Monroe & Ashcraft
First Edition · Literature
A Passage in Solitude
Full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled boards, marbled endpapers. A near-fine copy of a 1908 title issued in just 320 copies.
A rotating catalogue of first editions, signed presentation copies, and quietly important volumes. Enquiries always welcome — many placements happen before we photograph them.
Full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled boards, marbled endpapers. A near-fine copy of a 1908 title issued in just 320 copies.
A signed and inscribed first edition of a mid-century California poet, presented to a fellow author with a full-page dedication.
Bound volume of nineteenth-century Pacific coast maps and a merchant's holograph journal covering four seasons of trade.
A signed binding by a San Francisco atelier, executed in 1962 for a private client. Full morocco with hand-tooled corner ornaments.
Presentation copy from the author to the illustrator, with a small ink sketch on the front free endpaper. Cloth, unrestored.
A run of six holograph journals kept by a San Diego shipwright between 1877 and 1902. Complete, in original paper wrappers.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century imprints connected to the state: exploration, viticulture, missions, and the early California press.
First editions of Steinbeck, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, and their contemporaries — with a preference for association copies and quiet provenance.
Signed bindings from American and English ateliers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and one-off design bindings.
Pacific voyage narratives, coastal charts, and merchant journals — the kind of material that made this coast readable to outsiders.
Signed illustrated works from the twentieth century, particularly limited-edition press books from California and the Pacific Northwest.
Correspondence, journals, and unpublished manuscripts of interest to researchers. Placed carefully, often with institutions.
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