Titles starting with C from Dawson's Book Shop

Saint Francis Historical Society, Mission Hills, 1990. Fine. 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, 296 pages, fabricoid, With a Preface and Historical Introduction by Francis J. Weber. ... more information

William and Robert Chambers, Edinburgh, 1850. Very good. 8 x 5 inches, 32 pages, printed boards, Rebacked. ... more information

The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1997. Fine. 10 x 6 3/4 inches, 771 pages, cloth. ... more information

Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1947. Fine. 10 x 6 1/4 inches, wrappers, Keepsake No. 11. Twelve folders, each designed by a different press, and each presenting a poem by an eminent California poet, with a commentary by the author. ... more information

Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1851. Good. 7 x 4 1/4 inches, quarter morocco, I-v vi-xii, 348, plus 24 pages of publisher's advertisements. Fourth edition. Lacks map; all plates present. Kurutz: "One of the earliest, liveliest and most detailed accounts of the gold rush." Cowan p. 122, new Howes 154, Wagner-Camp 167g:5. Rebound in quarter morocco with marbled boards. Boards worn at edges, scattered foxing throughout text. ... more information

Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1972. Limited edition: 450 copies printed by at the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Very good, a small faint line from a red pencil runs approximately six inches along the front cover. 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, 154 pages, boards with leather spine, An important resource in the study of California cartography. ... more information

Thomas Cautley Newby, London, 1856. First Edition. Good: spine ends renewed, general darkening and soiling to bindings; moderate marginal soiling, small rubbed spot on each title from removal of stamps. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, [iv], 303, [1]; [ii], 286 pages, publisher's blindstamped olive cloth, "Entertaining reading, tinctured occasionally by the mild sarcasm of an English baronet, whose dignity sometimes encountered a severe shock" (Cowan I, p.117). (Kurutz 348a., this copy in a different b... more information

Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., Los Angeles, 1931. First Edition. Very good: bookplate, pages 10-11 browned. 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches, [ii], 77, [3, ads] pages, black-stamped orange cloth. ... more information

Eugene O. Murmann, Los Angeles , 1914. First Edition. Very good: foxing to endpapers and verso of frontispiece, leaf with pages 5-6 expertly mended and reinserted. 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, 116, [2, ads] pages, green pictorial cloth, some spotting. ... more information

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1940). First Edition. Good. 11 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 127 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities and corners, covers slightly shelfworn, previous owner's signature in pen (1944), darkening to inner covers near spine, A U.S. Camera Book, with 96 photographs. ... more information

Baumgartner, Sun Prairie, WI, 1979. First Edition. Good. 9 x 6 inches, wrappers, Includes Volume 1 numbers 1 and 2, and numbers 3 through 7 of this journal of photographic criticism. ... more information

Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, (1971). Very good: lower right portion of volume slightly warped. 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, 304 pages, gold-stamped cloth, Dust Jacket (good), Inscribed by Adams, in ink on front endpaper: "For the . . . With Appreciation! Ansel Adams 9-9-71 Carmel". ... more information

Gould and Lincoln, Boston, 1853. Foxing throughout. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, 233 pages, cloth, some fading at spine, corners bent, Includes 4 leaves of plates, 2 pages of advertisements at the front of the book and 24 pages of advertisements at the end. ... more information

Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm, (1953). Good. 10 x 8 1/4 inches, 167 pages, cloth. ... more information

Fraenkel Gallery/Bedford Arts, San Francisco, (1989). First Edition. Fine. 11 x 11 inches, 219 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Unopened in original cardboard shipping case. ... more information

Amon Carter Museum/University of Texas Press, Fort Worth/Austin/London, (1980). Very good. 9 x 8 inches, 63 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (lightly worn). ... more information

Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, [1949]. Very good, light crease running from top to bottom edge. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 8 pages, wrappers, Catalogue No. 124 from noted firm of Edward Eberstadt is the first catalogue exclusively devoted to the sale of Yosemite and Big Tree material and provides a critical listing of some of the rarest books and pamphlets devoted to the region. ... more information

Domestic Fashion Co., New York, 1882. Fair, tear to pages 7-8. 10 1/2 x 7 inches, 32 pages, pictorial wrappers, Distributed by J.W. Evans, 29 Post Street, San Francisco, agent for the Domestic Sewing Machine. This is a catalogue of patterns for clothing. ... more information

Orange Coiunty Historical Society, Santa Ana, 1989. First Edition. Fine. 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 339 pages, cloth. ... more information

U.S. Department of the Interior, Los Angeles, 1949. Poor. 12 x 9 inches, 431 pages, boards. ... more information