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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. (xvii) 231 pages, including the Index. Illustrated from over 100 Genthe photographs of dancers, including 6 photographs in color, and several nude. Foreword by Genthe. Introduction ("On With The Dance") by Shaemas O Sheel. Original brown buckram; gilt cover and spine titling...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. 89 pages. 9"x 5 1/2". Brown, gray and blue decorated boards, brown cloth back, white label printed in red and black on spine. Limited to 500 copies, published with the assistance of San Francisco patron Albert M. Bender...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1952. First Edition. Vellum-backed decorated boards. 71 pages. Illustrated from 19 vintage pencil drawings of the California Missions by Henry Miller. Introduction by Edith M. Coulter (University of California) and Eleanor A. Bancroft. Edition limited to 375 copies. Prospectus laid in. Included in...
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1920. First English language edition. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. (xii) 120 (1) pages. SIGNED by Thomas C. Russell in ink on the limitation page. (NOTE: After Mr. Russell's death, a San Francisco bookseller bought all of Mr. Russell's leaves, bound them, and had the bookseller's clerks...
