DEAD BABIES
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second novel, a parody of Agatha Christie's country house mysteries, concerning a group of friends who convene at a rural manor to take drugs. A number..... More
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HISTORY OF POLITICAL CONVENTIONS IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1892
Sacramento: California State Library, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of California pioneer William Heath Davis (1822-1909), author of Sixty Years in California (1889), with his signature and date to the front flyleaf. "When..... More
THE JUNIPER TREE AND OTHER TALES FROM GRIMM
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy number 156 of 500 signed by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak, and accompanied by an extra suite of illustrations printed exclusively for..... More
SIXTY YEARS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1853-1913: Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is indispensable to the student of Californiana for no other work contains so much detailed history concerning Southern California. It is a gold mine..... More
THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. The first issue with the October, 1883 terminal ads and the word "His" missing on page 140. Fourteen essays on California's natural features and social life, based..... More
FACTORIES IN THE FIELD: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Carey McWilliams to Goldie Wolfsenson on the front flyleaf. "Carey McWilliams (1905-80) was an energetic, socially committed journalist who had a long career of..... More
THE SHIRLEY LETTERS FROM CALIFORNIA MINES IN 1851-52: Being a Series of Twenty-Three Letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to her Sister in Massachusetts and now Reprinted from the Pioneer Magazine of 1854-55 with Synopses of the Letters, a Foreword, and Many Typographical and other Corrections and Emendations, by Thomas C. Russell, Together with "An Appreciation" by Mrs. M.V.T. Lawrence.
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in book form. Out of an edition of 450 copies, this is one of the 200 printed on California bond-paper and signed by..... More
THE JUNGLE
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second issue with the broken type on the copyright page. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair..... More
CALIFORNIA AS IT IS & AS IT MAY BE; or, A Guide to the Gold Region
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. An exiled Pole who entered California with Stevenson's Regiment during the Mexican War, Wierzbicki (1815-60) continued his practice as a physician and surgeon in..... More
A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, AND ROUND THE WORLD; in Which the Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed…
London: Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, three volumes: [8], xxxix, [1, blank], [8], 432 + [10], 504 + [10], 505, [3, errata] pp. with..... More
BASE CAMP BOOK, 1953
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1953. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong tall octavo: 384 p. with photographs by James MacBride and others, geologic maps, and numerous textual illustrations. Original paper wrappers, with a photograph by James MacBride..... More
THE VINEYARDS AND WINE CELLARS OF CALIFORNIA: An Essay on Early California Winemaking, Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pinney and a Foreword by Robert Mondavi
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies designed and printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. Signed by Thomas Pinney on the title page. "Thomas Hardy recognized the potential of..... More
PRINTERS TO THE CLUB: A Portfolio
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1986. First Edition. This is copy number 13 of 100. Inspired in part by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn's A Grab(horn) Bag: Original Pages Found by Excavators at 642 Commercial Street..... More
SIXTY YEARS IN CALIFORNIA: A History of Events and Life in California; Personal, Political and Military, Under the Mexican Regime; During the Quasi-Military Government of the Territory by the United States, and After the Admission of the State into the Union, Being a Compilation by a Witness of the Events Described.
San Francisco: A.J. Leary, Publisher, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. With a personal check, dated May 4, 1853 and signed by the author, laid in. William Heath Davis (1822-1909), the noted California pioneer and merchant, wrote..... More
THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE AND OTHER STORIES
New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by William Saroyan on the front flyleaf. The author's first book, a collection of 26 short stories that established Saroyan (1908-81) as one of the most..... More
THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Hardcover. This is copy 221 of 250 signed by photographer Michael Kenna. Fourteen delightful essays resulting from the author's dwelling high on the side of Mt. St. Helena by..... More
WPA FEDERAL ART PROJECT - Printmaking in California 1935-43
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies. "...of the twenty-three states that sponsored printmaking under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (FAP), California..... More
DESIGNS ON THE LAND: Diseños of California Ranchos and Their Makers
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. A sequel to Becker's Diseños of California Ranchos (1964), "this work concentrates not..... More
THE WINE OF SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, with a Foreword by Marla Daily
Santa Barbara and Los Angeles: The Santa Cruz Island Foundation and The Zamorano Club, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by Thomas Pinney and Marla Daily on the title page. History of..... More
THE HUMAN COMEDY
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by William Saroyan to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr., Dean of Haverford College, on the front flyleaf. The classic novel of a California..... More
Original 1885 First-Edition Illustrated Leaves From A Chapter In ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, with illustrations by E.W. Kemble and an introduction from Mark Twain's official autobiography
Fullerton, California: Lorson's Books & Prints, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "This special edition of first-edition chapters from Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN has been designed and produced in the year 2007 by Joe D'Ambrosio..... More
CROSS, SWORD AND GOLD PAN: A Group of Notable Full-Cover Paintings Depicting Outstanding Episodes in the Exploration and Settlement of the West, with interpretive historical essays by Herbert E. Bolton and a ballad by John R. McCarthy
Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is Number 53 of 100 signed by Carl Oscar Borg, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Millard Sheets, and John Russell McCarthy. "The paintings, historical essays, and..... More
A DESCRIPTION OF DISTANT ROADS: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770
San Diego, California: San Diego State University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "Father Juan Crespi's (1721-82) field drafts and completed journals are important eyewitness accounts by a churchman who participated in a number of significant..... More
SAN FERNANDO, REY DE ESPANA: An Illustrated History
Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is number 12 of 100 signed by the authors, bound in bonded leather and slipcased, with a special commemorative bronze medallion celebrating..... More
MAPS OF THE PUEBLO LANDS OF SAN DIEGO, 1602-1874
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 375 copies signed by the author. Beginning with the 1602 map of San Diego Bay drawn by Geronimo Martin Palacios from the Vizcaino expedition..... More