
CALIFORNIA
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An Early Victory for
Equal Protection & Civil Rights:
Rejecting Anti-Chinese Legislation
(A CONSTITUTIONAL VINDICATION for HO AH KOW). Field, Stephen J. The invalidity of the “Queue Ordinance” of the city and county of San Francisco. Opinion of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of California, in Ho Ah Kow vs. Matthew Nunan, delivered July 7th, 1879. San Francisco: J.L. Rice & Co., 1879. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.2"). 43, [1] pp.
$2800.00
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First edition: The case in which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field (acting as an individual jurist in district court) found that shaving male prisoners' heads, a punitive practice used particularly to discourage queue-wearing Chinese immigrants from serving jail time rather than paying fines for violating the 1870 Sanitary Ordinance, was
unconstitutional.
Following the opinion is an appendix providing “history of the legislation of the Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco against the Chinese . . . compiled by one of the counsel in the above case [i.e., B.S. Brooks] from the records of the Supervisors and the newspapers of the city.” The text was printed from a revised copy, according to the title-page.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; corners and edges chipped, paper lost over spine, front wrapper with short tear from outer edge (not touching text), back wrapper with outer edge shortened. The whole now housed in a quarter navy morocco clamshell case with deep blue cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Pages slightly age-toned.
A landmark document of American Constitutional law. (34196)
Wayward
Wives &
Shysters in Disguise
Specifically
CALIFORNIAN
Comedy
(*&* a Nice Little “ALL-CA” Theatrical Production). Baer, Warren. The duke of Sacramento.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. 8vo. [12], 77, [1] pp.; illus.
$60.00
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One of the earliest comedies produced in San Francisco, CA: “Reprinted from the rare edition of 1856, to which is added a sketch of the Early San Francisco Stage by Jane Bissell Grabhorn, and Illustrations by Arvilla Parker.” This is the first volume of the third series of “Rare Americana” from Grabhorn Press; 550 copies were printed.
Publisher's quarter cream textured cloth with light blue fleur-de-lis printed paper sides, spine with printed paper label; lacking the blue dust-wrapper, small spot of staining at head of spine, otherwise a very nice example. (28209)

The Wonderful Rescues & Brave Deeds of
Tom Thumb
Banks, Eulalie, illus. Tom Thumb. [New York]: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., © 1934. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [12 (incl. covers)] pp.; col. illus.
$20.00
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This charming version of the classic story of a “different” little boy features
seven black-and-white and five color-printed illustrations by “Eulalie” — Eulalie Minfred Banks (1895–1999), a beloved English-born artist who spent a number of years living in California.
Publisher's paper wrappers, very slightly darkened, spine and one corner of cover rubbed. One vertical crease and a few others throughout; pages faintly age-toned. A nice demonstration of Eulalie's appeal. (36533)

“And So I Made a Test of Madness & Folly”
Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes. English. Jastrow. 1927. The gentle cynic, being a translation of the book of Koheleth, known as a Ecclesiastes by Morris Jastrow, Jr. [colophon: San Francisco: printed & bound at the Grabhorn Press ... for The Book Club of California], 1927. Small 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.5"). [46] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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A gorgeously produced reprinting of Jastrow's 1919 translation (Philadelphia, Lippincott) of Ecclesiates: The caption title of the introduction, the half-title, the paragraph numbers, and the colophon are printed in red, with 20 initials in red or blue, four in gold, and the headpiece in black, done by Valenti Angelo and printed on exquisite Whatman paper. The edition was limited to 250 copies, this being number 83.
Oscar Lewis in his introduction to this work aptly and succinctly describes its translator Morris Jastrow, Jr. (1861–1921) as “[t]he most highly accredited Orientalist in the United States” [p. 5]. Born in Poland, he was raised from the age of five in Philadelphia and returned to Europe to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig (1884). In 1892 he was elected the chair of Semitic languages at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1898 was appointed the librarian of the university, and later was a research professor of Assyriology.
The Gentle Cynic was publication 27 of the Book Club of California and was a companion piece to its earlier-printed (1922) Jastrow translation of The Song of Songs.
Heller, Grabhorn Press 1915-1940, 91; Magee & Magee, Book Club of California, 27. Publisher's stiff parchment with ties (originally green, now faded to off-white), in a brown paper–covered open-back slipcase. Cockling of the paper; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Very good. (38867)

Cheney's
Most Important MINIS
Bliss, Carey S. Bibliography of Cheney miniatures. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975. Miniature (7.3 cm, 2.9"). [32] pp.
$85.00
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An appropriately miniature descriptive catalogue of California-born printer William M. Cheney's “more significant miniature printed titles that can be classified as books” (p. iii/iv).
This is one of 150 copies printed and bound by Vance Gerry.
Bliss was the son of one of Henry Huntington's original crew of librarians, was himself a librarian at the Huntington, and was the father of Tony Bliss who was, until his retirement, the rare books curator at the Bancroft Library.
Publisher's tan and maroon printed paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label, in original cream and red dust jacket. Crisp and clean. (35694)

Burton's Philosophical Poetry
Burton, Richard F. The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A lay of the higher law. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.7"). vii, [3], 52, [2] pp.
$100.00
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Burton's Sufi-inspired poem, with an introduction by Aurelia Henry
Reinhardt and extensive endnotes. The work was printed by John Henry Nash for
the
Book Club of California (this being only their ninth publication),
with title-page decoration and headpieces by Dan Sweeney. This is numbered copy
254 of 500 printed.
Uncut
and unopened copy of a beautifully accomplished volume.
Not in Penzer, Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Burton.
Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine
with gilt-stamped title; vellum darkened, corners bumped. Pages clean. (28273)
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AMERICANS . . . “Never Retreat
either in Battle or in Immigration”
(California Statehood). Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, with the views of the minority of that committee on Bill S.350, for the admission of California into the Union as a state. Washington: Pr. by Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1849. 8vo (22 cm; 8.5"). 18 pp.
$400.00
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Bancroft Library's Cookery
Craig, Dr. & Mrs. John C., collectors. Four hundred years of English diet & cookery[:] a selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939 from the collection of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig. Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. Small 8vo (22.8 cm; 9"). 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
$18.00
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This bibliography of culinary rarities was issued as the guide to a marvelous exhibition of a portion of the Craigs' extensive collection. Useful for collectors of cookery, and interesting reading as well, it is
illustrated with a number of frontispieces, title-pages, and graphics from various works covered in the text.
Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, top edge soot-darkened with this intruding intermittently into top or foremargins. Generally a clean, good copy. (36760)

“STUMPED & the KITTENS Are Everywhere” — One of 26 Special
Copies
Davidson, Michael. Two views of pears. Berkeley, CA:
Sand Dollar, 1973. 8vo (20.1 cm, 7.9"). [10] ff.
$80.00
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A collection of poems on various subjects, with an especial emphasis on
art
history. The title-page is lettered in sky blue and black, with a small blue sand dollar ornament.
376 copies comprise this limited edition printed by Wesley Tanner at the
Sand Dollar Press,
including
26 on Wookey Hole paper and signed by the poet, of which this is number 14.
Michael Davidson (b. 1944) was the first curator of the Mandeville Special Collections
Library at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught American Literature since
1988.
Stitched in orange paper wrappers with matching
orange paper jacket, title and author printed in light brown surrounded by black ornamental
frame on front cover. Fine, in a mylar slipcase.
(30796)
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Hague & Gill Bibliography — “Observing Eric Gill's Centenary”
Davis, James. Printed by Hague and Gill a checklist prepared in conjunction with the exhibit A Responsible Workman observing Eric Gill's centenary. [Los Angeles]: Regents of the University of California, © 1982. 8vo. [2], 48, [2] pp.; illus.
$20.00
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“WOMEN'S THEATER” — San Francisco 1923
Dramatic-Musical Society of San Francisco. [drop-title] The Dramatic-Musical Society of San Francisco. Seventh performance of the 19221923 season. Friday, April 20, 1923 at 2:30 o'clock. San Francisco: Dramatic Musical Society, 1923. 8vo. [1] f. (verso blank).
$75.00
Program and cast of characters for “The Knave of Hearts” by Louise Saunders and “The Unseen” by Alice Gerstenberg, two plays by women dramatists with all-female casts.
Fine. (19234)
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Important
Account of
the
Southwest &
the Mexican Border
Emory, William Hemsley. Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. Washington: Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 416 pp.; 43 plts. (lacking 1 fold. map).
$750.00
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Emory, Brevet Major of the Corps of Topographical Engineers and an outstanding surveyor and mapmaker, here provides a groundbreaking description of the terrain, flora and fauna, and peoples of the historic Southwest. J. Gregg Layne (Zamorano 80) says, “A library of Western Americana is incomplete without [Emory's report].”
The volume is illustrated with
43 lithographed plates done by Weber & Co., including a portrait of “A New Mexican Indian Woman,” a fish of the Gila River, a map of “the actions fought at San Pasqual in upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th 1846,” and a view of cliffside hieroglyphics, as well as a series of 14 botanical images.
Government document: 30th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Executive document no. 7; Howes describes this as the second issue of an edition which appeared in the same year as the first. The present example does not include the oversized, folding map found in some copies; the plates here are, however, in the preferred state, attributed to Weber.
Cowan & Cowan 195; Graff 1249 (other 1848 issues only); Haferkorn 38; Howes E145; Sabin 22536 (for House ed. only); Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 148:2; Zamorano 80, 33. Recent black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Oversized, folding map lacking. Plates and pages with some light to moderate foxing; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Clean, strong. (27364)
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Overview of
CA Printing History, in Miniature — Satisfying CA Provenance
Fahey, Herbert. Early printing in California. San Francisco: San Francisco Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1949. 48mo (9.8 cm, 3.875"). 63, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Dedicated to the Thirtieth Annual Convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, this small-size keepsake was the first appearance of a work that would later be expanded and become Fahey's authoritative Early Printing in California: From Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory to Statehood. Fahey, a bookbinder and teacher of fine binding as well as a scholar of typography, helped set the text (Linotype Janson) alongside Ralph Scott, while Haywood Hunt designed the title-page and John C. Larsen did the presswork.
Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of Albert Sperisen (1909–99), librarian of the Book Club of California.
Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-stamped title. Offsetting to endpapers. Clean. (35691)
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ALL the ACTUAL PRINTER'S BLOCKS for the *47* Illustrations
of Zoeth Skinner Eldredge's
The Beginnings of San Francisco
A CALIFORNIA CLASSIC in the {LITERAL} MAKING
Francis, Walter, illus., et al. For Eldredge's The beginnings of San Francisco, the 47 California-themed printing blocks used to produce the volume’s illustrations. San Francisco: Pr. John C. Rankin Company (New York), 1912. 37 half-tone plates (on copper), 10 zinc cuts, all on their wood blocks; plus 3 additional plates on copper and another zinc cut, similarly mounted.
$4350.00
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A FULL SET of the printer's blocks prepared of the illustrations for Zoeth Skinner Eldredge's The Beginnings of San Francisco (1912), being 37 photographic half-tones on copper and 10 zinc cuts, all on wood blocks, ranging generally in size from approximately 2.5" square to 14" square, with oblong maps measuring up to 20" across. A number of the half-tones were done after drawings by Walter Francis, a California artist and illustrator who worked for the San Francisco Chronicle; a few blocks offer images of photographs, some identified as taken by W.C. Mendenhall of the U.S. Geological Survey or Captain D.D. Gaillard of the Boundary Commission; other images are said to be from paintings and a daguerrotype held privately, with another being the facsimile of a document in the John Carter Brown Library; and, indeed, some are simply “after” images in other books (e.g., The Annals of San Francisco and “Bartlett's Narrative”). The images include a dozen California maps and plans; photographic views of the Colorado Desert and an artistic sketch of “the Trail on the Gila”; portraits of prominent early Californians; several “military moments” and a plan of the Presidio in 1820; plus, notably, scenic and historic “views” including renderings of “the Palo Alto,” the ports of Monterey and San Diego, Yerba Buena, and a number of street and bay scenes depicting San Francisco proper.
Eldredge was a New York–born banker and amateur historian of California whose Beginnings of San Francisco, though possibly self-published, is listed in Cowan & Cowan and described there as “of great historical value.”
In addition to the 47 images/blocks from that work present here, we offer four others that seem to be “related” but which we have not identified beyond establishing that they do not seem to be from the same author's History of California (1915). We must wonder, were they images prepared for the Beginnings and not used? The additional zinc-cut image of a document signed by Gaspar de Portola and two of the three additional half-tones on copper (Portola sighting San Francisco bay and the Spaniards marching to Monterey) were found as online images without clear attribution as to their physical sources; and the last, a western scene not identified, has not yet been “matched” at all.
Most blocks from the Beginnings are still in or with
wrappers showing the images printed from them, as would have been convenient for the printers — these marked (as the backs of the blocks themselves sometimes are) identifying the images and/or showing that the work was completed. (The additional blocks are unwrapped and unmarked.)
In sum, this
complete array of the blocks used for printing a substantial and well-regarded Titanic-era book looks like something that was put on a printing house shelf one afternoon in 1912 at the end of an ordinary project for the pressmen and simply stayed there.
Seeing it on its present PRB&M shelf, coherent and unmessed-with more than 100 years later, is like walking up to that shelf through one of time's “wrinkles.”
On the Beginnings, see: Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 193. For a list of all its images and notes on their origins, see: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbbegidx.htm. The paper wrappers present are variously just fine or age-toned or browned, chipped, torn along folds.
ALL the blocks are in good condition; this is not a sort of thing easily damaged! (29741)
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Fremont's Third Expedition
Frémont, John Charles. Geographical memoir upon upper
California, in illustration of his map of Oregon and California. Washington: Printed by Tippin & Streeper, 1849. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). 40 pp.
$165.00
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John Charles Frémont (1813–90) was born in Savanannah, Georgia, a strong and activist opponent of slavery, a born explorer, and strong-headed and -willed. His service in California during the Mexican War, for the Union during the Civil War, etc., in many ways shows why he was tapped to be a presidential candidate; but it was certainly his role as an explorer that captured the imagination and the hearts of many Americans.
Here Frémont presents to the U.S. Senate his formal report on his third expedition to the West. The map referred to in the title was
issued separately under title “Map of Oregon and Upper California. . . 1848" and is not present; hence the affordable price here.
The original edition, not a reprint. A government publication: [U.S.] 30th Cong., 2d sess. House. Misc. [doc.] 5.
Sabin 25837; Howes F366; Wagner-Camp-Becker, Plains and Rockies, 150:2. Recent marbled paper–covered boards with leather label on front cover. Occasional light foxing. (24883)
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“Exotic Dishes” from
Foreign Lands
Frost, Heloise. A world of good eating. A collection of old and new recipes from many lands. [Newton, MA?]: Phillips Publishers, Inc., © 1951. 8vo. 128 pp.; illus.
$40.00
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Recipes from around the world, “tested in the kitchen of
a New England housewife and published for the enjoyment of many American families.”
This cookbook was illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson, who also contributed the Scandinavian
recipes; each section opens with a full-page, color-printed image of children
in various national costumes, and small illustrations both in color and black-and-white
are scattered throughout. The volume closes with a section of regional American
cookery including Ozark Pudding, Southern Pecan Pie, Creole Calas, Texas Gumbo,
Alaskan Nuggets (a sort of salmon croquette), Salt Cod Dinner, and
California
Orange Bread.
This is an
uncommonly
nice copy, still housed in its original publisher's box, which
features the front cover image reproduced in color.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's
spiral-bound wrappers, front wrapper color-printed with image of Dutch girls
baking, in publisher's box (as above); one edge of box rubbed and corners
of box bottom reinforced. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription and pencilled
date (March 24, 1956). A clean, fresh, virtually unworn copy — and very
uncommon as such. (29584)
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“Emotionally Intense” Yet Subtle Cookery — “Authentic Indian-Mexican Recipes”
Hardwick, William. Authentic Indian-Mexican recipes. [Fort Stockton, TX: Pr. for the author], © 1965. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). [2], 26, 26a, 27–67, [2] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Hardwick fell in love with the land around Santa Fe in 1939, and began this cookbook in 1951 “while spending a great deal of time with the Indians and Mexicans along the Rio Grande studying and photographing the various aspects of their cultures” (p. 1). The recipes here include sopapillas, “Zuni mush,” menudo, chile verde con carne, carne de olla, pavo relleno (the stuffing for which includes raisins, pinon nutmeats, and unsweetened chocolate), and many others. The cover and interior illustrations were done by Mrs. George Asa Jones.
Publisher's paper wrappers, printed in mauve and maroon; showing light shelfwear and traces of dust-soiling, with small area of light discoloration towards lower edge of front wrapper. Internally clean and fresh. (36145)
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The Boss & Family
Celebrate Christmas at the Ranch
Hotchkis, Katharine Bixby. Christmas eve at Rancho Los Alamitos. [San Francisco]: California Historical Society, 1971. 8vo. vii, [1], 23, [1] pp.; illus.
$25.00
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Second, revised edition: First-person account of
growing up on the headquarters of a working ranch in southern California in southern California during the early 20th century, illustrated with color-printed line drawings. This is special publication no. 47 of the California Historical Society.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers. A clean, fresh copy. (26075)

LEC: A Southern Californian Landmark
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, 1959. 8vo. xiv, [6], 428, [2] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Helen Hunt Jackson avowedly wrote Ramona, set during the Spanish missions period of California, to do for the American Indian what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for the African-American The novel appeared as a book in 1884, five years after she heard an eloquent lecture by two Ponca Indians, Standing Bear and Bright Eyes, on the injustices inflicted upon the Indian at the hands of greedy white settlers. Roused to action, she had written her first book on the subject in 1881, a well-researched work of non-fiction called A Century of Dishonor; but unhappily, neither that one nor this mobilized much support for the rights of the first Americans — although the novel was very, very popular. The introduction here is by J. Frank Dobie who writes, “her chief work lives on, not only in print but in the minds and emotions of people who call for the book in libraries, buy it in stores, read it, and are moved by it. Helen Hunt Jackson's outcries of moral indignation against America's shifty and cruel treatment of Indians still lift human spirits — even though comparatively few people are moved to lift hands against ambitious patriots still trying to get hold of Indian property . . . Her passion against wrong and for right will make her book live a long, long while yet.”
The LEC illustrations consist of 8 full-page and 41 in-text color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson (no relation to the author), who also signed the colophon. Saul Marks designed the book, selecting a monotype Bembo font with the chapter titles printed in red ink, and the printing was done by Saul and Lillian Marks at
The
Plantin Press, Los Angeles.
Binding: In an attractive full woven fabric derived from a striated Native American design, with a colorful paper spine label.
This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 298. Binding as above in original slipcase, volume spine label slightly darkened, slipcase showing only minimal wear and with a spot or two of darkening to front panel. A very nice copy. (30117)
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“There Will Always be Music, Art, & Church Bells . . .
There Will Always be a Memorable Meal”
. . . in San Francisco
Junior League of Pasadena. The California heritage cookbook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., © 1976. 8vo (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], 424 pp.; illus.
$60.00
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Impressive testament to California cuisine and wine, with brief essays describing the history of the state's different regions and regimes along with its various culinary influences — particularly Mexican. Chapters include “Monterey Peninsula,” “The Redwood Empire,” “San Francisco,” “The Sierra Nevada,” “The Missions,” “The Desert Valleys,” and “Napa”; this is the 16th printing.
The recipes show a penetration of Mexican cooking that extends beyond tacos, tamales, and guacamole to Mexican coffee, avocado soup, salad dressing, fish dishes, and even a soufflé. And it is notable that now the Mexican dishes are no longer segregated.
Publisher's tan cloth-covered boards in original dust jacket; jacket evenly sunned with a few edge nicks.
A very nice copy of an interesting, attractive, historically oriented cookbook. (36107)

“Mr. Holmes Played Old Men & Character Parts — Same as I Did”
Kellogg, Eugenia. The Awakening of Poccalito. A Tale of Telegraph Hill, and Other Tales. San Francisco: The Unknown Publisher, 1903. 12mo (17.5 cm; 7"). 130 pp.
$245.00
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Gorgeous presentation copy of an interesting collection of short stories. Kellogg gives us six short stories set in California, Mexico, and Alaska, with prefatory matter including a printed short laudatory letter from Joaquin Miller, reproducing his holograph signature and dated November 7th 1903.
Presentation/Provenance: The presentation is on the dedication page and reads: “For Mr. James L. Carhart. With the best sentiments of the author. Eugenia Kellogg. (Mrs. E. B. Holmes). June 2nd 1918. San Francisco.” And the recipient has written in pencil, “Note: Mrs. E. B. Holmes is the widow of Mr. Edwin B. Holmes, a fellow actor with me in the celebrated American comedian, John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5.”
Carhart secured a second copy of the frontispiece portrait of Kellogg and on the verso has written: “E.B. Holmes was a member of John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5. Mr. Holmes played old men and character parts — same as I did.”
Binding: Publisher' green ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover with the author's name, a shortened version of the title, and the image of Telegraph Hill in the era when it was surmounted by a “castle” — “Poccalito” in his pauper's rags framed between flourishes below this.
A very interesting cover.
Not in Wright. Bound as above with cloth and gilt fresh and bright; a clean, obviously always treasured, little volume. Very good condition. (34675)
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In Search of a Spanish Barber's Basin
King, Clarence. The helmet of Mambrino. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). xx, [2], 21, [3] pp.
$100.00
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Originally composed as a letter to King's friend, the “Bachelor of San Francisco,” and first published in Century Magazine in 1886,
this delightful tale was inspired by Cervantes and his account of Don Quixote's encounter with the legendary helmet of the Moorish king; Francis P. Farquhar
introduces it here. The present example is
one
of 350 copies printed at the University of California Press for the Book Club
of California. Prior to this edition, the story — which
opens with a recollection of an encounter in San Francisco — had only
appeared in book form once before, in 1904.
Provenance: Front free endpaper
with inked gift inscription from historian Carl Wheat, author of Mapping
of the Trans-Mississippi West, to Joe Blumenthal (of Spiral Press fame),
a “fellow member of WOOFFB.”
Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author/title; minimal shelfwear to
outer corners. A fresh, clean copy with an interesting inscription.
(30622)
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Mexico's Income in
1825
Mexico. Secretaría de Hacienda (authored by José Ignacio Esteva). Memoria sobre el estado de la hacienda publica, leida en la Camara de diputados y en la de Senadores por el ministro del ramo. En cumplimiento del artículo 120. de la Constitucion federal de los Estados unidos mexicanos á 4. de enero de 1825. Mexico: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, en palacio, 1825. Folio (29 cm; 11.25"). [1] f., 52 pp., [1] f.
$450.00
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This account of the income and monies received as loans in support of the government of Mexico includes, on pp. 10–11, information on the the history of
California missions and their revenues.
Title-page has a handsome woodcut of the Mexican national symbol (an eagle on a nopal with a snake in its beak). The final leaf contains a listing of “Asuntes pendientes de resolucion del soberano Congreso General.”
Howes E-201. Stitched as issued, lacking the original plain paper wrappers; light age-toning to some pages. Very good copy. (29887)
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CALIFORNIA, New Mexico, & Galveston
Mexico. Secretaría de Hacienda (authored by José Ignacio Esteva). Memoria sobre el estado de la hacienda publica, leida en la Camara de diputados el 13 de enero y en la de Senadores el 16 del mismo, por el ministro respectivo. Mexico: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno, 1826. Folio (29 cm; 11.25"). [1] f., 82 pp., [2] f., 93 tables (some fold.), [4] tables, p. 83.
$450.00
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This account of the income and monies received as loans in support of the government of Mexico includes, on pp. 26–27, information on California and its then current situation. The tables contain significant data on mining and transportation; scattered paragraphs on Galveston and New Mexico.
Not in Howes despite the previous year's report being listed. Stitched as issued, lacking the original plain paper wrappers, dust-soiling and some age-toning; title-leaf torn at inner margin and a partial repair sometime done with document tape; corners bumped and last leaf chipped at edges. Good copy. (29969)

New Mexico, Texas, & California
Mexico. Laws, statutes, etc. 18 January 1845. Broadside. Begins: sabed: Que el Congreso general ha decretado y el Ejecutivo sancionado lo siguiente. En el estado actual de la República Mexicana, los Departamentos fronterizos ... Mexico: No publisher/printer, 1845. Small 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). [1] p.
$350.00
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This law promulgated by Interim President Herrera clarifies and defines part 17 of article 134 of the Bases orgánicas (i.e., Santa Anna's constitution of 1843). It declares Chiapas, New Mexico, Texas, and Alta California to be border states: The question being settled was which states were to have their governors appointed by the central government, others being permitted to submit a list of five candidates. Signed in type by Gonzaga Cuevas.
Of course, by 1845 Texas was nine years past its 2 March 1836 Declaration of Independence from Mexico and was on the verge of being admitted to U.S. statehood, although Mexico still failed to recognize the fact. But New Mexico and California were still one year from being wrenched away via the Mexican-American War (i.e., La intervención estadounidense en México, La Guerra de 1846).
Not in Streeter (rev.), Texas. Fold as issued. with the integral blank leaf. Pencil notations of a bookseller, including a price code. Very good. (36688)
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Signed Limited Edition: Noir Fiction
Parker, T. Jefferson. Easy Street. [Mission Viejo: ASAP Publishing], © 2000. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). Frontis., 44 pp.; 2 col. plts.
$300.00
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First edition, preceding the story's republication in The Best American Mystery Stories 2001: a tale of two brothers and a rash of bank robberies in Southern California. Elizabeth George provided the thoughtful introduction, Robert Crais the enthusiastic afterword, and Phil Parks the mounted, color-printed illustrations. This is
lettered copy N of 26 collector's copies, out of 250 total, signed by Parker, George, Crais, and Parks on the limitation page.
Binding: Publisher's grey silk, front cover with affixed color-printed illustration, spine with title stamped in black, in a striking lucite slipcase.
Binding as above, lucite showing predictable minor shelfwear, overall a beautiful copy. An uncommon printing of work by one of the most popular contemporary crime writers; actually, of
an all-star trio of writers. (33332)
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Baja, Florida, Spanish Southwest, & Northern Mexico
Perez de Ribas, Andres. Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee entre gentes las mas barbaras, y fieras del nuevo Orbe, conseguidos por los soldados de la Milicia de la Compañia de Iesus en las missiones e la prouincia de Nueua-España ... Madrid: Por Alo[n]so de Paredes, 1645. Folio. [20] ff., 763, [1] pp.
$37,500.00
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A great rarity of the Spanish Southwest, and still the dominant history of the region and of Jesuit activities there for the period from 1590 to 1644, the Historia provides an
unparalleled description of the upper part of Mexico and what is now the southwest region of the United States in the first half of the 17th century.
Andres Perez de Ribas (1576–1655) joined the Jesuit order in 1602 and arrived in Mexico in 1604 to proselytize among the native Indians. He was assigned to the area of northern Sinaloa, along the Pacific coast, and showed great ability from the start. Within a year he had baptized all the members of the Ahome nation and a large part of the Suaqui tribe, together about 10,000 natives. In 1617 he was instrumental in the pacification and conversion of the Yaqui tribe. Perez de Ribas was recalled to Mexico City in 1620 to work in the college there, eventually becoming a provincial of the school. He returned to Rome in 1643, undertaking the present history (which he completed in 1644) and other histories still found only in manuscript.
The work is divided into twelve parts, cumulatively giving a history of Jesuit activities in Mexico and the American Southwest, as well as providing a social and cultural examination of Indian customs, manners, rites, and superstitions. The first part of the book gives a history of Sinaloa and its people before the arrival of the Spanish. Parts two to eleven describe the arrival of the Spanish and the Jesuits in upper Mexico and their activities among the several tribes, including the conversion of the Hiaqui tribe, and the missions at Topia, San Andres, Parras, and Laguna Grande, as well as the conversion of the Tepeguanes and their subsequent rebellion. The final part discusses missionary activities in other parts of New Spain, including
an account of the martyrdom of nine Jesuit missionaries in Florida in 1566.
There is also some information on Baja California.
“Obra de extremo interes acerca de las actividades de los jesuitas en Sinaloa, California y Florida” (Palau). Of Perez de Ribas' Historia Bancroft writes: “It is a complete history of Jesuit work in Nueva Vizcaya, practically the only history the country had from 1590 to 1644, written not only by a contemporary author but by a prominent actor in the events narrated, who had access to all the voluminous correspondence of his order, comparatively few of which documents have been preserved. In short, Ribas wrote under the most favourable circumstances and made good use of his opportunities.”
Provenance: On the upper edges of the volume is the colonial-era marca de fuego of the Seminario Conciliar de México.
Perez de Ribas' work is exceedingly rare on the market. In forty years of bookselling, this is only the second copy we have handled.
Very important and desirable.
Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 43; Alden & Landis 645/96; Sabin 60895, 70789; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 525; Servies 176. JCB (3), II, 333. Medina, BHA, 1083; Palau 222254; Streit 1745; Barrett 1984; Bell P169; Howgego R35; Brunet, IV, 21590; Graesse, VI, 106; Leclerc, Bibl. Amer. (1867), 1305; Huth, Catalog, IV, 1243; Heredia 6836; Salva 3376. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, marca del fuego; hinges (inside)cracking, light soiling. Very small ink stamp on title-page. Light foxing and tanning to text; some very slight worming, confined primarily to margins in rear of text block. A few ink
notations and stains.
A very good copy in a cloth clamshell case, leather label. (34581)

“Yellow Bird's” English Poetry — Morocco Presentation Binding by Bosqui
Ridge, John Rollin. Poems. San Francisco: H. Payot & Company, 1868. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis. port., 137, [1] pp.
$1200.00
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Ridge's Poems is widely held to be
among the first published books of poetry by a U.S. native (i.e., indigenous) American in the English language. The author was the son of a chief of the Cherokee, who, with his white wife, went west with other dispossessed Indians in 1850, hoping to strike pay dirt in the gold fields — but didn't. Instead, he settled in San Francisco and launched a writing career with a series of articles on crossing the plains for the New Orleans True Delta. He later contributed many articles and poems for the Golden Era and the Hesperian under the pen name of “Yellow Bird,” the literal translation of his Indian name. Additionally he “owned or edited ten different papers, including the Sacramento Daily Bee, the Marysville Califonria Express, the Grass Valley Daily National, and the San Francisco Herald” (Reese & Miles). Today, Ridge is remembered primarily for his Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta [1854], which transformed the Mexican bandit into a noble Robin Hood.
Ridge's poems were collected posthumously and are here published by his widow, with
a mounted albumen photograph of the author for the frontispiece; the preface includes a detailed account of the assassination of his father, John Ridge. The book was printed by Edward Bosqui & Co., considered San Francisco’s finest 19th-century printer.
Binding: Chestnut-brown morocco presentation binding with bevelled edges, covers framed in black rules, with author and title in gilt in nice frames on each board (gilt stamping the same as seen on the cloth binding).
Binding by Bosqui, with that firm’s ticket.
Cowan p. 533; Graff 3504; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 1856–1890, 43; Miles & Reese, Creating America, 122; Norris 3270. Binding as above; rebacked, original spine somewhat unartfully reapplied, sides scuffed. Scratched markings on pastedowns; title-page and a few others with old stains.
A very decent copy, with the presentation binding copies being rare. (39603)

An Artist's Miniature Keepsake
Roatcap, Adela Spindler. Lunch at Albert's: Reflections on Joe D'Ambrosio's A Memoir of Book Design. San Francisco: Joe D'Ambrosio, 2005. Miniature (7.1 cm, 2.8"). [6], 40 pp.; col. illus.
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Delightful little commemorative volume in honor of the Book Club of California's 2005 Oscar Lewis Award to beloved book artist Joe D'Ambrosio (1934–2009). This is
numbered copy 32 of 50 signed by the artist on the inside back cover (there were an additional 10 unnumbered artist proof copies produced). The text was printed via ink-jet in black and heliotrope; the illustrations include a mounted image of D'Ambrosio's letter-themed floor mosaic at the California State Library.
Binding: Original black cloth with cheerful red, green, blue, and yellow star print, spine with printed paper label, inside front cover with inset photograph of D'Ambrosio.
Binding as above. A fresh, clean copy of an uncommon tribute. (35689)
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“Improved Taste of Modern Time Must
Question the Crudities of Former Days”
Rocco, Sha [pseud. of Abisha Shumway Hudson]. The masculine cross and ancient sex worship. New York: Asa K. Butts & Co., 1874. 8vo (19 cm, 7.75"). 65, [7 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First edition: A study of cruciform sexual symbolism in ancient religions, touching on Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, and other mythological connections to the shape of the cross. The volume is illustrated with in-text engravings of statues, relics, and other items, including the final chapter (“The Phallus in California,” about the results of the author's antiquity-hunting expedition in Stanlislaus County, CA), which features a representation of what the author says is misidentified as an “Indian pestle.”
Hudson was a Massachusetts-born physician and one of the founders of the Keokuk Medical College; his publisher here was the notable freethinker and
contraception advocate Asa K. Butts, who has supplied several pages of advertisements for some of his other publications.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and fish vignette with blind-stamped decorative borders; spine slightly darkened, small spots of light discoloration, extremities rubbed. Sewing just barely starting to loosen but holding; pages clean.
A more than decent copy of this interesting and, shall we say, “highly personal” work. (35139)
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“Timshel!”
Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. 8vo (22.8 cm; 8.625"). 602 pp.
$300.00
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First edition of this ambitious 1952 American novel. Steinbeck details the lives of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, over multiple generations as he explores the nature of good versus evil. Alongside the sweeping scenery of Steinbeck's beloved Salinas Valley, a character in itself, the Book of Genesis–inspired relationships intertwine as they explore love, acceptance, and guilt.Although not initially well-received by critics, according to Steinbeck's last wife he considered East of Eden
his magnum opus. He called it “the book,” saying, “I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this . . . Having done this I can do anything I want. Always I had this book waiting to be written.” A decade following its publication, Steinbeck would win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
First state dust jacket with author's photo on rear panel and no ads; contains spelling mistake “bite” instead of “bight” on p. 281, line 38.
Publisher's green cloth with navy-stamped lettering to front board; red spine-label with navy lettering and border. Edges of boards lightly faded. Price-clipped dust jacket present with minor age-toning and chipping at extremities, minor loss to spine-ends; small tears at top of front joint and bottom of front fore-edge, and some rubbing to fore-edges. Rear free endpaper pulling from binding slightly, exposing about an inch of webbing.
A nice, sturdy and readable copy. (37822)
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After the (Premature?) Capture of Monterey — A Personal & Significant
LETTER TO A WORRIED WIFE
Steuart, William. Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Commodore [Thomas ap Catesby] Jones. George Town [Maryland, later incorporated into Washington, D.C.]: 1843. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). [2] ff.
$2750.00
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Written to the wife of the U.S. Naval officer who in 1842 seized and briefly held the port of Monterey under the mistaken impression that war with Mexico had begun, this supportive, warmly written letter assures that lady that “the great mass of the loyal American Citizens view it [her husband's action] as a chivalrous and most glorious act of military vigilance; indeed two of the most intelligent and influential members of Congress a few days since declared, that but for political considerations involving at the moment National Courtesy, they would move the presentation of a Splendid Sword to the Gallant Commodore in Commendation of his Conduct . . .” In addition, Steuart notes that he is quite confident that Commodore Jones will be well provided for financially.
Origin & Provenance: The writer was neither Lieutenant Colonel William Steuart, who died in 1839, nor William Steuart, chief statistician of the Bureau of the Census, who was born in 1861; rather, this was beyond a doubt
the William M. Steuart for whom Steuart Street in San Francisco was named — the acting chairman of the California State Constitutional Convention in 1849 and a one-time candidate for governor of the state.
Steuert first went to California as a secretary to Commodore Jones and maintained strong ties to the family.
Folded as mailed, with traces of original red wax seal; lower inner corner reinforced with cellophane tape some time ago. Two small spots of staining.
A personal yet politically instructive window on contemporary opinion, written by someone who was surely (kindly!) “spinning” yet (also) knew whereof he spoke. (36541)
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Perishable
Press . . .
Thayler,
Carl. The drivers. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1969.
8vo (21.8 cm, 8.6"). [24] pp.
$50.00
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First
edition: 11 poems from a
CALIFORNIA-BORN poet and professor. Decorated with a title-page illustration
done after an etching by Jack Damer, these pieces were hand-set in Palatino
and printed in black, brown, red, and orange on handmade Shadwell paper. This
is
one
of 220 copies printed, of which only 130 copies were for sale;
Walter Hamady's distinctive
Perishable
Press pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem, appears
in blind at the colophon.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 23.
Publisher's gray Fabriano paper wrappers, front wrapper with title
stamped in blind. A clean, fresh copy. (30800)
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Seaside Imagery
Theobald, John. A second light. Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 1977. 8vo (25.9 cm, 10.2"). [24] pp.
$700.00
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First edition of these poems from a professor at San Diego State University; the first piece is “La Jolla Shores.” This is one of
75 copies set in Gudrun Zapf's Diotima by Susan Johanknecht and printed on French-folded Fabriano paper, with the front cover being a portion of an original ocean-inspired
lithograph by Claire Van Vliet, done in blues, greens, white, and silver.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 41. Publisher's navy cloth, front cover with illustration on paper as above; spine very slightly sunned, outer front corners showing most minimal wear.
Van Vliet's lithograph bright and beautiful. (32333)
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Dispatches from the Frontier
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs. Our army on the Rio Grande. Being a short account of the important events transpiring from the time of the removal of the “Army of Occupation” from Corpus Christi, to the surrender of Matamoros; with descriptions of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, the bombardment of Fort Brown, and the ceremonies of the surrender of Matamoros: with descriptions of the city, etc. etc. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 8vo (17.7 cm, 7"). [2] ff., ix, [10]–300 pp.; 9 pls.
$450.00
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Detailed descriptions of travel, battle, and business with Mexico form a captivating narrative in this edition illustrated with
nine full-page wood-engraved plates by Gilbert and Gihon (counting the frontispiece), and
17 engravings in text, including one full-page plan of Matamoros, Fort Brown, and environs.
This copy has the officers'
official reports (pp. 197–300), sometimes lacking.
Howes T-236; Sabin 95665; Basic Texas Books 205. Recently rebound in glazed black moiré cloth, title gilt on leather spine label, edges lightly speckled brown. Ex-library with pressure-stamps on added illustrated title-page and title-page; no other markings. Browning at edges throughout and light cockling from sometime damp on all leaves; brown-liquid spatters not impairing reading on ten or so pages. Only a “good” copy and so priced, this gives a fine glimpse of Mexico at the onset of the
Mexican-American War. (26481)

American WINE & More 1867
United States. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1867. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xix, [1], 512 pp., XXXVII plates; illus.
$225.00
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A presentation copy of Acting Commissioner John W. Stokes' report to Congress for the year 1867. The report includes reports and research on a variety of crops and domestic animals; steam and other cultivation, and rural construction; patents; agricultural clubs, schools, associations; also climate and meteorology. The authors include Thomas Antisell (chemist of the
department), Thomas Glover (entomologist), F.R. Elliott (on hardy fruit, especially apples), Walter W.W. Bowie (on tobacco), and Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper (winter bee keeping), to single out a
few.
Freethinker George Husmann (of Herman, Missouri) provided this cataloguer's favorite report, “American Wine and Wine Making.”
The excellent plates are divided between steel and wood engravings, with additional wood-engraved illustrations in some texts.
The presenter of the volume was R.T. McLain, chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture; the Hon. J. Gregory Smith, the recipient, was the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Binding: A presentation binding of black morocco over boards with slightly bevelled edges. Covers with a gilt triple fillet border and a gilt floral vine inner “border.” Recipient's name in gilt in center of front board. Round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; gilt roll on board edges, different gilt roll on turn-ins. Pink endpapers of a textured paper, printed with an overall pattern of small gilt interlocking circles. Green silk place marker. All edges gilt.
A very nice example of a mid-19th-century presentation binding.
Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside) and board edges. McLain's presentation card pasted to front pastedown, above Smith's bookplate.
A very good copy of a book that is, as we say here, “interesting for more than one reason.” (35244)
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ANOTHER KIND of
“Student Social Activism” @ Berkeley —
Hey, Gang! Let's Build a Fountain!
University of California magazine. Under the Berkeley Oaks. Stories by students of the University of California; selected and edited by the editorial staff of the University of California magazine. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1901, ©1900. 12mo (19 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., [2] ff., 227, [1] pp.
$110.00
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Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' “Travis Hallett's Half-back.” Norris (1870–1902) was class of '94.
It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.
Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”
BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good. (34834)

“Artists Have Painted Them, SONGS Have Been Composed aboutThem”
Weber, Francis J. The cable cars. San Fernando, CA: Junípero Serra Press, 1984. Miniature (4.5 cm, 1.8'”). [4], 18, [4] pp.
$75.00
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Miniature tribute to the legendary cable cars of San Francisco, written by Msgr. Weber, archivist for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. This is
one of 350 copies printed by Francis Braun at the Junípero Serra Press; the half-title verso bears an affixed 8-cent San Francisco cable car commemorative U.S. stamp.
Publisher's tan morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped publication information and lamp device. All edges gilt. A clean, tight copy. (35732)
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“The Liveliest Pedestrian Environment in Los Angeles” — In Miniature
Weber, Francis J. Farmer's market. [San Fernando, CA]: Junípero Serra Press, 1991. Miniature (7.2 cm, 2.85"). [2], 13, [1] pp.
$40.00
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Weber's miniature-format account of the famous Los Angeles market, established in 1934, opens with a National Grange 100th anniversary commemorative stamp as “frontispiece,” affixed to the half-title verso. This is
one of 300 copies printed by Roger Pennels at the Junípero Serra Press.
Publisher's (appropriately) green morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped title and publication information. All edges gilt. A clean, tight copy. (35703)

Big Painting / Miniature Tribute
Weber, Francis J. The Last Supper. [San Fernando, CA]: Junípero Serra Press, 1998. Miniature (6 cm, 2.35"). [6], 10, [4] pp.
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Msgr. Weber's remarks on da Vinci's masterpiece, opening with an affixed 800 lire postage stamp marking Italy's commemoration of the 500th anniversary. This is one of 400 copies printed at the Castle Press of Pasadena, bound by Roswell Bookbinders of Phoenix.
Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and the Press's lamp device, spine with gilt-stamped title. A crisp, fresh copy. (35728)
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