Search Results: All Things Californian from Hardy Books

Carmel-By-The-Sea California: The Seven Arts, 1925. First Edition. Illustrated orange boards. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 109 pp.SIGNED in ink by both authors on a front free endpaper. Illustrated throughout from B/W photographs and line drawings by local artists (including one at p. 63 by Jo Mora). Orange illustrated boards. 5" x 7 3/4". A colorful anecdotal history of Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. Daisy Bostick came to Carmel in 1910. She was an early manager of the Pine Inn, sold advertising for The Carmel Pine Cone newspaper and dabbled in local real estate. A Very Good copy (Soiled from handling; some edgewear) now in a custom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Mendocino, California: The Ridge Times Press, 1985. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. (6) 179 (2) pp. Illustrated green wrappers. Book design by Judy Tarbell and friends. 6" x 9". A collection of interviews with persons, mostly anonymous, involved in all aspects of the then illegal marijuana industry existing in California's "Emerald Triangle" (Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties). Included are interviews with growers, law inforcement and uninvolved citizens. Editied with comments by Historian Ray Raphael. From the back cover: "Here at last is the inside story of the marijuana boom which has spread across the California backcountry." A Near Fine copy (somewhat rubbed from handling), now in a clear 4mil mylar protective envelope. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition, Limited. Cloth backed Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 160 pp. #131 of a limited edition of 375 copies of which 350 were for sale. SIGNED by Robinson Jeffers in ink on the limitation page. Custom slipcase. Cloth-backed cloth. 6" x 9". Neat prior owner's signature and date on front free endpaper. Alberts #54. Includes poems "Ocean" and "Tor House". Near Fine copy (POS; Slight edgewear) in a Fine custom slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Custom Clear Mylar. 167 (2) pp. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and blank order envelope laid in. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor of Austin, Texas. Red cloth; paper spine title label. 8 1/4" x 11 1/4". Illustrated, including from period B/W photographs. Charles Norris was the younger brother of novelist Frank Norris. The story of the courtship of Charles and Kathleen Norris from 1908-1909, including their correspndence, now at The Bancroft Library. Kathleen Norris was a beloved and prolific novelist. Per the Prospectus: "This volume is indispensible to anyone seeking a deeper insight into the cultural and social history of the first part of the twentieth century." BCC 202. An As New copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

Portland: Richard Abel & Company, Inc, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 140 pp. Annotated by William F. Heintz. Foreword by Thomas W. Chinn, a Founder and First President, Chinese Historical Society of America. Two Illustrations. One of 1000 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Orange cloth. Index to Bibliographical Annotations. The best bibliography on the subject. Gladys Hansen (1925-2017) was the City Archivist of San Francisco, and authored Denial of Disaster. about the 1906 earthquake and fire. Slight crimp to lower right cover corners, else a Fine copy, now in a custom, clear mylar protecive jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail to any United States address.

San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1977. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Near Fine. (xx) `263 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, including one map. Index. Bibliographical Essay. Cloth-backed boards. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: "Conquer and Colonize traces the officers and men of Stevenson's Regiment from New York to the Far West, through their period of military service, through the exciting years of the Gold Rush, and eventually into various pursuits ranging from illustrious to inconspicuous, virtuous to infamous". A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (spine slightly darkened), now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Slipcase. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of Covelo, California. This copy is SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink on the half-title from the author to San Francisco physician and bibliophile Sandor Burstein, MD (1924-2015): "To Sandor Burstein, fellow internist and bibliophile with all best wishes / Roger K. Larson". Dr. Burstein was an avid member of the Roxburgh Club and The Book Club of California, and amassed a notable Lewis Carroll collection. Also laid in is the prospectus and a stamped envelope containing Dr. Burstein's invitation, with tickets, to a meeting of The Roxburgh Club for April 19, 1994, featuring a talk by Author Larson on "George Wharton James: Further Reflections". Dr. Burstirn was Master of the Press. An essay on… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Slipcase. xii (2) 99 pages, colophon. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from photographs. Notes. Annotated bibliography. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration on cover. Slipcase with paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Yolla Bolly Press of Covelo, California. An essay on the Western writer, collector and bibliophile George Wharton James. An As New copy in a Near Fine slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of oour books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. 144pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Produced at the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California. Cloth-backed boards. 6 1/2" x 8 1/4". Anthropologist Joan McIntrye is the former president of Project Jonah and the author of "Mind in the Waters". Contrary to what the title suggests, this book is not about the technicalities of whale-watching. Instead, it is largely about the healing powers of the ocean. From the jacket flap: "This remarkable book is the log of a voyage of self-discovery, in the tradition of Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Loren Eisley, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Inspirational in the best and truest sense, it will speak eloquently to many people." A departure for the Yolla Bolly Press, which specializes in fine press limited editions. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 116 pp. Illustrated from drawings by Daniel Wadsworth Coit, including frontispiece self-portrait. Historical introduction by Editor George P. Hammond. Edition limited to 1250 un-numbered copies, designed and printed by Lawton and Alred Kennedy of San Francisco. Gilt spine titling. Illustrated cloth. 9" x 13". Includes twenty-one letters written by artist/financier Daniel Wadsworth Coit (1787-1876) to his wife, from February 10, 1848 to December 13, 1851. He describes the business and social life of San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Kurtuz 142. A Very Fine copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (viii) 371 (8 adverts.) pp. Illustrated "With Many Comic Illustrations By Mullen". Brown embossed cloth. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Repaired by Coriander Reisbord, including re-backing with original spine laid down (Reisbord's notes laid in). Cataloger's notes affixed to rear pastedown. Per Kurutz, The Californnia Gold Rush #431, "Massett has been called California's first Bohemian and San Francisco and Sacramento's first entertainer...Colonel J. D. Steveenson gave him a job as alcalde, notary, and mayor of New Yorl of the pacific (on Suisun Bay). He then went to Sacramento, where he started an auction house. In Sacramento, Massett gave the first dramatic perfomance. Later, this versitile man became a partner and editor of the Marysville Herald, and discovered "Dame Shirley" by publishing some of her sketches and poems in 1851...While in San Francisco, he contributed many articles to the local newspapers under his… Read More

Chico, California: Chico Advertiser, 1914. First Edition thus. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 91 pages. Green printed stapled wrappers. Illustrated, including a small portrait of the author on the title page and three half-tone photographs. 5" x 7". First published in The Century Magazine, General Bidwell's memoir includes his participation in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada into California. The General settled in Chico, California, a wealthy man. Cowan, page 52. Kurutz 55a. A cheaply made book and fragile; pages on browned newsprint; rubbed from handling; stain on rear cover; still, Very Good Plus overall, in a 4 mil clear mylar protective envelope. Always FREE SHIPPING of books via media mail to any United States address.

Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by E. G. Parrot.Limited reprint of the 1848 first edition. A beautiful binding of an important early guide book. Cowan, pg. 589-90; Graf 3789. Pages 39-46 loose, else Fine and now in a custom clear 4-mil protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (13) 302 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author in ink on the title page: "Robert S. Wilson / For Matt, longtime friend, and biographer of my father. Bob / March 1, 2006". Illustrated, from period photographs and 2 maps. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Bibliography, Notes and Index. Cloth-backed boards. 6" xz 9 1/4". From the flap: "In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King--a scientist-explorer ;whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth ceentury....The Yale-educated King went west in 1863 at age twenty-one as geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the highest pjeaks of the Sierra Nevada, published a popular bo ok now considered a classic of advernture literatiure, initiated a ground-breaking land survyu of the American West, and ultimately uncovered one… Read More

San Francisco: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1924. Second Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. (v) (1) 51 (1) pp. Profusley illustrated from drawings of San Francisco scenes by Francis A. Todhunter (1884-1963). Typographical plan by John Henry Nash. Blue pictorial wrappers. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Rubber stamp "Compliments of The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce" on front free endpaper. A beautiffully produced and illustrated booklet extolling the virtues of the San Francisco of 1924. A Fine copy, now in a clear 4 mil mylar protective envelope. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via medai mail to any United States address.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. Later printing. Cloth-backed cloth on boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 512 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author in ink on a front free endpaper, to a good friend, "Dear dear Jimmy---I am so happy to have a chance to sign a book to one of the brilliant and coming writers---as well as my old friend---Adela Rogers St. Johns". Illustrated dust jacket. Large octavo. Cloth-backed cloth boards. St. Johns was a celebrated Hollywood writer for Hearst and on her own account. She was also the precocious daughter of celebrated Los Angeles trial lawyer Earl Rogers, whose story is told in this book. Many said Rogers was the greatest criminal defense lawyer of his day. Clarence Darrow chose Rogers to defend him when he was accused of jury tampering. San Francisco history buffs will be interested in Rogers' defense in the post 1906 earthquake corruption trials.From the jacket blurb: "FINAL VERDICT is Americana of a high order, for it gives the reader a vivid picture of Los… Read More

Boston: The Gorham Press, 1908. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 44 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by INA COOLBRITH in ink on the title page: "To my dear girl Josie Zeller from her friend Ina Coolbrith / Dec. 1907". Illustrated from original illustrations by Maynard Dixon, including the front cover, two paintings and several drawings. Also illustrated from drawings by Leslie Hunter and Herbert Igoe (from Sunset Magazine) and photographs by Frances Reid McCulloch. Decorated wrappers. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Slip of paper glued to title page reads: "FRANCISCA REINA is published under the auspices of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association for the benefit of its honored member, Miss Ina Coolbrith." This is a profusely illustrated book of poetry concerning the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and its aftermath.This signed copy is one of a kind. Rare. Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928) was the first California Poet Laureate, writer, librarian and leading San Francisco literary figure. With… Read More

Berkeley: The Sather Gate Book Shop, 1930. First Edition. (vii) 108 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titling. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". A book of poetry including 42 sonnets, many dealing with California subjects. Author Charles S. Greene (1856-1930) was a poet and Editor of The Overland Monthly from 1887 to 1899. Several of the poems in ths volume appeared first in the Overland Monthly. He was the Librarian for the City of Oakland from 1899 to 1926. Greene was a champion of art in public spaces and installed murals by Marion Pope Holden and Arthur Mathews in the Oakland Library. Some of these are now in the Oakland Museum. This book of poetry was published in the year of Greene's death. A Fine copy and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 75 (3) pp. Edition limited to 2350 un-numbered copies. Illustrated from vintage prints from the Bancroft Library. Vintage map endpapers. Introduction by historian Kenneth Johnson. Designed by Lewis Osborne and printed by George Waters of San Francisco. Beige buckram cloth; gilt front cover illustration and spine titling. 10 1/2" x 7 ". The letters of physician J. D. B. Stillman, M.D. concerning his coming to Gold Rush California and practice in Sacramento in 1849-50. Includes material on the voyages, camps,The Squatter Riots and the Sacramento flood of 1850. Some of Dr. Stillman's letters appeared in the Overland Monthly. Kurutz 605d. A Fine copy now in a custom, clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Nevada City, California: Berliner & McGinnis, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. (xi) (1) 64pp. A presentation copy to Nevada City leading citizen George Calanan, signed by author H.P. Davis on a front free endpaper: "To George Calanan who, in his forty-three years of public life, has emulated the courage resourcefulness and integrity of the fouinders of the town he has so faithfully served. April 2 1951 H. P. Davis". Newspaper clippings regarding Calanan affixed to endpapers. Illustrated. Folding historical map of Nevada City, drawn by Author Davis, at back of book. Red cloth. 5 1/2" x 8". An early imprint of the late co-publisher Harold Berliner, who was a fine press printer and former District Attorney of Nevada County. A colorful Gold Rush history of Nevada City (earlier called simply "Nevada"), the county seat of Nevada County. A Good plus copy (Re-backed; pages wrinkled; front cover cloth blemished), and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. Scarce. ALWAYS FREE… Read More