[Providence ?]: 1833. 1st printing (presumed). Broadside, 35 lines of text. Title in ornamental outline font. Typographical border. 12-3/8" x 7-5/8" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Early firefighters in the US were simply community members who would respond to neighborhood fires with buckets. The first dedicated volunteer fire..... More
San Francisco: Girls' High School, 1886. 1st Printing. One rectangular sheet, printed, in purple ink, on both sides, folded once vertically, to form a 4 page program. P. 1 with the program title, p. 2 the "Argument", p. 3 the Cast [Miss Minnie Bullis in the lead] & p. 4..... More
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Moulin - Bardell, (1937). 1st printing (presumed). Unpaginated, though 20 pages [of 24]. 10 columns of text. 23 b/w images, all featuring the 2 bridges, from various aspects & perspectives (including covers). Landscape format: 10-7/8" x 14". Black & white photographically illustrated covers, stapled. More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1911. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 401). [13], 246 pp. Frontis + 14 inserted plates. Crown 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Burgundy cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine and board. More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Writers' Editions Inc., (1939). 3rd Printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by Long. [4], 37, [3] pp. Last leaf blank. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1976. Reprint. 204,, [4 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. Printed yellow paper covers. More
Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988. 1st edition thus. 125, [3] pp. Black and white intratextual photographic images throughout. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Maroon printed paper wrappers. More
High Prairie, Alberta: Lithographed by South Peace News, 1978. Second printing. 287, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated, primarily with b/w half-tone photographic images. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold stamping. Written & issued in conjunction with the "Centennial Year of Canada's Confederation", filled with biographies & stories of..... More
Alamo, California: Morris-Burt Press, 1977. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author;. xii, 230,, [4 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Errata slip laid-in. Illustrated. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-3/4". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Advert eps [reprinting early 20th C. adverts]. White dust jacket... More
West Chester, Pennsylvania. Ca late 1940s? Sampler made weavy tan burlap backing, with embroidery in blue, red, green white and tan, now housed in a glass-covered simple brown wooden frame. NB. Not examined out of the frame. Framed: 15-3/4" x 15-1/4". Sampler [visible]: 14-7/8" x 14-1/4" A compelling piece of..... More
New York: Chs Magnus lith, (n. d.). Ca mid-1850s. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed color map [4-3/4" x 8"] of Albany at top of sheet. 10-5/16" x 8-7/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. From an AAS record, we find: "From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed..... More
San Jose: Harlan - Young Press, 1966. 1st Edition. 27, [3] pp. Facsimiles. 8vo. Linen cloth binding with dark brown lettering. Dust jacket. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. 1st edition. ASSOCIATION copy, INSCRIBED to Majorie Birney Bamey, SIGNED by Elizabeth A. & Robert Birney Bamey. ix, [3], 323, [1 (blank) pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with silver stamping. Issued without jacket? Birney "was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born..... More
San Francisco: Printing, Preswork, Binding by The H. S. Crocker Company, 1916. 1st Printing. 41, [7] pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7". Original yellow paper covers, with blue & gold embossed lettering / graphic to front cover. More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co. 317 & 319 Montgomery St. (1865). Ca late 1860s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 95. Square images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["Lake Tahoe"] to left; typeset printed label as scene caption affixed under right..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. 1973. 1st Edition thus, i.e., by the BCC. Limited to 450 cc. 1st published in 1861. [2], 91, [1 (Colophon)] pp. Frontispiece. 8vo. Burlap cloth spine over facsimile boards. Printed paper title label to spine..... More
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1987. 1st pb edition. 201, [3] pp. Illustrated. James Heig, Picture Editor. 10" x 8-1/2". Green glossy paper covers with gold lettering, color pictorial image to front cover. More
San Leandro: Yosemite Collections, 1982. Facsimile edition. Cf. Cowan II, p. 152; Zamorano 80, #24 for the 1st edition published in 1893. [12], 460, [4] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Tan cloth binding with dark brown printing, design after the original. Per Cowan [1914], "an exceeding valuable collection, which, with the numerous..... More
[Victoria ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1912. Inside front cover: "Statistics Regarding Greater Victoria" [4 columns: 1902, 1906, 1910, 1912]. Inside rear cover: image of Victoria's Inner Harbor, caption underneath extolling the Esquimalt Drydock. Rear cover: advert for Pemberton & Son. 119 b/w images on a 11 panel accordion-fold sheet. Booklet..... More
Oakland, California: Published by Lakeview Club 124 Montecito Avenue, (n. d.). 1st edition (Glozer 148), ca 1930 - 32. Not in Brown, nor Wheaton & Kelly. 61, [3] pp. Adverts throughout. 2 paper slips laid-in, with mss reciptes thereon [one from McFarland, Genevieve Beckwith - on Ms McFarland's letterhead]. 5..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1947). 1st edition (Fitzgerald AL3). 432, [6] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated, including 6 maps. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Map eps. No dust jacket. More
Syracuse NY / West Orange NJ: Planned Parenthood Center of Syracuse / Ferne Sales, (n. d.). Ca 1980s (presumed). Smallest: 2-7/8" x 11-1/2". Largest: 2-5/8" x 15" The battle continues to this day, 4 decades later. More
Santa Cruz: Western Tanager Press, (1990). 1st Edition. SIGNED by the author. xii, 204 pp (including Index). Profusely illustrated with b/w images. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Light blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Dust jacket. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. 1st edition thus. Limited to 650 cc. [4], 13, [3] pp. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Frontis. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. Yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st edition thus. xi, [1 (blank)], 222, [16pp (including Index). 8vo. Mustard yellow cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. More
