London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Los dias del sol dilaten del Alma. May we prove it true is the wish of Mary Austin, July - 1915". Large 8vo. 178 pp. Fold-out map of California at rear. 32 tipped-in color plates (including frontispiece) with titled tissue guards..... More
Albany, NY: Printed by C. Van Benthuyse, 1857. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 2 large folding maps; 44 plates (including 16 folding) of bridges, locomotives, tunnels, rail sections and more. Publisher's brown blindstamped boards with gilt lettering to front cover. Wear to extremities; front joint split but holding; loss to spine..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 305 pp. 32 photo-illustrated plates. Green cloth in cream dustjacket with photo-reproduction of three lions on front cover. Near fine (minor wear to extremities; small dampstain inside front cover) in very good dustjacket (chips & short closed tears; wear to extremities;..... More
London: Seeley and Co., Ltd, 1901. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. xx, 355 pp. Bibliography; Index. Color frontispiece depicting cobalt pigments. Beautifully bound by Zaensdorf in full blue morocco with gilt lettering and ruling; gilt dentelles; top edge gilt; deckle page edges. A fine copy. The author presents the..... More
San Francisco, CA: F. F. Partridge Print, 1907. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 4to. (iv), 153pp. Index. Original cream printed wraps. Numerous pencil corrections, most likely by Davidson. Transactions and Proceedings of the Geographical Society of the Pacific: Vol. IV, Series II. (Cowan pg. 156; Rocq 9080). More
Pacific Grove CA: Park Place Publications, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Oblong quarto; x, 130 pages. As New in dust jacket in fine black leather slipcase w/six brands stamped in silver to front cover. Limitation statement tipped to half title states 'This edition has been specially bound and numbered 18;' signed by..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies, SIGNED by the author. Folio. 178 pp. Tables; Index. Color frontispiece and black & white Illustrations by Peter Helck. Black cloth spine over cream cloth illustrated boards, silver lettering to spine in color printed slipcase..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1892. First Edition with Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 8vo. 78, [1] pp. Printed on rectos only. Full page and in-text iIlustrations by Howard Pyle. Tan suede with brown lettering & decoration, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers; in..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. 1st. Original boards. First Edition thus; 1 of 25 special copies (of a limited edition of 250 copies) with a special hand binding. Small folio. 60pp. Bibliography, Fold-out map; illustrated with photographs and reproductions of early lithographs. Red morocco backed marbled boards with gilt lettering..... More
Berkeley: [The Gillick Press], 1944. 1st. Original boards. INSCRIBED by awardee Hink on ffep to printer Robertson. "A limited edition of 99 copies of this address/has been printed at The Gillick Press in the month of January, 1944, handset in 18 point Caslon Oldstyle by Will D. Robertson and Ben..... More
London: Moses Thomas, 1818-1819. First American from the eleventh London edition. Volumes I & II are dated 1818; Volumes III & IV are dated 1819. 8vo. Half-titles in each volume; engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in Vol. I. Printed by J. Maxwell. Original full brown calf with black and red..... More
San Francisco: Adelyn Brickley Jones, (1924). SIGNED "With Oblong 12mo. [8] pp of photographs by W.E. Worden. Original brown wrappers, title in gilt, with a photoprint of the Ferry Building mounted on front cover. A fine copy. A charming booklet illustrated with photographs of San Francisco accompanied by highly decorative..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. A brief, but particularly emotional inscription from the author to Stanford University President J. Wallace Sterling, appears on the front flyleaf. "For Wally - / who was there, / With warm regard, / Nate/May 1978." Dr. Pusey was the former President of Harvard..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832. The double fore-edge painting is of Boston and Philadelphia. 8vo. [viii], 256 pp. Errata slip tipped in at rear. Frontispieces engraving with tissue guard. With Twenty-Six Beautifully Finished Engravings with tissue guards, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield. Publisher's blindstamped red cloth with..... More
Santa Cruz: Press of E. A. Cook, 1898. First Edition. Small 8vo. 59 pp. Green string tied wrappers with gilt lettering to front cover in very good condition (much of the cover has faded to brown; string tie has separated but still holding the covers & text together). An unusual..... More
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1943. First Edition, Limited No. 89 of 152 copies. 4to. 18 pages, plus a facsimile letter from Edith Wagner from Steinbeck. Printed for members of the Rowfant Club at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Red decorative boards on a light gray background; black buckram spine; red..... More
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. 8vo. 30, (1)pp. Printed as Christmas gifts for 5 subscribers - 50 copies for Elmer Adler, 100 for Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 150 for Ben Abramson, 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke, and 20 for Howard Mott. This is one of..... More
Santa Ana: Press of the Santa Ana High School and Junior College (Fine Arts Press), 1930. First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies. SIGNED by the author and the printer. This edition precedes the revised limited edition printed in an edition of 500 copies later in 1930, as indicated in..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1911. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 140, [2] pp. ALS tipped to ffep from Sterling regarding the forty-third chapter of Job. Purple cloth with elaborate silver decoration to front cove designed by Porter Garnett, signed P and G in the lower corners. A...... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. (vii), 132 black & white reproductions of calligraphed texts from France, Germany, Britain, and Iberia with descriptions on facing pages. Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. at the Butter Market, Ipswich. Green cloth with gilt lettering, upper page edges stained..... More
Cleveland, OH: J. H. Jansen, 1926. First Edition. Folio. 124, (2) pp. Introduction; List of Illustrations. Photographic illustrations with descriptions of various styles of buildings and architecture; half-page map. Brown cloth with gilt lettering in brown illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, with..... More
Kansas City, Mo: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1900. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Small 8vo. 404 pp. 24 plates (including frontispiece), mostly portraits of key characters. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, decorative endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; circular mark on front cover; else a near fine copy..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. [8], ix-xlii, [2], 3-152, [1] pp. Illustrated wtih 26 maps, of which 10 are in color and 17 are folding. Bound in natural linen, light brown cloth spine, white spine label printed in red. Light fading..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition thus; Limited Edition of 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..... More