Boston: New York Graphic Society, Facsimile Edition [printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy], 1977. Adams, Ansel; Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 777 of 950 copies, elephant folio size, [79] pp., signed by Ansel Adams. "Taos Pueblo", a collaboration between renowned photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and nature writer Mary Austin... More about Taos Pueblo
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (ca. 1918). Day, Maurice E.; Hapgood, T. B. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 64 pp., with original glassine wrapper and publisher's box. Ralph Bergengren (1871-1947) was an American humourist and children's poet, who wrote charming poems for children with light-hearted rhyme and metre; this book... More about Jane, Joseph & John; Their Book of Verses
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by John Henry Nash), 1918. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 13 pp. Prominent San Francisco poet Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) delivered this poem for Commencement Day at the University of California, and was the first of its kind to... More about California
[Kentfield, California]: Mallette Dean (laid out at The Allen Press), 1959. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies., quarto size, [66] pp. The lively firsthand account of John Charles Duchow's voyage on the Clipper Staffordshire from Boston around Cape Horn, on his way to California. After the Allens... More about The Duchow Journal; A Voyage from Boston to California
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company [The Tomoye Press], (1909). Jenkins, Will. Hardcover. Sixteenmo size, 71 pp. This collection of poems by Agness Greene Foster was printed by the Tomoye Press, an imprint associated with Paul Elder & Company, a notable bookstore in San Francisco run by Paul Elder, who... More about You & Some Others, Being Poems for Occasions
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Arlen and Clare Philpott], 1977. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, octavo size, 33 pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. "El Triunfo de la Cruz" ("The Triumph of the Cross") is an account by Father Juan Ugarte (1662-1730) of... More about El Triunfo de la Cruz; A description of the building by Father Juan Ugarte of the first ship made...
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (Philopolis Press), 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 2 of 500, duodecimo size, 47 pp. Written by American meteorologist Alexander McAdie (1863-1943), who made many advances in the field of meteorology and was also in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco from 1903... More about Infra Nubem, The Lights Outside, La Bocana; Philopolis Series
St. Helena, California: (James E. Beard), 1965. Dean, Mallette. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 22 pp. A chapter from the "Silverado Squatters" first published in 1883, this version with relief-cut illustrations and initials by Mallette Dean (1907-1975), and a frontis portrait of R.L.S. at the office of the St. Helena Star, 1880... More about Napa Wine; A Chapter from "The Silverado Squatters"
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1912. Cardboard covers. Duodecimo size, [95] pp., inscribed by Tiffany Blake (dedicatee). Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921), humourist, poet, and columnist, writes this ode to the American wilderness, discerning not only the beauty and inspiration found in walking through the woods, but also that which... More about The Pipesmoke Carry