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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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