New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. 262 pages. No. 217 of a limited edition of 487 copies, the last twelve of which were for presentation. Original green cloth. Black spine label with gilt titling. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Illustrated, including a tipped-in frontispiece from a photograph of the..... More
South Brunswick & New York: Poetry Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. 63 pp. Dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispice portrait of George Sterling from photograph, with facsimile signature. Foreword, including Sterling biographical material by Charles Angoff (1902-1972), managing editor of Americna Mercury magazine and professor of English at Fairleigh..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. (xi) 280 pages. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith, including frontispiece and many marginal sketches. Original olive green pictorial cloth with gilt titling. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2". Per The Zamorano 80, #2: "These charming sketches of the..... More
San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1971. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Unpaginated (152); SIGNED in ink by Wynn Bullock on a free front endpaper, "Wynn Bullock 1971". Profusely illustrated from Wynn Bullock's black and white photographs, primarily on full pages, reproduced by H. S. Crocker Co., Inc. San Bruno, California by double-impression..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. (xiii) 236 pages. Profusely illustrated from drawings by Jo Mora. Octavo. Index. Black cloth-backed tan boards with front cover vignette. A history of the Monterey Peninsula, with a separate chapter on bandit Joaquin Murietta, and a description of the present (1927)..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926. First Edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. (xiii), 236 pages. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Tirey L. Ford, in ink on a front free endpaper, "To Mrs. A. K. Hart. Sincerely yours, Tirey L. Ford". Cloth-backed Pictorial Boards. Octavo. Index. Profusely illustrated from drawings by Jo..... More
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1974. First Edition. leather backed linen boards. (xxxiii) 137 (Colophon) pp. SIGNED in ink by William Everson on the colophon. Copy #50 of 285 copies Designed by Graham Mackintosh and printed by Noel Young. Foreword by Peter Bartlett. Preface, Introduction, Afterword and Notes by William Everson..... 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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition. Original cloth. (vii) 2, 246 pages. First edition (With the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page). Illustrated from drawings by author Jo Mora. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2". Decorated cloth. Illustrated dustjacket. Illustrated endpapers. Small bookseller's label (Tecolote Bookshop, Santa Barbara) on..... More
Chicago: Military Training Camps Association of the United States, 1924. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. 146 (1) (13 adverts) pages. Profusely illustrated from drawings by Jo Mora and local artists and vintage photographs. Dark blue cloth; gilt front cover titling. 7 3/4" x 10 1/2". This is the 1924 Annual book..... More
Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1934. First Edition. q. (xviii) (2) 215 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Lawrence Clark Powell in ink on a front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Jean Armstrong with my cordial good wishes / Lawrence Clark Powell / Los Angeles 23 June 1934". Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by..... More
Carmel, California: Joseph Smith, 1938. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Unpaginated (38) SIGNED by Author/Artist Joeph Smith in ink on the dedication/limitation page, "Joseph J. (?) Smith Sept 18 - 1938". No. 131 of an unknown number of copies. Profusely illustrated from drawings of Carmel scenes and map by Mr. Smith..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1914. First Edition. Cloth. 141 pages. Print from photograph of George Sterling with facsimile signature, laid in. Green cloth with gilt front cover and spine titling. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". A collection of shorter poetry, starting with "Beyond The Breakers" written in Carmel and..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First Thus. Boards. 18pp. Illustrated dust jacket affixed to boards. Illustrated from 9 drawings by Francis Buruguiere tipped in. Color cover illustration from painting by Will Sparks. Printed in hand-set Goudy Kennerly Italic types by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco. 7" x 9". A...... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. (vi) 37 pp. Dust Jacket. Frontispiece portrait of George Sterling, from unpublished photograph by Arnold Genthe. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". Cloth. A posthumous collection of previously unpublished poems. Poet/Playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was a resident member of early Carmel's bohemian..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Boards. 77(9) 16 pp. Illustrated: The front cover in color from a painting of Yosemite Valley by H. J. Breuer; Within from five black and white photographs by W. E. Dassonville. Illustrated dust jacket affixed to plain boards. Penciled vintage Christmas presentations..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. First Edition. Illustrated boards. 129 (1) pages. First Edition. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographs. Quarto. Illustrated boards. Paper spine label. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. Prospectus laid in. Set in Janson-Antiqua and Linotype Janson types. Printed by Graham Mackintosh..... More
New York: North Point Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth-backed Boards. xix, 376 pages. First Edition. SIGNED by the late Charis Wilson in ink on the half-title. Illustrated, primarily from vintage photographs, including some by Weston, and other well-known photographers. Frontis portrait of Weston and Wilson from black and white photograph..... More
New York: North Point Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth-backed Boards. xix, 376 pages. First Edition. SIGNED by the late Charis Wilson in ink on the half-title. Illustrated, primarily from vintage photographs, including some by Weston, and other well-known photographers. Frontis portrait of Weston and Wilson from black and white photograph..... More
