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

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 about WHEN WE BELONGED TO SPAIN; Old California Tales

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 about AT THE SIGN OF THE LARK. William Doxey's San Francisco Publishing Venture

Gonzaga University: Spokane, 1986. First Edition Thus. Cloth. 84 (2) pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Limited edition: #740 0f 750 copies. 6 5/8" x 10". Blue cloth with paper spine label. Printed in Baskerville types and bound by Harold Berliner of Nevada City, California. Introduction by Ernest Ferlits, S. J. The... More about POEMS OF GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS; Made in Celebration of the Centennial of Gonzaga University...

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

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. (2) (xiv) 38 pages. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Note on the Poems by Frieda Lawrence. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Title page drawing in red by Valenti Angelo. Goudy Modern types, handset. American mold made paper. Tan... More about FIRE AND OTHER POEMS