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Very good: the cloth lightly soiled and toned as usual for this construction, the cover design clean and bright, the spine lightly worn at the head with the gilt faded but legible, the binding sound; internally the bamboo paper uniformly toned but supple and intact, without marginalia or inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landmark of 1890s San Francisco literary culture. \u003cem\u003eThe Lark\u003c\/em\u003e ran for twenty-four monthly numbers and a final \u003cem\u003eEpi-Lark\u003c\/em\u003e between May 1895 and April 1897, founded by Gelett Burgess and Bruce Porter as the vehicle of the loose circle of young San Francisco writers and artists who became known as Les Jeunes — among them Burgess and Porter, Florence Lundborg, Ernest Peixotto, Willis Polk, Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, and Carolyn Wells. Printed on delicate bamboo paper with a deliberately informal aesthetic, it was dedicated, in Burgess's framing, to \"sincerity, spontaneity, and gaiety,\" and reached a national circulation of some three thousand by its second year, widely noticed in the Eastern and Midwestern press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound by itself, Book I represents the first half of the run and arguably the more important half — it contains the Purple Cow, the Stevenson portrait, and the first establishing of the magazine's voice and circle. Complete two-volume sets (Books I and II with the \u003cem\u003eEpi-Lark\u003c\/em\u003e) are uncommon and command higher prices; Book I alone is the more accessible entry for collectors of California literature, San Francisco printing, and the 1890s little magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-001\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burgess, Gelett and Porter, Bruce","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950596257,"sku":"TO-2026-001","price":280.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-001_01_a94893c5-d053-4f03-8642-d7d65f4aaf1d.jpg?v=1784602047"},{"product_id":"to-2026-002","title":"Planet News, 1961–1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGINSBERG, Allen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlanet News, 1961–1967.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING — POCKET POETS SERIES NO. 23.\u003c\/strong\u003e San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNumber twenty-three in the Pocket Poets Series. First printing, one of 5,000 copies printed letterpress and sewn at Villiers Publications, London, with the Villiers printer's notice at the rear. 148 pp. Original black and cream stiff-card wrappers in the Pocket Poets house design, the cream front label printed in black, $2.00 price intact on the rear cover. With a contemporary ownership inscription on the front pastedown — \"Michael H. Page. London. xvi. i. mcmlxix\" (16 January 1969) — with his note \"1st Edition 1968,\" placing this London-printed copy in early UK circulation within months of publication. Very good; the wrappers lightly toned at the spine and edges, the sewn binding sound, internally clean and unmarked apart from the inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGinsberg's third major collection in the Pocket Poets Series, gathering the work of the seven years that followed \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e's emergence — the years of his travels through India, Japan, and Europe and of his rise as the central public poet of the American counterculture. By 1968 the series Lawrence Ferlinghetti had launched in 1955 with his own \u003cem\u003ePictures of the Gone World\u003c\/em\u003e, and made famous in 1956 with \u003cem\u003eHowl and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 4), had become the principal American platform for Beat poetry; \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 4), \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 14), and \u003cem\u003ePlanet News\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 23) form Ginsberg's three-volume contribution to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is dedicated to Neal Cassady — Kerouac's Dean Moriarty and the driver of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus — who had died beside railroad tracks outside San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in February 1968, three months before publication; the dedication reads \"to Neal Cassady, again, Spirit to Spirit,\" the \"again\" reaching back to \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e. Its central work is \"Wichita Vortex Sutra,\" the long anti-Vietnam-War poem Ginsberg composed in 1966 by dictating into a Uher tape recorder during a cross-country trip through the Midwest, attempting in Whitman's long line to \"declare the End of the War.\" Also here are \"Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber,\" \"Death News\" (on the death of William Carlos Williams), \"The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express\" (1963), \"Kral Majales\" (the 1965 Prague poem written after Czech students crowned him May King and the police deported him), and \"Wales Visitation,\" his 1967 LSD-on-the-hillside ecology poem. 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One of 4,265 copies of the first printing (\"Published June, 1911\" on the copyright page, no later printings indicated). Original blue-green ribbed cloth with a color pictorial paste-down label of the Snark to the front board, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and more than one hundred half-tone photographs throughout. As in all known copies, the title page is tipped in, and an extra plate is inserted between pp. 270–271 without appearing in the list of illustrations. BAL 11929; Sisson \u0026amp; Martens p. 57. Very good: the front hinge slightly cracked but the binding firm; a small scratch to the top of the front-board label, the image of the Snark otherwise clean and intact; internally fresh with no foxing, all plates intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon's account of the voyage that nearly killed him. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he commissioned a forty-three-foot boat he named the Snark and set out from Oakland with his wife Charmian and a small crew, meaning to sail around the world over seven years. The vessel was poorly built — it leaked, the engines failed, the bowsprit broke — and London contracted a succession of tropical illnesses that by the end left him barely able to use his hands. The voyage was abandoned at Sydney after roughly two years, scarcely a third of the planned route.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cruise of the Snark\u003c\/em\u003e is what he made of it: a sequence of essays on Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, the Solomons, and the New Hebrides, closing with his account of being defeated by his own body. 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Robertson, 1914.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper: \"With the compliments of George Sterling.\" With a pen correction to the text on page 24 in Sterling's hand — a frequent feature of this title, as Sterling habitually corrected his own poems in copies he gave away. Laid in is an original silver gelatin photographic portrait of Sterling by William E. Dassonville, signed \"Sterling\" in pen to the print — Dassonville's signed portraits of the poet are scarce, and the photographer moved in the same San Francisco Bohemian circle as his sitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 141 pp. Printed by The Blair-Murdock Company of San Francisco for Robertson. The collection gathers sixty-one poems written largely during Sterling's Carmel years, including the title poem — dedicated to fellow Carmel bohemian James \"Jimmy\" Hopper — and \"The Master Mariner,\" among a substantial group of sonnets and lyrics. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to the upper board and spine, deckled fore-edges; in the publisher's scarce original pictorial dust jacket, a black-on-cream wave design, with the original $1.25 price intact at the head of the front panel. BAL 18760; Mattila A7; Cecil Johnson, \u003cem\u003eA Bibliography of George Sterling\u003c\/em\u003e, pp. 10–11. Near fine; boards clean and square, the spine gilt slightly faded as usually seen, the interior fresh, the binding tight. The dust jacket — the genuine rarity, as most surviving copies are jacketless — is toned with light wear to the extremities but complete, the price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe combination of a presentation inscription, an authorial pen correction, a signed laid-in Dassonville portrait, and the original scarce dust jacket is unusual, and unlikely to be matched in another copy on the open market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sterling, George","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459951186081,"sku":"TO-2026-021","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-021_01.jpg?v=1784613570"},{"product_id":"to-2026-022","title":"The Caged-Eagle and Other Poems (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTERLING, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Caged-Eagle and Other Poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION — INSCRIBED BY STERLING TO CHARLES W. 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The dust jacket is in unusually fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Sterling (1869–1926) was a central figure of the West Coast \"Bohemian\" literary movement of the early twentieth century. Among the most personal of Sterling's California-period collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Caged-Eagle\u003c\/em\u003e devotes nearly a third of its pages to the First World War. 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Original pale green cloth over boards, with a color pictorial label of the Corwin in Arctic ice (after a painting by Denny) mounted to the front board, white lettering, top edge gilt. Illustrated with photogravure plates from photographs — several by Edward S. Curtis — and with drawings from Muir's own sketches; appendices on glaciation and botany; one map of Wrangell Land. In the original publisher's pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.75 to the spine, unclipped. Kimes 348; BAL 14775; Arctic Bibliography 11838. Book very good, binding tight and internally clean; dust jacket good, with chipping and short tears at the spine head and corners but the pictorial artwork and $2.75 price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuir's Arctic journal, published posthumously by his literary executor. In the summer of 1881 the U.S. Revenue Cutter Corwin sailed from San Francisco into the Bering Sea, charged with searching for the lost Jeannette expedition under Commander George W. De Long and with resupplying the whaling and trading stations along the Alaskan and Siberian coasts. Captain Calvin L. Hooper invited Muir to join as the cruise's naturalist. Muir kept a daily journal and sent letters to the San Francisco \u003cem\u003eDaily Evening Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e recording glaciers, plant life, and the Aleut and Chukchi villages, as the Corwin worked north toward Wrangell Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muir, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951349921,"sku":"TO-2026-026","price":685.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-026_02.jpg?v=1783703951"},{"product_id":"to-2026-027","title":"John Steinbeck: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. 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Payne's inscription, written the day he sent copy one to Goldstone, places it second in the sequence in which the 1,200 copies left the press — and records the moment a forty-year California collection, catalogued from Texas, was made permanent in print. Inscribed copies of G\u0026amp;P are uncommon; one that is also the co-author's working copy, dated within the production sequence, is a singular survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-027\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldstone, Adrian H., and John R. 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Quarter black cloth over printed paper-covered boards, top edge red, in the publisher's orange-striped pictorial dust jacket. Cloth separated at the rear joint; the dust jacket with staining to the front flap and edge wear; a fair-to-good copy of an uncommon inscribed first edition. Shifreen \u0026amp; Jackson A66a.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Miller considered \u003cem\u003eThe Smile at the Foot of the Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e the most peculiar of all the stories he had written — a short fable of Auguste, a clown who could make audiences laugh but longed to give them a lasting joy. The text originated in a 1938 commission from the painter Fernand Léger, who asked Miller to write an accompaniment to a planned graphic cycle of clown and circus drawings; Léger ultimately set the text aside as unsuitable, and Miller arranged independent publication with Duell, Sloan \u0026amp; Pearce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1948 edition is the true first, in a striking Merle Armitage design, illustrated throughout with reproductions of clown and circus artworks by Chagall, Klee, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Dunoyer de Segonzac, and other masters, together with a facsimile of two pages of Miller's corrected typescript. Miller wrote it during his Big Sur years — he had settled on the California coast in 1944 and would remain until 1962 — the period that also produced \u003cem\u003eBig Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch\u003c\/em\u003e. This copy carries Miller's own warm, dated inscription, presenting the book five months after publication \"with deep appreciation of so many kindnesses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-043\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miller, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Fair","offer_id":46459951874209,"sku":"TO-2026-043","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-043_01_b458df60-3007-4365-b28a-2f39422abc00.jpg?v=1783744065"},{"product_id":"to-2026-044","title":"Ghost Tantras (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCLURE, Michael.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGhost Tantras.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, SIGNED.\u003c\/strong\u003e San Francisco: self-published by the author; distributed by City Lights Books, 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 106 pp. Black-and-white photo-illustrated wrappers, $1.50 on the rear cover. Signed by Michael McClure on the title page. A near fine copy, with light wear to the extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael McClure's \u003cem\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/em\u003e is the experimental volume of \"beast language\" poems — a mix of lyrical, guttural, and laryngeal sound, lion roars and growls and preverbal utterance. 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Fisher (1908–1992), author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Cook a Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConsider the Oyster\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Gastronomical Me\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the central figures in twentieth-century American food writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-051 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fisher, M.F.K.","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459952169121,"sku":"TO-2026-051","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-051_01.jpg?v=1783745064"},{"product_id":"to-2026-054","title":"The Star-Treader and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSMITH, Clark Ashton. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Star-Treader and Other Poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, first binding state. 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The first edition of two thousand copies was reduced by fire, roughly a thousand sets of unbound sheets destroyed; copies in the original publisher's dust jacket are exceptionally scarce, and an unopened copy in jacket is among the strongest survivals available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-054 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Clark Ashton","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952267425,"sku":"TO-2026-054","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-054_01.jpg?v=1784609121"},{"product_id":"to-2026-056","title":"Under the Redwoods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARTE, Bret. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnder the Redwoods.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e (BAL 7396). 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Austin writes that she made most of the poems \"with the help of the children in my school,\" and that doing so led her \"into the secret of how the great Southwest feels.\" The drawings are by Gerald Cassidy (1879–1934), the Santa Fe painter known for his Southwestern subjects. \u003cem\u003eThe Children Sing in the Far West\u003c\/em\u003e, published late in her life, is less often collected than that book but belongs on any full Austin shelf — particularly in the original jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-058 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austin, Mary","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952398497,"sku":"TO-2026-058","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-058_01.jpg?v=1783703229"},{"product_id":"to-2026-059","title":"Garrapata (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLOUTIER, David. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGarrapata.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of only 75 copies, issued as number 42 of the tel-let series. Charleston, IL: tel-let, 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA scarce production at 75 copies, seldom seen in the trade, here inscribed by Cloutier. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA single poem printed on 17 unnumbered leaves, recto only, in a tall narrow format (11 × 4¼ inches); pale green wrappers. A near fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed by the poet on the title page: \"For Elizabeth, with good wishes — David Cloutier.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCloutier's poem takes its title from Garrapata, the stretch of coast about seven miles south of Carmel along Highway 1, now Garrapata State Park, where coastal bluffs and scrub give way to redwood groves running down toward the sea. It is country Edward Weston knew well; he lived nearby and photographed in and around what is now the park. The poem opens under an epigraph from Robert Duncan, placing this coastal meditation in the lineage of San Francisco Renaissance poetry. The tall, narrow page answers its subject — the vertical drop of cliff to water — and the spare recto-only printing gives each passage room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-059 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cloutier, David","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952431265,"sku":"TO-2026-059","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-059_01.jpg?v=1784609774"},{"product_id":"to-2026-063","title":"Careless Love (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADAMS, Alice. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareless Love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: New American Library, 1966.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 183 pp. In the publisher's dust jacket. Dedicated in print to Max and Diana Steele. A decorative bookplate accompanies the volume. An attractive, well-preserved copy in the publisher's jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSigned by Alice Adams on the title page and inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: \"For Mig, with love from Alice, June 1966\" — the month of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCareless Love\u003c\/em\u003e was Alice Adams's first book. She was forty when it appeared, after years as a single mother doing clerical work in San Francisco and writing in stolen hours; it is a sharp, bittersweet portrait of the divorced, upper-Bohemian Bay Area of the early 1960s — the social world she would go on to map across eleven novels and decades of \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e stories. 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The companion volume, Gerstle's \u003cem\u003eThree Houses\u003c\/em\u003e (1952) — same author, same printer, same 150-copy limitation — is also available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-066\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerstle, Sara","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459952660641,"sku":"TO-2026-066","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-066_01_ccda1710-a0f2-4623-8888-78a82d242aec.jpg?v=1784612696"},{"product_id":"to-2026-067","title":"Three Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGERSTLE, Sara. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree Houses.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of 150 copies, this copy hand-numbered 140. 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What lifts the book for the collector is the illustrator: Jo Mora, the sculptor, cartographer, and \"Renaissance Man of the West,\" who produced its frontispiece and twenty-one line drawings in 1932 — the same Monterey Peninsula years in which he was making his most sought-after pictorial maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBenito and Loreta Delfin\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the Mora-illustrated canon alongside \u003cem\u003eDawn and the Dons: The Romance of Monterey\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) and \u003cem\u003eFifty Funny Animal Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (1932), and is one of the more accessible titles for a collector building a Mora shelf. 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It is hardboiled San Francisco crime in the staccato manner of its decade, written in the years when the pulp magazines were feeding a generation of writers into hardback genre fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen Circle Books was a small Depression-era hardback house, and copies of its titles in the original jackets are uncommon; \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice\u003c\/em\u003e in jacket is among the less frequently encountered. 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