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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969 First edition. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. 70 pp. Frontis map in color, 2 facsimiles, portrait, and 3 plates (1 in color). Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A previously unpublished account of the visit to California in 1837, taken from Simpkinson's journal and illustrated from contemporary drawings. The text tells of visits to San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and to Monterey; the land, the missions, and the natives were closely observed and described. Original prospectus laid in..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904 First edition. Part 2 (complete) of the Twenty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Quarto. 374pp. Black and white portrait, 8 color plates, 11 text figures and diagrams. Index. Green cloth, gilt. Slight rubbing to extremities. A fine copy. The author gathered her information in 1898 and here presents the entire ceremony, as observed in the Chaui band of the Pawnee tribe. The first section provides introductory explanations that are essential to the understanding of the ceremony, which is given without comment in the words of the Ku'rahus, together with his interpretation of the songs and accompanying rites. The second section consists of an analysis of the ceremony and treats of its structure, purpose and teaching. There are translations of many songs..

Yosemite National Park: Ansel Adams, 1934 Original silver-print photograph. 7 7/8 x 6 inches. Original beige mount, 13¼ x10 1/8 inches. Very slight silvering to sky area. A fine example. One of the most important images of the photographer's career. This classic image, photographed in 1927, was normally titled, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome. Our image is a vintage print, produced c.1934. This copy of the image is titled, inscribed, and SIGNED on the mount by the photographer. Because of space limitations at the bottom border of the photograph, Adams has titled this copy, Half Dome - Yosemite. The image is presented to James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University. The presentation inscription reads, 'Dr. and Mrs. Conant, with good wishes'. Dr. Conant "was a friend of Adams and they hiked Yosemite together several times in the 1920's." The image is SIGNED, 'Ansel Adams' (Adams eliminated his middle initial "E" in his signature, c.1934).… Leer más

U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 2004 First edition. 458pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Brown paper boards with gilt lettering on spine. A very fine, as new copy in very fine pictorial dust jacket. The biography o George Bent, born in 1843 to a whie man and n Indian mother, and raised as a Cheyenne. Educated in white schools, went on to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War, then became a Cheyenne warior. As a mixed blood, he lived in both worlds, and never entirely fit into either of them. .

Sacramento: William Halley, 1878 First edition, first issue. 16mo. 84pp. Title page illustration. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, blind rules. Contemporary owner's name on endpaper. Spine a bit faded, but a lovely, tight, fine copy. This little work was intended as a hand-book and companion for visitors to the State capitol, as well as a useful guide for state officers, et al. Today, it is very scarce, especially in this condition. Includes biographical sketches of the State officers, executive officers, judges, State Board of Education, etc. Also covers members of the Senate, hold-over Senators, members of the Assembly, nativity of Senators and Assemblymen, occupations of same, various committees, telegraph offices, salaries of State officers, districts and district Judges, the vote on the upcoming Constitutional Convention, and much more. This comprehensive little work also includes State officers of Nevada and Oregon. The compiler and publisher (William Halley) readily states that… Leer más

Philadelphia: Harry Dichter, 5458 Montgomery Avenue, 1947 A dealer catalogue by the co-author of "Early American Sheet Music". 100pp. plus forty-five photographic reproductions. Semi-stiff pictorial tan wrappers. Minor crease to fore-edge of front wrapper. Overall, a fine copy. The author's first annual catalogue, organized by subjects such as Automobiles, Aviation, Circus, Civil War, Clocks, Comic Songs, Dixie, Fire, Indian, Lafayette, Jenny Lind, Military, Negro & Minstrel, New York, and on, and on. Of particular interest is the section classifying the music-sheets by the names of the illustrators who designed the title pages such as, Bufford, Duval, Fleetwood, Sarony, Thayer, et al. Of course, 1947 prices are listed for each item. Includes over 2000 individual song sheets. The wealth of material on the varied subjects and the illustrator listing is invaluable..

New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co., 1926 First edition. Very scarce. 85pp. Frontis portrait, illustrated with photographic illustrations of stamps and envelopes. Original printed blue-green wrappers. A fine copy. Essentially, this is a chronological and geographical catalogue of all the handstamps and franks used by Wells, Fargo & Co., illustrated with numerous examples..

New York: Winchester Press, 1975 First edition. Octavo. 245pp. Appendix, index. Numerous photogrpahs throughout. Red paper boards with black lettering on spine. A fine copy with fine dust jacket. The first book on the subject of hunting game with sidearms..

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964 First edition. Illustrated with 30 of the author's drawings, including frontis in color. Original yellow cloth lettered in red and brown. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Slight spotting to rear cover of jacket. A novel of the early Spaniards and their all-important horses in the conquest of Mexico in the sixteenth century. .

Cove, Oregon: Reflections Publishing Co., 1996 First edition. SIGNED by both authors. Number 25 of 490 copies. 219pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographic views and portraits, 2 maps. Chapter references and notes, bibliography, index. Peach leatherette. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An excellent work on this little-known outlaw in the Pacific Northwest. Vaughan was Tom McCarty's brother-in-law. The relationship of the two of them, previous to McCarty's association with Butch Cassidy, extended "over Oregon, Idaho and Washington Territories" and "included everything from stealing horses to robbing banks.".

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987 1st edition. Illustrated throughout with numerous color and black & white plates. Some discoloration to the top edge, else a fine copy in wrappers. An overview of Southwestern Native American crafts..

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by co-author Donald Goddard. Additionally, signed by the artist, Harry Jackson. Foreword by Peter H. Hassrick. Introduction by John Walker. Commentaries by Harry Jackson. Large quarto. 308pp. 397 photographic illustrations including 104 plates in color. Chronology, bibliography, index. Light brown cloth lettered in dark brown. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A large, handsome monograph on this important western artist. Includes Jackson's paintings and sculpture, from the early Range Burial and Stampede cycle to the monumental painted bronze of Sacagawea. Jackson is unquestionably one of the finest sculptors in bronze today. Includes a description of lost wax bronze casting and a comprehensive list of Jackson's sculptures and paintings..

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991 First edition. Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Introduction by Bruno Zevi. Quarto. xx, 252pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photographs, plans, etc. Extensive notes, chronological bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in black. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A detailed monograph of this important American architect. Traces the development of Harris' life (1903-1990) and career, assessing his place in American Modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle. Harris emphasized California regionalism and the democratic single family home. His work was admired worldwide. Richly illustrated with floor plans, renderings and photographs by Julius Shulman, Maynard Parker, Fred Dapprich, Man Ray and others..

New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1899 Slightly later printing (first published in 1893). 527pp. Illustrated throughout with plates, illustrations, map; appendices. Publisher's decorated dark blue cloth stamped in gold and silver. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends and corners, but a very fine, bright copy. A superior copy of this often-reprinted work. Glazier explored the headwaters of the Mississippi in 1881, and claims the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi lying immediately to the south off Lake Itasca, a small lake which he named, of course, Lake Glazier. The author discusses all the early explorations and explorers including Cabeca de Vaca and Hernando de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, La Salle, Hennepin, et al..

San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1930 First edition, variant binding. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Pp. [10], 110, [2]. Facsimile photograph tipped in, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, printed tissue guards. Dark gray cloth spine, patterned floral cloth boards, printed paper spine label. Title page slightly soiled, but a fine copy. Includes the previously unpublished letters from Hearn to Tunison and an account of the controversy surrounding the three different biographies (official and unofficial) which were written about Hearn. The binding is a noted variant with floral sides printed in dark green, red, gray, and black on a cream background. [Grabhorn: 133]..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953 First edition. Each chapter illustrated with a small line drawing by Margaret LeFranc. Tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy with lightly worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket. The role of women on ranches. .

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942 First edition of the author's first published book. One of 300 copies. Octavo. 9¼x6 inches. 31pp. Printed letterpress. Floral-patterned paper (with overlaps) over stiff cardboard, printed paper cover label. Top and bottom edge of overlaps slightly crunched. A fine copy. Number 2 of the Poetry Booklets Series issued by the Colt Press. Cunningham was a highly-regarded American poet and antimodernist literary critic whose poems are full of sorrow and wit. "In 1938 Jane Grabhorn, with W. M. Roth, set up the Colt Press. With the advent of the War the partnership was dissolved and from 1941 all Colt Press books, while designed by Jane, were printed by the Grabhorn Press" [Magee, Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco: p.17]..

San Francisco: Printed by Lawton R. Kennedy, 1957 First book edition. One of 200 copies printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. Edited by George L. Harding. Thin quarto. [6], 18pp. 2 tipped-on portraits. Light gray stiff wrappers printed in blue and black. Lower corner slightly bent. A fine copy. A memorial volume for Wagner consisting of three articles first published in various issues of the Quarterly of the California Historical Society. The articles include Collector, Bibliographer, Cartographer and Historian by Thomas W. Streeter; Henry Raup Wagner by Charles L. Camp; and Blanche Collett Wagner by Ruth Frey Axe..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1945 First edition. Limited to 250 copies with handset type and printed on all-rag paper by the Allen Press. Foreward and Biographical Sketches by Carroll D. Hall. 91pp. 32 reproductions. Half calf and decorated cloth. Index to brands. Slightest of rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition (the soft calf spine of this title is notorious for being well worn or extremely scuffed). One of the most important works on California cattle brands. 32 reproductions of the original manuscript cattle brand certificates issued at Sutter's Fort prior to the Gold Rush, from 1845 to 1848. Each of the reproduced certificates is accompanied by translations and biographical sketches of the ranches to whom the marks were registered. Includes brands for William Brown Ide, Heinrich Lienhard, John Bidwell, and others. Original announcement laid in..

San Francisco: Del Monte Properties Company, 1957 First and only edition. Thin quarto. 8pp., printed on rectos only. Thin light green boards, gilt. A fine copy. A printed memorial tribute commemorating the life of Herbert Fleishhacker of San Francisco, founder of the San Francisco zoo, the adjacent Fleishhacker Swimming Pool, and one of the original organizers and Director of the Del Monte Properties Company since 1919. The final leaf is signed by the Secretary of Del Monte Properties Company, Paul Winslow, along with the official embossed seal of the company. The Resolution is accompanied by a typed letter, signed by Winslow to Mrs. Fleishhacker: "...I am enclosing a copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Del Monte Properties Company at their meeting in San Francisco on April 10, 1957. I should like to add my own tribute. I have never known a finer or more understanding man, and while knowing him only the past twenty-five years, I have missed him and his wise counsel… Leer más