New York: Hudson Hills Press, in Association with Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, original gray cloth, 453 pp., profusely illustrated. More
(Andoversford): The Whittington Press, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Quarto, stiff card wrappers and printed jacket; (167) pp., many illustrations, including engravings, b/w and color photographic plates, typographic specimens, etc. Superb resource for all aspects of the world of fine press printing. See scan for list of contents. Edition of 960..... More
[San Francisco: Portola Festival Committee], 1913. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 9 x 5 .5 inches, (72) pp, advertisements and illustrations on most pages. Besides the program of events, the text is comprised mainly of San Francisco statistic, lots of advertisements for local businesses. Scarce. 1 copy only..... More
Portsmouth: T. C. Newman (Procter, Printer), n.d. (circa 1930s). Paperback. 8.5 x 5.5 inches, original pictorial wrappers, 56 pp., engraved illustrations on nearly every page. Leather goods and tools of all kinds. Includes exotic leathers, bookbinding leathers, vellum and parchment, etc. Not found on OCLC/Worldcat. More
n.p. Instituto do Vinho do Porto, 1938. First edition. Paperback. 31 pp., plus 5 leaves of illustrations (photographs and map) printed on both sides, and 1 folding illustration, many illustrations from line drawings in the text; original decorative wrappers, 9.25 x 6.5 inches. An introduction to the history, production, varieties..... More
San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1888. First edition. Original brown cloth with gilt title and decoration, small octavo (5.5 x 7.5 inches), 380pp. Illustrated. An important wine book in the history of viticulture in California and also quite scarce. Unlike Husmann's other viticultural manuals, this title was never reprinted..... More
Placerville: Placerville Weekly Observer, 1888. First edition. Lithograph by W.W. Elliott lithographers, San Francisco after drawing by L. Roethe. 18.5 x 28.5 inches. Reps 189. More
New York: The Literati, 1916. First edition. [9], (xxviii), 10-(157) pp., 4 plates. Between pages 99 and 100 are 20 pages numbered 100a -g plus 3 unnumbered pages, including an illustration and 2 leaves of pink paper printed on rectos only; 12mo, original black cloth with paper spine label, gilt..... More
London: Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1780. First edition. Hardcover. xxii, 344, [16] pp., 5 folding plates (large frontispiece "General Map of the Russian Empire", view of the Frontier Town of Miamatschin, 3 additional folding maps);l quarto (267 mm) contemporary marbled boards, later rebacking with russet calf, maroon..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836. , [. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo, original slate blue textured cloth with gilt spine titles, [1]-6, [vii]-xii, [13]-285; viii, [9]-279, 8 (adverts) pp. Folding map frontispiece in vol. 2. In 1834 Washington Irving (1783-1859) was commissioned by fur magnate John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) to..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. Small octavo, greenish cloth boards with cover title in orange; unpaginated, text and fourteen wood engravings, signed and numbered in the colophon by Clare Leighton #198 of 500 copies. More
San Francisco: Cardinell-Vincent Co., nd (circa 1910). First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 7.25 x 9.5 inches; [33] pp. of illustrations mostly reproduced from photographs, including double-page panoramic view over Oakland and Berkeley and across the Bay to San Francisco, and tri-fold two-sided panoramas of (on recto) Oakland from City..... More
[Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong], 1852. First edition. Original dark brown cloth with gilt title and blind stamped decoration, quarto (9.5 x 11.5 inches), drop-title with list of "sketches", 58 maps and plans of varying sizes, many folded, on 57 sheets (complete). The Coast Survey of 1851 included the first detailed..... More
(Gilroy: Chamber of Commerce), n.d. (circa 1910). First edition. Paperback. 20 pp., halftone photo reproduction on every page, map to inside of rear wrapper, original color pictorial wrappers, 6 x 9 inches. Promotional pamphlet for one of the most productive agricultural regions in the county. Photos show agriculture, homesteads, public..... More
San Francisco: Press of Latham & Swallow, 1925-1928. First edition. Paperback. 10 programs for quarterly chorale performances of the Loring Club, original card wrappers, 6.5 x 5 inches, 16 pp. The Loring Club was a male chorale society founded in 1876 for the study and performance of music adapted for..... More
Oakland: Ben Kennedy, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Original yellow cloth and blue boards, 7.75 x 5.5 inches, 18 pp., illustrations after drawings by W. R. Cameron. #51 of 110 copies printed by Ben Kennedy, bound by Lawton Kennedy. Stevenson's essay was originally published in Cornhill Magazine, July 1877. More
Oakland: First National Bank, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pp., 8 full-page and 1 double-page illustrations from photographs, small octavo, original brown cloth with title and cover ornament in blue and silver. Scarce history of this imortant Oakland bank. More
San Francisco: San Francisco Convention and Tourist Bureau, nd (circa 1932). Original edition. Paperback. 16 pp. including covers, 9 x 8 inches folded vertically to 9 x 4 inches, color pictorial covers by Maurice Logan, profusely illustrated from photographs by Californians Inc., Moulin, Morton, and Russell. Well illustrated 1930s promotional..... More
New York: Castle Books, (1958). Reprint of the 1923 Rider first edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, octavo, xii, 238 pp., 5 full-page plates, many illustrations in the text. "The intriguing facts abou the Horse and his role in the Develpment of Mankind." More
New York: Lucis Press, (1966). Eighth printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with gilt titles, octavo, [12], 375 pp. More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1968). First edition thus. Hardcover. xviii, 523 pp., octavo, original green cloth. Originally published in 1927 this comprehensive work remains an essential reference guide to the writings of Rudyard Kipling. More
New York: Avalon Press, (1944). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original green cloth, octavo, 93 pp., profusely illustrated. Basic tecniques of self-defense for women based on Combato - a technique devised for military hand-to-hand combat. More
Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 74 pp. small octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles. Originally published in 1917 in "The Theosophist" magazine as series of articles on the Bacon cipher and the Shakespeare authorship controversy. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 192 pp., several pages of illustrations from photographs, octavo, original black cloth, jacket. Stravinsky talks about his childhood, religion, his development as a composer, and his music. More
Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press, 1935. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. lOriginal brown cloth, small octavo, 165 pp. Scarce first edition of an foundational work by Manly P. Hall. More