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
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: 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: 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... 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: (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
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... More
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... 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: 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... 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
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
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 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... More
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
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... More
San Francisco: Self-published, 1934. Cloth-backed Boards. Cloth Backed Marbled Boards Very Good/(Mylar). First Edition, Limited. Quarto. (x) 226 pages. Frontispice portrait of St. Francis from drawing by Wilkie; Illustrated by Will Wilkie. Limited to 650 copies, of which this is #267. Printed by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. Blue... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939. First Edition. (vi) 50 pages. First Edition, limited to 450 copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. An original issue of "The Spectator" dated May 2, 1712, tipped in. 13 1/4" x 8 1/4". Tan cloth-backed marbled boards. Paper spine titling... More
San Francisco: Author Self Published, 1932. First Edition. Vellum Backed Marbled Boards. (xiv) 464 pages. First Edition, Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies. Quarto. Vellum Backed Marbled Boards.. Bibliographies. List of 1856 Vigilance Committee members. Index. Frontispiece, head-bands, title page and other illustrations by William Wilke. A sumptuous production printed... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979. First Edition Thus. 77 (2) pages. First Edition Thus. Plain paper dust jacket. Illustrated, including from photographs and architectural drawings. One of 450 un-numbered copies designed and produced by Adrian Wilson and The Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco with the assistance... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. First Thus. Cloth-backed Boards. 15 (1) pages. First Thus in book form after the rare pamphlet now in the Bancroft Library. Limted to 650 un-numbered copies. Art work by William F. Rauschnabel. Van Gelder hand-made paper. Printed by John Henry Nash, San Francisco. Notes... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. First Thus. Cloth-backed marbled boards. (xxiii) 90 (1) pages. Blue dust jacket. Frontis portrait of Senor Prieto. Illustrated with cartoons from the Illustrated Wasp of 1878 and title page ornaments by William F. Rauschnabel. Introduction by translator and editor, Professor Edwin S. Morby (University... More
Burlingame, Calfornia: William P. Wreden, 1952. First Thus. (x) 83 (1) pages. First Edition Thus. 7 1/2" x 10". Green tapestry cloth-backed green boards. Paper spine label, stamped in gold. 200 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press for William P. Wreden. A beautiful production with title and text printed in... More
