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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. 16 plates of samples; frontis portrait. Green and black two-tone cloth, red morocco spine label. A very fine, as new copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the Mexican period (1821) to statehood, September 9, 1850. Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibliographic sources. The classic reference. [BCC: 94; Grabhorn: 582]..

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1920 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 304pp. Colored title vignette, 113 photographic illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding); index. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in dark green, blue and white. Minor rubbing to foot of spine and lower corners. A fine copy. Somewhat scarce. One of the better books detailing the wonders of the West, including the National Parks and Monuments, National Forests, the lava regions of Central Oregon, etc. Well-illustrated from period photographs..

Phoenix, Arizona: By the Author, 1915 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Volume 1 and 2 (of 8) only. Pp. 392, 348. Illustrations, index. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A very fine set, as new. A scarce and scholarly history, published in 8 volumes between 1915 and 1920. The full set of 8 volumes is extremely scarce and obscure and today demands a very high price. These first 2 volumes are the most important of the set and provide a fine, readable history covering the early Spanish explorations to the Mexican War and beyond; Indian troubles, railroad surveys, mines and mining, early settlements, stage lines, the Civil War, early pioneersand settlers, etc..

New York: George H. Doran Company Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition in book form. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams by the author in both color and black & white. Also, many photographic plates. Hard back in blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Very minor foxing near beginning of book, pages beginning to brown with age. Head of spine slightly chipped, short repaired tear to upper inch of front hinge. A very good copy. Based on articles taken from a periodical series which were rewritten, enlarged and expanded upon. A complete look at illumination from its history, to its development and usage, instructions on how to design, decorate and implement it, etc..

San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition by this publisher. Limited to 950 copies designed and printed by Johnck & Seeger and S.T. Farquhar. Signed by publisher Harold Seeger. Small quarto. Black and white photographs and 2 illustrated maps, one folding out. Bibliography on Mount Olympus. Bound in printed tan wrappers. Edges a bit rubbed and very minor bumping to lower corner of some pages, else a fine copy. A history of Mount Olympus, based in both fact and mythology..

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 276pp. Frontispiece in color, drawings, photographs, maps, index. Errata slip laid in. Silver-decorated blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Previous owner's name and date on free end, some slight offsetting (as usual) to endpapers from dust jacket. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A fine account of the Sierra from the first discovery, the first crossing by Jedediah Smith, the first wagon road, writings of King and Muir, Mount Whitney, Frémont, etc. The pictorial dust jacket is after a photograph by Ansel Adams..

New York: The Drawing Center, 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Softcover. Oblong quarto. With more than 100 full page color illustrations. Stiff, glossy pictorial boards. Corners bumped, general light shelf wear, signature of previous owner on title page. Overall, a fine copy..

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and drawings by the authors. Blue cloth with white lettering on spine. Top corners bumped, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly worn and all four inside edges clipped at a slight angle, though not affecting the text on the jacket flaps in any way..

Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Linda Schele. Quarto. x, [2], 387pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color, including black & white diagrams, photographs, reproductions, text drawings, floor plans. Appendices, bibliography and index. Dark green cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (short tear to bottom edge). Beautifully produced, and quite scholarly, with an abundance of color photographs, this work focus on and describes the various sites area by area, stela by stela. All three sites were the great centers of religious ceremony, of political and commercial activity, and were the residences and power of the kings and nobles. The authors provide extreme detail on the architecture of the sites and describe in detail many of the artifacts and monuments..

San Francisco: City Lights Books and Harper & Row, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. xi, 254pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Extensive bibliography, index. Green cloth, gilt. A fine copy in slightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. History of the literary scene in San Francisco, from the oral traditions of the Costanoan Indians through the twentieth century. Includes biographies of the city's literary luminaries. Covers the Bohemian Club authors, Les Jeunes of the 1890's, the Carmel literary colony, the writers of the 1930's, World War II literary renaissance, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the beginnings of the Rock Era, etc. Ferlinghetti, Beat poet & novelist, was founder of City Lights Books in San Francisco. Nancy Peters was co-director of City Lights Books..

Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 643pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and text drawings, maps, charts, some color plates, etc.; folding map and time table in rear pocket. Bibliography, index. Maroon cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large, handsome volume with complete coverage of this Southwestern Colorado mountain railroad. Includes 500 photographs, seven maps and seven full color plates after paintings by Howard Fogg. Quite scarce, especially as a first edition..

Mukileto, Washington: Hundman Publishing, Inc., 2003 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 368pp. Profusely illustrated with photos (a few in color), time tables, maps, detailed drawings, etc. Bibliography, index. Black cloth lettered in white. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Another of this author's fine railroad titles. Story of the Denver, South Park & Pacific line. Concentrates on the first quarter century of operations from its construction in 1874 to 1899. Well-researched, well-written and fully illustrated..

Washington: National Park Service, U.S. Dept. Of the Interior, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos. Gilt-lettered gray cloth. A fine copy. Some examples of early American frontier architecture, mostly of trading posts..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1956 Book. Illus. by Goya, Francisco. Fine. Hardcover. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter and Frances Fawcett. Illustrated with two hundred reproductions of the drawings, etchings, and paintings of Goya, selected and arranged by J.B. Neumann. Printed cloth. Minor rubbing to extremities and slight darkening to spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. A fictional novel about the famous artist Francisco Goya, with illustrations by himself..

Enumclaw, Washington: MacRae Publications, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprinted from the rare first edition published in 1903 as one of the Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports. Quarto. 190pp. Illustrated with color plates, map endpapers. Black leatherette stamped in metallic gold, red, and blue. A fine copy. This work is the key source for the study of Hopi Katcina dolls giving drawings of each of the vast variety of different dolls, and each provided with full descriptions..

San Marino: Golden West Books, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. vi 194pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs; appendix, index. Gilt-lettered black cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (yellow jacket evenly faded to white). A photo-history of railroad expansion in California. Appendix includes a list of rail lines divided by county. Covers cable cars, common carrier, horsecar, industrial interurban, logging, monorail, motor road, short lines, streetcar, and switching and terminal railroads in California, (1851-1992)..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Collected by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter. Edited by Kate L. Gregg & John Francis McDermott. liv, 239pp. Illustrated with sketches by the author and from watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller; notes and index. Brown cloth decorated in dark green. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (minor tear to upper edge of jacket). Field's firsthand account of a journey into the Rocky Mountains in 1843 under the leadership of Sir William Drummond Stewart. This was the first "party of pleasure to the Rocky Mountains" - an excursion of twenty gentlemen and thirty hunters, muleteers, and camp servants, with no other purpose than the fun of riding out hundreds of miles to the Wind River Mountains and the excitement of buffalo hunting. Field, a writer and assistant editor of the New Orleans Picayune, was invited to join the party. Here published in full for the first time and taken primarily from Fields' letters and… Leer más

New York: The Heritage Press, 1952 Book. Illus. by Cleland, T.M.. Fine. Hardcover. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Marbled boards with beige cloth spine, lettered in gilt. A very fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in..

New York: The Century Co., 1930 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Will James. viii, [2], 203pp. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Eve Ganson. Two-tone blue and orange pictorial cloth stamped in blue and gold. Neat contemporary owner's name and date on endpaper (April, 1931). A very fine copy. Becoming quite scarce. Story of a girl's summer on a dude ranch in cattle country. [Adams, Herd: 804]..

San Francisco: George Fields Book. Fine. Hardcover. c.1934. Thin 12mo. [24]pp. plus printed covers. Dark tan wrappers printed in black. Minor vertical crease to catalog, else a fine copy. The first catalogue for this San Francisco book dealer and publisher, located at 1419 Polk Street. The inner rear cover is an advertisement for the Grabhorn edition of Banditti of the Plains (published by Fields). The catalogue also featured titles within the fields of Arts & Crafts, First Edition Literature, Grabhorn Press Books, etc..