San Francisco: Privately Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1954. Limited edition of 150 copes. Original mustard cloth and marbled boards, quarto, xxviii, (49) pp., frontispiece coat-of-arms, 5 plates from photographs, folding map. Main text was self-published in Rochester in 1851. Subtitle to the original edition reads: "Being a Description of..... More
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. [xvi], 30 pp., including 6 facsimiles and 3 illustrations by Rene Gockinga printed in brown and yellow; quarto, flexible green boards with 4 green ribbon ties, slipcase. Text is a tale from the third authorized edition..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955. First edition, limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorns. Original half red morocco and tan cloth, folio, pp xvi, 68. Frontis and 10 full-page color plates, many color drawings of flags in the margins. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 568. More
NY: Random House, 1939. First edition, limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Original 1/4 white leather and marbled boards, gilt-stamped red lettering piece on spine; folio (11 x 16 inches), pp (x), (44) + 22 full-page color plates with facing descriptive titles. A fine Grabhorn production. Plates..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1948. Limited edition of 300 copies. Original red cloth and floral boards, folio (10.5 x 14 inches), (48)pp. Color woodcut initials and illustrations by Mallette Dean. Originally published in 1870 in "The Luck of the Roaring Camp and Other Sketches."Beautifully printed and illustrated. Grabhorn Press Bibliography..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938. First edition. Original half white linen and red cloth boards, quarto (7 x 10.25 inches), pp x, 367. Color frontispiece, 14 full-page reproductions of ships, 2 full-page portraits, 9 full-pages with 33 reproductions of cancelled envelopes, map endpapers. Edition limited to 500 copies.Grabhorn Press Bibliography..... More
San Francisco: Westgate Press printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1931. First edition limited to 475 copies. Original brown cloth and marbled boards, octavo (5.75 x 9 inches), pp xviii, 95. Frontispiece and 5 folding facsimiles of pictorial letter sheets printed on blue paper, 12-page facsimile inserted between pp 56 &..... More
San Francisco: Marvin Cloyd, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 71 pp., 12mo, brown textured card covers with gilt title. A book of verse by the San Francisco writer, poet, and journalist Anna Blake Mezquida (1883-1965). Inscribed and signed by the author on front blank leaf, with re-gifting inscription following. More
New York: Duffield and Co., 1906. First edition. Original pale yellow pictorial cloth with title and decoration inred, brown, and green, octavo, 81 pp. Illustrated with 8 b/w plates after drawings byErnest Peixotto. A book of verse that attempts to create humor by exploiting offensive anti-Asian stereotypes. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 116 pp., 12mo, original red cloth spine and decorative boards. Scarce title on flower arranging by the prolific author of many cook books. More
Portland Oregon: Printed by McArthur and Wood at the Attic Press, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 2fl, 143 pp., 3fl (colophon and 2-page subscriber list); 12mo, full navy blue straight grain morocco binding by Stikeman with Indian-motif gilt ornaments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Text printed in..... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. First edition. 100 pp., printed in black, red, and blue inks with Chaucer and Troy types on Perch paper, wood engraved frontispiece and 1 full-page illustration by Edward Burn-Jones, woodcut initials and page ornaments; quarto, original full limp vellum with gilt spine title, faded green silk..... More
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1998). First US edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original black cloth, 352 pp., illustrations in color and black and white, jacket. The bible of modern hawking and falconry. Originally published in the UK, this first US edition reprints the revised third UK edition. More
San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. xv, 516 pp., illustrated with many engraved portrait plates; large octavo, original full tan calf with morocco spine labels. Increasingly scarce early history of Marin County. The township histories are of particular interest. Cowan II p. 414. More
London, NY: William Heinemann, Doubleday, Page & Co. & Co., 1910. First US edition. Hardcover. Original blue pictorial cloth with cover design blocked in gilt, small quarto, ix, (160) pp. 34 tipped-in color plates 8 8 line drawings by Arthur Rackham, pictorial endpapers. US edition with Doubleday, Page & Co..... More
NY: Dodge Publishing Co., (1914). Original pictorial wrappers, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 259 pp. + unpaginated index. A lovely recipe book with delightful cover design in red, green, and brown, art-nouveau floral page ornaments. (Bitting page 153). More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Original textured orange paper over card covers with title and cover design in gilt; 5 x 8 inches, pp x, 13. 2 tipped-in gravure photos. The only book authored by the noted architect Bernard Maybeck, designer of the Palace of Fine Arts..... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1949. First edition, limited to 600 copies. Original blue moire cloth; oblong quarto; vi, 62 pp. 19 full-page reproductions, 1 large folding plate, color title-page. Sketches include scenes along the way in Dougal's 1850 voyage to California, views of San Francisco - including the superb 3-panel panorama of..... More
Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1974. Facsimile of the 1878 first edition. Original black buckram, folio (14.5 x 11.5 inches), unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. A facsimile reprint of the 1878 Smith & Elliott original edition. Color frontispiece map, excellent reproductions of the lithograph views of residences and ranches thoughout the Napa Valley. This..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1918. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Original beige cloth and pale green boards; quarto; 1 fl, 9 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Dan Sweeney. Page decorations by Lawrence B. Haste. Printed by John Henry Nash. Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) was a central..... More
Paris: Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1955. First edition thus. Paperback. 363 pp, color frontispiece and several monochrome plates on glossy stock; small octavo, printed red wrappers, errata slip tipped to first blank leaf. First French edition of this classic Tibetan Buddhist text. More
(Berkeley): George L. Harding & Roger Levenson [Tamalpais Press], 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo, original black cloth with gilt title and cover ornament, ix, [1], 26 pp., glassine jacket. Edition of 15 copies designed and printed by Roger Levenson for the Companions of the Moxon Chappel, a group of private..... More
Sacramento: State Office, J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1890. First edition. Hardbound. Original black cloth with gilt spine title, octavo (6 x 9.5 inches), 522 pp. . Many illustrations, including 4 chromolithograph plates, other engraved plates and illustrations in the text. Errata slip pasted to contents page, Items of..... More
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1948. First edition. hHardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches), xiv, 81 pp. Illustrated with decorations by Dan Adair and historica b/w photos. Well researched illustrated history of lumbering in Mendocino County. Printed by Taylor & Taylor. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. Fourth edition. Hardcover. xii, 200 pp.; frontispiece and 20 full-page illustrations, 16 illustrations in the text; octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles. "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a London pub with a history going back several centuries. More