E. B. Lewis, distributor, ca. 1880s. Leporello album (3 1/4 x 5"). 12 captioned photolithographic images of various buildings in early San Jose. Gold embossed dark green covers, red cloth spine. Minor wear else a fine copy of this scarce tourist souvenir; we find only two copies of this size..... More
Washington DC: The Norris Peters Co., 1905. Color topographic map (24"x26" plus margins), of Yosemite National Park showing township grid, towns, mineral lands, park and county boundaries, existing and proposed roads, existing and proposed trails, suggested patrol stations and military posts, and notable physical features, waterways colored in blue. Identifies..... 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
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
San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1859. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. ii-xxiv; 466 pp. Table of Contents; Index to Advertisments. Original black sheep gilt-lettered spine over printed boards. The front pastedown is page ii and the rear pastedown is an advertisment (unnumbered). The uncommon second Langley directory..... More
[Monterey, CA]: [Hotel Del Monte], [1894]. Large 8vo. 31, [7] pp. Frontispiece; illustrations; 2 full-page maps; 5 full-page floor plans. Light wear; else a fine copy. The Hotel Del Monte, created by railroad pioneer Charles Crocker, opened in June 1880. The hotel was one of the world's leading resorts in..... More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1987. First Edition Limited #86 of 225 copies. 8vo. Edited by Robert Kafka; Foreword by Garth Jeffers. Several tipped-in sepia illustrations from photographs.Tan-peach cloth, paper spine label in publisher's brown slipcase. A fine copy. Love letters between the California poet and his wife, with a...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. Hardcover. Second Edition. SIGNED by the author on ffep. 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). Near fine (small rubbing to upper corner of ffep;..... More
Manchester, NH: Standard Book Compan, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. 240 pp. 16 plates, including frontispiece portrait of the author. With an Introduction and Biographical Sketch by George Waldo Browne. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in black & gilt; illustrated paper label affixed to front cover; in uncommon publisher's cream pictorial dustjacket..... More