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.; Softcover; 16mo

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.; Octavo

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.

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 0520008472

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. 0356024571

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.; Octavo

New York: Harcourrt Brace Jovanovich / William Kaufmann, 1976. Card covers. Front cover has a sticker scar and rubbing to one corner, VG otherwise, Peter S. Beagle, Kay Boyle, Ernest J. Gaines, Wallace Stegner, Jessamyn West, others, Photos. ; Octavo

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.

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.

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. 0520239180

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.

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 0525213651

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.