San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine in Custom Mylar Jacket. 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. Limited to 1200 copies... More about THE FIRST SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, The Story of The Book Club of California 1912-1987

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 about THE UNSPOKEN / TRIBUTES TO ANNE BREMER (Two Volume Set

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling... More about A RIDE WITH KIT CARSON; Across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains

San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1910. First Thus. (x) 26 (1) pages. Frontispiece portrait (with tissue guard) from drawing of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edition limited to 1600 copies (1500 for sale); this copy numbered 859. Notes. Appendix. Presswork by John Henry Nash, then with Paul Elder. Van Gelder hand-made... More about SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE WITH LYRIC INTERLUDES; Edited with Preface Notes and an Appendix...

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. (xii) 239 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Cloth. Notes. Bibliography. Index. From the jacket flap: "A glittering figure among the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s, Caresse Crosby is little known today. She and her husband Harry founded Black Sun... More about CARESSE CROSBY. FROM BLACK SUN TO ROCCASINIBALDA

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Second edition. Cloth-backed boards. 100 (7) pages. Illustrated from colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. Introduction and notes by Charles L. Camp. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. Octavo. One of 500 copies. #7 of the Rare America Series printed and published by The Grabhorn Press... More about Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, And...

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 about FAREWELL SPEECH OF KING EDWARD THE EIGHTH BROADCAST FROM WINDSOR CASTLE THE TENTH DAY OF...

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. 251 (2) pages. First Edition. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographs. Design byJack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. Limited to 450 un-numbered copies. Prospectus laid in as well as billing and an invitation to a reception celebrating the publication of... More about PORTER GARNETT. PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS ON THE IDEAL BOOK

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Cloth-backed decorated boards. [13], 77, [1] pages. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Large Octavo. Illustrated. One of 550 copies. The first volume of the Grabhorn's Third Series of Rare Americana, printed in San Francisco in December, 1934. Shadow of offset to endpapers, but a FINE copy... More about THE DUKE OF SACRAMENTO. A Comedy in Four Acts By Warren Baer, Reprinted from the Rare Edition of...

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 about AH-WAH-NE DAYS; A Visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872

New York: Random House, 1928. First Thus. Leather-backed cloth. 363 pages. Illustrated at the title page and 23 headpieces in color by Valenti Angelo. Edition limited to 980 copies, of which this is numbered 59. Red niger backed tan cloth boards. 9 1/2" x 6". Gilt spine titling. Printed by... More about THE SCARLET LETTER; This Edition Illustrated With Wood Engravings Designed and Engraved By...

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 about THE ALPINE CHRIST & OTHER POEMS WITH COMMENTARY AND NOTES BY WILLIAM EVERSON

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 about A FEW WORDS ON CHRISTMAS