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
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company, Inc., 1935. 1st edition thus. 507, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrations by J. Paget-Fredericks; b/w half-tone photographs throughout. 4to. 12" x 9". Red rought weave cloth binding with gold & red stamping. Gold foil 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
Cincinnati, Ohio: Published by J. B. Elliott, 51 Fourth Street, 1860. 1st Printing. 16 pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6". Original publisher's printed brownish grey paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wilson was born in Cincinnati in June, 1818. He served as co-pastor of the 1st Presbyterian..... More
San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1888. 1st Edition. vi, 808 pp (including Index). 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original full publisher's deluxe full black morocco binding, with elaborate gilt stamping to spine. AEG. Dentelles. Marbled eps. "Chas. Robinson" gilt stamped to base of spine... More
Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company, 1908. 1st Printing. Pp 165 - 274, [2] pp. Illustrated. 9-7/8" x 6-5/8". Original publisher's printed brown paper covers. 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
![VIEWS. Anderson Academy. Irvington, California. [cover title]. Promotional Brochure / Booklet](/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
Littleton, N. H. Photographed and Published by Kilburn Brothers, (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. Stereo image, two square albumen photographs, of Telegraph Hill mounted to yellow stiff card-stock paper, slightly rounded corners. View & card number printed under right image. Kilburn imprint to verso. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 6-7/8"..... More
[Sacramento]: Printed at the State Printing Office, Friend Wm. Richardson, Superintendent, 1912. 1st Printing. Broadside, 25 lines of text. 13-11/16" x 9-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Whereas, H. C. Pingrey, of Galt, in the County of Sacramento, was on the 3d day of November, nineteen hundred and..... More
Nevada County, Cal. Executed and Published by John A. Fuller. W. Valance Gray, Lith., S.F., 1866. 1st Printing. Broadside, 27-3/4" x 24-1/4". Image: ~ 26" x 20" Rare mid-19th C. broadside celebrating the forming of the Union, a respectable Very Good [if not better] copy which was recently treated to..... More
New-York City: Photographed and Published by Ebbinghaus & Swift, (n. d.). Ca 1864. General title & publisher imprint under photograph. Descriptive pencil annotation to lower right corner. Image depicts a horse-drawn trolley ["Yorkville"], in front of the entrance to Cremorne Garden, with the lower half of the image showing the..... More
[Big Spring, Montgomery County, VA]: [1879]. 1st printing. Not in the Arents Catalogue. Broadside, printed with 3 columns of instructional text. 11-5/8" x 8-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "This broadside explains a new patented process for curing leaf tobacco developed by John W. Barnett of Big Spring..... More
New York: Beadle and Company, Publishers, 118 William Street. (1864). 1st edition, Printing B (BAL 14916; Johannsen BEADLE, 72-DN). [4], [9] - 100 [= 96] pp. Frontispiece [included in pagination statement]. 16mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/8". Original publisher's printed orange wrappers (Type V-DN). Per Johannsen, "Early part of the nineteenth century..... More
