San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. 119 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink twice by George Sterling. The inscription on a front free endpaper is: "Dear Jack: Here's one more book - and I don't promise to quit even now! / Ever your friend, George / Dec. 8th, 1921"..... More
San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. Third Edition. Cloth. 142 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED twice by George Sterling. First, in ink on a front free endpaper: "Dear Frank: Be kind to my firstling book:"I was young then." Yours ever, George. Carmel, California. Nov. 12th , 1912." Second, in ink on the half..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. First Edition, First State. Cloth. 137 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Sterling in ink on a front free endpaper to his sister: "To Isabelle, from her loving brother, George. / Carmel, California, January 7th, 1909." Sterling also SIGNED the title page in ink. First Edition..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 70 pages including colophon. Edition limited to 750 un-numbered copies. Colt Press printer's device and marginal woodcut vignettes by Mallette Dean. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Black cloth-backed boards with paper spine label and paper printer's device affixed to front..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1946. First Thus. Cloth-backed decorated boards. (vii) 32 (1) pp. Number 5 in the Colt Press Series of California Classics. Edition limited to 500 un-numbered copies. Illustrated from wood engravings by Mallette Dean. Printed by The Grabhorn Press (GB #428). Handset types. Cloth-backed decorated boards..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912. First Thus. Cloth-backed decorated boards. (vii) 124 pages. First thus, including a few poems from other collections and newspapers, adding to the 1908 edition.Tipped-in frontispiece from photograph by Frances MacCulloch of the view of San Francisco ruins taken from Russian Hill, with tissue guard..... More
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1908. First Edition. 44 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by INA COOLBRITH in ink on the title page: "To my dear girl Josie Zeller from her friend Ina Coolbrith / Dec. 1907". Illustrated from original illustrations by Maynard Dixon, including the front cover, two paintings and several drawings..... More
New York: Paul Elder & Company, 1907. First Edition. Illustrated boards. 79 pages. Illustrated including a frontispiece and several plates in color by Merle Johnson. The Tomoye Press. 5" x 7 7/8". Paper-backed illustrated boards. A series of "yarns" or very short stories, including firefighting and baseball. Published by San..... More
Oakland: DeWitt & Snelling, 1913. First Edition. Original wraps. 48 pp. Frontispiece portrait of author from a photograph. Printed wrappers. 6" x9". In a custom board folder. Author Wooley travelled overland from Vermont to California in the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, he became a member of the Vigilance Committee..... More
