Leipzig: Carl Garte, n.d., ca. 1889-94. 6¼" x 5", accordion fold with 24 photo-lithograph panels, including a double-p. plan of Sutro Heights, a portrait of Adolph Sutro, beach scenes, statuary, gardens, and 3 scenes of dogs; original decorative red wrappers stamped in black; back cover loose, otherwise very good. With..... More
San Francisco: Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1906. One hundred and twenty-fifth thousand. Oblong 8vo, pp. [32]; 28 grayscale illustrations; color pictorial paper wrappers; ex-library, staple bound in stiff card with library labels on inner card covers, small closed tear to upper wrapper, very good. Featuring landmarks and a picture..... More
New York: Ink, Inc., 2009. 8vo, color facsimiles of 50 cigarette cards, with illustrations on rectos and short instructions on versos; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. More
[Incline Village, Nevada]: Huckleberry Press, [1991]. Light gray bifoliate wrappers printed in red and black (approx. (10¼" x 7¼") containing information about the Huckleberry Press and prospectuses of three books and one broadside it produced between 1989 and 1991, viz: Leatherneck Square, by Richard C. Schulz; Sea Bird, by Keith..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, n.d., [1937]. Small folio bifolium, approx. 12" x 8½", previous folds; very good. Announcing three books of California interest: John Bidwell's A Journey to California; Alexander Forbes's California: A History of Upper and Lower California from Their Discovery to the Present Time; and, San Francisco..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d., [ca. 1867]. 12mo, pp. 343. [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, 4 wood-engraved plates; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine; binding spotted and a bit worn; a good, sound copy. Set in San Francisco and meant for a juvenile audience. "The author..... More
San Francisco: E.I. Barra [Press of Eastman & Co.], 1893. First edition, 8vo, pp. 198; wood-engraved vignette title page, 6 wood engravings in the text (2 full-page); original pictorial front wrapper and title page detached, back wrapper also detached, spine partially perished; minor chipping; all else very good. A detailed..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. First edition limited to 550 copies, 8vo, pp. x, [4], 106; 6 plates; original blue cloth, paper label on spine; fine copy in publisher's slipcase. More
Tours: A. Mame & Cie, 1853. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 188; 8 chromolithograph plates (view of San Francisco Bay, redwoods, panning for gold, the shooting of a bear, etc.); original glazed pictorial chromolithographed boards by Engelmann & Graf, Paris; some soiling, hinges starting, but the binding is reasonably sound;..... More
San Francisco: William Doxy, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 28 leaves printed on rectos only, photolithographically illustrated throughout in the margins and head- and tail-pieces from Morrison's watercolors; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g.; contemporary bookplate, very good, sound, and clean. Cheney (1848-1922) was "an..... More
Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 238, [7] ads, [1]; double-page map and 16 wood-engraved plates; generally a fine, bright copy in original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cowan (1933), p. 139; not in Howes or Graff. More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. 8vo, pp. [6], 72, [2], 2 [ads], 2 [ads], 6 [ads on yellow paper]; 5 plates; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover; a few cracks in the cloth along the hinges neatly repaired with small strips of cellotape; otherwise a very good copy. An..... More
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. [and] New York, 1867. First edition, and apparently a second issue with additions in the table of contents, and an added 72 pages at the back titled "A Searching Analysis of the Action of Paper Money upon the Trade and Prosperity of the United..... More
Elgin, Ill. and Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Company, [1900]. First edition, small 4to, pp. 96; text in double column; 12 illustrations in the text, mostly from photographs; original half brown cloth over marbled boards, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; gilt on spine dull, else very good. Includes the..... More
Los Angeles: done for the Reformed Persians [at the Auk Press], 1949. Chapbook, 5.75" x 4"; pp. [2], 10, [4]; vignette title page printed in brown and black, text illustration of "Miss Fountain at her case"; original green printed paper wrappers, vignette title page in brown and black, Auk Press..... More
Lake Tahoe: Huckleberry Press, 1991. Edition limited to 125 copies (this, no. 103); 8vo, pp. 24, [6]; 4 illustrations from photographs by Joel Simon; fine copy in original gray wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. More
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Lake Tahoe: Huckleberry Press, 1992. Consisting of 1 broadside and 2 broadsheets, each 9¾" x 6½" (2 printed in red and black), plus an order form and pre-addressed envelope, all contained within a brown paper bifolium 10¼" x 7" printed in red. A fine copy in the original manila mailing..... More
Oakland: William Halley, 1876. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 586, [6]; wood-engraved frontispiece of the Alameda courthouse and 13 wood-engraved plates; illustrated ads throughout; original pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; upper joint cracked and weak, ex-Odd Fellows library, with call number on spine..... More
Berlin: G. Reimer, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 151, [1]; lithograph folding map showing the west coast from the southern tip of Baja to Vancouver; plus a folding lithograph world map showing gold regions; original printed front wrapper preserved, rear wrapper replaced (thereby losing the publisher's advertisement) and the..... More
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1888. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; original printed salmon wrappers; red ink mark on p. 21 and bleeding onto p. 20; all else near fine. Rocq 13510. More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. First edition, 8vo, pp. 372; original burgundy cloth; spine sunned, boards soiled, ex lending library with labels and dates on endpapers, edges lightly tide stained, good and sound. Touted as the "prince of the American Bohemians," Keeler was a successful writer and news correspondent who..... More
N.p. n.d. First edition, 8vo, pp. 45; frontispiece portrait, illustrated with several portraits; original taupe, fine. A Lipman family history based upon records and data given to Ruth Fesler Lipman by her father-in-law, Frederick Lockwood Lipman. More
Napa: February 19 to August 17, 1907. Five lengthy quarto letters, signed "Joe" who was one of the sons of the founder Giocomo Migliavacca. Sadly, no wine at all in the content but rather a discussion of investments. Duprey wants Migliavacca to invest in timber land, but Migliavacca notes that..... More
San Francisco: Bacon and Company, printers, 1881. First edition, 16mo, pp. ix, [1], 254; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; upper cover rather spotted; good and sound. Cowan (1933), p. 463; Howes O-83. More
[Death Valley Junction, California?]: Pacific Coast Borax Company, 1939. 8vo, pp. 64; frontispiece portrait with perforated stub (maybe suitable for framing?); original printed wrappers; very good, clean and sound. A short-lived periodical - only this one issue published by the Pacific Coast Borax Company ever appeared - containing seven uncredited..... More
