Verlag, 1931. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. ed. 1931 , Hardcover with course tan cloth with gray letters at the spine and cover , 368 page book. This is the first edition of the novel by Erich Maria Ramarque , in German . Remarque's first novel "All Quiet on the Western Front " was a candid account of a soldiers life during the Great War to End War. This being the following novel that deals in the collapse of Germany in 1918 this book and along with Remarque 's other book were baned by the nazi's in 1933. This is a true first edition in the German Language , with an advertisment in the back of Remarque's other book " Im Beften Nichts Neues! " ( All Quiet on The Western Front).Plus two other authors books : Adrienne Thomas and Leonhard Frank. Condition : Fine , with very light bottom edge rubs with some aging , with no dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing.. Copyright 1912, ( 1920's) Hardcover with green cloth boards and gilded letters at the spine,334 page book lacking the extremily rare dust jacket. Illustrated with a black and white frontis piece. A near fine copy of this author's key title . A green cloth cover boards without copyright or month indicated and a stamped title on the page after the contents page ( by the publisher). Condition : Green cloth and title gilding are clean and bright gilded page top edge a little dull, interior is tight and clean ,the boards have some very light corner and edge rubs. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Book. Illus. by Willem De Kooning. Very Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. 1ST. EDITION , 1ST. PRINTING, U.S.A.1972, Hardcover with the dust cover price clipped, 296 page book . Illustrated with 15 color plates and 138 black and white illustrations. A scarce book by this artist and getting harder to find in any condition. Large book heavy volume a clean un-marked copy .Will need extra postage . Condition : Very Fine / DJ is Fine. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: American Jewish Congress, 1936. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Not Stated.. 1936 , Paper pamphlet a 16 page booklet from the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committe of New York City. Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum was the founder and author of this and other booklets on the anti-nazi boycott movement. A very scarce booklet from the pre-holocaust nightmare coming to Europe and this was a warning . Also with this book is a donation card from the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress laid in and never filled out. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st. edition 1998 , Advance Uncorrected Proof , Softcover in illustrated wraps , 284 page book . A true first edition printed in a short run before the trade hardcover is published for the general public . Condition : Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Athens Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1981. Book. Illus. by Various Contributors. Very Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. and only printing 1981 , blue cloth hardcover with black cloth spline and silver letters , 446 page book . Filled with black and white photo illustrations and also color plates . Still one of the best history books on this nineteenth-century photo prosess . A scarce book in any condition and this book is one of the finer referance guides. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: Nash Publishing, 1972. Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 1972 , Hardcover with the dust jacket, 386 page book . Menachem Begin commander-in-chief of the underground army which began Israel's fight for independence. Condition : Very Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st. edition 1st. printing 2000 , Red stiff paper wraps Advance Uncorrected Proofs , 270 page book . A very scarce uncorrected proof by Vanhecke on this legenary rock & roller. Condition : Very Good , with light bend at the front corner cover , light 1/4" spine rip ( see image ) . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, 2009. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing , 2009 , Hardcover in the dust jacket , 241 page book . This is Mr. Palahniuk tenth book . With a frist printing run of only 150,000 and now in a second printing . This copy is also signed by him. Also included with this signed copy is the Bound Galley ( ARC ) not signed, now both together in a custom slip case. Condition : NEW. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Underwood Miller, 1986. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing , Deep red cloth hardcover in the dust jacket and in a red cloth slip case . Limited printing to 500 copies this being 235 with laid in publishers note , 267 page book this is the signed edition by all authors ( King did not sign ) . Condition : NEW Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.