Los Angeles: Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles, 1928. Softcover. Very good. 6" x 9", 63 pp, with illustrations and 2 maps, printed in black and orange, in original illustrated wrappers. Some tiny tears to top edge of front cover, light handlng wear; very good. Published shortly..... Item #22293
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
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San Bernardino, CA: San Bernardino County Museum Association, [1971]. Hardcover. Fine in a good dust jacket. No additional printings noted, probably the first edition in hardcover. Two volumes in one (226 pp, 372 pp), each with separate endnotes and index. A fine copy, clean and sound, in a good dust..... Item #21710
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
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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
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
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
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 148 pp + publisher's catalog. Red cloth decorated in black and gilt. A volume in the Standard Library series. Spine lightly sunned, corners rubbed, text clean, binding sound. BAL 13799; Wright III: 3740, Cowan p. 429. Gold rush fiction..... Item #21455
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing, with date on title page. 391 pp, indexed, with 12 plates from photographs--most by Herbert W. Gleason. Publisher's pale green cloth boards with mounted color illustration. Minor wear to corners and spine ends, previous owner's nam on front free..... Item #22340
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
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
Newport Beach and Fullerton, CA: Boyle Engineering Corporation and Weston Pringle and Associates, 1981. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11, comb binding. Not paginated, but ca. 75 pages, printed rectos only. Includes a section of color illustrations and several flow charts. A photocopy of the Orange County Transportation Commission's Request..... Item #20569
1979. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 photocopied typescript.Ca. 75 pp. A "supplemental memorandum respecting factory housing prepared by the legal counsel of Joan Irvine Smith (of Irvine Ranch). A detailed argument stating that there is a need for low-cost housing in Orange County and that "factory housing" ("whether mobile..... Item #20570
San Jose: Victor Hillis & Sons, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6.5 x 9.75 inches, (ix), 16 pp, in beige printed wrappers with half-tone photo of Yosemite Falls mounted on front cover, accompanied by the original (unposted) mailing envelope. One mild crease affects the volume as a whole, otherwise..... Item #22063
Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Presumed first edition (no additional printings noted). 48 pp, in original orange cloth boards. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in a finedust jacket with original $4.95 price intact. Includes a map, a section on desert travel..... Item #14724
New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. xiv, 433 pp, illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp on 4 pages; otherwise unmarked, binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer, a doctor, arrived in San Francisco in..... Item #13797
Chino, CA: E.C. Hamilton, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 244 pp, indexed and illustrated, + ca. 20 unnumbered pages of interesting ads at the end. Bound in plain (no titles) black cloth that seems to have clear glue on it (not sticky) -- possibly from someone having affixed a...... Item #20708
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. 405 pp, with index and bibliography. Very small stain to fore edge (likely a printer's error), else a fine copy in like jacket. Signed on the front free endpaper by..... Item #20089
