Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 463 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, bibliography, index, map endpapers. Original green textured cloth boards show minor shelfwear; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Bidwell led one of the first emigrant parties overland to California, founded the city... (Item #19661)
San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xxx, 96 pp + 2 (ground plan), with illustrations, opening program (4 pp) laid in. Very light wear to extremities, else a fine copy, signed by Hunter with short inscription... (Item #1340)
![Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition [SIGNED]. Stanley Armstrong Hunter.](/pictures/thumb/1340.jpg?v=1474054955)
San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ dust jacket. xxx, 96 pp + ground plan, with illustrations. Boards lightly dust soiled, some spotting to endpapers, inscription on free endpaper; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has some foxing, light... (Item #1356)
Softcover. Near fine. [48] pp, each page with a decorative border. No place or date given, but estimated by Rocq (6482) as 1926. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Light edgewear. Clean and unmarked. (Item #13892)
Published at the Old Cabin, Yo Semite Valley and at Pacific Press Publishing, Oakland, 1888. Early reprint (first published 1886). 8vo, pp. xii, 496, extensively illustrated with wood engravings and phototypes, two maps (one folding). Publisher's olive pictorial cloth with decoration in brown and gilt. Lower corners bumped and rubbed... (Item #20164)
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)
San Francisco: Bolte & Braden, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 377 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, b/w illustrations from photographs. Original tan buckram with gilt lettering. Light shelf wear, some wear and soiling to edges; contents clean. No dust jacket. Written by James on the occasion of a conference... (Item #2406)
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)
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 132 pp, with original receipt for purchase of the book in 1936 laid in. Some offsetting to endpapers; else a fine copy in original boards decorated with a pattern of Chinese characters. Dust jacket... (Item #635)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 332 pp, in original publisher's cloth. Front hinge has a slight wobble, light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Signed by Jones on title page. Set in 1850s California. (Item #1061)
![The Splendid Shilling, A Novel [SIGNED]. Idwal Jones.](/pictures/thumb/1061.JPG?v=1474054864)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Two volumes in one. pp. 379, 329 pp + folding map, with map frontispiece, maps, illustrations, index. One inch tear to folding map; else fine Dust jacket shows light toning to spine and edges... (Item #2211)
Glendale, CA: La Siesta Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. 72 pp, with illustrations, maps, index, map endpapers. Light wear to edges; else fine. Signed by author on title page. #168/173 copies. Includes four routes: Mariposa to Jamestown, Sonora to Jackson, Sutter Creek to Coloma, and Auburn to Downieville. (Item #2946)
![Ghosts of the Gold Rush, Being a Wayward Guide to the Mother Lode Country [SIGNED]. George Koenig.](/pictures/thumb/2946.jpg?v=1526580891)
Boston, MA: The Stratford Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 167 pp, with six plates, two folding maps. Publisher's red cloth, rubbed at the corners and spine ends, evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound, contents clean. The Croatian-born Konscak organized and led three major expeditions to... (Item #17382)
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 2012. Softcover. Fine. 18 pp + color illustrations from photographs. Stapled wrappers/ Limited edition of 1,000. As new. "One of the passions of being a university librarian is to continue to build the collection, in all forms and formats, to meet the needs of faculty and... (Item #202)
Saulsalito, CA: Windgate Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 172 pp, with illustrations, bibliography, index. Fine copy in a clean dust jacket showing light shelf wear. Signed by Gary Kurutz above his name on the title page. "Here, under one cover is a unique... (Item #2156)
![California Calls You, The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 [SIGNED]. KD Kurutz, Gary F. Kurutz.](/pictures/thumb/2156.JPG?v=1477700903)
Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xxviii, 349 pp, with appendices, glossary, index, map endpapers. Small nick in cloth near bottom edge of front cover; else fine. Minor chipping to dust jacket. Signed by author with short inscription and... (Item #1053)
![The Chemehuevis [SIGNED]. Carobeth Laird.](/pictures/thumb/1053.JPG?v=1474054854)
Sonora: Mother Lode Press, 1963. Softcover. Near fine. 96 pp, with illustrations, maps, and bibliography. Folding map laid in. Front cover lightly soiled; contents clean. (Item #14878)
Fullerton, CA: Sultana Press/Mewport Beach Historical Society, 1974. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Second printing. 127 pp, indexed and illustrated. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper;otherwise unmarked. Faint dust soiling to front board. In a clean dust jacket with light edgewear. A regional history of... (Item #14602)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Second printing. xiv, 286 + index, with illustrations and folding map. Upper corners bumped, label from the town of Volcano, California on front free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked, clean and tight. Dust jacket is price-clipped and... (Item #13835)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 108 of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Lyman on the limitation page. 394 pp, illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings and engravings, and with four folding facsimile letters not found in the trade edition. Two-toned... (Item #19662)
Geo. Rice & Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Third revised edition. 172 pp + illustrations + advertisements, with index. Front hinge cracked, general wear to boards with large chip missing from mounted illustration; contents clean. No dust jacket. From the Preface: "The object of this little volume is to meet and... (Item #1782)
Los Gatos, CA: Talisman Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 219 pp, with index, map endpapers. edited by Dale L. Morgan. A near fine copy with slight edgewear, previous owner's name written front free endpaper. Dust jacket has some closed tears repaired on the inside... (Item #2564)
Los Angeles: 1925. First Edition. 106 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers with embossed lettering. Edges chipped, some staining to front cover. Text clean, binding tight. Founded in 1893 as the Southern California Fruit Exchange in Claremont, "the exchange soon included growers and groves in Riverside in Riverside... (Item #19933)
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society and the County of Kern, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 84 pp, with bibliography, illustrations, maps of Spanish explorations and Mexican Land Grants. One small stain on front board, else a fine copy, in a clean dust... (Item #14643)
National Park Service; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Hunter College, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Two-volume set. 8.5 x 11 inches. Vol. I is the text volume (382 pp); Vol. II contains16 appendices in approximately 300 pages. Both volumes as new. From the executive summary: "Studies were undertaken (a)... (Item #14421)
![Final Report: Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains [Volumes I and II]. Sally McLendon, John R. Johnson.](/pictures/thumb/14421.JPG?v=1474055593)
