San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1939. Stapled. Quarto size, [4] pp. This publication by the renowned San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press is a keepsake from the annual meeting of The American Institute of Accountants in 1939, and contains brief, humorous descriptions of some attractions in San Francisco and California's Pacific Slope..... 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
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Twelvemo size, 235 pp. Written after the author had passed 88 years of age, this important early work follows his decision as a young man to leave his home in the East to seek gold in California in 1850. The..... More
[Oakland, California]: The Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1937. Uhl, Kathryn. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 54 pp. This publication by the Eucalyptus Press, based in Mills College, is a series of letters written by Mary Atkins, founder of the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852, which would..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem), 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, oblong elephant folio size, [178] pp. The Book Club of California publication number 133, being a sequel to Robert Becker's earlier club publication of 1964 (no. 118). This..... More
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [122] pp., with original sales correspondence slipped in. In 1961 the U.S. District Court in San Francisco decided to place a large collection of diseños (sketches presented to..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Allen Press], 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original accounting of the tragic..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 1500 total pp., with slipcase. Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (1804-1889) left Washington, D.C., where he was then living, when news of the discovery of gold in California swept through the city. He organized and planned an expedition..... More
San Francisco: Carnahan Publishing, 1902. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 174 pp. Second edition (stated) of "probably the first novel set in the Fresno area." Likely the first story set in Fresno, although with much of the action being set in Yosemite where the family goes on several trips. The..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 650 copies, quarto size, 36 pp. The Exposition printed here is an effort by Carlos Antonio Carrillo (1783-1852), Governor of Alta California, to save the California Pious Fund for its original purpose: to fund Jesuit missionaries in California. After..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed by The Yolla Bolly Press], 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, unnumbered, folio size, 159 pp. After moving from Cannes, France, to Northern California, historian and researcher Claudine Chalmers was captured by the history and landscape of the Golden State;..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., (1935). Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 1048 total pp., with fold-out map. The fur trade in the American West was an extensive economic vernture that brought many families to form settlements there, and strongly impacted the way of life of numerous Native Americans..... More
Reno, Nevada: The Elms Publishing Co., 1913. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 1305 pp. This history of Nevada, edited by journalist and historian Samuel Post Davis (1850-1918), spans two volumes; using biographical narrative and anecdotes to tell the history of the state, and giving biographical sketches of the people..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1931. Hardcover. Unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies, octavo size, 124 pp. This edition of de Russailh's tales of his time in San Francisco was printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Nahl, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 80 pp. Alonzo Delano (1806 - 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Gold Rush Forty-niner; his sketches of gold rush camp life rivaled..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937. Derby, George H. [John Phoenix (pseudonym)]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies printed, unnumbered, 8vo - over 7.75” - 9.75” tall, 240 p. John Phoenix, alias John P. Squibob, or George H. Derby (1823 - 1861), was an early California humorist who used..... 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: The John H. Barry Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 672 pp. Criminals characters have often held a fascination with the public, with great quantities of books and films being inspired by them, both fiction and nonfiction. "Celebrated Criminal Cases in America", written by then-Captain of the..... More
San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942. Walker, Lawrence E. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, 61 pp. The exploration of California led many people to write effusively of the merits of Golden State, and Victor Fourgeaud (1815-1875) does so here in this reprint..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, quarto size, 180 pp. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) was a Spanish conquistador whose expedition from Mexico to modern-day Kansas marked the first European sightings of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, among other..... More
San Francisco, California: John Howell Books, 1971. Limited Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Quarto size, 130 pp., with original shipping carton. A first-hand account of one of the earliest explorations of San Francisco Bay by Fr. Vicente Maria, with further details 'by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters'..... More
San Francisco: Samuel Levinson, 1915. Corbett, Bertha. Hardcover. Octavo size, 99 pp. "What We Saw at Madame World's Fair" is the story of two sisters at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. This world's fair was held in San Francisco, California, and featured such dazzling attractions as the Tower of..... 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
San Francisco: Privately printed [by The Grabhorn Press], 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 75 copies, octavo size, 41 pp. The letters collected in this publication by the inimitable Grabhorn Press give an account of Elise S. Haas' tour through Mexico, addressed to "C"; Haas was the great-niece of Levi..... More