Art in California. A Survey of American Art with Special Reference to Californian Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Past and Present Particularly as those Arts were Represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
by Porter, Bruce, et al
San Francisco: R.L. Bernier, 1916 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Thick quarto. 189pp. plus 332 plates (8 printed in color). 22 essays, biographical index of California artists, index to illustrations. Printed letterpress. Half linen and brown boards, paper spine label. Tiny puncture to head of spine. A fine and clean copy. First edition. Considered the primary reference on early California art and artists. An invaluable account of the development of art in California, particularly those early artists that... Read More
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Land of Fiction. Thirty-Two Novels and Stories About Southern California from Ramona to the Loved One. A Bibliographical Essay.
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1991 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by the author. One of 350 (100 of which are signed) copies printed by The Castle Press. 12mo. xiv, [58]pp. Index. Maroon cloth. A very fine copy. An annotated list of 32 novels and stories about Southern California, from Ramona (1884) to The Loved One (1948). .
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Robinson Jeffers, the Man & His Work
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1934 Book. Illus. by Kent, Rockwell. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. One of 750 copies, designed by Ward Ritchie. Presentation inscription, signed by the author. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Decorations by Rockwell Kent, including capitals and text illustrations. Frontis portrait of Jeffers is after a photograph by Edward Weston. xviii, [2], 215pp. Frontis portrait and 2 plates from photographs, 2 reproductions of title pages, map of the Carmel coast. Notes, bibliography, index.... Read More
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Books West Southwest: Essays on Writers, Their Books, and their Land
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. x, 157pp. Patterned paper boards over black cloth, gilt-lettering on spine. A very fine copy. Powell's essays cover the semi-arid land from the Pecos of New Mexico-Texas to the Salinas of California and includes deserts, mountains and river valleys, cities and seacoast. .
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Eucalyptus Fair. A Memoir in the form of a Novel.
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
Tucson: Books West Southwest, 1992 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Deluxe Edition. First edition. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, specially bound, boxed and signed by the author, Lawrence Clark Powell, and the designer, Ward Ritchie. Of theses special copies, this is number 27. 271pp. Title design in green. Dark green leather-backed gray boards, cover with silver lettering and green design. A very fine copy with Publisher's slipcase. ... Read More
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California Indian Characteristics & Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California
by Powers, Stephen
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First book edition. Preface by N. Scott Momaday. [6], 57pp. Color frontis, five photographic plates, portrait, facsimile. Stiff red wrappers. A fine copy. Reprints two articles by this nineteenth-century anthropologist, best known for his "Tribes of California," published in 1877. California Indian Characteristics was first published in the Overland Monthly, 1875; Centennial Mission... was first published the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1876. Also includes... Read More
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The Overland Diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849
by Pritchard, James A.
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1959 Book. New. Hardcover. First edition. Although not indicated, limited to 1,250 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Edited by Dale Morgan. 221pp. Frontis portrait, 3 maps (2 folding), folding chart in rear pocket. Bibliography, index. Red pictorial cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket. Jacket is well worn and spine-darkened. An important overland diary that describes the journey from Independence to Sacramento, by way of South Pass. The chart... Read More
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Cast a Long Shadow. Biographical Sketch and Career Casebook of Legendary Texas Ranger Captain E. J. (Jay) Banks.
by Puckett, Linda J.
Dallas: Ussery Printing Co., 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. Presentation Inscription, signed by Captain Banks. Also, signed by the author, Banks' daughter. x, 157pp. 111 photographs and facsimiles. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with dust jacket. Published in a small edition, this work includes a biography and the reminiscences of this modern-day Ranger as well as cases Banks was involved with..
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The Pullen Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. The Original Diaries, Log and Letters of Commander W. J. S. Pullen
by Pullen, H. F. [Editor]
Toronto: The Arctic History Press, 1979 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. 230pp. 7 plates (1 double-page), 4 large folding maps. Notes, appendices, bibliography and index. Blue padded leatherette, gilt. Housed in a matching slipcase. A very fine copy. In 1848, the British Admiralty sent three expeditions in search of John Franklin. This work is the never-before-published eye-witness account of the least known of those expeditions. W. J. S. Pullen set out in... Read More
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The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
by Rable, George C.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Plum colored cloth-backed boards, silver lettering on spine.Extensive notes, bibliography, index. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass Collected by Charles Schreiber... and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber and Presented to the Museum in 1884. Text by Bernard Rackham
by Rackham, Bernard
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. New, revised and best edition of these rare catalogues. 3 volumes. Small quarto. Pp. xviii, 226 + 139 + 102 plus 230 black & white photographs showing hundreds of pieces. Bibliographies and indexes. Blue cloth, gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, very light wear to spine ends. A near fine set. This revised edition has corrected attributions, the entries have been rearranged in approximately chronological order within the appropriate groups, etc.... Read More
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The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon
by Rambova, N. [Editor]
New York: Pantheon Books, 1955 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Texts translated with introductions by Alexandre Piankoff. Small folio. Pp. xxi, [1], 149. plus 64 full-page photographic plates. Also includes a frontispiece, 2 gold facsimile plates, 8 folding black & white plates, and text illustrations. Two-tone brown and tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with plain dust jacket (repaired at spine) and matching cloth slipcase. Lightest of shelfwear to slipcase, else fine. Bollingen Series XL-2. The... Read More
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Dan De Quille of the Big Bonanza
by Rawls, James J. [Editor]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 650 copies printed by Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott. Introduction by the Editor. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. 128pp. Frontis portrait, plates. Cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A collection of stories and humorous sketches by one of the most talented journalists of the West. He was an early associate of Mark Twain who urged him to write his mining history, The... Read More
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The Poet and the Messenger
by Ray, Milton S.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 250 copies printed for the author. Very scarce. Printed in Franciscan handset type on French handmade paper. Foreword by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz. Quarto. Pp. [ix], [x, blank]. plus 15 leaves printed on rectos only. Initials by Mallette Dean on title and throughout text in red; decoration on title, opening lines of dedication, numbering of poems, all in turquoise; opening initial of foreword in gold; colophon printed in... Read More
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Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains
by Raymond, Rossiter W.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. House of Reps., 42nd Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 10. [6], 566pp. Illustrated with text illustrations and six folding plates, one folding chart. Indexes. Black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine gilt slightly dulled, corners just showing, , nick to front hinge, head and foot of spine chipped. Two contemporary penciled names on endpaper. A very good copy, internally fine and clean. One of the great, highly detailed studies... Read More
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A History of the California Academy of Medicine, 1870 to 1930
by Read, J. Marion
San Francisco: The California Academy of Medicine, 1930 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 957 numbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, this copy unnumbered. [10], 186pp. 18 photographs, 66 initials printed in orange, text illustration, tables. Red cloth with printed paper spine label. A near fine copy. A history of the Academy, with appendices listing members by county, the constitution and by-laws, an index, and illustrated from portraits of leading members and officers throughout the sixty year history... Read More
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Epistole et Evangeli che si Leggono Tutto L'Anno alle Messe: secondo l'uso della S. Romana Chiesa, et ordine del Messale Riformato. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana, dal M.R.P. M. Remigio Fiorentino, Dell'Ordine de'Predicatori.
by Remigio Fiorentino, M.
Venice: Carlo Conzatti, 1665 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Octavo (8½x6 inches). Pp. [24], 471, [1]. Text in Italian. Title printed in red and black. Illustrated with 197 woodcuts throughout text, some of which appear more than once. Woodcuts are generally 2x1¼ inches or smaller, a few larger. Printer's woodcut device on last leaf. Bound in full contemporary vellum over boards, morocco spine label, gilt, red sprinkled edges. Front end affixed to pastedown, small marginal fragment torn from K8, repair to short... Read More
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Hunting with 'The Fox.'
by Renard, Jules
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1948 Book. Illus. by Toulouse-Lautrec, H. De. Very fine. Hardcover. 67pp. Illustrated with 23 lithographed reproductions. Text by Jules Renard. Linen-backed pictorial boards printed in dark green and red, spine also lettered in the same colors. A very fine copy with spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket. Stories from animal life by Jules Renard, first published in France at the turn of the century in a very limited edition. Illustrated by Toulouse-Lautrec with 23 lithographs of various animals..
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
by Rhea, Gordon C.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Dark green leatherette, white lettering on spine. Appendix, bibliography, index. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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A Trumpet of Our Own. Yellow Bird's Essays on the North American Indian. Selections from the Writings of the Noted Cherokee Author...
by Ridge, John Rollin
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies printed by Peter Koch at The Black Stone Press. Compiled and edited by David Farmer and Rennard Strickland. 114pp. Illustrated with photographs. Cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Includes a 35 page biographical sketch of Ridge's life, a chronology of his life, and notes..
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Through the Golden Gate. A Story of Remarkable Adventure in California and Along the West Coast of America
by Ridgway, Charles
Published in Japand and written by his 10-year-old daughter, taken from his dairies 16mo.6 ¾ x 5 inches. [2], 79pp. Frontis. Original gray wrappers, black lettering on front cover. Wrappers worn, chipped at corners, two 1-inch closed tears to rear cover, spine ends perished. A very good copy. Second printing. First published in 1917. This story begins chapter one, "Through the Golden Gate" with Ridgway's arrival in San Francisco in 1870. It goes on to describe disembarking the ship, finding lodging and... Read More
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In the Line of Duty. Reflections of a Texas Ranger Private.
by Rigler, Lewis and Judyth Wagner Rigler
Houston: Larksdale, 1984 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First edition. Signed inscription by Ranger Lewis Rigler as well as signature of Judyth Rigler. 188pp. Photographs, facsimiles. Original brown cloth lettered in red. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Tales of this twentieth-century Ranger. Rigler was with the Rangers for 30 years, Company "B.".
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Governor Bennett Riley's Proclamation to the People of the District of San Francisco, June 4, 1849
by Riley, Bennett
Los Angeles: Privately printed for John B. Goodman, III and Gordon J. Holmquist, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 150 copies privately printed for members of The Zamorano Club as a keepsake from John B. Goodman, III and Gordon J. Holmquist. The transcript of Governor Bennett Riley's, "Uncourteous and Disrespectful" proclamation of 1849, along with explanatory notes by John B. Goodman III. The facsimile of the original printed proclamation, tipped to inner rear cover, was reproduced from the... Read More
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No Man's Land
by Rister, Carl Coke
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1948 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 8¼ x 5½ inches. Pp. xi, [1], 230pp. Vintage photographs throughout. Bibliography, index. Light brown cloth, spine lettered in silver. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket price-clipped, with minor chipping to the extremities, and with a small damp-stain to bottom edge of rear cover (not affecting the book). Very scarce, particularly with the elusive dust jacket. Story of the Oklahoma... Read More
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Rank and File: Civil War Essays in Honor of Bell Irvin Wiley
by Robertson, James I., Jr. and Richard M. McMurry
San Rafael: Presidio Press, 1976 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Appendices, notes, Bibliography of Bell Irvin Wiley (Compiled by John Porter Bloom). A very fine copy with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket..
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