Covelo, Calfirona: Carolyn and James Robertson (The Yolla Bolly Press), 1983. First Thus. Cloth. (xiv) (2) 28 (16) pages. Illustrated from vintage family photographs. Foreword by son Garth Sherwood Jeffers. Number 193 of a limited edition of 265 numbered copies and 20 presentation copies. Hand-set Goudy's Californian types on Rives..... More
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
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..... 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
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
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 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: 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 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
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
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
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
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
San Francisco: A. Lincoln Brown, M.D. (Privately printed), 1955. First Thus. Boards. 28 pages. Privately printed and limited to 100 copies by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Initials in gold designed by Mary Grabhorn. 13 1/4" x 9". Faux vellum. Dark red spine label. Handset Lutetia types. Handmade English paper..... More
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
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
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 56 (1) pages. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Wood engravings by Paul Landacre. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 7 1/4" x 9". Paper spine label. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies. Designed by Ward Ritchie. Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. Black..... More
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
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
San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1930. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. (x) 8, 152, 2 pages. Illustrated from vintage photographs, including frontispiece portrait of Professor LeConte (with tissue guard). Foreword by Francis P. Farquhar. Cloth-backed gray boards; paper spine label. Biographical notes concerning earlier editions starting in 1875. 6" x 8..... More
