New York: Spring Valley Water Co. (printed at the Martin B. Brown Press), 1906. First edition. Paperback. Folio, original printed wrappers, 103 pp., including 48 pages of text, 16 double-page folding maps, 12 double-page folding photographs. Hermann Schussler was Chief Engineer of the Spring Valley Water Co., the private corporation..... More

San Francisco: California Saw Works (Neal, Straford, & Kerr, print), 1924. Original edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 6.5 x 3.5 inches, 218 pp., illustrated. Tools and machinery for sawmill and lumbering. Company established in 1886. More

(San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner_, 1955. First edition. Paperback. 12 pp., self-wrappers, 8 x 5 inches. Scarce pamphlet. More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1833). Paperback. Original decorative printed wrappers, 6 x 3.75 inches, 24 pp., engraved illustrations. Copyright statement dated 1833./ The American Sunday-School Union was at this address from 1827 to 1853./ This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from Jan. 1832 to Jan. 1858./ One..... More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. Trade edition. Paperback. 12mo, decorative printed wrappers, (12) pp. This is the regular edition, not one of the signed and numbered copies, More

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1928). First US edition. Hardcover. 272 pp., frontipiece and 22 illustrations from photographs, folding map; octavo, original red cloth. Fascinating study of this highly specialized Indian caste. More

(Oakland: Enquirer Print, 1901). First edition. 372 pp., profusely illustrated from photographs of notable buildings and localities around the county as well as portraits of notable citizens, settlers, etc.; octavo, original black cloth with cover title in gilt. Fairly scarce history of Napa County with a focus on early settlement..... More

New York: E.P. Dutton, (1940). Second edition. Hardcover. 262 pp.,18 illustrations from photographs, octavo, originall brown cloth, jacket. Poet, writer, and political activist Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (1889-1948) was born in Jamaica and educated in the US. He was a central figure in the Harlem renaissance. More

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial gray cloth with cover design blocked in black, white, blue, and gilt; 12 mo, v, [2], 360 pp., gravure frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations. Rabbi Henry Iliowizi (1850-1911) was born in Russia, educated in Germany, and for many years is..... More

Florence: Giulio Giannini and Son, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Hand-painted vellum covers with leather ties, 51 pp,, 5 illustrations from drawings by Giulio Giannini. History of the 15th-century Palazzo-Convent d'Annalena. The property was converted into the pensione Annalena in 1919, owned and operated by the families Calastri-Rossoni. More

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (copyright 1928). Wartime edition reprint circa 1943. Hardcover. Original dark red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 309 pp, jacket. Heins LJ-8. More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1919. Early 1930s reprint. Hardcover. Original green cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 296 pp, frontispiece by J. Allen St. John, 16 pp. adverts at rear, jacket. Heins WM-3. More

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924 copyright). Later reprint, circa 1935. Hardcover. Original red cloth, octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches), 346 pp, frontispiece. advert leaf at rear, jacket. Heins AM-4. More