[Tokyo]: No date. Original boards. Small oblong 16mo. Accordion fold book with 24 pp color illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. Green & gilt paper covered boards with illustrated & printed title label to front cover; all edges silver. Small scrape to title label else fine. The story of the... More about Album of Forty Seven Ronins
New York: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint. 8vo. vii, [1], facsimile of original title page, 196 pp. Double-page map; genealogical table. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's dustjacket which is trimmed 1/2" shorter than the book. Near fine (corners lightly bumped) in near fine dustjacket... More about Tahiti: Memoirs of Arii Taimai E. Marama of Eimeo Teriirere of Tooarai Teriinui of Tahiti...
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1978. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Adams "For Rick Warner" and dated Carmel 6-16-82. Single 12" x 18" glossy heavy stock (folded to 12" x 9"). Photo-reproduction of one of Adams' iconic images "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley." Printed... More about For 1978 and Beyond...(SIGNED
New York: Fleet Street Corporation, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. [1984]. 8vo. 304pp. Photo-illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (two minor pencil notations) in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to upper rear). The biography of a multidimensional man whose life was one of... More about Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero
Beverly Hills, CA: Beverly Hills Woman's Club, 1929. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 189pp. Illustrated with woodcut title headpieces and black & white full-page advertisements. Black & grey illustrated cream cloth. Introduction by Will Rogers. Compiled by the Book Section Beverly Hills Womans Club. Cover design and illustrations Vivian V. Robeson. Recipes... More about Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills
Hollywood, CA: Edward H. Bohlin, (1951). 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. (9 x 12"). 36 pp. Black & white illustrations of Bohlin silver and leather products on every page with product details & pricing including 2 pp color displaying cowboy boots. Green illustrated staplebound wrappers. Age toning; some... More about Book of Gifts for Equestrian and Sportsman
Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1930. First edition. original cloth. 4to. (ix) 546; 456; 451pp. Index, Maps; numerous photo-illustrations; portrait engravings with tissue guards. Dark green embossed boards with gilt lettering to spine; marbled page edges and endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; front hinge split at title page in... More about History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, California: With Personal Sketches of Those Men...
Kestrel Press: Carmel Valley, CA, 1991. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 737pp. Bibliography; Index. With more than 2700 place name entries, 4000 cross references, 610 bibliographic references and 525 map references and citations. Red cloth with gilt lettering; map endpapers in publisher's red printed dustjacket. Near fine (minor splaying to boards)... More about Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary
Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1947. Napolitano, P.G. 1st. Original boards. First edition. Presentation copy with ALS in envelope, laid in. 8vo. [ii], 281pp, including bibliography and index. Preface by Maurice Ries and foreward by Mary Austin. Black & white photographic illustrations; green ink drawings by P.G. Napolitano. Book design..... More about Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande (SIGNED
Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1932. Reprint. Original cloth. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 191 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light... More about Red People of the Wooded Country (SIGNED with drawing
Kyoto, Japan: The Ponsonby Memorial Society, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 465 pp. More than 80 illustrations, chronological tables and explanatory indexes. Large folding genealogical table in envelope laid in delineating ancestry from Jimmu to Taisho. Red cloth in white dustjacket with blue lettering and photo-illustration to front cover. Near fine... More about The Imperial House of Japan
Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1996. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition, Limited to 1350 numbered copies, this being #625, SIGNED by B. B. King. Large 8vo. 336 pp. Index. Publisher's Certificate of Authenticity laid in. Dark blue leather with gilt decoration to front cover & spine, gilt lettering to spine; AEG;... More about Blues All Around Me (SIGNED
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Trust, 2007. Limited Edition to 40 copies. Black & white pictographic map. Image size 21 14" x 28 1/2". Printed on 30lb. coated bond paper measuring 24" x 30". Includes signed provenance from the Jo Mora Trust. The original artwork for this carte was discovered several... More about Santa Catalina Island (Carte/Map
Watsonville, Ca. Evening Pajaronian, 1929. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited #93 of 300 copies. SIGNED by the author and the compiler on a plate affixed to front pastedown. 8vo. 195 pp. Photo-illustrations. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear, minor bumping to corners; previous owner name; else a fine copy... More about Early Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista (SIGNED
Boston & New Yorsk: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 224, (1)pp. Folding map of Glacier National Park at rear. 24 photographic plates. Grey cloth with color plate affixed to front cover & black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (discreet owner named inked to bottom of... More about Signposts of Adventure: Glacier National Park as the Indians Know It
Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Co., 1923. First Edition. Original cloth. INSCRIBED "With kindest regards/of the author/John C. Shay/Los Angeles, 1924." 8vo. 142 pp. Original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy. Being the actual experiences and observations of... More about Twenty Years In The Backwoods Of California (INSCRIBED
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Tall 8v0. 101 pp. Black & white photo-illustrated plates and in-text photo-illustrations; decorative borders. Two-color textured pictorial paper covered boards. Off-setting to front endpaper else a fine copy. Steele's account of the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake & fire... More about The City That Is; The Story of the Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years
[San Jose]: 1916. First Edition. Original stiff brown wrappers. 8vo. 68 pp. Laid in are several old newspaper articles (with corresponding offsetting), among them an April 4, 1937 San Jose Mercury Herald printing of a 1912 photograph of 20 'distinguished pioneers' including Stephens. The author's March 2, 1921 death notice... More about Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49: Actual Experiences of a Pioneer Told by Himself and in his...
Santa Ana: Press of the Santa Ana High School and Junior College (Fine Arts Press), 1930. 1st. Original boards. First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies, SIGNED by the author and the printer. 8vo. 110 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Fold-out map at rear. Illustrated with photographs, with maps and... More about Caminos Viejos: Tales Found in the History of California of Especial Interest to Those Who Love...
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 about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SIGNED
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1899. Leather bound. First Edition. The original prospectus with a reproduction of the title page for Volume II of "The Innocents Abroad" and the sample leather spine affixed inside rear cover. 16 photogravures (including frontispiece portrait of Twain) with titled tissue guards, complete. [20] pp... More about The Writings of Mark Twain (Publisher's Prospectus for Autograph Edition
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 about Life On The Mississippi
San Franicsco, CA: Harr Wagner Publishing, 1934. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. (xii) 327pp. Frontispiece; photo-illustrated plates. Bibliography; Index. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorative mission bell to front cover in uncommon publisher's dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities with small loss... More about The Mission Bells of California
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 about The Shirley Letters From California Mines 1851-1852