San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. (8) 483 pp. Designed by Adrian Wilson. Preface by Donald C. Biggs, Director. Guiding Principles. Cloth. 7" x 10". The California Historical Society was founded in 1871. It was dissolved in 2025 and its collections were moved to the Stanford University..... More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. (xi) 367 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated. Compiled by Betty Adler with the assistance of Jane Wilhelm. Blue cloth. 6" x 9 1/4". Published for The Enoch Pratt Free Library on its 75th Anniversary. Index. A comprehensive bibliography of the writings..... More
Philadelphia: The S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co., 1905. First Edition. Original wrappers with Text. 32 pp. Illustrated, primarily from drawings. Original brown wrappers with text. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2". Laid in are pages 9-10 from the December 1906 S. S. White catalog. The first half of the Catalog..... More
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1966. First Edition. Melbourne: F W. Cheshire, 1966. Cloth First Edition Fine in Fine DJ 261 pages. Appendices. Index. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped dustjacket, now in a protective clear Brodart sleeve. Small bookseller's label at front pastedown..... More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Boards. ix, 234 (1) pp. Index. Green glossy paper over boards. 6 1/4" x 9". Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature, Number 18. From the Preface: "This bibliography lists and annotates writings about Ralph Waldo Emerson in English that apperared from..... More
San Francisco: Roxburghe Club, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. (vii) 17 pp. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Preface by K. K. Bechtel. Introduction/biographical note by Susanna Bryant Dakin. Published for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs in Los Angeles on September 11 and 12, 1954. Green cloth..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. 167 (2) pp. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and blank order envelope laid in. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor of Austin, Texas. Red cloth; paper spine title label. 8 1/4" x 11 1/4". Illustrated, including from period..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. 247 pp. SIGNED in ink by Dick Francis on the title page and by his son Felix Francis on the dedication page. Illustrated from black and white period photographs, mostly horseracing. Afterword. Index. Illustrated dust jacket..... More
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin / Primavera Press, 1932. First Edition. Boards. 74 pp. Yellow boards; red front cover paper titling. 5" x 7 3/4". Bookplate of California bibliophile Arthur R. Anderson on the front pastedown. This is the first edition of this book, which was later revised and enlarged by..... More
Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1958. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Boards. 87 pp. Preface by Editor Lawrence Clark Powell. Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies, printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by both Lawrence Clark Powell and Jake Zeitlin: "For John B. Lee for auld..... More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xxvii) 335 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Maps. Cloth-backed boards. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Selected bibliography. Indes of Places, Events, Things. Index of Persons. A well-researched and described guide to the important places in expatriate Paris. From the jacket..... More
Portland: Richard Abel & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 140 pp. Annotated by William F. Heintz. Foreword by Thomas W. Chinn, a Founder and First President, Chinese Historical Society of America. Two Illustrations. One of 1000 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Orange cloth. Index..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961. First Thus. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. (8) 106 (1) pages. First Edition Thus. Illustrated by David Stone Martin. Limited edition of 475 un-numbered copies. Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Edited with Introduction by Prof. James D...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, mostly from period photographs, including frontispiece portrait of Sadakichi Hartman. Long Introduction by Jane Calhoun Weaver. Chronology. Checklist of Artists named in the Essays. Hartmann Bibliography. Index. Gray cloth; gilt spine titling. 6" x...... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. xix, 172 pp. Abbreviations. Title Index. Series Index. Name Index. Format Index. Gray cloth. Silver titling. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2". Bibliographies and Index in American Literature, Number 7. This bibliography "...provides a comprehensive listing of all Little Golden Book titles issued..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. (vi) 89 (1) pp. SIGNED in ink by author Gary F. Kurutz on the title page. Prospectus laid in. Edition limited to 600 un-numbered copies. Printed at The Grace Hoper Press. Frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Truman and his family..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 81 pages. One of a limited edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press. Bound by Cardoza-James Binding company with photographs printed by Marin Star Graphic Arts. Cloth with gilt spine-titling..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 81 (3) pp. Illustrated, including frontispiece of Frank Pixley at his desk from a photograph. Plain paper dust jacket. Custom spine titling. Prospectus, ordering envelope and delivery notice laid in. One of an edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Illustrated..... More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (5) 239 (2) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, mostly from personal photographs. Cloth-backed boards; gilt spine titling. 6" x 9 1/2". A memoir by the brilliant New Yorker writer telling of her forty year love affair with William Shawn,The New Yorker's..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. 442 (1) pp. Dust Jacket. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". A collection of her well-known New Yorker pieces by Lillian Ross: The Yellow Bus; Symbol of All We Possess; The Big Stone; Terrific; El Unico Matador; Portrait of..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1980. First Edition. Cloth. 274 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Frontis portrait. Illustrated from photographs. Index. Bibliography. Cloth. Octavo. Silver spine lettering. A well-researched biography of O'Hara, the hard-drinking author of Butterfield 8, Appontment In Samara, From The Terrace and Pal Joey. O'Hara..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. (xiv) (2) 68 (1) pp. One of 550 un-numbered copies of a limited edition. 32 illustrations, including 8 in color and 3 folding. Notes. Chronological checklist of Mexican lithographic works: 1826-1899. List of printers and lithographers of..... More
New York: Harper & & Row, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 412 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Notes. Bibliography. Index. White cloth with gilt spine titling. The story of the celebrity foreign correspondent reporters (Harry Scovel, Stephen Crane, Cora Taylor, Richard Harding Davis, James Creelman and others) covering the Spanish-American War in..... More
