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KIMBALL, CHARLES P.

The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early Times. Published by C. P. Kimball 1868. Introduction by Flora Belle Ludington.

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.....

Price: $175.00

TAYLOR, MRS. J. H.

Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches.

San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger, 1936. First edition, one of 400 copies. A fine collection of sketches about early days in Yosemite by Mrs. J. H. Taylor, who worked for many years in the Yosemite Museum Library. The ten chapters cover, among other subjects, James Hutchings, Galen Clark, John Muir.....

Price: $125.00

TAYLOR, EDWARD ROBESON.

The Day / By Edward Robeson Taylor / Saturday February Twentieth / 1915 [caption title].

(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.....

Price: $250.00