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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1945. First edition. One of 250 copies. Small folio. 24, [1, colophon], [1] pp, Title printed in red and black. Publisher's quarter green cloth over patterned-paper biards, printed paper spine label. An excellent copy.This copy inscribed by Wagner to fellow Western historian Eleanor Bancroft. Bohemian Club Christmas Dinner invitation (1969) laid in. ... more information

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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition. One of 950 numbered copies. Small octavo with four color plates (including frontispiece) and twelve line drawings. [xiv], 366 pp. Unopened as issued. Publisher's blue cloth with inlaid oval color illustration to front cover. Lettering and rules no longer present as with literally every other copy. In the very scarce publisher's box with printed paper label restating the copy number. A pristine copy. ... more information

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San Francisco: Colt Press. First edition. One of 550 copies. Square octavo printed in columns. Portrait of Bierce on title page and facsimile of literary journal of the era, the 'Wasp', tipped in. Publisher's quarter white linen over red cloth, printed paper spine label. Bit of foxing to white cloth (none to spine), else a very good copy. ... more information

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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768. First edition. One of 1250 copies. Quarto. [xv], [1], 134, [1] Additions, [1] Errata and Directions to Binder. Two inserted plates. Bound in half brown morocco over red marbled boards. Spine compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to leather, some edgewear to right and top edge of front cover, foxing to preliminaries, light foxing to plates, else attractive copy. Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founder of the Strawberry Hill Pres... more information

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New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1922. First edition, 1 of 1,000 copies. Wide octavo (9 3/16 x 7 inches; 234 x 178 mm). [22] pp. With ten full-page woodcuts and nineteen woodcut vignettes, all colored by hand.Original bright pink boards with printed lime green paper side title (the letters K-I-D-D and the Jolly Roger). The last four leaves unopened. Signed by Frederick W. Goudy and Bertha M. Goudy on recto of rear free endpaper. Some slight wear to board extremities. Rear board with subtle sunning ... more information

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New York: N.p., 1856. First edition. Sixteenmo. 32 pp. Self-wrappers. some expected age-toning but a very clean an good copy. ... more information

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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. First edition. One of 500 copies. Tall ocatvo with a folding map of California and a woodcut portrait of Galvez. Printed in red and black. Publisher's quarter linen over decorative boards, printed paper spine label. Very good. ... more information

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Santa Barbara: Pacific Coast Publishing, [1916]. First edition of this scarce motorized overland narrative. Small octavo. 46 pp. With twenty-four full page photographic illustrations of scenes along the route and a folding map at the rear. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy.Scarce account of a cross-country auto trip in a 1913 Fiat. ... more information

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New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First American edition. Octavo. [iv], 342-[343], [1], [4, publisher's ads], [4, blanks] pp. Publisher's gray-green boards with printed paper spine label, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. In the original cloth dust jacket with the label repeated (slight wear to this label). A very fresh and clean copy.Frank L. Dyer's copy with his bookplate. Dyer was Edison's right-hand man and had an enormous influence of American cinema-"... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First edition, first printing. Folio with all thirty full page photographic illustrations by Weston. Spiral-bound black boards with white cover lettering. In the original pictorial dust jacket with some repairs but no large pieces missing. Minor corner wear, else a lovely copy. ... more information

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New York: Scribner's Sons, 1907. Octavo. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. Red half calf over red cloth boards, spine lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Except for a small, light stain to upper outer corners, a fine copy. ... more information

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New York: G & W Endicott, 1847. First edition. Color lithograph, finished with hand coloring. Overall sheet size: 18 x 22 1/4 inches (455x 564 mm); image size: 15 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches (400 x 490 mm). Professionally matted, glazed, and framed in a period-style frame of 25 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (640 x 730 mm). Excellent.A stunning, notably clean and bright copy of this excessively rare Mexican War view from Whiting's Army Portfolio, originally published in only twenty-four sets with ... more information

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New York: G & W Endicott, 1847. First edition. Color lithograph. Overall sheet size: 17 x 22 1/4 inches (430 x 566 mm); image size: 15 x 20 inches (380 x 508 mm). Professionally matted, glazed, and framed in a period-style frame of 24 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches (622 x 750 mm). Excellent.A stunning, notably clean and bright copy of this excessively rare Mexican War view from Whiting's Army Portfolio, originally published in only twenty-four sets with each containing just five prints. The Portfol... more information

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Boston: Thayer & Eldridge , 1860. Third edition. Octavo. 456 pp. Portrait in the third state (BAL). With "Printed by/George C. Rand & Avery" on copyright page. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco, elaborate floral gilt cover borders, gilt decorated dentelles, marbled endpapers. Light wear and fading to binding, light scuffs to edges, clipped periodical portrait of Whitman affixed to preliminary blank, else attractive copy, beautifully bound. ... more information

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. Second edition. Octavo. Illustrated with numerous photographic illustrations by the author. Publisher's half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with gilt-ruled bands, gilt spine lettering and a gilt pre-Columbian head, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bookplate. A very clean and lovely copy. ... more information

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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies signed by Carl Purington Rollins. Octavo. 41 [3] pages. Navy cloth backed spider-web design gray, black and blue boards. In parchment dust jacket. In original blue slipcase. Printed at the Yale University Press. Slipcase has some sunning else a fine beautiful copy. Rare in the dust jacket. ... more information

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G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1906. Enlarged edition. Octavo. ix, [1], [2, half-title], 309, [1] pp. Two folding maps in rear popcket. Profusely illustrated (many full page). Publisher's green cloth with gilt camping scenes of spine and front cover, gilt cover and spine lettering, top edge gilt. Contemporary presentation inscription of front endpaper, very minor extremity rubbing. A tight and clean copy. ... more information

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London: Methuen & Co. [Dawsons of pall Mall], 1908 [1969]. Facsimile of the first collected edition. Fifteen octavo volumes. This set includes the For the Love of the King, which was published in 1922.The binding has been constructed to match the Methuen edition. Publisher's white buckram boards. Front cover decorated in gilt with a design by Charles Ricketts. Spines lettered in gilt. Fine.A fine facsimile of first collected edition of the works of Wilde. It is still the most co... more information

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San Francisco: A L. Bancroft, 1876. First edition. Octavo. 37, [1] pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Early owner's signature ('Rev. A. Boulson. 25 Sept, 1877') on upper blank margin of front wrappers. small cup from same area and with minor foxing to wrappers. A remarkably nice copy of this scarce Santa Cruz history.Provides a general overview of the town's history as well as a rather more detailed exposition of its various industries and products. Santa Cruz was incorporated ... more information

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New York: The Outlook Company, 1904. First edition. Complete set of twenty-five large quarto volumes (10 1/8 x 7 inches). Each volume with frontispiece and numerous illustrations, color map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's full parchment, each volume with lettering and cover vignette (within gilt border) of a different color, top edges gilt. Three of the volumes with some fading to the spine lettering. Overall, a very attractive set.Each volumes details a different time and place. Inde... more information

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