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
Philadelphia: Royal Electrotype Company, 1929. First Edition. Small 4to. 53 pp. Frontispiece. black & white photo-illustrated plates depicting printing techniques. Business card for Royal Electrotype Co. employee (salesman?) laid in. Striking gilt, green brown & orange decorative wrappers in near fine condition (with minor wear to sine ends; minor foxing..... More
N.p. N.d. With ALS from Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the Royal Academy. [ca. 1840's or 1850's ?]. A series of 8 oblong folio original pen-and-ink drawings and 7 preliminary pencil sketches for "Columbus Landing in America." 9 x 14 3/4". The drawings are accompanied by an ALS to Martin..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1980. First Edition. Small 4to. 685 pp. Index. Color frontispiece portrait of Murrieta; black & white photo-reproductions; maps; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with gilt illustration to front cover and gilt lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, as new. Biography of..... More
[Amador City, CA]: [Quintessence Printing Museum], [1990]. Limited No. 27 of 53 copies. Broadside (11 x 17") printed on cream cover stock in black, red, green, brown, blue and grey; right edge deckled.Set in cloister Old-Style, an exquisite face designed in 1915 by Morris Benton which, in turn, is based..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1914. First Edition. 8vo. 138 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with black lettering; gilt and black image on front cover. Minor wear else a fine copy. "This book tells of the old San Francisco and of the new: of the quaint, the queer and the fascinating peoples..... More
London & New York: C. F. Roworth & Chas. A. Swift, 1930. 8vo. 42 pp, some pages uncut. INSCRIBED in year of publication by Buchanan on title page. Pale green wrappers with black lettering. Fading and light wear to extremities else a near fine copy.1st. Transcribed by the Disciples of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. SIGNED by Julia Child. 4to. 302 pp. Appendix; Index. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, as new. Julia Childs invites 26 great cooks from across the country into her own kitchen, cooks with them, and unearths their secrets. Includes 150 recipes from..... More
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing, 1947. First Edition. 143 pp. Bibliography; Index. 9 illustrated plates (including one in color after a painting by Charles M. Russell). Blue cloth with gilt lettering; map illustrated endpapers in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear..... More
New York: Appleton & Company, 1914. First Edition. 8vo. 355 pp. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. 8 plates (incuding frontispiece). Edited and with an introduction by Will Irwin. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner name; some rubbing to gilt on spine; minor wear to extremities; a very good copy..... More
New York: Poetry on Film, 1969. First Edition. A Monthly Film Journal. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Color printed wrappers in very good condition. Interview magazine, the fashion and celebrity title founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol and the journalist John Wilcock. The magazine is considered the forerunner of today's zeitgeist, lifestyle and..... More
San Francisco: 1920. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Rev. Father Mestres, trusting he may care to read my Father Serra * Mission poesm, and appreciating his own tireless endeavor in historic lines. Ella M. Sexton, September Eighteenth, '24". Father Raymundi M. Mestres was a Monsignor who served for thirty-seven years at..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This book is inscribed for Clio Lee ?, by her friend, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Fresno, February 20 1938". 8vo. 228 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (minor fading to spine; wear..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. 273 pp. Bibliography; Index. Illustrations. Orange cloth in publisher's illustrated dustjacket; illustrated endpapers. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wera to extremities). The story of Thomas O. Larkin, California's only United States Consul. Based upon Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Oliver..... More
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1973. First Edition. 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photo-illustrations. Half red cloth spine over cream cloth boards in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The classic account of the artistic & literary period in Carmel centering on the years between 1905-1914; much..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Jo J. Mora. First Edition. Octavo. 246pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Grey cloth with red lettering and Longhorn skull stamped to front cover in Jo Mora designed dustjacket and endpapers. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (spine lightly faded; price-clipped); the..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Vol. XXVIII No. 9. Large magazine format. 40pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition (with a hint of wear). Includes a 2 page article titled "Jo Mora's Horsemen of the West" about..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. 8vo. 298 pp. 4 color plates; black & white illustrations. Illustrated by E. C. Millard. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black; illustrated endpapers. Light spotting and soiling; else a near fine copy. First published in 1926; the author's first book includes charming tales from..... More
Privately Printed, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To ***, George R. McIntosh". 8vo. 233 pp. Photo-reproductions. Illustrated by Lyle Morris and Ernest L. Morris. Tan illustrated wrappers in fine condition. Personal memoir and history of the McIntosh brothers' stage line and its operations in Monterey County, California during the late nineteenth..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1948. First Edition. 8vo. 207 pp. Single-page map of Chinatown; illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Fading & light spotting to spine else a fine copy. In Garding Lui’s 1948" Inside Los Angeles Chinatown", he explores the vast history of LA’s Chinatown and the city’s..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition. Original wrappers. Oblong quarto, 62 pages. Color illustrations. Staplebound color printed wrappers in fine condition, as new. Produced for the expansive exhibit of Mora's work, June 27-September 6, 1998. This lavishly-produced 62 page booklet, the first ever to focus on Mora's..... More
Oakland: Published by the author, 1915. golio. 841 pp. Index. Maps of major cities in California and state maps of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona (some in color); photo-illustrations of early prominent citizens & buildings. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to extremities; internally clean and tight;..... More
Chicago: Charles T. Powner Co., 1937. Second printing. 8vo. 174 pp. Translated from the Spanish of Ireneo Paz. Rust color cloth in tan and brown illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, in as new condition. The biography of one of the most infamous bandits in the history of the Old West..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 & 1973. 14th printing & 7th printing. Each volume is SIGNED by Julia Child. 4to. 684, xxxii; 555, lxiii pp. Index. Illustrations. Color patterned boards in publisher's color illustrated dustjackets. Minor wear to extremities; light foxing to page edges of Volume One; slight fading..... More
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F.C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies ... [and 10 others] by W. Bulmer and Co., 1816. First Edition Thus. Complete in 9 volumes. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Includes bibliographical references and index. Beautifully bound by F. Bedford in contemporary full..... More