Chicago: Rand-McNally, 1912. 1912 Edition. This is an ORIGINAL map of the CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO published in 1912 as part of the Rand-McNally Atlas of the World (Pages 312-3). The map is expertly LINEN-BACKED. The map is designated "The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map" of San Francisco..... More
San Francisco: Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Ry, 1923. Folded 16 panel brochure printed by the Sunset Press, San Francisco, for the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway. n.d. (1923). Illustrated from period black and white photographs. Featuring a spectacular 4 panel bird's eye map of the San Francisco Bay..... More
San Francisco: Spring Valley Compsany, Ltd., 1948. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL Report to the Shareholders of the Spring Valley Company Ltd., San Francisco, California, for the year ended December 31, 1948. 5 pages. Stapled wrappers. 6" x 9 1/4". Additionally included in the lot are (1) Mailing envelope..... More
New York: Avon Books, 1984. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. (4) 105 (3) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by 7 of the 13 chefs represented, including Rene Verdon (Le Trianon), Jacky Robert (Ernie's) and Barbara Tropp (China Moon). Illustrated from photographs of the chefs, restaurants and dishes, some in color. Illustrated wrappers, bound with..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1928. This is an ORIGINAL map of the SAN FRANCISCO BAY DISTRICT. 1928. Expertly linen-backed for restoration and ease of handling. 32 1/4" x 26 1/4" plus white border. Color. Note: There is no Golden Gate Bridge. There are two drawn lines representing purposed Bay..... More
San Francisco: M/M Theodore Max "Ted" Lilienthal, Circa 1950. First Edtion. This is an ORIGINAL seasons greetings print from Theodore Max "Ted" and Frances Baruch "Fran" Lilienthal, circa 1950, printed by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. The print unfolds to reveal a large Japanese giesha figure, with the caption..... More
Washington DC: U. S. Coast Survey, 1859. First Edition. This is an ORIGINAL MAP, by the U. S. Survey, entitled "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS VICINITY CALIFORNIA", published 1859. A. D. Bache, Superintendent. Expertly linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. 25 1/2" x 36", plus white border. Scale..... More
San Francisco: The Wave, 1895. May 4, 1895. Illustrated Wrappers. 18, plus 4 printed covers. Illustrated with period advertisements, including a full page ad for the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, with photographs. Stapled folded wrappers. 10" x 13 1/2" unfolded. Stamp: "DUP California Section State Library" upper right corner, front..... More
Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons, Inc., 1906. First Edition. Unpaginated (32) pp. Stapled oblong pictorial wrappers. 8 3/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from black and white photgrpahs by C. C. Pierce & Co., Los Angeles of the effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Photographs include the..... More
Stanford, California: James Ladd Delkin, 1940. First Edition. (viii) 112 pages. First Edition. Limited edition of 500 un-numbered copies printed by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. Illustrated from 33 drawings by Pauline Vinson on unpaginated colored pages. Index. Bookplate of prominent San Franciscan James Zellerbach on the front pastedown..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. 122 pages. First Edition. One of 550 limited copies. Prosptectus laid in. Blue cloth. Printed spine and cover title labels. Quarto. Color frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated with eight plates (including two folding). Designed and printed at the Arion Press..... More
San Francisco: Avalon Ballroom, 1967. First Edition. Linen-backed. This is an ORIGINAL poster (FD 48) for the SECOND ANNUAL TRIBAL STOMP to be held February 17-18, 1967 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, and featuring Big Brother and The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Oxford Circle. The poster..... More
San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 120 pp. SIGNED by Herb Caen in ink on the front free endpaper: "Greetings! Herb Caen". The dust jacket features a photograph of a young, dapper Herb Caen standing on a San Francisco rooftop. POS on front pastedown and free front..... More
San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. 64 pp. Illustrated primarily from vintage B/W photographs. Index. Illustrated stapled wrappers. 7" x 10". In addition to its usual reporting and promotion functions, this brochure highlights the upcoming Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 (February 20 to December 4, 1915)..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. (xv) 107 pp. Illustrated. One of 250 un-numbered limited copies. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 6 1/2" x 10". A collection of 49er R. R. Taylor's well-written letters to his wife concerning his journey from Massachusetts in 1849 to San..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. 392 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY Author Conrad in ink on the front free endpaper: "For 'Beverly' Fellow writer, Astronaut, Brain Surgeon, Tennis Expert, y amiga! Bernabe Dec 28 1972 - and 'Hi' to John!". On the front pastedown, Conrad has drawn, in..... More
New York: Harper Collins West, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. (xii) 212 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author Barnaby Conrad on the title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Foreword by Herb Caen. Illustrated, including from drawings by Author Conrad and various guests at his establishment. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x...... More
Washington DC: U. S. War Department, 1855. First Edition. This is an original MAP entitled "FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE PLAINS OF LOS ANGELES. From the "Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / War Department". The explorations and surveys..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. 167 (2) pp. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and blank order envelope laid in. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor of Austin, Texas. Red cloth; paper spine title label. 8 1/4" x 11 1/4". Illustrated, including from period..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1931. First Thus. Leather backed marbled boards. (xviii) 96 pp. Limited edition. One of 475 un-numbered copies printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated from seven contemporary facsimile lithographs on folded blue paper; one facsimile pamphlet, inserted. Green suede-backed marbled boards. 8 5/8" x...... More
Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1992. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. (x) 109 (1) pp. Prospectus laid in.Translated and edited by Mary Grace Paquette, One of 400 un-numbered copies. Designed by Susan Acker and Mary McDermott at the Feathered Serpent Press. Illustrated. Index. Cloth-backed boards; gilt spine titling. 6 1/4"..... More
San Francisco: Arthur Wheeler, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. 116 (1) pp. Illustrated primarily from photographs. Index to portraits. Black cloth. 7" x 10 1/4". An effort to reconstruct the history of the San Francisco Bar Associtaion after the "...complete destruction of the Association's records in the San Francisco fire of..... More
San Francisco: Harbor Publishing, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. 175 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Glenn Dickey in ink on a front free endpaper. ("For Paul Schneider, a real 49er faithful! My best, Glenn Dickey") (Also signed on a rear endpaper.) Introduction by Herb Caen. Tribute by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Illustrated..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. First Edition. Illustrated cloth-backed cloth over boards. (xiv)351 pages. Large octavo 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated from black and white drawings by E. H Suydam. First Printing (Stated and with the number 1 in brackets on the last text page.)..... More
