[np: np, 1931]. Limited first edition. Hardcover. viii, [4], 76 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. More
San Francisco: Bohemian Club / Printed by Taylor, Nash and Taylor, 1912. First edition. Paperback. viii, 48 pp., photogravure frontispiece; brown textured wrappers. Separate 4-page program for the 1912 "Ceremony for the Cremation of Care" laid in. This is the 11th of the annual Grove Plays, performed during the final... More
[Crescent City: Browder & Munn? nd 1915?]. First edition. Paperback. Unpaginated, pictorial wrappers, 9 x 6 inches, profusely illustrated with reproductions from photographs, 3 folding panoramas, 3 folding maps. Published in anticipation ". . . of the improvement of the harbor at Crescent City and the final completion of the... More
Santa Rosa: Privately Printed, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) born in England, his family emigrated to the US when Harris was 5 years old. At the age of 20 he became a Universalist minister for a year before... More
Santa Rosa: Published by the Author / Fountaingrove, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 314 pp. + leaf of adverstisements for other works by the author, frontispiece (mounted albumen photograph portrait of the author with facsimile autograph in blue ink); octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. This... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 69 pp. + 40-page publisher catalogue at rear; 12mo, terracotta cloth over boards, gilt title. Text consists primarily of formulas for vaious gold and silver alloys. More
Geelong & Melbourne: George Mercer & George Robertson, (1873). First edition. Hardcover. xii, [4], 224; 30 pp. 9 tinted lithograph plates, 9 wood engraved illustrations, folding map; small octavo, later (but not recent) half dark brown morocco, gilt. More
NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, July, 1913. First printing. Original pictorial wrappers, 7 x 10 inches. Short tears and general wear at edges of covers, spine portion lacking, front cover creased, lacking rear cover but overall clean and tight. This chapter of "Valley. . ." illustrated with 5 full-page b/w drawings by... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., (1936). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with pictorial paper cover label printed in colors; 306 pp., b/w illustrations throughout by John R. Neill, plain endpapers. Hanff & Greene # XXX. The first Oz book to feature only black and white illustrations. This later printing... More
New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1872. Early reprint. Hardcover. 278 pp. + 6 pages publisher catalog at rear; steel engraved portrait frontispiece and 1 full-page illustration, both with tissue guards; 12mo, original green cloth with gilt spine title and author's autograph facisimile in gilt on front cover, top ege gilt... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1915). First edition, limited, this #133 of 176. 2-volume set, original vellum spines and corner tips and brown boards, quartos (8.25 x 11 inches), xviii, 232; vi, 233-482 pp. 192 monochrome plates. Jackets. An essential reference work to the Fine Arts exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition... More
London: Printed for J. Walker; J. Harris; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, et al, 1812. Early reprint. 16mo, green calf spine and marbled boards; 124 pp. frontispiece and 3 copperplate engravings, 12 wood engraved illustrations in the text. Text consists of: Introduction; Lecture I - Of Matter and Motion;... More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1942). ROBERT MOORE. Original color pictorial boards, 8 x 9.5 inches, unpaginated. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. More
Hong Kong: (New Island Printing Co.), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pp. frontispiece and 66 full-page color plates from photographs (several of these are double-page folding plates, many more color photo illustrations in the text; quarto, original burgundy cloth, slipcase. Second volume in the catalogue of this extraordinary collection of... More
NY and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914-1915. First edition. Hardcover. 12 volume set, original full brown morocco embossed with art nouveau panel design of twin fruiting apple trees on front and rear covers, spines similiarly embossed and with titles, large octavos (7 x 9.5 inches). 1260 tipped-in color photo plates... More
London: Mills & Boon, [1923]. Early reprint. Hardcover. Original red cloth lettered in black, octavo, 184 pp. + publisher's 16-page catalog at rear. Most of illustrated jacket front panel laid in. Jack London's account of his youthful hobo adventures This 1923 edition is of much higher quality than the earlier... More
London: Mills & Boon, (1930). Twenty-second edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth lettered in black, octavo, 530 pp. + publisher's 16-page catalog at rear. This romantic novel recounts in a fictional the story of Jack and Charmian London's discovery of the idyllic Sonoma Valley - the Valley of the Moon -... More
London: George Bell and Sons/Henry G. Bohn, 1902, 1893, 1854. Early reprint. 3 columes (complete); small octavo, original brown cloth with gilt spines; vii, 536; 539; 516 pp. First volume with engraved frontispiece. Each volume with catalog of works published in the Bohn's Antiquarian Library series, as well as ex-series... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. xxx, 363 pp., frontispiece; octavo, original dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. English translation of the 12th-century Welsh courtier Walter Map's collection of anecdotes, tales, observations, etc., surviving in a single manuscript source (Bodley, 851). Text is based on M. R.... More
London: Mills & Boon, [1918]. First edition. Moderate rubbing to covers, contemporary previous owner name mostly effaced from front fixed endpaper, else about very good. Rebound in olive green cloth stamped in black with "Ex Libris WHS" (i.e., WH Smith) monogram near bottom of front cover; 292 pp. Text includes... More
London: Mills & Boon, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. Original slate blue cloth lettered in gilt; vi, 84 pp., 4 pp. advertisements for Macmillan's Jack London books at rear. This Mills & Boon first UK edition is bound from the first US (Macmillan) edition, including the Macmillan catalog at rear. Title... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 263 pp., profusely illustrated, including b/w photo plates, line drawings, map endpapers, and a 23 x 17-inch color plate folded and laid in; octavo, decorative cloth covers. The standard work on Navaho weaving. Color plate is described on page... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1947. First edition. Original printed wrappers, pp. 193-288. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest. More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1947. First edition. Original printed wrappers, pp. 97-191. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest. More
