Lodi: Woman's Club of Lodi, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Cream decorative boards, octavo, 269 pp. (including several blanks for recipe additions), illustrated with color vignette title page and several advertisements for local businesses. Recipes of all kinds contributed by local Lodi ladies, each with contributor identified. Glozer 210, not in Bitting or Brown. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1975). First edition. x, 322 pp, followed by unpaginated Plates section of 79 illustrations from photographs, frontispiece, quarto, blue cloth. A scholarly study published under the auspices of the Department of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. More
New York: McMenamy, Hess & Co. (1872). First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes (3 volumes bound as 2), quarto, full morocco, gilt; 512, 1-224; 225-447, 1-443 pp., profusely illustrated with steel and wood engraved plates, Originally published in serial parts, this copy bound from the parts in 2 volumes. Jesuit... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Third printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, dark brown morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt; xxxii, (33)-783; viii, (9)-772, profusely illustrated. Handsome set of this popular history of the War for Independence. Originally published in 30 serial parts in 1851-52, the first book edition followed in... More
Boston: Clifford & Co. 1881. Second edition. Original maroon pictorial cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt, octavo (5.5 x 7.5 inches), viii, 295 pp. Illustrated with wood-engraved plates and many leaves of advertisements. The story is an entertaining vehicle for presenting locales throughout the world where are found... More
London: Printed for S. Austen, 1748. First edition. Hardcover. 4, [10], 442 pp.; illustrated with copperplate frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 21 folding plates; octavo, old calf rebacked with sized linen cloth. An explanation and analysis of the Holy Bible using a point-by-point question and answer format assuming the historicity of... More
San Francisco: John Howell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. xi, 2fl, 80 pp., illustrated with frontispiece, 3 facsimile text reproductions, 2 folding maps; octavo, original red cloth. The documents translated here are: "Rules and Regulations for the Presidios on the Frontier Line of New Spain, Ordered by King Carlos III in... More
New York: Derrydale Press, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. xii, (1), 251 pp. 230 illustrations from photographs; octavo, burgundy cloth embossed in gilt. Russian-born horseman Vladimir Stanislavovitch Littauer (1892 –1989) settled in the United States in 1921 and became one of the most influential riding masters and instructors of the 20th... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Original purple cloth, small octavo, pp (xiv), 145. 12 monochrome plates, 3 maps. More
Los Angeles: N.A. Kovach, 1946. First edition thus. Original blue cloth, small octavo (5.5 x 8.5 inches), pp xvii, 87. 8 b/w plates. Reprint of the 1868 first edition. Vol. III of the California Centennial Series. More
n.p. Fine Arts Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp., 24 illustrations, 6 maps, including, 5 double-page; octavo, beige and brown leatherette. A well-researched biography of John C. and Jessie Benton Fremont. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 86 pp., frontispiece; small quarto, brick-red cloth, jacket. The story of Junipero Serra told in the form of a poetic drama narrated by Serra's close companion and first biographer, Fray Francisco Palou. More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. Original tan linen with gilt titles; octavo; x, 154 pp. Frontispiece and 68 tipped in illustrations from photographs, each with facing page of descriptive text. Dustjacket. San Diego's "Panama California International Exposition" was held the year following San Francisco's "Panama-Pacific International Exposition."... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. [6], 630 pp., profusesly illustrated with 100s of reproductions from photographs, drawings, plans, etc., 76 color plates; quarto, beige cloth with cover title and ornament stamped in dark brown. Ninth annual compilation of 12 numbers of the influential German architectural journal "Moderne Bauformen."... More
Santa Barbara: Colmmunity Arts Association of Santa Barbara, (1924). First edition. Hardcover. 153 pp., including 62 monochrome plates; folio (14 x 10.5 inches); beige cloth and tan boards. The results of a competition for "the best design of a house to cost not more than $5000 . . . suitable... More
San Francisco: (Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn and James MacDonald), 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. (57) pp., frontispiece and title-page illustration by Joseph Sinel; small octavo, black cloth and tan boards, printed paper title label. Truman C. Everts (1816-1901) was member of the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane exploring expedition in the area... More
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2007. First edition. Folio, original crimson cloth, 10.25 x 15.25 inches, unpaginated. Volume five of seven volumes that make up this masterpiece of modern calligraphy and book design. More
NY: Macmillan, 1903. First edition, first printing. Original green pictorial cloth decorated in white, red, and black, gilt lettering, octavo, 231pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 10 color plates, color and monochrome illustrations in the text. This copy autographed in 1974 on verso of front free endpaper by Becky London... More
Burlingame: William P. Wreden / Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1950. Limited edition. Hardcover. Orange buckram spine with printed paper title label, patterned boards, oblong octavo, 8, [1], 63 pp. Color illustrations throughout. A comic narrative of the gold rush reprinted from the rare original. Limited to 390 copies. More
NY: Robert M'Dermut, 1817. "Third edition" Contemporary full brown calf with morocco title label, 4.5 x 7 inches,1 p. l., [vii]-xxviiii (i.e. xxviii), [29]-317pp. 9 engraved plates and 1 table; integral, but not included in the pagination. Title page states "Third edition" though this is rather further on down the... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek, 1808. First quarto edition. Complete with 13 plates (including portrait plate of Blake by Schiavonetti after the painting by T. Phillips and engraved title page): 2 fl., xvi, 36, [4] pp. 11 plates inserted in main text. New binding by Phillip Dusel... More
London: Folio Society, 2017. Limited edition. Hardcover. unpaginated, 12 wood engraved illustrations, each with facing page of text; quarto, black cloth with gilt title and ornaments, with accompanying essay by Sebastian Carter (singe sheet folded), jacket, solander case. Edition of 750 copies, this #274. More
London: Folio Society, 2017. Limited edition. Hardcover. xvi, 66 pp., illustrated with colored lithographs; octavo, dark green morocco and pastepaper boards, slipcase. Edition of 1250 copies numbered and signed by the artist, this #288. More
San Francisco and NY: Payot, Upham & Co. and D. Van Nostrand, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth with title and cover ornaments in gilt and blind, octavo (5.5 x 8 inches), (xxiv), 240 pp. Frontispiece, 57 engraved illustrations in the text. San Francisco attorney Emmett Rixford (1841-1928) planted... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. xii, (163) pp. + [120] pp. facsimile; octavo, blue cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. The entries in the Note-Book date from about 1793 to 1818 and include poems and fragments, memoranda, musings, drawings, sketches, etc. Following Blake's death in 1827 the... More