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The Ladder: vol. 7, #8 May 1963. Barbara Gittings, Gene Damon, Barbara Grier.

The Ladder: vol. 7, #8 May 1963

San Francisco: Daughters of Bilitis, 1963. Magazine. 28p. including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good digest-size magazine in pictorial wraps, rusty staples and some soiling. Cover art depicts a multi-ethnic ring of women around the globe. Daughters of Bilitis was formed in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis... More

Cat.No: 220623

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The Ladder; vol. 4, #12, September 1960. Del Martin.

The Ladder; vol. 4, #12, September 1960

San Francisco: Daughters of Bilitis, 1960. Magazine. 28p., including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good digest-sized magazine in stapled pictorial wraps with publisher's yellow label affixed front cover. Special issue devoted to the findings of the DOB Research Committee in 1959. Daughters of Bilitis was formed in 1955 in San Francisco... More

Cat.No: 219871

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Sheng yong yi yi chu gao: Jiang zhu xi shou ding. Wu Jingxiong, John C. H. Wu.

Sheng yong yi yi chu gao: Jiang zhu xi shou ding

Taibei: Taiwan shangwu yinshuguan, 1959. 121p., paperback, text in Chinese. Originally printed in 1946. Wu's translation of the Psalms, with annotations by Chiang Kai-Shek. Under the name John C.H. Wu, the same author published a number of influential legal works. He became China's delegate to the Vatican in 1947, as... More

Cat.No: 218907

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The Rare Event. P. D. Singer.

The Rare Event

Tallahassee: Dreamspinner Press, 2012. Paperback. 338p [ii glossary] fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. "Too big to f..." Hedge-fund shenanigans! More

Cat.No: 216987

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Le déisme réfuté par lui-même, ou, Examen, en forme de lettres, des principes d'incrédulité répandus dans les divers ouvrages de M. Rousseau. Quatrième edition revue et corrigée. Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier.

Le déisme réfuté par lui-même, ou, Examen, en forme de lettres, des principes d'incrédulité répandus dans les divers ouvrages de M. Rousseau. Quatrième edition revue et corrigée

Paris: Chez Humblot, 1768. Leather Bound. Two volumes in one, 280, 256p., 4x6.5 inches, full binding in pressed calf with tooled spine panel, label gilt, and raised bands, ancient marbled endsheets are wormed in back and bear an odd blank area in front. Spine looks better than it really is... More

Cat.No: 216383

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Tales in French for young persons; taken from Une famille, and Les enfans. Madame Guizot.

Tales in French for young persons; taken from Une famille, and Les enfans

Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. Leather Bound. iv, 163 p., small hardcover, half-calf marbled boards, leather spine and corners somewhat scuffed; ownership signature in pencil on title page dated 1846, another early penned signature on front endpaper, both front and rear endsheets are quite good, as are the hinges. Textblock... More

Cat.No: 216324

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Bisexuality [brochure]

Bisexuality [brochure]

San Jose & Boston: South bay Bisexual Organizers and Activists (SOBOA) & Bisexual Resource Center, Boston, [1990s?]. Six-panel folded brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, information on bisexuality, politics, and AIDS, very good on bright yellow stock. More

Cat.No: 215557

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National democracy and socialism. Jose Maria Sison.

National democracy and socialism

Mansfield Depot, CT: Philippines Research Center, [1986?]. 15p., staplebound pamphlet, very good; 5.5x8.5 inches. Small bookstore label inside front cover. Undated, but ends with an ad for "Crisis in the Philippines," published in 1986. By the Filipino Maoist leader, reprinted by supporters in the US. More

Cat.No: 214079

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The voyage of the Racoon: a "secret" journal of a visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814 edited with introduction and notes by John A. Hussey, drawings by Henry Rusk. John A. Hussey, drawings Henry Rusk.

The voyage of the Racoon: a "secret" journal of a visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814 edited with introduction and notes by John A. Hussey, drawings by Henry Rusk

San Francisco: printed by Taylor & Taylor for The Book Club of California, 1958. Leather Bound. xxvii, 36p., 7.75x12.5 inches, introduction, footnotes, illustrated with drawing by Rusk and plates of drawings by the anonymous author, humorous poetic errata sheet tipped-in at rear, untrimmed edges, very good first edition limited to... More

Cat.No: 212873

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Silverado Journal. Robert Louis Stevenson, John E. Jordan.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Silverado Journal

San Francisco: printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1954. Hardcover. lxxii, 95p., 8.5x11.5 inches, introduction, illustrated with facsimile pages, appendix, Stevenson's corrections replicated in red ink throughout, very good first edition limited to 400 copies bound in red patterned cloth and black quarter-cloth backing, red... More

Cat.No: 212866

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Through the country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the year 1845: the journal of a U.S.Army Expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers, Artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and their Wild West illustrate this book. Lieutenant James W. Abert, John Galvin.

Through the country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the year 1845: the journal of a U.S.Army Expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers, Artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and their Wild West illustrate this book

San Francisco: designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy for John Howell - Books, 1970. Hardcover. xvii, 77p., 10.5x14 inches, color frontis, rubricated title page, preface, glossary, references, index, illustrated with13 color plates and two large folding maps, very good first edition thus limited to 5000 copies bound in... More

Cat.No: 212844

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The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount

San Francisco: John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, 1921. Hardcover. [14p] 5.75x10.25 inches, rubricated passages with blue drop-cap initials elswhere, quite elaborate. Unopened pages, untrimmed edges, light yellow boards with wraparound paper label in three colors. Head of spine is abraded with a half-inch split in the... More

Cat.No: 212822

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Journal of a cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane 1841-1844 by William H. Myers, Gunner, U.S.N. William H. Myers, John Haskell Kemble.

Journal of a cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane 1841-1844 by William H. Myers, Gunner, U.S.N.

San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, November 1955. Leather Bound. xvi, 68p., immense hardbound, a 15x10 inch folio in openweave linen boards backed in lovely red-orange morocco gilt. Frontispiece reproduces Myers' map of the Pacific area, many color plates, marginal decorations, introduction, notes... More

Cat.No: 212802

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The sting of the Wasp: political and satyrical cartoons from the truculent early San Francisco weekly, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth M. Johnson. Kenneth M. Johnson.

The sting of the Wasp: political and satyrical cartoons from the truculent early San Francisco weekly, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth M. Johnson

San Francisco: printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press for The Book Club of California, binding by the Earle Gray Bookbindery, 1967. Hardcover. 15p. +20 full-color plates, 10.75x14.5 inches, introduction commentary, fine first edition limited to 450 copies bound in gray cloth boards and gilt. Publication no. 127. More

Cat.No: 212735

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The first Californiac being a reprint of Prospects of California written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 issue of "The California Star," San Francisco's first newspaper, of which Samuel Brannan was the publisher. Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud, pen Carroll D. Hall, ink, Lawrence E. Walker.

The first Californiac being a reprint of Prospects of California written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 issue of "The California Star," San Francisco's first newspaper, of which Samuel Brannan was the publisher

San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942. Leather Bound. xv, 44p. [1] 6.25x7.25 inches, frontis-portrait, rubricated title page, illustrated with drawings, rubricated marginal pull-quotes and notes, untrimmed edges, very good limited first edition thus of 225 copies designed, hand-set and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, mild... More

Cat.No: 211454

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Naval sketches of the war in California reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. sloop-of-war Dale. Captain Dudley W. Knox, U. S. N., William H. Meyers, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Naval sketches of the war in California reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. sloop-of-war Dale

New York & San Francisco: printed at the Grabhorn Press for Random House, 1939. Leather Bound. unpaginated, 11x16 inch folio, introduction, 28 full-page color plates from the original drawings, limited first edition of 1000 copies bound in marbled boards and quarter white goatskin backstrip with five raised bands and wine-colored... More

Cat.No: 211124

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Yo Semite 1878: adventures of N & C journal and drawings by Carrie E. LeConte. Carrie E. LeConte, introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin.

Yo Semite 1878: adventures of N & C journal and drawings by Carrie E. LeConte

San Francisco: Designed and printed by Mallette Dean for The Book Club of California, 1964. Hardcover. xviii, 99p. + [xi plates] 8x11 inches, frontis-portrait, introduction, over 60 illustrations, eight reproduced by photoengravings colored with blocks cut by the printer, ten are full-page, fine first edition limited to 450 copies bound... More

Cat.No: 210962

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The Fine Art of Printing. An Address by Edwin Grabhorn before the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco at its meeting in the Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park, California, May 15, 1933. Edwin Grabhorn.

The Fine Art of Printing. An Address by Edwin Grabhorn before the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco at its meeting in the Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park, California, May 15, 1933

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Unpaginated, text runs [16]p., letterpress on mouldmade paper with one large rubricated initial. An immaculate copy with a signed presentation (to Harry Creach) on titlepage by Edwin. Presswork credited to both brothers. A stunningly simple small work with large margins, deeply incised letters on... More

Cat.No: 210857

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Soldier of Freedom, the Life of Dr. Christian Nagel 1787-1827, Director of the Royal Prussian Gymnasium in Cleve, Knight of the Iron Cross [with] Cleve 1829, by F. Char. Translated and Annotated by Gunther W. Nagel. Friedrich von Ammon, Dr. Theodor Herold, F. Char, Gunther W. Nagel.

Soldier of Freedom, the Life of Dr. Christian Nagel 1787-1827, Director of the Royal Prussian Gymnasium in Cleve, Knight of the Iron Cross [with] Cleve 1829, by F. Char. Translated and Annotated by Gunther W. Nagel

San Francisco: Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for the authors, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 154p., signatures unopened throughout; illustrated with plat-maps of battles (Blucher, Napoleon, route of Nagel's battalion at Waterloo), 10.2x7 inch cloth boards spine-titled gilt and decorated cover, we see a small smudge on the front, else... More

Cat.No: 210855

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John Ignatius Bleasdale: A Friend of Wine in New Worlds. Thomas Pinney.

John Ignatius Bleasdale: A Friend of Wine in New Worlds

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2006. Hardcover. viii, 67p., numerous illustrations from period photographic portraits and images and modern line drawings; hardbound in 10x7 inch maroon cloth boards with printed paper spine label. No signs of wear, no ownership or other marks, an absolutely fine copy. Melbourne and... More

Cat.No: 210810

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Gheluvelt: 31st October 1914; a short account of the Battle of Gheluvelt with a map showing the positions of the Worcester Regiment and the Enemy Forces on the 31st of October, 1914 etc. Major B. C. Senhouse Clarke, Lieut.-Colonel L. Aerts, Sir John French.

Gheluvelt: 31st October 1914; a short account of the Battle of Gheluvelt with a map showing the positions of the Worcester Regiment and the Enemy Forces on the 31st of October, 1914 etc.

London: The Sign of the Dolphin, [1925]. Leather Bound. 46p., frontispiece shows inscription on the 1925 Memorial; despatch extract follows, then the foreword in English, Flemish and French, detailed accounts of the Battle with a very useful fold map at rear with troop movements shown in red, blue and green... More

Cat.No: 210793

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To Walk with Strangers. Vincent L. Andrews.

To Walk with Strangers

Palm Coast, FL: Adynaton Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. 282p., inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper, very good first "limited" hardcover in unclipped dj. Novel described by Patrick Mulcahey as "... An unlikely and unnerving cross between The Leatherman's Handbook and American Psycho..." Limited Edition to commemorate International Mr... More

Cat.No: 210262

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