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
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1937. First edition. Original cloth spine and blue paper covered boards; quarto (9.25 x 13.5 inches); xi, 31 pp. 8 plates. Highly detailed pencil drawings of scenes around San Francisco Bay during the artist's 3-year residence there in the years 1849-52. Presented with accompanying..... More
London: Folio Society, 1993 (1994). Second printing of the Folio Society edition. Hardcover. xxv, 604 pp. 12 full-page plates from lithographs, 23 woodcut text illustrations, folding map laid in; quarto, original pictorial cloth, sipcase. Handsome editon of this classic account of African exploration. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the Zamorano Club, 1945. Limited to 250 copies. Hardcover. Original green cloth and decorative boards, quarto (7.5 x 11.5 inches), 24pp. A critical document addressing problems in Mexico's administration of the Californias in light of its newly-acquired independence from Spain. More
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1929. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 7 x 10 inches, 80pp. 30 b/w photo plates of grapes and grape leaves. This prohibition-era ampelography aims to sort out and identify the many black wine grape varieties found in California. Plates show leaves and fruit bunches. tables..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1913. First edition. Original pale blue boards ruled and titled in gilt, 12mo (5 x 7.25 inches), v, 20 pp. + frontispiece and 20 plates. With illustrations from drawings made by Choris in the year 1816, to which are added certain views of San Francisco..... More
New York: Rodale Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Original decorative boards, octavo, 32 pp., illustrated. A brief history of English coffee houses from the publisher's "Miniature Books" series. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. Second edition. Hardcover. Original tan and blue paper over boards, printed spine label, 12mo, viii, (9)-92, xxiii, [1] pp., title page engraving. Recipes for making wines from virtually every fruit available in Britain at the time. The first edition was published..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1921. First edition. 151 pp., 12mo, pale yellow boards with title and cover ornament printed in orange. The third book from the press, published in an edition of 1500 copies. "Dreams of horror that carry one back to the primeval past .... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pp, title-page illustration and 7 chapter head pieces in colors by Mallette Dean; octavo, yellow-green cloth shelfback with printed title label, green and beige decorative boards. Text is from articles by Helen Hunt Jackson published in the New York..... More
San Francisco: George Fields/Grabhorn Press, 1935. Limited first edition of 550 copies. Original green boards with paper title labels; small octavo (5.25 x 7.75 inches), xvi, 144 pp. B/w frontispiece, 3 folding illustrations. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Bibliography #225. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1973. First edition thus. Hardcover. Tan cloth and decorative boards, paper spine label, octavo, 91 pp. Frontispiece. Reprint of the very rare 1861 original edition. Cover design duplicates the title page (or cover) of the original edition. Hozial Baker came overland with a handful..... More
NY: Hastings House, 1949. First edition. Original brown boards with printed paper title labels, octavo, 63 pp. Limited editon of 1000 copies. More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. First edition. Original beige cloth and orange boards; quarto; ix, 48 pp. A beautifully printed edition of this important overland narrative. Howes B433. More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1966. First edition thus. Original pictorial boards, quarto (7.25 x 10.5 inches), pp xviii, 280. Color frontispiece, 2 photo plates, folding map, facsimile of Yount's grant map. George Concepcion Yount (1794-1865) was one of the first Americans to settle in California. After a long career..... More