San Francisco: Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 222 pp. As the author (of whom we could find little) states in the book's short introduction: "The history of California during the last twenty-five years is composed of strange events. A more..... More

Berkeley, Ca: ca. 1968. Original wraps. Quarto size, 42 pp. Long before camping, climbing and the outdoors became trendy, The North Face company was founded in Berkeley, California. The mission of the founders was to manufacture tents and clothing which would perform well in the most hostile environments, at that..... More

[San Francisco]: Printed [by the Grabhorn Press] for Members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1932. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 copies, small quarto size, 15 pp. A charming story of a young boy's Christmas morning in San Francisco, and a promise he made to the Christ child..... More

Anaheim, California: Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, Out West Co. Print[er], L.A., [1905]. Wraps. Octavo size, 30 pp. A scarce promotional brochure published in 1905 by the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce extolling the many virtures of the City. Opening with a short "History of Anaheim" the brochure quickly moves into the..... More

Troy, N.Y. Printed by Wright, Goodenow, and Stockwell, and Sold by Them at the Rensselaer Bookstore, and by Goodenow and Co. Boston, 1808. First Edition. Leather bound. First US Edition, first printing, sixmo size, 151 pp. John Burns, FRS (1775-1850) was internationally known as an authority on abortion and midwifery..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1972), 1972. Gorey, Edward. Hardcover. Either first printing or early reprint (no distinguishing marks per Toledano), quarto size, 224 pp. Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) is well-known and well-loved for his poisonously funny picture books which are complex, humorous, serious, and provocative. This work reproduces..... More

New York: J.B. Ford & Co., Printing-House Square, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 624 pp., with a short chapter on Yosemite and the Big Trees. Horace Greeley (1811-1872) was a man of many parts, but is chiefly remembered today for having founded the newspaper the "New-York Tribune"..... More

n.p. The Fantod Press, 1990. Gorey, Edward. First and Limited Edition. Wraps. First separate printing, no. 3 of 500 copies, oblong sixmo size, 32 pp., signed by Edward Gorey at the colophon as "Mrs. Regera Dowdy" Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) is well-known and well-loved for his poisonously funny picture..... More

n.p. The Fantod Press, 1997. Gorey, Edward. First and Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 565 of 776 copies, twenty-fourmo size, 32 pp., signed by Edward Gorey at the colophon. Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) is well-known and well-loved for his poisonously funny picture books which are complex, humorous, serious, and provocative..... More

New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, (1954). Gorey, Edward. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of Gorey's second book, duodecimo size, 64 pp., signed by Edward Gorey. In "The Listing Attic", Gorey's second book, we are treated to a compendium of sixty limericks with..... More

London: Chapman & Hall (printed by The Whitefriars Press, Ltd.), 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition with John Austen illustrations, quarto size, 214 pp. Morality plays have been an important part of society for centuries, with their conveyance of religious and/or moral lessons; the earliest dated morality play was..... More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was..... More

Montreal and Toronto: Dawson Brothers / Rose Publishing Company, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition; octavo size, 1232 pp., two volumes (complete). Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) is arguably one of the most important generals in U.S. History, at times referred to as "the man who saved the Union" for..... More