Mallette Dean, 1959. Hardcover. From George P. Hammond's introduction: "Those who love the adventure of the sea must ever be indebted to John Charles Duchow for keeping a diary of his voyage from Boston around Cape Horn on his way to California, for it is one of the liveliest and.....
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, Peregrine Press, 1955. Soft cover. This illustrated collection of poems, was published in 1955 by the Porpoise Bookshop, a San Francisco based shop that had a small press dedicated to printing original contemporary work. Description: Cream softcover portfolio with title printed in black on cover.....
Grabhorn Press, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Edwin Grabhorn, with his brother Robert, produced some of the finest of American independent press books during the twentieth century. 11.25" x 7.75". Yellow dolphin-patterned overlay over grey cloth boards, paper title to spine with red and black ink, rough cut pages. Signed by.....
The L-D Allen Press, 1950. Hardcover. A short Western novel by Bret Harte, exploring the negative consequences of discovering sudden wealth for one miner. 10" x 6.75". Light and dark brown boards with gilt decoration and gilt titles to spine. Rough-cut pages. Condition: Spine and small segment of covers are.....
PCI. Hardcover. Book is almost like new, with clean and unmarked pages.
California Historical Society, 1933. Hardcover. Reprinted from the Quarterly of the California Historical Society, Volume XII, Number 3, September 1933. Five chapters, each with a different author, on: "The Russian Colonies in California- A Russian Version", "The Russian Settlement at Ross", "Bibliography Relating to the Russians in California", "Russian Sea-Otter.....
John Howell, 1936. Kuchel & Dresel and others. Hardcover. Beautiful collection of cities and mining towns in California and the west, from early San Franciscan lithographers. Limited printing, one of 1000 copies. Light brown dust jacket has small tears all along the edges, with some additional rubbing in the corners.....
The Book Club of California, 1956. Hardcover. From the Prospectus: "Early Printing in California encompasses the whole field of typography in the State from 1833-1850. Not only has Mr. Rahey explored thoroughly the output of the Zamorano Press--the first in California--but also the products of other presses, including those of.....
Hicks-Judd Company, 1906. Hardcover. This fourth edition of the San Francisco Block Book was published just 6 months after the 1906 earthquake. "On account of the recent fire that visited our City, we were called on, within a period of twelve months, to issue a second volume of our Block.....
Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson. Soft cover. Catalog of goods offered by the famous wholesale distributors and manufacturers. Catalog covers house-furnishing goods, cooking and heating devices, plumbers' and tinners' supplies, metals and automobile accessories - with illustrations. Outer cover has some wear to the covers, including some dampstaining. The interior pages.....
Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Soft cover. This collection of documents gives insight into the people who inhabited California and the West at the time of European settlement. Documents include letters, newspaper clippings, first-hand accounts, and recordings of oral traditions. There is some shelf wear to the edges of the book, including.....
The Grabhorn Press, 1954. Hardcover. From the Dedication: "This book gives [Hale's] impressions of the conditions he found along the Emigrant Trail and in the placer mines, particularly on the Feather River in California." 11.5" x 8". Tan cloth and marbled boards with paper title and rough-cut pages .One of.....
The Book Club of California, 1957. Hardcover. This is a limited edition (1 in 400 copies) of a selection of Mark Twain's letters to the Territorial Enterprise from 1855-1856. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Outer cover is has pale orange and blue floral print with title in.....
Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Hardcover. A collection of photographs from esteemed San Francisco landscape artist Andrea Cochran. A great showcase of her talent as well as inspiration for your own backyard design. Book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages.
University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. Book showcasing key moments in Nathan Oliveira's life with readings of his paintings. Includes a re-telling of his life as the son Portuguese immigrants as well as his formative years with Bay Area artists. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Jose.....
Houston FIne Art Press, 1981. Hardcover. Collection of art from esteemed Californian artist. Dust jacket is in very good condition with minor rubbing and wear to bottom and edges. Pages are crisp, clean, and unmarked.
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1956. Fielding Dawson. Soft cover. According to the Poetry Foundation, Robert Creely is one of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, known for his concise emotional power. This illustrated collection of poems, was published in 1956 by the Porpoise Bookshop, a......
John Henry Nash, 1933. Hardcover. A definitive reference for California history, "relating to the discovery, exploration, colonization and evangelization of California" beautifully printed with an extensive index. 12 x 8". Three volume set in slipcase. Brown slipcase with paper title to spine. Books have brown boards with tan cloth spines.....
Castroville, CA: Photographic Publishing, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Self published set of 35 platinum prints by California artist Ryuijye, signed on the title page. There is a little shelf-wear to the dust jacket, but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
1933. Hardcover. From the limitation page: "Two hundred and forty copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for The Book Club of California in December, 1933." From the foreword: "The account of Vizcaino's expedition as given on the following pages is based on a narrative of the voyage written by.....
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1932. Soft cover. This report was commissioned by President Steele of the San Francisco Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1929, with the purpose of "investigating the problem of subsidence". The text details subsidence early in the history of the city, and.....
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast, 1915. Hardcover. The Architectural League of the Pacific coast was organized in Portland, OR in 1909, which organized annual architectural exhibitions and organized scholarship work, and published the book. This yearbook contains lists of the club's members, patrons, exhibitors, photographs, illustrations, and sketches of.....
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast, 1913. Hardcover. The Architectural League of the Pacific coast was organized in Portland, OR in 1909, which organized annual architectural exhibitions and organized scholarship work, and published the book. This yearbook contains lists of the club's members, patrons, exhibitors, photographs, illustrations, and sketches of.....
University of Washington Press, 1997. Soft cover. Collection of wood-turned art from the Oakland Museum of California. In publisher's shrink-wrap.
The Book Club of California, 1947. Hardcover. From the Introduction: "Rosales . approached his material from still another and in some ways a still more alien vantage point. It is this which accounts for the critical and satirical direction of his glance, a thing unmatched in other accounts." (xiv). 9.25".....