Twelve Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture
by Utamaro, Kitagawa
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1965 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. With an Introductory Essay by Jack Hillier. Tall Folio. 12 full-page color reproductions. Parchment-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Small dent to bottom front board,, else a very fine copy. The fourth and final title of the Grabhorn's Japanese print series. The illustrations were reproduced from the originals in the collection of Edwin & Irma Grabhorn..
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![A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Maesty’s Command, Principally with a View to ascertain the existence of any Navigable Communications between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of war, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver… A New Edition, with Corrections, Illustrated with Nineteen Views and Charts, In Six Volumes. [Six Volumes].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/610/798/1737798610.0.l.jpg)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Maesty’s Command, Principally with a View to ascertain the existence of any Navigable Communications between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of war, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver… A New Edition, with Corrections, Illustrated with Nineteen Views and Charts, In Six Volumes. [Six Volumes].
by VANCOUVER, George.
One of the most important voyages ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge Six volumes. Octavo. 8½ x 5¾ inches. 410, [4] + [2], 418, [2] + [2], 435, [3] + [2], 417 [3], + [4], 454, [2] + [4], 412 [2]. Eighteen (of nineteen) engraved charts and views. Original leather boards with gilt rule and decoration on spine, black leather spine labels. General wear to each volume, particularly at corners and ends of spines, some hinges starting, some loss... Read More
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Concerning "Condensed Novels" by Bret Harte
by Van Patten, Nathan
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 150 copies (of which forty were not for sale). Out-of-Series, not numbered. Introduction and Bibliographical Notes by Nathan Van Patten. Pp. xxi. Frontispiece facsimile. Tan boards, brown cloth spine, printed paper label on front cover. A very fine, as new, copy with lightly worn and soiled slipcase (paper label). Text of a previously unpublished letter by Bret Harte to his publisher, James R Osgood and Company, dated May... Read More
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From Land's End to the Ferry
by various
San Francisco: The Black Vine Press, 1942 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 200 copies, 50 of which were for members of The Roxburghe Club. Printed by Harold Seeger, Lawton Kennedy, and Albert Sperisen at The Black Vine Press. Bound in navy blue cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Bookplate. Offsetting to endpapers, else a fine copy. A collection of various local writers describing points of interest along the San Francisco waterfront. Authors included are... Read More
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The Letter of Amerigo Vespucci Describing His Four Voyages to the New World, 1497-1504.
by Vespucci, Amerigo [Introduction by Oscar Lewis].
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1926 Book. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 250 numbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, this being number 227. Quarto. Pp. [10], 28, [1]. plus preliminary and end blank leaves. Hand-colored title map, 5 decorative initials and 2 illustrations adapted from contemporary sources by Valenti Angelo. Printed with Italian Old Style type on Van Gelder paper. Full limp vellum binding, title hand-lettered... Read More
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King of the Fur Traders. The Deeds and Deviltry of Pierre Esprit Radisson.
by Vestal, Stanley
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 8½ x 5½ inches. x, 326pp. Chapter heading illustrations, map endpapers; notes, bibliography and index. Green cloth lettered and decorated in black. Bottom rear corner lightly bumped, else a fine and clean copy with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket chipped and worn at spine ends, lightly rubbed at extremities. Biography of the French fur trader who was the discoverer of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River,... Read More
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Sundry Ballades
by Villon, Francois
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press and James McDonald, 1922 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 210 copies for complimentary distribution. Small, thin quarto. [ii, 16] pp. Title printed in gray, marginal captions in olive green; fleur-de-lis decoration on title page, stanza numerals, and colophon in red; 8 initials in blue. Handset type. Brown boards, parchment spine, blue label, gilt, on front cover. Covers lightly soiled, else a fine copy. The text is from John Payne's translation of the Old... Read More
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Method Actors. Three Generations of An American Acting Style.
by Vineberg, Steve
New York: Schirmer Books, 1991 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 364pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Gray cloth over black paper boards, silver lettering on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket (jacket with light, minor edgewear. A study of Method Acting, focusing on three different generations of actors who have developed and perfected the technique..
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From Kapuvar to California in 1893. Travel Letters of...
by Von Berg, Baron Gustav
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by Don Greame Kelley & Susan Acker at The Feathered Serpent Press. Translated and edited by Henry Miller Madden. 73pp. Nine illustrations from photographs. Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt. Unobtrusive spot to front cover, else a very fine copy. Baron von Berg, a wealthy Hungarian leaseholder, accompanied by his teenage daughter and her English companion, toured the United States and Canada for three months during... Read More
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California in Relief. Thirty Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener
by Wagener, Richard
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009 Book. As New. Hardcover. First edition. One of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Introduction by Victoria Dailey. Tall quarto. Title page wood engraving plus 30 wood-engraved plates. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Half dark green cloth with printed paper spine label, gray/brown boards with wood-engraved illustration repeated from title page. Publisher's matching slipcase of with printed paper spine label. As new. A handsome and important production... Read More
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The Plains and the Rockies: A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800-1865
by Wagner, Henry R.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First revised and enlarged edition and the first "private press" printing. Limited to 600 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Revised and enlarged by Charles L. Camp. Small quarto. 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 299pp. Several illustrations. Printed throughout in red and black. Dark peach cloth, printed maroon leather spine label.Head of spine slightly crunched, else a fine copy. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. An updated, and... Read More
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Early Arizona, Prehistory to Civil War
by Wagoner, Jay J.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1975 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. xvi, 547. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, portraits, views, numerous maps. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Dark gray cloth lettered in silver. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Lightest of wear to bottom of jacket spine. Scarce, most especially in this condition. A scholarly and well-illustrated history which provides detailed coverage of Arizona's pre-Territorial (pre-1863) history. Includes fresh documentary facts and previously unpublished maps... Read More
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The Seacoast of Bohemia. An Account of Early Carmel
by Walker, Franklin
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. 129pp. Numerous illustrations, mostly from original photographs. Decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. The literary community in Carmel: Jack London, George Sterling, Mary Austin, et al..
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The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Mapped in Silver and Gold
by Wallis, Helen
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First edition. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. [4] 29pp. 5 plates including frontis portrait. Printed stiff wrappers. Light fading to spine and lower rear cover. A fine copy. An excellent history of the official maps and mapping concerning Drake's famous voyage..
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The Builders of San Francisco and Some of Their Early Homes [cover title].
by Watkins, Elanor Preston
San Francisco: Colonial Dames of America in California, 1935 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. [2], 28. Frontis, 8 photographic illustrations. Notes, bibliography. Light brown wrappers printed in black. A few tiny but significant marginal pencil notations, minor vertical wrinkle to front cover. A fine copy. First edition. Very scarce. A well-researched and insightful, perhaps unique, historical narrative of the progression of settlement and growth of San Francisco from the "Mythical Cave... Read More
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Gold Rush Country
by Watkins, T.H. and Nancy Olmsted
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). First edition. One of 950 copies signed by the photographer. Quarto. 96pp. 63 glossy black & white photographs, map; photographic endpapers. Brown cloth spine, gilt, over dark green pictorial boards. A very fine copy with matching brown slipcase. Light fading to slipcase. Historical narrative by Watkins, Gold Country vignettes by Olmstead, photographs by Stanley R. Truman. The photographs include buildings, details, views, etc. Truman's photographs have been exhibited... Read More
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Silver Theatre: Amusements of Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1850 to 1864
by Watson, Margaret
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 2053 copies. 387pp. Illustrations, folding map, index. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends, but a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket lightly toned and chipped). Year-by-year history of entertainment in early-day Nevada: Washoe's first theater, Mark Twain, Lotta Crabtree, Bonanza theater, gambling, prize fights, benefits, glee clubs, dances, parades, hurdy-gurdy girls, etc. Includes accounts of... Read More
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Essays by and Old Country Priest: Monsignor Francisco J Weber. Selected from Hoja Volante (1972-2010).
by Weber, Monsignor Francis J.
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 2016 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Number 44 of 200 copies signed by Monsignor Weber, also signed on a printed card laid in. Small quarto, 9x6 ½ inches. Photographic frontis tipped in. Red cloth-backed gray paper boards with paper spine label. A collection of 45 essays written by Monsignor Weber for the Zamorano Club's quarterly newsletter, Hoja Volante, between the years 1972 and 2010. The essays cover a wide range of Weber's interests: Berhardt... Read More
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Idol of the West. The Fabulous Career of Rollin Mallory Daggett.
by Weisenburger, Francis Phelps.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1965 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. Pp. ix [1] 220. 11 illustrations. Chapter notes, bibliography, index. Light tan cloth, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Half-inch closed tear to top front edge of jacket. First edition. Biography of an amazing career. Rollin Mallory Dagget came to California in 1850, was founder of the Golden Era, off to the Comstock Lode of Nevada, on... Read More
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Mother Lode Album
by Weston, Otheto
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Quato. 177pp. Tan cloth with orange and brown decoration and printing. Illustrated with hundreds of black & white photographs. Minor general shelfwear, else a fine copy in very slightly worn picorial dust jacket. Includes over 200 photographs of historic buildings in the boomtowns of the Northern and Southern Mines: Hornitos, Quartzburgh, Coulterville, Big Oak Flat, Chinese Camp, Knight's Ferry, Tuttletown, Vallecito, Angel's Camp, Jackson, Volcano, Coloma, Rough and Ready, and... Read More
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Mapping the American West
by Wheat, Carl I.
(n.p.): The Bibliographical Society of America, 1956 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, first separate printing (first appearing in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America the same year). 16pp. Printed beige wrappers. A fine copy. Text of a presentation made by Wheat at the Bibliographical Society meeting at The Huntington Library in 1955, which preceded his magnum opus "Mapping the Transmississippi West" by a couple of years. Scarce..
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The Forty-Niners in Death Valley (A Tentative Census)
by Wheat, Carl Irving
San Francisco: Carl I. Wheat, 1939 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First separate edition, first published in the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California, December, 1939. 16pp. Notes. Printed wrappers. Wraps splitting at top and bottom of spine, minor shelfwear, else a near fine copy. Wheat provides the names, place, birth and death dates, etc. of members of The Jayhawker Party; The Brier Party; The Bennett-Arcan Party; The Mississippi Boys; The Georgians; The Coker Party; and the so-called "Savage-Pinney... Read More
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The Literature of the Gold Rush
by Wheat, Carl I.
New York, 1949 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First separate edition, first published in January, 1949 in The New Colophon, v. 2, part 5. Thin quarto. Pp. 54-67. Printed in brown and black. Original gray wrappers printed in black. Very slight darkening to edges of wrappers, but a fine copy. This article was obviously the outcome of Wheat's research and interest in books about the California Gold Rush which culminated in his Books of the California Gold Rush, a Centennial Selection... Read More
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The Pioneer Press of California
by Wheat, Carl I.
Oakland: The Grabhorn Press for Biobooks, 1948 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. [4] 33pp. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean, 3 facsimiles. Red cloth back, marbled boards, paper spine label. Offsetting from facsimiles (as usual), else a very fine copy. Essays on the beginning of the printing press in California. Covers the first printing press in Monterey; the "Old Ames" press, brought to San Diego in 1850; and Sam Brannan's press, brought... Read More
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Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.
by WHEELER, Alfred.
"One of the Foundation Books on California Land Titles" With the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco. Small quarto.10½ x 7¼ inches. 127, [2]pp. Lithograph folding map on thin tissue. Original tan calf, marbled boards, paper label (green) on front cover. Covers a bit worn. Foxing throughout. Early ownership name and date on title. Bookplate. First signature detached. First edition. Scarce early San Francisco imprint, with the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco entitled "Map of San Francisco, Compiled from latest... Read More
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