Sacramento: B. Redding, Impresor del Estado, 1855. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). In contemporary sheep, blind roll around outer perimeter of boards, titled in gilt on red and black leather spine labels; plain endpapers; x,354pp. A straight, bright copy, slight dirt to binding, front joint cracked through but holding..... More

Oakland: Needle Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 82pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Includes special coverage of the 1994 initiative to enact the California Health Security Act single-payer healthcare plan. More

Venice, California: eye magazine, October 1983. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Limited edition; #12 of 150 copies only. Publisher's variously colored sheets, Velobound spine, clear acetate front cover over collaged artwork; internally clean, if compositionally erratic, assembled by hand. A very good, complete copy. Lavishly produced, for a clearly hand-made magazine..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First Edition. First Printing. [October 1903] Illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Octavo (22 cm); green decorated boards titled in bright gilt on cover and spine; top textblock in gilt; 281pp.; some foxing to the endpapers, light rubbing to corners and spine ends; rough erasure on ffep;..... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 240pp. Light shelf-wear and soil, spine-faded, with slight spine lean; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75), tanned, with chip to front panel..... More

Santa Barbara: Christopher Books / Tree Books, 1971. First Edition. Edition of 500 copies. Octavo; pictorial printed wrappers; 75pp. Yapped edges slightly creased at corners, else a Near Fine copy. In the "Tree Books" series, edited by David Meltzer. More

Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1972. First Edition. First printing; edition of 1000 copies. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers, 87pp; illustrations by the author. Light dusting to wrappers, still a bright, Near Fine copy. Laid in is a postcard/broadside by the author ("From the Seat of a Farmall Super A Tractor," 1974)..... More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's typed review slip laid in. Octavo (22cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 275pp. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $6.95), spine-tanned..... More

Salem, OR: David Barker, 1982. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies; many copies were signed, this one is not. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 20pp. Tight and clean, free of notable wear; very Near Fine. Though now known primarily as a writer of speculative and supernatural fiction, Barker wrote, by his..... More

San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in blue; 16pp; publisher's ads to rear; 1 plate, plus cover illustration by Florence Lundborg. Contemporary note to p.15. Lightly browned, with moderate edge wear: Very Good. Single issue of perhaps the most..... More

San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Stapled pamphlet on tan bamboo paper, printed in black on one side of sheets; 16pp; 3 plates plus cover illustration. With silhouette portraits of "Les Jeunes," the nickname for the main contributors, with Frank Gelett Burgess' signature in pencil..... More

San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in black; 16pp; ad for The Purple Cow to rear; 2 plates and cover illustration. Signed by Frank Gelett Burgess in pencil below his illustration. Lightly toned, with chips to edges, small hole..... More

New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's typed review slip, two folded sheets of typed instructions for reviewers, folded typed news promotion, and folded typed advance praise laid in. Octavo (23cm); green cloth spine over brown paper-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in..... More