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A miscellany of trade and fine press volumes.

Comprises:

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• The Ship of Flame: A Saga of the South Seas by William S. Stone. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945. Illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.
• The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920 by Grant H. Smith. Nevada State Bureau of Mines, [Reno], 1954. Printed wrappers. 
• Legends of the Comstock Lode by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. Grahame Hardy, Oakland, 1950. Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a letter from the President of United Mining Corporation to William W. Bliss. Bliss's name on front flap of  somewhat worn jacket.
• The Duchow Journal: A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Printed and published by Mallette Dean. One of 200.
• Six Months in the Sandwich Islands by Isabella L. Bird. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1964. #461 of an edition limited to 500 copies. 
• The Letters of a Young Miner Covering the Adventures of Jasper S. Hill...edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. John Howell-Books, San Francisco, 1964. Tipped in foldout map at rear.
• Western America in 1846-1847: The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J.W. Abert edited by John Galvin. John Howell-Books, [San Francisco], 1966.
• Presses of the Pacific Islands 1817-1867: A History of the first half century of printing in the Pacific islands by Richard E. Lingenfelter. The Plantin Press, Los Angeles, 1967. Woodcuts by Edgar Dorsey Taylor. One of 500 signed by the author. 
• The Indian Massacre of 1911 at Little High Rock Canyon Nevada by Effie Mona Mack. [Western Printing and Publishing Company, Sparks, 1968]. No. 438 of 1,000 copies signed by the author.
• The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775 edited by John Galvin. John Howell-Books, San Francisco, 1971.