Oakland, Cal. Steam Press of the Pacific S. D. A. Publishing House, 1878. 1st Edition. [4], 352 pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. "Lectures delivered at the Biblical Institute held by Elders James White and U. Smith in..... More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1943). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 580, [38 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed yellow cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1945). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 646, [42 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1942). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 675 pp (includes rear paste-down). Index at rear. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
[Oneida, N.Y.]: 1850. 1st Printing. Afro-Americana, 2nd Supp, 1607. 14, [2 (blank)] pp. Folded & stiched, unopened. 6-5/8" x 4". Printed self-wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Universally attributed to John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a perfectionist religious communal society established in 1848, which believed..... More
Cleveland: Church of God Publishing House, 1928. 1st edition. [9], 229, [6 (blank)] pp. 5 inserted plates. 9" x 6". Blue cloth binding with green stamped lettering to cover. More
London: The Botolph Press, (n. d.). 1st edition (presumed), ca 1890s. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 704 pp (including Index at rear). Text double column. With 350 Illustrations [per the t.p.], including 6 color lithographic plates. Thick 8vo. Original publishers brown decorative cloth. Bevelled edges. Pale yellow eps. Fairly uncommon book on..... More
San Francisco: Mission Journal Publishing Co., 2222 Mission Street, [1886]. 1st Edition (Zamorano 10). [106] pp. Fold-out map of San Francisco at front [Pine to Broadway, Montgomery to Mason]. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. "Every search for the true..... More
Berkeley: Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., [1921?]. 1st Printing (Rocq 440). Unpaginated, though 24 pages. Illustrated throughout with campus scenes, portraits, plans, etc. "Designs and drawings by the H.K. McCann Company, San Francisco". 12-3/4" x 9-1/2". Flexible tan linen covers, with state outline printed in blue, with large "C" overlay..... More
Lee Vining, California: Artemisia Press, (1987). 1st Printing. 123, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with maps & half-tone b/w photographic images. 9" x6". Glossy white paper covers printed in brown, with photographic image to front & rear covers. More
Berkeley: University of California Regional Oral History Office The Bancroft Library, (1993). 1st Printing. Copy #6. [14], vii, [1 (blank)], viii, [1 (blank)], 309, [5] pp. Half-tone photographic portrait of Luna Leopold. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Bright blue buckram binding with silver stamped spine lettering. More
Berkeley: University of California, 1966. 1st edition. PRESENTATION COPY, with signed presentation note card from Ida Sproul. Other related ephemera /correspondence to Mrs Harmon Bell laid-in. [12], 254 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Dark blue cloth spine over blue buckram boards. Gilt stamping. No dust jacket. Sproul served as President, the 11th..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1955. "1st California printing." Limited to 500 cc. Cf Howes T-451, for the 1st edition of 1850. vii, [1 (blank)], 124, [2 (blank)] pp. 9-5/8" x 6-3/8" Red linen cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. More
New York / Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. 1st Edition. xi, [1], 212 pp. December 1962 "Indian Affairs" newsletter laid-in. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 7-1/8". Orangish-tan cloth binding with dark brown stamping. Pictorial eps. No dust jacket. 1932 Newbery Award winner, story of a young Navajo boy..... More
Maceline, Missouri / Oroville, California: D-Books Publishing / Mercury - Register, (1995). 1st Edition. 96 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 11-1/4" x 8-11/16". Maroon cloth binding with silver stamping to front cover. This volume "... undertaken as a special project of The Mercury-Register. Our primary purpose was to..... More
Trenton, N. J. Ca 1911 - 1913. The scrapbook consists of 176 numbered pages. Material in the book is sectioned off under the different headings, (e.g. “Autographs”), and no material was entered into the first 73 pages of the book. The last item pasted into the book is on page..... More
South Hadley, MA: 1903 - 1904. There are 29 leaves in the scrapbook with each, recto & verso, having at least one item pasted on to it. The material includes over 50 photos, some of which appear to be official photos of college buildings and halls; many are small cyanotypes..... More
Guthrie, Oklahoma: Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1930. 1st edition. [4], viii, [4], 922 pp + Index. Illustrated. 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4". Original blue buckram cloth with gilt stamping. Pictorial eps. NB. "Vol I" stamped on spine; we find no evidence of other volumes ever published. More
Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996 - 2001. 1st Edition. 8 volumes [of an eventual 9], divers paginations. 8vo.10-1/4" x 7-1/8". Tan fine-weave buckram cloth bindings with gilt stamping & red hightlights. Issued without jackets. More
New York: F. M. Lupton, Publisher. 106 Reade St. 1896. Later edition, first published by Lupton in 1884. Not found in Axford., nor Wheaton & Kelly. 14 pp [incomplete? Pagination, when present, discontinuouis & jumbled]. Text triple column. Wood engraved masthead. 11-3/4" x 8-1/2". Printed self wrappers, with later spine..... More
Paris / Mejico: Libreria de Ch. Bouret, 1888. Later edition, a substantially revised, enlarged and illustrated version of Cocinero Mejicano, originally published in 1831. [6], 966, [2 (blank)] pp. Hlaf-title leaf present. Text double column. Text in Spanish. Lithographed title leaf, frontis, and 5 inserted plates at rear. 8vo. 9-5/8"..... More
Philada., New York, ... San Francisco: The Cottage Library Publishing House, 1884. 1st Edition (Axford, p. 245). Not in Wheaton & Kelly. viii, [4], 15 - 369, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated, including 2 inserted color plates. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's embossed brown cloth binding, gilt highlights ["Cottage Library"..... More
Madrid: Enda Imprenta de Don Antonia Perez de Soto, de la Real Biblioteca. A costa de la Real Compania de Impresores, y Libreros del Reyne. (n. d.). Early edition, ca mid-18th C. Cf. Palau 8977 for the 1st edition of 1745; Cagle 1208 & 1209 for 1767 & 1788 editions..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Aguilar E. Hijos, 1883. 2nd Edition, Corregida y Aumentada. 192 pp. Index, pp. 185 - 192. Text in Spanish. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4-1/2". Period black quarter leather binding with complementary marbled paper boards. Gilt lettered / decorated spine. Not found in Cagle's A MATTER OF TASTE. OCLC..... More
Yosemite Valley, California: Galen Clark, 1907. 1st edition. 104 pp. 20 illustrations from photographs. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Light green cloth binding printed in dark green. Green floral patterned-paper eps. Clark "was a Canadian-born American conservationist and writer. He is known as the first European American to discover the Mariposa Grove..... More
