San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xiii) 236 pages. Profusely illustrated from vignettes and sketches by Jo Mora. Octavo. Index. Black cloth-backed tan boards with front cover vignette. Octavo. Map endpapers. A history of the Monterey Peninsula, with a separate chapter on bandit Joaquin Murietta, and..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1927. First Trade Edition. (x) (2) 221 pp. Printed dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispiece portrait from Loren Barton drawing of William Griffith Henshaw; facsimilies of Spanish land grant and Warner documents and maps. Preface by Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Red cloth. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4"..... More
San Luis Obispo, California: H. M. Moreno (Self-published), 1916. First Edition. Cloth. 95 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author H. M. Moreno in ink on the front free endpaper ("Presented to Wm Burge with the Author's every best wish. Henry M. Moreno / S. P. Tunnel No. 10, San Luis Obispo, Cal...... 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: The Private Press of Thomas Russell, 1925. Reprint after the first edition of 1846. Cloth-backed boards. (xxvii), 316, (4, including two pages of advertisements for other Russell books). #21 of a limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. SIGNED by Thomas C. Russell. Illustrated, including illustrations by..... More
San Marino, California: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) 155 pages. Illustrated. . Laid in is the Prospectus addressed to Berkeley bibliophile Herbert M. Lovett. Tan cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Davis was born on Oahu of a Yankee father and Hawaiian mother. He was raised..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1936. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (vi) 54 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author in ink on a front free endpaper, "To my Friends Mr & Mrs Quentin L Brewer with the Best Compliments of Ernest A Wiltsee". Gray dust jacket. Frontispiece facsimile of receipt given to Thomas..... More
