Movers and Shakers
by Luhan, Mabel Dodge
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Volume three of Luhan's "Intimate Memories" series. Octavo. Pp. vi, [2], 542. Frontis portrait and 15 portraits from photographs. Dark blue cloth. Minor spotting to lower front cover, light rubbing to spine ends, two very light tape stains on each free endpaper, minor scarring to top of front endpaper. Overall, a near fine copy. Mabel Dodge in her pre-Taos, pre-Luhan days, cavorting about... Read More
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Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco and Its Environs. A Representative Exhibition for the Grolier Club...
by Magee, David [Compiler]
San Francisco: printed for Carroll T. Harris, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 200 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. 36pp. Printed in red and black. Handset type on English handmade paper. Blue and green decorated boards, natural linen back, paper spine label. Front endpapers with slight offsetting and just a bit of spotting, else a very fine copy. Short historical/biographical sketches of various Bay Area private presses and private press people, with their printing devices... Read More
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A Course in Correct Cataloguing; or, Notes to the Neophyte
by Magee, David
San Francisco: NCC/ABAA, 1977 Book. Very fine. Soft cover. First collected edition. Compiled & Arranged by David Magee. Preface by James D. Hart. [26]pp. 2 plates. Printed in red & black. Original printed wrappers. A mint copy. A reissue of this San Francisco bookseller's wonderful parody, "A Course in Correct Cataloguing," published in 1958 in 175 copies, and his "Second Course in Correct Cataloguing," published in 1962 in a similar limitation. This reissue is limited to 1000 copies designed by... Read More
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Matt Mahurin: Photographs
by Mahurin, Matt
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1989 Book. Illus. by Mahurin, Matt. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Quarto. 47pp. plus 47 photographic plates by Mahurin. Titles of photos listed at rear of book. Title page printed in red and black. Original red cloth, printed in black. A very fine copy with brick dust jacket, printed in black. Very scarce, especially in this condition. A beautiful collection of full-page black & white photographs by Matt Mahurin taken from around the world.... Read More
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Oration, Delivered at Dedham, July 4, 1823, on the Forty-Seventh Anniversary of American Independence
by Mann, Horace
Dedham: H. & W. H. Mann, 1823 Book. Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Pp. 25, [1, blank]. Self covers. Pulled from a bound volume, some remnants at spine. Some slight spotting to covers. Contemporary ink signature and comment to top border; else clean. A fine copy. Perhaps the earliest publication with Horace Mann as author. Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. Born... Read More
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After the Gold Rush, Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849-1870
by Mann, Ralph
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. xv, 302pp. Numerous tables. Extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index. Yellow cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A social history of these two towns from their founding during the Gold Rush through the industrialization of the mines. Tables chart demographic, social and economic changes..
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Gold Rush Narrow Gauge. The Story of the White Pass and Yukon Route.
by Martin, Cy
Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, 1969 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with photos and map; notes, bibliography, index. Black cloth lettered in yellow on spine. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The slightest of rubbing and edge-wear to jacket. Details the problems of building the White Pass and Yukon Route during the Klondike Gold Rush. The route stretches over 110 scenic miles from Skagway, Alaska through British Columbia, and to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory..
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Gettysburg July 1
by Martin, David G.
Conshohocken: Combined Books, 1995 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hardback boards. Very fine with dust jacket..
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Yuma Crossing
by Martin, Douglas D.
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1954 Book. Illus. by Pierce, Horace T.. Very fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. 243pp. Illustrations by Horace T. Pierce. Bibliography, index. Tan cloth printed in green. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket (light chipping to spine ends and corners). Four centuries of Yuma, Arizona history told in stories of Spaniards, expeditions, and gold seekers who crossed the Colorado at this point. Cited in... Read More
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The Road to Glory: Confederate General Richard S. Ewell
by Martin, Samuel J.
Indianapolis: Guild Press Emmis Books, 1991 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Burnside
by Marvel, William
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Ten Years in Nevada: or, Life on the Pacific Coast
by Mathews, Mrs. M.M.
Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., Printers, 1880 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 343pp. Lithographed frontis portrait, two lithographed portrait plates. Newly bound in three-quarter leatherette, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy. Mary McNair Mathews' story of her travels overland with her son on the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1869 through northern Reno, where a waiting stage took them to Virginia City. From their boarding house home on the Comstock they visited all nearby towns including Gold Hill,... Read More
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Mexico on Stone. Lithography in Mexico, 1826-1900.
by Mathes, W. Michael
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 550 copies designed and printed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Quarto. 68pp. 32 plates, many in color, some folding; notes, bibliography. Linen-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. A key reference that includes a chronological checklist of Mexican lithographic works, a listing of printers & lithographers of nineteenth-century Mexico, and a bibliography..
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Cattle Brands of Baja California Sur, 1809-1885. Los Registros de Marcas de Baja California Sur
by Mathes, W. Michael [Compiler and Editor]
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. 78pp. 8 photographic plates and illustrations; many reproductions of brands; notes to the text, notes to the registry of brands. Pictorial green cloth. A very fine copy. A good historical survey of livestock raising in Baja California Sur from 1535 to 1853 with text in both English and Spanish. Appended (40pp.) to this survey is... Read More
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Platte River Road Narratives. A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866.
by Mattes, Merrill J.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1969 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Foreword by James A. Michener. Quarto. xiv, [2], 632pp. Double-page map, index. Two-tone red and maroon cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. SIGNED by the author on the title page. An neccessary annotated bibliography of 2080 entries grouped by successive years to 1866, arranged alphabetically within each year. Mattes has done a magnificent job, dividing each individual entry into four... Read More
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Indians, Infants and Infantry. Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier
by Mattes, Merrill J.
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1960 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. [8], 304pp. Illustrated with 42 old photographs, portraits and drawings, map endpapers. Extensive chapter notes, index. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with spine-faded dust jacket. Highly regarded account of a celebrated officer and his wife, who followed him. Andrew Burt briefly commanded Ft. Bridger & was the last Commandant of Ft. C. F. Smith. This scholarly work presents the first complete history of Fort C.... Read More
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If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania
by Matter, William D.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Blue cloth with black lettering on spine. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and jacket spine faded..
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Women in Trade Unions in San Francisco.
by Matthews, Lillian Ruth
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Thin quarto. 100pp. Printed gray wrappers. Edges of covers toned, edges lightly chipped and worn. A very good copy, internally fine and complete. First edition, Vol. 3, No. 1 of the University of California Publications in Economics. The author was a "Flood Fellow" in Economics at the University. This was her PhD. thesis. Chapters include Early History, Steam Laundry Workers, Bindery Women, Press Feeders, Typographical Union,... Read More
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Jasper O'Farrell: Surveyor, Farmer, & Politician
by Mawn, Geoffrey P.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Publication 214 of the Club. Limited to 350 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Introduction by Charles A. Fracchia. Edited by Robert J. Chandler. Oblong 4to. xiii, [1], 84pp. Title printed in black, red and green. Tipped-on color frontis portrait, 14 black and white photographs from old prints, surveying maps, etc. Dark green cloth spine lettered in gilt, decorated boards. A very fine, as new copy in... Read More
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McCarty's Annual Statistician, 1883
by McCarty, L.P. [Editor]
San Francisco: L.P. McCarty, 1883 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, seventh year of publication. Small octavo. 624pp. Index. Blind-ruled dark brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on covers and spine. A few minor spots to covers, "Clerk's Office, Tuolumne County" neatly written on inner cover, else a very fine, crisp copy. Provides a wealth of statistical data including historical, financial and general information..
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McCarty's Annual Statistician, 1884
by McCarty, L.P. [Editor]
San Francisco: L.P. McCarty, 1884 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, eighth year of publication. McCarty's Annual Statistician, 1884. Small octavo. 624pp. Index. Blind-ruled bright red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on covers and spine. A very fine, crisp copy. Provides a wealth of statistical data including historical, financial and general information..
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The War Without Grant
by McCormick, Robert R.
New York: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1950 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Illustrated with numerous color fold-out maps. Cartography by Axel Kellstrom.Blue cloth with gilt and bue lettering on spine, pictorial pastedown on front cover. Slight darkening along upper edge of covers, light offsetting to endpapers, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is well worn. A look at various Civil War battles in which Grant was not part... Read More
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McGowan vs. California Vigilantes
by McGowan, Edward
Oakland: Biobooks, 1946 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Small quarto. 10 x 7 inches. 205pp. Folding facsimile broadside, facsimiles of 2 newspapers in rear pocket. Gilt-lettered red and black cloth. A fine copy. Reprint of the rare 1857 first edition. One of 675 copies. While the colophon indicates that the book is supposed to be hand-numbered and signed by the editor, this copy is lacking both. Narrative of one who was persecuted by the Vigilantes... Read More
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The Original Chicago Blues Annual. Guide to Blues Players and Club Directory
by McGraw-Beauchamp, L. & A.C. [Editors]
Chicago: McGraw-Beauchamp, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. "Primier Edition." Quite scarce. This is the very first issue of this popular guide to Blues players and Blues clubs. Wrappers. Condition is, overall, fine with just the slightest of chipping to the lower quarter inch of the spine. Presentation inscription from the Editor to "Milly," signed, "Beau" and dated June 27, 1989,.
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Shakespeare in Bohemia. Three Plays.
by McLaren, Loyall, David Dodge and David Magee
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1961 Book. Illus. by Sotomayor, Tony. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First combined edition. Limited to 500 copies printed for members of the Bohemian Club by the Grabhorn Press. Thin quarto. Illustrated by Tony Sotomayor. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by Loyall McLaren. Includes three Bohemian Club Plays, all of which have Shakespearean themes and all of which feature Hamlet's soliloquy: "The Play's the Thing," "Christmas Eve at... Read More
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