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Violet Oakley. The Holy Experiment.... Philadelphia. 1922. First edition. One of 500 copies signed and hand illuminated by the artist. A beautiful piece of bookmaking, rarely found complete and in fine condition.
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George Mathis. Original pencil and watercolor of the Judge Jones home in Nevada City. Most of the original art of this noted California Mother Lode artist is held by his family or Washington State University, his alma mater.
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Alexis de Tocqueville. First collected edition of his complete works, published in French in nine volumes, 1864-66, including many letters published for the first time.
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James William Denver. Important collection of 128 letters written to this prominent 19th century American politician. Denver served as California's second Secretary of State, as a congressman from California, and a territorial governor of Kansas. The city of Denver, Colorado is named after him.
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Richard de Bury. Philobiblion: A Treatise on the Love of Books. London. 1832. The first English language translation of this classic book on book collecting. Issued in a very small edition and quite rare.
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Dame Shirley / Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp. Signed tear sheets for her short story "Our Summer in the Valley of the Moon" originally published in The Hellmuth World 1881. We can find no other signed item by this reclusive author of The Shirley Letters (see Zamorano 80 number 69) ever being offered for sale. more info
Otto von Kotzebue. First German edition of Kotzebue's second around the world voyage 1823-26 (much expanded from the first edition published in Russia). An important early California book, with a description of San Francisco Bay and the Russian settlement in Ft. Ross. more info
Minta Durfee Arbuckle and Addie Shelton. A fascinating and informative collection of original letters from two of the actor Fatty Arbuckle's wives, written to the author of the best biography of Arbuckle.
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George F. Parker. Recollections of Grover Cleveland. New York. 1909. First edition. Inscribed by the author, with a two page letter from former President Cleveland to the author laid in.
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