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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1935. First Edition. 158 pages. First Edition. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated from 35 pen and ink drawings by the author's wife Mary Seymour Brooks. Light brown cloth with paper cover and spine labels. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8". From the jacket: "On the Pacific Coast..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. (xii) 138 (7) pages. First Thus. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Laid in is the September 20, 1933..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. First Edition. 436 pages. First Edition. Original brown cloth. Small octavo. Many illustrations from drawings by J. Ross Browne. Four of J. Ross Browne's works in one volume: "Crusoe's Island", "A Dangerous Journey", "Observations in Office" (including "Indians of California") and "A Peep at..... 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: Paul Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. (6) 152 pages. First Edition.Presentation copy to author's sister. Author's Autograph Edition. #3 of ninety-three copies on Ruisdael hand-made paper. Dated and signed in ink by Gelett Burgess, with his personal chop, on the limitation page. Additionally Inscribed in ink..... More
Los Angeles: Round Table West, 1980. First Edition. Cloth. 192 pages. This is the late actor Burgess Meredith's copy. SIGNED/INSCRIBED to Burgess Meredith in ink by the Author on the title page: "To Burgess Meredith with fond memories of the "Golden Years" and so happy to have your "So Far..... 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
