Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1929. First edition. Paperback. Pictorial wrappers, 10 x 78 inches, 36 pp., illustrated. This issue with an article by Frank G. Snook, Chief of the Division of Motor Vehicles, touching on, among other things, the newly created California Highway Patrol (in August, 1929), and the new... More
Berkeley: 1997. First edition. Paperback. Original wrappers, 29 pp, frontispiece and 3 illustrations. Printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 500 copies. More
Honolulu: The Kamehameha Schools Press, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers, 7.5 x 6 inches; 43 pp., 8 tipped in photographs. Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915) arrived in Hawaii in 1846. A success in business, he married into the Hawaiian royal family and ultimately served in several positions for the... More
San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by W. Thomas Tayler, Austin, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 359/360 (misnumbered 380) from the... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1975. First edition. Original printed boards, 5.5 x 10.25 inches, pp xviii, 76. First translation into English of the dossier submitted to the Spanish Crown in 1628 relative to the value of California as a Spanish colony. Limited to 400 copies. More
London: the Author, 1818. Second printing. Hardcover. 86 pp, 6 full-page plates, many illustrations in the text; octavo, printed card wrappers. Contains complete instructions for obtaining striking effects with the lathe. Scarce. More
Napa: Nemes Printing Co, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Green buckram with title in gilt on spine, quarto (8.5 x 11 inches), 74 pp + (20) b/w photo plates. (Actually only 35 printed pages, text is printed on one side only, though blanks are counted in the pagination). Recounts the founding... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), (1961). India paper edition. Hardcover. Full crimson polished morocco, 12mo (4.5 x 6.75 inches), xxxii, 1166 pp. All edges gilt. Slight fading to spine, else a fine copy in a lovely binding, glassine jacket, slipcase box. This is the sixth printing (with... More
Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, 1921. Second edition. Forest green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, blue and lavender, octavo, (xviii), 395 pp., top edge gilt. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, including large folding panoramic photo of Tahoe basin. Large folding map of Lake Tahoe and its surroundings. George Wharton James was... More
Santa Rosa: Privately Printed, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 79 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles, floral patterned endpapers. With pencil inscriptions on front blank leaf thus: "Presented to Orange Blossom by T. L H. [i.e., Thomas Lake Harris] May 31st, 1886" and below: "Mrs. Mary Buckner's Book" and... More
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1972. Paperback. Folio, color pictorial wrappers, 36 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 inches); [8] text pages, 40 photographic plates (photogravure and color), architectural drawings. Text in English and Japanese. More
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1984. Paperback. Folio, color pictorial wrappers, 36 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 inches); [8] text pages, 40 photographic plates (photogravure and color), architectural drawings. Text in English and Japanese. More
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1974. Paperback. Folio, color pictorial wrappers, 36 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 inches); [8] text pages, 63 photographic plates (photogravure and color), site plans and drawings. Text in English and Japanese. More
Visalia: Tulare County Board of Trade, No date (circa 1920). First edition. Paperback. [32] pp., profusely illustrated from b/w photos, folding map; original decorative wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches. Early promotional brochure for the Central Valley county promoting the region as a tourist/outdoor recreation destination. Tulare is home to Sequoia... More
Campbell, CA: Chinese American Women's Club of Santa Clara County, (1972). Second printing. 130 pp., 6 index tab dividers, pictorial vinyl 3-ring binder. Recipes of all sorts contributed by Club members are divided into categories. Contributors' names follow each recipe. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Heath Anderson. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Philip Little. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Evelyn Simonds. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1932. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Heath Anderson. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1933. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Heath Anderson. More
San Francisco: Lane Publishing, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Original color pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Complete magazine with all pages present, all advertisement, illustrations, and other content intact. Cover illustration by Henry B. Maas. More
Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Decorative wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated. Edition of 900 copies, including 100 autographed copies bound in cloth. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (159). First edition. Hardcover. vi, [3], 350 pp., illustrated; original green cloth, jacket. A scholarly examination of the historical origins of Homer's Iliad. More
New York: New York University Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 384 pp., octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. "To vindicate logic as the method of metaphysics and to show its applications to current problems of science and nature, is the purpose of this volume." More
New York: Fleming H. Revell, (1895). First edition. Hardcover. 208 pp. + publisher's 10-page catalog at rear; small octavo, decorative yellow cloth. A sort of lesson manual with charming graphics for Sunday School teachers. More