Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936. A Presentation of Educational Movements And their Outcome in Education Today
by Ferrier, William Warren
Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Pp. xv, 413. Index. Gilt-lettered navy cloth. A very fine copy. First edition. An overview of the history and development of education in California, both of elementary education and colleges and vocational schools. Constitutional and Legislative Provision; First Public and Private Schools; Educational Needs, 1849; First Free Public Schools; and on, and on including the establishment of Kindergarten, college movements... Read More
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Autograph Letter, Signed. on David Dudley Field and Dudley Field, Counsellors at Law letterhead.
by Field, David Dudley
San Francisco: David Dudley Field and Dudley Field, Counsellors at Law, 1865 Letter. Very fine. No Binding. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated March 16, 1865. Octavo. 8¼ x 5 inches. 2pp. on law firm letterhead. Minor creases where folded. Written on recto and verso. Slight bleed-through of writing on verso. A very fine copy. Letter written by David Dudley Field. Signed, "Dudley Field." David Dudley Field was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to... Read More
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Mountain Passes and Trails of California
by Fleming, Donald R. [Editor]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979 Book. Fine. No Binding. 12 numbers. One large map, illustrations from drawings and photographs. House in the original worn mailing envelope. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. A keepsake from the Book Club of California. A collection of descriptions and illustrations of various important passes and trails throughout California. Written by various well-known Californian authors and historians, including Gary Kurutz, Richard Dillon, etc..
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A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper’s Round with the Deil On the Links of St Andrews
by Flint, Violet. (pseud. of Col. J. E. Thompson).
Scarce illustrated poem about playing golf with the devil – inscribed by the author Octavo, 9x6¾ inches. x, 35pp.+plates. Full page illustrations by A. Islay Bannerman. Original dark green cloth with gilt title, borders, and vignette. All edges gilt, coated endpapers. Bookplate. Inner front hinge cracked, inner rear hinge starting, corners just showing, minor soiling and slight bend to front cover. Overall, a very good copy. Third edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author "To D. Moir with J.E.T's kind regards". Scarce,... Read More
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A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St Andrews.
by Flint, Violet. (pseud. of Col. J. E. Thompson).
St. Andrews: W.C. Henderson & Son, 1897 Book. Illus. by Bannerman, A. Islay. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 3rd Edition. Third edition (illustrated edition). Octavo, 9x6¾ inches. x, 35pp.+plates. Full page illustrations by A. Islay Bannerman. Original dark green cloth with gilt title, borders, and vignette. All edges gilt, coated endpapers. Bookplate. Inner front hinge cracked, inner rear hinge starting, corners just showing, minor soiling and slight bend to front cover. Overall, a very good copy. ... Read More
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An Artist Records the California Missions
by Ford, Henry Chapman
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerburg. Oblong 4to. xl, 100pp. Biographical introduction, index. 66 illustrations plus seven full-page color plates (3 tipped on). Two-tone cloth, sides decorated in a California Mission wallpaper pattern, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Henry Chapman Ford began a book on the California Missions which his death prevented him... Read More
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Dawn and the Dons. The Romance of Monterey
by Ford, Tirey L.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926 Book. Illus. by Mora, Jo. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. xiii, [2], 236pp. Illustrations throughout, endpaper map, and cover illustration by Jo Mora. Index. Half black cloth, pictorial boards stamped in black. A very fine copy. .
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Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907: A History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood
by Foreman, Carolyn Thomas
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xxiv, [2], 499. Illustrated with 27 facsimiles, maps, portraits (some folding). Bibliography, index. Decorated black cloth, paper spine label. A very fine and bright copy with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. The standard bibliography on the subject which Includes books, newspapers, magazines and government documents..
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The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco
by Foreman, Grant
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 250 copies printed and published by the Black Cat Press. 61pp. Chapter notes. Original silver-stamped blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A very fine copy. Collier (1789-1873) was appointed by President Taylor as Collector of the port of San Francisco just after the Mexican War. He and his party were among the 1849 westward-bound emigrants who came into the gold fields... Read More
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The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco
by Foreman, Grant
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 250 copies printed and published by the Black Cat Press. 61pp. Chapter notes. Original silver-stamped blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A bit of rubbing to spine ends and edges, else a fine copy. Collier (1789-1873) was appointed by President Taylor as Collector of the port of San Francisco just after the Mexican War. He and his party were among the... Read More
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Adventure on Red River. Report on the Exploration of the Headwaters of the Red River by Captain Randolph B. Marcy and Captain G. B. McClellan.
by Foreman, Grant [Editor]. Captain Randolph B. Marcy and Captain G. B. McClellan
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small octavo. 7¾ x 5¼ inches. Pp. xxxi, [1], 199. Illustrated with 8 photographs and portraits, large folding map. Extensive notes, index. Bluish-green cloth, printed paper spine label. A very fine copy with the elusive pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with light rubbing, slight chipping to spine ends, small closed tear to rear bottom edge. Very scarce, especially with the book in this condition and with... Read More
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El Quacheno. How I Want to Help Make the Constitution of California - Stirring Historical Incidents
by Foster, Stephen Clark
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition, first published in the Los Angeles Evening Express, 1878. 100 copies printed for Glen Dawson by William M. Cheney. 16mo. [2], v, [1, blank], 35pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine lightly faded and with 3 minor spots, else a fine copy. The author was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1849. When the second Constitutional Convention was about to be held, Foster, then fifty-eight... Read More
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The First Californiac. Being a Reprint of Prospects of California Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of The California Star, San Francisco's First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher
by Fourgeaud, Victor J.
San Francisco: Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First book edition. 225 copies designed, handset, and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Prolegomenon by Carroll D. Hall. Small octavo. xvi, 44, [2]pp. Pen and ink drawings by Lawrence E. Walker. Calf-backed decorated boards. Spine very lightly rubbed, top of spine torn, but intact, edge of boards slightly darkened. Front and rear gutters browned as usual (leather offsetting).Front hinge just starting. Overall, a near fine copy.... Read More
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Club Life. [Volume 3, Number 7. January, 1905].
by [WOMAN'S CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO]
San Francisco: The Club Woman's Guild, 1905 Paper. Near Fine. Soft cover. Tall quarto. 14x8 inches. 16pp. Publisher's tan pictorial wrappers printed in black with photographic portrait on cover by J. C. Rasmussen. List of all San Francisco clubs on inner cover. Short closed cut to upper edge of leaves. "Marked Copy" stamped in red at top of front cover. Two minor markings within text. Light vertical crease at center of leaves. A near fine copy. First edition.... Read More
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Fond of Printing. Gordon Graig [sic] as Typographer & Illustrator.
by Franklin, Colin
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 450 copies printed in England for The Book Club of California. Foreword by Edward Craig and an Essay by Gordon Craig on Illustrations in General. 12mo. 96pp. 15 illustrations, some printed on colored paper. Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Covers the career of Edward Gordon Craig as typographer, illustrator and designer. Includes detailed descriptions of Craig's many ephemeral pieces such as... Read More
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Themes in Aquatint
by Franklin, Colin
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Cambridge University Press. Folio. 104pp. 16 reproductions of plates by Rowlandson, Gilpin, and others, some in color. Cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. An excellent book on the history of the etching process of aquatint. Beginning with the early period (pre-1800), this handsome work provides an anthology, with ample quotation, of examples from groups among... Read More
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![The World in Miniature: or the Entertaining Traveller... Giving an Account of every Thing necessary and curious; As to Situation, Customs, Manners... Religious and Other Cerimonies... Volume II. Containing America... [Volume II only.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/214/1134214325.0.l.jpg)
The World in Miniature: or the Entertaining Traveller... Giving an Account of every Thing necessary and curious; As to Situation, Customs, Manners... Religious and Other Cerimonies... Volume II. Containing America... [Volume II only.]
by Fransham, John
London: John Torbuck, 1741 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Volume II only. Second edition, "enlarg'd with the Addition of a New Sett of Cutts." 16mo. Pp. 275, [20], 24, index. Engraved folding frontispiece, 4 plates. Handsomely bound in modern calf in the antique style. A fine copy. Folding frontis with repairs, else a fine and clean copy. One of the plates includes New England whaling ships near Greenland. Volume II only, the most important of this set. Includes 84 pages on Mexico,... Read More
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John DePol. A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work, 1935-1998
by Fraser, James Howard and Eleanor Friedl [Editors]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 400 copies designed and printed by James Wehlage of the Tuscan Press. Compiled and edited by James Howard Fraser and Eleanor Friedl. Foreword by Donald R. Fleming. Preface by John Dreyfus. Quarto. 162pp. Illustrated with 60 single-color and 34 two-color illustrations. Black cloth spine stamped in white, patterned paper boards. Housed in a matching slipcase. A very fine, as new copy. A handsome production and... Read More
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Voix de Noel
by Frechette, Louis
San Francisco: Leon Gelber & Theodore Lilienthal, 1936 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 200 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Introduction by Nathan Van Patten. Thin quarto. [10]pp. Title printed in black and blue, one blue initial. Color frontis of Virgin and Child by Judson Starr. Handset type. Limp brown boards, title in brown on front cover. A very fine copy. An attractive edition of this Christmas poem by the poet-laureate of Quebec, first published as a poetical preface to... Read More
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Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United States. With Outlines of the Origins and Ancient History of Our Live Stock Animals
by Freeman, James W. [Editor].
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1959 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the very rare 1905 first edition prepared under the authority of the National Live Stock association. Limited to 550 copies. Includes a new introduction by Ramon F. Adams. Thick quarto. 757pp. Numerous illustrations from photographs, old prints, etc. Half cowhide and gilt-stamped buckram, spine lettered in gilt. A very fine copy with publisher's slipcase. "One of the most important and sought-after books on the cattle industry" (Adams). Adams also... Read More
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On the Proposed Use of a Portion of the Hetch Hetchy, Eleanor and Cherry Valleys Within and Near to the Boundaries of the Stanislaus U. S. National Forest Reserve and the Yosemite National Park as Reservoirs for Impounding Tuolumne river Flood Waters and
by Freeman, John R.
San Francisco: Board of Supervisors, 1912 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Pp. 401, lxv (index). 2 frontispiece relief maps, numerous photographic plates and illustrations, maps (some folding), diagrams. Black cloth lettered in black. Spine faded, front hinge breaking, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to end leaves. Overall a very good+ copy. This comprehensive and detailed work is the major documentation in support of the proposal to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National... Read More
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44...
by FRÉMONT, John Charles.
Paved the way for the adventurers and settlers during the Gold Rush 693pp. 4 maps (of 5), 2 folding, and 22 lithographed plates (including 13 views). Large Preuss map not present, otherwise collated complete. Handsomely rebound in three-quarter brown leather with marbled paper boards, with the original black spine label pasted down. Foxing throughout, occasionally heavy. First edition, best issue. Printed for the Senate as Executive Document 174, 28th Congress. This Senate issue includes the astronomical and meteorological observations that were omitted... Read More
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and Doc Original Production Cel and Master Background from Courvoisier Galleries.
by Walt Disney Studios and Courvoisier Galleries
San Francisco: Walt Disney Studios and Courvoisier Galleries, 1937 Ephemera. Illus. by Walt Disney Studios. Very fine. No Binding. [DISNEY] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and Doc Original Production Cel and Master Background from Courvoisier Galleries. 23.25" x 19.50" Plexiglas-fronted frame with a 15" x 11" mat opening. Courvoiser set-up of original cels of Snow White and Doc, on the Master watercolor background. Clear celluliod sheet over entire image, matted and framed. Some waviness to whole... Read More
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Memories
by Galsworthy, John
London: William Heinemann, 1914 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First illustrated edition, first published in 1912. Quarto (11x8 inches). Pp. xi, [1], 71. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in color plates and 23 black & white text drawings by Maud Earl. Illustrated endpapers. Original gray-brown paper over boards, pictorially stamped in black and lettered in gilt on front cover, spine with deeply embossed title in green. Slight (very minor) wear to head of spine, 2 light surface scratches to bottom of front cover. A... Read More
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Romualdo Pacheco, a California in Two Eras
by Genini, Ronald and Richard Hitchman
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. 209pp. Frontis portrait, illustrations from photographs. Brown cloth, embossed portrait on front cover, paper spine label. Spine slightly faded. A very fine copy. Includes valuable information about the life of Pacheco taken from unpublished collections and old newspapers, much of it translated from Spanish. Also includes the first thorough investigation of California state documents relating to his career. Pacheco... Read More
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