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A PICTORIAL BOOKLET. San Francisco in Ruins.The Spirit of '06 [cover title].
San Francisco: Advergraph Press, no date [1906]. 15.5 x 11.3 cm. Grey card covers printed in gilt. 9 leaves printed both sides in a continuous strip folded accordian style, glued into covers. Covers have soft creases, nicks to fore edges, ink annotation to a couple of the images, else VG. Captioned photos of the aftermath of the Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Card covers
Book ID: 9338More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A SHOOTING STAR
Edition: First printing
New York: Viking, 1961. Black cloth and blue boards. Light blue topstain sunned; soft crease to head of spine; else fine. Price-clipped jacket has small tanned spot to top margin of rear flap, else fine. A nice copy of this California novel, with the black matte jacket unrubbed, the yellow jacket lettering not sunned.
Condition: Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 6638More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
Edition: First of this edition
Chicago: Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley, 1948. 16mo, maroon cloth. pp lii, 170, [2] + frontispiece portrait and three other plates, all with tissue guards; map in text; indexed, reproduction of the title page of the original Farmland, Indiana, 1896, edition. Top edges gilt. Fine copy. Lakesides Classics no. 46. California Gold Rush narrative.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41974More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
An Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, no date. 8th printing, ca 1970s reprint of the 1939 edition. Green cloth. pp (xii), 663. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket. Now out of print. 1.5 kg
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46770More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CRYBABY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. A Novel of Petit Guignol in Long Beach, California.
Edition: First printing
London: Macdonald, 1968. Octavo, 308 pp. Black boards.n Light yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has rubbing to head of spine, outer corners, and rear flap fold; VG otherwise, flap price intact. Author's third novel, set in Long Beach, California. This British edition preceded the US edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39267More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
DEAD HERO
Edition: First printing
New York: Dutton, 1963. Orange cloth. Small light damp stain to lower outer corner of front cover and to upper inner corner of rear cover; light sunning to spine tips; else near fine. Jacket spine sunned, with tiny chips, nicks, rubbing to spine tips, light rubbing to folds; light soiling to white rear panel; rubbing to front flap fold; good. A crime novel set in Southern California - his last for a 20 year stretch - and featuring ex-L.A. Ram player Brock Callahan, private detective. Gault is an underrated crime novelist today. See the strong write-up in TWENTIETH CENTURY CRIME AND MYSTERY WRITERS.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5687More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
GABRIEL CONROY: a novel
Edition: First Canadian edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43151More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
ISIDRO. Illustrated by Eric Pape
Edition: Firsr printing
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905. Green pictorial cloth stamped in blue and red, gilt lettered. Frontispiece with tissue guard and three other colour plates by Pape, who also designed the binding. Yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Author's third book and first novel, a California historical novel set around Carmel's Mission San Carlos in the 1830s.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41157More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
NARRATIVES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE OF 1906
Edition: First edition
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley, 2011. 16mo, green cloth gilt, top edges gilt. pp 308. Index 57 illustrations, some in colour. Lakeside Classics no. 109. Very fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42774More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Natural History of the Islands of California
Edition: First paperback printing
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. pp (xii), 491 + colour photos. Line drawing, maps, index. Very soft cover creases at fore edges, else fine, no owner marks. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47081More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
POEMS
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: The Canadian News & Publishing Company, 1871. 16mo. Brown cloth decorated in gilt, brown endpapers. viii, (9)-121, (7) pp. + frontispiece and 7 other comic drawings. Book a little leaned; rear inner hinge partially cracked but firm; light damp stains to upper margins of a few plates; spine a bit sunned a near fine, unworn copy otherwise of a scarce edition. BAL 7428. Half-title : "Poems, From 1860 to 1868". Also comes in purple cloth.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 3974More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
SANTA CATALINA ISLAND
Condition: Binding: Stapled in wrappers
Book ID: 21972More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
TALES FOR THE SON OF MY UNBORN CHILD: Berkeley 1966-1960
Edition: First printing
New York: Dutton, 1971. Brown cloth. Faint pencil price and soft crease to upper outer corner of front free endpaper, else fine, no owner names. White price-clipped jacket has a few nicks, soft creases, along to edge; spine very lightly yellowed; VG+ otherwise. Author's first book. Farber is a very good writer. His short stories deserve more attention. This book is a memoir
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42581More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM. Notes on California Novelists.
Edition: First printing
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. In the first binding. Black cloth spine with paper label, pale green decorated boards. Shelf wear along upper and lower edges of boards; small bruises to upper corners of boards; near fine otherwise. Jacket separated along spine fold (internally repaired with archival paper tape); some darkening to spine; uneven darkening to panels; shallow chips along top edge; some rubbing to folds; just good. An edition of 1500 copies (there were also 100 signed copies). Discusses the work of James M. Cain, John O'Hara, Steinbeck, Hans Otto Storm, Saroyan, and Fitzgerald.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 447More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, and Other Sketches.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15114More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE MISSION AND THE MAN: the story of San Juan Capistrano. Drawings by June Simonds
Edition: First edition
Pasadena, CA: San Pasqual Press, 1939. Octavo, maroon cloth spine and blue buckram sides printed in maroon. pp (12). 40, [4]. Ink ownership inscription inside front cover, else fine in lightly used VG jacket. Not in Watters. Bedford-Jones was born in Canada. This famous Catholic mission in Orange County, California, was founded in 1776 but eventually fell into ruins until the arrival of Father St. John O'Sullivan in 1910, who began its restoration. This book is a short account of the mission and Father O'Sullivan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41905More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
THE MOUNTAINS. Illustrated by Fernand Lungrby Nelson Hahne
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Morang, 1904. Octavo, green pictorial cloth stamped in white, beige, and black, top edge gilt. pp [4], (8), 282, [2] + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 15 b&w plates. Dec., 1904, ink name at front and ink name on second blank at front; yellowing to fore and bottom page edges; spine lightly darkened; else a VG+ bright and tight copy of this handsome book. A fictionalized account of the author's exeriences traveling and camping in the coastal ranges of California and the Sierrra Nevada and the Yosemite Valley. With advice on travel, camping, hunting and fishing. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42963More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
THE MYSTERY. Illustrations by Will Crawford
Edition: First printing
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1907. Variant in red ribbed cloth (also comes in green). Colour pictorial cover label by Dan Sayre Groesbeck, spine gilt lettered. pp (viii), 286, [2] + frontispiece with tissue guard and 15 other excellent plates. Yellowing to page edges, small soft bump to lower outer corner of front cover; in all, a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Hubin II p 424. Bleiler 1978 p. 207 (inventions), Reginald 00053 "About the ghost ship, Marie Celeste. Takes place on a desert island in the South Pacific, and in San Francisco." - Baird and Greenwood, California Fiction, 2589. A fantasy involving pirates.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42951More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE PARSON OF PANAMINT and other stories
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Copp Clark, no date. Presumed first Canadian issue, ca. 1929 or 1930, printed from plates of the 1929 US edition. No copies on AMICUS with a title page date. Octavo, green cloth lettered and bordered in black. pp (10), 387, (3). Fine, bright copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light rubbing to very lightly darkened spine, a few nicks, crease and one inch tear at top of rear panel, near fine otherwise, very attractive. 10 short stories about a Califonia mining town not far from San Francisco. Dust jacket flaps advertise a 1928 book at front and a 1927 book at rear. Basis of a 1941 film.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39621More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
THE POETICAL WORKS
London: Routledge, no date. Ca. 1890s reprint. Terra cotta cloth, black on grey endpaper ads. (viii), 248 pp. Sept., 1893, ink name to top margin of title page, minor rubbing to the spine imprint, else a fine, bright copy. Number 9 in the publisher's Poets for the People series. Ads at front for the first 50 titles in the series, which incorporated The Excelsior Series. First Routledge edition was in 1872.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13553More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50