[San Francisco]: [Wells Fargo Bank], [1935]. First Edition. Color pictorial map, 16 x 19 1/2". Nicely framed in simple wood frame with gold accents. A fine copy of an uncommon pictorial map; as of 10/19, only 3 copies located in OCLC. Highlights drawings of points of interest in old San... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1846. 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 438, Serial 477. Original wraps. 8vo. 75pp. 12 lithograph plates; large folding map. Stitched wraps (disbound). Light dampstaining throughout, otherwise fine condition (and scarce thus) in modern cloth case with gilt-lettered morocco label at spine. Under Fremont's orders, Abert travelled from... More
Dallas, TX: The Bridwell Library and The Gehenna Press, 1992. The Gehenna Press. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 50 numbered copies of the "Special Issue", this being #19. SIGNED by Baskin at the colophon. Additionally INSCRIBED by Baskin. 4to [2], 238, [1] pp. followed by 13 leaves of printer's marks... More
[San Diego]: Shell Oil Company, 1935. First Edition. Double-sided color lithograph pictorial map illustrated by Don Bloodgood (1897 - 1989), an American illustrator and graphic cartographer. This map is his first known work. 31 x 22" Fold lines with small holes at fold corners; minimal slight age toning; else fine... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition, Limited to 450 copies. Folio. xiv, 144pp [1]. Beautifully illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Green cloth with paper title label to spine and color plate to front board in light grey slipcase. Designed... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Octavo; xv, 506, [2 ads]pp. Index. Rebound in tan buckram, text damp-stained throughout with grey spotting to lower margins, ink note to ffep and rfep, which has a 2-inch closed tear, else Very Good. More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876. First Edition. Original cloth. Large 8vo. xvi. 17-569 pp. Black & white illustrations. Introduction by Mark Twain. A cancelled check from the Ophir Silver Mining Company, dated July 4, 1878, laid in. Publisher's brown cloth with black & gilt stamping; housed in brown custom... More
San Francisco: Alta California Publishing House, 1880. 1st. Original cloth. 8vo. 258pp. 5 full-page lithograph plates (including frontispiece) with tissue guards by G. F. Keller. Original rust cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front cover of a Chinese man surrounded by the words 'The Ruler... More
np: Unpublished, [1948]. 1st. Paperback. Folio. 7pp (single-sided) holograph manuscript. 17 reference works cited. "If you have read a fair selection of the above you are already an 'expert' and will need no further guidance, beyond the references and bibliographies encountered." - pg. 7 - Eggan manuscript. Cream lined paper... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, trade issue. INSCRIBED in year of publication "Robert Frost/to/***/1945." 8vo. 23 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light wear to spine ends; short tear to upper front... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. First American Edition SIGNED by the author. . Large 8vo. 1066pp. Maps; Index. Illustrations. Single page ALS laid, addressed to former Stanford President, Richard Lyman ("Dick"). A fine copy in fine dustjacket. By one of Britain's most distinguished historians and Churchill's... More
Santa Fe. NM: Published by the author, 2014. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition, Limited to 1,000 copies, SIGNED by the authors. Oblong 4to. 370 pp. Detailed color photographs of over 300 historic weapons from the Gordon and Taylor collections. Brown leatherette boards with gilt illustration and lettering, without dust jacket... More
St. Paul, Minn: F. Jay Haynes & Bro., official photographers of the Northern Pacific Railroad, (1890). First Edition. Original cloth. Small 8vo. 124 pp. 1 full-page map titled "Map of the Upper Geyser Region"; and 1 titled "Map of the Yellowstone Park" folded and affixed to rear pastedown. 26 illustrations... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1950. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies. Folio. xi, [1], 140, [1] pp. Facsimiles of twenty-one maps on nineteen sheets, some folding. Bibliography. Publisher's prospectus (folded) laid in. Title and text printed in red and black. Bound in tan, red, and black decorated... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 81pp. Grey cloth in blue dustjacket with white lettering. INSCRIBED "And with the kind regards/of Herbert Hoover." A near fine copy in very good dustjacket (price-clipped; some wear to extremities; scraping to lower front). Hoover's personal memoirs of the first... More
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1980. First Edition, Limited to 40 numbered copies. Half-leather. 8vo. 209 pp. Index. Illustrations. Edited and Introduced by Shirley Sargent. Half maroon leather spine over maroon cloth covered boards; gilt lettering & ruling. A fine copy, as new. "Hutchings was an English emigrant who... More
Los Angeles: Compliments of the Fremont Hotel, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Small 8vo. [30] pp. Photo-illustrations. Publisher's stiff grey wrappers with gilt lettering and gilt crest designed by Jesse Fremont. Light wear else a fine copy of an uncommon G. W. James title. A brief historical account of John... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Arpel Graphics, Inc., 1989. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED (over a drawing of a huge wave curling over a tiny surfer) "Life is a wave,/Your attitude is your surfboard./Drew Kampion." Original blue cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine in color printed dustjacket. A fine..... More
[Sydney, Australia]: K.P.M., ca. 1919. 1st. Original wraps. First Edition. (7 1/4" x 9 3/4"). 62 pp. With numerous illustrations from photographs; many color maps, including folding map of the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia). Illustrated title page signed (in the print) J.H. Pateman and dated '19 (assuming this is... More
San Francisco, CA: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1927. First Edition Thus, Limited to 260 copies; this copy unnumbered/signed. Hardcover. 4to. xiv, 158 pp. Folding map; facsimiles of original German and English edition title-pages, 2 portraits (of Langsdorff and Rezanov), 5 plates from engravings in the original German... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For my friend & pupil, Jerry/with hopes that this book/will help you/enjoy this great game/of golf to its fullest./I look forward to lots of better golf for you, and/association./Harvey Penick." Inscription date of 5/22/92. Small 8vo. 175 pp. Introductions by Tom..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2011. First Edition Thus, Limited to 200 (of 222) copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Barry Moser, Patrick McGrath and Aeron Alfrey. Introduction by Patrick McGrath. 15 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Cover artwork by James Bama and Basil Gogos; endpaper artwork by Aeron Alfrey. 15 pp color... More
chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911. First Edition Limited to 300 copies. 1pp TLS tipped inside front board. 4to. xviii, [1] - 204pp. 181 illustrations (including 8 plates). Edited with Historical Introduction, Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes; Bibliography; Index. Printed on English hand-made paper. Vellum... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 624pp. Numerous in-text illustrations; 4 appendices. Publisher's gilt & black stamped brown pictorial cloth lettered in black; gray-tan endpapers. First American Edition, Second State with tailpiece not present on pg. 441 and illustration on pg. 443 captioned "The St. Charles Hotel." Minor... More