San Francisco: Watkins, 26 Montgomery St., opposite Lick House entrance, (n. d.). Ca early 1870s. Stereo image of Ralston's dining room, mounted to orange stiff-stock card. Printed lettering to each end; title hand inked at bottom. Lavender rear, blank. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 6-7/8". Rounded corners. Now housed in an... More about DINING ROOM RALSTON HOUSE BELMONT CAL; Watkins' Pacific Coast Series
(San Francisco). c. 1920s - 1930s. 1st Printing. Tri-fold with to slips tipped in. Couple color illustrations. 5" x 10-1/4". Off white card stock self wrappers, red and black lettering, one slip white paper with black typed ink, the other slip yellow paper in red and black typed ink, now... More about BERNSTEIN'S FISH GROTTO
San Francisco. Allied Printing. [1939]. 1st Printing. Broadside. One illustration of a fish. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Light yellow card stock, navy blue lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. The pencil marking on the front read "Feb 17 '39 the gang goes western". The verso is a list of 28 names. More about NEPTUNE FISH GROTTO.; Try Our Special Neptune-Chioppino
(San Francisco). c. early 2000s. 1st Printing. Printed bifolium. Illustrated upper wrapper. 15-1/2" x 10". Off-white card stock self wrappers, brown lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. "The original 75-seat restaurant occupies an unobtrusive windowless mid-block storefront on Sutter Street near Jones Street in the Tendernob neighborhood of San... More about FLEUR DE LYS
(San Francisco). c. 1970s -1980s. 1st Printing. Printed bifolium. Illustrated upper wrapper. 13" x 8-3/4". Off-white card stock self wrappers, brown cloth tape reinforcing the spine, maroon lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. "The original 75-seat restaurant occupies an unobtrusive windowless mid-block storefront on Sutter Street near Jones Street... More about FLEUR DE LYS
[Los Angeles ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1910. Single b/w albumen photograph, with dark brown mount. Verso blank. Landscape orientation: 10-1/4" x 13-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. NB. We were able to locate an early 20th C. advert ["Land of Sunshine", v. 12] for this firm, which, at... More about INTERIOR VIEW - F. M. REICH JEWELRY STORE.; "The FAIR 226 S. SPRING L.A." [penciled...
New York: Beadle and Company. 141 William Street. (1861). 1st edition (Johannsen DN-16). 123, [1 (blank)], [5] - 8 pp. Last 4 pages an excerpt from "Madge Wylde", forthcoming Dime Novel No. 17. Frontispiece. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers (Type II-DN). Rear wrapper lists through... More about UNCLE EZEKIEL: And His Exploits on Two Continents. Beadle's Dime Novels. No. 16
(San Francisco). c. Late 1950s. 1st Printing. Printed bifolium. Pictorial upper wrapper. 13" x 9-1/2". White card stock self wrappers, pink paper with menu items glued in, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. "The original 75-seat restaurant occupies an unobtrusive windowless mid-block storefront on Sutter Street near Jones... More about FLEUR DE LYS. Restaurant Francais.; San Aselmo - San Francisco
(San Francisco?). c. 1920s. 1st Printing. Tri-fold. Full color illustration to upper wrapper. 10" x 4-1/4". White card stock, self wrappers, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. A dinner menu from Camille's. More about CAMILLE'S ROTISSERIE & RESTAURANT.; Camille Mailhebuau, Proprietor
(San Francisco?). c. 1920-1930. 1st Printing. Tri-fold. Full color illustrated upper wrapper. 10" x 4-1/4". White card stock, self wrappers, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. This is a wine and cocktail list for Camille's. More about CAMILLE'S ROTISSERIE & RESTURANT.; Carte De Vins
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). 1st edition. 320 pp (including index). Illustrated. 8vo. 24cm x 16.5cm. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about A NEWER WORLD. Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West
Parsons, Kansas: The Foley R'y Printing Co., 1893. 1st edition [Hargrett 71]. [3], 426, vii [index], [2 (blank)] pp. 8-11/16" x 5-3/4". Modern tan quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Maroon leather title label to spine. More about CONSTITUTION And LAWS Of The CHEROKEE NATION. Published by an Act of the National Council. 1892
Chicago. 1934. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unnumbered. Illustrated upper wrapper. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". White paper self wrappers, illustration printed in red and black, lettering in black, now housed in a mylar sleeve. "After the end of the first Chicagoan World's Fair, Max and Robert Eitel built on 14 West Randolph... More about OLD HEIDELBERG INN
(San Francisco). 1984. 1st Printing. Loose leaf printed on recto and verso. Illustration of the Seal of San Francisco at head. 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" White card stock, blue lettering to recto and verso, now housed in a mylar sleeve. The verso lists all the businesses and groups who helped sponsored. More about MAYOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S SAN FRANCISCO WELCOME HONORING The DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION...
Paris: Librairie Generale de L'Architecture et Des Arts Decoratifs Charles Schmid, Editeur. [1899]. 1st Edition. 2 laid-in leaves of text [in French]. 12 lithographed plates laid-in. Elephant folio. 26-1/4" x 20'. Black cloth spine over printed card stock boards. "Phoebe Hearst was a major benefactor of the University of California... More about UNIVERSITE De BERKELEY, San Francisco (Californie). CONCOURS PHOEBE A. HEARST Pour Les Plans de...
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London: Printed by M. Richardson... / Printed by J. Smith ... for G. Kearsly, ... and W. Davenhill, 1760 [i. e., 1765] / 1768. The Second Edition (Sabin 34076 & 34079). Cf Howes H853. 2 volumes: [6], iv, 566; [4], iv, 539, [1 (blank)] pp. Last blank of v. 2... More about The HISTORY Of The COLONY [PROVINCE] Of MASSACHUSETTS - BAY
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., Printers, [1898]. 1st printing (presumed). Broadside, 12 printed lines. 8-7/8" x 5-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "On March 14, 1896, the Sutro Baths were opened to the public as the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths were built on the... More about SUTRO BATHS. Sunday, June 26 at 2:30 P. M. Fifth Grand Soldiers' Day Swimming Races
Honolulu, H.I. Published by Wall, Nichols Co., Ltd., (n. d.). Ca early 1900s. 52 playing cards, plus Joker & publisher advert card. Each card illustrated, on the playing side, with a captioned oval scene depicting some aspect of the Hawaiian Islands. AEG. Cards: 3-7/16" x 2-3/8". All housed in s.... More about HAWAIIAN SOUVENIR PLAYING CARDS
San Francisco: Taber Photographic Parlors, cor. Montgomery and Market Sts, Opposite Grand and Palace Hotels, (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Mount verso blank, pink in color. Photographer imprint under photograph. Photo: 5-1/4" x 8-1/2". Mount: 6-1/4" x 9-3/4". Now housed in archival mylar sleeve. Image depicts 3 19th Century cyclists, 2... More about "FRESNO Or BUST" Cabinet Card Albumen Photograph of Three Cyclists
[Watsonville, CA ?]: (n. d.). Ca early 1900s? Divers sizes. 4 mounted. All now housed in archival mylar sleeves. Here offered a group of 6 early b/w photographs of the Watsonville Sanatorium, also known as the Watsonville Sanitarium. None are dated or credited but all provide exterior views of this... More about SIX HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS Of The WATSONVILLE SANATORIUM
Meadville, PA: Keystone View Company, (n. d.). Ca 1913. Descriptive text to card verso. Stereo image of the steel piping used as a water conveyance. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The aqueduct project began in 1905 when the voters of Los Angeles approved... More about PIPING WATER To LOS ANGELES
Sacramento: State Office ... James J. Ayers, Supt. State Printing. 1886. 1st Edition. 580 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. More about REPORTS To HON. GEORGE STONEMAN, Governor of California, On CERTAIN CLAIMS Of The STATE Of...
Meadville, PA: Keystone View Company, (1903). Descriptive text to card verso. Stereo image of the Los Angeles Pigeon farm, "located four miles north of the city.." Domed images, concave cardstock. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7-1/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The Los Angeles Pigeon Farm was located between... More about Where 16,000 Pigeons Live in Constant Peace, Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A
San Francisco, Cal. Published by Frederic M. DeWitt, (1900). Third Edition. Cf. Cowan II, p. 168 & Rocq 9139 for the 1897 first edition. Not in the Norris Collection Catalogue, nor the Streeter Collection catalogue. 144 pp. Advertising. Illustrated "by nearly twenty engravings." With large folding map [26-1/4" x 21-1/2";... More about An ILLUSTRATED And DESCRIPTIVE SOUVENIR And GUIDE ... To SAN FRANCISCO.; A New Handbook for...
1963 - 1964. 69 letters, 1 postcard. Some letters include enclosures, mostly clippings. There are several loose clippings, perhaps alienated from letters, and two undated letters, one from Vance and one from Dorothy. There are five black-and-white snapshots with typed descriptions, apparently of the Austin's residence in Bogota. This archive... More about ARCHIVE Of COLUMBIAN CORRESPONDENCE
