San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Printed at the press of Arlen & Clara Philpott, Fairfax, California. 1977. 1st edition thus. Limited to 400 cc. SIGNED by Valenti Angelo. [8], 26, [2] pp. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. 8vo. Gunmetal grey paper wrapped boards with gilt stamped spine lettering... More
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company Publishers, (n. d.). xiii, [1 (blank)], 328 pp (including Index). Illustrated with plates. Folding map at rear. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Printed green paper dust jacket. José Antonio Páez Herrera was a Venezuelan leader who fought against the Spanish Crown for Simón Bolívar during the Venezuelan..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. 1st edition. 382, [2] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's brick red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Red topstain. Volume XI, from Clark's "Spain in the West Series" More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 1st edition (Baird & Greenwood 1455). INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to Annie Florence Brown, SIGNED by the Author on the ffep [dated 8 October 1937]. xiii, [1 (blank)], 344 pp. 8vo. 21cm x 14.5cm. Black cloth binding. Dust jacket. Story of a New Yorker who..... More
!["JUST CALIFORNIA" [as published in] CALIFORNIA PICTURE BOOK [cover title]. John Steven McGroarty](/pictures/thumb/50475.JPG?v=1647992646)
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1928. 1st Printing. 94 numbered columns, printed on 44 pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily from photographs. 2 page map at center. 9" x 8". Printed white glossy stock paper, stapled. A promotional publication for the state of California & its many sights & wonders, as accessed..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Printed at the Feathered Serpent Press. 1979. 1st Edition thus. [10], 73, [1 (Colophon)] pp. Frontispiece. 8 internal illustrations. Map eps. 8vo. Red cloth backed gunmetal grey boards, with red stamped crest to front board; gilt stamped spine lettrering. Plain white paper dust..... 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. Prospectus laid-in. Frontispiece. 8vo. Burlap cloth spine over facsimile boards. Printed paper title label..... More
[Sanitarium ?]: (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1928. 20 pp. 8 b/w photographic images of divers Sanitarium scenes, to versos of each leaf. Center spread depicting "A View of the Napa Valley from the Sanitarium". Area map, p. 20 [showing proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area]. Oblong format: 4-1/8"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. 1st Edition. 600 cc. 89, [1 (Colophon)] pp. Prospectus laid-in. Frontispiece. 8vo. Blue green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Plain white paper dust wrapper. Truman "was an American journalist and author; in particular, he was a distinguished war..... More
[San Francisco]: [Whitaker & Ray Co.], [1899]. 1st edition. [3], 138, [6 (additional photographic images)] pp. Text double column. Frontis + intratextual b/w & color illustrations and photographic images. 10-3/8" x 7-5/8". Original publisher's grey cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering "The Bounding Billow" & shield design to front cover..... More
Detroit: Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corporation, (1955). 1st Printing. Landscape bifolium, so 4 pages, unpaginated. Color lithographed on glossy white paper, with 6 images, in green, of the car & divers aspects thereof. 5-1/2" x 9-1/4". Self-wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "GM touted this four-door, four-passenger..... More
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1995. 1st Printing. 119, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece b/w photographic image of Martineau. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Printed pale blue paper wrappers. "In 1834, after completing the economic series, Harriet Martineau paid a long visit to the United States during which she visited a...... More
1845 - 1983. The overall number of letters in the collection is 60, the inclusive dates are 1845 to 1983. Some of the letters have enclosures (usually accounts) pinned to them. One 1886 letter and its enclosures (a set of bills and accounting sheets) is torn, and one letter, also..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: 1854. Unpaginated, though 4 pp. P. 1 with printed advert for Benton & Walker, 14 lines. Manuscript letter, pp. 3 - 4, dated "Apr 5 / 54" addressed to "Friend, Richards". 51 lines, ~ 475 words. Wood engraved scene of Cleveland's shoreline, as viewed from the lake, at..... More
San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, (1876). 1st printing (presumed). Recto with albumen photograph; verso with printed "Key to Bradley & Rulofson's "Men of Mark."" which details the 110 individuals pictured on the recto. Mount: 4-1/4" x 6-3/8". Photo: 4-1/16" x 6". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Rulofson moved..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896. Early printing, first published in 1895. Cf. Baird & Greenwood 1100; BAL 7378; Wright III, 2541. [4], 210, [10] pp. 8 page publisher advert at rear. Publisher logo to t.p. Crown 8vo. 7-1/16" x 4-5/8". Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to..... More
Boston, New-England: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for Nathanel Proctor at the Bible and Dove in Ann-street, near the Draw-Bridge, 1743. 1st North American edition, 'Proctor' issue (Evans 5185). xxiv, xii, 522 pp. P. 331 misnumbered as 231; 501 as 503. Period paper markers inserted after C12 & Q7. Head..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. 1st edition. xiii, [1], 275 pp. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. 1st Edition (Baird & Greenwood 1095; BAL 7394; Wright III, 2537). [8], 327, [3] pp. 2 page publisher advert at rear. Publisher logo to t.p. Crown 8vo. 7-1/16" x 4-5/8". Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine & front board stamped..... More
[Binghamton ?]: (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1857. SIGNED by Carver. Unpaginated bifolium, though 4 pp. P. 1 with printed, facility description, faculty & fee schedule, in 3 columns. Pp 2-3 blank. P. 4 with ALs, from Carver to a M. M. Tracy, Esq. Lettersheet opens from left side. P...... More
[Kent's Hill, Me ?]: Taylor - Adams, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1861 - 1862. Unpaginated bifolium, though 4 pp. P. 1: Faculty & Terms and Vacations. Pp 2-3: Location, New Building, Winter Term, Collegiate Departments, Normal Instruction, Board, Tuition & Rooms. P. 4: blank. P. 1 with woodcut of..... More
Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1834. 1st Edition (American Imprints 29619). 534; 540; 560 pp. Frontispiece in Vols II & III. Royal 8vo. Brown cloth spines over buff paper-wrapped boards, printed paper title labels to spine. 3 volumes, in their original boards, of an eventual..... More
![TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. San Francisco. October 1905. [with Chinese Section]. Americana, Jno. I. -...](/pictures/thumb/16050.2.JPG?v=1642550380)
San Francisco: Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1905. 1st edition thus. xii, [8], 284 pp. 3 inserted leaves, unpaginated, of advertising material (blue, pink & peach in color). 8vo. 9" x 6". Pale green printed covers. White paper onlay, printed in red, to front cover, advising patrons "Do Not Use..... More
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1971. 1st edition. Limited to 350 cc. 42 pp (including Index). Frontispiece of Lamb, reproducing a drawing by Thomas Wageman (about 1825), engraved by Finden, reputedly a favorite of American publishers, ca 1850s - 1860s. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Rough weave burlap cloth spine over..... More
Tulsa / London: Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists / Thomas Murby & Co., 1, Fleet Lane, E.C. 4, 1936. 1st Edition. xix, [1], 157, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index at rear). Illustrated with maps, drawings & b/w half-tone photographic images. Folding color Tectonic map in pocket at..... More
