NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First edition. Original gray cloth with titles in black and decoration in brown, quarto (7 x 9.5 inches), pp xvii, 217. Illustrated by the author. First issue of the author's first book. Half-title page is blank. Frazier p. 1. More
Sacramento: California Historical Society, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. xxii, 111 pp., frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations, folding map; quarto, original mustard-brown cloth with printed paper title labels. Edition of 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy at the Westgate Press. More
Sacramento: Book Club of California, 1934. First edition. 24 pp., frontispiece and 1 illustration from photographs, 2 facsimile letters; quarto, original dark blue cloth. Printed at the Windsor Press in an edition of 250 copies, this #176. More
San Francisco: n.p., 1865. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pp. "The original prospectus for the famous Sutro Tunnel, which was constructed to drain water from the mines on the Comstock Lode." (Streeter catalog). Flake 1922 (for an 1876 edition); Streeter sale 2343. Rare in..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., of California, 1927. Original edition. Hardcover. 508 pp. (pagination includes front cover and front endpapers), octavo, original maroon and grey cloth printed with advertisements. Scarce 1927 Santa Cruz city directory. More
Cleveland: Great Lakes Historical Society, 1945. First edition. Paperback. 4 volumes, original printed wrappers, 10 x 7 inches; 48, 55, 64, 64 pp. Illustrated. Scarce complete Volume 1 of this nautical historical journal. We also have complete runs of Volumes 23 (1967) - 33 (1977) as well as single copies..... More
Lahr (Baden); New York: Ernst Kaufmann, [1895]. Early reprint. Hardcover. 96 pp., 3 chromolithograph plates, original red boards with chromolithograph cover illustration, black spine lettering. Printed by Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen. OCLC/WorldCat suggests a publication date of 1895 to this edition. More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. x, 81 pp., quarto, beige cloth and marbled boards, slipcase. Poems, plays, reminiscences. Leland W. Cutler was a graduate of Stanford University and at one time President of the Board of Trustees of the university. Limited edition of 600 copies, this..... More
New York: L. C. Page & Co., 1909. First edition. Hardcover. [10], 330 pp., map, frontispiece and 48 illustrations from photographs; octavo, green pictorial cloth with cover design in gilt, white, red, and blue, top edge gilt. Tipped in between half title and frontispiece is a 2-page holograph note from..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1906). Hardcover. [3], 255 pp., octavo, original green cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. The author promotes a system for health based on adherence to the principles of Fletcherism (after Horace Fletcher, 1849-1919). Central to the practice is sufficient mastication of food ingested. Attractive..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1889. Sixth edition. Hardcover. 330 pp. + 12 pp publisher catalogue at rear; small octaco, origiinal olive green cloth with gilt titles. Publisher's not indicates that this 6th edition includes some addition expication and emendations to the previous edition. More
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1923. Annual, 1923 season. Paperback. 239 pp. + [31] page directory of camps and [11] page catalogue of Spalding camp wear and equipment, illustrated; pictorial wrappers 6.75 x 5 inches, Very detailed manual of organized camps and camping with chapters on just about any..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 636 pp., 85 monochrome plates from photographs, many illustrations in the text; 12mo, brown cloth with gilt title. A comprehensive manual of organized camping with detailed instructions on construction of outdoor kitchens, sanitation, privys, cabins, tents, etc. Activities for campers, structure of..... More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1876-77. First edition thus. 4 volumes, original printed wrappers, 12 mo (4.5 x 6.75 inches), (xxxvi), 105; 131; 90; 98 pp. The "Mricchakatika" - in English "The Little Clay Cart" is attributed to the classical Indian dramatist Sudraka, of whom very little is known. In the play..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. [70] pp., 13 full-page illustrations, Art deco illustrations are rendered in a brownish gray tones. More
New York: Hurst & Co., nd (1880s). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original slate gray pictorial cloth with elaborate cover design in gilt and black, octavo, 160; 159; 159 pp., 24 full-page engraved illustrations. Three individual works with separate title pages: "Santa Claus' Story Book for All Good Boys and Girls;" "Saint..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. First edition thus. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 6 inches, [11] pp. Reprint of a rare privately printed pamphlet attributed to John Masefield. Edition of 250 copies printed for David Magee and Albert Sperisen and presented to their friends in the Roxbughe and Zamorano Clubs..... More
Sausalito: Litra-Ad Publishing Co., n.d. (1927?). First edition. Hardcover. Original greenn pictorial boards, octavo, 47 pp, illustrated with 2 mounted photographs. More
n.p. n.p., 1950. First edition. Paperback. Single sheet beige wove paper 22 x 17 inches folded in half twice to 8.5 x 11 inches with printed text as above on front and menu in Russian and English on facing pages inside. Drinks list on separate 12 x 5 inches sheet..... More
np: np, nd (circa early 1930s). Original edition. Paperback. [38] pp. tab indexed in 17 categories, original color pictorial wrappers, 5 x 5 inches, bound with a tassled gold cord. Probably just post-prohibition (Volstead Act lasted from 1919 to 1933) wine list from San Francisco's finest hotel. Selections include rare..... More
New York: Spring Valley Water Co. (printed at the Martin B. Brown Press), 1906. First edition. Paperback. Folio, original printed wrappers, 103 pp., including 48 pages of text, 16 double-page folding maps, 12 double-page folding photographs. Hermann Schussler was Chief Engineer of the Spring Valley Water Co., the private corporation..... More
Chicago: Foster-Munger Co., 1908. Original edition. Paperback. Original decorative wrappers, 6.5 x 3.25 inches, 160 pp.,, illustrated. Scarce, no copies listed on OCLC/WorldCat. More
San Francisco: California Saw Works (Neal, Straford, & Kerr, print), 1924. Original edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 6.5 x 3.5 inches, 218 pp., illustrated. Tools and machinery for sawmill and lumbering. Company established in 1886. More
n.p. n.p., 1949. Original edition. Paperback. 54 pp. (lacking page 47/48), original printed wrappers, 7 x 4.25 inches, monochrome illustrations from photographs, Scarce catalogue of steel ceilings and wall ornament, not on OCLC. More
(San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner_, 1955. First edition. Paperback. 12 pp., self-wrappers, 8 x 5 inches. Scarce pamphlet. More