CALIFORNIA POETRY. A collection of over 300 books by California authors - or literary titles published in California - issued between the 1850s and the 1930s, many published in limited issues by pioneer or fine California printers. $7500.

This collection includes: COOLBRITH, Ina. SONGS FROM THE GOLDEN GATE illustrated by William Keith; ELLIOT, Ellen Coit. SONGS FROM THE TOWER. Number One. Not in Hinkel and not in the Union List of Serials. HARTE, [Francis] Bret. EAST AND WEST Poems, and several other titles; JAMES, George Wharton. THE CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY BOOK. Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors, and other titles; LORING-SCALES-GREEN, Elvira J. GREEN LEAVES. Poems. Illustrations by Pedro J. Lemos; MAHONY, Mary G. MARMADUKE DENVER AND OTHER STORIES. San Francisco: Women's Co-operative, 1887; MEYER, George Homer. LAMARA, And Other Poems. San Francisco: A. Roman, 1878; MILLER, Joaquin. SONGS OF THE SIERRAS and several other titles; ROBINSON, Alfred. CALIFORNIA: An Historical Poem. San Francisco: William Doxey, 1889; SAWTELLE, Mary P. THE HEROINE OF '49 A Story of the Pacific Coast; SKIDMORE, Harriet M. BESIDE THE WESTERN SEA: A Collection of Poems; STODDARD, Charles Warren. POEMS. San Francisco: A. Roman, 1867 and other titles; TAYLOR, Bayard. POEMS OF HOME AND TRAVEL, and other titles; VICTOR, Mrs. Frances [Auretta] Fuller (1826-1902). THE NEW PENELOPE, And Other Stories and Poems. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1877; WALKER, W.S. BETWEEN THE TIDES. Compromising Sketches, Tales and Poems, Including H-U-N-G-R-Y L-A-N-D. Los Gatos, California: W.S. and Gleen Walker, Printers, 1885; WOODS, C.L. KAW-WAU-NITA, And Other Poems. Stockton: D.H. Berdine, Book and Job Printer, 1873. Complete list follows: