Fine Books & Manuscripts

[CALIFORNIA] Group of Bibliographies and References Related to the California Region. 11 works in 13 vols. Consisting of: COWAN, Robert Ernest. A Bibliography of the History of California 1510–1930. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. 3 vols. including index. 4to. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth backed boards, printed spine label, original slipcase (soiled with tape repairs). 8 pp. prospectus laid in. A NEAR FINE SET. –– COWAN, Robert Ernest. A Bibliography of the History of California 1510–1930. Los Angeles, 1964. 8vo. Reprint of the 1933 edition. Original green buckram, printed spine label. NEAR FINE. –– WENTZ, Roby. The Grabhorn Press: A Biography. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981. 4to. FIRST EDITION, limited to 750 copies. Publisher’s cream cloth over patterned boards, gilt stamped spine, plain cream dust jacket. FINE. ––The Zamorano 80. A selection of distinguished California books… Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1945. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 500 copies, this being number 136. Publisher’s terra-cotta cloth stamped in gilt. FINE. –– A Complete Collection of the Zamarano 80… formed by Daniel Volkmann Jr. Austin: Dorothy Sloan Rare-Books, 2003. 4to. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s blue wrappers stamped in gilt. FINE. –– KURUTZ, Gary F. The California Gold Rush: A Descriptive Bibliography Covering the Years 1848–1853. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. Large 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 1000 copies. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. FINE. –– The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego. New Haven and Sydney: William Reese Company and Hordern House, 2004. Large 8vo. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt stamped. FINE. –– POWELL, Lawrence Clark. California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1971]. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s grey-green cloth stamped in brown, original dust jacket. FINE. –– STARR, Kevin. Clio on the Coast: The Writing of California History, 1845–1945. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2010. Tall 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth backed boards, printed spine label, original dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. –– MAGEE, David. The Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Publications of the Book Club of California & A History of the Club. [San Francisco?]: The Grabhorn Press, 1958. 4to. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 400 copies. Publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards, printed spine label. With prospectus laid in. FINE. [Together with:] The Two Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California, 1958–1993. San Francisco: Mastercraft Press, 1993. 4to. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 500 copies. Uniformly bound as the original Grabhorn Press edition. With prospectus laid in. FINE.