San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., 1903; September 9, 1915. Second Edition of The Tale of the Poodle; First Edition of the menu. The Tale of the Poodle: Oblong 8vo. [56] pp. Photographic illustrations and prints (many in color) of the Poodle Dog Restaurant in San Francisco, with accompanying text. Includes... More

San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1861. Second edition, second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 267 pp. Illustrations. Full red leather with gilt lettering and decoration; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Light rubbing to leather; some foxing and tanning to paper throughout book; a very good copy. An early printing of one of... More

San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., 1915. First Edition. 12mo, 13 pages. Two tipped in plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Light wear to extremities; slight fading to spine; a near fine copy of Bernard Maybeck's only book. More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Original cloth. SIGNED by the author. Quarto, xxviii, 771pp. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Blue cloth in plain white dustjacket, as issued. A fine copy. Now considered the definitive reference work on the subject consisting of 706 annotated... More

Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 169pp; one of 350 copies printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. New copy in publisher's black cloth with tipped-in color facsimiles of many of the works selected; index. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz, Principal Librarian, Special Collections, California State Library; Forward by... More

London & New York: Chapman and Hall; Scribner, 1870. Second Edition. Three-quarter leather. Presentation Inscription "To my life long & dear/old friend, John A. Porter/W.A. Bell/Pendell Court - Xmas 1910." 8vo. lxix, (3), 236, (2), (237)-564, (1) pp. Half-title. In-text illustrations; 2 color maps (1 large folding); 24 plates (many... 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

Carmel-By-The-Sea: Published by the author, 1948. First Edition. Original wrappers. Book design and artwork by W. Harvey Williamson; color photo-reproductions by Seideneck. Includes 4 plans and the supplement section on how to make your own Stabilized Adobe Blocks. A scarce work on the Post-Adobe style of construction; no copies have... More

San Francisco: San Carlos Press, 1934. First Edition. Original boards. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 299 pp. Index. Black & white photographic images. Foreword by Dr. Herbert Eugene Bolton. Red cloth with black lettering in orange and red dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light wera to extremities)... More

Upland, CA: Blackbird Press, 2018. First Edition, Limited to 150 SIGNED & numbered copies. Broadside (8" x 14"). Printed letterpress with Optima type on Mohawk Superfine paper for the 43rd International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Congress held February 3-1, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Orange poppies on a cream background... More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. First U.S. Edition. Original cloth. 4to. 280 pp. Twelve tipped-in color plates and more than forty black & white illustrations by Kay Nielsen. Original black cloth with silver, black and orange illustration adhered to front cover; silver lettering to spine; pictorial endpapers; remnants... More

New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. [250pp, unpaginated]. 162 full-page black & white photographic plates. Introductory essay by Harold Brodkey; Index. Original laminated photographic boards in original acetate dustjacket with Avedon's signature printed in red on front cover. Boldly SIGNED and dated '80 on ffep... More

Savannah, GA: Super Attractions, 1956. First Edition. Original wrappers. Souvenir Program Pictorial Album. 9 x 12". 24 pp, unnumbered. Black & white photo illustrations. Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (some rubbing & wear to covers). Souvenir Program Pictorial Album for the biggest rock 'n roll show of 1956... More