(n.p.). 1903. 1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette stamped to head in blue ink. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2" White card stock, menu items printed in black, "Metropolitan Hotel - Washington, D.C." printed in a more decorative type. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
Oakland: Pacific Press, Twelfth and Castro Streets. 1879. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 325; Howes K-60). Not in Sabin. 46, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-11/16" x 4-1/2". Buff printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. According to RBH, only one copy has come to market in recent history, fetching..... More
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(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca later 1800s. Black & white albumen photograph mounted to card stock, printed name underneath photo. Without photographer credit. 4" x 2-3/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dickenson "an American orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights..... More
(n.p.). (n.d.). 1st Printing. Broadside. Illustration of a front of a train to head. Approx: 20-3/4 x 6-1/2". Thick card stock, rounded head, printed in red, blue and black. Verso solid red. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
New York: Chas. D. Durkee & Co., (Incorporated.) Ship Stores and Chandlery, ... 2 & 3 South Street. Ca 1905 - 1907. Printed t.p. Volume unpaginated, though ~ 200 leaves [12 blank at rear]. Manuscript entries for every day, of varying length, in a 'matter of fact' style. We note..... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Two albumen photographs, mounted side-by-side, domed tops. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Orange colored mount, printed at bottom & both edges, slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Covina, California / Claremont, California: 1954 - 1957. 25 leaves of buff colored mounting paper, the preponderance filled both sides with ~110 photographs, momentos, track ribbons, letters, newspaper clippings, drawings & other such material documenting Anderson's college stay. Laid-in are 5 different merit award certificates [3 mounted]. 12-3/4" x 12-1/4"..... More
San Francisco / New York: "Gregory's United States & California Express," 280 Montgomery Street / Thompson & Hitchcock, 149 Pearl Street, 1851. Unpaginated blank pages. 4-3/4" x 2-7/8". Shiny dark blue paper covers, with gilt stamped lettering, stapled. Buff paper mailing envelope. Wrapper insides: front, instructions for use; rear, 2..... More
[Santa Cruz ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1879 - 1880 [per a prior owner lightly penciled annotation]. Single sheet, lined paper, printed recto only. A two-stanza poem, of 4 lines per stanza, written therein. Wood engraving [3-7/8" x 6-7/8"] of Santa Cruz harbor in top half, with printed caption underneath. 10"..... More
(n.p.): c. 1960s. 1st Printing. Illustrated bifolium. Two slips. Red and green illustrations to upper and lower wrappers. Folio. 16" x 11-1/4". Light yellow, card stock self wrappers, lettering printed in brown. Two slips stapled to head. One gray card stock printed in brown. The other white card stock printed..... More
Paris. Studio Schwarzhaupt. 1995. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unnumbered. Bifolium. Including one slip. Color photograph of the interior of the restaurant. Ornate, floral, art deco style decorative borders throughout. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2". White, card stock self wrappers. Lettering printed in blue and orange. Floral decoration printed in a mix..... More
Las Vegas. Silver State Printers & Engravers. c. 1960s (?). 1st Printing. bifolium housed in a card stock bifolium. Decorative upper wrapper. Folio. 18" x 12". Card stock wrappers printed in red and black to upper wrapper. White paper bifolium housed inside printed in black. Held together by a black..... More
(n.p.): c. 1975. 1st P. Bifolium. Drawn portrait of John Ireland to lower wrapper, wrapping around partially to the upper wrapper (hands only). Folio. 17--3/4 x 10". White card stock, self wrappers, printed in black, now housed in a mylar sleeve. This restaurant was owned by movie star John Ireland..... More
Detroit: Press of A. Drake & Co. [for] Hupp Motor Car Corportation, 1916. 1st Printing. 95, [1] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. Original green paper wrappers, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Hupmobile was an automobile built from 1909 through 1939..... More
Leeds: Reprinted by Permission of the Author. Anthony Pickard, Printer. 1829. Cf. Smith I, p. 205. [10], 340 pp. 12mo. Original drab paper boards with dark brown paper spine with printed paper title label (professionally recased). More
San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1886. 1st Edition. [4], 38, [1 (Divisional t.p.), 39 - 133, [4] pp. Adverts at begin & end volume. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to front board. Rear paste-down with a "Freud's Corsets" advert. More
(n.p.). C. 1980s. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unnumbered, one slip (napkin). Illustrated upper wrapper. Menu:8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Napkin: 5" x 5". Light pink, self wrappers, maroon lettering. Napkin is white with dark green lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Wells, Fargo & Co., 1864. 1st printing thus. Single sheet blank form way bill, completed Oct 18, 1864. Oblong format: 3" x 7-3/4". Vertical typographical rule to left side. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A somewhat early way bill from this firm founded in 1852... More
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San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, 717 Market St, (n. d.). Ca 1956 - 1957. Not found in Gabler. One sheet, folded vertically, to form a multi-page brochure. Drawings to most pages. 6-1/8" x 3". White paper, printed in colored ink [different color for each brochure]. All now housed in..... More
England. April 12, 1962. 1st Printing. Bifolium. Full color illustration to upper wrapper. 10-1/2" x 8". White card stock, self wrappers, printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.): October 11, 1930. 1st Printing. Bifolium. Small illustration of a ship to the upper wrapper. 7-3/4" x 5-3/4" White card stock self wrappers, printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.): 1939. 1st Printing. Single leaf folded to make a bifolium. Illustrated upper wrapper, photo of the U.S.S. California inside. 7" x 5-1/2". Self wrappers. White paper leaf, folded twice. Printed in blue and red. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, 1913. 8 unnumbered pages. 9 photographic images printed in very dark green ink, of scenes at Kanyonkrag and Sohlohnee. 4-3/16" x 6-1/4". String-bound white self-wrappers printed in very dark green and grey. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as..... More
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, [1914]. 16 unnumbered pages. 16 photographic images printed in very dark green ink. 4-1/4" x 6-3/8". String-bound cream self-wrappers printed in very dark green. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as an ardent naturalist and owner of two remarkable..... More
Oakland: Oakland Blue Print Co., 1926. 1st printing. Broadsheet, folded 5x. Recto: Map, with street index in upper right corner. Verso: Adverts, history blurbs of Oakland & the banks. Exterior panels with image of the bank's Oakland office building, 14th and Broadway. Folded: 8-1/2" x 46-1/8". Printed self-wrappers. Now housed..... More
