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
New York: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1917. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL World War One poster, usually called "THE CHILD AT YOUR DOOR". Lithograph. Expertly linen-backed by the artisans at Innis Archive, the poster measures 13 3/4"x 20 1/4" with a 2" white linen-backed border. The..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. (xiv) 224 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author in ink on the half-title: "To Blanche Sutherland / With best wishes for the enjoyment of sharing friends through this book--Margaret Bartlett Anderson / Boulder, Colo. Nov. 15, 1963". Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth..... More
South Brunswick & New York: Poetry Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. 63 pp. Dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispice portrait of George Sterling from photograph, with facsimile signature. Foreword, including Sterling biographical material by Charles Angoff (1902-1972), managing editor of Americna Mercury magazine and professor of English at Fairleigh..... More
Banff, Canada: Byron Harmon, 1929. Later printing. Original Illustrated Wrappers. (1) 24 pages. Illustrated from 24 photgraphs of the Canadian Pacific Rockies, hand colored and full page (rectos only). One page of Notes on the pictures. Heavy card stock illustrated wrappers, bound with string bow. Oblong Quarto. 8 5/8" x 12..... More
South Pasadena, California: South Pasadena Public Library, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. 91 (1) pages. Illustrated, mostly from vintage photographs. Foreword ("Twin Tracks") by Lawrence Clark Powell. Index. Black cloth; gilt titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Designed by Ward Ritchie. Printed by Premier Printing Corporation, Brea. Laid in is a...... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine in Custom Mylar Jacket. 8vo. 54 pages. Illustrated, including some from color photographs of the Club rooms. Terra cotta boards; teal cloth backstrip. Gilt lettering and decorations. A Fine copy. Later custom mylar protective jacket. Limited to..... 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
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
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. (xi) 280 pages. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith, including frontispiece and many marginal sketches. Original olive green pictorial cloth with gilt titling. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2". Per The Zamorano 80, #2: "These charming sketches of the..... 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
Berkeley: The Book Arts Club : University of California, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. (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..... 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: Grahame Hardy, 1951. First Edition. Boards. 130 (6) pp. SIGNED by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg in ink on the limitation page. Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout, imcluding vintage black and white photographs. Endpapers illustrated from color drawings of cable cars. Line drawings by E. S. Hammack. Brown..... 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
Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) (2) 214 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated, primarily from vintage black and white photographs. Index. Appendices. Folding diagram of Locomotive No. 5 (NOTE: The locomotive itself is on display at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad and Transportation..... 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1937. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. xxii (2) pages. With an Original leaf from the 1611 King James Bible tipped in, containing "Zechariah", Chapter II-V, "A wall of fire". Limited to 300 copies. Printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Double columns. Four hand-illuminated..... 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
