Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Leather. (xv) 280 pages. INSCRIBED by General Samuel Backus in ink to Professor John LeConte in ink on a front free endpaper, "Professor John LeConte / President - University of Cal. / Compliments / Samuel W. Backus / Adjutant -General Cal." Original... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated Cloth. 85 pages. SIGNED in ink by Don Blanding on the front free endpaper, "Aloha Don Blanding". Illustrated from drawings by Don Blanding. Frontispiece from photograph showing lei-bedecked Don Blanding walking ashore from seaplane. Sans dust jacket. 5... More
San Francisco: Albert Bender, 1927. First Edition. Boards. (vii) 31; (ix) 31 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Albert Bender in "Tributes": "To Will Dawson with friendship & affection Albert M. Bender / March 5, 1927". Printed for Albert Bender by John Henry Nash of San Francisco.Tan boards; paper spine label... More
Paris: New York Herald Tribune, 1953. Third and Expanded Edition. 80 pages. Presentation copy to Darryl F. Zanuck. SIGNED/INSCRIBED on the title page in ink by Art Buchwald to movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, "To Darryl / A Bon Vivant's BonVivant / Art Buchwald July 1953". Laid in is a.... 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
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 120 pages. SIGNED by Herb Caen in ink on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket features a photograph of a young, dapper Herb Caen standing on a San Francisco rooftop. Cloth. Small octavo. From the jacket: " A new portrait... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. vii, (1) 119 pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by Herb Caen on the front free endpaper: "Regards! Herb Caen" Illustrated black dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from black and white photographs and one color photograph by Max Yavno. Technical photographic information on... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. First Edition. Cloth. 272 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Herb Caen in ink on the half-title, "For Jim Burke! Cheers, Herb Caen". Illustrated dust jacket. Preface by Herb Caen. Cloth. Octavo. A carefully selected collection of Caen writings during one of the most eventful periods of... More
Metuchen, N.J. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994. First Edition. Cloth. 218 pages. SIGNED by author/actor Harry Carey, Jr. in ink on the front free endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Octavo. Cloth. Index. List of author's appearences in John Ford movies. The son of famed early... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. (xix) 291 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Ben N. Powers. In you I feel that I have a true friend whom I hope to meet again. In the meantime when you... More
San Francisco: Diepenbrock & Co., 1889. First Edition. Cloth. 171 pages. SIGNED/INSCIRBED by Rev. D. O. Crowley in ink on a front free endpaper, "To P. F. Dundon, Esq. With the compliments of his sincere Friend, D. O. Crowley. Xmas 1889.". Introduction by Peter H. Burnett, the first elected Governor... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926. First Edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. (xiii), 236 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Tirey L. Ford, in ink on a front free endpaper, "To Mrs. A. K. Hart. Sincerely yours, Tirey L. Ford". Cloth-backed Pictorial Boards. Octavo. Index. Profusely illustrated from drawings by Jo... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 261 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Jimmy Durante in ink on the front free endpaper, "To Sam Olodart / A pleasure Believe me. / Jimmy Durante". Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated from vintage black and white photographs. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x.... More
New Orleans, Louisiana: Faust Publishing, 1986. First Edition. 20 pages. SIGNED by Ellen Gilchrist in ink on the half title. First Edition. This is one of fifty deluxe specially bound binder's copies, produced in addition to 300 numbered copies. Leather-backed purple cloth. 7 3/4" x 11". Frontispiece from photograph of... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. (XIX) (1) 140 pages. Ilustrated from onstage photographs. Light brown cloth with gilt cover device and gilt spine titling. Dust Jacket. First Edition (Stated). 5" x 7 1/2". INSCRIBED in ink by author Oscar Hammerstein II on a front free endpaper, "To... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. 311 pages. SIGNED in ink by Sir Cedric Hardwick on a front free endpaper. Illustrated, including from vintage photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Cloth. The amusing, acerbic memoirs of the great British stage and screen actor, of whom George... More
Hollywood: Warner Brothers, Inc., 1973. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL candid still photograph from the Irish set of "MACKINTOSH MAN", a 1973 Warner Brothers film, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason. SIGNED in ink at the upper lefthand corner by Director John... More
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1973. First Edition. Leather-backed linen boards. (xxix) 200 (1) pages. SIGNED in ink by poet William Everson on the colophon. Copy #115 of 250 copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh at the Capra Press. Preface, Introduction, Afterword and Notes by William Everson. Red leather-backed linen... More
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1973. First Trade Edition. Boards. (xxix) 200 (1) pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by William Everson in ink to the late bookseller and publisher Robert Hawley, on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Hawley / as fine a friend as they come! / Bill Everson / June 19, 1974"... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 129 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Robinson Jeffers in ink on the title page, "I am glad to write my name here for Lawrence Henerley. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel, California. May, 1937." Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth-backed boards. Gilt titling. 5 3/4"... More
Van Nuys, California: Toastmaster Publishing Co., 1963. First Edition. Cloth. 176 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Jessel in ink on a front free endpaper, "To My Friend Peter--George Jessel". First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Small octavo. Tan cloth. From the jacket, "An anthology of messages from famous Hollywood Personalities as might... More
Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945. First Edition. 238 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Gertrude Lawrence in ink on the half-title: "For Joyce. Sincerely Gertrude Lawrence." First Edition (stated). Dust jacket illustrated with a color portrait by Cecil Beaton. Endpapers illustrated from photographs from the author's hit shows. 5... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Cloth. (xv) 576 pages. SIGNED by Henry Miller in ink on a front free endpaper, "Henry Miller / 11/28/76". Illustrated unclipped dust jacket, including drawing of Henry Miller by Norris Church, who was Mrs. Norman Mailer. Cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 215 Pages First Edition SIGNED/ INSCRIBED by Actress/Author Helen Hayes in ink on a front free endpaper: "To Lois Nichols / Blessings / Helen Hayes".Ullustrated dust jacket, including a photograph of Ms. Hayes on the back cover. Cloth-backed boards... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. 23 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Kathleen Norris to journalist/playwright Blanche Upright in ink on the front free endpaper, "For Blanche--Thinkin' of them happy days when we was girls--- Frisco Kate". 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". Cloth-backed red boards... More
