[San Francisco ?]: 1925. 1st Printing. Single sheet, printed recto only. 42 lines. Bohemian owl graphic at top. Typographical border. 10-5/8" x 6" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Program of 6 pieces, concluding with "Finlandia, Symphonic Poem", by Sibelius. 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
(Los Angeles?): (n. d.). Ca 1940s. One sheet, printed both sides, folded 3x. Sheet verso, with pictorial map of "Forest Lawn Memorial Park Showing the Location of Interment Sections, Buildings and Art Treasures." Map surrounded with has descriptions of prominent features of the park. Unfolded: 19-7/8" x 27-1/8". Now housed..... More
Belleville, Ills. Published by the Author, (n. d.). Ca late 19th C. Bifolium, so 4 pages. Score pp 2 -3, p. 4 blank. Baseball diamond pictured on front cover [p. 1]. 14" x 11". Self-wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Apparently unrecorded. No holding in OCLC, nor found..... 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
Los Cerrillos, New Mexico: San Marcos Press, (1974). 1st separate edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author. 36 pp. Map, and canoeist ornament, by Lou Ann Jordan. Drawings of river scenes and birds by Michael Arth. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Paper covers, stapled. Cover art by Jordan... 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
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
