Authors starting with W from Dawson's Book Shop

Archibald Constable and Co./J.B. Lippincott Co., Westminster/Philadelphia, 1900. second printing. Good. 8 x 5 3/4 inches, 452 pages, cloth, some water damage, wear to spine extremities, hinges slightly cracked, corners bumped, With numerous illustrations by A.D. McCormick, the Author and others, and from photographs. With fold-out map in rear. ... more information

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1941. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 750 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy. Fine, unopened. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, [ii], 94, [1, colophon] pages, decorative boards with linen spine and paper spine label, Includes four-color frontispiece and 3 large decorative initials in red. Special Publication Number 17 of the Society. ... more information

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1929. First Edition. Very good. 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, 571 pages, cloth. ... more information

The Plough Press, Loughborough, 1974. Limited edition: Number 23 of 23 copies. Fine. 15 x 10 inches, 20 pages, marbled boards with leather spine, matching marbled slipcase, spine lightly sunned, Each opening has a caption page on the left-hand side and an original specimen illustration on the right-hand side. Contains 20 original illustrations, as follows:1) Wood engraving--18452) Etching3) Hand-colored steel engraving4) Baxter print5) Tinted lithograph6) Leighton Brothers p... more information

N.p., San Francisco, 1895. First Edition. Good. 7 1/4 x 5 inches, 191 pages, cloth, light wear to spine extremities and corners. ... more information

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1965. Limited edition: One of 250 copies by Richard J. Hoffman. Very good. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 78 pages, cloth, light wear to spine extremities and corners, Famous California Trials: Number 5. ... more information

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1965. Limited edition: One of 250 copies by Richard J. Hoffman. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 78 pages, cloth, light wear to spine extremities and corners, Famous California Trials: Number 5. ... more information

Glen Dawson, Los Angeles, 1954. First Edition, Limited edition: one of 200 . Very good: newspaper offset to front endpaper. 7 x 5 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth, Early California Travels Series 24. ... more information

Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, (1984). First Edition. Very good. 13 x 11 inches, 95 pages, boards. ... more information

Grossman Publishers, New York, 1973. First Edition. Very good. 9 x 10 1/2 inches, 213 pages, cloth. ... more information

Little Bear, New York, 2003. First Edition, Limited edition. Fine. 12 x 9 inches, Unpaginated pages, wrappers. ... more information

Little Bear Press, New York, [1990]. Near fine. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth with paste down illustration on front cover, A series of portaits of the noted writer. The book was published as a benefit for the Film Forum in New York City. ... more information

Junípero Serra Press, San Buenaventura, 1977. Limited edition: One of 300 copies, designed by Francis Braun. Fine. 2 1/4 x 3 inches, (ii), 16, (1) pages, gold-stamped green leather, all edges gilt, small light spot on upper cover. ... more information

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1972. First Edition. Fine. 2 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches, 15 pages, gold-stamped orange cloth, Frontispiece portrait of Zeitlin by Herschel Logan. Printed and bound by Cathay Press Ltd., Hong Kong. This is the original edition; William M. Cheney printed a second, "pirated" edition in the same year. ... more information

Standard Book Company, Manchester, N.H., 1917. First Edition. Very good. 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 240 pages, cloth, Minor wear to spine extremities, bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff on pastedown. Webster's journal recounts his Overland Trail journey and his experiences in California and Oregon thereafter. ... more information

Fort Orange Press, Albany, NY, 1987. Fine. 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches, vi, 156 pages, gold-stamped blue fabricoid. ... more information

Kathryn I. Rickard, Cobleskill, NY, 1989. Limited edition: One of 500 copies. Fine. 12 x 8 1/2 inches, viii, 250 pages, blue fabricoid, Dust Jacket (fine), Signed by Welsh, on laid-in sticker, Includes a preface by Weber. ... more information

Pennyroyal Press, West Hatfield, 1987. Limited edition: 150 copies signed by Eudora Welty and Barry Moser of which this is Patron #2. Fine, marbled endpaper. 9 x 6 inches, 134 pages, full red morocco with embossed illustration on front cover, With illustrations by Barry Moser. ... more information

Printed for W. Richardson; J. Robson and W. Clarke; and W. Pennington, London, 1796. Sixth Edition. Good with occasional light foxing and very mild off-setting. 8 1/4 x 5 inches, xii, 313 pages, full sprinkled calf with green and gilt titling label to spine, gilt edges to boards, speckled edges, light rubbing to extremeties and joints, upper joint weak but holding, Engraved frontispiece, engraved folding-map of the Lakes, one engraved plate, Written by the Scottish topographer Thomas West (1720-1799) who,... more information

Howell-North, Berkeley, 1959. Very good, bookseller's stamp, previous owner's signature and stamp to front endpaper. 11 x 14 3/8 inches, 192 pages, black cloth, bump to head-edge of upper cover, Dust Jacket (light soiling and wear), 1959 Reproduction of the famous Thompson & West 1880 edition, introduction by WW Robinson. "..[I]t is one of the rarest of that fine early series of California county histories...This is really a sourcebook for Los Angeles District History" (Layne). ... more information