Letters on Paraguay: Comprising an Account of a Four Years' Residence in That Republic, Under the Government of the Dictator Francia
by Robertson, J.P. and W.P.
London: John Murray, 1838 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2 volumes. First edition. Pp. xxvii, [1], 359 + x, [2], 342. Engraved frontis portrait, engraved frontis plate, hand-colored folding map. Newly bound in three-quarter maroon leatherette over boards, gilt-lettered spine. A fine and generally clean set. This work is based on a number of years' residence and travel in the regions drained by the 'Paraguay' and the 'Rio de la Plata'. The work contains some striking descriptions of the state of... Read More
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Les Villes Martyres.
by Robida, Albert
Paris: E. Baudelot, 1914 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). Folio. 32 pp. plus 8 full-page lithographs by Robida, all within a portfolio of three-quarter cloth and boards, cloth ties. Title lettered in black on front. Light edge wear to portfolio, else a fine and complete set. The complete series of 8 lithographs by this great french illustrator, 7 of which are SIGNED IN PENCIL BY ROBIDA. The original lithographs depict the cities of France and Belgium destroyed by the... Read More
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The California Hundred. A Poem
by Rogers, J. Henry
San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1865 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 100pp. Stiff black cloth wrappers, gilt title on cover, all edges gilt. Contemporary pencil signature on dedication. Spine chipped at spine ends, ends lightly foxed, a few penciled marginal notes. A fine copy. Stirringly patriotic poem written to commemorate J. Sewell Reed and his gallant California volunteer band, who fought in Virginia with the Union forces during the Civil War. [Cowan: p.539; Sabin 72703]..
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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
by Rohrbough, Malcolm J.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. xv, 353pp. plus 18 pages of illustrations and maps. Notes, index. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A look at how the California Gold Rush affected the lives of those who remained elsewhere in the nation..
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Algoma West, It's Mines, Scenery and Industrial Resources
by Roland, Walpole
Toronto: Printed by Warwick & Sons, 1887 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. [2], 2, [1]-217pp. Tipped-in errata slip. Large folding tinted lithographed map, 2 lithographed plates, 1 wood-engraved plate, and several text illustrations (including a full-page plan). Publisher's blue patterned cloth stamped in black and gold. Spine ends and 3 corners show wear, lower corners jammed, short one-inch tear to bottom edge of title page, bookplate. Contemporary owner's name on endpaper. Overall, a very good copy, internally fine and complete.... Read More
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The Overland Stage to California. Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
by Root, Frank A. and W. E. Connelley
Topeka, Kansas: published by the authors, 1901 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Very scarce, and quite rare in this condition! Pp. xvii, [1], 630. Frontis portrait, numerous photographic illustrations and portraits, folding map. Index, list of subscribers. Original pictorial light brown cloth stamped in black and gold on spine and front cover. Very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, but a fine and clean copy. One of the most valuable narratives on the Overland Stage. As the... Read More
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The West of Wild Bill Hickok
by Rosa, Joseph G.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. xvi, 223. Illustrated throughout with photos. Notes, bibliography, index. Full leatherette, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. This book contains a biography of Hickok, but it's primary value is the presentation of all the known photographs of Wild Bill Hickok, together with photographs of his family, friends, foes, and the places associated with him. An excellent book by the author of the... Read More
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Genaral M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans. A Biography.
by Rosenus, Alan
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. Signed by the author. xv, 292pp. 29 illustrations; notes, bibliography and index. Green cloth. A mint copy in pictorial dust jacket. Winner of the Best Western Nonfiction-Biography Spur Award for 1995. Uses primary sources to chronicle the life of this influential California citizen. Now out-of-print in hardback. The Argonaut Book Shop has acquired the remaining copies of this title in hardcover, all signed by... Read More
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Genaral M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans. A Biography.
by Rosenus, Alan
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. xv, 292pp. 29 illustrations; notes, bibliography and index. Green cloth. A mint copy in pictorial dust jacket. Winner of the Best Western Nonfiction-Biography Spur Award for 1995. Uses primary sources to chronicle the life of this influential California citizen. Now out-of-print in hardback. .
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Selected Writings of Joaquin Miller
by Rosenus, Alan [Editor]
Eugene, Oregon: Urion Press, 1977 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the Editor. Introduction and notes by the Editor. Numerous photographs of Miller, drawings by Miller. Tan cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt on red background. A very fine, as new copy. Includes Miller's notes from an old journal, his stories of California, Oregon and Idaho, his California diary, etc. Reproduces numerous historic photographs of Miller at different ages, and drawings by him from his... Read More
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The Colt Springs High. A Publishing Memoir of the Colt Press, 1938-1942
by Roth, William M.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2004 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. Pp. xii, 213, [2]. Illustrated throughout with color plates and black & white illustrations. Two-tone tan and orange cloth lettered in dark brown. A very fine, as new copy. One of 500 copies designed by Andrew Hoyem and printed by his Arion Press. Printed letterpress in Kennerley type and printed on Legion Letterpress paper. Cover decorations by Valenti Angelo reproduced from the Colt Press' The... Read More
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Comes an Echo on the Breeze
by Ryan, Edward J.
New York: The Exposition Press, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth lettered in white on spine and silver on front cover. Spine slightly cocked, else fine, Original pictorial dust jacket, jacket is well worn, soiled and with a faded spine. A historical novel based on Lincoln's post-teen years and his brief service in the military..
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A Forest World
by Salten, Felix
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 274pp. Illustrations by Bob Kuhn. Green cloth. Short tear to bottom edge of jacket, but a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket with the slightest of wear to head of spine. The story of the stag, Tambo and his faithful Debina, two new main characters of the forest, by the author of Bambi..
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Hilltop Russians of San Francisco
by Saroyan, William
Stanford: James Delkin, 1941 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press in handset Original Old Style Italic type. 74pp. 30 full-page color illustrations from water colors by Pauline Vinson. Cloth-backed decorated green boards, matching printed paper spine label. A very fine copy with printed green dust jacket (jacket spine, faded as usual and with bottom 1 1/2 inch of spine chipped and missing). Saroyan's account and Vinson's pictures of the Molokan religious community of... Read More
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Hilltop Russians of San Francisco
by Saroyan, William
Stanford: James Delkin, 1941 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press in handset Original Old Style Italic type. 74pp. 30 full-page color illustrations from water colors by Pauline Vinson. Cloth-backed decorated green boards, matching printed paper spine label. A very fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. Saroyan's account and Vinson's pictures of the Molokan religious community of Portrero Hill. [Grabhorn: 364]..
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he Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association. Federal Regulation and the Cattleman's Last Frontier
by Savage, Jr., William W.
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Oblong 8vo. 7¼ x 9¼ inches. 154 pp. Illustrated with early photographs, portraits, facsimiles, drawings, etc.; bibliography and index. Green cloth with brown lettering on spine. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and with some light shelf-wear. Approximately 6.5 million acres had been conveyed to the Cherokee Nation in 1819 under treaty which was then leased by that Nation to the Cherokee... Read More
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Journey Through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
by Schiel, Jacob H.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English translation. Translated from the German and Edited by Thomas N. Bonner. 114pp. Drawings and maps by Joe Beeler. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Schiel served with the Gunnison Expedition sent out in 1853 to explore the possibilities of a railroad route to the Pacific. Fate allowed him to escape the massacre of Gunnison's command and he continued the remainder of the expedition under the... Read More
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Coastland Curfew and Other Poems
by Schreiber, Hazel Snell
San Francisco: Privately Published, 1957 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 250 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. A memorial edition presented by Beryl Schreiber Jespersen to the Ina Coolbrith Circle, San Francisco. Introduction by Julia Cooley Altrocchi. [12], 27pp. Title page printed in red, blue and black. Tan cloth-backed blue/gray boards, gilt. A fine copy. This California poet was born in San Jose and attended schools in San Francisco. Hazel Snell Schreiber was a past president of the... Read More
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Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals. Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics & Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the year 1869-1885
by Schreiber, Lady Charlotte
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. First edition. Edited by Her Son, Montague J. Guest. Annotations by Egan Mew. Thick royal octavo. Pp. xl, [2], 503 + xiii, [3], 542 plus upwards of 100 plates showing hundreds of items, including 8 plates in color and one in photogravure. Index. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines and front covers, pictorial elements in white, top edges gilt. Light extremity rubbing, two... Read More
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George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon
by Sears, Stephen W.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Slight fading to bottom edge of front cover, else a fine copy fine with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket..
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Shakespeare, William and Arthur Rackham [Illustrator]
London: William Heinemann, 1908 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). Deluxe Edition. First deluxe edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Rackham, this being number 340. Quarto. 11¾x9 inches 134pp. 40 full-page mounted color illustrations, each protected with a captioned tissue guard, and 30 black & white drawings. Full gilt-lettered and decorated vellum, top edges gilt, silk ties intact. Minimal foxing throughout, covers are lightly soiled. One of the most sought-after titles illustrated by Rackham, the premier... Read More
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Passion Play. A Dramatic Fragment, 1878.
by Shaw, Bernard
Iowa: The Windhover Press, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies (this being 196) printed by hand at the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa in conjunction with Bertram Rota of London. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Jerald E. Bringle. Small folio. (58pp.). Printed in red, brown, blue, and black. Roman type on Italian Umbria paper. Linen-backed decorated boards, paper label. A very fine copy with slightly soiled cloth slipcase..
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The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands. Being a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character, Religion and State of Society Among the Various Tribes Scattered over the Great Ocean, called the Pacific, or the South Sea. [2 volumes]
by Shoberl, Frederick [Editor]
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1824 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2 volumes. First edition. 24mo. Pp. xvi, 320 + [ii], 325 plus 26 hand-colored stipple engravings. Newly bound in facsimile of blue-green boards, printed paper spine labels. A fine and clean set, collated complete. The South Sea Islands of Ackermann's "World in Miniature" series describes the chief islands of the ever-romantic South Seas, including the Sandwich Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands and Tahiti, and Pitcairn's Island. The text is... Read More
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Bench and Bar in California. History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences
by Shuck, Oscar T.
San Francisco: The Occident Printing House, 1889 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First one-volume edition, originally published in 3 separate volumes. . Pp. xvi, [13]-543, [1], xiv, v. Index, supplemental index. Original gilt-lettered blue/green cloth. Small spot to rear cover, lower corners just showing, slight general rubbing. A very good copy. Notice slip from the author tipped in after p.303, as issued. This one-volume edition of Shuck's labors gives an historical view of the judiciary system in California by... Read More
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James F. Curtis, Vigilante
by Shumate, Albert
San Francisco: San Francisco Corral of Westerners, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 500 copies. 38pp. 3 photographic illustrations including frontispiece portrait. Notes, index. Red cloth. Spine very slightly faded, else a fine copy. Curtis was with the first Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, 1851. In the late 1850's he participated in the Paiute War in Nevada, held the rank of Major during the Civil War, and later was involved with the Union Pacific Railroad and... Read More
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