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: 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)
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,...](/pictures/thumb/2156.JPG?v=1477700903)
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
Berkeley: University of California, 1951-1964. Hardcover. Near fine. Complete set of 10 volumes, without the supplement published later. Bound in publisher's green cloth; no dust jackets. Light scuffing/shelf wear to boards; bindings tight, internals unmarked. Additional shipping charges will apply for priority or international orders. Thomas Oliver Larkin (1802-1858) was... Item #20521
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
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)
Socorro, NM: Ballena Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Ballena Press Publications on North American Rock Art No. 2. 236 pp, 8.5 x 11 inches, in original illustrated wrappers. One tiny tear to the fore edge of the front cover; otherwise as new. Includes editor's Preface, Bibliography, and the... Item #15764
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: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1888. Hardcover. Good. 357 pp + xi (index), with charming wood engraved illustrations of animals. Pictorial boards are heavily rubbed at the joints and there is some loss of outer paper at the head of the spine. Front hinge a bit wobbly; otherwise sound... Item #2600
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 another historian 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
New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1898. Softcover. Good. Picturesque California was a lavishly illustrated book edited by John Muir originally sold by subscription and distributed in thirty parts. This is part IX (9), consisting of pages 121-144 and titled "The Heart of Southern California." Although she is not... Item #20542
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Undated reprint of the 1918 first trade edition (Kimes 351). 390 pp, indexed, with 12 plates from photographs, most by Herbert W. Gleason. Publisher's green illustrated cloth. Front board has an unobtrusive stain at the upper right corner; previous owners' names on endpapers and... Item #20275
