San Francisco from Hardy Books

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1959. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pp. Illustrated from 52 color plates. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and newspaper article laid in. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Introduction by Harold P. Stern. Folio. Cloth-backed green and white decorated boards. Paper spine label. The… 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies. Pictorial brown paper over boards. Paper spine… 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, 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

Washington DC: U. S. War Department, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an original MAP entitled "FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE PLAINS OF LOS ANGELES. From the "Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / War Department". The explorations and surveys were made in 1854-5 under the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2008. First Edition. As New/Clear mylar. (xiii) 214 pp. Illustrated. Prospectus laid in. One of 275 un-numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Purple cloth. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Notes. Appendices. Index. The well-researched story of the pioneer San Francisco printer and publisher. An As New copy in clear mylar protective… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons, Inc, 1906. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (32) pp. Stapled oblong pictorial wrappers. 8 3/4" x 10 1/4". Illustrated from black and white photgrpahs by C. C. Pierce & Co., Los Angeles of the effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Photographs include the City Hall,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 192 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown cloth. Gilt cover and spine titling. 6" x 9 1/4". Charles McCabe authored a very popular San Francisco Chronicle column, called The Fearless Spectator. It was said that he would finish his column early each morning and then stride over to Gino… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Pacific Publication Company, 1914. First Edition. Very Good/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 93 (2) pp. Illustrated from City drawing; photograph of author. Biographical sketch of the Author. Brown stapled wrappers. 7" x 9 1/4". A dramatized version of an unpublished novel by Ella Sterling Mighels, the author of "The Story of the Files". A unique view of… Read more about this item

Hollywood: 20th Century Fox, 1945. 1st Edition. Near Fine, Linen-Backed. This is an ORIGINAL one sheet linen-backed movie poster for the 1945 20th Century Fox movie "NOB HILL" starring George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine and Peggy Ann Garner. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Technicolor. Following on 20th Century Fox's other successful San Francisco musical, "Hello, Frisco, Hello". A… Read more about this item