Covelo, Calfirona: Carolyn and James Robertson (The Yolla Bolly Press), 1983. First Thus. Cloth. (xiv) (2) 28 (16) pages. Illustrated from vintage family photographs. Foreword by son Garth Sherwood Jeffers. Number 193 of a limited edition of 265 numbered copies and 20 presentation copies. Hand-set Goudy's Californian types on Rives..... More
New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. 262 pages. No. 217 of a limited edition of 487 copies, the last twelve of which were for presentation. Original green cloth. Black spine label with gilt titling. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Illustrated, including a tipped-in frontispiece from a photograph of the..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. (xiv) 486 pages. First Edition. Dust jacket. Illustrated from text drawings, photographs and maps. Large octavo. Cloth-backed boards. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The parallel biographies of George Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse, the leader of the Oglala Sioux; the American..... More
Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1964. First Edition. (xv) 386 pages. SIGNED by Merle Armitage in ink on the half title. First Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by John Charles Thomas. Illustrated primarily from black and white photographs. Illustrated endpapers by R. Osborn. Black cloth. Large..... More
Santa Fe: Manzanita Press, 1960. First Edition. Illustrated stiff wraps. 101 pages. Illustrated stiff wraps. Folding map in rear. 5" x 7". Designed and compiled by Merle Armitage. Assisted by Peter Ribera Ortega. Foreword by Rev. Francis Tournier, S.T.L.; Editor: New Mexico Register. A history of early Spanish colonial activities..... More
New York: Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 1917. First Edition thus. An Original magazine cover for the April 26, 1917 issue of Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. Paperbacked. Cover art by American Illustrator Orson Lowell, who did covers and cartoons for the first Life magazine and Judge, Century, Scribner's, Puck and Success..... More
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL photograph of a young Fred Astaire by famed photographer Ernest A. Bachrach. Sepia; glossy finish. 8" x 10". The credits in purple stamping on the verso state the photograph is by famed photographer Ernest A. Bachrach (1900-1990) and that..... More
Mills College, California: The Eucalyptus Press, 1937. First Edition. (7) 46 pages. First Edition. NOTE: This copy is SIGNED in ink by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt (who authored the Introduction) and all the members of the Mills College faculty at the time of publication; a total of 30 signatures, in alphabetical..... More
Washington DC: United States Office of the Coast Survey, 1856. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL map of The Entrance to San Francisco Bay. 1856. 25 1/2" x 39 1/2", with a 2" linen border. Black and white. Scale: 1/50,000. Full title: "Preliminary Chart of Entrance to San Francisco Bay..... More
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Leather. (xv) 280 pages. INSCRIBED by General Samuel Backus in ink to Professor John LeConte in ink on a front free endpaper, "Professor John LeConte / President - University of Cal. / Compliments / Samuel W. Backus / Adjutant -General Cal." Original..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. Second Edition. Vol. I: (xix) 220 pages. Vol.II: (xix) 217 pages. Second edition, after the limited 1939 Derrydale Press first edition. Black slipcase with printed cover label. Both volumes in red cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Written in a unique and pleasing style, with..... More
Berkeley: The Book Arts Club : University of California, 1934. First Edition. (xxii) (1) 276 (1) pages. First Edtion limited to 400 numbered copies, of which this is #274. Introduction. Source bibliography. Index, including titles of books printed by the described presses. 7" x 10 1/4". Green cloth. Leather spine..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. First Edition. 122 pages. First Edition. One of 550 limited copies. Prosptectus laid in. Blue cloth. Printed spine and cover title labels. Quarto. Color frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated with eight plates (including two folding). Designed and printed at the Arion Press, San..... More
Oakland, California: Grahame Hardy, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 79 (1r) pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by both authors on the front free endpaper. IIlustrated, including drawings by E. S. Hammack and vintage photographs. Cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Tales of the Comstock Lode in and arouind Virginia City..... More
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1936. First Edition. (xiv) (2) 173 (3) pages. First Edition. Limtited to 300 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated by 8 plates plus the frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Octavo. Quarter bound..... More
Sacramento: Solomon Alter, 1853. First Edition. (viii) 261 pages. Small octavo. Black cloth.Gold stamped spine titling. Illustrated: 6 plates by Charles Nahl. First Edition. Per Cowan II, 48: "Written in the form of an allegory, this work gives many details of Californian life. The author, a clergyman, was the founder..... More
Totowa, N. J: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. Later printing. Cloth. (xiv) 365 pages. 12mo. Green cloth. Separate catagory edition relating to Music and Drama, extracted from Besterman's five volume set covering all bibliographies. A useful research tool, including bibliographies, periodicals, etc., from different countries. A Near Fine (prior owner's embossed..... More
Chico, California: Chico Advertiser, 1914. First Edition thus. Staplebound Wraps. 91 pages. Green printed stapled wrappers. Illustrated, including a small portrait of the author on the title page and three half-tone photograpphs. 5" x 7". First published in The Century Magazine, General Bidwell's memoir includes his participation in the first..... More
Menlo Park, California: Penlitho Press, 1966. First Thus. 54 (2) pages. First Edition Thus. Illustrated from drawings by Frederic Remington. Portrait of John Bidwell. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Number 209 of 500 copies. Small signed gift card laid in, compliments of Peninsula Lithograph Company (publisher). Map endpapers. Beige Cloth. 7..... More
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. First Edition thus. 55 pages plus 32 page facsimile of Bidwell's Journal (From the only known copy, now in the Bancroft). Folding map showing Route of the Bartleson-Bidwell Party. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Bibliography. Blue..... More
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. First Edition thus. Decorated Cloth. 55 pages plus 32 page facsimile of Bidwell's Journal (From the only known copy, now in the Bancroft). Folding map showing Route of the Bartleson-Bidwell Party. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy..... More
San Francisco: Avalon Ballroom, 1967. Linen-backed. This is an ORIGINAL poster (FD 48) for the SECOND ANNUAL TRIBAL STOMP to be held February 17-18, 1967 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, and featuring Big Brother and The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Oxford Circle. The poster features a...... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1974. First Thus. 103 (2) pages. Preface by Professor James D. Hart. Collage illustrations by Bruce Conner, Octavo. Black Cloth; gilt front cover and spine titling. One of 400 un-numbered copies printed in San Francisco at the Press of Andrew Hoyem. A reprint..... More
Hollywood: 1965. This is a 8" x 10" black and white glossy still photograph of actress JACQUELINE BISSETT, in a hat with flowers, autographed by Ms.Bisset in blue ink. Ms. Bisset has been a lovely English movie star since the 1960's. Some of her films include The Deep, Bullitt, The..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated Cloth. 85 pages. SIGNED in ink by Don Blanding on the front free endpaper, "Aloha Don Blanding". Illustrated from drawings by Don Blanding. Frontispiece from photograph showing lei-bedecked Don Blanding walking ashore from seaplane. Sans dust jacket. 5..... More
