Search Results: Titles starting with B from Argonaut Book Shop

San Francisco: The Bank of California National Association, 1950 Each, 3¾x9 inches. A grouping of 58 original ink blotters, each with an historic California scene and descriptive text. Generally in fine condition. A grouping of these souvenir promotional hand-outs, circa 1950. Each ink blotter includes an historic California scene or building with descriptive historic text. Providing a wealth of information, these images are primarily from old photographs but also from old lithographs, etc. Very scarce! We have handled only one other grouping of these Bank of California pictorial ink blotters in the last 50 years. .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988 First edition (the first edition went out-of-print very quickly upon publication and the book went into a second printing). Pp. xiii [1] 333. 57 photographs, 2 maps; extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A comprehensive look at the early outlaws and lawmen of California. Illustrated with numerous early photographs..

Chicago: Central Electric Railfan's Association, 1969 First edition. Bulletin 111 of the C.E.R.A. Quarto. 260pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, car plans, maps, rosters, etc. Blue cloth, gilt. Some light spotting to covers. A very good copy with pictorial dust jacket. Story of the electric lines in Wisconsin, excepting Milwaukee (needed a volume of its own). Errata sheet laid in..

San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1881 Large folding black & white lithographed pocket map. 63x75 cm. plus borders. Original shoreline hand-colored. Light creases where once folded into wrappers, a few short tears to right blank border, 4 inch repaired tear to edge, some reinforcement to rear at fold junctions. Very good condition. An extremely detailed and handsome map of San Francisco on a scale of 2500 feet to the inch. Along the bottom border is a lengthy "Reference List of Prominent Places," (about 380 places) which keys their location on the map. The prominent places include cemeteries, churches, hospitals, hotels, parks, public buildings railroad depots, schools, theaters, wharves and ferries, etc. An inset on the right provides a skeleton map showing the relative position of San Francisco to the surrounding Bay Area. The original western shoreline (before the landfill) is shown and highlighted with color..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984 First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed from the design of Ward Ritchie by The Castle Press. Quarto. 138pp. Portraits, plates from photographs; extensive notes. Cloth-backed decorated green boards with gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Includes Peckham's extensive correspondence relating to oil. The book documents the story behind one of the most controversial and startling discoveries made during the formative years of California's oil industry. Peckham came to Ventura's Ojai Ranch in 1865 to refine oil for the California Petroleum Company. Instead of finding fields of black gold, Peckham discovered fraud. A fascinating story..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1958 Introduction by Angela Thirkell. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Brown and white patterned boards with brown cloth spine, lettered in gilt. A very fine copy in matching slipcase. Slipcase has very minor fading to extremities. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Trollope's second novel in his "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series.. Illus. by Kredel, Fritz.

New York: Riverrun Press, 1986 First edition. Purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, else fine..

London: Macmillan Company, 1892 First edition. Pp. ix, [3], 300. Errata slip tipped in. 2 folding maps in color. Index. Original green cloth, gilt. A bit of light wear to spine ends and corners, spine slightly darkened. Light foxing to preliminary and end leaves. Text block slightly shaken. A near fine copy, collated complete. "To see the muskox and the Indians who hunt them, Pike made a hard journey to Great Slave Lake and Lake Vermillion, Calgary and Edmonton, and into the barren lands. Pike is told that the muskox 'understand every word of the Yellow Knife language.' He finds it 'strange that they do not make use of the information they receive to avoid danger.' He returns to the warp of civilization: 'the shiny black boots into which we squeeze our feet when we throw away the moccasin of freedom'." (Waterston). [Waterston, The Travellers - Canada to 1900: p.184]..

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925 Later printing. Presentation inscription, signed and dated in pencil by the author. Printed at the Country Life Press. Decorated blue cloth, lettered in silver. Spine is lightly faded and has some rubbing. Ex-library copy with stamping at head of title page and on fore-edge, pocket and call slip removed from inner front cover with remnants, library stamp to inner front cover. A very good copy..

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945 The "Old Dominion" Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow series. Blue cloth with paper labels to spine and front cover. Spine slightly darkened with some minor soiling to spine label. Light rubbing and minor wear to covers with a slight scar to the front cover. Previous owner's bookplate to endpaper. A near fine copy..

London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber Limited, 1975 Small quarto. Softcover. Profusely illustrated with black & white photogrpahs. With an introduction by Jan Morris. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Top corner slightly bumped, else a fine copy..

San Francisco: Privately printed for Alfred Sutro by The Grabhorn Press, 1936 One of 250 copies. Presentation inscription, signed by Alfred Sutro to Carl I. Wheat and with Wheat's small hand-printed bookplate. Quarto. vi, 16pp. Handset Bauer Bodoni type. Facsimile manuscript leaf tipped-in. Blue boards, tan cloth back; white paper spine label printed in black. A fine copy. The story behind a previously unidentified manuscript poem and the unique poetry competition held at Bath, England in the late 1700's. From the personal collection of author/historian Carl I. Wheat. [Grabhorn: 246]..

New York: HarperCollins, 1992 First edition. Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped, else very fine.. First Edition.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994 Hardback boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

New York: Heritage Press, 1937 Quarto. Black & white illustraions by Mariette Lydis. Two-toned cloth with brown printing and decoration. Spine lightly faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Includes the music to each song. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. . Illus. by Lydis, Mariette.

San Francisco: By the Author, 1912 2 volumes. First edition. 837pp. Numerous illustrations, portraits, maps, etc., some folding; extensive notes, appendices, index. Small bookplate on inner cover of each volume. Contemporary signature on blank flyleaf of volume I. Green cloth, gilt. Spines faded to brown (as usual). A very good set. A standard and sought-after work on the early Spanish and Mexican period of San Francisco, with a vast amount of general history. Covers the period from the discovery of the Bay of San Francisco in 1769 by Don Gaspar de Portola up to the period just after the Gold Rush. One of the best on the subject..

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1936 First book edition. Although not indicated, one of only 200 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Foreword by Douglas S. Watson. [8], 105pp. Frontis portrait, title page map in color, 4 plates, 2 full-page facsimiles, large folding map. Chapter notes. Rust cloth-backed tan boards, printed paper labels on spine and front cover. Minor rubbing to head of spine, slight darkening to edges of covers, but a fine, uncut copy. Very scarce. Third in the series on early California towns published by the Historical Society. San Jose and Los Angeles were also covered in separate volumes. The intent of the series was to focus on the local events which provided the individual "personalities" of towns. This book is then, like the others, a "town biography" and is extremely comprehensive, covering every aspect of the town's establishment and social and political history. It is crammed with detailed information. "Although settlement of… Read More

Tulsa: Daljo Pub, 1990 Octavo. 357pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs and line drawings. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped decoration on front cover. Corners slightly bumped, previous owner's address label on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A biography of Nacy Cooper Russell, wife of the fames cowboy artist Charles Marion Russell..

New York: Chanticleer, 1949 First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout with color and B & W photos by the author. Light brown cloth with silver lettering on spine. Front corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, else a fine copy in a quite worn and tape-repaired dust jacket. A photo-essay of various climbs the author has taken. .

San Francisco: The Occident Printing House, 1889 First one-volume edition, originally published in 3 separate volumes. . Pp. xvi, [13]-543, [1], xiv, v. Index, supplemental index. Original gilt-lettered blue/green cloth. Small spot to rear cover, lower corners just showing, slight general rubbing. A very good copy. Notice slip from the author tipped in after p.303, as issued. This one-volume edition of Shuck's labors gives an historical view of the judiciary system in California by providing numerous detailed biographies including Edward D. Baker, Hall McAllister, John R. Felton, Lorenzo Sawyer, John T. Doyle, Stephen J. Field, Henry E. Highton, S. C. Hastings, David S. Terry, Ogden Hoffman, and a host of others. This copy of Shuck's work includes a Presentation Inscription, Signed by Henry E. Highton to John Swett: "To my excellent friend, John Swett, with kindest regards from, Henry E. Highton. Feb. 21/91." John Swett was a key early educator in California and in 1862 was elected… Read More