San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. First Edition. 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..... More
Berkeley: The Book Arts Club : University of California, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. (xxii) (1) 276 (1) pages. First Edtion limited to 400 numbered copies, of which this is #274. Introduction. Source bibliography. Index, including titles of books printed by the described presses. 7" x 10 1/4". Green cloth. Leather..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1937. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. xxii (2) pages. With an Original leaf from the 1611 King James Bible tipped in, containing "Zechariah", Chapter II-V, "A wall of fire". Limited to 300 copies. Printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Double columns. Four hand-illuminated..... 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
Berkelely: University of California Press, 1970. Cloth. (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..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 81 pages. One of a limited edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press. Bound by Cardoza-James Binding company with photographs printed by Marin Star Graphic Arts. Cloth with gilt spine-titling..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. First Thus. Parchment-backed decorated boards. 68 pp. Edition limited to 300 un-numbered copies. Hand-set in Bulmer type by The L-D Allen Press. Decorations by Mallette Dean. Parchment-backed decorated boards. Original plexiglas jacket. Bookplate of Joseph Halle Schaffner affixed to front pastedown. Featuring..... 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
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
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
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map ("Western Territories In The Forties") laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is #903. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with..... 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. Laid in is the..... 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: 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: 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1937. First Edition Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. (xi) 31 (33/48) pages. First Edition Thus, after an Autobiography (1887), Memoir (1908) and Letters (1819-1851) of Coit. One of 325 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco for The Book Club of California. Hand-set Lutetia..... 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
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
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1921. First Thus. Cloth-backed boards. (vi) 70 pages.1897 Introduction by Ambrose Bierce. Octavo. Title in black and red; captions in red. Handset Garamond type. Handmade French paper. Terra-cotta cloth-backed marbled boards. This is #222 of a limited edition of 300 copies. The first book..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1921. First Edition. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. (vi) 70 pages. First edition. #43 of a limited edition of 300 copies.Terra cotta cloth-backed marbled boards. Octavo. Title in black and red; captions in red. Handset Garamond type. Handmade French paper. The first book printed by..... More
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998. First Thus. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. 71 pp. Edition Llimited to 350 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed letterpress by Peter Koch. Illustrated including from vintage woodcuts. Cloth-backed Illustrated (map) boards. Lacking the slipcase. 7 1/4" x 10 3/4". Long explanatory Introduction by Richard..... 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, 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. (xiv) 120 pages. Frontispiece portrait by photographer Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga Ackerman. Memoir by Flora Arnstein, Albert Elkus and Stewart Young. Title page designed by H. von Schmidt. Black cloth-backed boards. Paper..... More
