Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., (1921). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, original light gray cloth with pictorial paper label in colors on front board; 312 pp. including 8 pp. publisher advertisements at rear, 12 full-page color plates including plate at page 255 with typographical error in plate caption..... More
[Los Angeles]: The Weather Bird Press, no date (1980s?). First edition, signed, limited. Map. Broadside map, 38 x 57 cm, printed in sage green, orange, and black on heavy ivory paper. Shrink-wrapped on cardboard backing with photocopied article by André Simon on old cookery books laid in, as issued. Limited..... More
London & Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, 306 pp., small octavo, original maroon boards with gilt spine title. A translation of the texts attributed to Confucius by the Theosophist astrologer Walter Gorn Old (aka Sepherial, 1864-1929). More
London: John Camden Hotten, no date (circa 1870). Early reprint. Hardcover. xvi, 368 pp. handcolored frontispiece and vignette title page, 35 handcolored plates; octavo, red morocco and boards. Originally pubished in 1830. More
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Union, 1832. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo, marbled boards, 216 pp., engraved frontispiece. Rare in commerce. OCLC/World Cat locates 12 copies. Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography #822. A slightly shorter first edition was published in 1829. More
Menlo Park: Penlitho Press, 1966. Collector's Edition Limited to 400 copies. Hardcover. Quarto, natural linen cloth over boards, 54 pp. illustrated, map endpapers. John Bidwell was a member of the first party of overland emigrants to reach California, in 1841. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936. Third printing. Hardcover. Original brick red cloth with gilt title, octavo, xiv, [1], 336 pp., color frontispiece, 32 full-page b & w illustrations. A native San Franciscan, Charles Caldwell Dobie's acquaintanceship with Chinatown began at an early age. More
Nashville: Southern Methodist Printing House, 1886. First edition. Original red cloth with gilt spine, octavo, 283 pp. Accounts of the author's experiences as a preacher and miner in the California gold country. Cowan p. 832. Howes B444. More
Los Angeles: The U. S. Library Association, Inc., (1932). Early reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo, red cloth and decorative boards, 87 pp, frontispiece. Possibly abridged from a larger work. More
San Francsco: San Francisco News Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pp. + 10 pp. advertisements; 12mo, original green cloth with gilt title. Stories, anecdotes, and historical sketches of the Gold Rush era West. More
New York: Edgar A Preyer, (1901). First edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth with gilt title, octavo, 143 pp., 22 full-page illustrations, mostly from photographs. A comprehensive reference to all aspects of the liquor trade with emphasis on whiskey. See scans of table of contents. Scarce. More
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1866. Third edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, 8vo, xv, [5], (xiii)-xvi, 462 pp. 4 pages ads. A detailed survey of California history, geography, agriculture, industry, tourism, etc. Cowan p. 284. More
London: Routledge, Warne, & Routlledge, 1863. Early reprint. Hardcover. 446 pp., 8 full-page engraved illustrations; 12mo, full dark brown calf prize binding (for Miss Reacher's School, Wolverhampton), all edges gilt. A moralizing adventure story set in the wilds of North America. In handsome prize binding awarded to "A. B. Smith..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, nd (but 1847). First edition. Hardcover. ix, 13-211. 8 engraved plates, 4 pages publisher adverts at rear; 12 mo, original dark blue cloth with gilt spine, blind embossed boards. Seperate title page at p. 105 for "True RIches" (see note below). Publication date inferred from publisher's..... More
London: Macmillan, 1921 & 1922. Signed, limited editions. Original uniform red cloth and tan boards, quartos. Third printing on "Notes" in this signed Edition de Luxe limited to 500 copies. "Scrap Book" is a signed, limited to 350 copies large paper issue of the first edition. Classics in the literature..... More
San Francisco: Putney Haight . Telegraph Press, 1910. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 307 pp., octavo, original mustard brown cloth. A few advertisements in text and including 1 full page ad in 2 colors for Emmett Rixford's La Questa Vineyard wine. Pagination is eccentric with much unpaginated front matter (including..... More
London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth spine and cream boards, ix, 41 pp., pictorial dustjacket. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Phoebe Stabler. The second book in the author's series of the angelic heirarchy. More
London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth spine and cream boards, ix, 41 pp., pictorial dustjacket. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Phoebe Stabler. The second book in the author's series of the angelic heirarchy. More
London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth spine and cream boards, viii, 70 pp., pictorial dustjacket. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Phoebe Stabler. The third book in the author's series of the angelic heirarchy. More
Northampton: J. P. Dwyer, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 77 pp., octavo, original red cloth with gilt spine title. Frontipiece and 4 pages of reproductions of Gehenna Press pressmarks. Edition of 400 copies, this #66. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First edition. Original black cloth with gilt titles and color pictorial illustration on front board, 253 pp., frontispiece and 6 color plates. More
Santa Barbara: A. A. Lloyd / Schauer Printing Studio, 1925. First edition. Paperback. 12 monochrome views from photographs printed back to back on accordion-fold strip, folding into a 4.25 x 6.25 inch integral blue paper mailing envelope with illustration on back and front. The Santa Barbara Earthquake on June 29..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1944. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo, xvi, 230 pp. Jacket. . . . is another man's poison. An analysis of the psychological and physical effects of alcohol on drinkers recognizing that to some, alcohol is poison. More
San Francisco: FWH Heron House, (1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. Pale mauve watered silk boards with printed paper spine label, octavo, unpaginated, illustrated. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Book design by Wolfgang Lederer, printed by Susan Acker and Mary McDermott at the Feathered Serpent Press. Prospectus autographed by Wlfgang Lederer. More
London: Rider & Co., 1948. Original edition. Paperback. Printed wrappers, 7 x 4.75 inches, 193-256 pp. Illustrated. More