San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1930. Second Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xxvii) 232 pp. Presentation copy, SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Publisher/Printer Thomas C. Russell in ink on the limitation page: "Wilber F. Swett from the Printer / Christmas, 1930 / Thomas C. Russell". Two hand printed photogravure portraits of..... More

Palo Alto: Stanford University Students, 1901. First Edition. 23 pages text; 15 pages advertisements. Gray stapled illustrated wrappers. 7" x 10 1/4". The Stanford Sequoia was a literary magazine published by Stanford students every Friday of the college year. Articles in this issue include "The New Post Office" by Ruth..... More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 184 (7) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from period photographs. Frontispiece portrait of Steinbeck from photograph by Phillipe Halsman. "First Day of Issue" addressed envelope with U.S. John Steinbeck stamp affixed laid in. Blue cloth; silver titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"..... More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. First Edition. Illustrated boards. 129 (1) pages. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographs. Quarto. Illustrated boards. Paper spine label. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. Prospectus laid in. Set in Janson-Antiqua and Linotype Janson types. Printed by Graham Mackintosh. The definitive..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. First Edition/First Printing. Cloth. (xxxiii) 347 pages.Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from vintage black and white photographs. Foreword by Beach biographer Noel Riley Fitch. Chronology. Index. Glossary of Correspondents. Appendices. Introduction including Notes and References. Cloth. Octavo. A well-organized collection of Beach's significant correspondence over..... More