Chicago: Townsend National Weekly, Inc, 1940. (Mylar) First Edition Thus. Inscribed By Author. 24mo. 158 pages. Appendix. INSCRIBED in ink by author/U.S. Senator from California, Sheridan Downey at the FFE, "To Richard Kendrick/ Compliments/ Sheridan Downey/ Washington, DC/ Sept. 26, 1940." Blue cloth with paper cover title. Some minor edgewear..... More
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Merle Armitage Editions, 1948. First Edition. 193 pages; 8 pageds from vintage b/w photographs. SIGNED by author Erna Fergusson in ink on the half title. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt titling. Map front endpapers. Frontispiece illustration by Peter Hurd. Two newspaper clippings of..... More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1882. 288 pages. 12mo. Original red decorated cloth. Although the cover states, "Second Series" there was no first series. This is Josephus Daniels' copy, with his signature in ink on the front free endpaper, and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Daniels (1862-1948) was a...... More
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2012. First Edition. (x) 272 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated primarily from period photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Octavo. Cloth. The biography of Pulitzer prize-winning sportswriter Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times, who was syndicated in more than 200 newspapers. He was..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1941. First Edition. (xiv) 442 pages. First Edition with (1) on last page. Illustrated, including plates, throughout from drawings by E. H. Suydam. Illustrated dust jacket and endpapers. Large octavo. Cloth. Index. Gift insciption and gift card laid in. From the jacket, "This happy combination..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. 143 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Sucheng Chan. Illustrated from photographs and maps, including some vintage photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Green cloth with gilt cover and spine titling. Much information about the Chinese/American town of Locke, California, on the Sacramento River..... More
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1996. First edition. Boards First edition Fine in Fine DJ (viii) 309 pages. INSCRIBED in ink by Joe Gores on the title page, "To Ron--Oddly enough, almost all of the outrageous goings-on in this novel (except the murders) really happened during my detective days. Warmest..... More
Berkeley: The Sather Gate Book Shop, 1930. First Edition. (vii) 108 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titling. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". A book of poetry including 42 sonnets, many dealing with California subjects. Author Charles S. Greene (1856-1930) was a poet and Editor of The Overland Monthly from 1887..... More
Urbana, Illinois: Mendocino Book Partnership, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. 95 pages. First Edition. SIGNED by Artist Gregory and Author Bear in ink on the first title page. Illustrated in color from oil and watercolor paintings by David Gregory. Two maps. Illustrated dust jacket. 8 3/4" x 11". Maroon cloth..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Cloth-backed decorated boards. [13], 77, [1] pages. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Large Octavo. Illustrated. One of 550 copies. The first volume of the Grabhorn's Third Series of Rare Americana, printed in San Francisco in December, 1934. Shadow of offset to endpapers, but a FINE copy..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. (xiii)347 pages. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by Author Ansel F. Hall in ink on a front free endpaper ("To J. G. Larson with the sincere good wishes of Ansel F. Hall / Yosemite Valley, Aug. 11, 1922"). Dark green illustrated cloth. Illustrated from drawings..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First Edition. (xii) 897 pages. First Edition. Illustrated Dust Jacket. Black boards, Silver spine titling. 7" x 10". Illustrated, including black and white stills and posters. Alphabetical Index of Alternative titles. From the jacket: "Here is the ideal reference book for instant information on..... More
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College (Chapin Library), 1982. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. 32 pages. Profusely illustrated from Falls' illustrations. Illustrated orange wrappers. 7" x 10". One of a limited edition of 750 un-numbered copies. A illustrated introduction to the work of artist C. B. Falls (1874 - 1960), whose collected works..... More
Millburn, N.J. Paper Mill Playhouse, 1983. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. This is an ORIGINAL program for the 1983 production of "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey (The "State Theater of New Jersey"). It is SIGNED in ink twice by star Jason Robards;..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1990. First Edition. 333 pages. Illustrated from vintage black and white photographs and drawings. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. A detailed history of America's premier wine region, starting in 1838 with the planting of a small vineyard by George Yount. A fine copy..... More
Gonzaga University: Spokane, 1986. First Edition Thus. Cloth. 84 (2) pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Limited edition: #740 0f 750 copies. 6 5/8" x 10". Blue cloth with paper spine label. Printed in Baskerville types and bound by Harold Berliner of Nevada City, California. Introduction by Ernest Ferlits, S. J. The..... More
Ashland, Oregon: Lewis Osborne, 1973. First Thus. (vii) 70 pages. First Edition Thus. Number 122 of 500 copies. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Illustrated including several from drawings of pre-earthquake San Francisco. Index. Large octavo. Linen-backed decorated boards. A9 collection of four period articles: Will Irwin,"The City That Was"; William Marion..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949. First Edition. (xx) 346 pages. First Edition. Illustrated Dust Jacket. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Author in ink on a front free endpaper, "Fro Berniece C. Furlong / a good bookwoman / Most cordially and sincerely / Joseph Henry Jackson / Berkeley California 1949"..... More
Pasadena: The Radiant Life Press, 1921. Second Edition. (xiii) 395 pages. Second Edition (stated). Illustrated from photographs by the Author. Folding panaoramic plate from photograph of nearby Fallen Leaf Lake and surrounding lakes. Large folding map of LakeTahoe by Author James. t.e.g. Appendices, including Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe. Index..... More
Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1934. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL fully restored, linenbacked three-sheet (41" x 81") theatrical movie poster for "THE FIGHTING RANGER" starring Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Frank Rice, Bradley Page and Ward Bond. Buck Jones posters from the 1930's are among the most colorful, spectacular and..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Cloth. 253 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Idwall Jones in ink on the front free endpaper, "To Warren Wass, Esq., hero of the Expedition to the Todos Santos Islands, with regards from a fellow survivor, Idwall Jones / April 1952"..... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1955. First Thus. Cloth. (x) 44 (4) pp. Edition limited to 500 un-nimbered copies. "First California Edition", printed by Times-Star Press, Alameda, California. California Relations Series, 39. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. After the rare 1851 edition in the Huntington Library. Brown cloth; gilt front cover titling. 6..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. 327 pages. Illustrated including a folding map: "Central California About1880". Bibliography. Index. Original brown cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Several pages unopened. A well-detailed history of hydraulic gold mining in California, from its inception, the battles between the foothill miner and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1917. First Edition. (xv), 307 pages. First Edition ("(1)" at end of text.). Blue cloth, flexible covers. Gilt front cover and spine titling. Illustrated. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4". Small bookseller's stamp (Hale's Books and Stationary) on rear pastedown. Appendices, including addresses of National..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press..... More
