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
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
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. Good. xiv, 433 pp, illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp ("Benton House") on 4 pages, scattered foxing; otherwise unmarked, binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer, a doctor, arrived 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
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 71 pp, with frontispiece, index, illustrated endpapers. One of an edition of 1000. Minimal rubbing to lower corners, else a fine copy, in the original plain paper dust jacket. Pio Pico was..... Item #22304
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 14 pp, original tan printed wrappers, with one plate (frontispiece). As new. From the text: "In October, 1907, the banks in San Francisco experienced great difficulty in securing coin to supply the needs of the community for circulation....[One means of..... Item #22282
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
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. Hardcover. Very good. 891 pp; original brown cloth boards. Corners rubbed, tear in cloth at head of spine, just a bit wobbly. Binding otherwise sound, text and endpapers clean. Text in English, French, and Spanish. Item #14432
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp, in publisher's dark red pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy, unmarked and sound. Contains "brief descriptions of over five hundred species of plants known to grow in the region bounded on the west..... Item #20963
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1959. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong quarto, 192 pp, with many illustrations, maps. A fine copy in publisher's gilt-stamped buckram, lacking the dust jacket. Reprint of the 1880 edition. Includes "88 pages devoted to lithographic plates of homes, ranches, business buildings, churches, and schools - all made from original..... Item #3126
Softcover. Near fine. No publication information given. [38] pp, 8.5 x 11 inches, comb binding. Clean, with minimal handling wear. Reproduces sheet music for twelve (presumably out-of-copyright) pieces with themes relating to Santa Cruz County, California. See accompanying images for a list of titles. Item #21773
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. Hardcover. Near fine. xii, 25 pp, bound in patterened paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 210 copies, printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Minor wear to extremities, else fine. The author was an American Naval surgeon stationed aboard the sloop-of-war..... Item #22733
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. Hardcover. Very good. 226 pp, indexed and illustrated, in original green cloth binding with title panels in black on front board and spine. Some foxing, especially to margins of plates. Binding tight, text clean. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To..... Item #22345
