Titles starting with S from Argonaut Book Shop

Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Glossary, index. Damp stain to uper edge of rear cover, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket.. ... more information

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1973 First edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Quarto. 207pp. Profusely illustrated with early views, reproductions of early drawings, portraits, engravings, facsimiles, etc., some in color. Bibliography, index. A fine copy with dust jacket. A sweeping pictorial history of Sacramento, from the very beginnings, through the California Gold Rush and growth, to the Capital City.. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 First edition. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author. 399pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Chapter notes. Blue cloth, gilt. Erased pencil signature on half title. A very fine and bright copy. Story of the famous Comstock Lode of Nevada and of the bonanza kings: Mackay, Fair, O'Brien, and Flood.. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978 First American edition. Quarto. A fine copy with quite faded dust jacket. An examination of life in the Sahara Desert.. ... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969 First English language edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of the natural history of the Sahara Desert.. ... more information

London: Nicholson & Watson, 1943 First edition. Yellow cloth. Covers spotted and lightly worn. In sunned dust jacket with half-inch chip missing at base of spine. A very good copy.. ... more information

San Francisco: Printed for the author, 1955 One of 200 copies, numbered and SIGNED by the author, our copy being number "Eighty-five" (signed on last page). Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. Pp. [5], [6]-25. Title in red and black, pagination in red. Woodcut by Mallette Dean. Printed on English handmade paper. Green cloth, natural linen back, title in red on spine. A very fine copy. Written in the form of a letter to Thomas Kilmartin, refuting his assertion that St. Patrick was born in Scotla... more information

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965 First edition. vii, [1], 261pp. Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. Winner of the 1965 WWA Spur Award. The story follows the career of an early-day cattleman from 1865 until after the turn of the century. One of the author's most comprehensive works, Sam Chance explores the evolution of a Civil War soldier into Texas cowboy and finally an important cattleman who became a legend in his own time. In all, the au... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 Frontis portrait and 16 pages of black & white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Lightly rubbed in a rubbed dust jacket. A near fine copy.. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, 1975 16 pages of black & white illustrations. Black cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy in dust jacket.. ... more information

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 Octavo. Numerous black & white photographs throughout. Notes, bibliography, index. Brown cloth-backed blue boards, brown lettering on spine. A very fine copy in very fine pictorial dust jacket. A look at the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36, both of which helped to shape modern Spanish heritage in the American Southwest. . ... more information

Guilford: Globe Pequot Press, 2002 First edition. Quarto. Profusely illustrated with beautiful color photographs. Gilt-lettered black cloth. A fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. A look at San francisco through photogrpahs.. ... more information

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1967 First edition. Quarto. 191pp. Presentation, inscription SIGNED by Herb Caen. Illustrated throughout by Dong Kingman with black & white drawings and color reproductions. Full tan cloth, gilt. A fine copy in worn and price-clipped dust jacket. A fine tribute to "the city" which incorporates the best of each man's work: the wonderful illustrations by Kingman along with witty text by Caen. Illustrated with 41 full-color paintings and 29 two-color (black and ... more information

Georgetown: Talisman Press, 1964 First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Quarto. 285pp. 16 plates from early photographs and prints, text illustrations; notes and references, index. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Derived from the rare files of the San Francisco Picayune, probably the enfant terrible of the early San Francisco newspapers. "This handsome volume reproduces the text of one of San Francisco's most important Gold Rush era newspapers beginning ... more information

Sausalito, Marin County, California: Club House and Anchorage, 1908 First edition. Tall 12mo. Photographic plates, folding map, color plates. Original white sail cloth printed in dark blue. One color plate of yacht flags with some flags cut out and drawn in on the opposite blank leaf. Original owner's name on cover. Pencil sketches on blank endpapers. A very good copy. Includes two photographic plates (one of the Club House in Sausalito), a folding map, with depths shown, of the upper San Francisco Bay ... more information

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1968 First edition. xii, 152pp. Facsimile illustrations, 2 folding facsimile maps. Two-tone blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. History of San Francisco's Spanish beginnings, through the diaries, letters and official reports of Serra, Crespi, Anza, et.al. . ... more information

Palo Alto, CA: Tioga Publishing Company, 1987 First edition. 4to. Over 220 black & white photographs (by the author). Foreword by James D. Houston. Blue cloth lettered in silver. A fine copy.. ... more information

San Francisco: The Adobe Press, 1935 One of 200 copies privately printed for Charles R. Boden by the Grabhorn Press. Foreword by Harry Leon Wilson. Thin octavo. viii, 24pp. Engraved frontis plate. Printed in blue and black. Handset Lutetia type. Blue boards, blue labels printed and decorated in gold on spine and front cover. Spine slightly faded, else a very fine copy. The full-page frontispiece, "San Francisco in 1849," is from a proof pulled from the original plate engraved by W. L. Ormsby about... more information

San Francisco: Barry, Baird, 1883 First edition. 83pp. Original printed wrappers. Head and foot of spine show light wear or chipping, slight scratch to lower fore-edge of text block. Small bookseller's label (De Witt & Snelling of Oakland) on front cover. A very good, complete copy, internally fine. A concise and impartial history of the second Vigilance Committee, with accounts drawn principally from the contemporary press. The editor also provides a brief historical sketch of the earlier Committee... more information

Menlo Park, California: by the Editor, 1963 First edition. One of 200 numbered copies printed at the Wilmac Press in San Mateo. Edited by Ronald G. Fick. [14], 32pp. Tipped-on frontis portrait. Notes, bibliography. Cloth-backed illustrated boards, paper spine label. A fine copy. The Borel family, including the twenty-seven year old author of these letters, was associated with the financial community of San Francisco. Here, Antoine Borel, Jr. writes to his father in Switzerland. The letters cover the period ... more information