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 about WWI Army Bugler/ Leslie's Weekly 1917 Cover, Paperbacked
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 about THE DIARY OF MARY ATKINS
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 about THE LOG OF APOLLO; Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of the Ship Apollo from New York...
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 about LEGENDS OF THE COMSTOCK LODE
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 about ROBINSON JEFFERS AND THE SEA
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 about THE CALIFORNIA PILGRIM; A Series of Lectures
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 about ECHOES OF THE PAST; An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont in the Conquest...
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 about THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA
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 about A JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA, 1841.; The Journal of John Bidwell. The First Emigrant Party to...
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 about A JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA, 1841.; The Journal of John Bidwell. The First Emigrant Party to...
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 about AURIFODINA OR ADVENTURES IN THE GOLD REGIONS; A Fantastical '49er Novel
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 about Autographed Photograph) JACQUELINE BISSET
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 about CALIFORNIA LOCAL HISTORY, A Centennial Bibiography
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 about BADGE AND BUCKSHOT; Lawlessness In Old California
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 about MAN-FATE The Swan Song of Brother Antoninus
New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Unpaginated. Arranged and decorated by Will Bradley. Profusely illustrated from black and white photographs of the leading actors and actresses of the early twentieth century both in and ouy of stage roles. Frontispiece photograph of Miss Maude... More about THE AMERICAN STAGE OF TO-DAY; Biographies and Photographs of One Hundred Leading Actors and...
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 about IN THE BUFFALO COUNTRY
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 about A WESTERN WIND
New York: Gary Beeber Graphics, Circa 1990. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL poster, created to advertise the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, then at 133 East 58th Street, New York City. The poster features a dramatic color drawing of Louise Brooks from the Austrian film released in the United States... More about ORIGINAL POSTER: "DIARY OF A LOST GIRL"; Motion Picture Arts Gallery
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 about Grabhorn Press) REMINISCENCES AND INCIDENTS OF EARLY DAYS OF SAN FRANCISCO (1845-1850
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 about CRUSOE'S ISLAND: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk with Sketches of Adventure in...
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 about WOWAPI WAKAN. BIBLE HISTORY IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TETON SIOUX INDIANS
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 about THE ROMANCE OF THE COMMONPLACE
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 about ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT? THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS AMBASSADOR AND COCOANUT GROVE....
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 about TRACKLESS WINDS
