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
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
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917-1924. Hardcover. Near fine. Complete set of 10 volumes, uniformly bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, and lovely gilt tree decoration on spines. Some uneven darkening/staining (of unknown origin) to spines, but still quite attractive and otherwise a fine set..... Item #20703
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
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
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. 249 pp + foldout map, with frontispiece, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. Small stain to top edge, previous owner's name on front endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends. Binding sound, text clean. Dust jacket chipped at corners..... Item #20713
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
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 9 x 12 inches, 306 pp, with illustrations, advertiser index. Pictorial boards are edgeworn; contents clean and sound. Contains numerous articles on (then) current issues in the production of fruit and vegetables (transportation, packaging, financing, research, etc), accompanied by many advertisements..... Item #194
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
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
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
New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 111 pp, with color illustrations. "The four tales in this book illuminate different aspects of Russian art, of the Russian soul. Derived from folktales told by peasants from the immemorial, they are the oldest voices of..... Item #242
