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The Argonaut Book Shop was founded in 1941 in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco by Robert D. Haines. The Argonaut was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and is also a member of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. For the last forty years the shop s proprietor has been Robert D. Haines, Jr. A number of years ago, Angela C. Haines and Aaron C. Haines joined the firm and are the third generation family members in the business. The shop is located near historic Union Square in downtown San Francisco and is open six days a week.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City
Date published: 1957
Description: First edition. 336pp. Tan cloth with red lettering on spine. A fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. The autobiography of Thomas Tibbles, originally writen by him in 1905. Read More
Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington
Date published: 1945
Description: Frontis Portrait. First edition. 93pp. Corners bumped, else a fine copy. Representative from California. Born in Nevada County, UC Berkeley, mining engineer, connected with various mining enterprises in California. Read More
Publisher: The Saunders Press, Claremont, California
Date published: 1946
Description: First edition. Limited to 1500 copies. xviii, 184pp. Profusely illustrated. A tiny bit of soiling to bottom edge of spine, else a fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. A biography of an influential businessman of Pasadena, California. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London
Date published: 1946
Description: First edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs and plates throughout. Orange cloth. Spine faded and ends a bit rubbed. Small scratch to front cover. A very good copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684854960ISBN:0684854961
Description: 2nd printing. 204pp. Illustrated with photographs, photographic endpapers. Two-tone dark blue and tan boards, spine lettered in gold. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An autobiography that gives us a glimpse of McMurtry's thoughts on writing, small town life, his grandparents and parents, his upbringing, reading, book collecting, the decline of the cowboy, and more. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornelia & Michael Bessie (HarperCollins), New York
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780060391164ISBN:0060391162
Description: First American edition. Large octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Black cloth backed burgundy boards withs gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Daljo Pub, Tulsa
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780962782305ISBN:0962782300
Description: Octavo. 357pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs and line drawings. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped decoration on front cover. Corners slightly bumped, previous owner's address label on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A biography of Nacy Cooper Russell, wife of the fames cowboy artist Charles Marion Russell. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Reprints, New York
Date published: 1939
Description: Rembrandt. Revised especially for this edition by the author. Illustrated with 150 reproductions of the drawings, etchings and paintings of Rembrandt selected and arranged by J.B. Neumann. Pictorial cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. A fine copy in rubbed and spine-faded dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date published: 1972
Description: First edition. 360pp. Bibliogrpahy, index. Illustrated with black & white drawing and photogrpahs Purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor fading along top edge, else a fine copy in very lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American Heritage, New York
Date published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780828111850ISBN:0828111855
Description: Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white plates. Bibliography, notes, index. Two-toned cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor foxing beginning to form on covers, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Date published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780312049980ISBN:0312049986
Description: First edition. Notes, bibliography, index. Beige cloth in dust jacket. Light spotting to top edge of text block, else a very fine copy. An examination of Trollope's novels and writing techniques. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company, New York
Date published: 1947
Description: Revised American edition. With portrait, four facsimiles and charts. Appendices, index. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine slightly faded, minor rubbing to corners and spine. A fine copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Facts on File Publications, New York
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780816016884ISBN:0816016887
Description: First edition. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bibliography, notes, index. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Remainder mark to bottom edge of pages, else a fine copy in dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780312017774ISBN:0312017774
Description: First edition. Translated by William Mishler. Introduction by Poul Houe. Hardback in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy with the exception that the dust jacket, covers and first and last end papers are damp stained. However, it is extremly faint on the outer dust jacket and is virtually undetectable on the outer covers. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Date published: 1985
Description: First edition. Quarto. With a narrative by Robert Coles. Half white cloth, red boards, lettering in silver. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Read More
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
Date published: 1966
Description: First edition. Foreword by Clark Kerr. [12], 254pp. A small paint stain along lower edge of front cover, else a fine copy. A look at the career of Robert Gordon Sproul, who served as president of the University of California from 1930-1958. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Standford University Press, Stanford
Date published: 1954
Description: First edition. xiii, 271pp. Fine with soiled and worn dust jacket. Biography of this Californian: Stanford University, insurance business, journalism, San Francisco Call, Trustee of Stanford, etc. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Honnold Library Society, Claremont, California
Date published: 1972
Description: First edition. 75pp. Very fine copy in stiff wrappers. One of 150 copies. Memoir of the life of McPherson and his gift of his extensive Californiana library to Pomona College. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City
Date published: 1957
Description: First edition. 336pp. Tan cloth with red lettering on spine. A fine copy with lightly worn and spine faded dust jacket. The autobiography of Thomas Tibbles, originally writen by him in 1905. Read More
