The Problem of Government in the San Francisco Bay Region
Berkeley: Bureau of Public Admin. 1948. 1st. Hardbound. Quarto, (xv) 163 pp. Ex libris (stamps. pocket) else Near Fine (never checked out). More
Berkeley: Bureau of Public Admin. 1948. 1st. Hardbound. Quarto, (xv) 163 pp. Ex libris (stamps. pocket) else Near Fine (never checked out). More
Berkeley: University of CA Press, 1930. First Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. Octavo. (xxiv), 529; (xvi), 473; (xxii), 436; (xiv), 552; (xx), 426 pages. 14 maps (some folding), 106 plates, 47 facsimiles. Navy blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A fine set. One of the foundations of any collection..... More
Berkeley: University of CA Press, 1930. 1st. INSCRIBED by the author in Vol. I. Five volume set. Octavo. (xxiv), 529; (xvi), 473; (xxii), 436; (xiv), 552; (xx), 426 pages. 14 maps (some folding), 106 plates, 47 facsimiles. Navy blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering in the scarce dustjackets. Attractive..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, 552pp. Photo-illustrations; maps (one large fold-out). Blue cloth with gilt lettering in scarce double dustjackets (cream illustrated with crest and lettering; plain brown paper). Single sheet, folded, Prospectus from the publisher, laid in. A fine copy in near fine..... More
Big Sur, CA: Published by the author, 1970. First Limited Edition #34 of 50 copies. First Limited Edition #34 of 50 copies. INSCRIBED "For Ed our mail man/A rare book/for a rare soul/Once spent a summer/working on this one/keep watching the skys/with love/Brother Brock and Lady Terri." 4to. 21 pp..... More
Angels Camp, CA: Calaveras Californian, 1932. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by the author in Angel's Camp, dated May 19-20, 1934. Small 8vo. 80 pp. 13 photo-illustrated plates. Stiff grey printed wraps in fine condition (first page starting to pull away from staples). A brief history on the early pioneer..... More
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1935. First Edition. 8vo. x, [6], 526 pp. Bibliography; list of Pioneers of Tuolumne County; list of Towns and Camps of Tuolumne Region. Photo-illustrated plates. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (two small chips to upper edge). The history of early Tuolumne County..... More
San Francisco: Published by L. A. Larsen, Tuesday, July 16, 1912. 4to. 48 pp. 18 illustrated plates presenting various designs. Business advertisements. Two black & white photographs of the existing city hall laid in. Yellow staplebound wrapers. A scarce edition of the "Building and Industrial News weekly publication devoted to..... More
Monterey, CA: City of Monterey, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Square 8vo. 94pp. Photo-illustrations; maps. Color printed stiff spiral bound wraps in fine condition. Uncommon history on area in Monterey which overlooks the original capital of Alta California having the distinction of being the only residential neighborhood in California continuously inhabited..... More
San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury Publishing and Printing Co., 1896. Second Edition. Oblong 8vo. 322, [5] pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions of public buildings, homes, farms, agriculture, portraits of citizens, and much more; full page map. Introduction by Chas. M. Shortridge, editor San Jose Daily and Weekly..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 248 pp. Blue and grey cloth covered boards in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Age toning around page edges else fine in near fine dustjacket. Based on the true story of Frank Lee Morris, whose escape from the "impregnable" Rock in 1962 made..... More
Boston & Cleveland, OH: John P. Jewett & Company & Jewett, Proctor and Washington, 1854. 1st. Original boards. First Edition. Small 8vo. xi, 356 pp. Folding hand-colored lithographed map of California with an inset of San Francisco, by J.H. Colton, dated 1854. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and..... More
United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils [and] California Agricultural Experiment Station. 1925. Large folding color map (42 x 38"). Base map from U.S. Geological Survey sheets. 2" split at lower edge foldline; 2 small splits at interior folds; short tape on verso; else a fine copy..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 403pp. Index. Illustrations by Suydam. INSCRIBED "For Philip E. Kubel/If it were not for/you there wouldn't be/any me!/Get that off/your conscience!!/Gratefully/Harry Carr." In addition, a full-page SIGNED pencil drawing of a Los Angeles street scene by Suydam, also INSCRIBED to..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 85pp, maps (one folding at rear). Transcribed, translated, and annotated by W. Michael Mathes. Fine copy in blue cloth; gilt-lettered spine. 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Bound by Bela Blau. Volume 4 in the Baja..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. 184 pp. Illustrations by William H. Wilkes. Pictorial orange cloth in tan illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (tape reinforcement to spine ends on verso). "A collection of charming historical vignettes about the padres and their historic foundations." -..... More
Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. First Edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Illustrations by Paul Whitman. Publisher's color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light foxing and age toning to covers; minor wear to extremities). The epicurian delights of those who really like to know what to eat, in the..... More
"An authorized republication by the author from the 1994 book: Origins & destinations: 41 essays on Chinese America / a joint project of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and UCLA Asian American Studies Center." 1994. 8vo. Pages 189 - 205. Bibliography. Red printed wrappers in near fine condition (small..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. First Edition, Limited to 450 copies. Folio. xiv, 144pp [1]. Notes; Bibliography. Foreword by James McClatchy. Beautifully illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions, many for the first time in print. 4 page color..... More
Beverly Hills CA: Malibu Quail Hatchery, Nd. 12mo; 18pp, illustrations. Near fine in stapled wrappers protected within later pressboard binder. '... Submitted for the Consideration of Sportsmen and All Admirers of Wild Game' Laid in is a Malibu Quail Hatchery price list. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. xvii, 246 pp. Bibliography; Index. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in dustjacket, as new. volume 14 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West. Grafton Tyler Brown -..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1911. First Edition. 12mo. 99 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs; line drawings by Carl Eytel. Pictorial cloth in near fine condition (minor wear; newsclipping about ancient redwood trees tipped). J. Smeaton Chase (1864 – 1923) was an English-born American author, traveler and photographer. Here is his book..... More
San Francisco: Lithographed, printed and bound by H.S. Crocker & Co., 1890. First Edition. Folio. 4 preliminary leaves, [13] leaves of text, each illustrated with pen and ink sketches (with tissue guards) by Carl Dahlgren, all but one (the snow plant) with a printed poem by Harry Dix; 13 stunning..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1930. 1st. Hard Cover. 8vo. (xiii) 278pp. Illustrations. Tan linen spine with red lettering; marbled boards; top edge stained red in scarce color printed dust jacket. "...an intimate, authentic record of three adventurous years in one man's career, as well as a vivid picture of the..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. First Edition thus; Edition Limited to 450 copies (this one is #105 of the first 200 copies on Exeter book-paper), SIGNED by the printer. 8vo. (l) 350pp. 8 full-page hand colored plates (including frontispiece) with tissue guards; decorative chapter headings, endings and initials in..... More