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 about THE FIRST SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS, The Story of The Book Club of California 1912-1987

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 about IN THE BUFFALO COUNTRY

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 about Grabhorn Press) REMINISCENCES AND INCIDENTS OF EARLY DAYS OF SAN FRANCISCO (1845-1850

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

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 about STRAVINSKY