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 about CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER; The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
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 about ACCENT ON LIFE
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 about PAGANS CONQUISTADORES HEROES AND MARTYRS; The Spiritual Conquest of America
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 about WWI Army Bugler/ Leslie's Weekly 1917 Cover, Paperbacked
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 about THE DIARY OF MARY ATKINS
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 about PROVISIONS OF THE CODES AND GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF...
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 about PRESSES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THEIR BOOKS 1900-1933
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 about THE LOG OF APOLLO; Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of the Ship Apollo from New York...
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 about LEGENDS OF THE COMSTOCK LODE
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 about ROBINSON JEFFERS AND THE SEA
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 about THE CALIFORNIA PILGRIM; A Series of Lectures
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 about Books About Books) MUSIC AND DRAMA. A Bibliography of Bibliographies
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 about ECHOES OF THE PAST; An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont in the Conquest...
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 about THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA
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 about A JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA, 1841.; The Journal of John Bidwell. The First Emigrant Party to...
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 about A JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA, 1841.; The Journal of John Bidwell. The First Emigrant Party to...
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 about ORIGINAL POSTER: SECOND ANNUAL TRIBAL STOMP
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 about AURIFODINA OR ADVENTURES IN THE GOLD REGIONS; A Fantastical '49er Novel
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 about Autographed Photograph) JACQUELINE BISSET
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 about PILOT BAILS OUT
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. (xvi) 576 pages. Dust jacket. Preface by Lawrence Clark Powell. Endpaper list of symbols for library holdings. Dark red cloth. 7" x 10 1/2". Histories of the State of California, References, Index of Authors and Publishers. Compiled by the California Library... More about CALIFORNIA LOCAL HISTORY, A Centennial Bibiography
El Paso: Texas Western Press (The University of Texas at El Paso), 1967. First Edition. (x) 182 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author in ink on the front free endpaper ("To Mr. Thomas I. Cook with very good wishes, Elroy Bode"), Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated by Jose Cisneros. Octavo. Brown... More about Texas) ELROY BODE'S TEXAS SKETCHBOOK; A Sheaf of Prose Poems
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. First Edition, Stated. Boards. (xiii) 333 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout, primarily from vintage photographs. Octavo. Red boards. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Well-researched and well-written by San Francisco lawyer John Bossenecker. Divided in three parts: (1) The Lawmen; (2) The Outlaws; (3) Lawbreakers and... More about BADGE AND BUCKSHOT; Lawlessness In Old California
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. 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 1200 copies... More about THE FIRST SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, The Story of The Book Club of California 1912-1987
New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. (x) (2) 214 pages. Dust jacket. Appendices. Illustrated. Greeting from Justice William O. Douglas. Foreword by Charles Burroughs Anderson. Gold Cloth. A smart collection of essays and eclectica by John Tebbel, Alice Payne Hackett, Sylvia Beach (on Shakespeare... More about BOOKSELLING IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD. In Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the American...
