Oakland, Calif: Walter N. Boysen Co., (n. d.). Ca 1940s (?). Unpaginated, though 20 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in color. 8-5/8" x 7-3/4". Red paper covers, with color photographic image of a living room to front cover. More
Oakland, Cal. Compiled and Published by Polk-Husted Directory Co., 1922. 1st edition thus, i.e., for this year. Cf. Rocq 24 for the series. 2 - 1715, [1] pp. Directory begins on p. [115], adverts prior, printed on bright yellow paper. Occasional inserted advert leaves, not included in pagination. Thick 8vo..... More
Sacramento, Cal: Polk-Husted Directory Co., [1916]. 1st Edition thus, i.e., for this year. Cf Rocq 1848. 547, [1 (blank)] pp. Blue cloth edge tab at start of "Directory of Householders" 9-1/2" x 6". White cloth binding with black printing [adverts]. Edge printing. Scarce work in the trade, other than our..... More
![Item #50110 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE'S PLEASING FOOD. Long Beach, California [Cover title].; Members of...](/pictures/thumb/50110.jpg?v=1636673479)
[Long Beach ?]: (1941). 1st printing (presumed). Not in Axford, Brown, nor Wheaton & Kelly. Unpaginated, though ~ 150 pp. "Measurements and Temperatures", p. 4. Recipes presented in printed mss facsimile. Recipes attributed. Adverts interspersed throughout. Illustrated with drawings. 8-1/2" x 6". Spiral bound, textured card stock covers, front cover..... More
Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., (1907). 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 253). 2 volumes. Illustrated with plates. 4to. 11-1/2" x 8-5/8". Original publisher's deluxe half leather binding with marbled boards & eps. AEG. More
San Francisco: C. E. Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, 26 Montgomery Street, (n. d.). Ca 1875. Photograph with printed caption. Verso with 23 line description of the hotel, as well as, underneath, an 11 line plug for "C. E. Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery". Printed, in red, vertical note to verso left..... More
Oakland: 1938. 1st Edition. [6], 231, [1 (blank)] pp. Profusely illustrated with b/2 half-tone photographic images. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Orange paper covers printed with black lettering. This work self-published, by a 19th C ball player, well known in West Coast circles. Contains a wealth of information on, by one..... More
San Francisco: Photographed by Thomas Houseworth & Co., 12 Montgomery St., opposite Lick House, (1866). Ca 1874. Cf. Palmquist, p. 42, 97. Title & view number hand inked under right image. Domed, separate images. 3-3/8" x 6-15/16". Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; "San Francisco"..... More
[Oakland?]: 1892. 1st Printing (Rocq 958). 10 pp. 5-5/8" x 3-7/8". Printed buff paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "California College (sometimes called Baptist College or California Baptist College) was founded in Vacaville in 1871, and moved to East Oakland's Highland Park neighborhood in 1887. The..... More
San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, (n. d.). Ca 1880. Albumen bust portrait of Sanger, looking to her right. Grey mount, imprint at bottom, under image; elaborate publisher imprint to verso. Image: 5-7/8" x 4"; mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/8". Housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Rachel Mary Sanger made her professional..... More
Seattle: 1930. 1st edition thus. 458 pp (including Index). Drawings by Norman F. Fox. Full color art deco vignettes & embellishments. Black & white images of students, campus, et al. 4to. 10-1/4" x 8". Printed black cloth binding. Black & gold eps. More
London and New York: Routledge, 2007. xiii, [1], 257 pp (including Index). 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Green composition binding printed with black & white lettering. More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1940s? Bifolium, mounted & framed, green matte. Framed: 15" x 19-1/8". Map [visible]: 10" x 14-1/2". Housed in a simple black wood frame. Nice pictorial map of Alameda County, depicting as far West as "Goat Island", NW to Albany, South to the Dumbarton Bridge &..... More
Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, (n. d.). Ca. early 1950s. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated from photographs, some color. 11-1/4" x 8-1/2". Bound in blue buckram cloth, embossed red lettering. More
New York: Jennings & Co., Printers, 122 Nassau Street, 1849. 1st printing. 16 pp. Oration by Wheeler, pp 5 - 12. Includes program of exercises (p. 3) and List of Toasts (pp 13 - 16). 8vo. Original publisher's salmon-colored printed wrappers. Hannah Sprague departed the East Coast, enroute California with..... More
London: Published by Groombridge & Sons, Paternoster Row. 1868. 1st Printing. 44 pp. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Uncommon work on the subject... at the time of cataloguing, we see no others in the trade, with OCLC recording only a handful of..... More
Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln, for John West, No. 75, Cornhill, 1801. 1st Edition (American Imprints 790; Sabin 39181). 40 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/8". Bound in later red half-leather binding, dark red cloth boards. A sermon on Psalm LXXVIII. 2 & 3, 6 & 7. More
Boston: W. S. Best & Co., Printers, 93 Federal Street, 1889 - 1890. 1st printings. Sizes & paper color vary. Largest: 18-1/2" x 24", yellow paper. Smallest: 11" x 14", white card stock. The remaining 8 are long & thin in nature, ranging from 12" x 7-1/8" to 20-1/4" x...... More
Los Angeles: Published by the Security-First National Bank, (1930). 1st printing (Kruska & Robinston 229; Rocq 13618). 112 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. White paper covers printed in orange & black. Original mailing envelope. More
[San Francisco?]: Dollar Steamship Line, 1923. 1st Printing. Single sheet of off-white card stock paper, printed recto only, 21 lines of text. Company emblem at top. 8" x 5-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Built in 1920 as Wolverine State, one of seven Design 1095 ships, by the..... More
Metuchen, N.J. & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1978. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author. xiv, 658 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8" Teal cloth binding, white stamped lettering. Issued w/o dust jacket. More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. 1st edition (Broadstreet [4th ed], p. 297). 222 pp. Red ribbon page marker. Illustrated. 12mo. 8" x 5-1/8". Publisher's white fine weave cloth binding with gilt stamping. AEG. More
Philadelphia: 1864 - 1865. 1st Printing. 8 pp per issue. Fare set lacks No 13, issued over a year later, Sept 11, 1865. The rare 4 pp Fare prospectus bound-in at rear of volume. Masthead wood engraving [Leland del, Rea Sc]. The occasional wood engraving in text, with Fare ground..... More
San Francisco: B. C. Vandall, Publisher. 1877. 1st edition thus. Cf. Rocq 7993. 1431, [1] pp. Advert eps, as well as throughout. Some adverts with cuts. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Black cloth spine, gilt stamped, over advert paper-wrapped boards. More
![Item #49841 VIEWS. Anderson Academy. Irvington, California. [cover title]. Promotional...](/pictures/thumb/49841.jpg?v=1629244096)
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., Print, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca early 1900s. Not in Rocq, though see entry 82, for 4 catalogues from other years. Unpaginated, though 24 pp. Title leaf & 2 pages of introductory text, remainder of booklet captioned b/w half-tone photographic images. 23 images total. 5-1/4"..... More
