All Things Californian from Hardy Books

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

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

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 191 (1) pp. SIGNED BY BOTH Herb Caen and Dong Kingman in ink on a front free endpaper.Illustrated from 41 full-color paintings (some double page) and 29 two-color paintings plus many black and white sketches. List of illustrations at rear pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth.… 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

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1976. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. As New/Near Fine. (xii) 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, including maps, diagrams and photographs. Index. Cloth-backed cloth. From the introductory notes by oilman Richard Sneddon: "The material recorded in the following pages is drawn from the voluntary contributions of men who were personally engaged in various… Read more about this item

Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 116 pp. Illustrated from drawings by Daniel Wadsworth Coit, including frontispiece self-portrait. Historical introduction by Editor George P. Hammond. Edition limited to 1250 un-numbered copies, designed and printed by Lawton and Alred Kennedy of San Francisco. Gilt spine titling. Illustrated cloth. 9" x 13". Includes twenty-one letters… Read more about this item

San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1977. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Near Fine. (xx) `263 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, including one map. Index. Bibliographical Essay. Cloth-backed boards. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: "Conquer and Colonize traces the officers and men of Stevenson's Regiment from New York to the Far West, through their period of… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 120 pp. SIGNED by Herb Caen in ink on the front free endpaper: "Greetings! Herb Caen". The dust jacket features a photograph of a young, dapper Herb Caen standing on a San Francisco rooftop. POS on front pastedown and free front endpaper. Cloth. Small octavo. From… Read more about this item

Hollywood: The Eagle Pictures, 1933. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL one-sheet movie poster for the 1933 film "THE BIG CHANCE" starring Mickey Rooney, John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead and J. Carrol Naish. Linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. 27" x 41". Artwork by "Hap" Hadley, an important illustrator and one of the few… Read more about this item

San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1942. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. Unpaginated (71). One of 700 limited un-numbered copies printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. 56 plates from period pencil drawings by William Rich Hutton reproduced frrom the originals in The Huntington Library. Introduction by Willard O. Waters. Frontis portrait from photo'graph of Artist… Read more about this item

Chicago: National Plan Service, Inc, 1958. New Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. 32 pp plus covers. Profusely illustrated from drawings and floorplans. 5 leaves with one home drawing and floorplan each laid in. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Back cover contains folding postcard blueprint order forms. 8 1/4" x 8 1/2". A catalog of contemporary mid-century modern home drawings and… Read more about this item

Hollywood: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1991. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. This is an ORIGINAL 8"x10" black and white glossy photograph of SOPHIA LOREN and GREOGORY PECK standing in front of an OSCAR stautue at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony in 1991. Ms. Loren is holding the Honorary Oscar that she was awarded at… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. (x) 60 pp. SIGNED in ink on the limitation page by Ed Grabhorn. An un-numbered copy of 250 limited copies. Folding frontis map of Southern Mines, 1852. 2 folded reproductions of contemporary lithographs. Facsimile map. Illustrations from photographs. Quoted statements of pioneer… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: United States War Department, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL map: "FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF CALIFORNIA / MAP NO. 1". 1855. Image: 27 1/4" x 23"plus 1 1/2" border. Linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. Map created from exploration and surveys for a railroad route from the… Read more about this item

Palo Alto: Lewis Orborne, 1969. First Thus. Illustrated Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 51pp. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. #1085 of a limited edition of 1400 copies. Illustrated, including several from fine pencil drawings of pre-earthquake San Francisco by Vernon Howe Bailey. Map of period San Francisco as front endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth.7" x 10 1/2". Businessman James Stetson lived… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1928. This is an ORIGINAL map of the SAN FRANCISCO BAY DISTRICT. 1928. Expertly linen-backed for restoration and ease of handling. 32 1/4" x 26 1/4" plus white border. Color. Note: There is no Golden Gate Bridge. There are two drawn lines representing purposed Bay Bridge routes; one approaching what was to become Treasure… Read more about this item

Washington DC: U.S. Coast Survey, 1860. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL map entitled "PRELIMINARY CHART OF DRAKE'S BAY CALIFORNIA". 1860. "From a Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintenent of the SURVEY OF THE COAST OF THE UNITED STATES." Triangulation (1854-59) by A. F. Rogers and G. Davidson. Topography (1852-3; 1859-60) by J. S. Lawson… Read more about this item

Washington DC: U. S. Coast Survey, 1859. First Edition. Fine. This is an ORIGINAL MAP, by the U. S. Survey, entitled "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS VICINITY CALIFORNIA", published 1859. A. D. Bache, Superintendent. Expertly linen-backed for preservation and ease of handling. 25 1/2" x 36", plus white border. Scale: 1/10,000. A Fine map, very suitable for… Read more about this item