Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. pp. xxiv (Goodman's Introduction), 27, illustrated, with map endpapers. Copy No, 8 of 200 signed and numbered copies printed specially for members of the Zamorano Club by Grant Dahlstron at the Castle Press in Pasadena..... Item #21537
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, 6.75 x 10.25 inches, pp xii, 375; xiv, 377-777. Indexed, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, color frontispiece in each volume. A highly detailed work with separate chapters on opossum, bears, racoons, ring-tailed cats, martens, fisher, weasels..... Item #22529
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1973]. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 467 pp., with illustrations and maps. Evidence of bookplate removed front rear endpaper, light bump to lower right corner. Binding sound, text clear. Dust jacket has an old price written in ink on the front..... Item #21735
Los Angeles: Holmes Book Co., 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 95 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light creasing to corners, small losses at spine ends; very good. In addition to the list of towns and their pronounciations, this volume includes the text of an 1850 report to the California..... Item #21435
Simi, CA: 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 68 pp, with folding map, many illustrations. Faux-leather boards; no dust jacket. Fine copy. Interestng reflections and reminiscences on the early history and development of the Palm Springs area, Coachella Valley, Date Industry, Imperial Calley, and Colorado Desert. Item #20966
Mexico: Fondo Pagliai, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 133 pp, illustrated with maps and facsimiles. One of 1000 copies printed, this one unnumbered. Bound in full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks to the leather; binding sound, text clean. Previous owner's name on front..... Item #17707
Carleton: New York, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 448 pp, illustrated. Origingal green cloth boards. Mild spine slant, some foxing, bookplate of M.L. Dowe's Circulating Library on front pastedown, evidence of a paper cover once glued down to the pastedowns. Includes material on California, Italy, Australia, Egypt. Cowan p...... Item #13833
San Francisco: Press of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 56 pp, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt illustration on front board. Very good, with some light abrasion to the cloth. Internally sound and clean. Published in the same year Sutro became Mayor of San Fransciso..... Item #22217
Stanford University Press, 1932. Softcover. Very good. A paper read before The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of California at San Francisco, California, April 5, 1932. 17 pp, + one photographic plate, frontis map. Very good copy in original stapled wrappers, with light handling wear..... Item #22281
Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute West Coast Branch, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 58 pp, with plans, maps, illustrations, bibliography. Original wrappers with stapled binding. Sloight shelf wear; contents clean and sound. Includes chapters on the Spanish Presidio, El Castillo, Fort Mervine, and the American Presidio, accompanied by many..... Item #15000
NP, ND, but ca. 1902. 7 x 10 inches, 23, [1] pp., in attractive illustrated wrappers. Upper corners of front wrap are chipped and spine is partly split. Good. Illustrated promotional booklet, with most text reprinted from the September 1902 issue of Sunset Magazine. A preliminary page describes the attractions..... Item #20549
Hollywood, CA: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 127 pp, with one map, index. Text and original wrappers bound into an attractive later binding of three-quarter red leather and red cloth, with blue marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry E. Childs, Jr. on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, clean..... Item #22799
2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women..... Item #3220
San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. xxx, 96 pp + ground plan, with illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with mild wear to the top edge. Laid in is "Opening Program, Temple of..... Item #22857
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Western Frontiersmen Series XVII. 265 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. A fine copy in original red cloth; no dust jacket. This volume recounts Dalton's life from London to South America and then California and sheds light on significant aspects..... Item #1051
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 504, [2] index, illustrated with line drawings. Good only, with wear and soiling to the boards (flexible cloth), front hinge cracked. Includes a useful general history of the region and interesting detail on place names, topography, natural resources..... Item #21531
New York: Duffield and Company, 1913. Hardcover. Good. 346 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, index. Rear hinge cracked, front hinge starting, light general wear to boards, very light spotting to pages; else clean. No dust jacket. Johnson's personal impressions of travel in California, including popular sites such as Santa Barbara..... Item #2161
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1864. Hardcover. Good. 4.25" x 6.5", pp 440 + [9] (advertisements, some printed in blue and red), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Losses to backstrip, cloth frayed over front jont, front cover loosening and delicate, but still attached. Possibly lacking a front blank..... Item #22149
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Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Westerners, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 211 pp, with illustrations, index. Light spotting to top edge, very light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. One of an edition of 500. Includes contributions from Clifford M. Drury ("California's Gold Rush Churches"), E.I.Edwards ("Death..... Item #1300
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #137 of 300 copies, signed by both authors in pencil on the colophon. 193 pp, with color frontispiece, illustrations in black and white. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block, slight fading to top inch of rear..... Item #20494
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1930. Softcover. Near fine. Reprint of the 1875 edition, with a new introduction by Farquhar. x, 152 pp + illustrations, in original stiff wrappers with paper spine label. Slight sunning and wear to edges, small bookseller's label (Vernon Howard Mountaineering Books) inside rear cover, else fine..... Item #22716
Oakland, CA: Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks, Magnes Memorial Museum, 1964. Softcover. Fine. Stapled pamphlet, 26 pp. Fine condition. Inscribed on the inside front cover by Hal Altman, Chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries. Item #22874
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a Very good dust jacket. 329 pp + index. Slight sunning to edges of boards, nickel-sized spot of black magic marker on front free endpaper. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket lightly worn at spine ends. A thoughtful..... Item #22384
California: Historic Record Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1927. Title continues "Containing also short, well-written personal sketches of many men and women, deceased and living, who by their own unaided efforts have made this one of the foremost sections of the State." 10.5 inches, 983 pp, with illustrations from photographs..... Item #21243
Capitola, CA: Capitola Book Company, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. xv, 550 pp, with maps, illustrations, references, index. Light wear to edges; else fine. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. "This first-ever study of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region traces their history from..... Item #3158
