Condensed Novels. And Other Papers
by Harte, F. Bret
New York: G. W. Carleton & Company, 1867 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. x, [11]-307, [308, blank], [4, ads]. Illustrated with "comic illustrations" by Frank Bellew. Publisher's dark green blind and gilt-stamped cloth, light blue endpapers. Owner's pencil signature on flyleaf (Arthur S. Rosenblatt of San Francisco). Bookplate on inner cover. Very minor dinging to spine ends and two corners. Some foxing to extreme fore-edge of text block, but a remarkably fine, bright and clean copy. Although not stated,... Read More
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My First Publication. Eleven California Authors Describe Their Earliest Appearances in Print.
by Hart, James D. [Editor]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 475 copies printed by Adrian Wilson. 116pp. Edited with an introduction by James D. Hart. Drawings by David Stone Martin. Printed on various colored papers. Numerous tipped-in facsimiles. Linen-backed decorated green boards, paper spine label. Bookplate on inner cover, spine slightly faded, else a very fine copy. The authors, who reflect upon the ordeals of their earliest efforts, include Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller,... Read More
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The Private Press Ventures of Samuel Lloyd Osbourne and R. L. S., with facsimiles of their Publications
by Hart, James D.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. 56pp. Frontis portrait, plates, illustrations; eleven facsimiles in rear pocket. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in black. Signature of California author and historian Robert "Bob" Chandler on inner front cover. A very fine copy. The story of the collaboration of Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne in a private press printing venture. Reproduces in... Read More
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Old English Porcelain. The Lady Ludlow Collection.
by Hayden, Arthur
London: John Murray, 1932 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Alice Ludlow. Introduction by W. L. Perkins. Thick folio. 28, 192pp. 91 hand-printed photogravures, 41 tipped-on color plates. Printed throughout in light blue and black, hand-set type. Beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in three-quarter turquoise blue levant morocco, light blue cloth boards with gilt emblem on front cover and spine; gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, top edges gilt. A very fine copy.... Read More
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Pictorial History of Tiburon, A California Railroad Town
by Heig, James [Editor]
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Signed by all involved in this production: editor, Heig; Louise Teather, the historian who assisted in the writing; and Philip Molten, archivist. Foreword by Richard Dillon. Quarto. 172pp. Frontis, profusely illustrated from maps, photographic portraits and views; index. Beige cloth, gilt. Light foxing to the edges of the textbock, else a fine and bright copy in pictorial dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded, with... Read More
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Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915-1940. Bound with: Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956
by Heller, Elinor Raas and David Magee
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reproduction, reduced by fifteen percent, of the rare original volumes produced by the Grabhorn Press. Limited to 500 copies. The original volumes were limited to 210 copies and 225 copies respectively and today sell for a great deal of money when found. Quarto. Pp. xiv, [6], 193, [2] + xvi [6], 119. Printed in red and black. Tan cloth, gilt. Slight staining to covers, light foxing to edge of text-block,... Read More
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Isak Dinesen / Karen Blixen. The Work and The Life.
by Henriksen, Aage
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Translated by William Mishler. Introduction by Poul Houe. Hardback in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy with the exception that the dust jacket, covers and first and last end papers are damp stained. However, it is extremly faint on the outer dust jacket and is virtually undetectable on the outer covers..
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San Francisco - California [Steel Engraving]
by Hess, Frederick
San Francisco: Frederick Hess, 1874 Map/Print. Fine. No Binding. Black & white steel engraved panoramic view. 10¼x24¾ inches (including title below image); overall sheet measures approx. 12¼x30½ inches, professionally matted. A fine and clean copy. This quite rare steel-engraved bird's-eye-view is surrounded with 22 vignettes of various architectural landmarks of the city including the Nevada Block, Calvary Church, the Palace Hotel, City Hall, Grand Hotel, the Cliff House, the White House, Corner of Geary and Kearny, Mercantile Library - Bush... Read More
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Three Memoirs of Mexican California
by Hijar, Carlos N., et al.
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Printed at the Arion Press in San Francisco. Translated by Vivian C. Fisher. 125pp. Illustrations. Stiff maroon wrappers stamped in black. Spine slightly faded, else a fine copy. Each printed memoir includes facsimiles of the original Spanish manuscript as written and recorded in 1877 by Thomas Savage (or under his supervision) for the Bancroft Library. Includes California in 1834 by Carlos N. Hijar; An Old Woman and... Read More
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The Interest Of these United Provinces. Being a Defence of the Zeelanders Choice. Wherein is shewne, I. That we ought unanimously to defend our selves. II. That if we cannot, it is better to be under England than France, in regard of Religion, Liberty...
by Hill, Joseph (1625-1707)
Middleburg: : Printed by Thomas Berry, according to the Dutch Copie, 1673 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition of the English translation, preceded by a Dutch edition printed at Amsterdam the same year. Octavo. 20.5x15 cm. Pp. [ff. 60]. A few woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device on title. Later plain gray wrappers. Circular stain to front wrapper. Leaves lightly toned, lower corner of first 15 leaves curled. A very good copy. The Third Anglo-Dutch War was a military conflict between England... Read More
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A Method to Their Madness. The History of the Actors Studio.
by Hirsch, Foster
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. OCtavo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Cream cloth over black boards, gilt and red on spine. Water damage/dampstains to rear cover, not affecting textblock. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. (Jacket with staining and water damage to rear cover, minor chipping to bottom edge). A history of the famous Actors Studio, from its... Read More
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The Discovery of Gold in California
by Hittell, John S., et.al.
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition. Limited to 2,100 copies. Introduction by Richard H. Dillon. 80pp. Illustrations portraits, facsimiles; endpaper map. White cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Includes the contemporary accounts of Hittell, James W. Marshall, and Edwin G. Waite. The text was first printed in Century Magazine, February and May, 1891. Laid is a facsimile of the Californian newspaper for March 15, 1848, the first newspaper notice of the... Read More
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El Triunfo de la Cruz. A Description of the Building of the First Ship Made in California.
by Hittell, Theodore H.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies designed and illustrated by Valenti Angelo and printed at the press of Arlen & Clara Philpott. Signed by the illustrator. Preface by Oscar Lewis. 26pp. Boards, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy. A description of the building of the first ship made in California by Father Juan Ugarte. Includes a color pictorial device on title page, highlighted in gold, and an initial highlighted in color.... Read More
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Rush for Riches. Gold Fever and the Making of California
by Holliday, J.S.
Oakland and Berkeley: Oakland Museum and University of California Press, 1999 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Softcover. Quarto. xi, 355pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. Notes, appendices, illustrations sources, bibliography and index. Stiff wrappers. A very fine copy. This excellent and very readable work carries the story of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through the decades of the 1860's and '70's and on to the climactic year of 1884 in which hydraulic mining operations were shut down. Holliday provides a rich interpretive... Read More
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Rush for Riches. Gold Fever and the Making of California.
by Holliday, J.S.
Oakland and Berkeley: Oakland Museum and University of California Press, 1999 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Extensive notes, appendices, illustration sources, bibliography and index. Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. This excellent and very readable work carries the story of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through the decades of the 1860's and '70's and on to the climactic year of 1884 in which hydraulic mining operations were shut down. Holliday provides... Read More
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The Epping Hunt
by Hood, Thomas.
London: Chalres Tilt, 1830 Book. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 24mo. 5½ x 3½ inches. Pp. [2], 29, [1]. Six full-page plates, after designs by George Cruikshank. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Sons in three-quarter dark brown crushed morocco, spine gilt-lettered and decorated, marbled sides, top edges gilt. Spine slightly faded, some light foxing to preliminary blank leaves, else a fine and clean copy. Second edition, first published in 1829. A grand little book of... Read More
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Early Days in the Mogollons (Muggy-Yones). Tales from the Bloated Goat.
by Hoover, H. A. [ Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog]
El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1958 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog. Pp. 61, [3]. Map, portraits, vintage photographs throughout. Pink pictorial wrappers, stapled, stamped in black. Two minor and tiny tears to fore-edge of wrappers, one minor tear at upper staple. Minor creasing at yapped edges, but a fine copy. First edition. Presentation, signed by the designer and printer, Carl Hertzog. The Bloated Goat was a... Read More
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Whitewater
by Horgan, Paul
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 337pp. Black cloth with gilt-lettering to spine. A fine copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket. An unforgettable story of family life and boys growing up in competition in a small town on the plains of West Texas in the post-WWII era..
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The San Francisco Cliff House
by Hountalas, Mary Germain with Sharon Silva
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2009 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Square quarto. 10¼ x 10¼ inches. 223pp. Profusely illustrated with historic photographs. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth lettered in white. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The definitive history of San Francisco's famous Cliff House, from its beginnings in 1863 through the two-year, multimillion-dollar restoration completed in October of 2004. Filled with hundreds of historic photographs it covers the whole history- the building's survival of... Read More
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Notre-Dame de Paris [two volumes]
by Hugo, Victor
Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1930 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Hugo's classic work, ably translated by Andrew Lang. This set is number 831 of 1500 copies printed by R. Coulouma, Master Printer in Argenteuil, and signed by the illustrator on the colophon leaf. Translated by Jessie Haynes. Critical introduction by Andrew Lang. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Pp. xxix, 308, [2] +[2], 376. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Illustrated peach Ingres paper wrappers with glassine jackets. Small tears to glassine... Read More
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The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom. Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution
by Hume, Rev. A.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation inscription, SIGNED, "to Edward Dobson, from the Author." From the library of Carl I. Wheat, noted historian and author. Original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Rebacked with large portion of original spine laid down, else a fine copy. Scarce. Hume's first book identifies ninety-five learned societies and twenty-two printing clubs in existence in England. The printing clubs were formed to publish scholarly books... Read More
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Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries
by Hunter, Dard
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto (9¼x6¼ inches). Pp. xvii, [1], 358. Illustrated with 215 plates and illustrations including folding frontis facsimile. Index. Full brown cloth with gilt-lettered red leather spine label, top edges gilt. Bookplate on inner cover. Fore-edge of folding frontis a little crunched, but a very fine and bright copy with fine printed dust jacket. A beautiful copy of a book often found less than fine. Often the leather spine... Read More
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The Trail Drivers of Texas. Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail...
by Hunter, J. Marvin [Compiler and Editor]
Nashville, TN: Cokesbury Press, 1925 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Second edition, revised. Thick octavo. 2 volumes in one. Pp. xvi, 1044. Frontis, numerous portraits. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. Bookplate. A very fine copy with the extremely elusive pictorial dust jacket (foot of jacket spine shows two small chips with equally small stains from tape (removed), otherwise fine. With the bookplate of well-known Western Americana collector, R. F. McGraw. "This vast compilation of original accounts by old trail... Read More
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Unemployment Relief and the Unemployed in the San Francisco Bay Region, 1929-1934.
by Huntington, Emily H.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1939 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Octavo. Pp. xi, [1], 106. Forty-nine statistical tables. Gray printed wrappers. Spine and edges of covers a bit darkened, but a very fine copy. First edition. The author was the Chairman of the Heller Committee for Research in Social Economics at the University. A detailed and well-researched study. Covers estimates of unemployed, social and economic characteristics of families applying for relief, size of household, place... Read More
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A Notebook of the Old West [with] One Man's West [with] Another Notebook of the Old West. (Together, 3 volumes)
by Hutchinson, W.H.
Chico, California: Designed and printed by Bob Hurst for the author, 1947 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). First editions. Together, 3 volumes. Pp. 122, 127, 88. Text illustrations from drawings. Stiff pictorial wrappers printed in black and colors. One volume lightly rubbed at head of spine. A fine set. Volumes published in 1947; 1948; 1954. ... Read More
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