Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. xix, 552 pp, with illustrations, folding map, in publisher's blue cloth and original dust jacket. Upper outer corner lightly bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows some toning, a few tiny tears..... (Item #22705)

Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 54 pp, with illustrations, maps, bibliography index. Slight rubbing to spine ends, else a fine copy, in the original dust jacket, which is lightly soiled. History of the Kern River gold mining..... (Item #22296)

Washington DC: Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service Pacific Region, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. v, 88 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. One light crease to outer bottom corner of rear cover; else fine. (Item #3174)

San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped..... (Item #22279)

Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... (Item #17389)

Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated..... (Item #20560)

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 193 pp + 3 pages of ads for Raymond's Vacation Excursions. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering, floral-patterned endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, one scuff mark on front board, but still an attractive copy. The author recounts her experiences on an..... (Item #21290)

Stanford, CA: Stanford Medical School, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. pp 225-242, with illustration, in original wrappers.Very light handling wear; else fine. Reprinted from the San Francisco Medical Press, October 1862. Cooper was founder of the first medical college in San Francisco. (Item #2061)

Los Angeles: John Henry Nash, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. v, 926 pp, indexed. Bound in three-quarter green buckram over patterned paper boards, with paper label on spine. Light soiling to edges of text block and spine label, ink notation of an old price on front free endpaper, else clean and..... (Item #1343)

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good-. Title continues: A series of original illustrated letters, written by one of California's pioneer miners, and dedicated to that class of her citizens by the author. Reprinted from the only edition (1853) with illustrations by Charles Nahl and a new foreword..... (Item #2321)

Harbor Springs, MI: Holy Childhood Indian School, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xvi, 516 pp, with frontispiece, map, illustrations, index. Specially bound in three-quarter leather with tooled spine, marbled boards and endpapers, for Los Angeles bookseller C.C. Parker. Bookplate of historian Catherine Coffin Phillips on front pastedown. Some scuffing..... (Item #22804)

San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 9 x12 in., 115 pp, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Spine sunned, otherwise a fine, as-new copy. Briefly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. "A personal and very..... (Item #14173)

San Francisco: Wood, Alley & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: With Descriptions of Scenes As Viewed By The Pioneers, The First American Argonauts of California; The Bear Flag; The Discovery of Gold; The Progress of Population and Agriculture; The Mexican Grants; The Principal Murders; Incidents of..... (Item #21394)