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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1932. Hardcover. Octavo size, 499 pp. Harkening from a bygone age, when a married woman's sole duty was to "please her husband", this book was intended to come to the rescue of such who did not know how to cook. "To her whose 'Bob'... More