San Francisco: Sumner Whitney & Co., 1879. 1st edition. 431, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6" x 3-7/8". Period tan full sheep binding with red & black leather spine labels. Title hand-inked to front board. More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1911. 1st edition. x, 354, [2] pp. Index at rear. Frontis + a handful of inserted plates of black and white photographic images. 2 page map at rear. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Blue cloth binding with dark blue & gilt stamping..... More

[San Francisco ?]: 1948. 1st Edition. 134, [2 (blank)] pp. Printed presentation slip laid-in. Frontispiece showing past & present homes of the society. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/4". Light blue velour-type flexible covers, with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Includes a brief history of the Society, pp. 7 - 10..... More

San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 792 pp (including Index). Original publisher's printed 1887 Prospectus Leaflet laid-in. Fold-out map at front. Numerous other intratextual maps. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original full publisher's deluxe full black morocco binding, with elaborate gilt stamping to spine. AEG..... More

Sacramento: H. S. Crocker Co., Printers. 1907. 8th edition (cf. Cowan, p. 406; Howes M-102). 261, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated, though lacking the frontis. 8vo. Lacks printed wrappers. According to Howes, McGlashan's the "best account" of this infamous incident. More

San Francisco: The Murdock Press, 1907. 1st Edition. [2], 62 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/8" Parchment spine over grey paper-wrapped boards with gilt stamped lettering to front board. More

Detroit: Cadillac Printing Co., (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1935. Unpaginated, though 10 pages. Filled with illustrations of various body styles, as well as mechanical systems. Landscape format: 8-3/4" x 11-1/4". Dark blue paper covers, with color image of the LaSalle to the front cover, white lettering underneath. "LaSalle was..... More

[Boston ?]: Leander Baker, Photographer, (n. d.). Ca 1874 / 75. Two square albumen images of cannons in the Navy Yard. 3-9/16" x 6-15/16. Slightly concave orange mount, round corners, with blank violet back. "The Charlestown Navy Yard, later the Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities..... More

(Lebanon ?): (n. d.). Ca late 1920s. Unpaginated, though 12 pp. Adverts throughout. 9-1/8" x 4". Original publisher's printed brown card-stock paper covers, stapled. Local business adverts to both front & back. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce ~ 100 year old guide to Lebanon, KY, including a...... More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 1st edition. [6], 307, [7] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's decorative green cloth binding. More

Divers places: divers dates. Includes 3 diaries: 1916, 1918 & 1942. The 1942 diary is written while Chandler was a Colonel assigned to New Guinea, it mentions a Japanese air raid while hiding out in a slit trench, meeting with General Clark preparing anti- aircraft installations etc., etc. The early diaries are..... More

Franklin, N.H. Published by Peabody & Daniell, (1852). 1st printing of this issue (Wheat, Maps of the Gold Rush, 212). Cf Drake 4698, for the 1797 first edition. 48 pp, including wrappers, untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39, providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco ["principal port of..... More

Ca early 1900s. Divers sizes. All now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A small group of materials, including three blueprints, an original black and white photograph, several loose leaves of original pencil sketches, various additional ephemera, etc.... evidence strongly suggests all from the files of Lyman Gilmore, Jr., a...... More