[Ledger of the Citizen's Bank of Nevada City, California, August 1881 to June 1883]

[Nevada City, California], 1881. Leather bound. Very good. Folio size, 626 pp., with accompanying "History of Nevada County" While the California Gold Rush may have begun in 1849, mining activities continued for many decades and this bank ledger offers a glimpse into the individuals and businesses that were still in operation in the Nevada City area for the years 1881-1883. The Citizen's Bank of Nevada City received its state charter in 1876 and was still in... Read More

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Accountant's Guide to the Gold Regions

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1939. Stapled. Fine. Quarto size, [4] pp. This publication by the renowned San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press is a keepsake from the annual meeting of The American Institute of Accountants in 1939, and contains brief, humorous descriptions of some attractions in San Francisco and California's Pacific Slope. Laid in is a colour map of the gold regions of California, detailing various routes for those travelling to California. Unaccountably scarce in the marketplace,... Read More

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The Metropolitan Magazine, July to December, 1838, American Edition, Vol. VI

New York: Jemima M. Lewer, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto size, 399 pp., from the library of Edwin Grabhorn. American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and continued, under various editors, until 1850. This volume, which contains July to December, 1838, is one of three we acquired all of which have a vintage... Read More

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1961 Monaco Grand Prix Program [and related ephemera]

[Nice], 1961. Very good. Booklet: octavo size, 60 pp. plus printed wraps; see below for details on all items, all items in French. The Monaco Grand Prix has been a fixture of racing for decades: "Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world" (n.b., from Wiki). We offer a small archive from the 1961 race, including: (i) the formal program for the 1961... Read More

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Fontwell Park, Accounting Ledger, 1967-1972

[United Kingdom]: [Fontwell Park]. Full leather. Very good. Elephant Folio, 504 pp. The manuscript accounting ledger for Fontwell Park Race Track for the years 1967-1972. Fontwell Park is a horse racing park located in West Sussex, UK., established by Alfred Day in 1924 as a hurdles track. Queen Elizabeth II had her first winning horse at Fontwell in 1949 (per Wiki). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full green leather with blind debossed border to front and rear boards,gilt lettering... Read More

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Kittie

New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Boards. Very good. Miniature book, [12] pp. This charming little book tells the story of two sisters living at flour mill and their adventures with the inhabitants of the mill, including the animals that live among them. The book has four chromolithographs accompanying the story, providing a lovely depiction of the escapades of the sisters. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown cloth with cream paper boards, colour... Read More

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The Cyclopaedia of Temperance and Prohibition

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1891. Hardcover. Very good +. Quarto size, 671 pp. This hefty and thorough reference work contains information on the temperance movement and the "drink question", as a rising tide of anti-alcohol sentiment, largely led by religious groups, grew in the United States; the volume includes information about legislation on the federal and state levels, licensing to sell liquor, and prominent players in the politics and advocacy for temperance. Although the U.S. is possibly... Read More

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New Manual of Bayonet Training and Practical Bayonet Fighting, From the Official Regulations in Force in the New Allied Armies

New York: National Military Publishing Co, 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine. Twenty-fourmo size, 77 pp. Seemingly scarce in the trade, with no copies currently online that we can find; per an OCLC search conducted as of this writing this volume is held by eighteen institutions. Noted as the "Latest Edition" on the title page, as well as "Illustrated", the original edition is bound in at the back. A WWI-era manual on hand-to-hand combat using the bayonet, complete with six... Read More

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Recollections of a California Pioneer

by Abbott, Carlisle S.

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Twelvemo size, 235 pp. Written after the author had passed 88 years of age, this important early work follows his decision as a young man to leave his home in the East to seek gold in California in 1850. The book chronicles their travel westward and their life in San Francisco, as well as recollections of early Sacramento, Salinas, Native Americans encountered, fighting off attacks by... Read More

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I Love My Love

by Adam, Helen; Smith, Kiki (Artist)

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2009. New. Kiki Smith. The book is 13-7/8 inches square, with 16 printed panels and two blanks, in concertina format. The paper is Mohawk Superfine cover. The type is Scotch Roman, handset, using 24-point for the text and other sizes for display and subsidiary material, printed by letterpress. The graphic art was printed by photo-offset lithography in tri-tone: brown-black, tan, and yellow-orange inks. The boards and box containing the book are covered in... Read More

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My Camera in Yosemite Valley [with] Ahwahnee Menu; 24 photographs and an essay on mountain photography

by Adams, Ansel

Yosemite National Park [and] Boston: Virginia Adams [and] Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. Comb binding. Very good. Adams, Ansel. Folio size, 70 pp., inscribed by Ansel Adams. Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was noted as a perfect balance of photographer and environmentalist. Most of us have seen Ansel Adams' photographs and have been awed by their beauty; he helped to elevate photography to an art comparable with painting and music, and equally capable of expressing emotion and beauty.... Read More

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Homo Sacer; Sovereign Power and Bare Life; (Meridian, Crossing Aesthetics)

by Agamben, Giorgio; Heller-Roazen, Daniel (Translator)

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First Edition in English, octavo size, 199 pp. "In 'Homo Sacer', Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics...'" (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering stamped onto the spine, octavo size (8 3/4" by 5 1/8"), 199 pp. In publisher's decorated dust jacket with... Read More

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Histoire des Émotions

by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello

Paris: Seuil, 2017. Hardcover. Fine. Three volumes (complete), quarto size, approx. 1620 pp., all text in French. Offering all three volumes of this set: Volume 1, "De l'Antiquité aux Luminières"; Volume 2, "Des Lumières à la fin du XIXe siècle"; and Volume 3, "De la find du XIXe siècle à nos jours". Per the web site of the publisher: "Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine and Georges Vigarello direct this very ambitious 'History of Emotions' in three volumes...the... Read More

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A Delicate Balance

by Albee, Edward; Holland, Tom (Artist)

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2011. New. Tom Holland. The book is large octavo, 6-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches, 172 pages. The types are Monotype American Garamond and Univers, printed by letterpress on Revere, an Italian mould-made paper. The binding has a purple goatskin spine, with title stamped in silver foil, and lavender cloth over the boards, with an inset area on the front cover containing the Holland watercolor. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale,... Read More

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Domesday Books (Volumes I - XI)

by Edward Marston (pseudonym of Conrad Allen)

New York / London: St. Martin's Press / Headline Book Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Eleven volumes (the complete set), each the first printing (some US firsts and some UK), octavo size, approx. 2850 total pp., five of the volumes signed by "Edward Marston" The Domesday series feature Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret, a soldier and lawyer, who are asked by William the Conqueror "to look into the serious irregularities that come to light during the compilation... Read More

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The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

by Amichai, Yehuda; Alter, Robert (Editor); Hughes, Ted (et al, Translators)

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing, small quarto size, 551 pp. Yehuda Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer, 1924-2000) is considered by many today to be one of Israel's greatest poets. Written in Hebrew, his poems have been translated into forty languages (n.b., per the Poetry Foundation). The work of thirteen translators are included in this publication, including Ted Hughes (1930-1998), "one of the outstanding British poets of his generation, [who] became... Read More

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Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects

by Andrews, William Loring

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 141 copies on Van Gelder paper, octavo size, 150 pp., with slipcase. A handsomely produced collection of articles on American books, their bindings and binders by the American book collector par excellance, William Loring Andrews (1837-1920). For this collection the publisher spared no expense; it exudes luxury, from the etched title page, to the color prints having been produced by different methods... Read More

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Ancient Mariner

by Angell, Roger; Hobson, Charles (Book Artist)

[San Francisco]: Pacific Editions, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hobson, Charles. No. 5 of 39 copioes, folio size, 11 pp., signed by Roger Angell and Charles Hobson, with TLS. For those touched by a love of sailing and the sea, this work, masterfully blending Angell's essay with Hobson's design, personifies that love and makes it touchable. The text is an essay by Roger Angell (b. 1920), award-winning writer of mainly sports literature (he has been referred to... Read More

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The Song of Roland; An Analytical Edition

by [Anonymous]; Brault, Gerard J.

University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Second printing, two volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 850 pp. "The Song of Roland" is "one of the earliest and most famous chansons de geste, based on the 8th-century Battle of Roncevaux Pass where Charlemagne's rearguard was ambushed" (n.b., quote from Wiki). The earliest known version dates back to around CE 1040, with changes being made through around 1115; the final version of... Read More

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The Shirley Letters; From California Mines in 1851-52

by Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe); Thomas C. Russell (Editor); Mrs. M.V.T. Lawrence ("An Appreciation")

San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition in book form, octavo size, 405 pp., signed by Thomas Russell. This the first edition in book form of the letters of Dame Shirley, in which she recounts her experiences living in a mining camp in California in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters tell of life in the mining camp in rich detail and offer a unique perspective from an intellectual New England... Read More

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Delia's Cooking: A Taosenãs Story [Cover Title]

by Archuleta, Delia [as told to] Mingenbach, Jane; "Text writers, Ann Weronke, Louise Mingenbach, Grace Parr. Publishing consultant, Cathleen Tomlinson. Historical consultant, Elmira Martinez.

[Taos?]: [Delia Archuleta], n.d.. Limited Edition. Binder. Fine. One of 100 copies, octavo size, 54 pp., signed by the author on the title page. A charming story of a destitute family and how they survived during the Great Depression, with recollections by the author of her life growing up and living in many parts of the Southwest, including several towns in New Mexico (Santa Fe, El Prado and Taos), with short stays in Colorado and California. ... Read More

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The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation..

by Sir Edwin Arnold

London: Trubner & Co, 1882. Leather bound. Near fine. Eighth printing, duodecimo size, 248 pp., signed by Edwin Arnold. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) is best remembered today for this work, which "endeavours to describe the life and time of Prince Gautama Buddha, who, after attaining enlightenment, became the Buddha, The Awakened One" in the form of a narrative poem. The work "was one of the first successful efforts to popularize Buddhism for a Western readership" and was one... Read More

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The Yellow Book; An Illustrated Quarterly

by [Artists: Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Pennell, Walter Sickert, Laurence Housman, John Singer Sargent, Patten Wilson, Ethel Reed, etc.]; [Authors: Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Symons, Edmund Gosse, H.G. Wells, W. B. Yates, Walter Crane, etc.]

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane (Vol's I and II), John Lane The Bodley Head (Vol's III - XIII), 1897. Hardcover. Near fine. Thirteen volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 4150 pp. Called "the gay nineties" in America and "the naughty nineties" in Britain, the decade of the 1890s was, in many respects, one in which the Victorian morals and societal codes were loosening with many who, on both sides of the pond, "embraced more freedom, fun, and social... Read More

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The Apocalypse

by [Biblical Text]; Jim Dine (Artist)

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Dine, Jim. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the angels, with Hadriano for verse numbers and Stempel Garamond Titling for display. The paper is French handmade Apta Velin from the Richard de Bas Mill, printed damp.... Read More

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The Apocalypse

by [Biblical Text]; Jim Dine (Artist)

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Dine, Jim. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the angels, with Hadriano for verse numbers and Stempel Garamond Titling for display. The paper is French handmade Apta Velin from the Richard de Bas Mill, printed damp.... Read More

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