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
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
Los Angeles: California Mission Trails Association, Ltd., 1941. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Unpaginated (16). Illustrated stapled wrappers. Profusely llustrated throughout from period photographs. 8" x 9". Map on rear cover. A well-designed booklet coveriing the California coastal area encompassing the Spanish Mission Trail. Called "America's Most Beautiful 400 Miles". On..... More
Chicago: C.T. Company, 1915. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Unpaginated (24). Profusely illustrated from sepia photographs of early 20th century San Diego, California and environs, including several views of the Panama-California Exposition buildings and grounds. Birds-eye drawing of San Diego Harbor Improvements. Blue-gray wrappers with gilt embossed titling 10" x 8..... 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
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
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
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
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. First Edition. (xiv)351 pages. Large octavo 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated from black and white drawings by E. H Suydam. First Printing (Stated and with the number 1 in brackets on the last text page.) INSCRIBED in ink on the..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1945. California Centennial Edition. (v) (3) 163 pages. Dust jacket. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. One of 1500 un-numbered copies. Illustrations by Victor R. Anderson. White pictorial cloth. 7 3/4" x 11". Judge Thornton's account of the Donner Party tragedy, from Volume II, Harper's 1855 Edition. Includes..... More
Chicago: Townsend National Weekly, Inc, 1940. (Mylar) First Edition Thus. Inscribed By Author. 24mo. 158 pages. Appendix. INSCRIBED in ink by author/U.S. Senator from California, Sheridan Downey at the FFE, "To Richard Kendrick/ Compliments/ Sheridan Downey/ Washington, DC/ Sept. 26, 1940." Blue cloth with paper cover title. Some minor edgewear..... More
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Merle Armitage Editions, 1948. First Edition. 193 pages; 8 pageds from vintage b/w photographs. SIGNED by author Erna Fergusson in ink on the half title. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt titling. Map front endpapers. Frontispiece illustration by Peter Hurd. Two newspaper clippings of..... More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1882. 288 pages. 12mo. Original red decorated cloth. Although the cover states, "Second Series" there was no first series. This is Josephus Daniels' copy, with his signature in ink on the front free endpaper, and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Daniels (1862-1948) was a...... More
