Richmond, California: The Permanente Metals Corporation (printed by Carlisle, SF), 1942. Second Edition. Stiff boards. Duodecimo size, 45 pp., with small photo of two sailors loosely laid in. With the demand for men to serve in the United States military during World War II, women for the first time worked..... More

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. Mai (ca.1751-1780), was mistakenly known as "Omai" in Britain, and that is how many still think of him today. He was a young Polynesian priest who was brought..... More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose..... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, octavo size, 309 pp. This diary, written by the young Lewis H. Garrard, includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also includes legendary characters such as..... More

New York: The Century Co., 1887. Kemble, E. W.; Pennell, Joseph. Leather bound. Four volumes (complete), quarto size, 3175 total pp. This four-volume set is a thorough history of the Civil War, taken from accounts of people who fought in both the Confederate and Union armies; at once personal and..... More

[Stanford, California, Printed in San Francisco]: James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France..... More

London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, [ca. 1870s]. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), quarto size, 2762 pp., illustrated. This edition is a handsome nineteenth century reprint of David Hume's (1711-1776) "The History of England", of which volume one was first published in 1754. For any lover..... More

Tokyo: Published by K. Ogawa [printed by C. B. Woodward, St. Louis], 1893. K. Ogawa. First Edition. String Binding. First printing, folio size. K. Ogawa (1860-1929), an innovative Japanese photographer known for his portraiture and masterful use of collotype, presents examples of costumes in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration..... More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [Printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1926. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Full Vellum. No. 5 of 250 copies, folio size, 39 pp. Chosen as one of the Fifty Books of the Year, it was also awarded the gold medal by the American Institute of..... More

Leipzig, Germany: Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Altona/Bahrenfeld, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, [133] pp., in German. We offer this book as a part of history, as it provides an interesting glimpse into the supposed popularity of Adolf Hitler by the German people when he was coming into power. This is..... More

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, quarto size, 2082 pp. First edition of this three volume set, which "provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years..... More

Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers [Printed in the Soviet Union], 1939. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. 125 pp. A fascinating piece of Soviet propaganda published for the Soviet Pavillion at the New York World's Fair which opened in 1939, six months prior to the start of WWII. The Soviets spent..... More

Milwaukee: Ernst G. Timme, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 570 pp., with the original presentation card from the author tipped in. The twenty-fourth volume of the Wisconsin Blue Book, with contents including the law of 1885, prescribing the number of officers and employees of both the senate and assembly..... More