![81904] "Artist Life in the United States." In "The Nation" Mary AUSTIN](/images/noimage.png)
"Artist Life in the United States." In "The Nation"
Vol. CXX, No. 3110 (February 11, 1925). [81904]
California Literature
"The Beginning and End of Marriage." In "The Nation"
Vol. CXXIV, No. 3210 (January 12, 1927). Review of "The Outline of Marriage" by Floyd Dell. [81906]
![96062] Can Prayer Be Answered? Mary AUSTIN](/pictures/thumb/96062.jpg?v=1587682964)
Can Prayer Be Answered?
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in silver. 55 p. 1st edition. [96062]
"A Historical Memorial." In "The Commonweal"
Vol. XVI, No. 23 (October 5, 1932). [73739]
![87767] Isidro. Mary AUSTIN](/pictures/thumb/87767.jpg?v=1587680858)
Isidro
Illustrated by Eric Pape. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. 12mo. Brown pictorial cloth, stamped in red, blue & gilt. 424 p. + ads. 1st edition. [87767]
"Puye." In "The Nation"
Vol. CXXIV, No. 3216 (February 11, 1925). Poem which was awarded Second Prize in The Nation Poetry Contest. [81905]
![86871] A Woman of Genius. Mary AUSTIN](/pictures/thumb/86871.jpg?v=1587680663)
A Woman of Genius
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. 12mo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 515 p. 1st printing of revised edition. [86871]
![101640] Trio. Dorothy BAKER](/pictures/thumb/101640.jpg?v=1587676955)
Trio
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. 12mo. Green cloth, stamped in red. 234 p. 1st edition. Grier p. 7(A). Baird & Greenwood 148. Once referred to as a "Swell Lesbian melodrama" by Clement Wood. [101640]
![92124] Dante's Inferno: A Lineal and Rhymed Translation. Rev. Albert R. BANDINI](/pictures/thumb/92124.jpg?v=1587681965)
Dante's Inferno: A Lineal and Rhymed Translation
San Francisco: The People's Publishing House, 1928. 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. xxiv, 220 p. 1st printing. Hinkel, Vol. 2, p. 13. "Published with Permission of Ecclesiastical Authorities." Bandini was born in Florence and lived in San Francisco, Crockett & Cotati. Apparently he was living in Cotati, Sonoma County..... [92124]
![76875] Confessions of a Quack. BARTLETT, homas, atrick](/pictures/thumb/76875.jpg?v=1587678645)
Confessions of a Quack
Illus. with drawings by the author. Oakland: J. de Menzes & Sons, 1921. Small 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in black. 144 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 22. Novel of the medical profession written by an Oakland physician. [76875]
Autumn Leaves
San Francisco: Press of Bruce Brough, 1908. 12mo. Red cloth cloth, stamped in gilt, bevelled edges. A.e.g. 231 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 15. [63016]
Thoughts
San Francisco: The Murdock Press, 1903. 12mo. Green cloth, stamped in gilt & blind, bevelled edges. 213 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 15. Poems on "religious and metaphysical themes," according to Hinkel. [54214]
At the Shrine of Song
Intro. by George Wharton James. San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Company, 1909. 12mo. Vellum-backed decorated boards (with pine cone design) xiv, 128 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 16. Bashford was born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1871 and lived in San Francisco & Piedmont, Calif. until his death in 1928..... [54215]
![83840] Songs and Stories of Steinbeck's Cannery Row. David BAUMGARTEN](/pictures/thumb/83840.jpg?v=1587680063)
Songs and Stories of Steinbeck's Cannery Row
Liner notes by Bruce Ariss. [Monterey]: Lordtree Music / The Cannery Row Historical Society, (1974). 33 1/3 rpm LP record. Lordtree L 1101. [83840]
![71905] Ring of the Swamis. Elizabeth BEACHLEY](/pictures/thumb/71905.jpg?v=1587677738)
Ring of the Swamis
San Diego: Canterbury Company, Publishers, 1928. 12mo. Red cloth, stamped in black. 126 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 25. Adams, "Books and Authors of San Diego," 99. Book of short stories. Beachley was born in Berlin, Pa. in 1883 & lived in San Diego after 1920. [71905]
![93546] Psychic Poems. Dr. Nellie BEIGHLE](/pictures/thumb/93546.jpg?v=1587682330)
Psychic Poems
San Francisco: Hicks-Judd Co., Printers & Bookbinders, 1907. Oblong 32mo. White cloth, stamped in gilt. 62 p. 1st edition. Beighle [1851-1916] was a Canadian-born poet who lived in various locations in California, including Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley & Sacramento, from the age of six until her death. [93546]
Slumber Sea Chanteys
Illutrated by Rita Bell James. San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1910). 4to. Wraps. 27 p. 1st edition. [105598]
The Song of the Opal Sea and Other Writings
Intro. by William Frederic Badè, Dean of the Pacific School of Religion, Director of the Palestine Institute, Berkeley, California. Illus. from paintings by John Ferry & Hugo Possner. Los Angeles: Musurgia Books, 1929. 8vo. Blue cloth-backed patterned boards, stamped in gilt. viii, 55 p. 1st ed. One of 497 copies..... [56229]
![83440] Abelard & Heloise: The Love Letters. Ella Costillo BENNETT, poetical](/pictures/thumb/83440.jpg?v=1587680006)
Abelard & Heloise: The Love Letters
With a frontispiece in photogravure from a painting by Will Jenkins. San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1911). 8vo. Stiff wraps, d.w. (attached at flaps). 36 p. Hinkel p. 22. Printed at the Tomoyé Press under the direction of John Henry Nash. [83440]
Sonnets of the Porch
[Los Angeles]: [Ward Ritchie Press] for the author, 1945. 24mo. Wraps. Unpaginated. 1st ed. [70076]
21 Letters of Ambrose Bierce
Edited by Samuel Loveman. Introduction by Donald R Burleson. West Warwick, R.I.: Necronomicon Press, (1991). 8vo. Wraps. 20 p. 1st edition. [104901]
![96586] The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader: Selections from the Invective Journalism of the Great...](/pictures/thumb/96586.jpg?v=1587683123)
The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader: Selections from the Invective Journalism of the Great Satirist
Compiled & edited by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. xxii, 237 p. 1st edition. [96586]
![99007] The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose BIERCE](/pictures/thumb/99007.jpg?v=1587683823)
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
New York & Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909-1912. Twelve volumes. Brown cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels. Paginated variously. Krick 34. Variant bindings not noted in Krick. These would appear to be in remainder bindings which are less elaborate than those noted in Krick. Four of the volumes state that..... [99007]
![93633] A Vision of Doom: Poems. Ambrose BIERCE](/pictures/thumb/93633.jpg?v=1587682359)
A Vision of Doom: Poems
Edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Illustrated by Frank Villano. West Kingston, R.I.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1980. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 110 p. 1st edition. One of 1000 copies. [93633]
The Return and Other Poems
San Francisco: The Periodical Press, 1919. 8vo. Beige boards, stamped in gilt. 79 p. 1st ed. Hinkel p. 26. Volume of poems, many dealing with the Great War, but also with "Vachel Lindsay," "Evening at Bolinas," etc. Bird was born in New York City in 1888 and lived in Los..... [54218]