Another Book That Never Was. William Morris, Charles Gere, the House of the Wolfings.
by Stansky, Peter
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 350 copies designed by Christine Taylor and printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. Small quarto. [6], 46pp. Illustrations, facsimiles. Brown cloth-backed printed boards with paper label on spine. A very fine copy. The story of the collaboration between William Morris (Kelmscott Press) and the artist Charles March Gere, and their proposed Kelmscott Press book, The House of the Wolfings, which was never issued. This... Read More
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Fourth Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture of the State of California. For 1893-94.
by [STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE].
Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, State Printing Office, 1892 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pp. [4], 458 plus frontispiece, 53 plates (including 2 color plates of Beneficial Insects), numerous text illustrations. Index. Publisher's original pebbled black cloth gilt lettering and pictorial element (of the Goddess Pomona) to spine. Corners of two leaves slightly crunched, ink stamps to front and rear endpaper. A very fine copy. First edition of this Biennial Report. Includes the Reports for both 1893 and 1894.... Read More
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A Typographic Journey. The History of The Greenwood Press and Bibliography, 1934-2000
by Stauffacher, Jack Werner
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1999 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 450 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. The comprehensive bibliography is by Glenn Humphreys. Small quarto. 323, [1]pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with portraits, plates, facsimiles, cuts, etc. Bibliography, index. Dark green cloth, printed paper spine label. A very fine, as new copy with printed dust jacket. This is the primary work and bibliography on the press and is destined... Read More
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Typed Letter Signed. Letter from Vilhjalmur Stefansson to Mr. L.M. Morris.
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
New York, 1925 Letter. Very fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). Typed Letter, Signed, with manuscript note. 1 page. 8½x11. On letterhead of Stefansson and the American Geographical Society. Light creases where folded. Very fine. A "fun" letter by this noted Arctic explorer. Stefansson plays word games with his recipients two cats, named Stanly and Livingstone. "If there is anything in names, the kitten named Stanley by your daughter ought to turn out to be a four-flusher and charlatan,... Read More
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Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers
by Stern, Madeleine B.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1956 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition.Illustrated. Notes; index. Tan cloth with red lettering on spine. Dust jacket chipped, lightly faded along spine, and with original price sticker on spine. A near fine copy. A history of publishing and of individual publishers and how they have helped shape society..
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Incidents of a Voyage to California, 1849. A Diary of Travel Aboard the Bark Hersilia, and in Sacramento, 1850.
by Stevens, Errol Wayne [Editor]
Los Angeles: The Western History Association, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Although not indicated, one of 1,554 copies. Introduction by the editor. Foreword by Martin Ridge. 44pp. Three full-page plates, notes. Light blue cloth. A very fine copy. The Bark Hersilia left New York harbor on January 22, 1849 and arrived in San Francisco August 9, 1849. "The diary concludes with the writer in Sacramento City. He witnessed the flood of January 9, 1850, and the Squatter Riots. Editor... Read More
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The Best Thing in Edinburgh
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
San Francisco: John Howell, 1923 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Number 72 of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. Introduction by Katharine D. Osbourne. Thin quarto. Pp. [4], 8, [1]. Two initials in blue. Gray-blue boards, tan cloth spine, white paper label. Upper rear corner ever so slightly jammed, lower edge of rear free endpaper with small half inch section torn away. Overall, a fine copy of a fragile book. An address by Stevenson to the Speculative Society of Edinburgh... Read More
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La Porte De Maletroit
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France: Printed for The Book Club of California by the L-D Allen Press, 1952 Book. Illus. by Bethers, Ray. Very fine. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies printed by Louis and Dorothy Allen on a French hand press and on handmade paper. Illustrations by Ray Bethers. Cream wrappers, lettering in red and blue. A very fine, as new copy with the original glassine dust wrapper, chemise and slipcase. This is the Book Club's first book to be produced outside of... Read More
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R.L.S. to J.M. Barrie: A Vailima Portrait
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1962 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 475 copies printed at The Grabhorn Press. Introduction by Bradford A. Booth. Quarto. (42pp.). Four sketches by Isobel Strong, page of facsimile manuscript. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Published here for the first time is a letter written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a year before his death, to his fellow Scottish author and friend, J.M. Barrie. [Grabhorn: 634]..
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The Denver Westerners Brand Book.
by Stewart, Alan J. [editor]
Denver, Colorado: Westerners, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Number 207 of 525 copies. Volumes XXX and XXXI bound together and paginated consecutively. Edited by Alan J. Stewart. xx, 408pp. Numerous photographs. Index. Blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy with dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled. A collection of papers by various authors, presented in 1974 and 1975. Includes some really good scholarly articles: The United States Dragoons, 1833-1861 by Gordon Chappell; The Ladies of Bent's Fort... Read More
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Take Your Bible in One Hand. The Life of William Henry Thomes...
by Stewart, George R.
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth, & Jane Grabhorn. Thin quarto. 67pp. Numerous small illustrations, title printed in red and black. Black cloth-backed light blue boards, paper spine label, decorative label on front cover. Edges of boards slightly darkened (as usual), else a fine and clean copy. A biographical sketch with an emphasis upon Thomes' contacts with early California and his mastery... Read More
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An 1850 Voyage: San Francisco to Baltimore by Sea and by Land
by Stillman, Jacob D.B.
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition (first published serially in the Overland Monthly). Limited to 2350 copies. Foreword by John Barr Tompkins. 109pp. Illustrations from early prints, endpaper maps. Turquoise cloth, gilt anchor device stamped on front cover. A very fine copy. Stillman's narrative of his extraordinary trip back home to Baltimore from San Francisco in 1850. He traveled on the ship Plymouth from San Francisco to Realejo port in Nicaragua, followed by a... Read More
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Men to Match My Mountains. The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900.
by Stone, Irving
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Early printing. 459pp. Bibliography and index. Green cloth. Binding very slightly cocked, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket (spine of jacket faded, and with slight edgewear). An interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward expansion to California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. A good read, this work includes a "colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed... Read More
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Men to Match My Mountains. The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900.
by Stone, Irving
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First trade edition (so stated). Very scarce thus! The true first trade edition is almost never encountered and must state "First Edition" on the copyright page, as this copy does. 459pp. Bibliography and index. Green cloth. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket (slight chipping to top edge of jacket, price-clipped). An interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward expansion to California, Nevada, Utah,... Read More
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American Food in the World War and Reconstruction Period. Operations of the Organizations Under the Direction of Herbert Hoover, 1914 to 1924.
by Surface, Frank M. and Raymond Brand
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1931 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Foreword by Edgar Rickard. Quarto. xxiii, [1], 1033pp. Tables, some photographs, maps, diagrams; bibliography and index. Maroon cloth. Tiny nick to head of spine, top front corner just shwoing, but a very fine copy. Includes material on the organization of the American Relief Administration, Children's Relief, Freight & Insurance Charges Paid by the A.R.A., and Colonel Haskell's Mission in Armenia. Provides detailed records of every ton of supplies,... Read More
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Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
by Surtees, R. S.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1876 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo (8¾x5¾ inches). Pp. vi, [2], 391. Illustrated with hand-colored steel-engraved title vignette and 24 hand-colored steel engraved plates by John Leech and H. K. Brown. Newer three-quarter crimson morocco, marbled sides, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, list of illustrations leaf with light damage to bottom blank border. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. After 1838,... Read More
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Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865
by Sutherland, Daniel E.
New York: The Free Press, 1995 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. Blue cloth-backed white boards, copper lettering on spine. Map endpapers. Notes, bibliography, index. Very minor shelfwear, else a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Signed Check (by Adolph Sutro)
by Sutro, Adolph
San Francisco, 1892 Ephemera. Fine. No Binding. Signed Check. 7 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches. Check No. 471. Dated May 14, 1892. Drawn on a Wells Fargo & Co. Bank, payable to G. W. Merritt for $38.45. Signed by Merritt on verso. "Paid" stamp at right margin. Bank cancellation tick at center. A fine example. Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) is best known for the construction of the Sutro Tunnel, undertaken to provide ventilation and drainage to the Comstock mines at Virginia... Read More
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Pioneers of the Sacramento: A Group of Letters by & About Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall & John Bidwell
by Sutter, John, et al
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1953 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press. Introduction by Jane Grabhorn. Pp. xii, 34. Illustrated with facsimiles of a broadside and folding map. Cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Front board slightly bowed, else A fine copy. Correspondence documenting the early years of the Gold Rush by 3 individuals in the center of events. Includes a color reproduction of a... Read More
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A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848
by Swan, John A.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1960 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 400 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by John A. Hussey. Pp. xxxv, [1], 51, [2]. Frontispiece portrait. Notes. Brown marbled boards, gilt-lettered dark green leather spine. A fine copy. A Gold Rush memoir written in 1870 for Bancroft's History, considered particularly valuable as a "pick-and-shovel" account of life in the diggings. Swan was also an early and prominent pioneer... Read More
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Army of the Potomac
by Swinton, William
New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1995 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Blue-gray boards with gilt lettering on spine. Index. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. The book was originally written immediately after the Civil War. The author was a reporter for the New York Times, was an eyewitness to many of the battles, and personally knew many of the chief officers, who provided him with memoirs and diaries at the end of the war..
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The Plutocrat. A Novel.
by Tarkington, Booth
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Black cloth with paper paste-downs to front and spine. Spine very slightly faded, minor runbbing to paste-downs. A near fine copy..
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The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West
by Tate, Michael L.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xx, 454. Illustrated with period photographs. Notes, extensive bibliography, index. Dark blue cloth, gilt. Owner's name on inner cover but a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories. This excellent work moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes and focuses on the more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering of scientific data, construction... Read More
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William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand
by Taylor, John M.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Black coth-backed tan boards, gilt-lettering to spine.Appndix, notes, index. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket..
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The Gold Digger's Song Book, Containing the Most Popular, Humorous & Sentimental Songs. Composed by M. Taylor.
by Taylor, M.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1975 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Cranium Press. Reprint of the 1856 edition. Introduction by Sister Mary Dominic Ray. [6], xii, [4], 34pp. Text illustrations, bibliography. Leather-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine, uncut copy with dust jacket (jacket slightly discolored from leather spine, as usual). A collection of songs as sung throughout California by Taylor's troupe. The introduction is by Sister Mary Dominic Ray, the founder... Read More
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