New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a Very good dust jacket. 329 pp + index. Slight sunning to edges of boards, nickel-sized spot of black magic marker on front free endpaper. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket lightly worn at spine ends. A thoughtful..... Item #22384
California: Historic Record Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1927. Title continues "Containing also short, well-written personal sketches of many men and women, deceased and living, who by their own unaided efforts have made this one of the foremost sections of the State." 10.5 inches, 983 pp, with illustrations from photographs..... Item #21243
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint, in the same pictorial binding as the first printing, "published June 1911" on copyright page, but no date on title page. Light rubbing to extremities, offsetting to endpapers where a newspaper article was laid in, spots of abrasion (as if from erasures)..... Item #22363
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. 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
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
Danver: Fred A. Rosenstock, Old West Publishing, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 10.5 inches, 221 pp, with two folding maps, folded chart in rear pocket. Upper corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has mild rubbing to rear panel and the same light bumps to upper corners..... Item #22434
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
