Eureka Books of CA
426 2nd Street,
Eureka,
CA 95501 USA
707-443-9562
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$125.00 Description: 376 pages. Two folding maps, numerous photographic plates. A general statistical and historic guide to Argentina, with sections on indigenous peoples, the weather, boundary disputes, and even the wine industry. First edition. A presentation copy inscribed to Eliodoro Villazon, who served as the president of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913. An uncommon book with a great provenance. Attractively bound in half red morocco and red cloth, with gilt decoration on the spine and marbled endpapers. Some minor ... Read More
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Anguttara-Nikaya (Six Volumes, Complete) $218.75 Description: Six volumes of The Gradual Sayings. Text in Pali. Volume one reprints the second edition; the other volumes are reprints of the first edition. A fine hardcover set; no dust jackets, as issued. Read More
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Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes $37.50 Description: 358, 335 pages. Two volume set. This special edition was published for members of 'The Heirs of Hippocrates Library. ' First edition thus. Near fine in quarter leather and cloth covers with gold decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. Silk page marker ribbon present. Slight scuffs to pages edges, else fine. Read More
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My Life: Autobiography of Havelock Ellis $37.50 Description: 647 pages. This book was originally published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1939. First edition thus. Near fine in green quarter leather and cloth covers with gold decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon page marker present. Slight scuff to bottom front edge of gold pages. Read More
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The New Poetry: an Anthology of Twentieth-Century Verse in English $50.00 Description: Very Good jacket. 624 pages. This is the 'New and Enlarged Edition' copyright 1923. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket with chips missing from spine top and bottom and edges, largest is 1' x 5/8ths' at spine bottom. Scarce in dust jacket. Read More
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The Development of Embroidery in America $50.00 Description: 152 pages. Numerous examples in black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition (first printing) with 2 letter code 'E-V' on copyright page. A very good copy in tan paper over boards and and black cloth covers. Pasted color illustration on front cover. Title in gilt lettering on spine. TEG. Frontispiece illustration. Additional B/W and color illustrations. Waterstaining to lower page edges. Scuffing to covers with edge and corner wear. Front hinge cracked but binding tight. No dust ... Read More
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$62.50 Description: 134 pages. This is the revised and enlarged edition with numerous patterns illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 11 x 7.75 inches. Later printing. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covers scuffed with edge and corner wear with small edge chips. Read More
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Best American Side Dishes (Best Recipe) $21.88
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The Awakening Valley: the Photographic Record of a Social Miracle Among the Indians of Ecuador $93.75 Description: 199 pages. Illustrated with photographs by Collier and his wife, Mary Trumbull Collier. At age 12, Collier (1913-1992) became the apprentice to painter, Maynard Dixon, and learned photography from Dixon's wife, Dorothea Lange. In his twenties, he worked with Paul Strand in Taos, New Mexico, and later joined the Farm Security Administration (FSA) as a photographer. His work was included in Edward Steichen's landmark exhibition, Family of Man, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Later in ... Read More
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