All That Glitters Is Not Gold. Sometimes It’s A Book.
BLANK VERSO BOOKS has a hand selected collection of rare and unusual books and ephemera in many fields.
Our owners: Steven Hill has bought and sold collectible books for many years, as a collector, owner of a San Francisco bookstore (Ant Hill Books on Church St.), and as COO of an online book listing site, Bibliocity, that was a competitor of ABE until it was purchased by Alibris. His partner, Mara Fath, is a ceramic artist who has been fascinated with books since the fifth grade when she discovered a beautiful 1884 copy of Poe’s The Raven illustrated by Doré at her local library book sale, and has been buying and selling unusual books and ephemera ever since.
Please return often to view our newest acquisitions.
DOMESTIC SHIPPING is $4.85 by USPS Media Mail; or $17.10 by Priority Mail. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING costs are shown during checkout. Oversize, heavy books and sets may require additional postage.
All items are returnable for 14 days from receipt, for any reason.
We are located in Napa, California. At this time we do not have an open shop.
We are always interested in purchasing unusual books and ephemera, from single items to libraries. We offer appraisal services as well.
Thanks for Looking and Enjoy!
A Sampling:
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PACK RAT Radical Berkeley Student Black Panthers Newspaper 1969 Volume 1 Number 1 -
1913 FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION *SIGNED & INSCRIBED* CETACEANS WHALES 15 PLATES Antarctica -
CIRCLE 1944 Surreal ANARCHIST Bay Area Literary Journal KENNETH REXROTH COVER DESIGN Beat SF Renaissance -
WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS of 1964 - PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH HUNDREDS OF GIRLS and NO BOYS -
RIGHT ON! A Documentary on 1960s STUDENT PROTEST Radical COUNTERCULTURE Symbolism BLACK POWER Protest Iconography 1ST Edition -
Antique Photograph NAPA VALLEY TEN MULE JERK LINE STAGECOACH WAGON Wine Related Cakebread Vineyards Collection c. 1890 Cabinet Card -
SEARCH AND DESTROY Nos. 1-11 with RE/SEARCH Nos. 1-3 The Complete Run of 14 Groundbreaking PUNK ZINES San Francisco NEW WAVE 1977-1981 -
PRINTING INK CATALOG for SOUTH AMERICA & MEXICO PUBLISHERS with 100 PRINTED SAMPLES 1920 -
ALBUM FILLED with CANDID SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPHS of MOVIE STARS AND FILM DIRECTORS ON SET 1940s-1950s -
COSMOSCO Photographs by NOBUYOSHI ARAKI - Japanese Photobook with Nudes 1998 -
DIANE DI PRIMA ILLEGAL ABORTION POEM Brass Furnace Going Out AMIRI BARAKA Association -
1880 Two Vintage Mounted PHOTOGRAPHS of OTIS HILL and CHILD in HAYWARD, California -
LITHOGRAPHS OF CHAGALL VOLUME II 1957-1962 with 12 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS 1963 -
1911 Letter BLACK BEAR GOLD MINING CO., SAWYERS BAR, SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WHITING FAMILY, WHITING HILL MINE -
LENA BIRKOVA Russian-Czech ACTRESS Large Family PHOTO ARCHIVE approx 350 Items -
BEAT POETRY Rarity LEW WELCH 1965 POETRY BROADSIDE Words & Music SUPERMARKET "Everything Is Wrapped In Plastic" -
WITCHCRAFT Supernatural OCCULT Christianity RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC Studies In Popular Beliefs In Sixteenth And Seventeenth-Century England 2 Volume BOX SET -
1942 MANLY PALMER HALL THE PISCEAN AGE: A SYSTEM OF WORLD PROPHECY First Edition -
DYING FOR A MENTHOL? Rare Original Award Winning Poster DEAD BLACK SMOKERS IN A PACK OF CIGARETTES African American Anti Smoking Campaign Poster -
JEAN RENOIR Les Cahiers Du Capitaine Georges SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED by the GREAT FILM DIRECTOR, Son of the Artist Pierre-Auguste RENOIR -
1967 JOINT SHOW Exhibition Screenprint Poster WES WILSON, STANLEY MOUSE, et al PSYCHEDELIC ART -
Poster MAURICE SENDAK **SIGNED** HANSEL & GRETEL at the HOUSTON GRAND OPERA 1997 -
San Francisco Bay 1967 OFFICIAL UNREALIZED TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS ILLUSTRATED REPORT Golden Gate Bridge Bottom Deck UNDERWATER TUBES Plans For New Bridges et al SAN FRANCISCO MARIN CROSSING -
MARK TWAIN DAY-BY-DAY Volumes I & II **SIGNED & INSCRIBED to HAL HOLBROOK who PERFORMED AS MARK TWAIN for 60 YEARS** -
1967 SCALPHUNTERS - Original FILM SHOOTING BUDGET - SHOT IN MEXICO for 66 DAYS - Sydney Pollack, Burt Lancaster -
1726 GERMAN PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON First Edition SIGNED by J. F. CLASSEN Important Association Copy in Vellum Covers -
1950s HI-TECH R&D COMPANY Product Presentation Album with 28 8x10 ORIGINAL GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPHS with Captions REED RESARCH INC. -
FOR PEACE IN INDOCHINA - END MILITARY AID - SIGN PARIS PEACE ACCORDS 1973 -
![1783 REGULA EMBLEMATICA SANCTI BENEDICTI / OCCULT ESOTERIC EMBLEMS with 187 PLATES Catholic Mysticism by BONIFACII GALLNER [Bonifaz Gallner]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/8/003284---width_400.jpg?v=1667007187)
1783 REGULA EMBLEMATICA SANCTI BENEDICTI / OCCULT ESOTERIC EMBLEMS with 187 PLATES Catholic Mysticism -
GATHERINGS - ART of JANET RUTTENBERG Paintings of Daily Life in New York's Central Park 1/500 -
BUSINESS WEEK First Issue SEPTEMBER 7, 1929 : 30th Anniversary Souvenir Edition -
4 EARLY HONG KONG PICTORIAL MAGAZINES 1955-1967 -
EIGHT VOLUMES on TYPOGRAPHY, PRINTING TYPES, FONTS, ORNAMENTAL LETTERING, &c. Vatican Press, Fonderie du Sieur Delacolonge, Claude Lamesle, etc. -
1975 ANN LAUTERBACH American Female Poet BOOK ONE Her First Publication SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED 1/100 -
1795 THE HISTORY OF AMERICA in TWO BOOKS (bound in ONE, as issued) with 2 FOLDING MAPS Philadelphia: Dobson -
ADRIENNE RICH BROADSIDE POEM "THE TREES" 1 of 75 LOWELL HOUSE PRINTERS The College Yard, Cambridge 1964 -
NED ROREM 1945 ORIGINAL Music Manuscript PRAYER AND PARAPHRASE FOR VIRGIL THOMSON Rare Folio Holograph Piano Score -
NATIONAL ATLAS OF SENEGAL with 65 LARGE COLOR MAPS 1977 -
ROGER SHIMOMURA - JAPANESE INTERNMENT ART - 10 ORIGINAL HAND PAINTED LITHOGRAPHS - SIGNED ARTIST'S BOOK Copy #4 of 30 -
ARCHIVE of DR. HILDA BAILEY, FIRST WOMAN PEDIATRICIAN in SALISBURY, NC - 8 Volumes of Physician Records / Patient Visits / Narcotic Preparation Registers -
MAPS OF THE STREETS OF BOSTON Made For The Selectmen in 1819 & 1820 with 140 MAPS - A Facsimile published by Boston City Register in 1894 -
"BUGS" Original Early DRAFT Screenplay A BUGS LIFE 1995 PIXAR Hi Tech Toons RARE SCRIPT -
1671 First Edition GUILLELMO DONDINI - HISTORIA de REBUS in GALLIA GESTIS ab ALEXANDRO FARNESIO - with ALL 5 PLATES -
Radical Era BLACK ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST Alvin Hollingsworth Scarce 1970 Exhibition Catalogue -
1950s FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM w/ 50 SNAPSHOTS in BOATS on BEACH with BIG FISH -
FAHRENHEIT 451 the 1966 FILM - An ARCHIVAL COLLECTION of Booklets, Photographs, Poster, Lobby Card, and Ephemera - FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, JULIE CHRISTIE, RAY BRADBURY, **SIGNED** - Rare & Unusual Items -
1963 VINYL LP ALBUM RECORDING of DE ANZA HIGH SCHOOL, Richmond, California, PERFORMING "ANNIE GET YOUR GUN" -
WOMAN'S KOREAN WAR ARCHIVE - FEMALE MARINE CORPS SERGEANT - 1950s USMC "WAR GAL" -
RICHARD PRINCE Art Exhibition Catalog TELLING STORIES (With Digressions) 2012 -
FOUR PHOTOS of INGMAR BERGMAN Directing LENA OLIN in AFTER THE REHEARSAL -
1684 HISTORY of ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES & CHURCH FINANCES / HISTOIRE de l'ORIGINE & du PROGRÈS des REVENUS ECCLÉSIASTIQUES -
1978 Latin American Photography REVOLUTIONARY Exhibition Catalogue SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION 1750 Copies HECHO EN LATINOAMERICA Made In Latino America -
1734 Vellum JUDICIAL WORKS / LEGAL WRITINGS of Joannis Yanez Parladorii in LATIN -
CLAES OLDENBURG **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** NOTES IN HAND - MINIATURES OF MY NOTEBOOK PAGES Illustrated w/ 50 COLOR PLATES -
1924 LATER POEMS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS - SIGNED LIMITED & NUMBERED #207 of 250 -
PHILIPPINE COSTUME by Renowned FILIPINO FASHION DESIGNER PITOY MORENO *SIGNED & INSCRIBED* -
ZERO GUTAI KUSAMA Important ART MOVEMENTS Bonhams Exhibition Catalog ILLUSTRATED London 2015 -
1998 THICK AS THIEVES FILM SCREENPLAY - MAKEUP ARTIST'S PERSONAL COPY with 105 TIPPED-IN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS Alec Baldwin, Rebecca De Mornay -
MODERN UTOPIAN COMMUNES, JAPAN Illustrated RARE 1972 -
JOHN BALDESSARI SIGNED CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ - SIX VOLUME SET - INSCRIBED to MARGO LEAVIN (Margo Leavin Gallery) plus 3 SIGNED & NUMBERED COLOPHON/LIMITATION LABELS for SMOKE, TREE, SHADOW & PERSON Prints -
1737-1796 HANDWRITTEN EPHEMERA LEDGER DOCS - COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA AMERICANA -
1669-1680s ITALIAN MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNTS BOOK LUCIDO SPARAPANI et al TRENTO, ITALY -
THE FLORIST AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL 2 Bound Volumes ILLUSTRATED with HAND-COLORED PLATES of PLANTS & FLOWERS Published in Philadelphia 1852 & 1854 -
1958 FAREWELL TO ARMS - ORIGINAL DIALOGUE & CUTTING CONTINUITY - 18 REEL MOVIOLA SCRIPT / SCREENPLAY - Selznick Studios -
Two Scrapbooks CASSELTON, NORTH DAKOTA Photos Articles Notes Ephemera JEANNIE LA BREE -
JOYCE CAROL OATES Broadside GREAT BLUE HERON "Presentation Copy" SIGNED Limited Edition 1/126 -
1974 CAROL SHIELDS - INTERSECT : POEMS - Her Second Book - First Edition / First Printing -
LEWIS HAYDEN EX-SLAVE in Rare 1873 MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PHOTOBOOK -
Timothy Leary TERRA ll One Trip TICKET TO RIDE Folsom Prison To OUTER SPACE Scarce Counterculture Drug Ephemera 1974 -
Raja RAM MOHAN ROY AUTOGRAPH LETTER Laid-In His 1825 PRECEPTS OF JESUS Both with IMPORTANT ASSOCIATIONS -
1565 CICERO Sententiae Insigniores + ISOCRATES Oratoris Philosophi Clarissimi -
BURNING MAN - EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE in BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA 2011-2015 -
MACABRE ARMENIAN DEVOTIONAL Sinners Tortured By Demons Horrific ETERNAL DAMNATION ENGRAVINGS Decorate This Early 19th Century ARMENIAN Christian Spirituality Book -
1888 SMITH COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPH - WOMEN'S COLLEGE - 14 College Girls w/ 8 Names on Backside -
GRATEFUL DEAD TWENTY FIVE YEARS ***SIGNED & INSCRIBED*** EUROPE TOUR BOOK 1990 -
METAL-CLAD BLIMP ZMC-2 Album w/ 34 PHOTOS of its PRODUCTION + SAMPLE of its HULL -
TUBA VIEWS - Over 200 VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES featuring TUBAS Signed 1/750 -
OSCAR PETTIFORD Legendary BLACK JAZZ Bass Player AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH 1949 -
Handwritten Genealogy BARRETT FAMILY of NEW HAMPSHIRE in 18th & 19th Centuries -
DORIS LESSING POSTER - SIGNED & INSCRIBED - LECTURE & CONVERSATION EVENT to BENEFIT AFGHAN REFUGEES 1984 -
NOVEMBER THE NINTH AT KERSEA by ANTHONY SWIFT (J. Jefferson Farjeon) FIRST ED -
HAWAIIAN HULA and BODY ORNAMENTATION 1778 to 1858 Ethnohistory