Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute West Coast Branch, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 58 pp, with plans, maps, illustrations, bibliography. Original wrappers with stapled binding. Sloight shelf wear; contents clean and sound. Includes chapters on the Spanish Presidio, El Castillo, Fort Mervine, and the American Presidio, accompanied by many historic photographs. Item #15000
NP, ND, but ca. 1902. 7 x 10 inches, 23, [1] pp., in attractive illustrated wrappers. Upper corners of front wrap are chipped and spine is partly split. Good. Illustrated promotional booklet, with most text reprinted from the September 1902 issue of Sunset Magazine. A preliminary page describes the attractions... Item #20549
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 47 pp, with frontispiece, vignette, map endpapers. Lightly rubbed corners, slight spine lean; else fine. Early California Travel Series No. XLII. Limited to 200 copies. Printed & bound by George Yamada/Erehwon Press. Item #3045
2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women... Item #3220
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 463 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, bibliography, index, map endpapers. Faint pale stain to front board, else fine. Dust jacket shows shelf wear, including chipped corners, internal tape repairs. Bidwell led one of the... Item #2596
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 463 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, bibliography, index, map endpapers. Original green textured cloth boards show minor shelfwear; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Bidwell led one of the first emigrant parties overland to California, founded the city... Item #19661
San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ dust jacket. xxx, 96 pp + ground plan, with illustrations. Boards lightly dust soiled, some spotting to endpapers, inscription on free endpaper; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has some foxing, light... Item #1356
Softcover. Near fine. [48] pp, each page with a decorative border. No place or date given, but estimated by Rocq (6482) as 1926. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Light edgewear. Clean and unmarked. Item #13892
Published at the Old Cabin, Yo Semite Valley and at Pacific Press Publishing, Oakland, 1888. Early reprint (first published 1886). 8vo, pp. xii, 496, extensively illustrated with wood engravings and phototypes, two maps (one folding). Publisher's olive pictorial cloth with decoration in brown and gilt. Lower corners bumped and rubbed... Item #20164
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Western Frontiersmen Series XVII. 265 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. A fine copy in original red cloth; no dust jacket. This volume recounts Dalton's life from London to South America and then California and sheds light on significant aspects... Item #1051
San Francisco: Bolte & Braden, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 377 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, b/w illustrations from photographs. Original tan buckram with gilt lettering; this copy (but not all copies) stamped on the front "Compliments of the Palace and Fairmont Hotels San Francisco." Light shelf wear and... Item #20572
Boston: The Page Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First impression, October 1914. Title continues: The History of it Old Missions and of its Indians, A Survey of its Climate, Topography, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Islands and Coast Line. A Description of its Recreations and Festivals, a Review of... Item #20443
Boston: Little, Brown, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, two volumes, pp. xliv, 270; xiv, 271-547; extensively illustrated with color frontispiece, photographic plates, and line drawings in the text; 4 maps and plans (one folding). Publisher's cloth backed boards, decorated in gilt; no dust jackets. Light rubbing to extremities... Item #20476
New York: Duffield and Company, 1913. Hardcover. Good. 346 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, index. Rear hinge cracked, front hinge starting, light general wear to boards, very light spotting to pages; else clean. No dust jacket. Johnson's personal impressions of travel in California, including popular sites such as Santa Barbara... Item #2161
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 132 pp, with original receipt for purchase of the book in 1936 laid in. Some offsetting to endpapers; else a fine copy in original boards decorated with a pattern of Chinese characters. Dust jacket... Item #635
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 332 pp, in original publisher's cloth. Front hinge has a slight wobble, light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Signed by Jones on title page. Set in 1850s California. Item #1061
![The Splendid Shilling, A Novel [SIGNED]. Idwal Jones](/pictures/thumb/1061.JPG?v=1474054864)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Two volumes in one. pp. 379, 329 pp + folding map, with map frontispiece, maps, illustrations, index. One inch tear to folding map; else fine Dust jacket shows light toning to spine and edges... Item #2211
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)
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 2012. Softcover. Fine. 18 pp + color illustrations from photographs. Stapled wrappers/ Limited edition of 1,000. As new. "One of the passions of being a university librarian is to continue to build the collection, in all forms and formats, to meet the needs of faculty and... Item #202
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
Ten original photographs, 6.25 x 9 inches, of pencil sketches made by Frank Lecouvreur documenting his journey to California around Cape Horn and his experiences mining for gold in the early 1850s. The same sketches are reproduced as some of the plates in Lecouvreur’s book From East Prussia to the... Item #20559
