Wake-Robin
by Burroughs, John
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, first issue binding (binding A). Burroughs' first regularly published book after a self-published essay on Whitman (1867). Small octavo (6¾x4½ inches). Pp. iv, 231. Title printed in black and red. Publisher's green beveled cloth decoratively stamped in black and gold, yellow coated ends. Original owner's name and date in pencil on front free endpaper. Bookplate on inner cover. Small repaired nick to fore-edge of front board, but a fine,... Read More
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Powder River. Let'er Buck.
by Burt, Struthers
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938 Book. Illus. by Santee, Ross. Near Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. xi, 389, [11]. Illustrated by Ross Santee. Bibliography, index. Red cloth. Contemporary owner's neat name and address on free endpaper, dated 1938. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket printed in black, yellow and red (slight chipping to jacket extremities). One of the best on the Powder River of Northwestern Wyoming. "Quite a bit of space is devoted to the Johnson... Read More
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The Persistence of Poetry
by Bynner, Witter
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 325 copies, SIGNED by the author. [6], 29pp. Title illustration, chapter head piece. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, bookplate on inner cover, else a fine copy. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press with handset type on Arches hand-made paper. The latter part of this essay appeared as the author's introduction to The Jade Mountain, an anthology of 300 poems of... Read More
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Sonnets from Antan. With an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
by Cabell, James Branch [Editor]
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. One of 718 numbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Signed by Cabell. Thin octavo. Pp. [vi, 34]. Printed in orange and black. Headpiece portrait by William H. Cotton. Handset Lutetia type. Gray decorated boards, gray cloth spine, gray spine label printed in black. A fine copy. Distributed in America by Random House to commemorate Cabell's 50th birthday, this collection of... Read More
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Sunset City and Sunset Scenes [cover title]
by [California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894]
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1894 Book. Fine. Hardcover. [MIDWINTER FAIR]. Oblong quarto. 10x13 inches. Three parts bound together. Illustrated with 8 full-page lithographed color plates by Dickman-Jones Co. of San Francisco, plus the full set of 24 full-page lithographed color plates by H. S. Crocker Co. plus over 213 full-page black & white photographs with extensive descriptive text, including 13 (of 14) double-page panoramas. Publisher's binding of three-quarter brown morocco, darker cloth sides, gilt lettering and pictorial element on... Read More
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The Flaming Terrapin
by Campbell, Roy
New York: The Dial Press, 1924 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Slim octavo. Pp. [6], 83. Black cloth-backed decorated boards. Tiny owner's name on end. Slightest of rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy. First American edition of the author's first book of poetry. Frontispiece by John Austen. Roy Campbell (1901-1957) was a South African poet, literary critic, literary translator, war poet and satirist. He moved to England where he and his wife Mary settled in with Harold Niolson... Read More
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The Book Lover's Southwest, A Guide to Good Reading, by Walter S. Campbell (Stanley Vestal)
by Campbell, Walter S. (Stanley Vestal, pseud.).
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xii, 287. Bibliography and index. Blue cloth lettered in white. A very fine copy in lightly spine-faded (price-clipped) dust jacket. A descriptive survey of literature of the Southwest divided into chapters on biography, histories, interpretation, and fiction (although mostly concentrating on non-fiction). This is the author's final book. Written at the end of his career, it tapped his great knowledge of the region... Read More
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The Diary of a Forty-Niner
by Canfield, Chauncey L. [Editor]
Stanford: James Ladd Delkin, 1947 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. "California Centennial Edition." With an excellent historical introduction by Oscar Lewis. Small octavo. xxiii, [3], 192pp. Frontis map. Brown cloth. A fine copy with lightly worn dust jacket (chipping to head of jacket spine). Lewis gives a fascinating account of the publication history of the book and how fires in San Francisco in 1906 and New York in 1908 nearly destroyed the entire edition of the first printing of 1906. Of... Read More
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![[COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE]. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up From the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joeph Banks, Esq. [3 volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/941/797/1737797941.0.l.jpg)
[COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE]. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up From the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joeph Banks, Esq. [3 volumes]
by [CAPTAIN COOK]. Hawkesworth, John.
Cook's First Voyage Accounts of the not-yet-famous Cook [Three Volumes]. Quarto. 12 x 9 inches. [20], xxxvi, [4], 456 + [4] xiv, 410 + [4], 395, [3]. 52 charts and plates, collated complete. Original calf rebacked in antique style calf, maroon leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Library bookplates in front cover of each volume, oval library stamps on verso of folding frontis map, title page, and p. 3 of vol. I, on title page and p. 1 of vol. II, on title... Read More
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A Vulcan Among the Argonauts, Being vivid excerpts from those most original & amusing memoirs of John Carr
by Carr, John
San Francisco: George Fields, 1936 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Abridged reprint of the author's 1891 "Pioneer Days in California," preserving the essential and most valuable information. One of 500 copies, printed by Wilder and Ellen Bentley at the Archetype Press. Signed by the editor, Robin Lampson. Edited With a Preface & Postscript by Robin Lampson. Illustrated by "Hans." Pictorial tan cloth. Slight foxing to extreme edges of covers, else a fine copy. Carr was a... Read More
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John Swett, the Biography of an Educational Pioneer
by Carr, William G.
Santa Ana, California: Fine Arts Press, 1933 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Although not indicated, one of 300 copies. Pp. [xviii], 176, plus 5 illustrations on 12 unnumbered pages. Text illustrations by Mary Louise Wallace. Publisher's dark wine colored cloth, beveled boardss, tan backstrip stamped in red. Bookplate on inside cover. A fine copy. Provides a look at the educational system in California during and after the gold rush days. Swett was an educational pioneer who brought about a... Read More
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'Dear Old Kit.' The Historical Christopher Carson.
by Carter, Harvey Lewis.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto. 10 1/4 x 7 inches. xix, 250pp. Numerous illustrations (many from historical photographs), 5 maps; appendices, index. Original tan cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Jacket slightly soiled, and top rear edge of jacket crunched and wrinkled. "One of the most careful studies ever done on Kit Carson, with a scrupulously annotated edition of the Carson memoirs" (Rittenhouse). The appendices include... Read More
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Living Faith
by Carter, Jimmy
New York: Times Books (Random House), 1996 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. SIGNED directly on the front free endpaper by Jimmy Carter. [10], 256pp. Blue-green boards, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. A personal memoir of the former U.S. President's faith, based on his Sunday morning readings of the scriptures..
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Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in 1766, 1767, and 1768. By J. Carver, Esq. Captain of a Company of Provincial Troops During the Late War With France. Illustrated with Copper Plates. The Second edition.
by CARVER, J[onathan].
His journey led him further northwest than any other English traveler had been before With the plate of the Tobacco plant Octavo. 8 ½ x 5 inches. Pp. [24], xvi, [17]-543, [1]. Complete with 2 folding maps and 5 engraved plates. Handsomly rebound in three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Five raised bands on spine, blind embossed decoration and gilt lettering. One map hand colored. Early owner's signature at top of tile page. A fine and exceptionally clean copy with minor toning... Read More
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Il Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione (The Courtier). Revisto per M. Lodocico Dolce.
by Castiglione, Baldessar
Lyon: Gulielmo Rovillio, 1562 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1562 Italian pocket edition, published a year after the first English edition. 32mo. (4¾x2¾). Pp. 494, [34]. Text in Italian. Decorative woodcut chapter headings and initials. Later half black morocco, gilt lettering, pebbled cloth sides. Contemporary ink name at head of title page, light damp stain to first 70 pages. Overall, a very good copy, tight and clean. As in all copies of this edition, page 324 is incorrectly numbered 224. The publisher... Read More
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One of Ours
by Cather, Willa
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. One of 310 numbered copies (of 345 total), this being number 81, printed on Perusia handmade Italian paper and signed by the author. 35 copies were printed on Japan vellum. Pp. [10], 459. Title printed in black and orange. Half linen over batik boards, paper spine label. Printed boards a bit faded at top edge, 3 corners just showing, very slight remnants from removed bookplate on... Read More
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Ramblings in California: The Adventures of Henry Cerruti
by Cerruti, Henry
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1954 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, printed from the original manuscript in The Bancroft Library. One of 500 copies printed at The Gillick Press. Edited by Margaret Mollins and Virginia Thickens. 143pp. Frontis portrait. Parchment paper spine, light brown boards. Spine slightly darkened, some minor fading to the boards, light rubbing to covers, bottom of spine lightly chipped. Overall, a very good copy. Cerruti reached San Francisco in August of 1873.... Read More
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Splendide Californie! Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786-1900.
by Chalmers, Claudine
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 450 copies designed by the Yolla Bolly Press in Covelo, California. Foreword by James McClatchy. Folio. xiv, 144pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Notes and bibliography. Green cloth, printed paper spine label, pictorial pastedown on front cover. A very fine copy in publisher's slipcase. A welcome reference and beautifully produced art history which spans the French artists of the earliest... Read More
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The Joys of Farming
by Cicero
San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson, 1980 Book. Fine. Soft cover. One of 200 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley. Oblong octavo. (14)pp. Six linoleum cuts printed in green. Stitched brown wrappers, white label printed in green on front cover. A very fine copy. The linoleum cuts are by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. This keepsake was printed for presentation to the members of the joint meeting of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and The Zamorano... Read More
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California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani from 1853 Through 1871...
by Cipriani, Count Leonetto
Portland: The Champoeg Press, 1962 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 750 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Translated and edited by Ernest Falbo. Quarto. 148pp. Frontis portrait. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine slightly faded. A fine, uncut copy. Contains an account of his cattle drive from Missouri to California in 1853, a visit with Brigham Young, the assembling of his elegant prefabricated home in Belmont, etc. [Kurutz: 131-C]..
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Terrible Trail: the Meek Cutoff, 1845.
by Clark, Keith and Lowell Tiller
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. 244 pp. Frontis plus 32 pages of photographs, 3 maps, bibliography, index, roster of names, endpaper maps. Brown cloth lettered in black. Library stamps on endpapers (no other library markings), else a very fine copy with dust jacket. Dust jacket price-clipped and the spine is lightly faded. A fine work detailing the families that followed Stephen Meek on his supposed shortcut across... Read More
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How Many Miles from St. Jo? The Log of Sterling B.F. Clark, a Forty Niner. With Comments by Ella Sterling Mighels. Together with a Brief Autobiography of James Phelan, 1819-1892, Pioneer Merchant
by Clark, Sterling B.F.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by James D. Phelan, son of James Phelan. 12mo. 56pp. Illustrations. Cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial pastedown on front cover. A fine copy. Sterling Clark left Holliday, Pennsylvania in 1849 for Saint Joseph. After a short stay, he resumed his journey, stopped in Salt Lake City, and followed the Humboldt-Carson Route into California. He arrived in Sacramento on August 2. He... Read More
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How Many Miles from St. Jo? The Log of Sterling B.F. Clark, a Forty Niner.
by Clark, Sterling B.F.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 12mo. 56pp. Illustrations. Cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial pastedown on front cover. Slight offsetting to front endpape, else a fine copy. Sterling Clark left Holliday, Pennsylvania in 1849 for Saint Joseph. After stopping in Salt Lake City, he followed the Humboldt-Carson Route into California. He arrived in Sacramento on August 2. Clark washed gold at Mormon Island and Sandwich Island diggings. Supplementing the diary are... Read More
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Omai. First Polynesian Ambassador to England. The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 with Captain Cook; of How He Was Feted by Fanny Burney, Approved by Samuel Johnson, Entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich and Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Clark, Thomas Blake.
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 500 copies. Small quarto. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches.[4], 115pp. Frontis portrait. Half linen over batik boards, paper spine label. Bookplate on inner cover. Offsetting to front free endpaper (as usual). Edges of cover slightly faded, else a near fine copy. In 1938 Jane Grabhorn, in partnership with W. M. Roth and Jane Swinerton, set up The Colt Press. With the advent of the... Read More
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The Naranjado [University of the Pacific Yearbook]
by Class of '90
College Park (San Jose): University of the Pacific, 1890 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Volume V, May, 1890. First edition. Pp. ix, 100, x-xxxvi. Illustrated with 12 plates including 7 Britton & Rey photogravures and 5 engravings. 36pp. of advertisements. Publishers brown-maroon blind and gilt-stamped cloth. Spine ends and corners slightly frayed, else a fine copy. Quite scarce. The fifth University yearbook while the University of the Pacific was at College Park, San Jose. Includes biographical sketches of the eight heads of... Read More
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