Editions des Femmes, 1976. Wraps. Inscribed by Anaïs Nin on the front flyleaf. The author's second published book, which she twice revised with alternating novelettes. This French-language edition opens with a film star, Stella, studying..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Ruth Comfort Mitchell on the title page: "For Margaret Morrison, hoping that the Milk of..... More
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, Printers, 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. "The tragedy of the Donner Party is, without doubt, one of the most sensational events in the history of the American West, rivaling the..... More
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies presented as a keepsake on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club and the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1944. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Simeon Ide, in assembling and printing these "scraps of history" about William Brown Ide, wanted to establish his brother's place in..... More
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 200 copies printed for members of the Roxburghe Club. Facsimile reproduction of a Augustin Vicente Zamorano's 1836 arithmetic primer, the first school..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Eighteen plates of photographs, with reproductions of drawings by..... More
San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1930. Hardcover. Limited to 1,500 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Classic account of a camping trip in the High Sierras undertaken by University of California professor of geology and..... More
Berkeley: California Historical Survey Commission, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. "The object of this volume is to present a brief but comprehensive account of the formation of the counties of California, together with a more detailed..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1962. Hardcover. Inscribed by Tasha Tudor to Charlotte Huck on the front flyleaf. Huck (1922-2005) was an internationally renowned children's literature expert whose classic textbook, Children's Literature in the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. Hardcover. Later printing. Inscribed by Marcia Brown to Charlotte Huck opposite the title page. Huck (1922-2005) was an internationally renowned children's literature expert whose classic textbook, Children's Literature in..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by Will Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner. "In part, this book was conceived to mark the thirtieth anniversary..... More
Los Angeles and Palo Alto: Dawson's Book Shop and William P. Wreden, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies. Inscribed by Dennis Kruska and signed by Lloyd Currey on a prefatory blank leaf. A...... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies designed, composed, and printed letterpress by Peter Koch Printers. California poet George Sterling (1869-1926) impressed the literary figures of his..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965-1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Almost all printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena, California. Each volume in this set in uniform octavo format, published in a limited..... 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: 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