Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 2010. Limited edition. Fine. 8vo. 169,(3)pp. Publisher's black cloth with titles in red and gilt. Illustrated in black and white and with eight color plates tipped-in. At last a companion volume to the venerable Zamorano 80, this one with 120 titles covering the period from..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1942). First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xix,(1),631pp. Beige buckram, spine printed in black and gilt. Illustrated with 200 illustrations including 10 in full color. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. Inscribed in 1942 at length on the front free endpaper by..... More
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick large 4to. 746pp. Tan cloth, silver spine title. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well. This is the most comprehensive edition of documents related to Coronado's reconnaissance of the American Southwest available. It is a...... More
(Oakland): Peter Koch, 1984. Limited edition. Stiff card. Tall thin folio, 9½ by 19½ inches. Title and vignette on the first page. The back page is an essay by Glenn E. Humphreys. The inner pages contain the text of a letter from Ellery ordering books in 1856, and a list describing..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1964. Wraps. Single sheet folded to make four pages 9 by 12 inches. Illustration tipped onto the first page shows a 1684 frontispiece. One page of text announcing the move of the David Magee Book Shop from Post Street to Cow Hollow, "once a rural and..... More
San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. Broadside. 21 by 36¾ inches. Lithographed in color. Railroad lines and steamship lines are clearly shown. Text discusses the activities of the Development Board which was housed in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. This version seems to be the original version, copyright..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1907). Frontispiece by Galen J. Parrett. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vi, (2),54, (2)pp. One of 1000 unnumbered copies finely printed on Fabriano handmade paper. Introduction by Geraldine Bonner. Bound in full calf. The spine in 5 compartments with raised band,s gilt; the boards decorated..... More
San Francisco: P. J. Thomas, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Bright blue cloth, gilt title, gilt vignette on upper board, repeated in blind on the rear board. Two novellas of historical fiction: the first involves a man wrongfully accused of murder, set in San Francisco and in Virginia City;..... More
