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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-2026-008","title":"The Cruise of the Snark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONDON, Jack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cruise of the Snark.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xiv, 340 pp, plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements. 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. The book is dedicated to Charmian, \"the mate of the Snark, who took the wheel … in every emergency.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-008\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"London, Jack","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950825633,"sku":"TO-2026-008","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-008_01_2121714f-3e6c-44bf-86d1-cb878fcc478b.jpg?v=1783399210"},{"product_id":"to-2026-075","title":"This Life I've Loved (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIELD, Isobel (\"Belle\" Osbourne Strong). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Life I've Loved.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLATER PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York \u0026amp; Toronto: Longmans, Green \u0026amp; Co., 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8vo. 353 pp. Photo-illustrated plates; the frontispiece reproduces a portrait of Field by Albert Herter. Orange cloth, issued without dust jacket; near fine with darkening to the spine. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page to the actress Judith Anderson: \"To Judith Anderson, as kind and generous as she is great and glorious. Isobel Field.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA remarkable association copy uniting Robert Louis Stevenson's stepdaughter with one of the great tragic actresses of the American stage. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJudith Anderson (1897–1992), the Adelaide-born actress who built her career on the American stage, received this copy at the height of her fame. Anderson was a friend of Jeffers and a frequent guest at Tor House in Carmel, and she made Santa Barbara her American home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe inscription joins two women whose lives ran, decades apart, through the same California literary world. Isobel Field — born Belle Osbourne in Indianapolis in 1858 — was present at nearly every chapter of the Stevenson story: the meeting with her mother Fanny at Grez in 1876, the San Francisco marriage in 1880, the Silverado summer, the Hawaiian years at the court of King Kalākaua (for whom she designed royal insignia, including the royal seals and the star of the Royal Order of Oceania), and Samoa, where she remained until Stevenson's death at Vailima in 1894. She returned to California and lived there until her death, at ninety-four, in Santa Barbara in 1953. \u003cem\u003eThis Life I've Loved\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1937, is among the most vivid first-person accounts of the Stevenson household and of the late nineteenth-century Pacific world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is further distinguished by Field's own hand throughout: she has tipped in six photographs — herself; her son, the playwright Austin Strong; Robert Louis Stevenson's mother; Fanny Stevenson with a Samoan girl; the Stevenson tomb on Mount Vaea, above Vailima; and what appear to be Samoan artifacts — most captioned in her manuscript. 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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. The book is genuinely uncommon in its pictorial dust jacket, and copies offered without the jacket sell for a fraction of the jacketed price; the jacket is the principal scarcity factor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-081\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leetch, Dorothy Lyman","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953217697,"sku":"TO-2026-081","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-081_02.jpg?v=1783398266"},{"product_id":"to-2026-082","title":"9009","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOPPER, James; BECHDOLT, Fred R. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9009.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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It tells of John Collins, prisoner number 9009, a convict deserving of his sentence who enters prison hoping to make good and discovers a wholly corrupt system bent on breaking him by inches; the novel ends in calculated, bloodthirsty vengeance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHopper (1876–1956) was an exceptionally prolific journalist and short-story writer — some four hundred fifty short stories across the leading magazines of his era, alongside six novels. Bechdolt (1874–1950) brought the factual research and prison investigation that grounds the book. The unsentimental antihero sensibility more associated with mid-century crime fiction is already on the page here in 1908.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-082\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hopper, James; Bechdolt, Fred R.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459953250465,"sku":"TO-2026-082","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-082_01.jpg?v=1784603142"},{"product_id":"to-2026-084","title":"The Man Who Was Murdered Twice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEITFRED, Robert H. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. New York: Green Circle Books, 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 255 pp. Red cloth in the publisher's color-illustrated dust jacket. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book belongs to the broader 1930s San Francisco crime tradition associated with Dashiell Hammett and his contemporaries — writers who turned the working geography of the city into genre material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Depression-era San Francisco crime novel, here in its scarce original color-illustrated dust jacket. Ned Anderson, a wealthy young San Francisco playboy, returns from a round-the-world trip to find that his attorney has swindled him out of his fortune and that the attorney's secretary has been kidnapped; Anderson hires the private detective Simon Crole, and the case turns on a victim who meets the same fate twice over. 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. The novel is not recorded in Baird and Greenwood's standard bibliography of California fiction.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-084\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leitfred, Robert H.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459953316001,"sku":"TO-2026-084","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-084_01.jpg?v=1783397054"},{"product_id":"to-2026-102","title":"Storyteller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSILKO, Leslie Marmon. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStoryteller\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. \u003c\/strong\u003eNew York: Seaver Books, 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eClothbound (hardcover) issue, in dust jacket. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOblong 8vo. 278 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a separately published critical study — \u003cem\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko\u003c\/em\u003e by Per Seyersted (Boise State University Western Writers Series No. 45), a 50-page staplebound monograph on Silko's work, a useful companion to the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book braids Pueblo oral tradition with contemporary autobiographical writing, and its unusual oblong (landscape) format is itself part of the design. Silko (b. 1948) was raised at the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, of Laguna, Mexican, and Anglo-American background; \u003cem\u003eStoryteller\u003c\/em\u003e is the fullest statement of the storytelling tradition that runs through all her work. 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Barcelona: Aymà, S. A. Editora, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall octavo. 271 pp. Original pictorial wrappers in the publisher's Tròpics series. Near fine. Laid into this copy is an autograph letter, signed, addressed to Henry Miller (\"Dear Mr. Miller\"); the copy was acquired as coming from Miller's own library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first Catalan translation of Henry Miller's \u003cem\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/em\u003e — the novel first published in Paris by the Obelisk Press in 1934 and barred from the United States until 1961. Jordi Arbonès's version appeared in Barcelona under the Aymà imprint in the period following the end of the Franco regime, when Catalan-language publishing was re-emerging and frank erotic writing was reaching Spanish readers for the first time in decades. The edition carries Anaïs Nin's preface, and Arbonès — one of the major Catalan literary translators of his generation — would render nine of Miller's books into Catalan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-106\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miller, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459954659489,"sku":"TO-2026-106","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-106_01_4620143e-df7f-4abc-b15a-4d277d07e8ec.jpg?v=1783399065"},{"product_id":"to-2026-126","title":"The 13 Clocks (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHURBER, James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 13 Clocks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by the author on the half-title, \"Best Wishes,\" and signed \"James Thurber.\" A first edition, first printing, with no later printing or printing line stated on the copyright page. Small octavo. 124 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Marc Simont. Red cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards pictorially stamped in black, in the original publisher's color illustrated dust jacket. Fading to the spine, else fine, in an about-near-fine dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fairy tale Thurber wrote in Bermuda, where he had gone to finish another book entirely — \"an example of escapism and self-indulgence,\" as he put it in his foreword. The story — Prince Zorn of Zorna disguised as a wandering minstrel; the wicked Duke who has frozen time by stopping all thirteen clocks; the enigmatic Golux, who speaks in half-truths; the Todal, a \"blob of glup\" that \"makes a sound like rabbits screaming\" — is among the most quoted children's books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-126\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thurber, James","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955314849,"sku":"TO-2026-126","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-126_02.jpg?v=1783396168"},{"product_id":"to-2026-134","title":"The Cup of Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGILLESPIE, Ruth Merriam.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cup of Gold.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of 500 copies. 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Anna Wille's signed frontispiece carries the Art Nouveau, Beardsley-adjacent feel of West Coast illustration in the immediate teens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: two early ownership bookplates — \"From Among the Books of R. I. Johnson\" (a turbaned figure beneath a Moorish arch) and \"From the Library of Enid Barr Hicks\" (a willow-tree vignette) — and, laid in, a 1991 gift inscription from Enid Barr Hicks to Jan Shiosoki, \"with love,\" together with a separate Christmas note: \"Merry Christmas Jan! This is one of my Treasures! I want you to have it. 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