Los Angeles: Murrieta Hot Springs, 1927. This is an ORIGINAL brochure for Guenther's Murrieta Hot Springs in Murrieta, California. Illustrated from B/W vintage photographs of the resort and an "Auto Road Map" of Southern California, showing the main roads to the resort. The brochure consists of a single sheet printed..... More
San Francisco: The Santa Cruz Board of Trade, 1905. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Unpaginated (34). Illustrated from vintage B/W photographs. Printed by The Sunset Press, San Francisco. Brown illustrated stapled wrappers. 4 1/2" x 7 1/4". A small handsome booklet extolling the many virtues of the City of Santa Cruz..... More
Santa Ana, California: Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, Circa 1910. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. This is an ORIGINAL brochure with the cover title "SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA", published by the Santa Ana (Orange County) Chamber of Commerce. Illustrated from vintage B/W photgraphs and a MAP of Orange County on the back..... 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
Mills College, California: The Eucalyptus Press, 1937. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (7) 46 pages. First Edition. Blue cloth-backed illustrated boards. Small Quarto. Carte/map endpapers. Frontis photograph of Mary Atkins tipped in. Limited to 500 un-numbered copies. Mary Atkins was the founder , in 1852, of The Young Ladies' Seminary, which..... 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 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
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
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
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
New York: New Directions, 1974. First Edition. Original Cloth First Edition Fine in Near Fine DJ (ix), 80 pages. Note.Index of titles and first lines.SIGNED by William Everson in ink on the title page. Green cloth. a fine copy in a very slightly edgeworn near fine pictorialdustwrapper, now in 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
Ashland, Oregon: Lewis Osborne, 1970. First Book Edition. Decorated Cloth. 73 pages. Edition limited to 1400 numbered copies; this copy un-numbered. Illustrations from drawings by the author. Front endpapers Map of countries explored by the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission. Introduction by David Lavender. Decorated cloth; gilt spine titling..... More
Angel's Camp, California: Calaveras Californian, 1932. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. 80 pp. Illustrated throughout, mostly from vintage photographs. Illustrated wrappers; yapped edges. 5 1/2" x 7 5/8". The well- researched early histories of Angel's Camp and adjacent Calaveras County towns. It was from this area that Mark Twain allegedly drew..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. 349 pages. Illustrated from vintage drawings. Purple cloth. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". A series of Bible stories, written as history, in the language of the Teton Sioux Indians (Lakota), by Father Buechel, who lived and worked among the Lakota people on..... 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
Hollywood: Cosmopolitan Pictures, 1935. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL vintage movie still photograph from the 1935 Cosmopolitan Production (released by Warner Brothers) "DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR", starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Margaret Lindsay. Black and white glossy finish. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". Legend at bottom of..... More
Tokyo: 1958. 20" x 28 1/2". Original vintage theatrical linenbacked Japanese poster for the 1958 Anthony Mann film, "GOD'S LITTLE ACRE", based upon the contorversial Erskine Caldwell novel. This was the book "They said could never be filmed". The movie starred Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Vic..... 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: (Self) Frona Eunice Wait Colburn, 1937. First Collectors' Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (ix) 178 (1) First Collectors' Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Decorations by Dorothy Payne. Frontispiece portrait from photograph of Author. Limited to 500 un-numbered copies of this edition, printed by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. Cloth-backed purple..... 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 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
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. (xxi), 80 pages. Limited to 550 un-numbered copies. First Edition Thus after the 1853 first edition. Illustrated from drawings by Charles Nahl. Frontispiece, twenty headpieces and four (4) full-page drawings in color. Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. Cloth-backed boards. Paper..... More
