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)
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
![The Westerners Los Angeles Brand Book XII [12]. George Koenig](/pictures/thumb/1300.JPG?v=1474054952)
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
![A Collection of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Pamphlets and Ephemera [SIGNED]....](/pictures/thumb/20494.jpg?v=1554932438)
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
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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 368 pp, illustrated. Original red cloth, no dust jacket. Some minor insect damage to boards, internals fine. Signed by Lyman (without inscription) on the half-title page. William Chapman Ralston became one of the richest men in California by monopolizing..... Item #20515
![Ralston's Ring, California Plunders the Comstock Lode [SIGNED]. George D. Lyman](/pictures/thumb/20515.jpg?v=1555622295)
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
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 102 pp. A clean, tightly bound copy with a small stain at the gutter on pp. 100-101. Inscribed by the author and his wife (we don't know who's handwriting it is) on the front..... Item #20460
![Short Stories of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica [Inscribed]. Daniel Kilgore Marquez](/pictures/thumb/20460.jpg?v=1550704828)
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1913. Hardcover. Good+. 310 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Blue cloth boards, no dust jacket. Staining near the gutter on the first 6 leaves, otherwise clean, tightly bound. "Josephine Clifford McCracken (or McCrackin) (1839 – 1921) was a California writer and journalist, a contemporary of..... Item #20899
Southern Califoria Chapter, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, 1961. Softcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition (including folding map and ads), prepared as a keepsake for Grolier Club members visiting Southern California. Slight cover wear; near fine. Considered the first promotional pamphlet published in Los Angeles, it also..... Item #21013
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers..... Item #2928
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. xx, 388 pp + illustrations, with index. Light wear and soiling to boards; text clean. Dust jacket shows has a large tear to the front panel, toning, price clipped. "Urban Los Angeles is the setting..... Item #3160
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 337 pp, with index, bibliography, illustrations. Both book and jacket as new. Laid in is a photocopy of a lengthy typed letter, dated 1991, from historian Doyce Nunis, offering a considered critique of the book..... Item #14427
Norco, CA: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1984. Hardcover. Fine. 137 pp, with illustrations, maps, index, map tipped in on rear pastedown, illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Account of homesteading in the high desert of the East Mojave. The Sharps filed their claim in 1913. As was the case with..... Item #1088
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per..... Item #20563
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 309 pp, with index, illustrated endpapers. Light wear to edges, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has a chip missing from head of spine and some rubbing. "The dramatic story of Southern..... Item #2234
New Orleans, LA: Polyanthos, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 380 pp, illustrated with portraits. Clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. Inscribed by Northrop in Spanish on verso front endpaper. A valuable source for early California genealogy, and for historians seeking to understand the complex interrelationships among early California families..... Item #21200
![Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volume II [SIGNED]. Marie E. Northrop](/pictures/thumb/21200_0001.jpg?v=1594996205)
Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, 182 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, maps. Name written on front inside cover, minimal handling wear; else fine. Contains four essays on William Mullholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928, by J. David Rogers..... Item #1812
Los Angeles: The Westerners, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. 180, with illustrations, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers. Minimal soiling/toning to top edge; else fine, in clear glassine wrapper. Silver anniversary publication celebrating the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners. Accounts of the 1856 Vigilance Committee, reprinted from 19th century periodicals. Item #1345
County of Orange Environmental Management Agency, Advance Planning Division, 1982. Softcover. Very good. Two volumes, bound reports on complex land use issues in rapidly-developing Orange County, California in the 1980s. Volume I approx. 40 pp, Volume II approx. 50 pp. Both with many tables, charts, maps. According to the text..... Item #20568
