Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. 125 (2) pp. This is copy #1 of 125 copies, specially bound and slip cased and SIGNED by the artist, Ben Abril (1923-1995). Laid in is an ORIGINAL oil and watercolor painting on card stock titled "Bodie/Main Street" (7..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1926. First Edition. Illustrated Color Wrappers. 48 pages. Color illustrated stapled wrappers. Illustrated throughout from black and white period photographs. 6" x 9". Frontispiece from drawing of the "New Los Angeles City Hall". A profusley illustrated booklet extolling the virtues of living and..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1916. First Edition. (16) 41 pp. Illustrated throughout from drawings (Pedro Lemos) and photographs (Louis Stellman). Facsimiles of newspapers, advertisement. Strung and stapled yellow pictorial wrappers; yapp edges. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". A publication of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce engendered..... More
Sacramento: A. G. Lee, 1915 (December). First Thus. Original wrappers. 48 pp. Original red stapled wrappers with numerous advertisements. 3" x 5 1/2". Two page map of Sacramento, California. "Merry Christmas To All" on front cover. Numerous advertisements and articles for local businesses throughout. Guide to Sacramento sights of interest..... More
San Francisco: Bank of America, 1956. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL folded sheet booklet: "GUIDE TO THE MOTHER LODE. MARIPOSA TO SIERRAVILLE", 1956. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Folded: 3 3/4" x 8 3/4". Unfolded: 17 1/2" x 15 1/4". It unfolds to show a map of the California..... More
Stanford, California: Board of Athletic Control, Stanford University, 1932. First Edition. Unpaginated (16). Illustrated stapled wrappers. 7 3/4" x 10 3/4". Profusely illustrated from photographs of football players and coaching staffs of University of Southern California and Stanford. At the center two page spread by Chesterfield cigarettes (the only advertisement..... More
New York: A. Wittemann, 1897. Boards. This is an ORIGINAL booklet of period illustrations from photographs of Sacramento, California, in 1897. Photographs include the Capitol Building, the Senate Room, the Post Office, Sacramento River and Sutter's Fort, among others. Unpaginated (but 36 pages). 5" x 7". Black boards with silver..... 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
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 photographs. 5" x 7". First published in The Century Magazine, General Bidwell's memoir includes his participation in the first..... More
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
Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California: Al Bolton, 1976. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 107 pp. SIGNED in printed ink by the Author on the copyright page. #123 of 1000 limited edition copies. Illustrated from separate color separation prints of pottery by the author, each print tipped in (some glue loose). Printed..... More
Camarillo, California: Golden Boots Company, 1993. First Edition. (vi) 102 pp. SIGNED in ink by Gypsy Boots on the title page. Illustrated, mostly from period photgraphs, some in color. Illustrated wrappers. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". A collection of biography, health tips, recipes and philosophy by "nature boy" Gypsy Boots..... More
Carmel-By-The-Sea California: The Seven Arts, 1925. First Edition. Illustrated orange boards. 109 pp.SIGNED in ink by both authors on a front free endpaper. Illustrated throughout from B/W photographs and line drawings by local artists (including one at p. 63 by Jo Mora). Orange illustrated boards. 5" x 7 3/4". A...... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1924. Second Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. (v) (1) 51 (1) pp. Profusley illustrated from drawings of San Francisco scenes by Francis A. Todhunter (1884-1963). Typographical plan by John Henry Nash. Blue pictorial wrappers. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Rubber stamp "Compliments of The San..... More
NP: Self Published, 1958. First Edition. Original wrappers. 153 pp. Illustrated. Folding map in rear. Bibliography. Index. Original yellow wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". Scarce. The well-documented history of a complicated land dispute between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, which culminated in a deadly shoot-out which took place..... More
San Francisco: Jonck & Seeger, 1930. First edition. 64 pages. Frontis portratit of author, photogravure by Ansel Adams, with tissue guard. Large octavo. Gray cloth-backed gray boards, now in a custom clear protective jacke. Printed by Jonck & Seeger, San Francisco. Some unopened pages. 19 poems. Small bookplate of California..... More
Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Cloth. (ix) 276 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Herb Caen on a front free endpaper: "For Paul Pollack - A man of distinction in the most distinctive of citites - Best, Herb Caen". First Edition (stated). Cloth. Octavo. Illustrated..... More
San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. 64 pp. Illustrated primarily from vintage B/W photographs. Index. Illustrated stapled wrappers. 7" x 10". In addition to its usual reporting and promotion functions, this brochure highlights the upcoming Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 (February 20 to December 4, 1915)..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1969. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. (xviii) 446 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author, banker and historian Clarke on the half-title. Illustrated dust jacket. Letter form California Historical Society and Prospectus from Lane Magazine & Book Company laid in. Map endpapers. Illustated from period photographs, including..... More
Nevada City, California: Legg & Shaw, Circa 1885. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL bill showing purchases made by Chester W. Chapman, DDS, from Legg & Shaw of Main Street, Nevada City, California, during the months of July and August, Circa 1885. Single sheet. 8 1/2" x 14". Printed billhead..... More
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850. First Edition, Second Issue. 408 pages plus 20 pages publisher's advts. on rear endpapers. Includes an ad for Colton's upcoming Three Years In Alta California ("In press, and will shortly be published"). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Commodore R. F. Stockton with tissue..... More
San Marino: The lHuntington Library, 1945. First Edition. (xxvi) 119 pages. First edition thus. Illustrated. Illustrated, including frontis portrait of Crosby from a photograph. Index. Small octavo. Black cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Printed by Anderson & Ritchie / The Ward Ritchie Press. Lawyer Crosby arrived in California in 1849, and..... More
San Francisco: The Author, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Patterned boards. (v) 302 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by the auhor in ink on a front free endpaper: "To my friends Dr. J. N. Henry and Mrs. Ruth C. Henry / November 1954 / R. H. Cross". Illustrated including from vintage photographs. Map of..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1914. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xi) 80 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Davis in ink on the front free endpaper: "To Guy C. Earl, In loving remembrance of the afternoon on Angel island, John F. Davis." Signed bookplate on front pastedown: Graham of Montrose. Illustrated, including..... 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
