San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1978). Limited Edition of 500 copies. viii, 104 pp. Includes 16 color plates, reproduced in the size of the original. 14-3/4" x 9-3/4". Maroon quarter-cloth and marbled boards, gilt stamping to spine. BCC publication no. 160. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. A single sheet folded once to make a pamphlet. One photographic image in color pasted inside. 10-3/4" x 8". White paper wrappers with red and black title lettering printed to front panel. Currently housed in a myalr sleeve. With original mailing envelope... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999. 1st edition. Ltd to 450cc. xi, [1], 156, [4] pp (with Index at rear). Beautifully illustrated in full color. Folio. 14-3/8" x 10-1/4". Blue cloth spine & fore-edge; pictorial boards. Decorative eps. Slipcase. Prospectus laid-in. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. 1st edition, limited to 400 copies. 162 pp (including index). Illustrated. Folio. Black cloth spine with patterned red paper-wrapped boards. Slipcase with black paper title label lettered in white on the spine. Prospectus included. More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1991. 1st edition. 136 pp (including Index). 8vo. Green cloth binding. More
![CALIFORNIA In The FIFTIES. [Prospectus]. Grabhorn Press / John Howell.](/pictures/thumb/43452.jpg?v=1474856200)
[San Francisco]: [John Howell], (n. d.). Circa 1936. Folded four-panel brochure that opens to a full-sheet reproduction of Geo. H. Baker's "SACRAMENTO The Capital of California 1857"; 3 pp of text (rear panel blank). Order sheet and pre-paid envelope laid in. 9-1/4" x 6" when folded. Cream paper printed in... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1934. Limited Edition. #62 of 250 copies printed at the Windsor Press. [2], vi, 24, [1, colophon] pp + blank preliminary and terminal leaves. 10-3/8" x 7-3/4". Blue cloth with red-brown title label printed in white, tan label printed in mauve to spine. More
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1933. 1st Edition thus. Three volume set. Volume I: pp v, [1], 1 - 337, [1]. Vol II: pp [2], 339 - 704. Vol III: pp [4], 705 - 825, [1]. Blank prelims and terminals to each volume. 4to. 11-3/4" x 8". Brown... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976. Limited Edition of 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem and signed by Angelo on the colophon. [6, blank], 97, [3], [6, blank] pp. Illustrated with 43 facsimiles of specimen pages, many in color, plus decorations throughout by Angelo; some color and gold... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1923. 1st edition (Heller & Magee 58; Olmsted 19). [15], 119, [7], [4 (blank)] pp. 4to. Paper covered boards backed with black cloth. Printed paper labels on front cover and spine. #205/400 cc. One of Fifty Books of the Year. Printed at the Grabhorn... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. 1st edition. Limited to 300 cc. xiv, [2], 193, [3] pp. Index. Color frontis. B&W images throughout text. 4to. 11-1/8" x 8-5/8". Blue cloth spine with grey paper-wrapped boards, with printed paper title labels to spine & front board. Pictorial eps. More
(Belfast): The Northern Review, (n. d.). Possibly ca. 1965, the publication year of Vol 1, No. 1. Light grey broadside. Large blue, black and orange illustration onlay to top of poster featuring what looks to be traffic in a city. 15" x 9" Featured listed sections of "Poetry" (Philip Hobsbaum... More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2004. 2nd Printing. xxi, [3], 405, [3] pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Pictorial eps. Dust jacket. More
![1921 GREETINGS From The HOUSE Of HODGSON Of KANYONKRAG-On-HUDSON. Yonkers, New York. [cover title]. Publishing / Greeting Card, Caspar Wistar Hodgson, 1868 - 1938.](/pictures/thumb/43230.jpg?v=1468622411)
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, [1920]. SIGNED by Hodgson to the front panel. Single sheet printed recto only and folded to form a 4-panel card. 2 full-panel b/w photographic images of the Hodgsons at Kanyonkrag 1919 - 1920; 4 quarter-panel b/w photographic images of them and their ranch at Sohlohnee in... More
![THIS IS The "SEVEN LIVES" BRAND Of SOHLOHNEE RANCH. [cover title]. Publishing / Greeting Card, Caspar Wistar Hodgson, 1868 - 1938.](/pictures/thumb/43219.jpg?v=1468622410)
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, 1917. 18 unnumbered pages. 16 captioned b/w photographic images. 4-3/8" x 6-1/4". String-bound brown paper wrappers printed in black. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as an ardent naturalist and the owner of two remarkable estates: Kanyonkrag, in New... More
![YEAR-ROUND GOOD-WILL MESSAGE From The HOUSE OF HODGSON. "Kanyonkrag". Yonkers-on-Hudson. New York. [drop title]. Publishing / Greeting Card, Caspar Wistar Hodgson, 1868 - 1938.](/pictures/thumb/43218.jpg?v=1468622410)
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar Wistar Hodgson, 1929. 8 unnumbered pages. 7 b/w photographic images. 6-1/4" x 4". Cream staple-bound wrappers, tan and green motif printed to front wrapper. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as an ardent naturalist and the owner of two remarkable estates... More
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, [1957]. 1st Printing. One sheet, printed recto only, folded thrice, to fit the printed envelope. Sheet: 11" x 8-1/4". Folded: 5-3/8" x 3-1/8". Envelope: 3-1/3" x 6" A scarce order blank of new publications issued by this iconic mid-20th C San Francisco bookseller & printer... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. 1st edition. xiii, [1 (blank)], 308, [4] pp (including Index). 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Brown & yellow dust jacket. More
London: Dryden Press: J. Davy & Sons, 1883. 1st Printing. 132 pp. 8vo. Modern leather spine over the original brick-red cloth boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Patterned paper eps. More
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. 1st edition. 570 pp (including Index). Frontis. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Paper spine label. Issued w/o dj. Essential to any collector, or seller, of Dickens works. More
![The KAISER As I KNOW HIM. [Postcard Advertisment]. Promotional Literature, Arthur N. Davis.](/pictures/thumb/42961.jpg?v=1462567748)
[New York]: [Harper & Brothers], [1918]. Postcard printed both recto and verso. Illustrated. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2". White paper, recto printed with red border and grey silhoutte of the Kaiser, red/black lettering. ADVERTISING POSTCARD ONLY, never mailed. The verso bears a short blurb about the book and its cost, etc., and... More
New York: William T. Comstock, (n. d.). Circa 1910. Bifolium, 4 full pages of text; single sheet, printed both recto and verso. ~9-1/2" x 6"; 9-3/8" x 5-5/8". White/tan paper, black printing. Two promotional lists of Comstock's latest publications of practical/technical works. More
Berkeley: Peter Koch, Printer, 2000. 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Printers device to p. 8. 10-5/8" x 7-1/2". Self-wrappers, nested. Issued while Peter was in the midst of publishing Parmenides, includes a short history of his business as well as the price list for works still in print & available. More
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1964. 1st edition thus, a facsimile with introductory text. 15, [3], [60 (facsimile)] pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Blue paper wrappers with printed white paper title label to front wrapper. More
London: Messrs. Gadsden, Ellis & Co. 1873. 99 pp. + 8 pp. price list. 11 b/w lithograph plates by J. & R. Burt, including one fold-out plate. 11" x 7-1/4". Original stiff grey-green wrappers bound in half straight-grained burgundy morocco over marbled boards, with printed price list in plain blue... More
