![Women's Magazine]. The Hesperian. (Vol. II, No. 5). Mrs. F. A. Day, Hermione](/pictures/thumb/3347.jpg?v=1610661063)
San Francisco: Mrs. F.A. Day, 1859 (July). First Edition. Large 8vo. (253 x 170 mm). [193]-240 pp., 8 pp. ads at end. With a two-color lithograph portrait of Isaac J. Sparks; hand-colored lithograph of a Bearded Jay. Original illustrated wrappers (repaired), the front cover being a steel engraving by the..... More
![CALIFORNIANA]. Bugle Peals: Or Songs of Warning for the America People. Eliza A. Pittsinger, "The...](/pictures/thumb/3346.jpg?v=1609739522)
San Francisco: Edward A. Weed, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. 33, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers (soiled, fragile spine worn and partially defective, upper wrapper starting). NOT ex-library! TOXIC, BIGOTED "SONGS OF WARNING" WRITTEN BY A RABID ANTI-CATHOLIC KNOWN AS "THE CALIFORNIA POETESS." The inexplicably gushing Wikipedia entry for Eliza Pittsinger was..... More
![WOMAN PRINTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST]. Billhead from Mrs. John L. Howe, publisher of the "Folsom...](/pictures/thumb/3337.jpg?v=1609369476)
Folsom, California: Folsom Weekly Telegraph, 1875. Billhead (118 x 210 mm), printed on recto only, docketed on verso in MS: "No. of. Cred. $5.00 Folsom Telegraph." Evidence of folds (not objectionable). SEE IMAGES. PRINTED BY A WOMAN IN THE GOLD RUSH TOWN OF FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA, UNKNOWN TO ALL BIBLIOGRAPHERS ON..... More
New York: Cassel, 1885. First Edition. 16mo. [2], 190 pp. Original publisher's brown gilt- and silver embossed decorated cloth, a.e.g. A bright copy in excellent condition, almost flawless. When does a ranching story have nothing to do with ranching? This book "is without either story or ranch; it is about..... More
Washington DC: T. Barnard, Printer, 1846. 8vo. 16 pp. + final blank. Extracted from a bound volume. Title-page inscription cropped, but clearly signed by the author, another inscription on verso of final blank. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve. THE WIDOW OF SOUTHWEST EXPLORER GEN. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE SEEKS HER RIGHTFUL..... More
