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
San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 146 pp + 16 black and white plates, additional illustrations in the text. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in black, and inscribed on the title page "Wm. R. Boothby, Esq. Compliments of the Author."..... Item #21434
1933. Softcover. Fine. No place or publisher given. 8.25 x 6 inches, 29 pp, in stapled wrappers with block print cover illustration hand-printed in three colors, b/w illustrations within. Fine. A rare publication on the early history of the small Orange County, California, community of Silverado. Nestled in a canyon..... Item #21582
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
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
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
Sacramento: Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure. Undated, ca. 1922. 9 x 4 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with photos. Paper split at foot of spine, otherwise very good. Cover art by Earl Erasmus Motter (1882-1937). Text gives an overview of California history, followed by sections on the..... Item #20923
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
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
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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
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
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 424 pp, indexed. Introduction and annotation by Dale L. Morgan and James R. Scobie. Slight dust soiling to top edge, else fine. Dust jacket has chipping to the front panel and some..... Item #21451
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 361 pp, indexed and illustrated. A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, inscribed on the front pastedown "For______, with good wishes, Catherine Coffin Phillips." Dust jacket has a few stray..... Item #20996
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Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 142 pp, with color frontispiece and b/w plates. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the limitation page. One of 600 copies issued, of which 100 were signed and bound in Brown cloth. This appears to be one of..... Item #20976
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state..... Item #1533
