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. 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 about 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

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... More about THE BOOK OF THE DANCE

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...

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

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... More about CELEBRATION; A Book of Poems by Hoyt Hudson

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 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 about FIRE AND OTHER POEMS

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... More about ACCOUNT OF A TOUR OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS 1856; The Journal & Drawings of Henry Miller

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 about A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN OF ASSISI