San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. Fine in Custom Mylar Jacket Cloth-backed boards (Mylar). First Edition, Limited. 8vo. 54 pages. Illustrated, including some from color photographs of the Club rooms. Terra cotta boards; teal cloth backstrip. Gilt lettering and decorations. A Fine copy. Later custom mylar protective jacket... More
Berkelely: University of California Press, 1970. (xi)167 (1) pages. First Edition. 8vo. Appendix. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Blue cloth. Silver cover and spine lettering. Nash's initial device in silver on front cover. Frontis portrait of Nash in cap and gown, from painting by H. Raschen. Illustrated from vintage photographs and... More
San Francisco: University Club, 1934. First Edition. 14 (4) pages; Colophon. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". First Edition. INSCRIBED by Author in ink on a front free endpaper to San Francisco socialites Pauline and Richard Girvin, "To Pauline and Dick Girvin with the sincere friendship of Thomas Hamilton Breeze". Limited... 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
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. (12) 138 (5) pages. First Thus. Seven illustrations reproduced from Annals of San Francisco. Folded map from plan map of San Francisco streets in 1846. One of 500 regular copies. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Paper spine label. Introduction and Reader's Guide by Douglas... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Thus. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (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. Introduction and Reader's Guide... More
San Francisco: (Self) Frona Eunice Wait Colburn, 1937. First Collectors' Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (ix) 178 (1) First Collectors' Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Decorations by Dorothy Payne. Frontispiece portrait from photograph of Author. Limited to 500 un-numbered copies of this edition, printed by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. Cloth-backed purple... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932. First Thus. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 47 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Frontispiece view in color of Yerba Buena in Spring, 1937 from a lithograph by John Vioget. One headpiece in sepia by Arvilla Parker. Quarto. Cloth-backed marbled boards. The Grabhorn... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. 47 pages. 1979. SIGNED by each of the 5 poets, in ink, on the page before their poetry within. Cloth-backed burnt-orange boards. 7 3/4" x 10 1/2". Designed and printed by Vance Gerry for the Lord John Press. Number 52... More
Berkeley: Western Heritage Press, 1991. First Edition. Cardboard covers. 19 pages plus colophon. Cardstock cover in light blue dust jacket. Paper cover titling. One of 500 copies designed, printed and bound at the Anchor & Acorn Press, Petaluma, California, under the direction of Bruce N. Washbish, for distribution to members... More
Nevada City, California: William Newsom & Mark Getty, 1984. First Edition. Unpaginated (44 by count). First Edtion. Number 59 of 150 limited copies. Leather-backed cloth. Gilt spine-titling. 8" x 10 1/2". Printed by Harold Berliner of Nevada City, California. Hand-set Lutetia types. Paper hand made at the Barcham Green Mill... More
San Francisco: Ransohoffs, 1938. First Edition. White Goat-Backed Cloth Boards. (ii) 26 pages. First Edition. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Limited to 200 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press for Ransohoffs, a well-known San Francisco retailer. First five lines of text printed in gold; colophon in red. Handset Lutetia type... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1933. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorative boards. (xii) 54 pages. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 250 un-numbered copies printed for The Book Club of California by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. 6 7/8" x 4 3/8". Facsimile of photograph of Father Damien taken... More
Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner, 1983. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth over boards. (xxi) 50 pages. First Edition. Decorations by Wolfgang Lederer. #199 of a limited edition of 375 copies, printed by Harold Berliner of Nevada City, California. Printed on Ragston paper in Lutetia type and with Romulus for the footnotes... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. First Thus. Cloth-backed decorated boards. 84 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. This edition limited to 450 un-numbered copies made by Mallette Dean. The Book Club of Califronia #137. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Paper spine label. 7... More
San Francisco: Self-published, 1927. Second and Expanded Edition. (4), 62 pages. Second Edition, with 17 Additional Poems. 12mo. Decorated capitals. One of an unnumbered limited edition of 250 copies on Bodlean Book paper (plus 50 on Whatman hand made paper) printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco in November, 1927... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1983. First Thus. Cloth First Thus Fine in (Mylar) DJ 84 pages. Illustrated. Frontis portrait of William Doxey courtesty of The Bancroft Library. Preface. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Indx. Errata sheet laid in. Publication Number 173 of The Book Club of California. Designed and... 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: Privately printed, 1911. First Edition thus. 14 pages. From the colophon: "Of this book, 250 copies were printed for Thomas Nast Fairbanks by Hal Marchbanks in December 1911." 5 3/8" x 8 3/8". Paper backed gray patterned boards.Printed spine label. A beautiful little Christmas celebratory essay, best read... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. First Thus. Cloth. (2) (xiv) 38 pages. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Note on the Poems by Frieda Lawrence. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Title page drawing in red by Valenti Angelo. Goudy Modern types, handset. American mold made paper. Tan linen boards... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. 245 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Book designed by Merle Armitage. Illustrated, including from photographs by Edward Weston and Arnold Newman and drawings by Chagall and Picasso. Illustrated endpapers. Black cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Discography and Complete... More
San Francisco: Self-published, 1934. Cloth-backed Boards. Cloth Backed Marbled Boards Very Good/(Mylar). First Edition, Limited. Quarto. (x) 226 pages. Frontispice portrait of St. Francis from drawing by Wilkie; Illustrated by Will Wilkie. Limited to 650 copies, of which this is #267. Printed by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. Blue... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939. First Edition. (vi) 50 pages. First Edition, limited to 450 copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. An original issue of "The Spectator" dated May 2, 1712, tipped in. 13 1/4" x 8 1/4". Tan cloth-backed marbled boards. Paper spine titling... More
San Francisco: Author Self Published, 1932. First Edition. Vellum Backed Marbled Boards. (xiv) 464 pages. First Edition, Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies. Quarto. Vellum Backed Marbled Boards.. Bibliographies. List of 1856 Vigilance Committee members. Index. Frontispiece, head-bands, title page and other illustrations by William Wilke. A sumptuous production printed... More
