San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1966. First American Edition. Cloth. 103 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Nobel Prize Winner Hannes Alfven in ink to the American inventor William P. (Bill) Lear on the half title: "To William P. Lear with best compliments Hannes Alfven". Translated by Rudy Feichtner. Illustrated dust..... More
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
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
San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1971. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Unpaginated (152); SIGNED in ink by Wynn Bullock on a free front endpaper, "Wynn Bullock 1971". Profusely illustrated from Wynn Bullock's black and white photographs, primarily on full pages, reproduced by H. S. Crocker Co., Inc. San Bruno, California by double-impression..... 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/INSCRIBED by Herb Caen in ink on the front free endpaper, "For Gladys Lawrence Payne - it's nice to be a part of your collection! Regards always, Herb Caen Feb 1957". The dust jacket features a photograph of a...... More
Berkeley: University of California Pess, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. (xvi) 321 pp. Index. Bibliography. Original red cloth. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket. Vignettes by W. R. Cameron. SIGNED in ink by author Caughey on the half-title. Covers the discovery of gold in California, the Gold Rush, early mining methods and tools..... More
New York: Harper Collins West, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. (xii) 212 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author Barnaby Conrad on the title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Foreword by Herb Caen. Illustrated, including from drawings by Author Conrad and various guests at his establishment. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x...... 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: George Fields, 1936. First Thus. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. (xii) 96 pp. A presentation copy SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink on a front free endpaper by G. Ezra Dane, George Fields (Publisher) Charles Lindstrom (Illustrator) and Edmund G. Kinyon (Foreword) to Caroline Wenzel of the California State Library : "This copy..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 2001. First Edition. This Photographic Postcard is SIGNED by San Francisco Poet/Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in black ink on the verso, "Ferlinghetti 9/1/07". The recto is from a color photograph of City Lights bookstore on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco, with a crowd assembled..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. (x) 389 pages. SIGNED in ink by Author Gene Fowler on a front free endpaper. First Edition. Illustrated dustjacket. Octavo. Decorated cloth. Index. The biography of James J. "Jimmy" Walker, the well-dressed Mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. (x) 389 pages. SIGNED in ink by Author Gene Fowler on a front free endpaper. Illustrated dustjacket. 6" x 8 1/2". Cloth. Index. The biography of James J. "Jimmy" Walker, the well-dressed Mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 277 pages.TV Showman/NY Columnist Ed Sullivan's copy. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Gene Fowler on the title page, "To my friend of a long time, Ed Sullivan / With the best / Gene Fowler 1954". Endpapers illustrated from photographs and drawings..... More
Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1958. Second Edition. Boards. 87 pp. Preface by Editor Lawrence Clark Powell. Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies, printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. SIGNED in ink by Lawrence Clark Powell on the colophon. Yellow boards; printed paper labels on spine and..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. 84 pages. SIGNED in ink on the colophon by Edwin Grabhorn. Cloth-backed decorated boards. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4". Per the colophon: "This edition, published through the assistance of the late Albert M. Bender, is limited to five hundred..... 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
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1974. First Edition. leather backed linen boards. (xxxiii) 137 (Colophon) pp. SIGNED in ink by William Everson on the colophon. Copy #50 of 285 copies Designed by Graham Mackintosh and printed by Noel Young. Foreword by Peter Bartlett. Preface, Introduction, Afterword and Notes by William Everson..... 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, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Cloth. 253 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Idwall Jones in ink on the front free endpaper, "To Warren Wass, Esq., hero of the Expedition to the Todos Santos Islands, with regards from a fellow survivor, Idwall Jones / April 1952"..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. (xv) 251 (2) pp. Illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Krythe in ink on a front free endpaper, "For Douglas Lance, with the hope that you enjoy this bit of Californiana! Maymie R. Krythe". Introduction by W. W. Robinson (Also SIGNED..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (6), 63, (3) pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Gary Kurutz to San Francisco bibliophile Sandor Burstein, M.D., in ink on the verso of a front free endaper, "To Sandor, A true bibliogent with much admiration / Gary..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1927. First English Language Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xiv) 158 (1) pages. SIGNED by Thomas C. Russell in ink on the limitation page. Blue dust jacket with spine title label. Printer's foreword. "An English Translation Revised, with the Teutonisms of the Original Hispaniolized, Russianized, or Anglicized..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of..... More
