Recent Arrivals from Hardy Books

Paris: Ministre Des Travaux Publics, 1950. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL POSTER, extolling the virtues of "FRANCE / TROUT FISHING IN THE ALPS" ("Hautes-Alpes. Peche A La Truite"). Printed in Paris by Georges Lang, the poster features a wonderful color Ektachrome photograph of a fly fisherman casting in a French trout stream with the Alps in the background.… Read more about this item

Monterey: Del Monte Lodge, 1920. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. One long folding leaf printed on recto and verso. Profusely illustrated including from photographs and a map. 3 1/2" x 5" (closed); 5" x 27" (open). A very attractive, small folding brochure advertising the HOTEL DEL MONTE in Monterey, California. The 1920 date is taken from the copyright… Read more about this item

Grass Valley, California: Daily Morrning Union, 1895. First Edition. Cloth-backed wrappers. Very Good. 144; (10 adverts.) pp. Profusley illustrated from photographs of mines, residences, citizens of Nevada County. Cloth-backed wrappers with embossed gilded cover titling. 9" x 11 7/8" oblong. A nicely illustrated review of the Nevada County, California of 1895, with emphasis on the prosprous gold mining… Read more about this item

Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. (xi) 367 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated. Compiled by Betty Adler with the assistance of Jane Wilhelm. Blue cloth. 6" x 9 1/4". Published for The Enoch Pratt Free Library on its 75th Anniversary. Index. A comprehensive bibliography of the writings of H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Associated Students, University of Southern California, 1946. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (24pp). Illustrated stapled wrappers. Illustrated throughout, including photographs of players and coaches. Period advertisements. Pictured is Cal's freshman All American running back, Jackie Jensen, who went on the play baseball for the Boston Red Sox. This game, played… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1901. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (9). Printed for members of the Sierra Club by the Stanley-Taylor Company of San Francisco. Small bookseller's stamp (Chessler Books) on inside of rear cover. String-bound wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8". A poem written upon the death of Professor Josph LeConte of the University… Read more about this item

Carmel: Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, 1993. First Edition. Spiral bound wrappers. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 58 (10) pp. Illustrated by Kelly Steele, who SIGNED his name in ink on the title page. Index. Names of contributors. Spiral-bound illustrated wrappers. 5 1/2" x 9" (Oblong). An extensive collection of recipes for food served at the annual May Garden… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Harbor Publishing, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 175 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Glenn Dickey in ink on a front free endpaper. ("For Paul Schneider, a real 49er faithful! My best, Glenn Dickey") (Also signed on a rear endpaper.) Introduction by Herb Caen. Tribute by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Illustrated dustjacket. Profusely illustrated primarily from… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Red Cross, 1918. First Edition. Linen backed. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL WW1 POSTER: "RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL". 1918. Linen mounted. Full color lithograph. 19" x 28" with a linen perimeter of appoximately 2". The poster is in vivid, fresh colors and shows heroic classic figures of a Red Cross Nurse and Columbia, framing a… Read more about this item

Nevada City, California: Prosperity Oil Company, 1900. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 11 page pamphlet. Illustrated from photographs of Bakersfield area oil fields showing early wooden derricks, including frontispiece; folding map showing the property of the Prosperity Oil Company and the "West Side Oil Belt of Kern County". Illustrated wrappers. 8 1/4" x 5".… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Wave, 1895. May 4, 1895. Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good Plus. 18, plus 4 printed covers. Illustrated with period advertisements, including a full page ad for the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, with photographs. Stapled folded wrappers. 10" x 13 1/2" unfolded. Stamp: "DUP California Section State Library" upper right corner, front cover. A vintage San Francisco… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, 1927. First Edition. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL Key Book photograph from the 1927 silent movie, "ROUGH HOUSE ROSIE" starring Clara Bow, Reed Howes, Arthur Houseman, Doris Hill and John Miljan. 7 3/4" x 10". This is a linen-backed Key Book photograph with the punch holes trimmed off. Clara… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. vii, (1) 119 pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by Herb Caen on the front free endpaper. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from wonderful period black and white photographs and one color photograph by Max Yavno. Technical photographic information on pages 116-119. Green cloth. 6… Read more about this item

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 358 pages. Frontispiece portrait from photograph of Senator Stewart. Red cloth. Gilt cover and spine titling. T.E.G. 6" x 9". An early participant in the California Gold Rush, Stewart was stricken with "Panama Fever" and was taken by teamsters to a fresh water spring… Read more about this item

Erie, Pennsylvania: Metric Metal Works, 1917. First Thus. Near Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 148 (2) pp. Profusely illustrated throughout, including from photographs and diagrams. Gray cardstock wrappers. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". Prices listed. A "Field Catalogue" for the natural gas and gasoline industry, this book lists both products manufactured by the Metriceds] Metal Works of Erie, Pennsylvania,… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. Second Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine/Fine. 408 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Joshua Logan in ink on the half title: "N.Y.C. / 6.30.76 / For June Blossom / Best wishes, good luck & may you live a life free from fear & doubt. Remember always: 'If the Sun and Moon should doubt They'd immediately… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Borzoi Editon. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. (xxix) 216 (1) pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Carl I. Wheat. Illustrated from contemporary lithographs and woodcuts. Endpaper map of Feather and Yuba River country. Cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". A series of 23 letters from the California mines. A California classic.… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 244 pp. SIGNED in ink by author Neill C. Wilson on the half-title. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from photographs, including a two page illustration and dust jacket photograph by Ansel Adams. Two maps. Cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". From the flap: "For most of… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Pess, 1944. First Thus. Near Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. (xii) 223 pp. Illustrated from art by Fletcher Martin. Introcusction by Oscar Lewis. Publisher's slipcase. Cloth-backed gold metallic paper on boards. 6 1/2" x 10". Thirteen of Harte's stories of the California Gold Rush, including The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. (xii) 286 (viii) 1 pp. SIGNED in ink by Oscar Lewis on the half title. Illustrated, primarily from period photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. Silver spine titling. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". The story of the big four men of Nevada's… Read more about this item