San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. A companion volume to Becker's earlier Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of Thirty-Seven Land Grants (1822-1846), and an important contribution to the scholarship of California before the Gold Rush.....
San Francisco: Printed & Published by Chas. F. Robbins, 1862. Lithography of George H. Baker. First edition, "2nd Thousand" printed above the title. OCLC records two copies (HEH & BYU). ¶ A song by San Francisco poet, journalist and chronicler Franklin Soulé (1810-1882) about the rescue of a little girl.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. First edition, one of 450 copies printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
(San Francisco: Roxburghe-Zamarano Club Joint Meeting, 2014). First edition, one of 150 copies printed by Richard Seibert. Samples, similar to type specimens, that African American lithographer Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) produced as a promotion for his lithography business in San Francisco. Professor Chandler provides an interesting brief introduction about Brown's.....
[San Francisco:] Publ. by I. N. Choynski, Antiquarian, [1877]. First edition. A satirical cartoon depicting the ironic situation of Denis Kearney (1847-1907), who agitated for the expulsion of Chinese immigrants. He was famous for his speeches in which he repeated "the Chinese must go!" In 1877 he found himself in.....
San Francisco: (Press of Freygang-Leary Co.), 1903. First American edition. Not found in Unzelman, who does record the French edition of 1896. A complete translation of the second edition of Les Vignes Americaines by French viticulturists Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz, which appeared in 1896 in France and slightly later.....
Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1934. First Eucalyptus Press edition, one of 150 copies printed. Cf. Cowan, page 557. An entertaining, whimsical ballad about the geological formation of the San Francisco Bay, attributed to early San Francisco publisher and businessman, C. P. Kimball. The first edition is rare, and this.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1925. First edition, one of 600 copies designed and printed by John Henry Nash. ¶ An impressive selection from over 100 contemporary California poets, e.g.: George Sterling, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Rose Benét, Ina Coolbrith, Yone Noguchi, Xavier Martinez, Sara Bard Field and Charles.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1915. First edition, one of 525 copies. BAL 18762; Mattila A8. ¶ Sterling's famous ode that celebrated the opening of the exposition that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Handsomely printed and bound in the manner of the Kelmscott Press by Taylor & Taylor.....
(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....