R. J. Waters operated a photography studio at 110 Sutter Street in San Francisco (listed in the 1900 San Francisco Crocker-Langley Directory). He offered small-format photographs, captioned in the margins, of San Francisco and Bay Area scenes designed for use in scrapbooks. This group includes: 267. Chinese Grocery; 274. Club.....

The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided into the.....

Second Edition. The author spent some years in the United States as the editor of the San Francisco-based Confucian Digest. She wrote frequently on the relevance of Confucianism to overseas Chinese. Prior to the Second World War, relatively few books by Asian women were published in the US. This book.....

A very unusual promotional real estate map for San Francisco's Castro district. While this map has been described as a lithograph (see PBA Galleries, April 21, 2022), it is actually letterpress printed entirely from type (the bite of the type can be distinctly felt on the verso of the paper).....

First Edition. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, claiming to speak for the business community of the West Coast, argues that the success of Chinese merchants in California and the growing trade with China requires armed transport across the Pacific Ocean to ensure the safe passage of gold and silver.....

First Edition. 9 by 14 inches. 8 pages of weirdness. Printed in reverse order, right to left and back to front. According to Dorn's bibliographer, "Ed Dorn and Jeremy H. Prynne contributed approximately seventy-five percent of the content." Other contributors, credited only in a list of authors, are Tom Raworth.....