The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 and Their Effects on Structures and Structural Materials. Reports by... With Preface by Joseph Austin Holmes.
by Gilbert, Grove Karl, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, and Frank Soulé
Washington: Government Printig Office, 1907 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pp. xii, 170 [1]. plus 2 text figures and 98 photographic illustrations on 54 plates, folding photographic panorama, 2 folding maps. Bibliography and index. Rebound in new black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor damp-stains to top edge of text block. Previous owner's stamp to title page and page iii. First plate attached and repaired with tape, short tears to creases on folding panorama. Overall, a very good... Read More
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Barren Ground
by Glasgow, Ellen
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later printing. Presentation inscription, signed and dated in pencil by the author. Printed at the Country Life Press. Decorated blue cloth, lettered in silver. Spine is lightly faded and has some rubbing. Ex-library copy with stamping at head of title page and on fore-edge, pocket and call slip removed from inner front cover with remnants, library stamp to inner front cover. A very good copy..
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Phases of an Inferior Planet
by Glasgow, Ellen
London: William Heinemann, 1898 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First British edition. Dark gray cloth lettered in silver. Light wear to covers, corners slightly jammed, spine very slightly cocked. A near fine copy..
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Barren Ground
by Glasgow, Ellen
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. The "Old Dominion" Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow series. Blue cloth with paper labels to spine and front cover. Spine slightly darkened with some minor soiling to spine label. Light rubbing and minor wear to covers with a slight scar to the front cover. Previous owner's bookplate to endpaper. A near fine copy..
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The Miller of Old Church
by Glasgow, Ellen
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Covers have minor scuffing and light wear. Slight bump to upper and lower rear edge. Small scratch to spine, light wear to spine ends. A near fine copy..
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They Stooped to Folly. A Comedy of Morals.
by Glasgow, Ellen
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. The "Old Dominion" Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow series. Fifth impression. Dark blue cloth with paper labels to spine and front cover. Minor scuffing to covers and light wear to cover edges. A near fine copy..
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The Sheltered Life
by Glasgow, Ellen
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Gilt-decorated red cloth. Faded at spine and upper edge of covers. In badly worn original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy..
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The Deliverance
by Glasgow, Ellen
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First issue of the first edition with all first issue points. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to cover extremities and light soiling to covers and spine, upper front corner jammed, lower rear corner less so, lower front corner just showing. A near fine copy..
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![The illustrated directory; a magazine of American cities, comprising views of business blocks, with reference to owners, occupants, professions and trades, public buildings and private residences. [Vol 1 No 1, - Vol 1 No 9 (of11)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/915/1741915352.0.l.jpg)
The illustrated directory; a magazine of American cities, comprising views of business blocks, with reference to owners, occupants, professions and trades, public buildings and private residences. [Vol 1 No 1, - Vol 1 No 9 (of11)]
by Glover, Eli S.
Illustrations of each building on downtown San Francisco blocks - most buildings pictured were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire First edition. Excessivley scarce. Oblong Folio. 11 x 15 inches. Parts 1-9 (of 11). Cloth covered boards with "The Illustrated Directory, San Francisco" on cover. Excessive water stains and water damage. A good copy of a scarce item. Extremely rare and unusual directory listing and picturing San Francisco business blocks and buildings in elevation, and identifying each business in the downtown... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1849-1850
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1849 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A complete bound volume of all twelve issues for June, 1849 until June, 1850 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (9¾x6 inches). Pp. 470 + 422 plus Table of contents, music. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 12 hand-colored fashion plates. Publisher's gilt decorated red leather, red leather spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A few pages lightly toned. A fine, complete copy.... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1865
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1865 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A bound volume for 1865 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (8¾x5¾ inches). Pp. 565 +iv, 550. Table of contents. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 11 (of 12) folding double-page hand-colored fashion plates. Rebound in half black leatherette, blue cloth boards. First double-page fashion plate lacking, and first seven leaves seriously damaged at upper corner near gutter, else a fine copy. For... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1863
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1863 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A bound volume for 1863 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (9x6 inches). Pp. 588 + iv, 594. Table of contents. Illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 12 folding double-page hand-colored fashion plates. Three-quarter black leather, marbled boards. A fine copy. For this year, the plates are double-page and fold out. Everything the fashionable lady could want including designs, music, poetry, drawings, gossip, sewing... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1854
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1854 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A complete bound volume of all twelve issues of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (9½x6 inches). Pp. 572 + 570. Table of contents. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 12 hand-colored fashion plates. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth, red leather spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A few preliminary pages lightly toned. A fine, complete copy. Everything the fashionable lady could want including... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1855
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1855 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A complete bound volume of all twelve issues for 1855 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (9½x6 inches). Pp. 574 + 572. Table of contents. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 12 hand-colored fashion plates. Newly bound in blue cloth sides, black leather spine, gilt. Stain near gutter of first 3 blank leaves, one minor plate damages, else a fine, complete copy. Everything... Read More
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1866
by Godey, Louis A. and Sarah J. Hale [Editors].
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1866 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A complete bound volume of all twelve issues for 1866 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (8¾x5¾ inches). Pp. 564 +iv, 546. Table of contents. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 12 double-page hand-colored fashion plates. Rebound in half black leatherette, blue cloth boards. First double-page fashion plate and adjacent leaves seriously damaged at lower edge, as well as damage to fore-edge of... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by Goldsmith, Oliver
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1929 Book. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Fine. Hardcover. First American trade edition. Quarto. 9½ x 7¼ inches. 232pp. plus 12 full-page plates in color and 22 black & white drawings, gray and white pictorial endpapers. Dark gray-blue cloth, gilt lettering and illustration on cover, top edges gilt. The slightest of rubbing to foot of spine, near owner's name and address on end. A very fine and bright copy. The classic Goldsmith novel depicting the fall and... Read More
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The California White Cap Murders. An Episode in Vigilantism.
by Goss, Helen Rocca
Santa Barbara: by the author, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Details the Lake County incident during the late 19th century involving the KIan-like vigilante White Cap movement. Whitecapping is a phenomenon that occurred specifically in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was originally a ritualized form of enforcing community standards, appropriate behavior and traditional... Read More
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Nineteenth Century Type Displayed in 18 Fonts Cast by United States Founders Now in the Cases of the Grabhorn Press
by Grabhorn, Edwin and Robert
San Francisco: David Magee, 1959 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 300 copies printed for David Magee by The Grabhorn Press. SIGNED by both Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Oblong quarto. [48pp.]. Title in red, yellow and black. Text and decorations in several colors. Handset French Elzevir and Jenson type, as well as samples of nineteenth century type. Printed on English handmade paper. Black cloth-backed decorated boards, spine label printed in gilt. Lightest of wear to top corner, else a... Read More
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The Custer Myth. A Source Book of Custeriana
by Graham, W.A.
New York: Bonanza Books, 1953 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Reprint. Small quarto. 413pp. Bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous black & white plates. Two-toned cloth boards, blue lettering on spine. Some wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy in worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket..
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Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit
by Green, Floride
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Limited to 450 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Quarto. viii, 48pp. Portraits and facsimile letters. Printed in red and black. Handset Lutetia type. Orange boards, black cloth spine, orange paper spine label printed in black. A very fine copy. Reminiscences, by a friend, of San Francisco's most famous volunteer firewoman and honorary member of Knickerbocker Engine Company No. 5. [Grabhorn: 221]..
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Form and Function. Some Principles as First Enunciated by...
by Greenough, Horatio
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 75 copies designed by Samuel T. Farquhar and A. R. Tommasini. 12mo. [6], 10pp. Printed throughout in red and black. Half gilt-lettered vellum, marbled boards. Slight wear to corners, but a fine copy. The author was an American sculptor who lectured extensively, mainly on architecture. However, much that he said applied to any other art. The text presented here is from "Selections from His Writings" in Henry T.... Read More
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The California Outlaw, Tiburcio Vasquez. Including the Rare Contemporary Account by George Beers.
by Greenwood, Robert [Compiler]
Los Gatos: The Talisman Press, 1960 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. This copy with a Presentation inscription, signed by Bob Greenwood. 296pp. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, etc. Red cloth-backed boards. Lower corner of rear board with crease, else a very fine copy with dust jacket. One of the best on this California outlaw. History of this noted California outlaw, followed by the complete reprint (page 63 to end) of the... Read More
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The California Outlaw, Tiburcio Vasquez. Including the Rare Contemporary Account by George Beers.
by Greenwood, Robert [Compiler]
Los Gatos: The Talisman Press, 1960 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 296pp. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, etc. Red cloth-backed boards. Lower corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy with dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbed at extremities and with a darkened spine. One of the best on this California outlaw. History of this noted California outlaw, followed by the complete reprint (page 63 to end) of the book about Vasquez by George A. Beers, first... Read More
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Commerce of the Prairies: or The Journal of a Santa F, Trader, During Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. (2 volumes)
by Gregg, Josiah
Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1849 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 2 volumes. Fourth edition. 12mo. Pp. 320, 318. Five plates (of 6), single-page map in volume 2, text vignettes (lacking "Indian Alarm on the Cimmeron River"). New three-quarter green leather, marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Scattered light foxing or browning throughout. A very good set in an attractive binding. Fourth edition of the "chief contemporary authority on the Santa Fé trade-route and traffic" (Howes). "Gregg made his first trip... Read More
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Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg. Southwestern Enterprises, 1840-1850.
by Gregg, Josiah
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 2 volumes. First edition, first printing of volume I, second printing of volume II. (1941, 1958). Edited by Maurice Garland Fulton. Introduction by Paul Horgan. Large octavos. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Pp. xvii, 413 + xvii, 396. Portrait, plates, facsimiles, maps (2 folding). Tan cloth. A very fine set with dust jackets (jackets lightly rubbed at extremities, small closed tear to top of volume I). One of the... Read More
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